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November 19th, 2008
Posted: 04:55 AM ET
MADRID, Spain (CNN) — The key suspect captured in France this week is considered to be the overall chief of the Basque separatist group ETA, Spain’s Interior Minister said Wednesday. Authorities initially said the suspect, Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu, 35, was the top military chief of ETA, in charge of ordering attacks. The armed group long has also had a separate leader in charge of policy, but authorities now believe Aspiazu, alias “Txeroki,” held both positions. “Txeroki was in charge of everything, the political apparatus, and the so-called military apparatus. The one who ordered the killings was Txeroki,” Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said in an interview with Spanish radio network SER. ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths in its long fight for Basque independence. Aspiazu was wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of two plainclothes Spanish Civil Guards last December while the officers were on an anti-ETA investigation in France. |
 
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