Killing Chills Spain's Election

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Killing Chills Spain's Election
Friday, Mar. 07, 2008 By LISA ABEND AND GEOFF PINGREE/MADRID
Socialist party flags lie on empty seats at a bullring outside Madrid, where the Socialist Party was planning to hold their closing electoral campaign March 7, 2008.
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Just two days before Spain's national election, terrorism forced its way back onto the political stage when a gunman killed former Socialist official Isaias Carrasco at midday near his home in the Basque town of Arrasate. As Carrasco's wife and daughter stood watching, a single gunman shot the former regional councilman several times from behind, then fled the scene with a waiting driver. Though no claim of responsibility has yet been made, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesperson said the government was "certain" the attack had been carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA. Carrasco's murder would be the third committed by ETA since the organization officially declared an end to a ceasefire it called in March 2006.

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