"'Bomb' detonated at Spanish airport"

Saturday, June 30, 2007

'Bomb' Blown Up At Ibiza Airport
United Kingdom - Sky News


Police have used a controlled explosion to blow up a suspect package at the
airport on Spain's Mediterranean holiday island of Ibiza.

Earlier, acting in response to a telephoned bomb threat, they had evacuated
the airport, which is used by thousands of British holidaymakers.
 
Emergency services attend the scene at Ibiza airport. The authorities did
not provide further details of the threat.

But Spanish newspaper websites said three warnings had been received by the
Basque daily Gara.

The paper is often used by the violent Basque separatist group ETA as a
conduit for such warnings.

A spokeswoman for airport operator AENA said the airport had been closed to
both incoming and outgoing flights.

News of the bomb threat comes just weeks after ETA called off a 15-month
ceasefire, blaming the government in Madrid for refusing to make concessions
in the peace process.

Fears that renewed ETA violence was imminent have been growing, particularly
after civil guards found a car packed with bomb-making material near the
southern Spanish town of Ayamonte, near the border with Portugal.

The armed separatists have killed more than 800 people in four decades of
armed struggle for independence of ancient Basque territories in northern
Spain and southern France.

Polls show most inhabitants of the Basque Country, which already enjoys
considerable autonomy, do not want full separation from Spain.

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