Spanish PM Aznar refuses torture extradition

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1032089,00.html

The conservative government of Spain's prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, yesterday outraged human rights campaigners by overriding the courts and refusing to request the extradition of 40 suspected Argentinian torturers and killers to face trial in Spain.

The decision, which lawyers said would be challenged in the supreme court, prevented two former Argentinian junta leaders, General Jorge Videla and Admiral Emilio Massera, from being tried in Madrid.

Thirty-seven other Argentinian officers and one civilian also avoided attempts to prosecute them for their role in the disappearance of at least 9,000 people between 1976 and 1983. The officers included Alfredo Astiz, a former naval captain known as the "blond angel of death". snip

Officials estimate that 9,000 Argentinians died or vanished during the junta years, but human rights groups say the figure could total 30,000.

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1. and they rail about castro.......

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2. This piece of shit is history

just like jurinor a matter of time.

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3. Sooner than you think. Bye bye Jose

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/30/spain.successor/

Spanish PM Aznar picks successor

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, ending months of speculation, has chosen Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as the candidate to succeed him for the general elections scheduled for next March.

"It's true. That he (Rajoy) is the candidate is officially confirmed," an aide to Aznar told CNN.

Spain's state-run television TVE and state-run news agency EFE broke the news at midday Saturday, ahead of Aznar's formal announcement expected Monday before the leadership of his ruling conservative Popular Party.

Aznar, 50, was first elected in 1996 and then re-elected in 2000.

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4. Isn't torture the "new" reason for the Iraq invasion that Aznar supported?

Why is Bush's buddy now protecting torturers elsewhere? Something stinks here.

Don