The Impact Of The Madrid Train Bombing

It is both a profound truth and common cliché that the terrorist attacks of 2004 had significant impact that traumatized people in Spain and Europe. Shocking in their success, these attacks devastated trains on the railway line, representing symbolic genre of reputation (9/11).On the morning of March 11, 2004 (3/11), thirty months after the terror attack on 9/11, Madrid’s commuter train was blown-up by a serious of 10 bombs, killing 191 people and leaving close to 1,800 wounded. These attacks were the deadliest that Spain had faced in decades. The message communicated by the attacks had both political and social consequences. On September 11, 2001, nearly the entire U.S. states, were faced with grief of the catastrophic attack. The aftermath was a process of invasion of Afghanistan (2002) and Iraq (2003), kicked off by George W. Bush’s declaration of war on terrorism, nine days after 9/11. In response to 9/11, Spain’s, Prime Minister Jose´ Maria Aznar delivered a remarkable speech stating that "ETA and bin Laden are the same thing…same because anyone who murders is not defending ideas, they are just murdering." Thus, Spain under Aznar strongly backed U.S.’s war on terror. The Madrid Train Bombing occurred three days prior to the Spain’s national election between the Popular Party government and Socialist Party. The context of the Madrid …show more content…
However, while 90 percent of Spanish population highly opposed the war on Iraq, it was the Madrid bombing that impacted the outcome of the 2004 election in favor of the Socialist party. The public, the night before the election, went out on protest at the train station, where the attack occurred, accusing their government for its alliance with U.S. on the war on terror, saying “no more manipulation of information! … We were tired of this authoritarian style of