Madrid bombings: ETA or... Al Qaeda?
Madrid, this morning.
Several bomb explosions kill at least 173 people, and at least 600 people were injured.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet, but two routes are being looked into:
- The ETA: the ETA is a Basque independence-group, politically controlled by the Batasuna party. Batasuna denies all involvement, and points the finger to 'the Arab resistance" (read Al-Qaeda). However, elections in Spain are coming up this weekend, and this could be an ETA-election move. In favor of the ETA though pleas that this attack was huge, even for the ETA.
- Al-Qaeda: Batasuna pointing the finger to Al-Qaeda, Spain's siding with the US in the Iraq-case,...
Update: Spanish police just announced that the type of bombs used is the type of bombs that the ETA tends to use...