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	Politics of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spanish planes took part in the air war against Serbia in 1999 and Spanish armed forces and police personnel are included in the international peacekeeping forces in Bosnia (IFOR, SFOR) and Kosovo (KFOR).
		The Spanish Judiciary is exercised by professional judges and Magistrates and composed of different courts depending on The Jurisditial Order and what is to be Judged, the highest ranking court of the judicial structure in Spain is the Supreme Court.
		As the security forces and prominent politicians improved their own security, ETA increasingly became involved in killings of civilians, focused its attacks on the tourist seasons and attacked local government officials in the Basque Country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Spain (3289 words)

	ETA Car Bombing Kills Spanish Army Officer
		A Spanish army officer was killed in a car bombing in Madrid, in what appears to be a renewal of Basque separatist terrorism.
		Security has been tight in Spain and neighboring France, after the Basque separatist group ETA announced that it was calling an end to it 14-month ceasefire.
		Spanish authorities believe the vans where to be used to carry out a terrorist attack in Madrid during New Years festivities.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=387 (456 words)

	Spanish Security Forces on Alert as ETA Truce Ends
		Security forces in Spain and France are on maximum alert as the truce called by the Basque separatist group ETA comes to an end.
		Spanish and French police made a number of high-profile arrests of ETA members in the past year.
		The Spanish police said that ETA was taking advantage of the truce to rearm and reorganize in case they opt for a return to the armed struggle.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=361 (449 words)

	UN Loses Face over Hurried Vote on Spain Bombing - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stopped short of criticising the Spanish government Tuesday for misleading the Security Council into believing that last week's train bombings in Madrid were the handiwork of ETA separatists.
		The U.N. chief told reporters the Spanish government had sent a formal letter to the council president explaining that it acted in good faith and had ''genuinely thought'' that ETA, a group fighting for independence of northern Spain's Basque region, was behind the bombings.
		Speculation in Madrid is that the government deliberately tried to pin the bombings on a homegrown terrorist group to evoke sympathy for the re-election of the government of outgoing Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, one of the closest allies of U.S. President George W. Bush in his war against Iraq.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/0316loseface.htm (1038 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Jurisprudence - France
		He states that while being driven from Fresnes to the Spanish border, a distance of nearly 1,000 kilometres covered in seven hours, he was seated between two police officers, with his hands cuffed behind his back, and he experienced very considerable back pain because he suffers from degenerative discopathy.
		3.4 The handing-over of the author to the Spanish security forces was a "disguised extradition" for the purpose of his incarceration and conviction in Spain.
		In seeking to justify his surrender to the Spanish security forces, France is said to have violated article 2 of the Convention.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/85942ef4927ab01ac125691b00325020?Opendocument (6330 words)

	It's Happening Global Discussion Forum - Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said that the arrests were extraordinarily important, adding that explosives and chemical materials that could be used in a terrorist attack were seized.
		Sources in Madrid related the campaign the security forces came under regarding the journalist Tayssir Alluni to the reopening of this file and the hastiness in arresting Algerian citizen Ayoub Saudi, accused of forming a 'terrorist armed group' and by virtue of a legal writ presented by the Algerian authorities through the Interpol.
		The Spanish security sources maintained that the investigations leading to the arrest of Ayoub Saudi earlier this year, as part of an operation dubbed Al Buhaira, pointed out that the accused was one of the "top aides" of a cell leader linked to Al Qaeda that was dismantled in France.
	www.itshappening.com /showthread.php?t=10053 (4294 words)

