A group claiming responsibility for the Madrid bombings has sent a fax to a newspaper warning it would turn Spain "into an inferno" unless the country halted its support for the United States and withdrew its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The paper said today that the fax, a handwritten letter in Arabic, was received by the daily ABC on Saturday evening, just hours before five terror suspects blew themselves up in an apartment in Leganes, south of Madrid, to avoid police capture.
The letter was signed by Abu Dujana Al Afgani, Ansar Group, al-Qaeda in Europe, the same person who claimed responsibility for the March 11th bombings in a video found outside a Madrid mosque two days after the attacks.
The letter gave a deadline of Sunday, April 4th for Spain to end support for the United States and withdraw troops from both countries.
"If these demands are not met, we will declare war on you and we swear by Ala the highest and most sublime that we will convert your country into an inferno and your blood will flow like rivers," the letter added.
AP