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The Madrid protests were organised by the group #NoEnNuestroNombre ((#NotInOurName) Gerard Julien/AFP
5,000 join Madrid anti-war protests as France lobbies Spain
Published: 29 Nov 2015 09:24 GMT+01:00
Many Spaniards believe the Al-Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks in the Spanish capital in 2004, which killed 191, came in retaliation for their country's involvement in the Iraq war.
The protests were organized by the collective #NoEnNuestroNombre (#NotInOurName), and were attended by some of the country's leading actors, journalists and politicians.
More than 30,000 people signed the collective's petition condemning both the Paris attacks and retaliatory bombing against Syria.
According to the Publico online newspaper, signatories included leading actors, such as Pilar Bardem, the mother of the Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem, Alberto San Juan, Juan Diego Botto, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón,
French foreign minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday assured Spaniards that the attacks on ISIS would be followed up by troops on the ground supplied by Arab countries.
"It will be necessary... France has no intention of intervening on the ground. Foreign troops would be seen as an occupying force. Therefore they must be Syrian, Arab, Kurdish troops," he told Spain's El Pais newspaper, the
quotes translated from Spanish.
Some 5,000 people also protested in London on Saturday against potential British participation in Syria airstrikes, as political momentum mounted to broaden the fight against Islamic State (IS) jihadists.
Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday laid out the case for British jets, already bombing IS targets in Iraq, to join France, the United States and others in targeting IS strongholds in neighbouring Syria.
He now insists he will not hold a vote until he is sure he has enough support.
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and social security minister Fatima Banez at Tomares, close to Sevilla, last Tuesday. Photo: Christina Quicler/AFP
Spain's top three parties tied ahead of general election next month
Spain's ruling conservatives are locked in a virtual tie with the main opposition Socialists and new centre-right party Ciudadanos, three weeks ahead of a general election, a poll showed Sunday.
One of the Spanish soldiers sent to help train Iraqis at the Basmaya camp in Baghdad. Photo: Ali Al-Saadi/AFP
Poll: Spaniards divided on whether to bomb ISIS strongholds
Spaniards are divided on whether Spain should take part in the international military campaign in Syria against the Islamic State, with just over half, 54, percent, opposed, a poll published Sunday showed.
The Madrid protests were organised by the group #NoEnNuestroNombre ((#NotInOurName) Gerard Julien/AFP
5,000 join Madrid anti-war protests as France lobbies Spain
Some 5,000 people protested in Madrid on Saturday, wary that joining France in attacks on ISIS strongholds in Syria would once again make the country a target for militants.
According to the Vanguardia newspaper, the arrests took place in an apartment next to the Sagrada Família church. Photo: Mstyslav Chernov/Wikimedia Commons
Police seize jihadi recruiters by Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church
Spain's interior ministry said on Saturday that it had arrested two men suspected of trying to recruit people for Islamic jihad, or "holy war", as well as a woman ready to go to the conflict zone.
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The decision to send Spanish troops (such as the legionaires above) to Iraq in 2003 was blamed for the Madrid attacks. Photo: LCpl. Andrew Williams/US Marines
Spain's election dilemma over joining France in ISIS attacks
Spain's government is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Keen to show France support in its battle against extremism, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is also acutely aware that any concrete engagement will awaken the ghosts of Spain's devastating 2004 attacks.
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Photo: Glovo
A Spanish startup delivery service is changing the way people shop
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Photo: Jorge Bernabé/Flickr
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas as season starts in Spain
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Photo of a vagina protest in March 2014. Photo: AFP
Spanish feminists offend Catholics with giant plastic vagina protest
The women are facing charges for crimes against religion for mimicking Spain's Easter processions - replacing the Virgin Mary with a giant plastic vagina.
Photo: Jorge Guerrero / AFP
Gibraltar: Fabian Picardo secures second term with landslide victory
Gibraltar's incumbent Chief Minister Fabian Picardo thanked his supporters for their "tsunami of support" on Friday after he won a landslide victory in a general election.
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