French Justice Minister hails Sunday operation against ETA
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French Justice minister Dominique Perben hailed Sunday&#39;s raids in France and Spain leading to the capture of 17 armed Basque separatist group ETA members including its political leader.
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MADRID Former Prime Minister JosÃ© MarÃ­a Aznar said in Parliament on Monday that his administration had not misled the public by suggesting almost immediately that the ETA, the Basque militant group, was responsible for the March 11 train bombings in
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BORDEAUX, France  - Police arrested the suspected  political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20  others, and seized explosives, grenades and other weapons in a  series of raids on Sunday, officials said.
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French police arrested 17 people and discovered a cache of heavy weapons during raids targeting suspected members of Spain's armed Basque separatist group ETA based in southwestern France, officials said.
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Police in France and Spain arrested 21 suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group Eta today in a series of raids that authorities described as a blow to the organisationâs logistics unit.
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With alienated French Basque youth swelling the ranks of ETA, French authorities fear an upsurge of separatist violence
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An immigrant whose deportation for petty crimes was blocked by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy was involved in a shootout with police in a town the French prime minister was visiting, authorities said.
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Spain&#39;s prime minister promised a tough line Sunday against armed Basque separatist group ETA as a bomb went off on a motorway and a day after four ETA suspects were arrested in France.
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Anti-terrorist police arrested the political leader of Spain's armed Basque separatist group ETA in raids in France and Spain that resulted in arms caches and other suspected members being seized, officials said.
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In a major joint operation by France and Spain, two of Spain&#39;s most wanted terrorist suspects were captured Sunday in southwestern France, French and Spanish officials said.
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The Spanish government Tuesday confirmed that the two missiles found by French police in an operation against Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA were of Russian origin.
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MADRID, Oct 4  - Spain on Monday expressed further satisfaction at the arrests in France of 17 suspected Basque extremists, saying that the neighbouring country had made hunting down members of the underground ETA group a top priority.
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Spain hailed the weekend arrest in France of 17 suspected Basque extremists, the worst blow the underground separatist ETA group has suffered for more than a decade.
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Police detained 21 suspects, including an ETA leader, and seized a large arms cache on Sunday in a sweep against the Basque guerrilla group in France and Spain, officials said.
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Two of Spain's most wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured Sunday in a vast French-Spanish police operation, authorities said.
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PARIS -- Israel's foreign minister praised France yesterday for working to stem a four-year wave of anti-Semitic violence but emphasized that efforts to combat prejudice against Jews need to be reinforced among the public -- especially French youths.