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Terror bomb blast targets Basque TV site

by LotusFlower | December 31, 2008 at 03:50 am

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A bomb has exploded at TV station in Bilbao, Spain.

The building was evacuated and no injuries are so far reported.

A telephone message warning of the attack came from ETA a short while before the explosion.

This is being seen as a New Year's warning to Spanish authorities that the Basque separatist movement is still an active threat.

A car bomb has exploded near the offices of a Basque television station in Bilbao in northern Spain.

The blast happened minutes after the building had been evacuated, following a warning call in the name of the Basque separatist group Eta.

Spanish media said there was structural damage to the building, but no casualties have been reported so far.

Eta's violent four-decade campaign for a sovereign Basque state has cost more than 800 lives.

A Basque police spokesman said Wednesday's blast near the Basque Radio-Television (EiTB) offices happened at 1105 (1005 GMT) and the area around the building had been evacuated and cordoned off.

A car bomb exploded in Spain's Basque country near the headquarters of TV station ETB in the northern town of Bilbao on Wednesday without causing any injuries, a police spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Police earlier said emergency services had evacuated the local Basque TV station and surrounding buildings following a bomb warning in the name of Basque separatist group ETA.

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Paschen

at 04:14 on December 31st, 2008

Will we ever learn and be able to leｔｔ go off violence and embrace democraty and equality with out restrictions.

LotusFlower

at 04:45 on December 31st, 2008

Great thoughts paschen - and this ETA stuff has been going on for years now.

wbsfr8 (not verified)

at 05:08 on December 31st, 2008

most nations don't want democracy. The Arabs don't want it, the Russians don't, North Korea, China, etc.,etc.,etc. The only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, is fighting to preserve freedom in their land right now, and all the world wants to do ( via the UN especially ) is condemn her.

Israel is waging a struggle, but this struggle is not Israel’s alone. Israel is standing on the frontlines of the Western world’s war against terror, and we expect support for doing the right thing and fighting the war of the entire free world.

"It is true: the pictures broadcast on television all over the world are provoking harsh public opinion against Israel. Unfortunately, some of the world’s decision makers are swayed by public opinion and the media, even though they know what is true and what is not, and how they would act in a similar situation.