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December 06, 2004
Terror Bombs in Spain After ETA Threat - Updated
MADRID, Spain — At least four explosive devices detonated Monday around Spain after telephone warnings from callers claiming to speak on behalf of the armed Basque separatist group ETA (search), news reports said.

Explosions were reported in Leon and Santillana del Mar in the north, and Avila and Ciudad Real in central Spain, the news agency Europa Press reported.

There was no immediate word on injuries or damage.

This follows two bomb incidents over the weekend in Spain.

Update:

Reports that seven bombs have gone off:

Seven explosions hit Spain on Monday, wounding at least two people, after the Basque separatist group ETA threatened to set off a series of bombs, Spanish officials and media said.

Officials said the people were wounded in a bomb in Santillana del Mar in northern Spain.

Another bomb exploded in Ciudad Real to the south of Madrid.

El Pais newspaper said on its website that explosions had also gone off in Leon in the north and Malaga in the south. El Mundo's website said explosions were also reported in Avila, north-west of Madrid. Media also reported two more explosions.

None of the sites are within Spain's Basque country, which is made up of three provinces in the north of Spain that Basque nationalists say are part of a greater Basque homeland including Navarra and three provinces in France.

Posted by Michele at December 6, 2004 08:15 AM | TrackBack
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"Hey, Al Qaeda got their way... now it's our turn for a little slice of the appeasement pie, courtesy of the new Socialist government." - ETA

Posted by: insomni [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 6, 2004 08:44 AM

I guess I could make a couple of funny jokes about Timothy McVeigh and the collateral casualties. But my conscience would not be clear.

Probably the 11-M have a lot to do with the attacks of ETA (NO). It is pathetic how many of you are waiting each attack or problem in Spain to twist the reality and put the facts along your simplistic, infantile point of view, as if the History and politic destine of Spain had started at March 11, 2004.

ETA and Spain did exist before the 11-M, indeed. And I am not talking about this ridiculous ETA, which plants home-made bombs with 100gr of explosive in a litter bin in order to make noise and in order to appear in the newspapers all around the world. I am talking about the ETA that have blown entire buildings, the ETA that one time killed 6 children in the same attack, the ETA that the Spaniards have defeated with their blood, their pain and their firmness. Right?

Posted by: VinoTinto [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 6, 2004 10:31 AM

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