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...that Spain is about to buckle before the bombers: Zapatero immediately vowed that his "immediate priority is to fight terrorism in all its forms." Despite misgivings over the conduct of U.S. policy in the Arab world, the Socialists have supported Spain's close cooperation with the U.S. to weed out al-Qaeda cells. But they complained that the Iraq invasion had nothing to do with fighting terrorism, and instead had distracted and detracted from that struggle...
...that as much as 90 percent of Spanish voters opposed their government's support for the war in Iraq. The latest terror attacks simply put the Iraq issue back at center stage. That much was made clear by the victorious 43-year-old Socialist Party candidate, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose key election promise was that he would withdraw the 1,300 troops sent by Spain to support the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. Zapatero said Monday that the troops would be home by June 30, unless the United Nations was placed in charge of security in Iraq...
...negotiating for a cease-fire - or anything else - but was forced to resign as Maragall's deputy after news of the meeting was leaked to the press. The ETA statement also hurts Maragall's national counterpart, Socialist leader and presidential candidate José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, right before the March 14 general election...
...members attached to its pacifist tradition came to blows with those who ultimately won a precedent-shattering vote to authorize putting Japanese troops into Iraq without a U.N. mandate. And in Spain, Prime Minister José María Aznar accused opposition leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of "laying his hopes on the coffins of Spanish soldiers" to prove that Spain's involvement is unwise. But despite the death of Spanish naval captain Manuel Martín-Oar, 56, in last month's bombing of the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters, the Spanish public remains quiet - and Aznar...
...integration into the European single market, a source of pride after decades of diplomatic isolation. This year's bold gamble of staging a world's fair and an Olympics will "show the world the image of a modern Spain, far from the cliches of the past," says Virgilio Zapatero, the Cabinet Minister in charge of Expo...