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Mar 14th, 2004, 05:15 AM
In answer to the whole "why would Al Qaeda do it?" question :
Muslim Al Qaeda types believe that Spain is lost Arab territory, the land of the lost Arab state of the Halifat of Kordova, which crumbled in 1492 as a result of the fall of Grenda. There's a huge movement within the Muslim fundamentalist communities to become a presence in the EU, and there's plenty of motivation beyond some lazy American logic wrapped around the typical "they hate us, see what we caused" theories.
As for the Basque seperatist movement: The Basque were around before the Romans. They're one of the most ancient nations, with an individual culture, language and longer history then most, surviving next to the Celts, the Ghals of Ireland, Welsh and Britany. Unlike the popular Palestinian movement, they can at least point to an exact time of autonomy even if it was 2500 years ago. While ETA has always done their fair share of bombings, a younger crop of members have made moves to adopt more violent PLO/IRA tactics.
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