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Spain's Ex-Prime Minister to Testify
Spanish lawmakers investigating the Madrid train bombings decided Wednesday that former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar should testify about what his government did with intelligence warnings that the country could suffer a revenge attack for supporting the Iraq war. The 16-member panel decided unanimously to hear Aznar's testimony but did not set a date. Aznar was prime minister at the time of the March 11 attack, which killed 191 people and has been blamed on Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida. Aznar's conservative Popular Party has been accused of lying when it blamed Basque separatists for the train bombing even after evidence of an Islamic link emerged. Aznar has admitted calling editors of major news outlets the night of the attack to plug the Basque angle.Posted by: Fred 2004-09-15 |
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