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2005-06-10 Europe

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-10 08:12|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They were something like 800,000 people according to the police, 1 million according to organizers. The ones who tell it was 250,000 people are "El Pais" ie the flagship of the socialist controlled press group who did the mediatic putsh who preceeded the elections.

Looking at the images I would tend to think 250K people is _well_ below the real number.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-06-10 10:26|| 2005-06-10 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Grabbing your ankles yet, Zappy?

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-10 14:56|| 2005-06-10 14:56|| Front Page Top

#3 A mortar, hey? I wonder where they launched it from. The civil airport is near to the end of a narrow (well, it used to be narrow!) road that runs from the Logrono Highway, and dead-ends at the military base. I do not remember any turn-offs, anywhere along--- just the civilian terminal just before the road went through the gates into the Spanish side of the base. There was nothing out there but the sentry box and the old aero-club building, just fences and hedges all the way along, except for the turnoff at the airport parking lot. I am fairly sure the military base and the civil airport shared at least some of the same runways, as they were so close... well, at least as close as things on airports and airbases are.
Now, from the other side of the base--- what used to be the American side--- the main enterance was from an access road that ran from the main highway between Zaragoza and Madrid. It turned off from the right, about 14 kilometers from town. There was an old inn/hotel on the left, and the access road dropping down from a ridgeline on the right. It was just a matter of a mile or two, and from the top of that ridge, right where the turn-off is, you have a lovely view of the base. During Desert Storm, when we were all getting paranoid about what a terrorist could do, I thought about how easy it would be to pull off the road at that particilar place, pop off a couple of dropping shots at the base, and be back on the road and twenty miles away before the smoke even cleared. Were I a betting person, that's what I'd bet the ETA did.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-06-10 17:05|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-06-10 17:05|| Front Page Top

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