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Tue 08 Aug 2008Economic chill hits Zapatero
THIS IS the season when Spanish politicians like to be photographed on the beach, softening the disaffection in which they are held by many voters through a display of common humanity.
The Spanish playa, however, has also long been a favoured space for the Basque terrorist group Eta which has targeted the country's huge tourist industry every summer for the last three decades. Five small bombs over the last two weeks are a reminder that this organisation, while greatly debilitated, still poses a lethal security threat.
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