Word: eta
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...conclusion by some that the terrorists won the Spanish elections [March 29]. The bomb attacks simply set in motion a series of events that added up to defeat for Prime Minister Jos? Mar?a Aznar, beginning with his government's effort to blame the bombings on the Basque terrorists of ETA and to rule out al-Qaeda. This arrogance and cynicism insulted the very essence of democracy by blotting out the truth. If ETA had been responsible for the attacks, Aznar's party would have won, because the majority of Spaniards endorse the fight against that terrorist organization. And if Spaniards...
...Madrid, feeling like a citizen of the Iberian Peninsula rather than of a country that split from Spain in 1143. Still, I cannot understand how the Spanish people could allow their election to be manipulated by terrorists. The Spaniards have taught us some brave lessons about dealing with ETA terrorists. Though the probability of being killed on the roads of Portugal is thousands of times greater than in a terrorist attack here, people don't give up driving. I hope the terrorists will not prevail. Sofia de Landerset Lisbon...
...Madrid, feeling like a citizen of the Iberian Peninsula rather than of a country that split from Spain in 1143. Still, I cannot understand how the Spanish people could allow their election to be manipulated by terrorists. The Spaniards have taught us some brave lessons about dealing with ETA terrorists. Though the probability of being killed on the roads of Portugal is thousands of times greater than in a terrorist attack here, people don't give up driving. I hope the terrorists will not prevail. SOFIA DE LANDERSET Lisbon...
...Spain's constitution and Europe's, awarding gay couples some of the legal rights of marriage, and the pullout of the country's 1,300 troops from Iraq. But the defining tone of Zapatero's administration may be set by the country's fight against the Basque terrorist group ETA, which has killed over 800 people in the last 36 years during its campaign for an independent state. That battle largely defined the eight years of José María Aznar's government, whose fate was sealed by its insistence on ETA authorship of the March 11 bombings. Might...
...attack would provoke massive outrage and disgust. "An armed action by ETA now would be understood as an attack against the whole society," says Patxi Zabaleta, a lawyer and former leader of the now banned Batasuna party who has defended many ETA members before Spanish courts. Another reason for ETA to stand down is that Spanish and French police have largely broken the organization in a punishing series of more than 650 arrests since 2000. Earlier this month, French police uncovered an eta bombmaking factory in the French village of Saint Michel, a few kilometers from the Spanish border...