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	History of Spain
		The reconquest of Spain was declared a crusade at the turn of the 13th century.
		With this declaration came the urge for religious purity in Spain, which was capitalized on by the "Catholic monarchs" (Reyes Católicos in Spanish) Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon in order to justify their invasion of Granada, the expulsion of the Jews and the forceful conversion of the Moors.
		Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/History_of_Spain.html (1514 words)

	Guardia Civil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was founded in 1844 by Queen Isabel II of Spain after the First Carlist War to assure the occupation in the newly created border zone at the Pyrenees and to stem the growing concerns in rural areas of banditry.
		The symbol of the Guardia Civil consists of a crown, a sword and a fasces.
		Guardia Civil was one of the targets of ETA attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guardia_Civil_(Spain) (463 words)

	Henri Unai Parot v. Spain, Committee against Torture, Communication No. 6/1990, U.N. Doc. A/50/44 at 62 (1995).
		She claims that her brother is a victim of a violation by Spain of the Convention against Torture, without however specifying the provisions of the Convention alleged to have been violated.
		The Guardia Civil claimed that his car was carrying 300 kilograms of amonal, to be used to blow up the police headquarters of Seville.
		Parot was kept in a cell close to the office of the Guardia Civil, whose occupants sought to scare him by firing shots outside his cell and by threatening to kill him or members of his family.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cat/decisions/catD-Spain2.htm (3730 words)

	NATO/SFOR Informer: guardia
		The Guardia Civil was the first public security force to be created at a national level in Spain.
		Its general mission in Spain is to guarantee freedom and individual rights, and to provide for the citizens' security.
		Guardia Civil Julio G. Maldonado said he remembered another time when a package was under suspect.
	www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/95/guardia/t000831k.htm (487 words)

	News from DEA, News Releases, 10/06/05
		In August of this year, after it was confirmed that the destination of the cocaine shipment was Spain, U.S. and Canadian authorities contacted Spain's Guardia Civil in order to work together in the investigation.
		In late September, the Guardia Civil detected members of the drug trafficking organization in town of Rosas, in the province of Gerona, Spain.
		The take-down of the investigation began on October 6 in the locality of Cambrils (Tarragona) Spain, where members of the organization that had traveled to Spain were detained as they attempted to move the cocaine from one place to another.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea/pubs/pressrel/pr100605.html (339 words)

	CNN.com - ETA blamed for grenade attack - Oct. 12, 2002
		Guardia Civil police officials said two grenades had been thrown.
		The attack in the town of Urdax, a few kilometres from the French border, came as the Guardia Civil, a semi-military police force, prepared to celebrate the day of its patron virgin and Spain's armed forces prepared for national day parades in Madrid.
		The Guardia Civil, the target of the last two fatal attacks blamed on ETA, was used by former dictator General Franco to repress Basque nationalism during his rule from 1939 to 1975.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/12/spain.basque (336 words)

	Spain: Truth Behind the Myth: A Foreignor's Personal Perspective
		As Europe tries to reinvent itself, Spain may be a reflection of the future of the continent.
		Spain is fabulous to visit--actually living there is a different experience.
		Whether your bags are inspected or not depends on the Guardia Civil’s random decision at the moment they spot you.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~15352.aspx (1412 words)

	Civil Guard - Spanish Intelligence Agencies
		The persistence of reactionary tendencies was underscored by the participation of a senior officer of the Civil Guard, Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, in the dramatic coup attempt of 1981, backed by nearly 300 guardsmen who made prisoners of cabinet ministers and deputies of the Cortes.
		Most members of the Civil Guard were housed with their families on compounds that formed part of the stations from which they operated.
		In addition to its rural police functions, the Civil Guard was to be responsible for firearms and explosives control; traffic policing on interurban roads; protection of communication routes, coasts, frontiers, ports, and airports; enforcement of environmental and conservation laws, including those governing hunting and fishing; and interurban transport of prisoners.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/spain/guard.htm (794 words)

