Terror group claiming responsibility for Madrid bombing wants Bush to win:

[DaveSZ]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4591197




Purported Al Qaeda Letter Calls Truce in Spain
Wed Mar 17, 4:56 PM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!


By Opheera McDoom

CAIRO (Reuters) - A group claiming to have links with al Qaeda said on Wednesday it was calling a truce in its Spanish operations to see if the new Madrid government would withdraw its troops from Iraq (news - web sites), a pan-Arab newspaper said.


In a statement sent to the Arabic language daily al-Hayat, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the Madrid bombings that killed 201 people, also urged its European units to stop all operations.


"Because of this decision, the leadership has decided to stop all operations within the Spanish territories... until we know the intentions of the new government that has promised to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq," the statement said.


"And we repeat this to all the brigades present in European lands: Stop all operations."


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[DaveSZ]

1. .

It might be fake, but who knows.

[QuidditchFan]

4. Conflicting emotions on this one

While at the same time I think that Kerry would be much more effective at trying to cut terror off at its source rather than treating it symptomatically, I seriously resent the fact that the terrorists are viewing Spain's withdrawl from Iraq.

Bush's failure at building and maintaining a real coalition is having horrible consequences right about now...

[last_texas_dem]

2. I hope to hear more about this

Great ammo against the morons who claim "the terrorists" want Kerry to be President. Didn't one of our "reputable" news networks even have that as a polling question?

[AbbeyRoad]

3. It makes sense

Bush and co. are masters at polarizing people and creating a global environment in which extremists thrive.

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[Nashyra]

6. We can not give the terrorist the illusion

that they are gaining by blowing up anywhere and anything they see fit, however it is the presidents duty to protect America and it's people and if our foreign policy is making us targets that has to be addressed. It is possible to come down hard on terrorist and be against illegal wars that the UN and most of the world population are against. We can be adamant against the terrorist and not be for taking down foreign govt's as as bad as they are until the war on terrorism has been brought under control. Kerry can make the case that Iraq was not part of the war on terrorism and point out that as bad as Saddam was Iraq was not part of the terrorist network and he was contained, now we have created a breeding ground for the terrorist where there were none making the world a much less safer place. Sure the world is a better place without Saddam and so are the Iraqi's but at the expense of the our soldiers, our citizens and any other country that supported the war for favors from the US. We need a foreign policy that is not run by profit for oil. Kerry must make the case that * was wrong about the Iraq war and is making the world a more dangerous place by his "stubborn cowboy" foreign policy.