Gora ETA

[kentuckyklira]

Finally Spain´s government is prepared for negotiations with ETA!

May the Basque people finally succeed!

[DrMaddVibe]

Cowards.

You reap what you sow.

Once you bend over to terrorist demands...install a hinge.

Don't cry about what happens next to Spain!

[kentuckyklira]

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
Cowards.

You reap what you sow.

Once you bend over to terrorist demands...install a hinge.

Don't cry about what happens next to Spain! Spain´s doing pretty fine currently!

Plus, the true terrorists are the ones shooting Italian journalists, slaughtering Iraqi civilians etc, etc,.

[Dr. Love]

Sure they are, Adolf.

[BigBadBrian]

Spain gives us good tapas, Ferran Adria, and little else except a role model on how to not yield to terror.

:gulp:

[kentuckyklira]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Spain gives us good tapas, Ferran Adria, and little else except a role model on how to not yield to terror.

:gulp: Great acoustic guitars

great wine

great sherry

great brandy

great chicks

great ham

great vacations

just to name a few things!

[kentuckyklira]

Plus, you guys are yielding to terror,

after all, look who voted Bush in for a second term!:p :p

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by kentuckyklira
Great acoustic guitars

great wine

great sherry

great brandy

great chicks

great ham

great vacations

just to name a few things!

OK, I'll agree with you on those things as well. I prefer French brandy over Spanish, though.

:gulp:

[DrMaddVibe]

MADRID, Spain - A powerful car bomb exploded in Madrid Wednesday after a warning call from the armed Basque separatist group ETA, police said, in the latest of a string of attacks since Spain's prime minister offered talks with the group if it renounces violence.

Eighteen people were slightly injured, said Beatriz Martin, the city's emergency medical department spokeswoman. The explosion occurred around 9:30 a.m. in a working-class district north of the Spanish capital.

Police cordoned off the area where the bomb went off after an anonymous caller to the Basque newspaper Gara, which often serves as a mouthpiece for ETA, said a bomb would explode inside a Renault van.

Television images showed a large column of black smoke rising from the area of the explosion.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, speaking in a previously scheduled Senate session shortly after the explosion, insisted that "the only fate that the terrorist group ETA has is to lay down weapons and dissolve."

Police estimated the bomb contained 40 to 44 pounds of explosives, Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso told reporters. "The explosion was really a big one," he said.

Alonso said ETA remains "alive, active and operative" despite the arrest of more than 200 suspected members in recent years.

He also said Spanish society is now rife with speculation over whether the government has already begun contacts with ETA — the government denies this — and insisted its fight against the group "would benefit tremendously if we all managed to lower this level of noise."

The blast was the sixth blamed on ETA since Zapatero announced earlier this month he was willing to hold talks with the separatist group if it renounced its decades-old campaign of violence.

The opposition conservative Popular Party has criticized Zapatero's initiative as a premature, unwarranted overture to what it calls an active terrorist group.

The party's spokesman in the Senate, Pio Garcia Escudero, said Wednesday's attack "does not look like a desire to negotiate but an attempt to exert pressure."

Four bombs exploded at industrial sites in the Basque region on May 15, two days after Parliament endorsed Zapatero's drive for the first talks with ETA since 1999. Two people were slightly injured. Last weekend another small bomb exploded in the Basque town of Zarauz. No one was hurt.

ETA had not been blamed for an attack in Madrid since February.

The group is blamed for more than 800 deaths since the late 1960s in a campaign of bombings and shootings aimed at creation of an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwest France.

It has not staged a fatal attack since May 2003, and the government says the group has been seriously weakened by waves of arrests in recent years. Zapatero cites these factors as reasons for trying to launch a peace process even though ETA has not declared a cease-fire or made any other prior concession.


Deal with terrorists and this is what you get!

Tried to tell ya earlier!