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Friday, July 31, 2009

Maximum alert for 50th anniversary of ETA: Spain

PALMA OF MALLORCA, Balearic Islands - the security forces of Spain 'of the S took place Friday alerts maximum for the fiftieth birthday of the Basque group armed ETA, blamed bombardments which killed two police officers and wounded points of the people this week.
ETA was founded on July 31, 1959, and killed more than 825 people since beginning her violent countryside for a state independent Basque in 1968.
Blame ETA of authorities for two attacks this week - an explosion which killed two leaders close to the barracks of a police force on the island Thursday of Majorque and a bomb of car which wounded more than 60 people in the Scandinavian city of Burgos Wednesday.
If confirmed because the attacks of ETA, the breaths would be in conflict with assertions of government which the group is seriously weakened afterwards of important tightenings of police force in Spain and France these last years. Their synchronization, two days before the birthday of big step, can belong to an effort of ETA to show it is in any danger of the rupture upwards.
Gouvernement gave orders to the security forces to be on maximum alarm, to double their work, to increase much more their efforts and to protect itself from these cheap murderers, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has known as late Thursday.
ETA is now blamed of nine attacks this year.
The authorities envisaged Friday to witness a funeral mass on Majorque for the two killed leaders Thursday, which belonged to the guard responsible paramilitary civilian to maintain the order of the rural sectors and to keep the official buildings.
Several people were also slightly wounded in bombardment of Thursday 'of S in the sector of seaside resort of Palmanova, south-west of the island 'of capital of S, Palma de Mallorca.
The explosion, caused by a bomb attached to the lower part of a vehicle, occurred with the size of the season of summer holidays for the resource of Mediterranean island, which is one of Europe 'of destinations of principal tourists of S.
The images of television showed that the carbonized and mutilated remainders of a vehicle were parked close to the barracks of police force. The civils servant stopped the island 'airports and ports of S during several hours while the police force sought the suspects of bombardment.
The police force believes that the attack was carried out by a cell of ETA which came to the island specifically to carry it outside and was not based there, ministry for official the Ramon Interior that Socias indicated.
Of attack Wednesday morning on the Spanish continent also aimed at a compound of police force and buildings surrounding, in which approximately 120 people including/understanding of the dozen children were per hour of the breath. More than 60 people were brought back wounded.
There was no call of warning before the two attacks, for which no group claimed the responsibility.
Zapatero indicated that the attacks were presented while the Spanish police force in collaboration with the French counterparts struck hard of ETA dismantling her organization, thwarting her action, identifying her members and holding more quickly them each time and in greater numbers.
Spain dedicated itself to crush the separatist group since ETA finished what it had indicated was a permanent cease-fire with a bombardment 2006 which destroyed a garage of parking of airport of Madrid and killed two people.

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