| ETA ready for peace if Spanish 'attacks' stop
Madrid: Armed Basque separatists ETA yesterday offered to make new commitments to the stagnated peace process if the Spanish state stopped its "attacks" in the Basque region, where police have been arresting ETA suspects. "Those who have divided the Basque homeland, and their successors, have taken on the enormous task of destroying the identity of our people," the interview in Basque language newspaper Gara said. "They must abandon this policy of imposition and give our citizens the democratic tools to ... build a future," it said. Gara, ETA's usual mouthpiece, published the interview on a nationalist holiday in the northern region accompanied by a photograph of two hooded and masked fighters sitting at a table. It was the group's first statement since January, when it claimed responsibility for a car bomb that killed two people at Madrid's Barajas airport.
Roberto Carlos' future in suspense
Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos, who will leave Real Madrid after 11 years with the team, said he is uncertain which team he will be playing with next season, according to Friday's edition of sports daily As. There are many offers from countries such as Turkey, Qatar, Dubai, England and Carlos was quoted as saying. "I prefer to end the season, round up all the information and afterwards I will announce which team I am going to," Carlos said. Carlos, 34, announced in March he was leaving Real Madrid at the end of the season, one year before his contract ends. The veteran player said he was leaving Real Madrid on his own, not because the team wanted to get rid of him. "They had offered to renew, I tried negotiating, but it was not possible," he said. Roberto Carlos said "it would be very nice" to finish his commitment with Real Madrid as league champion.
Three more charged with Madrid train bombings
MADRID - Spanish police arrested two people on suspicion they aided some of the terrorists involved in the Madrid train bombings. The judge heading the probe into Spain's worst terrorist attack, Juan del Olmo, ordered the arrests of two Moroccan men and filed charges against a third person, a Spanish citizen already serving time for forgery at El Botafuegos prison in the southern city of Algeciras. The arrests after the new accusation the day before against Moroccan Abdelilah Hriz, currently in jail in his home country, whom Del Olmo accused of being a material author of the March, 2004, bombings that left 191 dead in Madrid. The accusation came after DNA tests were performed on genetic samples taken from the dwellings used by the terrorists implicated in the multiple bombings.
Schuster expects Capello to leave Real Madrid
Getafe manager Bernd Schuster believes that Fabio Capello's chances of keeping his post as manager of Real Madrid are very limited, Marca newspaper reported on Monday.
The Italian tactician had a disappointing first season with an underachieving Real side that earned no silverware in the last three years.
"It is practically certain he won't be coach of Real Madrid next season," Schuster told German television station DSF.
Schuster, who is a clear candidate to take over the Real Madrid bench next season, also questioned Capello's approach in managing the Spanish giants.
"Capello only wants to win, it does not matter how, and with that philosophy you will never succeed at Real Madrid," he added. .
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