Partly Made Bomb Found Under a Rail Line in Spain

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

— A partly assembled bomb containing 26 pounds of explosives was discovered Friday during a routine track check on a high-speed rail line linking the Spanish capital to Seville. The explosives were thought to be the same type as those used in the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid, officials said.

The device was dry and lacked an initiator, Spanish authorities said, leading investigators to suspect that it had been placed under the tracks on Friday morning and that the bombers had been interrupted while putting it together.

While not as sophisticated or powerful as the bombs in the coordinated Madrid attacks, the device would have been potent enough to cause the train to derail, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.

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The bomb was defused without incident, but it disrupted Easter holiday travel plans for thousands of people whose trains were canceled Friday, the start of the Holy Week celebrations and one of the busiest travel days of the year, a railway spokesman said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/03/international/europe/03SPAI.html

[gate of the sun]

1. seems suspect to me

a message to the new president perhaps via the US?

[w4rma]

2. Has prime minister Zapatero been sworn in, yet? When does Aznar leave?(nt)

[realdeal22k]

4. Yea, that's the ticket

Perhaps the USA is now trying to bomb Spain. Why didn't we all think of that?

[w4rma]

5. ? (nt)

[realdeal22k]

6. Link...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=460678&mesg_id=460706&page=

[w4rma]

7. That's the post we both replied to. Still: ? (nt)

[realdeal22k]

3. So now they hate the socialists?

Just who exactly do these bombing terrorists like and support? I would have thought that Spain had at lease deterred them for a while.

[Briar]

12. Don't buy the right wing lies

Spain didn't throw out its government to appease the terrorists. Zapatero's first statement was one of determination to take them on. On the other hand, he is equally determined not to go on appeasing Bush, and he does not buy the false connection between Iraw and terrorism. Neither do most Spaniards. Only right wingers do, and only they want to persuade people in other coalition countries that throwing out governments which support the Iraq war is about trying to appease terrorists. Smearing Spaniards because they exercised their democratic power just reflects the war mongers' fear that other electorates will do the same - in the US in November, for instance.

[StopThief]

8. But, but, but, the "honorable" terrorists said. . . .

they would leave Spain alone as long as they did the naked hokey pokey. How could this be??????????

[StopThief]

9. In case there is any doubt. . . . . . . .

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[pinniped]

10. They couldn't send them an anthrax letter because someone may...

make a connection.

[Zomby Woof]

11. there aer so many splinter groups

Groups within groups, and all with their own agenda... plus copycats. Who knows? But a DUer we all know and love will be there soon and we need to send her our best vibes for safety.

[Moderator]

13. Locking

story from yesterday morning

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=459170