More Bombs Found in Spain

[Eastleigh Seagull]

Good to see that the promised Spanish withdrawal of troops from Iraq has removed the threat of terrorism from Spain. Unless of course the large dynamite bomb found under the tracks this afternoon dispels the theory that only those who supported the war on Iraq are likely terrorist targets.

 

[looney]

The fanatics hate the spanish for booting out the Moors yonks ago, they still consider it "muslim land".


Islam is more expantionist than Roman catholisism.

 

[Albion Dan]

2 of you singing!

 

[alan partridge]

2 of you singing!

the loonster has a point though

 

[Dandyman]

The fanatics hate the spanish for booting out the Moors yonks ago, they still consider it "muslim land".


Islam is more expantionist than Roman catholisism.

1492 - they kicked out the Jews, too

 

[London Irish]

Good to see that the promised Spanish withdrawal of troops from Iraq has removed the threat of terrorism from Spain. Unless of course the large dynamite bomb found under the tracks this afternoon dispels the theory that only those who supported the war on Iraq are likely terrorist targets.

It's funny how most Blairite hacks profess to hate the Daily Mail and yet the level of their analysis barely rises above the kind of incoherent drivel written on its leader pages.

I can't remember anyone who favoured the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq arguing that this would mechanically result in Spain suddenly being terrorist-free for years to come.

Indeed, it was only right-wing commentators led by the usual foaming-mouthed US Republican hawks who argued that the bombings were a sophisticated attempt by al-Quada to intervene into western elections and democratic processes. There was, and is, no evidence that this was al-Quada's cunning plan.

If these latest bombs turn out to be the work of al-Quada handymen, it will demonstrate conclusively that this right-wing theory was complete bullshit - as Eastleigh Seagull notes in hoisting himself with his own petard, why punish a country that had "given in" to their bombing campaign?

The truth is that withdrawing Spanish troops from Iraq probably makes little difference to the thinking and operations of a extremist paramilitary group like al-Quada. They have had their cells in place for some time and little will deflect them from their long-term paramilitary operations until they are hunted down and arrested.

But Spanish troops, or any western troops for that matter, withdrawing from Iraq is, nonetheless, a brilliant thing in the battle against al-Quada. Why? Because although it will do little to influence or deflect the course of the al-Quada leadership and its active cells, it will help in the political battle to isolate al-Quada from wider Arab opinion.

It is this political battle that Blair and Bush have lost so devastatingly in the Arab world over the past two years, and we will pay a price for their failure for many years to come because extremist bombings in the west will continue for many years.

The bombings will only finally cease when al-Quada is cut off from its reservoir of support networks in the Arab world that reproduce it over and over again no matter how many cells Bush and his pals destroy. It is only then that al-Quada or the many similar Al-Quada-type organisations in the Muslim world will be destroyed.

Eastleigh Seagull has seized on this afternoon's bomb findings in a typically opportunist fashion to try to convince you that Bush's blundering campaign is doing you some good.

But remember this was the same person who tried to convince you that the Hutton Report was the greatest thing to happen in years to improve standards in British political life, instead of the ACTUAL TRUTH, that Hutton has entered the lexicon as a byword for the kind of whitewashing cover-ups that seek to protect lying governments when they blunder into a war that has created a vast terrorist training camp in Iraq.

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Eloquently put LI and my thoughts entirely