Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Basque separatist rebels ETA claimed responsibility for four bomb attacks over the past two months in a communique received by Basque nationalist newspaper Gara on Friday.
The rebels...said they were behind the attacks on two offices run by Spain's governing Socialists and two television transmission stations.
No one was hurt in the blasts, which had already been blamed on ETA by the authorities. The last fatal attack the rebels claimed was the assassination of a former local politician on March 7, two days before a Spanish national election.
In Friday's communique, ETA referred to the recent arrest of mayor of the town of Arrasate for links to the rebels and accused the government of "displaying its neofascist essence without any attempt at concealment," Gara said.
Spain's High Court Public Prosecutor asked for the provisional and unconditional imprisonment of the Mayor of Arrasate/Mondragón Ino Galparsoro. She is accused of collaboration with armed group, legal disobedience and breaking of preventive measures.
Official sources pointed out that they still have to confirm if she is also accused of integration in armed group. They will reveal this information after they receive a police report they are waiting for.
The mayor has been transferred to High Court cell, where she must stay until Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón announces his decision, this evening at about 19:00 (local time GMT+2).
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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