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Spain: 9 arrested in connection with recent bomb attacks
Wed. July 23, 2008 05:46 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) Nine people were arrested on Tuesday by Spanish police from a unit of the Basque separatist group ETA believed responsible for a string of recent bomb attacks.
The cell's leader, Arkaitz Goikoetxea, was among those arrested in raids in the towns of Getxo and Elorrio, close to the northern Basque port city of Bilbao, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
Rubalcaba said the group was believed responsible for many recent attacks, including the May car bombing of a police barracks in Legutiano during which an officer died. "We can't say that this was ETA's only command cell, but it clearly was its most active, its most dynamic," Rubalcaba said.
"It is the cell that without a doubt was behind the majority of the violence since ETA broke the truce" with a December 2006 bombing at Barajas airport, the main international one serving the Spanish capital, Madrid.
A Basque police official said the cell is believed responsible for nearly a dozen bomb attacks. The spokesman said some of the detainees' fingerprints were found on the car exploded at Legutiano.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of police regulations.-AP
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