My hope was to find an wikileak that really interest me. I found one that did just that. This article is about a major attack planned by the ETA that got intercepted by the police. On February 29th, the spanish police stopped two ETA members on the highway about a hundred miles outside of madrid. One member was driving a van with 500kg of explosives and the other was driving a lookout car. Their goal was said to be detonation of the explosives in Madrid, which would have left Madrid as a crater, 35 meters in diameter. Anyone with 60 miles of the explosion would have been killed. The police stated that the ETA members are inexperienced and prone to error. This tells me that this was not the first failed ETA mission. The article states that the ETA are determined to succeed and are aiming to lash out during high publicity times.
After I read this article, I learned that the ETA is an armed terroist group focused on gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country which is located in northern Spain and southern France. I was left wondering if ETA had any success stories? And what, if anything, are they up to now.
The link to my wikileak can be found
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