ETA attacks return in Spain

This latest car bombing from ETA, (Basque Homeland and Freedom), should not surprise the Spanish government. ETA held to a cease fire waiting for the Spanish government to offer gestures of its own. The Spanish government still holds a lot of political prisoners, many who have committed no crimes. They simply sympathize with ETA.
The government has also banned political parties in the Basqu country that they feel are too sympathetic to ETA. With such heavy handed violations of the people’s rights they should expect to have to pay a price for their arrogance.

From The Wichita Eagle, Feb. 09, 2009:
Car bomb explodes at trade fair center in Spain
By CIARAN GILES
Associated Press Writer

MADRID - A car bomb believed planted by the armed Basque group ETA exploded at a business park on Madrid's outskirts Monday, but no one was injured, police said.
The bomb went off shortly after 9 a.m. (0800GMT; 3 a.m. EST) at the park in the Campo de Las Naciones trade fair center about 90 minutes after the Spanish Red Cross received a warning call, a police spokesman said…….
……If confirmed as an ETA bomb, it would mark the group's first attack in Madrid since Dec. 30, 2006, when an ETA car bomb at Madrid's airport killed two Ecuadoreans and brought an end to a nine-month cease-fire.
ETA set off a car bomb at the same Madrid trade center in February 2005, injuring 43 people………….
…………..Just hours earlier, the Supreme Court had banned candidates from two Basque nationalist parties from taking part in upcoming Basque regional elections because of alleged links between the two groups and ETA……..
……..Recently the group claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of a Basque businessman linked to the high speed train project and a car bomb outside a Basque television station. Both attacks were in December.

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