	A. E. M. and C. B. L. v. Spain, Committee against Torture, Communication No. 10/1993, U.N. Doc. A/50/44 at 43 (1995).
		The authors of the initial communication are A. and C. citizens of Spain residing in Santurce in the Basque province, writing on behalf of their son J. and his wife E. B., who are currently detained at the Spanish prisons of Orense and Albacete, respectively.
		J. was taken to the Guardia Civil in Bilbao and later Madrid and kept incommunicado for five days, during which he was allegedly subjected to torture and ill treatment, including beatings to the head, electrical shocks to the head, testicles and other parts of the body.
		The authors appeal to the Committee against Torture with the specific complaint that the competent judicial authorities in Spain, in particular the judges and forensic experts, have failed to investigate the alleged violations, thus permitting the torturers to operate with impunity.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cat/decisions/catD-Spain.htm (1117 words)

	Spain in My Heart: The Songs of the Spanish Civil War
		Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War presents 17 new recordings of vintage and recent songs inspired by the conflict and performed by an international roster of musicians as diverse as the volunteer brigades and the Spanish Republican army they came to assist.
		One of the best-remembered Spanish Civil War songs, “Los Cuatro Generales,” is sung in English and Spanish by Joel and Jamaica Rafael.
		In Spain, the Spanish Civil War is currently a popular historical subject now because it was a forbidden topic for so long, and, as Weed says, “The candle is flickering before it goes out.
	www.appleseedrec.com /spaininmyheart (1100 words)

	SPAIN: La Benemerita/The Guardia Civil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I put on my hook as bait a small piece of praise for the Spain's Guardia Civil (rural police), knowing that fishing would be good.
		This means that the Guardia Civil could easily serve the Republic with the same enthusiasm as Generals Primo de Rivera or Franco.
		More in tune with recent WAIS discussions on terrorism is the fate of Guardia Civil General Galindo who was sent to jail for ordering the torture and murder of two ETA suspects responsible for countless acts of terrorism.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Spain/spain_guardiacivil3203.html (333 words)

	Spain - THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
		North-central Spain and the Carlist strongholds in Navarre and Aragon rallied to the army.
		For example, the anarchist UGT militia and the Assault Guards (the urban police corps established by the Republic to counterbalance the Civil Guard--Guardia Civil--the paramilitary rural police who were generally considered reactionary) crushed the army garrison in Barcelona.
		Negrin realized that Spaniards in Spain could not win the war, but he hoped to prolong the fighting until the outbreak of a European war, which he thought was imminent.
	countrystudies.us /spain/21.htm (1545 words)

	The end of a nightmare, and a dream - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune
		ZALDUONDO, Spain The story that began when a group of university students founded Basque Homeland and Liberty, the organization known as ETA, has finally come to an end with its announcement last week of a permanent cease-fire.
		The dead Guardia Civil officer, José Pardines, was buried in his native Galicia after a discreet funeral.
		At the opposite extreme are those who call for a reconciliation, right this minute, between Spain's two "sensibilities" - Basque nationalism and Spanish nationalism - starting with the creation of a monument that would record, together, the names of all the victims, those killed by ETA alongside ETA members killed by the police.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/03/29/opinion/edatxaga.php (872 words)

	.T.E.S.E.V.
		In Spain over many years, the concept, public order was very useful to the authorities to limit human rights, to break the rule of law and to interfere all the competences not necessarily related to security.
		During all these 30 years of transition in Spain, there was a deep and long discussion about the nature of the civil guards, of the Guardia civil.
		Actually, what is happening is a rather slow but progressive demilitarization of the Guardia civil and you can see in the slide during all the 30 years of transition.
	www.tesev.org.tr /eng/events/conf_3feb_mmainer.php (1639 words)

