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[But don't expect George Robertson and Javier Solana to suggest it.] AFP Tuesday March 26, 3:03 AM Spanish police arrest 10, seize weapons in anti-ETA operation Spanish police arrested 10 people and seized an arms cache as they swooped against militants suspected of links to the Basque separatist organisation ETA, the interior ministry said. Spanish Civil Guards, or paramilitary police, arrested two in San Sebastian, one in Ibarra, one in Tolosa and one in Billabona, in a series of dawn raids in the autonomous Basque province of Guipuzcoa in northern Spain. In a further swoop later Monday in San Sebastian, police arrested five suspected members of the extremist group which is fighting for an independent homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France. According to police chief Santiago Valdivielso, three of those arrested in the latest operation were carrying guns. He added that the raid may have dismantled two ETA calls from Guipozcoa, considered the militant group's stronghold in the Basque country. "This is the fourth ETA commando unit dismantled this year by the civil guard," Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy said earlier after the first round of arrests. The operations also uncovered a substantial arms cache, including 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of explosives, grenade-launchers, machine-guns and handguns, authorities said. The explosives included the chemical choloratite and 11 sticks of the French dynamite Tytadin. In other raids, police seized a pistol, a computer and several documents. Among those arrested was a 51-year-old man responsible for the warehouse where some of the arms were kept. Also on Monday, five groups supporting Basque independence, called for ETA to declare a truce. The five groups are Aralar and Zutik (two breakaway groups from ETA's political wing, ETA Batasuna), Batzarre (representing groups in the Navarre province), Abertzaleen Batasuna (representing the Basque region in France) and moderate Basque political party, Eusko Alkartasuna. At a press conference, the five launched an unarmed campaign for sovereignty of an independent Basque country which would surpass the political and judicial framework "and respect the plurality of the seven Basque regions." The campaign is based on the Basque people's right to ask for an "immediate and unlimited truce by ETA and for ETA to work in common with all the nationalist and democratic forces". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
