Military

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

TITLE=SPAIN/TERRORISM

BYLINE=GIL CARBAJAL

DATELINE=MADRID

INTERNET=YES

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INTRO: A doctor, murdered Monday in Seville, is the latest victim of terrorism in Spain. But as Gil Carbajal reports from Madrid, for the first time ever, suspected terrorists were apprehended soon after the attack.

TEXT: Dr. Antonio Munoz Cariñanos was seeing patients, when around 6:30 Monday evening, two gunmen burst into his private clinic and shot him twice in the head, killing him instantly. Dr. Munoz was a well-known ear, nose and throat specialist, who included flamenco singers and other performing artists among his patients.

But Dr. Munoz was also a Colonel in the Air Force and this made him a potential terrorist target. He was married and had two children. His wife was present in the clinic when he was killed.

The doctor's murder was the latest in a string of such incidents, but for the first time ever after a terrorist attack in Spain, police were able to quickly arrest two of the suspected assassins. Since the current wave of terrorists attacks in southern Spain, police have been on special alert. A combination of citizen-cooperation and a massive police search operation led to the arrest of two suspects, one of whom was wounded in a shoot-out. A third suspect is believed to have escaped.

Since the armed Basque separatist group ETA ended a 14-month-long truce last December, it has targeted journalists, businessmen, jurists and security and military personnel. It has claimed responsibility for 12 of the 15 assassinations carried out since then. Over the past two weeks three bombs have been found planted in the automobiles of members of the armed forces in and around Seville. Another bomb was found Monday, planted in the car of a employee of an airbase near Seville. Just a week ago, the chief prosecutor of Granada, Luis Portero, was shot dead at the entrance of his apartment building.

For more than 40 years ETA has been carrying out a terrorist campaign in order to achieve an independent Baque homeland in southern France and northern Spain, despite the fact that the majority of the people of those areas say they have no interest in independence. (Signed)

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