Spanish Leader Denies Gain From Bombings
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Spain's prime minister, heckled Monday by opposition lawmakers, angrily denied his Socialist party instigated anti-government rallies on the eve of a general election to reap political benefit from the Madrid train bombings.
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Spain's prime minister accused the  previous government on Monday of deceiving the public about who  carried out the March 11 train bombings and erasing computer  records for the crucial three days between then and elections.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ruled out any further dialogue with the armed Basque separatist group ETA if re-elected in March elections, in an interview broadcast Monday.
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MADRID -- An Egyptian accused of being a mastermind of the Madrid train bombings told a court yesterday that he had no involvement in the deadly attack, despite wiretapped conversations in which he allegedly boasted that he was the brains behind it.
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An Egyptian accused of the Madrid train bombings on Monday denied admitting he planned the attack and said a bugged conversation in which he apparently called the bombers "friends" had been misunderstood.
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Spain's ruling Socialists on Saturday put the rejection of any new peace talks with the armed Basque separatist group ETA at the heart of their campaign for a March 9 general election.
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On trial for Europe's deadliest al Qaeda-inspired attack, a former Spanish miner today denied he supplied explosives used by Islamist militants in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.Comment
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On trial for Europe's deadliest al-Qaida-inspired attack, a former Spanish miner on Tuesday denied he supplied explosives used by Islamist militants in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.Comment
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Three men charged with placing backpack bombs on rush-hour commuter trains in Madrid denied Monday having any role in the 2004 terror attacks, contradicting witness accounts placing them there.
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- Call it prophetic or defeatist or just plain cynical. But when the Basque separatist group known as ETA shattered its so-called "permanent cease-fire" in December with a massive bombing at Madrid's airport that killed two people, former ETA leader and convicted killer Eduardo Uriarte was not surprised.
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Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said Islamic militants tried to use the Madrid train bombings to oust the pro-US ruling party from power in Spain, but not because of its support for the Iraq war.
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The Spanish government rejected out of hand a new peace proposal made Sunday by Basque separatists because it did not renounce violence, reports the Scotsman.
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Youssef Belhadj, accused of masterminding the Madrid train bombings and suspected of claiming the attack in the name of al Qaeda, denied he was a member of the group in court on Friday.
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Lawmakers investigating the Madrid train bombings censured the previous government's handling of the attack, while former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar insisted Monday the Socialists might not have ousted his ...
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European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana has denied having had direct contact with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, hours after he said just that in a BBC interview.
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Basque guerrillas ETA vowed on Sunday to  keep up bomb attacks on the Spanish state, saying last year&#39;s  peace talks showed there was no point in negotiating with the  Socialist government.
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Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir denied Thursday his role in a string of bomb attacks in the country, including the Marriott Hotel bombing, as accused by prosecutors in his trial here.