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| French coppers nab two ETA snuffies... |
| 2002-09-18 |
| Police in France have arrested a couple in Bordeaux suspected of being two of the most senior figures in the Basque terrorist group Eta. Juan Antonio Olarra and Ainhoa Mujika, who are alleged to be jointly responsible for armed strategy and ordering and coordinating attacks in Spain, were arrested outside a supermarket, together with an unnamed French woman. The two were armed, but no shots were fired, the police said. "You'll never take me alive, coppers! Well, hokay, just this once..." Eta is looking increasingly weak, given the success of the French and Spanish police in arresting 139 alleged members and supporters so far this year. It has killed only three people since January, including a girl of six caught by a bomb in Santa Pola on the south-east coast. In its 30-year fight for a separate state it has killed about 800. "Yasss... I'm afraid our fourth quarter projections are down again, and we may have to revise our anticipated corpse count for first quarter of next year..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |