Breaking on CNN...4 Explosions in Spain Basque Region

[maddezmom]

edited to add link:

MADRID (Reuters) - Four explosions struck near a power station in Spain's northern Basque country on Tuesday after a warning call in the name of Basque separatist guerrillas ETA, police said.
State radio said there were no injuries.

A caller to a Basque newspaper had warned earlier that four bombs would explode near the power station at Amorebieta, police said.



http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=788512§ion=news&src=rss/uk/worldNews

ETA May Be Behind Four Bombs in Spain
MADRID, Spain — Four bombs exploded Tuesday near a power plant in the Basque region after a warning call from the separatist group ETA, but there were no casualties, news reports said.

The blasts occurred in the town of Amorebieta in Vizcaya province, Spanish National Radio said.

ETA called a Basque newspaper and warned that four bombs would go off at the power plant, the news agency Efe said.

Workers at the plant were evacuated before the explosions, Efe said, quoting witnesses as saying the blasts were small.

http://www.dailyadvance.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Europe/Spain_Blasts.html

[Orsino]

1. ...Near a thermal power plant.

Eta placed warning calls ahead of the blasts.

[maddezmom]

2. no reports of injuries

[myrna minx]

6. Thank goodness.

Please keep us posted. :-(

[wakeme2008]

3. ETA is not related to Iraq

just Spains version of the IRA..

[underpants]

5. Well we aren't exactly sure at this time if there is a connection....

but we are keeping all options open at this point. We will brief you when we have more information on any Iraq ETA connection but for now the Iraq ETA connection is just something you can talk about until the next briefing which will include any information we have about an Iraq ETA connection

[cal04]

4. ETA May Be Behind Four Bombs in Spain

Four bombs exploded Tuesday near a power plant in the Basque region after a warning call from the separatist group ETA, but there were no casualties, news reports said.

The blasts occurred in the town of Amorebieta in Vizcaya province, Spanish National Radio said.

ETA called a Basque newspaper and warned that four bombs would go off at the power plant, the news agency Efe said.

Workers at the plant were evacuated before the explosions, Efe said, quoting witnesses as saying the blasts were small.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=788512§ion=news&src=rss/uk/worldNews

[chelsea0011]

7. ETA responsible? You won;t be hearing any "we are fighting

them there so we won't have to fight them here" from Bush and Blair. Homegrown strife doesn't play the way Al Qaeda does.

[Javaman]

8. Just watch the spin from the WH on this one...

Spain is on their shit list ever since they pulled out of Iraq, it will be interesting to see how moron* chides Spain.

Interestingly enough, the Basque separatists always call before the explosions so people can evacuate. They only want to destroy property, not people.

[WinkyDink]

9. Dang

Now we have to bomb England AND Spain, taking it to "them" so we don't have to fight "them" here!

[northzax]

10. ooh, I volunteer for the Malaga occupation force!

I'll even throw in Ibiza for good measure!

[Zodiak]

11. Pretty typical of western homegrown terrorists

Warn the target so there are no fatalities because fatalities only damage support. That sounds a lot like some of the militant left radicals of the late 60's who would bomb the occasional office at 4 A.M. to make a statement, not kill people.

I would put this type of terrorism and the "other" kind in different categories.