Spain’s Basque separatists say surprised by ETA bomb
A political party seen by Spain’s government as the political wing of Basque guerrillas ETA said on Wednesday it was caught by surprise by Saturday’s car bomb, which led the government to end the country’s peace process. “I don’t think anyone expected an attack like the one in Madrid,” Joseba Alvarez, a leading member of Batasuna, told Basque radio in a remark which some might interpret as signaling divisions within the region’s independence movement. Full Story