[livius]

It will be interesting. I come and go on it myself, because ETA has certainly been trying to pull something off for the last several months, and once two members were even caught trying to load suitcases filled with dynamite onto a Madrid bound train. ETA is quite ruthless, and certainly would not hesitate to do something like this.

However, ETA often has a certain "gang that couldn't shoot straight" air to it, and its members - increasingly very young and inexperienced - are frequently caught for stupid errors. It's hard for me to believe that they would be able to carry off such a coordinated attack.

[crazycat]

When I heard the first reports, I put it down to ETA straight away, but now when one sees the scale of the attack and the fact that ETA is denying it, one must I think consider this as al-quiada.

I also think Europe does not want to admit this is al-quiada, as that is too embarrasing for them. However ETA has never tried something this big and tommorrow apparently, there are going to be huge demonstrations across Spain, against the bombings, so if ETA was involved, it has been a massive failure.