ETA sets off car bomb on eve of Spain-Basque leaders' talks

AFP, May, 2008

GETXO, Spain (AFP) — ETA set off another powerful car bomb on Monday, on the eve of a visit to Madrid by the head of the Basque regional government aimed at developing new political relations with the rest of Spain.

The separatist group set off a van packed with 60 kilogrammes (132 pounds) of explosives, damaging a yacht club in Getxo, an affluent suburb of the Basque economic capital Bilbao, in the early hours of Monday, police said.

The blast, which tore a hole in the ground and could be heard several kilometres (miles) away, ripped open several floors of the boat club but caused no injuries.

ETA claimed responsibility in a telephone warning and the Citroen Berlingo van was the same model as one used in an attack last Wednesday against a civil guard...