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...Spanish investigators, it was a chilling message from beyond. As they searched a bombed-out apartment building in the Madrid suburb of Leganés last week - trying to determine from the body parts exactly how many members of the March 11 train-bombing cell had made their last stand there - the investigators found a videotape in the rubble. On it, an intense man, flanked by two others brandishing Sterling submachine guns, warned of massacres to come. "The Brigades of al-Mufti and Ansar al-Qaeda" - or supporters of al-Qaeda - were in Spain, said Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet...
...Surely 9/11 must be the worst possible thing for Bush to use in his campaign! No link between al-Qaeda and Iraq has been proved, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Iraq is in terrible shape because of the war, and the Madrid attacks show that the terrorists' resolve has strengthened. How could the issue of 9/11 boost Bush's re-election prospects? Sarah Van Ingelgom Hong Kong...
TIME: The Madrid bombing triggered the market's first 5% pullback in a year. Will investors ever get over these events...
...Vries, who will answer to European Council Secretary-General Javier Solana, may benefit from a burst of cooperation in the wake of the Madrid train bombings. Just 10 days after Sept. 11, 2001, European leaders signed off on an "action plan" against terrorism. But it was never fully carried out. A European arrest warrant, for instance, which simplifies the process of making cross-border arrests, still hasn't been adopted by Germany, Italy, Greece or the Netherlands. But in Brussels last week the European Council decreed that all elements of the 2001 plan be in place by June. It also...
Spain's most celebrated director is in trouble for a bit of unscripted dialogue. In Madrid last week, the nation's naughty auteur PEDRO ALMODOVAR said Spain's outgoing Popular Party tried to hatch a coup the day before its defeat in the March 14 election. The party denied the charge and threatened to sue the director for slander. Almodovar says he "just echoed a sea of rumors." Hey, can Bill Clinton sue anyone...