The pack of riders cycle in the Pyrenees mountains during the 16th stage of the 94th Tour de France cycling race between Orthez and Gourette-Col d'Aubisque, July 25, 2007. (REUTERS/Eric Gaillard)
The separatists called the road rescue service that they planted a bomb on the route of the cyclists.
EUX.TV reported:
Madrid (dpa) - An explosive device planted by suspected Basque separatists went off Wednesday on the Tour de France route passing through the northern Spanish region of Navarre, police said.The BBC reported that two separate blasts went off on the route.
The home-made device exploded after a publicity convoy preceding the cyclists had passed through the locality of Belagua, about 800 metres from the French border.
The blast caused a minor rockslide, but did not damage the road or cause injuries.
The incident did not affect the Tour de France which passed through normally.
An anonymous caller had warned a road rescue service that devices had been placed on the route, speaking in the name of the armed Basque separatist group ETA.
Well... So much for Zapatero's appeasement policy.
Previously on the ETA:
Mass Protests Against ETA Terrorists... Chavez-ETA Links Disclosed!
Appeasement Doesn't Work Too Well in Spain, Either
Spain Rallies Against Planned ETA Talks
Massive Madrid Protest Against Zapatero's Surrender to Terror
Spain Rallies Against Terrorism
Spain Appeases- Then Gets Bombed
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ReplyDeleteSpain will keep paying for paying the Dane-Geld
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:—
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:—
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:—
“We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”
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