Word: separatists
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...organization's 55-year history, brought total membership to 26. Catching Up with ETA FRANCE French police, in conjunction with the Spanish Civil Guard, arrested three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA. Officers detained Félix Ignacio Esparza Luri - who acting Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said was ETA's logistics chief - in the southwestern city of Dax . Former ETA leader Félix Alberto López de la Calle, who had been on the run since escaping house arrest in November 2000, was apprehended in the western town of Angoulême, along with suspected...
Bradley S. Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said that Aznar lied to the Spanish people about the war in Iraq and tried to convince the people that ETA, a Basque separatist group, was responsible for the bombing...
...Aznar's party was not helped in the days following the attack by its continued insistence on blaming the bombings on the Basque separatist group ETA, despite evidence pointing to radical Islamists, ETA denials and al-Qaeda claims of responsibility. If ETA had been responsible, of course, the attacks would likely have swelled support for the ruling party and its hard line on the separatists. Instead, the electoral rebuke of a leader who waged an unpopular war may give pause for thought to others in a similar position, first among them Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair who is expected...
...DIED. RUSLAN GELAYEV, 39, Chechen separatist, in a shoot-out with Russian border guards; near the village of Bezhta, Dagestan. Gelayev was a formidable military commander in the 1994-96 war against Russian forces. Even some foes showed grudging respect for Gelayev, who was known as a ruthless fighter but not as a terrorist. Moscow-backed Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov told the Itar-Tass news agency that fighting in Chechnya would continue despite the warlord's death...
DIED. ZELIMKHAN YANDARBIYEV, 51, exiled separatist leader who served as President of Chechnya from 1996 to '97; after a bomb exploded his car as he was driving with his teenage son, who was injured in the blast; in Doha, Qatar. Russia had been working to extradite the Islamic extremist, whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda, for his alleged involvement in the deadly Moscow theater siege...