Tragedy in Spain...

[Bags]

Mother of god...I really...uck.

[mankie]

Yet more proof that we are at war wether we like it or not....
 
 Did the Arab paper write an editorial condemning the terrorist attacks??
 I didn't think so.

[Captain Jack]

I've been to that Atocha train station. Was pretty nice. I had churros there accounted for my breakfast what with those hungover 9th grade days and small european breakfasts.

[walkman]

I think you're all jumping on the Osama bandwagon a little prematurely.  As CNN reported, "the U.S. official said 'keep in mind we often see false claims of responsibility,' and that even for attacks it did commit, 'al Qaeda frequently takes no public credit.'"
 
 And Abu Hafs al-Masri are hardly synonymous with Al Qaeda...after all, these are the same guys who took "credit" for the blackout last summer.  Nice try.
 
 By the way, GGW, where'd that analysis come from?  I'm a little skeptical of all this rhetoric describing a socialist-Islamist alliance - what makes this act (guarenteed to garner support for hard-line conservatism) any more likely to have come from Islamic terrorists than Basque terrorists?  Does it really make more sense for "an Islamist group to mount such an attack in an attempt to swing the vote to the Socialists"?  Why would the Spanish take a hard-line stance against the Basque separatists and not against Islamic terrorists?
 
 Just two cents...

[Barcelona]

Thanks Fico.
 
 Mankie, as for your question in the other thread, even though it now seems Al-Qaeda might be behind the attack, it´s still not sure. Responding to your question, if ETA was behind this attack, this would be a very similar situation to what happened in 1998 (I believe it was August of that year) in Ireland when the Real IRA put that bomb in that small town killing some 30 people. That attack in 98 was a clear sign that the military side of the IRA was almost over and that only a few radicals didn´t want to accept the truce and then put that terrible bomb. If ETA was behind this, it would be the same thing, a sign of how close ETA is to disappear. Today, for the first time in ETA´s history, Batasuna (the equivalent to Sinn Fein in the basque country) condemned the attack. I doubt this is a political move, but rather that either ETA was not involved in the attack or that they are about to disappear and a small faction decided to do this terrible thing.
 
 However, no one knows who did this now. The only thing I am sure is that the Spanish government are a bunch of assholes, a few minutes after the attack the government was politicizing it to try to take advantage against left wing parties and small regionalist parties in other parts of the country.

[ggw]

Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:
 By the way, GGW, where'd that analysis come from?

Aegis Defence Services

...Anyone willing to speculum that the much vaunted "Black Wind of Death" will be aimed at the Athens games???

[mankie]

Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:
  I think you're all jumping on the Osama bandwagon a little prematurely.  As CNN reported, "the U.S. official said 'keep in mind
 And Abu Hafs al-Masri are hardly synonymous with Al Qaeda...after all, these are the same guys who took "credit" for the blackout last summer.  Nice try.
 
 By the way, GGW, where'd that analysis come we often see false claims of responsibility,' and that even for attacks it did commit, 'al Qaeda frequently takes no public credit.'"
 from?  I'm a little skeptical of all this rhetoric describing a socialist-Islamist alliance - what makes this act (guarenteed to garner support for hard-line conservatism) any more likely to have come from Islamic terrorists than Basque terrorists?  Does it really make more sense for "an Islamist group to mount such an attack in an attempt to swing the vote to the Socialists"?  Why would the Spanish take a hard-line stance against the Basque separatists and not against Islamic terrorists?
 
 Just two cents...

If it's on the Crescent News Network then it must be accurate......
   :roll:

[Barcelona]

At least, some good news in Spain. The right wing Popular Party lost the elections in the last moment for their constant lies (the last one just three days before the election trying to blame ETA and not Al-Qaeda of the terrorist attacks, obviously for electoral reasons).
 
 One less, now it's up to Americans and British to get rid of the other two liars.

[walkman]

*mmmmm*
 the sound of walkie eating his words...
 ah well, at least the lefties won.

Originally posted by Barcelona:
  At least, some good news in Spain. The right wing Popular Party lost the elections in the last moment for their constant lies (the last one just three days before the election trying to blame ETA and not Al-Qaeda of the terrorist attacks, obviously for electoral reasons).
 
 One less, now it's up to Americans and British to get rid of the other two liars.

I'm sure the Sons of Mohammed were happy with the election result, too!

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
   

Originally posted by Barcelona:
  At least, some good news in Spain. The right wing Popular Party lost the elections in the last moment for their constant lies (the last one just three days before the election trying to blame ETA and not Al-Qaeda of the terrorist attacks, obviously for electoral reasons).
 
 One less, now it's up to Americans and British to get rid of the other two liars.

I'm sure the Sons of Mohammed were happy with the election result, too! [/b]

I couldn't care less. The issue here is that the previous government constantly lied about the war in Irak and even used the attacks on Thursday for electoral purposes.

[Bags]

Originally posted by Barcelona:
  I couldn't care less. The issue here is that the previous government constantly lied about the war in Irak and even used the attacks on Thursday for electoral purposes.

Remind you of anyone?
 
 ABB