Bastards!!!!! (Massacre in Madrid)

It's very nice of you, at least you thought of something to do. It seems like the solidarity is very strong. This is important.

Thanks, really.

This is very sad, we (keeper, me) have been many times in Atocha. Keeper lives in Madrid as many friends, family...its a very sad day.

They're bringing the bodies for their identification to a building close to where I work, so the terrible thing is when I leave now I'll have to face the people coming to see if it's their relatives. That's going to be terrible!!!

That's awful.

Keeper why don't you go home to your friends and family?

Yes of course. Atocha is in the very centre of Madrid. About 30 minutes walking from my house, in fact.

It's just a commutation point and in the rush hour... No wonder the death toll is so high!

But El Pozo station I also know as that's the station I use when I go to see my friend in her house.

Yes, Keeper go home. Segovia & Avila hospitals are too in alert.


EU CONDEMNS Madrid bombings

The EU leader, Pat Cox, called for a minute's silence at the start of the parliament's legislative session Thursday and said the EU and Spanish flags would fly at half mast. "No more bombs, no more dead," Cox said in Spanish as Madrid's EU representatives were seen hugging each other during the president's emotional statement.

"It is an outrageous unjustified attack on the Spanish people and Spanish democracy," he said referring to the upcoming elections in Spain on Sunday, which the terrorists clearly tried to derail.

"Let Sunday show that Spanish democracy is determined to overcome terrorism," Cox said.

Despicable terror acts

His sentiments reflected those of other European leaders. In Germany, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer expressed horror over the loss of so many lives. "These despicable terror acts that have claimed so many victims fill us with deep sadness and outrage," he said in a statement Thursday morning.

France, whose southern provinces have been included in ETA separatists plans for a cross-border independent Basque state, condemned the attacks with sharp words and offered Madrid solidarity in the fight against terror.

"France condemns with the greatest firmness the cowardly attacks. Terrorism in all its forms and from whatever source must be fought unflinchingly," a foreign ministry spokesman said.

Terrorism in southern Europe

The European Union lists the ETA as a terrorist group. The organization, which has been committed to an armed struggle for an independent Basque state since the 1960s, is responsible for more than 800 deaths. It has been linked to several bomb attacks in Madrid and the rest of the country, including a 1987 car bomb which killed 21 people in front of a crowded shopping center.

Yes I'm leaving in 10 minutes. I was going to take the underground but people at work have convinced me to take a taxi so that I don't have to see all those devastated relatives.

Thanks for the support!

170 dead and 700+ injured!

I am sorry I didn't see this post when I posted mine, I was too furious. This is too sad. I just called a few friends and called my office in Madrid to see how everyone is doing. They were taking turns to go to hospitals and donate blood.

No need to say you're sorry! I'm glad to hear your friends are doing fine! It's very kind of them to go donate blood. I was going but they're saying there's no need anymore. I'll go in a few days at any rate.