after having felt the pain and sadness of september 11th from abroad, it is horrible to have to be here in spain and watch this peaceful and loving country have to live through the same suffering. it is all so senseless. all of this hatred over religion and politics. what is the point of harming innocent people in the name of your war? they still say they don’t know who is to blame for this. i have been told by spanish folk that this doesn’t look like eta to them. i suppose they would know best having lived through years of attacks by the eta.

there is little that i can feel right now except sadness and sympathy for this country and the families and friends of the victims. no one here wanted to go to war with iraq and now the same people that opposed it are paying the price of their lives for their government’s stupidity. horrible and tragic are the only two words that come to mind.