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Spain's ETA Unleashes 3 Attacks in 24 Hours

Basque terror group launches 3 attacks in 24 hours

By the Associated Press

Posted Sep 22, 2008 7:21 AM CDT

(AP) – A car bombing blamed on the armed Basque group ETA killed an army officer and wounded 6 people in northern Spain this morning. It was the third such attack in 24 hours in what appeared to be a stepped-up ETA offensive. The explosion happened as the building was being evacuated following a phone call from ETA warning of the blast.

The bomb went off shortly after 1am outside an army academy in the northern town of Santoña, following two other explosions in Basque towns yesterday. The attacks may be linked to a recent court ruling to ban two pro-independence Basque political parties for having ETA links. Since 1968 the Basque separatist group has killed more than 825 people in Spain and France.

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The engine of a car lies outside an army barracks where a car bomb exploded, killing an officer in Santona, northern Spain, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano)

Police and army officers inspect the outside of army barracks where a car bomb exploded killing an officer, in Santona, northern Spain, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano)

The wreckage of a car lies outside of an army barracks where a car bomb exploded, killing an officer, in Santona, northern Spain, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano)

A civil guard stands outside an army barracks where a car bomb exploded killing an officer, in Santona, northern Spain, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano)

Wreckage of a car lies outside an army barracks where a car bomb exploded, killing an officer in Santona, northern Spain, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano)

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Today, ETA has killed once again and has sown pain and horror in a corner of Spain. It has done it in its customary manner, regardless of the consequences and seeking the most damage possible. - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,
prime minister of Spain

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Spain's ETA Unleashes 3 Attacks in 24 Hours