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Blast rocks Socialist party office in Spain
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NewsByte on 20 April, 2008 01:47:04
 
Elgoibar (Spain), April 20: A bomb exploded outside the offices of Spain’s
ruling Socialist party in a Basque town in northern Spain early on Sunday,
causing considerable damage. No one was injured. The Basque police said in a
statement that the bomb exploded at 3.25 am in Elgoibar, following a telephone
warning in the name of Basque separatist group ETA. The warning was received by
emergency road services and the police cordoned off streets and evacuated
residents after finding a suspicious package. Regional interior ministry
spokesman Javier Balza said investigators had clues about the culprits behind
the bombing.
"There is an idea, or analysis, shared by local, regional and national police
forces about the structure of what we are facing," Mr Balza said. The police
said the bomb contained 3 kg of explosives and a timer. The explosion caused
considerable damage to the interior of the office. A car parked immediately
opposite the door had shrapnel damage to its bodywork and its windows were blown
out. (AP)
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Rice on Iraq visit
Baghdad, April 20: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Baghdad on
Sunday and said her latest trip here was intended to promote fresh political
gains she sees to be flowing from government-led assaults on radical militias.
Ms Condoleezza Rice’s brief and heavily guarded visit was not announced in
advance in keeping with security precautions adopted by all top US officials who
remain targets of the anti-American insurgents five years after the US-led
invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The top US diplomat was meeting with Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, Kurdish
President, Jalal Talabani, and other top Iraqi officials. (AP)