December 4, 200421 yr Author I'm not gonna start that argument, instead I'll say ETA bombings have a long history - longer than the career of former President Jose Maria Aznar and Al Qaeda's existence. This bombing had nothing to do with the other.
December 4, 200421 yr Gee, I guess terrorists really keep their word! NOT!!!!! Evil, the ETA has nothing to do with Al Qaeda, bin Laden etc. From http://www.cfrterrorism.org/groups/eta.htm ETA is a leftist group that uses terrorism in hopes of forming an independent Basque state in parts of northern Spain and southwest France. ETA stands for Euskadi ta Askatasuna, which means “Basque Fatherland and Liberty” in the Basque language. The State Department lists ETA as a foreign terrorist organization, and the United States and the European Union have frozen ETA assets since the September 11 attacks. Spain has long fought ETA and opposes an independent Basque homeland, though its 1978 constitution designated an autonomous Basque region with responsibility for education, health care, policing, and taxation. The Basques are a linguistically and culturally distinct Christian group that has lived since the Stone Age in the mountainous region that straddles the border between modern-day Spain and France. The Basques have never had their own independent state, but they have enjoyed varying degrees of autonomy over the centuries under Spanish and French rule. About half of the 2.1 million residents of the three provinces that make up the autonomous Basque region speak fluent Basque or understand some of the language. Basque nationalists include other areas with smaller Basque-speaking minorities—the Spanish province of Navarre and three departments in southwest France—in their vision of a Basque homeland. Does ETA have ties to al Qaeda? No. ETA’s secular nationalist agenda has nothing to do with the Islamist fundamentalism of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network, and there is no credible evidence of any systematic cooperation between ETA and al Qaeda, experts say. ::Cues NBC "The More You Know" music ::
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