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Madrid says terrorism a problem for all SINGAPORE (AP) - Recent car bomb explosions in Madrid haven't doomed the Spanish capital's chances in a July 6 vote to decide who'll host the 2012 Summer Games, bid leader Feliciano Mayoral said Thursday. "Terrorism is an international problem. All the bids in the running of the 2012 have a problem with terrorists," Mayoral said as he arrived in Singapore, venue for next week's vote by the International Olympic Committee. A car bomb exploded near a proposed Olympic venue Sunday - the second such bomb to go off near a proposed Games staging area in four months. No one was injured in the blast and damage was minimal. "Nothing happened in Spain. The security is excellent," Mayoral insisted. Madrid is largely viewed as an underdog to Paris and London in the race to host the Summer Games. The other bidding cities are New York and Moscow. Mayoral insisted his city was not lagging behind in any areas that IOC members will consider before casting their votes. "We are in very tough running with the best cities in the whole world but this criteria is created by the media. What is most important is the opinion of the IOC," said Mayoral, who had to wait half an hour to retrieve his bags, which came out last, at the airport carousel. Madrid is the only one of the European candidates that has never held the Olympics. Rivals London and Paris have both staged the Games twice. The only bid leader yet to arrive is New York's Dan Doctoroff, who arrives in Singapore early Friday. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