	1997 Patterns of Global Terrorism - Europe and Eurasia Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		According to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, at yearend 71 hostages remained in captivity, including 15 foreign nationals, five of whom are journalists and 10 are NGO representatives.
		Spanish authorities moved forcefully against foreign terrorists in their country, breaking up a ring of the Algerian GIA operating in Valencia in April.
		Security for the international community in Tajikistan deteriorated as militant followers of renegade Tajik warlords Rezvon and Bahrom Sodirov resorted again to kidnapping employees of international organizations, a precedent the group established in December 1996.
	www.usemb.se /terror/rpt1997/eurasia.html (4641 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		A second request for extradition was lodged by the Spanish authorities a year later, alleging cooperation with an armed group, on the basis of evidence that was claimed to be questionable but was given a favourable reception by the French authorities.
		Thus, the situation of acute conflict in the Basque Country cannot be invoked to justify the practice of torture by the Spanish security forces and the use by Spanish courts of evidence obtained as a result of torture.
		The complainant was handed over to the Spanish authorities on the day on which the Council of State took its decision to reject her appeal against the decree, on 7 November 2001.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cat/decisions/193-2001.html (7660 words)

	Two ETA grenade launchers found near Spanish airport
		Spanish security evacuated the airport for more than three hours and canceled flights as they searched for the reported munitions.
		Security forces spent the next two days scouring the airport`s terrain for the reported devices, out to a radius of two miles from the airport.
		Spanish Cantabria government politician Agustin Ibanez noted the similarities between Santandar and the threat on Zaragoza`s airport a few months ago.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /intelandterror/printer_1068783.php (254 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation
		Spanish Government spokesman Eduardo Zaplana condemned the “attack on Spanish democracy” and labeled the ETA a “criminal gang of killers.” Zaplana said, “There are dozens of victims...and the killers are trying to sow even more terror, spreading chaos...This is a collective killing by the criminal band which is ETA.”
		Spanish government officials also pointed out the fact that police arrested two ETA suspects last Christmas trying to carry out a train bombing that carried many of the hallmarks of the Atocha bombings.
		Spanish security forces in Alcala de Henares in Madrid found an abandoned van with timing devices for explosives and an audiotape with passages from the Koran.
	www.jamestown.org /news_details.php?news_id=36 (1555 words)

	Spain Government Information
		Spanish parliamentary elections on March 14, 2004 came only three days after a devastating terrorist attack on Madrid commuter rail lines that killed 191 and wounded over 1,400.
		It opposes Spanish participation in NATO and U.S. presence in Spain and has a long history of assassinations, bombings, and kidnappings mostly against Spanish interests during the 1970s and 1980s.
		Spanish investigative services and the judicial system have aggressively sought to arrest and prosecute suspected al Qaeda members and actively cooperate with foreign governments to diminish the transnational terrorist threat.
	www.traveldocs.com /es/govern.htm (1132 words)

	Introduction - Spanish Intelligence Agencies
		By the mid-1980s, ETA-M appeared to be under growing pressure from the security forces, with the result that the incidence of terrorist acts had tapered off.
		In 1984 the Spanish government had announced a policy of "social integration," a form of amnesty offered to ETA members in exile or in Spanish jails if they renounced future acts of terrorism.
		Beginning in late 1983, a right-wing force, the Antiterrorist Liberation Group (Grupo Antiterrorista de Liberacion--GAL), began a campaign of revenge killings and bombings among suspected ETA terrorists, chiefly in France, where GAL was widely believed to be linked to the Civil Guard.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/spain/intro.htm (1233 words)

	SouthWestern Bell Worldroom at the International Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On February 23, while the Congress of Deputies was voting on the Calvo Sotelo nomination, rebel elements among the security forces seized the Congress and tried to impose a military-backed government.
		In early 1989, the Spanish Government held a series of meetings in Algeria with ETA representatives in an effort to reach an agreement ending the campaign of terrorism.
		A series of highly successful Spanish police counter-terrorist operations conducted in coordination with French authorities, including the arrest of the ETA leadership, had reduced that organization's activities by the close of 1992.
	worldroom.tamu.edu /develop/GA_Spai.htm (920 words)

	Spain (12/04)
		In 2002 and 2003, Spanish and French authorities were successful in hampering the organization’s activities through sweeping arrests, including some of the group’s leadership.
		Devaluations of the peseta during the 1990s made Spanish exports more competitive, but the strength of the euro since its adoption has raised recent concerns that Spanish exports are being priced out of the range of foreign buyers.
		In addition to U.S. and Spanish cooperation in NATO, defense and security relations between the two countries are regulated by a 1989 Agreement on Defense Cooperation, revised in 2003, which is currently under review.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/s/40701.htm (3230 words)

