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...national election—including those taken as late as last week—Mariano Rajoy looked certain to coast to victory. The handpicked successor of outgoing Prime Minister José María Aznar, Rajoy ran on a strong antiterrorism platform; but after the recent bombings in Madrid, fear and suspicion gripped the country and Spaniards swept Socialist leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero into victory. If we didn’t know it before, this weekend’s election in Spain provided a valuable, if horrifying, lesson: Terrorism works. Just ask Rajoy...
...hundreds of rescue workers who combed through the wreckage last week looking for survivors in the scorched and twisted compartments of a commuter train at Madrid's El Pozo del Tio Raimundo station. When he came across an unremarkable sports bag, he assumed it belonged to one of the victims and put it aside; at some point amid the grim triage, the bag was taken to a local police station, where it was added to a mountain of unclaimed personal possessions--purses, briefcases, shoes, coats, laptop computers. In the chaotic aftermath of the Madrid bomb attacks, no one thought...
...Everyone who I know who knew I was in Madrid contacted me about whether or not my friends were safe,” Dugi said. “Proportionally you are not going to get the same reaction out of people just because it was not in the United States. People have taken an interest not just in the event, but the context surrounding it as well...
While many felt emotionally tied to the tragedy, no one interviewed said they personally knew anybody who was a victim of the attack. Some attributed this to a strike at the University of Madrid, which deterred many students and professors from taking the train to the school that morning...
...lucky enough to get in touch with everybody who I knew in Madrid a couple of hours later to see that they were okay,” Dugi said...