WP: Alleged Leader of ETA Is Captured in France

[DeepModem Mom]

Alleged Leader of ETA Is Captured in France

By Pamela Rolfe
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, October 4, 2004; Page A14

MADRID, Oct. 3 -- The alleged political leader of the armed Basque separatist group ETA and his partner were arrested Sunday along with 19 other accused ETA members during a police sweep in southwestern France, Spanish authorities said.

Calling the raid "historic," Spain's interior minister, Jose Antonio Alonso, said it had netted Mikel Albizu Iriarte, 43, who he said has run ETA since 1993.

Albizu's partner, Soledad Iparraguirre, 43, is accused of involvement in at least 14 murders and is considered by authorities to be the highest-ranking woman in ETA. She is also suspected of collecting, managing and distributing money the group raises through kidnappings and extortion of businesses.

The couple, who appear on wanted posters in government buildings throughout Spain, were caught with their son in a house they used sporadically in the French town of Salies de Bearn, authorities said....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4630-2004Oct3.html

[lazarus]

1. So

They caught the leader of a terrorist group without invading a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with any of it?

Amazing.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Maybe caught terrorists, using good intelligence and police work?

[trapper914]

3. France Was Harboring Terrorists!

Let's "shock and awe" 'em!