Around 15 members of the left-wing Basque nationalist movement
Abertzaleen Batasuna (AB) clambered over the gates and let off
fireworks and firecrackers during a 20-minute raid on [Paul Bremer’s summer home].
“We wanted to symbolize the war the United States imposed on the Iraqi
people,” said a spokesman for the group who did not want to be
identified.
“We wanted to carry out this operation on the holiday home of Paul
Bremer because this is where he comes to forget the war in Iraq, and we
want to remind him that when he comes here to rest, the bombs continue
to fall on the Iraqi people.”
Jim Geraghty e-mails: I kept waiting for the last line to be “Bremer promptly
ordered a response in the style of the Iraqi “resistance”
the protestors support, and detonated a car bomb outside the
Basque group’s headquarters, killing 12.”