ETA suspects arrested

Madrid - Eight suspected ETA collaborators were arrested over the weekend in simultaneous raids involving some 300 police officers…

Madrid - Eight suspected ETA collaborators were arrested over the weekend in simultaneous raids involving some 300 police officers in Madrid, Navarre and the Basque Country, Jane Walker reports.

Police claim their operation has dismantled ETA's international structure, codenamed Xaki, which acted as the link between the group's leadership and exiled members and their collaborators in Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay and elsewhere.

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