Fatboyshare:
I diagree. Al Qaeda cannot seriously think that this sets a precedent. At times like this, voters normally tend to vote right wing, and in this case a combination of ill judgements from the PP, ALONG with the attack have caused their demise. However, if making 1000 troops on humanitarian mission is deemed a victory, it is a hollow one.

Grisu:
I strongly disagree with some of your comments. The Spanish PM did no such thing. Indeed he proclaimed the attack to be by ETA, but we in Spain have a history with ETA, iver the past 2 months police have intercepted over 500kg of explosives set to explode in Chamartin, a big train station in the core of Madrid. On the very same day of the attack we learned about the existence of a tape with islamic teachings, in arabic, found on the van where the triggers for the explosives where found. As of that same evening, WE, the people, knew that ETA wasnt the only possible culprits. After that, interior minister Angel Acebes gave news to the spanish people about the clues being followed, and how all leads were open, which is just the way ot should be. On saturday, 5 arrests, 3 moroccans and two indians. Aznar didnt say a word. This was on saturday, and the election was on sunday. The whole thesis that the government manipulated is bullshit. The government said what they had to, and in a correct manner. All parties agreed to cease campaigning for the elections, yet few hours after the attack they were already blaming the government and setting demonstrations against the PP. And I did not vote for the PP. Nor PSOE for that matter.