Wasn't Spain foreign pollicy supposed to make them safer?

[Joseph_Botwinick]

Why are the Islamic extremist bombing Spain still? I thought they bombed them last time because they were helping America in Iraq and that once they left they would be safer. What happened this time to make the poor terrorists mad? The Spanish were duped into believing appeasment would make them safer.

Joseph Botwinick

 

[Ben W]

A good reason why you never ever under any circumstances bow to terrorists.

Terrorists are ultimatley Cowards. The way that you deal with a Coward is with force. Plain and Simple.

 

[church mouse guy]

Ben W is correct, as usual.

Were the bombings in Spain Islamic or Basque? At any rate there has been Islamic terror activity since the defeat of Spain. Spain is on the chopping block because Islam is angry that they were defeated by Spain in 1492.

I think that France is in a dangerous position.

 

[dean198]

I suppose it is to be expected that neo-con dupes would confuse ETA with al Qaeda! Tehy just cannot see the wood for the trees [too busy trying to find non-existent entities hiding behind the trees I suppose].

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

Why did ETA attack them before?

Joseph Botwinick

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040312/325/eoehx.html

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

http://www.andunie.net/mt-archives/000177.php

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

A letter purporting to come from al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the grisly train bombings in Madrid, calling them strikes against "crusaders".


A statement on Thursday attributed to al-Qaida and sent to the London-based daily al-Quds al-Arabi claimed responsibility for Thursday's serial bombings in Madrid that left 192 dead and over 1200 wounded.



The statement also claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on a Masonic lodge in Istanbul two days earlier and said a big attack on the United States was "imminent".

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8FE71593-885E-48E2-9B7F-AE0D4C817D9D.htm

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

"This is part of settling old accounts with Spain, the crusader, and America's ally in its war against Islam ," the claim said.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/031104_APworld_spainblast.html

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

"We declare our responsibility for what happened in Madrid exactly 21/2 years after the attacks on New York and Washington," said the man, according to a government translation of the tape, which was recorded in Arabic. "It is a response to your collaboration with the criminals Bush and his allies."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001878380_webspain13.html

 

[Joseph_Botwinick]

I see now that ETA took credit for this bombing and not the last one:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/03/madrid.explosions/index.html

Oops. Sorry.

Joseph Botwinick

 

[JebMartin]

You have nothing to apologize for Joe. You are absolutely right and history proves you so. Europe tried to appease Hitler while he was building his third reicht, breakinjg every treaty Germany signed afdter WW 1. They appeased until it was too late.