Stil From Spain, joined Apr 2006, 345 posts, RR: 7 Posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 10253 times:
Does anybody heard about an explossion on T4 -new terminal- of MAD Barajas?
All I heard was something about an explossion on car parking, but no news about damages.
AsstChiefMark From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 10263 times:
It's on CNN right now. Sounds like a lot of confusion and panic. People trying to get out of terminal 4. Reuters says a bomb threat was phoned in in advance.
Jimyvr From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 10145 times:
>>Extensive damage at parking garage at Terminal 4
>>Terminal 4 partially hit by explosion
>>car bomb at 0900LT
>>car bomb warning at 0815LT
>>no immediate casualties
PHLJJS From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 412 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 10122 times:
MAD still open. Terminal 4 closed. Other terminals are open. Car bomb in parking garage. The garage has partially collapsed.
ZRHnerd From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 10070 times:
Quoting SA006 (Reply 5): The anchor was suggesting it may be in connection with Saddam's hanging?
Doubt it. Such a terrorist attack needs a substantional time of preparation, and as they didnt know when exactly Saddam would be executed that assumption is pretty ridicolous, furthermore, why would they bomb Spain? It wern't the Spanish who sent Saddam to death.
now wait a minute, I thought Zapatero and ETA had a cease fire agreement at the moment. What happened?
Good news is that apparently there are just a few injured and no casualties.
EK156 From United Arab Emirates, joined May 2005, 765 posts, RR: 3 Reply 16, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 9852 times:
I think ETA didn't want any injuries if it is actually them who carried the attack. It seems that the warning was to keep the people safe and avoid casualties!
EZEIZA From Argentina, joined Aug 2004, 4943 posts, RR: 28 Reply 17, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 9809 times:
Quoting EK156 (Reply 16): I think ETA didn't want any injuries if it is actually them who carried the attack. It seems that the warning was to keep the people safe and avoid casualties!
Possibly, but in any case, they are proving that any type of agreement with the govt' is impossible, and that they still have the capacity to do what they want. This could easily have been a massacre
Stil From Spain, joined Apr 2006, 345 posts, RR: 7 Reply 19, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 9704 times:
Iberia offices at MAD has no comunication system. Orders are standing by and wait...
Air Nostrum has cancelled several flights and Iberia has strong delays on flight to MAD
IBERIA747 From Spain, joined Aug 2003, 1825 posts, RR: 62 Reply 21, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 9638 times:
Quoting Stil (Reply 20): explosion was controlled by police, as they had a phone warning describing the car with the bomb
Yes. It had been said by the press earlier. It was a dark-red Renault Traffic van.
Anyway, it seems that the damage to the parking building structure is heavy as the roof has collapsed, and the Terminal building has also sustained damage due to it's huge glass surface.
RAFVC10 From Spain, joined Sep 2005, 1980 posts, RR: 7 Reply 23, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 9598 times:
Seems that the Police has arrived little late. Two police officers has injured without any fear about their lives and another were evacuated to the La Paz Hospital.
An anonymous call has received this morning in the DYA (a Basque association to help in the road) advertising about a Renault Traffic parked in the T4 parking with a great explosive and with the advertisement to not try anything (about to disconnect it).
When ETA made its cruel attempts not many years ago, always called to DYA announcing its plans.
Hoping the injured and their families will finish 2006 without to cry for anyone.
El dia que los gilipollas vuelen, no podremos ver la luz del sol!
EZEIZA From Argentina, joined Aug 2004, 4943 posts, RR: 28 Reply 24, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 9596 times:
Quoting Stil (Reply 20): I agree, but the target was choosen carefully.
Thankfully this time they chose a target that would not kill anyone, just structural damage. But the proof that they are still active is there
Etarras hijos de p....!
Carp aunque ganes o pierdas ...
25 Stil: There is three injured, two policemen and a taxi driver. Stil
26 IBERIA747: The explosion affected the Parking modules C-D. That's the area where part of the building structure has collapsed. The modules A-B-E and F should be
27 HAWK21M: Glad to hear no serious Human Damages. regds MEL
28 BCNGRO: Smoke column visible from some kilometers away. Does anybody know if the terminal is still closed?
29 RAFVC10: The terminal has reopened its doors at 14:00 hours with flights to VCE and CMN. Aena recomends not to go to the T4 if there aren't a great reason.
30 ScandinA340: Very glad to hear that there are no casualties in this bombing... T4 is such a great building - and something that all of us hope will be up and runni
31 Mxp: I hope too the injured people come out quicly from hospital. I just booked yesterday a 2 days spotting in february to Madrid but know what will happen
33 Toulouse: Terrible news and terrible way for Spain to end 2006 seeing ETA break their cesaefire they've held since March. I took off from Madrid this morning at
34 JoseMEX: It's really a shame, although not unexpected (after all, let's not forget who we're dealing with here). I guess it's just a matter of hours until some
35 Qantas744ER: CNN Link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/30/madrid.blast/index.html The article talk about the ETA cease fire being dropped again.. Cheers Le
36 AlitaliaMD11: I hate to sound a little less concerned about the people but man it's a shame Terminal 4 was targeted, it is such a beautiful piece of architecture! O
37 Cubastar: I would be right at your side helping you defend your rights to speak your mind! I'm sure others would also.
38 Lumberton: Is there proof that this was ETA, or could it be a copy cat group? Or...someone else?
40 GeorgiaAME: I guess I'm not the only one who P.O.'s the moderators with my political incorrectness. Let's give it another whirl! Spain is such a great, soft, eas
41 Beaucaire: It seems Two Ecuadorean men are unaccounted for and feared missing in the explosion...(Source : French TV..)[Edited 2006-12-30 20:00:01]
42 JJJ: There has been only one terrorist attack in Spain that can be attributed to Islamic terrorists. Unfortunately, there have been hundreds of the other
43 Howard500: There is no doubt this was an attack perpetrated by ETA. For those of you who know little about Spanish politics you should know that ETA is a terrori
44 Schoenorama: Not sure where you got that information but it is incorrect. They usually target police, military police (Guardia Civil), local police and politician
45 EZEIZA: ETA has attacked with the PP in power, as well as with PSOE. Both parties, when in power, attempted different apporaches to defeat ETA, one being the
46 AlitaliaMD11: Quoting Schoenorama (Reply 44): Not sure where you got that information but it is incorrect. They usually target police, military police (Guardia Civi
47 Sukhoi: I only know of two terror attacks from Al Qaida in Europe: Madrid and London but there have been hundreds of attacks from ETA and IRA in Spain and UK
48 JetBlueAtJFK: At least it didn't go off closer to the terminal and destroy T4. I guess their method of setting them off in places like parking garages and warnign o
49 Pdpsol: This is an incorrect statement. Since its founding in 1959, the ETA has murdered approximately 900 people and committed dozens of kidnappings, rather
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