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...announcing the arrests, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said, "We're continuing to work on all fronts," referring to the possibility that the Basque terrorist group ETA may have been behind the attacks, "although these arrests open an important new avenue of investigation." It was a far cry from even earlier that day when the minister still considered ETA the prime suspect. Spanish and French authorities say the Moroccans may be linked to the synchronized suicide bombings that killed 33 people in Casablanca last May. Government sources in Morocco are more emphatic, telling TIME there was evidence that all three...
...arrests helped clear the confusion that had descended on Madrid in the aftermath of the attacks. Before anyone knew what was in the sports bag, most Spaniards instinctively fingered ETA, which has killed more than 800 people in a campaign of terror spanning four decades against the Spanish state. Just hours after the attacks, Acebes was adamant that there was "no cause for doubt" that ETA was to blame. Government officials and members of the ruling Popular Party (PP) pointed to what they said were hallmarks of ETA involvement: the bombings took place just three days before Sunday's general...
Bradley S. Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said that Aznar lied to the Spanish people about the war in Iraq and tried to convince the people that ETA, a Basque separatist group, was responsible for the bombing...
...They immediately decided it was ETA, the Basque terrorist group. It was scary because people didn’t know who to believe or what the situation was,” Watson said...
...also alienated by the Popular Party’s sharp condemnation of spontaneous anti-government protests on the eve of election. And resentment only deepened after the protests received minimal coverage on state-owned TVE, Spain’s main television station, which chose instead to air an anti-ETA documentary. By the time many Spanish voters reached the polls, they were moved more by anger toward their own government than by fear of additional al Qaeda reprisals...