http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040319/D81D8NI00.html Mar 19, 12:57 AM (ET)
By MAR ROMAN
MADRID, Spain (AP) - The government has declassified intelligence documents it said would refute charges that it lied in the immediate aftermath of the Madrid bombings by insisting that Basque separatists were responsible.
The 24 pages of documents released were compiled from Thursday, the day of the attack, through Sunday, the day of the election, Spain's National Intelligence Center, spokesman Eduardo Zaplana said.
"They will clear up any doubt about the information government had on those days," Zaplana said.
The government has been accused of misleading the public by insisting the armed Basque separatist group ETA was its prime suspect in the bombings that killed 201 people even as evidence started surfacing of a possible Islamic link.