Find them, box them, forget them.
Thank G-d Quebec separatists spend their money on the Language Police. Keeps 'em busy. :rolleyes:
I’ve seen blame placed on the ETA, but has anyone taken credit yet?
Noone yet, bloody cowards.
I’m probably going to regret asking, but what the hell is this supposed to mean, and what relevance does it have to this thread?
The bombing is being blamed on separatists in Spain. People who want to break away and form another country. Quebec has people like that too, close to half of them. But they don’t kill innocent people randomly to demonstrate their will.
Yeah, Eleusis had it right. Thanks Eleusis.
Hey Matt (Fellow Montrealer here) … Funnily enough, I thought if anyone would come along and question the meaning of my post, I figured, “Matt mcl will come along to set them straight!”
LOL … Joke’s on me. I was just thinking about the Basque separatists and how much worse we could be in Quebec. (Though it’s far from peachy-keen as far as I’m concerned). Flashbacks to FLQ and Pierre Elliot Trudeau. “Just watch me” and all.
Thanks for the clarification.
Your post could have been misinterpreted as meaning “If it weren’t for ‘busying themselves’ with the OQLF, Quebec sovereignists would be bombing trains, instead of engaging in the democratic debate that’s characterized this issue for the last thirty years.” Which, of course, would have been grossly insulting.
ETA is denying responsibility, which is not their M.O.
From CNN:
Sounds suspiciously easy to me, but our ol’ buddies in al Qaeda might be back in bidness.
Do you have a link? Several posters (here and elsewhere) have said this, but the closest I’ve found in the news is a Batasuna spokesperson saying he didn’t believe ETA were responsible.
It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for them simply not to own up to it for a while, BTW.
When I first heard about this, my initial reaction was “Fucking ETA bastards”, but on reflection, it doesn’t look like them at all. ETA has two way of bombing. Either they call ahead and say that a bomb will blow in ´hotell at this or that resort at such and such hour. Basically, they’re just stirring things up. Or, they don’t announce it beforehand, and then the target is almost always a politician, a high law enforcement officer, a judge or some such. Innocent bystanders have died in these bombings, as they are prone to do when car bombs go off in urban areas, but this sort of blind destruction is not the way of ETA. I’m just speculating here, but the sympathy for the former separationists and freedom fighters is very low in Spain. Pedro six pack will not be too bothered if a chief of police in another part of the country is blown away, but a bombing like this is sure to hurt ETA a lot, should they be responsible.
ETA doesn’t have a raison d’etre anymore. Basically, they just keep going, because it’s all they know how to do. Spain is in no way oppressing Basque country, the way it did 30 years ago. Their language has official status and the borders of Europe are down.
No, this bombing smells of something else. Remember that Spain was one of the few countries in EU that not only supported the Iraq war, they sent troups too.
Just in from BBC:
Well, the Spanish Gov’t won’t be able to spin this as ETA pre-election. They’ll be seen by the Spanish people as Spin Doctoring too, which won’t help in the polls. The people will blame the Spanish Gov’t for getting into Iraq w/o asking them people as well.
I hate hitting the button before I’m done editing. Delete the world ‘People’ in last sentance.
Thanks, but that still doesn’t say that ETA themselves have denied responsibility.
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from www.yahoo.es
Rough translation: "Arnalodo Otegi, leader of Batasuna, the independent Basque party, outlawed for its connections with ETA, condemned, in the name of the independent left, the bombings on the Madrid commuter trains, adding that he didn’t want to “even contemplate the hyothesis” that it was the work of the Basque separatist organisation, and put blame on hte “Arab resistence.”
If someone speaks officially for Batasuna, you can be sure that the person is speaking for ETA.
I’m familiar with the relationship between Batasuna and ETA, and you might have noticed that I already said I’d seen the quote from the Batasuna spokesperson.
Thanks anyway, though.
Looks like I may be getting a job again, sooner than expected. Fuckers.
If Al Qaeda did this, Aznar is toast.