	GEES - Spanish Policy Against Terrorism: The Guardia Civil and ETA
		Thus, in a first stage, when Spain was under the authoritarian regime of General Franco, ETA aimed to be the spearhead of the Basque people rebellion against Franco’s oppression and the Spanish occupation, in the style of the movements of national liberation in the Third World, in fashion at that time.
		At the beginning of the last century, the Guardia Civil combated and defeated the anarchist terrorism that developed in Spain in urban areas, and the insurgent agrarian movement in the Andalusian country-side.
		During the transition to democracy, the Guardia Civil contributed to defeat the revolutionary terrorism of GRAPO in a decisive way, arresting 49 of its members and finally dismantling its leadership in Paris in 2000, and again in 2002.
	www.gees.org /articulo/299 (2970 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Watcher in the Pine: Books: Rebecca Pawel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Civil War may be over, but the conflict lives on, embodied by the relationship between Tejada and Elena and their relationships with the residents of Potes.
		Guardia Civil Lieutenant Carlos Tejada and his pregnant wife, Elena, the daughter of leftists, are on their way to a new post in Potes, a city destroyed during the war.
		Pawel surrounds her mystery plot with a vivid re-creation of the political environment in postwar Spain and a perceptive portrayal of the delicate balance that holds together a loving marriage.
	www.amazon.ca /Watcher-Pine-Rebecca-Pawel/dp/156947379X (496 words)

	Spain: Guardia Civil beat farm labourer to death
		The Civil Guard is the infamous paramilitary police force, most hated among Spaniards for its brutal repressive role before and during the civil war and as the executioners at the command of General Franco in its aftermath.
		But the only form of torture that persists in Spain is that imposed by the terrorists on their victims.” He was, he added, behind the Civil Guard and its director without reservations of any kind.
		I am in favour of its [the Civil Guard’s] military status for the same reasons that other forces of a similar nature are maintained in Holland, France, Italy and Portugal.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/aug2005/span-a22.shtml (1199 words)

	Spanish Crime Rate Law \| Guardia Civil Spain \| Franco \| Policia Nacional \| Municipal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A classic form of robbery in Spain is bag snatching carried out by the passenger of a moving motorbike, or even from a car, so be aware of carrying bags over your shoulder when walking along a road.
		The Guardia Civil (picture above) was established in 1844 to combat bandits in the countryside.
		The Guardia Civil still patrol the rural areas of Spain.
	www.ilovethecostablanca.com /law.html (502 words)

	frontline: al qaeda's new front: map: spain \| PBS
		Less than 10 percent of Muslims hold Spanish citizenship, and most of Spain's Muslim immigrants come from Morocco, which is the point of origin for about 21 percent of all illegal immigrants in Spain.
		The Muslim community is officially represented by the Islamic Commission of Spain (CIE), which is comprised of the Union of Islamic Communities in Spain and the Federation of Spanish Islamic Entities (FEERI).
		Spain ultimately arrested 62 in connection with the train attack, including Jamal Zougam, a Moroccan cell-phone store owner linked to the phones used to detonate the bombs, and Rabei Osman El Sayed Ahmed, the alleged mastermind of the attack who was arrested in Milan in June 2004.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/map/es.html (970 words)

	International Cocaine Trafficking Organization Dismantled in Spain
		Once it was confirmed that the final destination of the cocaine was Spain, American and Canadian law enforcement officials contacted the Guardia Civil.
		At the end of September 2005 the Guardia Civil detected the presence of some members of this criminal organization in the town of Rosas, in the province of Gerona.
		From the analysis of documentation seized it was learned that in addition to Spain, this organization operated in Holland, France, The United Kingdom as well as the United States and Canada.
	news.gc.ca /cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=173949 (266 words)

	Spain
		As a result of losses and lessons learned in the Rif War, Spain determined that tanks were needed in order to suppress the rebellion.
		Spain and these tankers would learn from this failure and form the Spanish Armor Corps - one of the finest armor forces in the world.
		It is not known if the tank ever took part in the Civil War or what became of it.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/spain/spain.html (1766 words)

