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This is real bad news for reknown Basque-phobes José Miguel "Franco Aleman" Guardia (such an emblematic Catalonian last name) and his sidekick John Rosenthal.

Even the fascist Partido Popular has dropped the ball about the alleged ties between ETA and the attacks of March 11.

Franco Aleman, an out of the closet Francoist blogger, has been breathing some air into a conspiracy theory that his boss José María Aznar sketched after the electoral debacle of his dauphine, Mariano Rajoy.

According to Aznar and his henchmen, the police and the media were too fast to dismiss ETA's involvement. What the falangists and their busy little bees like blogger Juan A. Hervada conviniently forget is that both the police and the media were on Aznar's payroll long after the Partido Popular's electoral defeat.

So, it was a real pleasure to find this article at Tipically Spanish, an outlet that by the way, usually dishes out some hatred of their own towards the Basque people:

Does anyone still really think it was ETA?

By h.b.
Tue, 30 May 2006, 16:30

EDITORIAL OPINION - It remains to be seen just how much ETA, and the possibilities of starting a serious peace process in the Basque Country, feature in the ongoing debate on the State of the Nation.

You could be forgiven for thinking that if the Partido Popular really do believe the conspiracy theories, that ETA were involved in the Madrid train bombings in March 2004, the massacre would also be on their debate agenda.

It doesn’t appear to be. Yesterday the government issued a written statement in answer to the more than 200 doubts which the Partido Popular voiced over the March 11th attack. Most of the answers from the government are very brief and it seems they all dismantle any possibility of the involvement of ETA.

Maybe the government, or even ETA are not really the P.P. target here at all. Perhaps the Populares are really interested in discrediting the instruction judge hearing the case, Juan del Olmo, whom is already facing disciplinary action following one of the March 11th suspects being released early because of a clerical error.

Such an interesting document with the government’s answers to the opposition’s questions could have been expected to be front page news today. But it’s not. El Mundo prefers to lead with a new opinion poll on what the public think about ETA, with half of those questioned thinking that the cease fire is no guarantee that the terrorists have turned their back on violence.
Even the pro-government El Pais tucks the story away on page 26.

In yesterday’s statement, the government says that there is no evidence of any links between the Islamic terrorists and ETA. All the questions were addressed – for example, in reply to the PP’s assertion that ETA have used mobile phones in their explosive devices, the answer is as follows –
‘When ETA has used mobile phones they have done so to set off the explosives at a distance. They have never used the phone’s alarm system as a timer, which is how the March 11th bombs were set of’.

The government has answered the more than 200 questions from the Partido Popular in yesterday’s statement. Now surely the matter must be left in the hands of the judiciary whose job it is to confirm guilt and issue out punishment.

The politicians continue to debate the State of the Nation, but the alleged links between the Madrid bombs and ETA now seem unlikely to get a mention.

© typicallyspanish.com

Oh, and by the way, it is just sooooooo sad to find out that Inquisidor Juan del Olmo is in trouble.

And why is he in trouble?

Because he was used to put Basques in jail, no real juridic process involved, so he did not know how to handle a real case and he bungled it.

That's what happens when you are not a real judge, but a butcher ready to send innocent people to the dungeons of Spain's repressive machinery.

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