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| The Basque separatist group, Eta, has claimed responsibility for a series of recent bombings in Spain, including one which killed two Civil Guards in July. | The Basque separatist group, Eta, has claimed responsibility for a series of recent bombings in Spain, including one which killed two Civil Guards in July. |
| In a statement sent to the Basque newspaper, Gara, Eta said it was also behind a car bomb attack which killed a police inspector two months ago. | In a statement sent to the Basque newspaper, Gara, Eta said it was also behind a car bomb attack which killed a police inspector two months ago. |
| It said the policeman, Eduardo Puelles Garcia, was a "despicable torturer". | It said the policeman, Eduardo Puelles Garcia, was a "despicable torturer". |
| Eta has been blamed for more than 820 deaths during its campaign for an independent Basque homeland in Spain. | Eta has been blamed for more than 820 deaths during its campaign for an independent Basque homeland in Spain. |
| The most recent bombings, on the island of Majorca and the northern town of Burgos, came ahead of the 50th anniversary of its founding. | |
| 'Political solution' | |
| The two Civil Guards who were killed in the Majorcan resort town of Palmanova on 30 July had been inside a patrol car parked outside their barracks when a bomb planted underneath it exploded. | |
| Several people were also injured by the powerful blast on the busy road, which sent the vehicle flying through the air and set it on fire. | |
| Sometimes, as the most experienced and despicable torturer in the commissariat... he also pressured independence activists into collaborating by threats Alleged Eta statement | |
| Although Eta did not claim responsibility at the time, Span's government said it had born the hallmarks of the separatists. | |
| Experts say a similar method was used in Eta's fatal bombing in June, when a Mr Puelles Garcia was killed by a car bomb in Bilbao. | |
| Eta said Mr Puelles Garcia had been "the chief of police operations against numerous leftist independence activists and against pro-independence youths for the past decade, and the co-ordinator of different operations against Eta". | |
| "Sometimes, as the most experienced and despicable torturer in the commissariat... he also pressured independence activists into collaborating by threats," it said. | |
| Eta also claimed responsibility for the car bomb which exploded outside a police barracks in Burgos on 29 July, injuring 40 people, and an attack on the offices of the governing Socialist Party in the Basque town of Durango on 10 July. | |
| But the group insisted that it was not seeking "to impose any project, unlike successive Spanish leaders". | |
| "It is Eta, which has over the long decades sought dialogue and political solutions," the statement added. |