December 08, 2004

ETA estalló siete bombas a través de España

MADRID. - (el mundo) Dos llamadas en nombre de ETA han avisado al diario 'Gara' de la colocación de siete artefactos en Ávila, Valladolid, León, Santillana del Mar (Cantabria), Málaga, Ciudad Real y Alicante. Los comunicantes advirtieron de que harían explosión de forma simultánea a las 13.30 horas, tal y como ha ocurrido. Los siete lugares habían sido acordonados y desalojados aunque ha habido cierta confusión con algunos de ellos. Diez personas han sido atendidas en Santillana aunque sólo una de ellas, una niña, ha resultado herida leve.

Las Fuerzas de Seguridad, que se encontraban en estado de alerta, acordonaron y desalojaron las zonas, aunque algunos de los artefactos no estallaron exactamente donde se había señalado. Todos ellos estallaron con apenas unos minutos de diferencia.

Casi todos los explosivos estaban situados en lugares que en su denominación incluyen la palabra España [...]


elmundo.es - R. BÉCARES, A. FIGUERAS, A. BUENO, V. HERNÁNDEZ

My rough translation:
Two calls made in the name of ETA notified the daily 'Gara' of the placement of seven explosive devices in Ávila, Valladolid, León, Santillana del Mar (Cantabria), Málaga, Ciudad Real and Alicante. The callers explained that they would detonate the explosives in a simultaneous fashion at approximately 1:30PM, just as it has occurred. The seven places had been cordoned off and evacuated although there has been confusion in some of the areas. Ten people have been attended to in Santillana although only one of them, a girl, has turned out to be slightly injured.

The security forces, on the alert, cordoned off and evacuated the zones, although some of the explosive devices did not explode exactly where they had been indicated. All of them exploded within close proximity to one another.

Almost all the explosives were situated in places that in their denomination included the word "Spain" [...]


[...] In the same vein of reasoning, al-Reuters reported the following as the reason for the blasts:
"Monday [was] a public holiday in Spain to celebrate the 1978 constitution, bitterly opposed by ETA for enshrining the Basque region as part of Spain. Police had warned of a possible ETA attack."
Spain is definitely wrestling with domestic (ETA, among others) and Islamic terrorism in their own way (this instance, as well as the March 11 train bombings by al-Qaeda). And to think I was in Madrid only a month before it all went down. It was a weird feeling hearing about the attacks on the news last March.

Wikipedia has a fairly decent write up on ETA.

Posted by Kyer at December 8, 2004 12:00 AM
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