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Police Nab Basque Terrorist Leader

May 20 2010

France

The suspected military chief of the Basque separatist group ETA was arrested Thursday by French and Spanish police in the French town of Bayonne, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports.

Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe, also known as Ata, was detained with a man and a woman in an apartment near the border with Spain, said police.

Carrera Sarobe is a suspect in the murders of five people. He is believed to have taken command of ETA's military wing after former leader Ibon Gogeaskoetxea...

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