	Foreign Special Operations Forces Winter 1999
		Directing the energies of these forces to a Muslim cause in Europe may be seen as contributing to the consolidation of the current regime of Chechen President Maskhadov.
		The party is trying to build a force of former special-forces officers who have combat experience "to be sent to areas of possible combat operations in Yugoslavia." They, along with other Slavic mercenaries from various parts of the former Soviet Union, would be tasked to operate on behalf of Serbian forces.
		While evidence of the general dissolution of the Russian armed forces abounds, the expectation that elite units would somehow retain a high measure of cohesiveness and effectiveness is being dashed as well.
	fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /sof/issues/winter99.htm (1566 words)

	Lessons of the attack: Carnage in Madrid a reminder of every society's vulnerabilities to terrorism
		But while identifying and finding the perpetrators is important, the bombings' most immediate lesson is that they expose anew every society's vulnerabilities to terrorism and the dangers that can lurk in something as commonplace as the morning commute.
		The Spanish government's crackdown on ETA - believed to have considerably weakened the terrorist group - may call into question charges that it was behind the March 11 attacks.
		So does Spanish security forces' foiling of an ETA plot to blow up a train late last year.
	www.cdi.org /program/document.cfm?DocumentID=2128&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=D.DateLastUpdated&ProgramID=39&from_page=index.cfm (760 words)

	Remarks with Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Pique
		Both of these documents demonstrate the deepening of the relationship between the United States and Spain, a relationship that was strong to begin with, one that the United States treasures, one that President Bush appreciates.
		I also want to express my thanks and admiration to both teams of negotiators, all the negotiators who worked on this over the past year and did such a terrific job and we have much to be pleased about from your efforts.
		The Spanish Minister of Defense told me that this was going to be regulated, that these operations, this cooperation were going to be regulated, but I would like to know the U.S. Secretary of State's view on how this cooperation is going to occur in Spain?
	www.state.gov /secretary/former/powell/remarks/2002/9241.htm (1184 words)

	CNN.com - Spanish enclaves quiet after deaths - Oct 7, 2005
		Jordi Passola, spokesman for the Spanish branch of Doctors Without Borders, told CNN partner station CNN+ in Madrid that his group had confirmed that the 500 Africans, including men, women and children, were in the southern desert near the border with Algeria.
		Later on Friday, Javier Gabaldon of Doctors Without Borders said that Moroccan security forces in a helicopter and all-terrain vehicles were carrying out a kind of "manhunt" in the desert, trying to keep the sub-Saharan Africans together in a group, and push them toward the Algerian border.
		A Spanish investigation said that those with bullet wounds had been shot by Moroccan forces, because the Spanish forces did not use live ammunition.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/africa/10/07/morocco.spain (1048 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Coalition, Afghan Forces Gear up for October Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The official said the coalition forces are not the only guarantor of security: the Afghan National Army and the Afghan police are becoming increasingly effective.
		They are working with coalition forces and on their own to provide a safe and secure environment for the election, officials said.
		A Spanish battalion and an Italian battalion have begun deployment to the country.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Aug2004/n08262004_2004082602.html (347 words)

	AllRefer.com - Spain - Threats to Internal Security \| Spanish Information Resource
		An official Spanish publication, Ministerio de Defensa: Memoria Legislatura, 1982-86, provides an authoritative explanation of the sweeping changes undertaken during the 1980s in the structure of national defense, defense policy, organization of the armed services, personnel and training policies, and modernization of equipment.
		The role of the armed forces under Franco, the strained relations between military and civil authorities during the transition to democracy, and the government's successful efforts to introduce its reform measures are reviewed in a study by Carolyn P. Boyd and James M. Boyden included in Politics and Change in Spain, edited by Thomas D.
		Strategic considerations of Spanish participation in the defense of Europe are weighed in a study by Stewart Menaul, The Geostrategic Importance of the Iberian Peninsula.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/spain/spain181.html (1658 words)

