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Old 2004-04-03, 11:01 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml...7&section=news

GANES, Spain (Reuters) - Three suspects wanted for the Madrid train bombings set off a bomb when cornered in a flat, killing themselves and a policeman, as Spain's search for the perpetrators of the attacks went wrong.

Spanish news agency Europa Press, quoting security force sources, said the suspects were among six men for whom Spain issued arrest warrants on March 31 in connection with the March 11 attacks on Madrid commuter trains that killed 191 people.

Police swooped on the working-class Madrid suburb of Leganes on Saturday evening in an attempt to round up several suspects.

The operation turned ugly when the occupants of the first-floor flat, said by neighbors to be Moroccans in their 20s, spotted the police and began firing while shouting and chanting in Arabic, officials and local residents said.

The police were about to raid the flat when the suspects set off an explosion, demolishing the front of the five-storey apartment block.

"There are three bodies of suspected terrorists who may have killed themselves," Interior Minister Angel Acebes told a late-night news conference.

A police officer of the elite Special Operations Group was also killed and 11 police were injured, Acebes said.

The powerful blast sent a pall of smoke into the air, left a gaping hole in the front of the block, damaged nearby buildings and left a pile of rubble on the ground.

Police cordoned off the area. Residents of surrounding blocks were evacuated and 30 families had to spend the night at a hotel because they could not return to their damaged homes.

QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD

"This is a very quiet neighborhood. There's no conflict here. But it's places like this where these people try to hide," said local resident Juan Manuel Velez

Spain is holding 15 people, many of them Moroccan, over the March 11 attacks.

Acebes has singled out the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group -- a shadowy organization believed to be tied to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network -- as prime suspect in the bombings.

He said one suspect in the flat may have escaped before the police cordoned off the area but he could not be sure.

Acebes said earlier on Saturday a bomb found on a high-speed rail track on Friday contained the same make of explosive and may have a similar detonator to the March 11 bombs.

However, officials cautioned that both the explosives and detonators are widely used in mining.

Investigators believe extremists planned to derail a high-speed train in an attack that might have killed hundreds.

The government refused to blame any group for Friday's thwarted bomb.

High-speed trains from Madrid to the southern city of Seville began running again on Saturday after the 26-lb bomb was defused.

Police and army backed by helicopters and armored vehicles, were guarding the line but passengers were nervous.

"It always affects you. You can't be calm. Everything seems fairly under control...but there could have been another March 11 yesterday," said 40-year-old chemist Jose Antonio Perez.

Trains that would normally have been packed with travelers leaving town for the Holy Week holiday had lots of empty seats.

El Pais newspaper said Spain, a strong supporter of U.S. policy on Iraq under outgoing Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, was the main al Qaeda base in Europe and that police believed it could strike here again.

But Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who takes office later this month after his surprise victory in elections three days after the Madrid bombs, has pledged to bring 1,300 Spanish troops home from Iraq if the United Nations does not take charge there by the end of June.
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Old 2004-04-03, 11:04 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Old 2004-04-03, 11:04 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Indeed, screw those terriosts.
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Old 2004-04-03, 11:31 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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I hear they have a great dental plan though.
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Old 2004-04-03, 11:33 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Old 2004-04-03, 11:52 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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You wouldn't expect em to be any smarter than that.
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Old 2004-04-04, 03:35 AM   [Ignore Me] #7
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But smart enough to evade government Intelligence services to do some seriously fatal attacks.
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Old 2004-04-04, 04:56 AM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Originally Posted by Onizuka-GTO
But smart enough to evade government Intelligence services to do some seriously fatal attacks.
Dont Hijack the thread
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Old 2004-04-04, 06:38 AM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Originally Posted by Biohazzard56
Dont Hijack the thread
Yeah you tell her Bio.
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Old 2004-04-04, 01:06 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Originally Posted by Biohazzard56
Dont Hijack the thread
How does that constitute "hijacking" a thread?

Explain please.
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Old 2004-04-04, 07:05 AM   [Ignore Me] #11
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Originally Posted by Onizuka-GTO
But smart enough to evade government Intelligence services to do some seriously fatal attacks.

and get a job with a great dental plan.
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Old 2004-04-04, 01:13 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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it's jedi's thread about terrorists - how can you hijack it (oddly appropriate, should it happen) by talking more about terrorists?
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Old 2004-04-04, 01:53 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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