	Healthcare in Spain \| health service in Spain
		Medical treatment in Spain under the Spanish National Health Service and Private sector in general is very good and compares very favourably with the UK.
		If you paid either class one (if employed earning a minimum of £3,500) in the current tax year or class two (self employed at least fifty payments made during that tax year), both you and your spouse will be entitled to free healthcare for the next two years.
		It is important to remember that after officially transferring healthcare to Spain, you will only be eligible for healthcare in the UK as a visitor.
	www.majesticspain.com /majestic_living_healthcare.htm (1046 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Spain reinforces enclave borders
		Spain's Guardia Civil says it is working to bring all the fences up to six metres in height.
		Melilla and Spain's other African enclave Ceuta are targeted by immigrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, as stepping-stones to the European Union.
		A Guardia Civil spokesman said groups had been trying to cross at the lower points in the perimeter fencing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4271536.stm (416 words)

	Ronda Bandit Museum, Andalucia, Spain
		Many bandits were forced into the service of local landowners or the Guardia Civil itself.
		He was killed in 1934 during a shootout in a cave with the Guardia Civil.
		After the civil war, until the 1950s, the Andalucian sierras became a refuge for communist guerrillos waging a last resistance to Franco.
	www.absoluteaxarquia.com /attractions/museumbandit.html (270 words)

	Spain
		However, by the time the rest of the Army of Africa arrived in mainland Spain, the figures were close to equal.
		On the 3rd May 1937, Rodriguez Salas, the Chief of Police, ordered the Civil Guard and the Assault Guard to take over the Telephone Exchange, which had been operated by the CNT since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
		Franco's main demand was that Germany had to fully compensate Spain for the cost of any British blockade of the country.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWspain.htm (4101 words)

	PEN American Center - March 29, 2006 \| Bernardo Atxaga \| The Basque Spring
		That is the path we must follow, that is the path of all peoples of the world, the path of liberty." The old-fashioned nationalists who'd taken the losing side in the Spanish Civil War were out of the game as those prepared to sacrifice themselves for Euskadi — the Basque homeland — took their stand.
		As for Xabier Etxebarrieta, he was transformed into "the first martyr of the revolution." Pamphlets distributed during the days after his death waxed eloquent about his decision to abandon a promising career as an economist in order to be "closer to the People," comparing him to Che Guevara.
		Now our attention is fixed on the savage attacks the ETA perpetrated at the end of the 1980's — like the one in the Hipercor supermarket in Barcelona (21 dead) or the one at the Guardia Civil barracks in Zaragoza (11 dead, among them five little girls).
	www.pen.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/637/prmID/1096 (859 words)

	INSIDE ICE Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 21: ICE, Partners Break International Cocaine Ring
		In August, after it was confirmed that the destination of the cocaine shipment was Spain, U.S. and Canadian authorities contacted Spain’s Guardia Civil and that agency joined the investigation.
		In late September, the Guardia Civil detected members of the drug trafficking organization in the province of Gerona, Spain.
		The take down began October 6 in Cambrils, Spain, where members of the organization were detained as they attempted to move the cocaine from one place to another.
	www.ice.gov /pi/news/insideice/articles/insideice_101705_Web6.htm (382 words)

	Amazon.com: The Watcher in the Pine: Books: Rebecca Pawel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Many areas of Spain are in ruins, and food shortages leave much of the population hungry - some are literally starving The descriptions of the humiliation, defeat and isolation of those who did not support Franco's cause is made palpable throughout Ms.
		He also discovers that the former Guardia commander was killed by the maquis, the Republican guerillas, who still operate in the pine forests and periodically shoot at the patrols.
		However, it is rare that a Falangist Guardia Civil officer and a Socialist, university educated woman, choose to make their lives together - at least not in the early 1940s in Franco's Spain.
	www.amazon.com /Watcher-Pine-Rebecca-Pawel/dp/156947379X (2376 words)

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