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...White House must surely feel its credibility in other coalition countries slipping away. The terrorist attacks in Spain quickly mobilized that country’s people to elect a new anti-war government, and the United States lost one of its few allies in the War on Terror. Thankfully, it didn’t take such violence to wake the Australian people from their slumber of submission...
...Scene of Carnage Spain once suffered another terrible, unexpected and punitive attack [EUROPE, March 22]: the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. On April 26, 1937, German airplanes launched an all-out assault to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco break Basque resistance to his Nationalist forces, an event Pablo Picasso memorialized in his famous antiwar mural. TIME reported on the bombing in our May 10, 1937, issue...
...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, 35, to demand that "its troops pull out immediately from the land of the Muslims." Linking Iraq and Afghanistan to the 15th century expulsion of Muslims from Spain and the Inquisition, he demanded "blood for blood!" and "destruction for destruction!" Days after recording the message...
...Fakhet have help from al-Qaeda or other outside groups? Investigators think so. Fakhet was not on any agency's radar screen even a year ago, but he appears to have linked up with remnants of an alleged al-Qaeda cell in Spain, most of whose members, mainly Syrians, were arrested in November 2001. Among them was Jamal Zougam, a Moroccan who was one of the the first arrested in Madrid for the train bombings. After they picked him up, police found a note in his apartment bearing the cell-phone number of another Moroccan who had long been...
...commanders. The European peacekeepers deployed in the southern towns came to Iraq believing they would be operating in a relatively benign environment, freeing up U.S. forces for counterinsurgency actions in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle. But the outbreak of hostilities in the southern cities has put troops from Italy, Spain, El Salvador, Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria on the front lines. The Bulgarian government called on Wednesday for U.S. reinforcements to help its 450 soldiers under fire in Karbala, while the Ukrainian contingent at Kut was chased out of town by angry Shiites who took over their base. And the Iraqi...