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News, January 2005New ETA bombing19th January. Yesterday, just hours after Arnaldo Otegi or Basque political party Batasuna had warned ETA might attack again, a car bomb went off in Getxo, Bilbao, wounding one policeman. Otegi, closely linked to ETA, was responding to calls for 35 members of his party and its predecessors EH and HB to be arrested for their links with the terrorist organisation. He claimed that the calls showed that the government is still determined to fight ETA to the death and is not willing to look for a political way out of the quagmire of Basque politics. The car bomb's existence was advised, as usual, to a Basque newspaper also close to ETA's aims. But it was not positioned in the street where the terrorists had advised, but rather just round the corner. Thus the policeman was caught unexpectedly when the bomb went off. The car has been stolen earlier the same day. Following the bombing, Otegi again spoke out, sugesting that further such incidents cannot be ruled out. More recent news of ETA: Go ETA |