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...citizens of Madrid poured into the streets to grieve on Friday. In the aftermath of last week’s calamitous bombing of a train in Madrid, an estimated 12 million people throughout Spain came together to cry out against the violence of terrorism. Thursday’s attacks were a grievous horror; 200 killed, 1,400 wounded. Slaughter of this magnitude causes emotion of inexpressible depth—made all the more upsetting because only now have investigators learned who was responsible and what their motive was. What happened in Madrid was so atrocious as to seem inhuman...
...Iraq has stimulated deep divisions in the international community. For too long, these divisions have overshadowed the broader tasks at hand and the reality that all nations remain vulnerable. Devastating terrorist attacks have occurred not only on American soil, but also in Bali, in Istanbul and now in Spain as well. The great question of how to stop global terrorism is still unanswered...
...stand in solidarity with the millions who turned out in Spain to protest terrorism on Friday. With arms outstretched and palms facing upwards, they declared in no uncertain terms that the violence must stop. In the midst of our grief for what happened, our most sincere hope extends out to the prospect that this violence will end. We are with the people of Madrid in these hours, as they bury their dead and grieve. And we look ahead at the difficult struggle that remains...
...Socialist Party's dramatic upset victory in Spain's election on Sunday may be counted by al-Qaeda as its first success in the business of regime-change. It's certainly true that before last Thursday's horrific train bombings in Madrid that killed 201 people and wounded more than 1,000, the conservative Popular Party - whose outgoing leader, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar had been the Bush administration's closest Iraq-war ally in Europe - had looked set to coast home by a 5 to 8 percent margin. But once it became clear that bombers came from al-Qaeda...
...reason voters chose doves over hawks three days after suffering the worst bloodshed on Spanish soil since the country's civil war is simple: the widespread belief that the country had become a target for Islamist terror because of its support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Spain might have been targeted anyway, because of its effective police and intelligence campaign that has netted a number of al-Qaeda operatives - or even simply because Andalusia before 1492 was the European foothold of the old Islamic caliphate that bin Laden dreams of reviving. But in the minds of many a Spanish...