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...there." After his sergeant blew the lock off the door with a shotgun, "Maui Wowy" as he is known, raced into the house, screaming with fury. In a cool, dim room, he found his attacker - a 19-year old with a pubescent mustache, in a red and black Real Madrid tracksuit - sitting on a couch between two older women. As the women began to scream, Maui picked up the young man and hurled him to the floor, yelling obscenities and threats until Kim told him to calm down and go outside. The other soldiers set up guard around the house...
...Sept. 11 attacks united, for a brief moment, the U.S.'s two political parties in patriotic determination, the March 11 attacks had exactly the opposite effect in Spain. It's been five years since Madrid awoke to the horror of the Atocha train bombings, and 18 months since Spain's national court tried and found guilty 21 people for participating in or abetting the attacks. But the breach the attacks opened in Spanish politics lingers...
...that the Basque terrorist group ETA, and not Islamist terrorists, were to blame, the country held national elections. In a surprise upset, the Socialist party, headed by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, beat the conservative PP, which had been in power since 1996. (See pictures of the Madrid bombing...
...been planted in order to lend credence to the Islamist theory. These doubts were fanned by the center-right newspaper El Mundo, and Catholic radio station COPE into a full-fledged conspiracy campaign. Yet even after the country's national court found absolutely no connection between ETA and the Madrid attacks, Rajoy said that his party would "continue to support" any further investigation. The Socialists, in turn, responded by accusing the opposition of exploiting the victims for political gain...
...Read a TIME story about the Madrid bombing...