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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (33902)	3/11/2004 2:48:02 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793719

Here is why it is getting pinned to ETA rather than Al Qaeda: "The Spanish prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, the third man on the international stage beside George Bush and Tony Blair in the run-up to war, was staring at political disaster yesterday as anti-war demonstrations spread and opinion polls revealed 91% of Spaniards against the war." guardian.co.uk Now he has to run for re-election facing not only the non-existant WMDs, but having brought islamic terrorism to Spain.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (33902)	3/11/2004 2:50:15 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793719

Best of the Web excerpt Who Is Karen Kwiatkowski? She's the author of an article Salon hypes as "The New Pentagon Papers." (Blogress Ana Marie Cox, who is witty even though left-wing, had the best take on this: Kwiatkowski's account "will undoubtedly surprise the three or four Salon readers who don't already believe that 'neoconservative agenda bearers . . . suppress[ed] and distort[ed] . . . intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods.' " Ted Kennedy has also cited Kwiatkowski, a retired Air Force intelligence officer, as an authority in a recent speech attacking the White House for liberating Iraq. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Max Boot suggests Kwiatkowski is also something of a right-wing crank: Since her retirement in March 2003, she has become a prolific contributor to isolationist publications like the American Conservative, Pat Buchanan's magazine, and lewrockwell.com, an ultra-libertarian website. Pretty much all her work is devoted to uncovering "neoconservative warmongers" who have supposedly taken over U.S. foreign policy. She is not subtle in denouncing "Dickie Cheney, Richie Perle and Dougie Feith" (as well as, occasionally, "my pal, Max Boot"), whose "neoconservative philosophy is hateful to humanity, anti-American, statist and anti-free trade." (Anti-free trade?) She thinks the United States is a "maturing fascist state." And she predicts a dire fate for those who led us into the Iraq war: "Some folks on the Pentagon's E-ring may be sitting beside Hussein in the war crimes tribunals." opinionjournal.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (33902)	3/11/2004 3:09:29 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793719

Lots of AQ links to Spain, including links to 9/11. Not to be forgotten is the loss of amour propre from the loss of Andalusia in 1492. I suppose there is some sort of common cause between the Basque separatists and AQ--they both hate the Spanish national government. A significant difference in method is that the Basque separatists seem to warn before the explosions take place. It seems unusual that the scale of the attacks would increase so substantially without the usual warning. foxnews.com findarticles.com