I just read on the hub Bokkepot's message where he said that it's terrible what happened in Madrid. I was just going to ask my mother what happened (I was away from home all day) and at the same moment she asked me "Did you hear what happened in Madrid". What a coincidence.
(AP) - Ten terrorist bombs tore through trains and stations along a commuter line at the height of Madrid's morning rush hour Thursday, killing more than 190 people and wounding 1,240 others before this weekend's general elections. Officials blamed Basque separatists for the worst terrorist attack in Spanish history. "This is mass murder," said a somber Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar following an emergency cabinet meeting, vowing to hunt down the attackers and ruling out negotiations with the ETA separatist group.
From CNN.com.
Rush-hour bombings kill at least 190 in Madrid
A coordinated wave of bomb attacks on Madrid's commuter train system today killed at least 190 people and wounded over 1,000 at the height of the city's rush hour. There has been no claim of responsibility in the bombings, but Spanish officials are blaming terrorists from the Basque separatist group ETA.
Daburcor? · Member since
Oh my...
PieterMC · Member since
From CNN:
"Spanish interior minister says new line of Madrid blast investigation opened after police find van with detonators and Arabic-language tapes."
Josuè · Member since
192 deaths, 1.421 woundeds.
Okay, things have changed. This is something new. As the prev post has announced, there's the possibility of this being an Al-Qaeda terrorist attack.
As I said in prev posts, this is something similar to what happended to France.
The fact is that it was REALLY strange that ETA didn't announce there was bombs in train (as they usually advice of their attacks). And also, Batasuna (political arm of ETA) has not claimed responsability for the attack as they ALWAYS do.
Even Batasuna has announced that they have nothing to do with the attack.
Now we are surprised... this is new, though I personally expected it from the first moment.
I'm getting scared, because if Al-Qaeda is actually the responsable of this attack, I'm afraid there'll start a chain of attacks and a lot of more victims with irrespective aplication.
I hope AlQaeda has nothing to do with this.
iron eagle · Member since
am glad your safe also
Josuè · Member since
As you might now by the time... the most possible option is that Al-Qaeda made the attack.
NoOneButYou1975 · Member since
from www.dallasnews.com
BREAKING NEWS A London-based Arabic newspaper says it has received claim of responsibility for the Madrid train bombings issued in the name of al-Qaeda. Details to come.
Penis - Vagina · Member since
From the Queen News section at brianmay.com:
**Thu 11 Mar 04**
MADRID BOMBINGS
First... our shock at the Madrid Bombings and sympathy to all those affected by this atrocity.
It was said on the Lunchtime News that a 3-Day National Mourning period had been declared. Nothing has been heard yet whether the theatre will be closed for that.
The Calderon Theatre is a 15 to 20 minute walk from Atocha Station.
The Calderon is where the WWRY musical is currently playing. I would certainly hope they suspend it out of respect.
NoOneButYou1975 · Member since
(AP)
'This is mass murder'
02:56 PM CST on Thursday, March 11, 2004
Associated Press
MADRID, Spain - Ten terrorist bombs tore through trains and stations along a commuter line at the height of the morning rush hour Thursday, killing more than 190 people and wounding 1,200 others three days before Spain's general elections.
Spain initially blamed Basque separatists for the bombings, but the interior minister also said other lines of investigation were opened after police found a van Thursday with detonators and an audiotape of Quranic verses near where the bombed trains originated.
The Arabic newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi said it had received a claim of responsibility issued in the name of al-Qaeda.
The e-mail claim of responsibility, signed by the shadowy Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri, was received at the newspaper's London offices and said the brigade's "death squad" had penetrated "one of the pillars of the crusade alliance, Spain."
"This is part of settling old accounts with Spain, the crusader, and America's ally in its war against Islam," the claim said.
Spain had backed the U.S.-led war on Iraq despite domestic opposition, and many al-Qaeda-linked terrorists have been captured in Spain or were believed to have operated from there.
After an emergency cabinet meeting, a somber Prime minister Jose Maria Aznar vowed to hunt down the attackers.
"This is mass murder," he said.
The bombers used titadine, a kind of compressed dynamite also found in a bomb-laden van intercepted last month as it headed for Madrid, a source at Aznar's office said on condition of anonymity. Officials blamed the ETA separatist group at that time.
Police found a van with detonators and an Arabic-language tape with Quranic verses in the town of Alcala de Henares, 15 miles east of Madrid, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said Thursday night.
Police found seven detonators and the tape on the front seat of the van, Acebes told a news conference.
He added that ETA remained the "main line of investigation" in the blasts, Europe's worst terror attack since the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270.
Three of the four trains bombed Thursday originated in Alcala de Henares and one passed through it, the state rail company said.
Panicked commuters abandoned bags and their shoes as they trampled each other to escape the Atocha terminal, where bombs struck two trains. Some fled into darkened, dangerous tunnels at the station, a bustling hub for subway, commuter and long-distance trains just south of Madrid's famed Prado Museum.
The bodies of the dead, some with their cell phones ringing unanswered as frantic relatives tried to contact them, were carried away by rescue workers. The wounded, faces bloodied, sat on curbs as buses were pressed into service as ambulances.
One firefighter said he saw 70 bodies along a platform at El Pozo station, just east of downtown Madrid. One corpse had been blown onto the roof.
Forty coroners worked to identify remains, the national news agency Efe said, and a steady stream of taxis carried relatives to a sprawling convention center where the bodies were taken.
A total of 10 bombs, nearly all in backpacks, exploded in a 15-minute span along nine miles of the commuter line -- running from Santa Eugenia to the Madrid hub of Atocha -- killing 192 people and
injuring more than 1,240, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said. Police found and detonated three other bombs.
The blasts began about 7:40 a.m., tearing through trains or platforms on the commuter line running to the Atocha station. At least two of the bombs went off in trains at that station.
ETA has been blamed for more than 800 deaths in its decades-old campaign to carve an independent Basque homeland from territory straddling northern Spain and southwest France. However, its attacks have been on a lesser scale than Thursday's bombings, with the largest toll being 21 killed in a supermarket blast in
El Shileno · Member since
Un abrazo y condolencias a todo el pueblo español por esta nueva tragedia terrorista.
Con estas actitudes de algunos tontos no vamos a llegar a ningún lado
inu-liger · Member since
My condolences to the Spanish people who have lost friends and family :(
Brandon · Member since
What a tragedy. Good luck to all of our Spanish friends.
Pluto · Member since
this is sick when wil it stop
inu-liger · Member since
¿Cuándo ese vez vendrá cuando podemos parar todo el luchar?
