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...Mortal Blow? After the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid were blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA - but turned out to be the work of a group thought to have links with al-Qaeda - it was comforting to think ETA might be a spent force. But despite a series of sweeping arrests in the past decade, cross-border raids in Spain and France this month uncovered evidence that the organization is far from broken. Last week Spanish forces arrested five ETA members after Oct. 3 sweeps netted 18 Basque militants, and found enormous caches of arms, munitions and nearly...
...experience says the group "will find it harder than ever to strike now that its leaders and arms have been hit again." But he also notes ETA has continually bounced back from previous blows - and says discovery of such a mighty arsenal suggests it had been preparing for more terror. - By Bruce Crumley. With reporting by Jane Walker Opening the Door EUROPEAN UNION Turkey 's hopes of joining the E.U. received another boost as the European Commission recommended the start of accession talks with Ankara - a decision that must be ratified by E.U leaders in December. Despite stringent conditions imposed...
...triple terror bombing of Israeli tourists in Egypt overnight Friday may signal the opening of a new front in al-Qaeda's battle to supplant pro-Western regimes in the Arab world. Or rather, the reopening of an old one. It is possible, of course, that the near-simultaneous attacks that killed more than 30 people, most of them Israeli tourists at the Hilton Hotel in Taba, and at the Red Sea resorts of Nuweiba and Ras al-Sultan, could be the work of others. Radical Palestinian groups would certainly make any list of possible suspects, particularly given the target...
...second set of suspects would be Egyptian Islamist groups such as Islamic Jihad and the Gama'a Islamiya. Both groups broke away from the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood to wage a terror war against Mubarak and his predecessor, President Anwar Sadat. For much of the 1990s, they waged a terror campaign at home, culminating in the massacre of 57 tourists at Luxor in 1997 by the Gama'a. But a harsh crackdown saw much of its leadership imprisoned, and from their prison cells they have renounced violence and declared an official cease-fire. The Islamic Jihad group, headed by Ayman...
...they don't necessarily accept the Islamist charge that Mubarak is carrying water for Israel, many Egyptians perceive their government as unable to stand up to Israel and the U.S. on behalf of the Palsetinians and Iraqis. By killing Israelis on Egyptian soil, the perpetrators of the Red Sea terror attacks look to exacerbate the crisis facing Mubarak. The attack highlights the common interest between Mubarak's regime, Israel and the U.S. in the face of an onslaught by international jihadis - but that's a unity with which Mubarak may not be entirely comfortable, right now, given the depth...