Spanish PM says Eta bombing 'act of futility'

The Spanish prime minister toured a scene of utter destruction from a car-bombing and today warned the Basque separatist group Eta it had acted futilely by detonating the blast, insisting his government and people would not be intimidated.

“It will achieve nothing. It is not going to intimidate anyone,” Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said of Eta after visiting the site of Saturday’s car bombing at Madrid airport, a blast that left one man dead, another missing and feared dead and Zapatero’s much-touted peace process for the Basque region in ruins.