Alistair Gunn wrote:

Stephen Harding twisted the electrons to say:
My guess, given this resounding victory for Al Qaeda, is
Italy will be next on the "hit list".

So Al Qaeda *may* have influenced the result in the Spanish election,
thus causing a government that was involved in the "war on terror" to be
replaced with one that has a priority of a "systematic fight against
terrorism of all kinds" - yeah, that was a real resounding victory if
ever I saw one! grins
If you follow Spanish politics (Check out Salon.com), one
of the reasons that Anzar won in the first place was that the
electorate thought that some of the measures taken against Basque
separatists by the Socialists were too broad and too brutal. (in
all fairness, there was also the matter that after a dozen or so
years of socialist rule, the electorate had gotten tired of them,
and charges of corruption and cronyism).

Spanish Socialists are NOT shrinking violets.


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