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...having a problem putting down its guns, even though most of those it claims to represent have long since turned against violence. Over in Spain, the militant Basque separatists of the ETA present the same problem. NATO plans to disarm Albanian rebels in Macedonia appear somewhat optimistic, despite last week's political peace agreement. And the Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad appear to have no shortage of young Palestinians willing to blow themselves up in order to make a bloody political point...
...longer an insurgent's career, the more difficult it becomes to contemplate disarming - and that's precisely the problem with the IRA and ETA. Ireland and Spain today are two of the fastest growing economies of Europe, and young people reared in the increasingly prosperous EU culture are increasingly disdainful of separatist struggles, much less those pursued by arms. The hard men of the IRA and ETA are relics of a past era, but it's not hard to see why they cling to that past. When a nationalist movement moves from insurgency towards politics, the power tends to shift...
...germ warfare, was effectively scuppered as U.S. representatives at the U.N. meeting in Geneva claimed it would not achieve its goals and would damage American interests. SPAIN Tourists Targeted Police in the southern tourist resort of M?laga defused a powerful car bomb planted by the Basque separatist organization ETA. The group had telephoned a warning that the bomb, which contained around 60 kg of explosives, had been left in the city's airport car park. Popular tourist destinations were on alert after suspected ETA member Olaia Castresana blew herself up as she handled explosives in the Mediterranean resort of Torrevieja...
...called for a start to dialogue "once the hatred and bitterness" of the campaign dies down. Arzalluz, whose bitterness toward Aznar is fully reciprocated, suggested a solution "along Irish lines." But any possibility of talking with terrorists was dismissed by the PP. "We will sit at a table against ETA," said Mayor Oreja, "but never at a table with them...
...Meanwhile, terror continues. A week before the polls, ETA gunmen shot dead a PP politician as he walked to a soccer match with his son. Last week, a letter-bomb seriously injured journalist Gorka Landáburu, a frequent critic of ETA. Landáburu is as Basque as Basque can be: his father Francisco, also a journalist, was a leading nationalist who rose through the PNV ranks to become vice-'lehendakari' in exile. Which is yet more proof that terror is blind, and that newly elected lehendakari Ibarretxe is going to need all the help...