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| Spanish police say summit attack thwarted |
| 2002-05-15 |
| Spanish law enforcement authorities said Wednesday they thwarted a major terrorist attack that the Basque separatist group ETA planned for a summit of Latin American and European leaders. Two suspected ETA members who were arrested Tuesday had stashed nearly 440 pounds of explosives, along with detonators, automatic weapons and false license plates in an apartment in the center of the capital, Madrid regional governor Francisco Javier Ansuategui said. "It was a real arsenal," Ansuategui told a news conference with the heads of the National Police and Civil Guard. "These two persons didn't want to scare," he said. "They wanted to kill and to kill with all its consequences" during the summit of more than 40 leaders from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, which begins Friday. Just a little reminder that we're at war with more than just a bunch of nutbags with turbans. We're at war with a mindset. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |