THIS IS JUST SILLY:

Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said this week that the Basque separatist group ETA was involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

Aznar said the planners of the bombings "are not in remote deserts or faraway mountains," El Pais reported.

Silly for UPI, I mean. Because they're putting the conclusion in Aznar's mouth, one he didn't make. He didn't mention the word ETA in that interview, and one would expect that a news agency would use for the headline something that was actually said. Aznar did say that the planners of the March 11 bombings are not in remote deserts or faraway mountains, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it was ETA. Remember that the Socialist's theory was that the bombing were a retribution for Spain's support of the Iraq war (conveniently leaving out that when they claimed responsibility the culprits also mentioned Afghanistan, a war that the Socialists also support, sort of. But I digress). That is, that it was planned by al-Qaeda from afar.

Well, no; it was planned and executed by a gang of local Muslim terrorists with no connection with al-Qaeda, as the verdict amply proved. Hence, Aznar could have been simply thinking on that, de-linking the terror attack from Spain's foreign policy. How do I know? Well, I'm just stating that this could be a possibility, but I don't know because Aznar didn't explicitly say what he had in mind.

But UPI didn't know either.