[extropy-chat] Re: Arabic newspaper says al-Qaeda claims responsibility

[Mike Lorrey]

They found a vehicle with detonators, a Quran, and other arabic writing
in it.....

--- Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > Arabic newspaper says al-Qaeda claims responsibility
> 
> We simply don't know yet.  Any idiot can claim responsibility.
> 
> Since it hit Spain, ETA is a natural suspect and in fact everybody
> there seems to naturally have assumed that in fact it was ETA.
> 
> Arguments pro ETA responsibility:
> * We're in the final days of campaining before the parliamentary
>   elections.  ETA likes to remind everybody of their existence at
>   those times.
> * Supposedly--this may be a rumor--the explosive used was just the
>   same ETA uses.
> * Supposedly the intelligence services had given warnings that an
>   attack was to be expected.
> 
> Contra ETA responsibility:
> * ETA prefers targeted assassination of representatives of the
> Spanish
>   state (members of government, police, Guardia Civil, etc.) and
>   political opponents.  This mass killing of civilians is very unlike
>   ETA.
> * When they occasionally target the public, ETA tends to give
>   half an hour advance notice that they have planted a bomb.  Their
>   goal is terror, not deaths.
> * The number of individual attacks that had to be coordinated for
>   this, the sheer scale of things is way beyond anything ETA has
>   ever demonstrated.
> 
> The attack appears to have been carried out with time-triggered
> bombs.  It was not a suicide attack.
> 
> I would imagine that there are some ETA-associated voices on the
> net, but I'm only aware of Basque Red
> <URL:http://www.basque-red.net/>
> and they are silent, "last update: March 10".
> 
> -- 
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                         
> naddy at mips.inka.de
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
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