] Many voters blamed outgoing Prime Minister Jose Maria
] Aznar's staunch support of the U.S.-led war in Iraq for a
] series of rush-hour bombings on commuter trains in Madrid
] Thursday that left 200 persons dead.

The government's rush to blame the ETA blew up in their face, if you'll excuse the poor choice of wording, driving home the "get out of the middle east" message even harder then it would have been driven had the government handled the situation objectively from the outset.

I think Al'Q ended up getting exactly what it wanted here in the short term. Also an indirect victory for the ETA. However, the real question will be how Europe reacts on the whole.