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| Madrid detonators not commonly used by ETA |
| 2004-03-12 |
| Rucksack bombs used in deadly Madrid train bombings were set off by mobile phone and contained copper detonators, which are not generally used by armed Basque separatist group ETA, a radio station has reported. Only one source reporting this so far. Cadena Ser radio station quoted security sources as saying the bombs, which blew up on four trains killing 198 people, were activated by mobile telephones which had had their alarms set for 7:39 a.m. (6:39 British time) on Thursday. Phone with a built in alarm clock? Sounds reasonable, either used as a timer or you could call it to set off the charge. Anyone out there have a phone with alarm feature? The detonator in an unexploded bomb recovered by police contained a copper detonator whereas the detonators commonly used by ETA are made of aluminium, the report said on Friday. While this is one more clue, they could have just stolen a different batch of detonators. The phone is a bigger clue, al-Qaeda is quite fond of mobile phones. The Interior Ministry could not immediately confirm the report. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #7 LOL, Frank, no worries! After yesterday, I'm not in the mood for the Clueless, the appeasers or the terrorist apologists! I am sick to fricking death of seeing pictures of people blown up, people crying in shock and horror and sorrow, sick of this senseless murder of the innocent and unwitting! Make. it. stop. ... so if I'm a little cranky here, I apologize. |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2004-3-12 6:14:15 PM |
| #6 yeow! Glad I'm on your side Jennie! LOL |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-3-12 5:57:44 PM |
| #5 Why are the new batch of trolls so LAZY?!? Look, you dumbasses, it's clear you either started reading RB *yesterday* or you have no idea how to use Google! As to this article, remember the 2 appeasers yesterday who kept babbling that the Madrid bombings had to be ETA because they were using "their" explosive? Guess this puts that to rest for good and all. |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2004-3-12 5:55:48 PM |
| #4 I find itt very unlikely up to 80 ETA members would have been assisting Al Zarqawi in Iraq...Do you have a link for this ? |
| Posted by: lyot 2004-3-12 1:08:50 PM |
| #3 Hmmm, from Iberian Notes: According to TV 3, the Corriere della Sera is reporting that a group of some 80 Basque terrorists made their way to Iraq after May 20, 2003, in order to join the Saddamite resistance. Most of them have left, but some have stayed under the cover of NGO workers. Two of them were those arrested in Cuenca with more than 500 kilos of explosives. If this is true, and I want to see a lot of evidence that it is before I believe it, then ETA is a full member, and one in good standing, of the Terror International. |
| Posted by: Anonymous2U 2004-3-12 12:40:55 PM |
| #2 Guess I'm old fashioned, I just use mine to call people. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-3-12 11:40:15 AM |
| #1 every phone has an alarm feature.. |
| Posted by: lyot 2004-3-12 11:19:26 AM |