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...head of the snake has multiplied, and will continue to multiply,” he said, referring to the growth of autonomous terrorist cells throughout the world. Spain had been almost able to wipe out ETA, the Basque terrorist group which operates with the “hierarchal, pyramidal structure” of conventional terrorist organizations, Garzon said...
Democratic countries should not be suspicious of each other while sharing information on terrorist activities, and should be prompt in their responses to other countries’ requests. Of the 20 commissions Spain had sent to other countries seeking information about the March 11 explosions, he said that only three had returned...
...Arabi received an e-mail from another group claiming authorship for the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, named for an al-Qaeda leader killed in a U.S. missile attack in Afghanistan. The message said one of its "death squads" had planted the bombs to settle "old accounts with Spain ... America's ally in its war against Islam." The statement went on, "The death squad succeeded in penetrating the crusader European depths and striking one of the pillars of the crusader alliance" and warned that another attack against the U.S. is "90% ready--and coming soon." The New York City police...
...style and scope of the Madrid attacks differed from some of the established ETA patterns, that may just be an indication that the group has changed a great deal. Since the arrest of most of ETA's top tier in a series of joint counterterrorist operations by France and Spain over the past decade, control may have passed to a generation of younger leaders who may be radical--or just plain inexperienced--enough to commit an atrocity like last week's train attacks in Madrid. A report on trends in terrorism published in December 2002 by the Council...
...March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy." JOSE MARIA AZNAR, Prime Minister of Spain, on the train bombings that killed more than 200 people...