ETA developing new bombing techniques in France

ETA developing new bombing techniques in France
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By h.b. - Jun 14, 2007 - 8:27 AM

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The revelation comes as the Prime Minister has been meeting with cross party representatives and thanking them for their support in the fight against ETA

Investigations by the Spanish Guardia Civil have established that ETA have been developing a system to put explosive devices inside car head rests. Detonation by movement or by remote control is also being designed. The Basque Terrorists are thought to have an explosives factory in France and a new military chief, Francisco López Peña, known as ‘Thierry’.
The conclusions come thanks to the 95 arrests made during the cease fire, and from documentation seized during the period.

The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has thanked all the political parties in Spain, including the Partido Popular, for their support against ETA. He said he was pre-disposed to maintain the unity, but ruled out a return to the previous Anti-Terrorism Pact, saying there was no need. ‘The most important thing is the unity of the parties’, he said, repeated that the only ones to make a mistake in the process was ETA themselves.
He met separately with all the Parliamentary Groups in Congress
yesterday afternoon, and repeated that there are no current contacts between ETA and the Government.
The PNV Basque Nationalist Party, called on the Prime Minister to maintain the resolution, passed in Congress, which voted for an end to the violence reached through dialogue.
The Prime Minister is to meet with the lehendakari, the leader of the Basque Parliament, Juan José Ibarretxe, in the Moncloa next Wednesday, to discuss the end of the ETA cease fire.

Meanwhile an alleged ETA activist has been arrested in Canada. He has been named as Bittor Tejedor, and had previously been arrested in 1988 in France where he was accused of belonging to ETA. He has been on the run since 1990, and is now back in Spain and will go before the National Court.

There has been embarrassment for the leader of the Partido Popular, Mariano Rajoy, who has been caught again making a comment with the microphone open. He said that he would be asking the Prime Minister ‘an absurd question’ at question time, but in the end opted for ‘What are the political objectives of the Government before the end of the legislature’.
Speaking on the Cadena Cope radio station, Rajoy made many comments which indicated his unity with the Government against ETA could be short-lived. Among the comments he made was one indicating that the subject of ETA would make up part of his election campaign next year. It follows his slip of the tongue after the meeting with Zapatero when he called ETA a ‘grand nation’.

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