http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3500452.stm

I can't believe this. Why must people do such things to each other, can we not live in peace?

AdamR1978,

The Basques are an ethnic group, who, like the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, and the Shia Muslim minority throughout the Middle East, see themselves as suppressed, and who believe that they have been deprived of the separate identity to which they are entitled. They have a separate language and identity, and a rather long history of being ruled by others.

A similar argument could be advanced for some ethnic minorities here in the U.S., at least until the Civil Rights legislation was enacted a few years ago.

I don’t offer this as a justification for killing innocents; I am merely trying to illuminate the context within which otherwise inexplicable behavior occurs.

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Eudaimonia

I read stuff like this in the world everyday and people wonder why I have no hope for the next generation. The world will be no place to live.

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Love...the slowest form of suicide.

Things like this have been going on since way before our grandparents and their parents were born...skip. When one problem is solved, another arises somewhere else.....and it'll continue well after we are gone. It's a sad state of affairs.....but the best part is that there is always good things happening SOMEWHERE!!!

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~

I am often cynical as well...but then I think that I turned out "OK" (a bit perverted, but Ok) ~~ so maybe there is hope for us to raise a new generation of kids with the right values and mores.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

The Basques state,They did not do this terrible thing.

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Sex is one of nine reasons for reincarnation.The other eight are unimportant...Henry Miller

I just keep hoping that someday, somehow people will learn to live in peace. Maybe it won't happen, but heaven forbid we reach a time when we really do give up that hope.

Gentlefolk,

The evidence so far is ambiguous, and could point to either the Basque separatist group ETA or Islamic militants.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3501364.stm

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Eudaimonia

It is our Arab friend. ETA were trained by the IRA and use car bombs as their main weapon.

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Half of a set :halo:

200 dead humans in Spain.

1,000 mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands and wives that cry a TURE sorrow.

6,353,850,829 of a species with embedded malignancy.

1 specie that is a temporary mutation in the evolution of the universe, a corruption to a planet and a hazard to itself.



Wave the banner of any intellect, nationalism, religion, political, social or any other cause or conviction you have and go for it. It’s all we are, will have, or can be.

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Well - I was there last week. It is frightening and a warning to us all that what seems so completely ordinary one day can be the scene of an atrocity the next.

It really is unbelievable and I agree with PF. Personally it strengthens my support for action against the very small number of misguided souls who think that this is any kind of way to live their lives.

Only a minority of Basques want an independent state and a minority within this minority support ETA, and a minority within this minority believe terrorism is a useful and justifiable tool. Of course though the attack seems a departure from their MO and we will wait to see, though I imagine we will never really know, not that it matters now in many ways.

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Vigil, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would take it.

An Islamic group tied to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility in an unverifiable e-mail.

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Half of a set :halo:

It's crap like this that makes me embarassed to be human.

I am still 'affected' bt the senslessness of the September 11 tragedy.

Even from a purely animalistic sense it makes no sense - there's no food, mate or territory to be gained by wanton killing. like this.

"We have seen the enemy and it is us"

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"Life is a choice, so choose wisely"

I still have a sense of disbelief about 9/11. I can remember it like it was yesterday but I am not sure I can actually believe it happened yet. I hope to be able to visit NYC again in the next few years (I went in march 01) and visit the site, I think then it will really be true to me.

As for spain, it does seem a bit big for eta, but I will be waiting to see who the investigators blame it on.

Madrid, 9/11 and all the other acts of terror we've seen are horrible. How can humans do such a thing to other humans? But, what's really scary is that each new incidence of violence breeds more violence and heaven forbid what it all leads to.