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BREAKING NEWS: Four explosions reported in Madrid, Spain
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:56 pm
by Brent
According to AP, Reuters, and Spanish radio. One at a gas station after a bomb threat from a Spanish terror group ETA.
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:00 pm
by kevin
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That is surprising..
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:02 pm
by TexasStooge
Not good!!!!
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:03 pm
by sunny
Oh, boy.
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:04 pm
by Brent
kevin wrote:=0
That is surprising..
Yeah... you know they elected an anti-Iraq war leader following the attacks on 3/11 that killed about 200 and here they are, almost 9 months later, and they are still not safe.
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:05 pm
by kevin
When I hear simultaneous explosions I never think anything but Al Qaeda. This isn't though if ETA threatened an attack.
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:06 pm
by Guest
MADRID ( from MSNBC) 12:58pm)- Several explosions were heard in Madrid on Friday shortly after a phone caller stated that the separatist group ETA had planted bombs in Spain's capital.
At least one explosion happened at a gas station, Spanish media reported.
ETA has been trying to create a separate Basque nation in an armed struggle that has gone on for decades.
Spanish officials initially suspected ETA of being behind the Madrid train bombings of last March, in which dozens were killed. But that bombing was later tied to Muslim extremists.
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:53 pm
by streetsoldier
Brent, Basques aren't Spanish...they live in the Pyrenees, straddling both Spain and France, and their language is unique; it is not traceable to any other language "family", and is considered to be a direct throwback to the Stone Age.