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...style and scope of the Madrid attacks differed from some of the established ETA patterns, that may just be an indication that the group has changed a great deal. Since the arrest of most of ETA's top tier in a series of joint counterterrorist operations by France and Spain over the past decade, control may have passed to a generation of younger leaders who may be radical--or just plain inexperienced--enough to commit an atrocity like last week's train attacks in Madrid. A report on trends in terrorism published in December 2002 by the Council...
...true. We have to do everything we can to stop these things from happening again." Many moderate Basque nationalists share ETA's goal of independence while condemning its terrorist tactics, but even the few people who still support the armed struggle will likely be repulsed by the Madrid carnage...
...fingerprints in the wreckage. "There's no doubt in my mind it's al-Qaeda," said a senior FBI counterterrorism veteran. Wherever this investigation leads, the war on terrorism has taken yet another deadly new turn. As a U.S. intelligence official notes, the absence of suicide bombers in Madrid is a sobering development. "You don't have to kill yourself to blow something up," this official says. Since suicide bombers are a finite resource, terrorists could be more inspired than ever to mount devastating attacks by remote control. In other words, Madrid rolled out an innovation that other terrorists will...
...tragedy in Madrid may have put an end to the railroad anachronism. The attack that killed some 200 innocents was cruelly simple. The perpetrators left backpacks full of explosives fitted with simple timers and walked away. "It's a load of rubbish to call it a sophisticated attack," says British security expert Michael Dewar. "You and I could do it." Some 10 million train and subway trips are taken every day in America. Amtrak shuttles 66,000 of those passengers, two-thirds of them through the target-rich northeast corridor. The Washington Metro moves 600,000 people near national monuments...
...millions mourned in the streets of Madrid, counterterrorism officials around the world struggled to analyze the implications of the attacks for their own cities. None of the lessons are comforting. If the assaults were not by al-Qaeda, it means that other groups think they have to mount an attack that slaughters hundreds of innocents to get attention. If those responsible for the outrage in Madrid were not Osama bin Laden's foot soldiers, others have learned that such attacks are not very difficult to stage. Equally troublesome, however, is the possibility that 3/11 was an al-Qaeda--related attack...