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Around 3 a.m. we called and my wife's sisters were okay - but the city was pretty much insane. Imagine being at work and not knowing if the people who haven't shown up yet are just delayed because of the chaos, or whether they were killed or wounded. That really sucks. The main attack took place in the Atocha Station which we use regularly to go visit Ana's parents in the South - the picture above was taken just last August and Ana and Alex passed through the station just a month ago. They've just implemented airport-like security for the "AVE" bullet train section of the station which is great, even a small explosion on a bullet train would be disasterous. Well, obviously ETA has figured out how to cause disasters even on the normal trains.

With less than a week until Spain's national elections, this is obviously some sort fuck-you to outgoing president Aznar and a result of the accord in Catalonia, which means ETA can now concentrate their attacks on Madrid. Since it's not like Spain is just going to chop out a huge section of their country and give it to pony-tailed fuckwit terrorists, it's just a big fucking waste of life and really sad.

-Russ