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SPAIN STEPS UP SECURITY
The Director General of the Civil Guard, Carlos Gómez Arruche, has said that both the Civil Guard and the National Police are currently keeping close watch on transport centres and other areas where there are large numbers of public, following the bomb attacks in London on Thursday. Also under closer guard were power stations and other strategic sites across the country, he said. Alert level three in Spain means that the armed forces can also be called on to take part in the operations. He added that there was a special alert plan in force in the Levante area of Eastern Spain, but denied that there was any indication of any immediate terrorist threat. Members of the Spanish foreign legion are to patrol the local commuter railway lines.
Meanwhile the Secretary General of the Partido Popular. Ángel Acebes, has said that the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has shown he has no idea about terrorism. It follows comments by Zapatero in which he said terrorism was the result of injustice in the world. Acebes went on to ask Zapatero what sea of injustice had led to the creation of ETA.