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King of Spain To Chavez: "SHUT UP!"

A Spanish tongue-lashing
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Score one for civility.

The King of Spain told Venezuelan strongman, Hugo Chavez, to "shut up" at a conference on Saturday. It was civility, in the form of the king, answering rudeness, Chavez.

Chavez, used to jailing, shouting down or strong-arming anyone talking back to him, did not call on police to arrest the king.

More on the exchange from EDUARDO GALLARDO, AP at Breitbart:

The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Chavez, who called President Bush the "devil" on the floor of the United Nations last year, triggered the exchange by repeatedly referring to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a "fascist."

Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, "is a fascist," Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. "Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."

Spain's current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences.

"Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people," he said, eliciting applause from the gathered heads of state.

Of course, Chavez was not about to take this with lips zipped.

Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, but his microphone was off.

Spanish King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, angrily turned to Chavez and said, "Why don't you shut up?"

Thank God King Juan Carlos was not carrying a protest sign.

by Mondoreb




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Breaking--Madrid Bombers Guilty

Madrid bombers look concerned in their glass cage

For democracies, the wheels of justice grind slowly. For terror victims as well.

The three main suspects in the 2004 Madrid bombings have been found guilty. It's taken over three years, but the murderers have been found guilty. All of the defendants proclaimed their innocence and face long, long sentences--almost 39,000 years behind bars.

More from CNN:

A Spanish court has found three prime defendants guilty of mass murder in the 2004 Madrid commuter train bombings that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.

Five of the eight primary defendants, however, were found not guilty on the mass murder charges. Several of the five were convicted on lesser charges, including belonging to a terror group. .

One of those acquitted, according to The Associated Press, was Rabei Osman el Sayed Ahmed, also known as Mohamed the Egyptian.

Italian police provided recorded wiretaps of Ahmed in the months before the bombings in which he allegedly boasted the attacks were his "project." On the stand he condemned the attacks, denied any link and said the voice on the tapes was not his.

Each of the primary defendants found guilty of mass murder faces sentences of nearly 39,000 years -- calculated at 30 years for each of the 191 people killed in the bombings and 18 years, for attempted murder, against each of the wounded.

A good Spanish attorney may get the principles released sometime in 40,000 A.D.

by Mondoreb
[photo:CNN/AP]



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