March 2004 Madrid Attacks
The March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings was an Islamist terrorist attack in Madrid (Spain) that killed 191 people and wounded more than 2,000. The terror cell had links to Al Qaeda. It was the worst Islamist attack in European history.
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Al-Qaeda Attacks
Famous quotes containing the words march and/or attacks:
“The march interrupted the light afternoon.
Cars stopped dead, children began to run,
As out of the street-shadow into the sun
Discipline strode....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)