An alleged member of the Basque separatist group Eta can be sent to Spain to face terrorism charges, a UK court has ruled.
Spanish and moderate Basque political leaders have been quick to condemn the decision by the Basque separatist group, ETA, to end its 14-month-old ceasefire.
The groups include the Basque separatist organisation ETA, Irish Republican Army dissidents and loyalist paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland, and the Greek far-left group November 17.
The political wing of the armed Basque separatist organisation, ETA, has said the peace process must continue, despite the armed group's decision to end a 14-month ceasefire.
As well as pursuing Gen Pinochet, Mr Garzon also rose to prominence in Spain for investigating Basque separatist group Eta, 1980s-era government death squads and indicting Osama Bin Laden.
Most Spaniards admire Mr Aznar for keeping the trade unions sweet, for negotiating a tricky parliamentary pact with Catalan nationalists, and for standing tough in the face of Basque separatist violence.
The Spanish case shows how difficult it was for a young democracy to deal with terrorist activities perpetrated by the Basque separatist group, ETA. History clearly shows that no country in the process of state formation or nation building escapes violence.
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Huge numbers of police have been drafted into the city with worries too about whether the Basque separatist movement ETA, which has killed some 800 people in recent years, will seek to use the presence of European leaders to unleash more violence to publicise their cause.
Most of these were attributed to separatists groups in France and Spain, such as ETA, which is the Basque national separatist organization.
ETA, the Basque-separatist terrorist group, was promoted to minister of the interior.
PNV's 39-year-old leader in Guipuzcoa, the most fervently separatist Basque province.
It sees the dispute as a purely bilateral matter between the two governments and conceding any form of self-determination for the people of Gibraltar would set an unwelcome precedent that might be exploited by the separatist movement in the Basque country of northern Spain.
Spain's prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, met Juan Jose Ibarretxe, would-be separatist premier of the country's Basque region .
Mr Zapatero wooed the nationalist end of the spectrum before the 2008 election, rewriting Catalonia's statute and seeking talks with the violent Basque separatists, ETA. Many Spaniards disapprove of the Socialist-separatist coalition ruling Catalonia.
Bush announced that the United States would place financial sanctions on Batasuna, a Basque nationalist political party that the Spanish government says is the political wing of ETA, a militant separatist group fighting for an independent homeland.
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