Word: eta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Summer Of Fear SPAIN Officials worry that a series of three bombings, which injured 14 people, mark the launch of a summer campaign by the Basque terrorist group ETA. The first two explosions happened at tourist hotels in the Costa Blanca resorts of Alicante and Benidorm. After a phoned warning to a Basque newspaper by a man claiming to speak on behalf of ETA, police evacuated more than 100 staff and guests from the hotels. Four policemen were wounded in the Benidorm attack, while the nine injured in Alicante were mainly foreign students and their teachers at an adjacent language...
...risk of further terrorist attacks in the kingdom. Violence Resumes SPAIN Two policemen died and a third was critically injured when a bomb exploded under their car in the small town of Sanguesa in Navarra province, which borders the northern Basque region. Authorities blamed the Basque separatist group ETA for the attack, which came days after municipal elections from which the separatist party Batasuna was barred on the grounds it was linked to ETA. French to the Rescue DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The U.N. authorized a French-led peacekeeping force to go to the eastern Ituri region, where brutal tribal...
...State Department report documented that during the previous year, “The Cuban Government continued to allow at least 20 Basque ETA members to reside in Cuba as privileged guests and provided some degree of safe haven and support to members of the Colombian FARC and ELN groups...
...from his home in Tolosa to a police cell in Madrid. It was there, claims Martxelo Otamendi - the last managing editor of the now banned Basque-language daily Egunkaria - that his ordeal began. While police interrogated him about his newspaper's alleged links to the Basque separatist terror organization ETA, he claims they had him stand naked in his cell for three days, with a chance to sit down only every five hours. Otamendi, 45, says the police humiliated him for his homosexuality, telling him to "take the position I use when my lover and I make love...
...capital's élite. Londoño and Colombian authorities hope the attack will prompt the world to change tactics too, and regard Colombia's guerrillas as terrorists. Reason: police say the guerrillas are aided by terror groups like the I.R.A. and Spain's Basque separatists, ETA, who could turn Colombia into a South American Afghanistan. "At least now other countries will know this for what it is, not guerrilla warfare but international terrorism," Londoño said as recovery workers retrieved the last two corpses from the ruins. That's the warning that President Alvaro Uribe is frantically trumpeting...