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spanish bombs
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Originally posted by bilmore
The IHT says:
"The government's chronology indicates that it was not until the police searched a suspicious white van late on the afternoon of the attacks and discovered an Arabic-language tape and several detonators that investigators began to suspect Islamic militants.
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At an afternoon press conference, with some information apparently pointing to ETA's culpability and the tape still not translated, Acebes held a news conference and reacted angrily to the suggestion of an Al Qaeda connection. But 90 minutes after the tape had been translated, Acebes appeared at another news conference in which he announced the discovery of the tape. While he still emphasized that ETA remained the chief suspect, Acebes also said that investigators had been ordered to open a "new line of investigation.""
So, they acknowledged it maybe was someone else shortly after translating the tape.
But Drum starts his blog like this:
"BOMBING DECEPTION EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT?....It's pretty well established by now that José María Aznar's PP party did its best to mislead the Spanish people about who was responsible for last Thursday's bombing . . ."
At least now I know where you got that phrase "it's pretty well established . . ."
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The fact that you are now referring to sources is good, but if you refer to those that I linked to and quoted from here [ e.g., here], you will find more damning stuff than what was in the IHT article you found.
eta: Lest anyone think that Drum was talking about the IHT article you quoted, not so, although you've juxtaposed the two.
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