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2004-04-02 Europe
Bomb found on Spanish high-speed train line
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Posted by Lux 2004-04-02 7:35:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Cause => Effect.
Posted by Charles  2004-04-02 7:49:14 AM||   2004-04-02 7:49:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Probably pro-Bush jihadists wanting Spanish troops return to Irak.
Posted by JFM  2004-04-02 8:29:40 AM||   2004-04-02 8:29:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 JFM, ROFL...! That is just too funny!
Posted by Jen  2004-04-02 8:31:13 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-04-02 8:31:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Explosives being reported as being similar to those used in the 3-11 Madrid attacks.
Posted by Lux 2004-04-02 8:31:47 AM||   2004-04-02 8:31:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't Spain protected by the Geneva Convention at this point?
Posted by Matt 2004-04-02 9:24:08 AM||   2004-04-02 9:24:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Impossible, this is obviously a lie. The Spanish government as said it would pull its troops from Iraq, therefore AQ shouldn't attack them....right? Right?
Posted by AllahHateMe 2004-04-02 9:25:19 AM||   2004-04-02 9:25:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Does anyone else get a flash from the past reading this?
Posted by .com 2004-04-02 9:31:13 AM||   2004-04-02 9:31:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 You're right AHM. A group claiming to have links with al-Qaeda said today it was calling a truce in its Spanish operations to see if the new government would withdraw its troops from Iraq.... Appeasers may learn a lesson. Maybe not.


Posted by GK 2004-04-02 9:39:49 AM||   2004-04-02 9:39:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 HAH! I get to claim a prediction - right here on this website. I said they would get hit again.
Posted by flash91 2004-04-02 10:12:19 AM||   2004-04-02 10:12:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Tell me again how rewarding the jihadis would get them to stop.
Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-04-02 10:15:36 AM||   2004-04-02 10:15:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Things that make you go "Hummmm", from Samizdata:
The explosives with copper wiring similar to that used in the 11 March attacks on Madrid appear to have been abandoned when a routine track patrol was made near Toledo.
N.B. Toledo was the site of two decisive battles: the first confirmed the Moorish conquest of Spain in 712, and the second was the launchpad of the Spanish Reconquistada with the Moorish defeat there in 1212.

They do like their symbolism, don't they?
Posted by Steve  2004-04-02 11:54:22 AM||   2004-04-02 11:54:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Time has no meaning where Dire Revenge is concerned, you uppity Crusader! ;-)
Posted by .com 2004-04-02 11:59:51 AM||   2004-04-02 11:59:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Holy Toledo!
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-02 12:05:29 PM||   2004-04-02 12:05:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 And me on my way to the Mudhens season opener...
Posted by Seafarious  2004-04-02 12:07:08 PM||   2004-04-02 12:07:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Appeasers may learn a lesson.

Depends on how intelligent the appeasers are. If not very, they just might try even more appeasement, as in "Why wait for the handover? Let's get our forces out of Iraq RIGHT NOW."
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-02 12:15:05 PM||   2004-04-02 12:15:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 C'mon everybody. The glorious lions of the desert . . . the fighters for Islam . . . the holy warriors of Allah . . . would NEVER do something like that! They promised. Must be somebody else.
Posted by ex-lib 2004-04-02 12:19:54 PM||   2004-04-02 12:19:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 When they said "truce," they actually meant; "Once all Spanish women are wearing burkhas and every man in Spain bows towards Mecca, then we'll declare a truce."

Appeasement works fine and dandy, just ask any survivor of the Blitz.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-02 3:27:26 PM||   2004-04-02 3:27:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 flash91: I said they would get hit again.

Heh, you really went out on a limb there!
Posted by Rafael 2004-04-02 3:58:16 PM||   2004-04-02 3:58:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Aw, jeez, you mean appeasement doesn't work? And the Islamonazis said they would wait before bombing again.

I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.

If you can't trust a jihadi's word, whose can you trust? I'm sooooo disappointed.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-04-02 6:05:41 PM||   2004-04-02 6:05:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I'm waiting for threats/bombs/hostages to get the Madrid boomers released.
Posted by phil_b 2004-04-02 6:52:40 PM||   2004-04-02 6:52:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 If you can't trust a jihadi's word, whose can you trust? I'm sooooo disappointed.

Yeah, this one is going to keep me awake on the long winter nights, too.

I'm waiting for threats/bombs/hostages to get the Madrid boomers released.

Tou-fucking-ché

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-02 7:58:48 PM||   2004-04-02 7:58:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Dumpster, don't you have a touch of Tourette's Syndrome there, old boy?
Posted by Jen  2004-04-02 8:00:33 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-04-02 8:00:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Tourette's Syndrome
Damn!
I expect most you slowies missed that.
Toureete's is fun.

EXCEPT FOR WHEN YOU SCREAM ABOUT THE DAMN FREEPERS AND EVERYONE AVERTS THERE EYES FROM ALL SH... fine ner mind.

Sh*tSh*tDamnDamnB**gerB**ger
Posted by Shipman 2004-04-02 8:40:34 PM||   2004-04-02 8:40:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Dumpster, don't you have a touch of Tourette's Syndrome there, old boy?

If the only alternative is whatever you suffer from, then maybe I do.

Remember, don't fire the bullets straight up in the air.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-02 9:57:35 PM||   2004-04-02 9:57:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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