	The Hindu : International : Madrid angle to London blasts
		Officially, security agencies were tight-lipped about their line of inquiry and made clear that they were not looking for any specific individual, but the British media quoted sources as saying that Nasar was "one of many suspects''.
		Nasar is at the centre of a network of connections uncovered by British and Spanish police between Britain and Madrid bombings,'' the newspaper said.
		The security level across the country has been raised amid warnings that terrorists could strike again.
	www.hindu.com /2005/07/11/stories/2005071104571400.htm (466 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - Sadr urges end to attacks on Spanish troops
		But in a sign of the worsening insurgency in Iraq, US overseer Paul Bremer warned that Iraqi security forces would not be able to operate on their own after the scheduled June 30 restoration of Iraqi sovereignty.
		He had originally said the withdrawal would go ahead unless there was a UN Security Council mandate for an international force in Iraq before the June 30 transfer of power to an interim government.
		He also said the UN force must let the Iraqi people ensure their own protection by entrusting law and order duties to the Iraqi security forces, notably the police.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/April/focusoniraq_April163.xml§ion=focusoniraq (913 words)

	LauraMansfield.com - Arabic translations and terrorism analysis
		The members of the Civil Guard have proof that at least one of the evacuations conducted in Spain in the last few months because of a bomb warning was caused by an Islamist as part of his "period of training".
		In a message intercepted by the Civil Guard this fundamentalist tells another Islamist that he warned the state security forces that an explosion was going to occur in a public building.
		According to their conclusions, the radical Islamists are currently carrying out various kinds of activities on Spanish territory, from proselytizing to recruitment for the sending of mujahedin to other regions of the world or the collection of funds to finance the activities.
	www.lauramansfield.com /j/111805_training.asp (678 words)

	Spain - Terrorism
		INTRO: At the end of a week in which Spanish security forces struck major blows against the armed Baque separatist group ETA, nine security agents and two bystanders were injured by a bomb near a civil guards headquarters in Northern Spain.
		It caused no significant damage, but while security agents were examining abandoned grenade launchers outside the barracks, an explosive in one blew up, injuring four civil guardsmen, two national and three regional police, and two bystanders.
		The office of Spanish National Television in San Sabastian was attacked with gasoline bombs, although damage was minimal.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/11/war-001111-euesp.htm (363 words)

	IslamiCity.com - Communications & Services
		With the fall of the supportive Spanish government and the substitution of a far less compliant Socialist one, the terrorists may very well have accomplished that goal vis-a-vis Spain.
		And apparently the Spanish government may have been as devious about the cause of the attacks as the Bush administration has been about the urgent need for a war in Iraq.
		Furthermore, Spanish officials and public and secret court documents indicated that at least one of the suspects, Jamal Zougam, had been linked more than two years ago with an al Qaeda cell operating in Spain.
	www.islamicity.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0403-2248 (872 words)

	Berria.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The PP is putting pressure on the Spanish Government to take action against the EHAK (Communist Party of the Basque Lands).
		Spanish Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopez-Aguilar said that other evidence was needed to outlaw the EHAK, apart from failure to condemn ETA.
		That is why the Spanish Civil Guard believes that the party had a “limited” number of militants and that its participation in the elections could be “symbolic”.
	www.berria.info /english/ikusi.php?id=1347 (329 words)

	Spanish Security Forces Contract 24-hour Multilingual Interpretation Services in Response to Steady Rise in Immigration. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spanish Security Forces Contract 24-hour Multilingual Interpretation Services in Response to Steady Rise in Immigration.
		Spanish security forces contract 24-hour multilingual interpretation services in response to the constant increase in the number of immigrants entering Spain, especially from East European, Asian and African countries.
		(PRWEB) May 28, 2004 -- The Spanish National Police Force and Civil Guard are currently contracting 24-hour multilingual interpretation services, such is the demand generated by the free circulation of citizens within the European Union.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/6/emw129465.htm (278 words)

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