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2004-03-11 Europe
More on the al-Qaeda claim responsibility for Madrid booms
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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-03-11 3:48:04 PM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 This may force the French to raise their alert level to White.
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-3-11 3:54:25 PM||   2004-3-11 3:54:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This certainly sounds like the retoric that we have heard from Al-Quiada in the past, even-so I'm still not convinced that it is them though.
Posted by Evert Visser  2004-3-11 4:01:27 PM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/]  2004-3-11 4:01:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This certainly sounds like the retoric that we have heard from Al-Quiada in the past, even-so I'm still not convinced that it is them though.
Posted by Evert Visser  2004-3-11 4:02:38 PM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/]  2004-3-11 4:02:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 check the thugburg link "The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri" is only known based on faxes and letters to arab media outlets claiming AQ credit for various horrors, notably the Istanbul bombings and the Baghdad bombings last summer.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-11 4:05:12 PM||   2004-3-11 4:05:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 This may force the French to raise their alert level to White.

That's bad -- the only stage above that is yellow.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-3-11 4:07:52 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-3-11 4:07:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Guess we'll have to get this old cry out again. "Santiago y cierra España!"
Posted by Christopher Johnson  2004-3-11 4:17:52 PM|| [http://mcj.bloghorn.com/]  2004-3-11 4:17:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Translation,please.Chris.
Posted by Raptor  2004-3-11 4:51:50 PM||   2004-3-11 4:51:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is 100% Al-Qeada! ETA don't do these mass simultanious killings. Spain was the HQ for 9/11 planners, there's plenty of tunsian, algerian, arab killers there.
Posted by CobraCommander 2004-3-11 4:51:57 PM||   2004-3-11 4:51:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "St. James and close in Spain!" At least that's what a book tells me. That was an old battle cry of the Spanish military order of Santiago during the Reconquista.
Posted by Christopher Johnson  2004-3-11 4:58:56 PM|| [http://mcj.bloghorn.com/]  2004-3-11 4:58:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Did you know the Redcoats used to wear red so that if an officer was shot the blood wouldn't show as much so as not to freak out the troops.

And that is why French officers wear brown trowsers to this day.
Posted by ruprecht 2004-3-11 5:19:41 PM||   2004-3-11 5:19:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Correction - ETA did do this on occasion, one being a carbomb in front of a Bilbao supermarket.
ETA did try to do this exact thing last December, with multiple bombs - not as many though.
Posted by buwaya  2004-3-11 6:32:38 PM||   2004-3-11 6:32:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Santiago = Saint James. Tiago is a Galician (Gallego) form of James, related to Sapnish Diego. The reconquista began in Galicia.
Posted by buwaya  2004-3-11 6:34:33 PM||   2004-3-11 6:34:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Santiago is the patron of Spain. It is also a popular name between Spanish.

Now Yosemite Sam, ruprecht and others as someone who is half Spanish and has lived hours of anguish about my relatives in Spain I would tell you that this is no moment for jokes.
Posted by JFM  2004-3-11 6:39:55 PM||   2004-3-11 6:39:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 and San Diego is....the patron saint of underachieving football teams. Soon to change, dammit!
Posted by Frank G  2004-3-11 7:38:40 PM||   2004-3-11 7:38:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I hope that all of your relatives and friends are safe, JFM.
Posted by 11A5S 2004-3-11 7:50:49 PM||   2004-3-11 7:50:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 As much as I dislike the French politcal class and French military duplicity during the Yugoslav bombings, I don't believe the French troops are cowardly. I just think that French and American calculations are so far apart that I would not trust any French institution.
Posted by ed 2004-3-11 9:52:14 PM||   2004-3-11 9:52:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Well, there's a letter, currently Spain aligned itself w/US, we can kill their children but they can't kill ours, yada, yada, yada

And they're STILL pissed they lost Andalusia to the Crusaders centuries ago.
Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-3-11 11:39:45 PM||   2004-3-11 11:39:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Geez, reading WAAYYY to much.

DOH!
Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-3-11 11:42:55 PM||   2004-3-11 11:42:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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