Aznar, Busted!

Experts determine that Spanish officials lied deliberately when they accused Basque nationalism of the attacks in Madrid.

Notice, I said Basque nationalism and not ETA.

Why?

Because they went for a one-two combination when they decided to blame ETA.

To the ignorant and the uninformed it may look like they wanted to accuse the Basque armed group of the attacks.

But it did not stop there, remember, Aznar had members of the PP and their followers displaying banners that read "With the victims, with the Constitution, against terrorism".

The Constitution part is a direct attack on the efforts by the nations without state within Spain to achieve self determination, meaning the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galiza. The neo-Francoists claim that any measure adopted towards the achievement of a greater degree of autonomy is a direct attack on the Spanish Constitution, one could argue that the Spanish Constitution is the set of laws of an invading power imposed on the defeated countries.

So, Spain went beyond accusing ETA of the bombings, they went as far as saying that Basques and their dream of self determinatin unleash death on average Spaniards, they try to instill fear in the souls of the Spaniards so they vote for people keen of rigid rules that will suffocate any attempt of Basques, Catalans and Galizans to develope their national identities, and that will not do.

So they lied, and they lied, and they added insult to injury...and on monday they found themselves out of job.

Here is the entire note at Yahoo News:

Expert: Spanish Officials Blamed Basques

Wed Jul 7,11:45 AM ET

By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer

MADRID, Spain - The Spanish government accused Basque separatists of carrying out the Madrid train bombings — now blamed on Islamic terrorists — before experts had determined what kind of explosives were used, an official testified Wednesday. Juan Jesus Sanchez Manzano, head of the Interior Ministry's bomb disposal unit, testified in the second day of Spanish parliamentary hearings into the March 11 attack, which killed 190 people.

Sanchez Manzano said the type of explosives used in the blasts — Goma 2 Eco, a kind of dynamite — was not precisely identified until the next morning, after experts had been able to examine a backpack bomb that failed to explode.

By then Interior Minister Angel Acebes already had blamed the Basque separatist group ETA for the train bombings. Lawmakers at the hearing said police incorrectly told Acebes the explosives were Titadyne, a type of dynamite used by ETA, which later denied involvement in the attack.

Acebes continued to blame ETA even as he acknowledged that the explosives were still being analyzed.

"It is possible there was some kind of confusion," Sanchez Manzano testified. But nobody in his bomb disposal unit ever identified the explosives as Titadyne, he said.

And also at CNN.

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