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2005-01-16 Europe

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-01-16 12:10:19 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How nice. The ETA and their supporters finally realize that the "boys will be boys" approach is inappropriate, when there are people (and I use the term for lack of a better one in my limited vocabulary) who really mean it when they go to blow up innocents. About bloody time they stopped romanticizing themselves!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-16 1:11:59 AM|| 2005-01-16 1:11:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This is BS. The only reasons for ETA not trying a large scale atack are a) because after the bad cop (ETA) it is the hour of the good cop (PNV) who is busy with a project who would mark the end of Spain as a state and b) because they think Zapaterto will give up everyting because he is bound by his alliances with the most nutso Catalanist party who has pacts with ETA.

But about ETA not having the stomach, they tried to put a truck bomb in the ferry between Valencia and the Balear Islands. 1400 potential victims.
They tried to blow Madrid's largest skyscrapper: 5000 potential victims. They tried to blow the Atocha railway station: thousands of potential victims. Each time they failed but it was not their cosncience who prevcented a masscre ogf 9/11 proportions, it was bad luck or police action.

And ETA has said: "The day we will negotiate we will put 299 dead on the negotiation table".

Posted by JFM 2005-01-16 4:02:16 AM|| 2005-01-16 4:02:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Darn it, JFM! I was so enjoying the thought that the murderous idiots had rejoined humanity.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-16 6:29:53 AM|| 2005-01-16 6:29:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Not the ETA proper, not people like Jose Ignacio de Jauna Chaos who told how happy he is when he sees images of people weeping for murdered relatives, not the ETA inmates who, in the days after 11/3 were having a party with islamist inmates and rejoicing with them.

But in the hours after 11/3's bombingq when everyone thought it was ETA, militants of Herri Batasuna (ETA's political arm) were seeing crying: they thought it was ETA and were ashamed of it. But that doesn't apply to ETA's people proper or to the high ranks of Herri Batasuna who, even in these hours, were whitewashing ETA.

Posted by JFM 2005-01-16 8:08:08 AM|| 2005-01-16 8:08:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5
Tough anti-terrorist laws, implemented in 2002 ... allow the police to arrest anyone connected to the outlawed organisation. Joint raids by French and Spanish police have netted hundreds of Eta suspects in recent years and busted many of the groupâs hideouts in southern France. .... There are now about 700 Eta prisoners in Spanish and French jails, compared with police estimates of fewer than 70 active members at large

These are the main reasons there are fewer ETA attacks.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-01-16 12:22:15 PM|| 2005-01-16 12:22:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Much better, Mike. This kind of thoughtful contribution is valuable. Please do this instead of the other.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-16 2:40:11 PM|| 2005-01-16 2:40:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Have some pudding Mike.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-16 4:48:30 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:48:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 You caught me, Shipman ;-) Although its more likely to be brownies, or chocolate chip cookies. But we can't expect less of people who claim to be analysts, right?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-16 6:14:13 PM|| 2005-01-16 6:14:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mike - what's up? You've actually posted good articles and contributed good posts. Are you feeling Ok? Trying to suck up? What gives?

Posted by 2b 2005-01-16 6:32:30 PM|| 2005-01-16 6:32:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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