OT: The art of war

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The art of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1764206,00.html

Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Guernica.
It's about time Madrid heeded the Basque demands for that painting

Colm Tóibín
Saturday April 29, 2006
The Guardian

Picasso was in Paris when Guernica was bombed. The devastating air
attack on the Basque town on April 26 1937 was widely reported. The
following day, George Lowther Steer wrote in the Times: "Guernica, the
most ancient town of the Basques and the centre of their cultural
tradition, was completely destroyed yesterday by insurgent air raiders.
The bombardment of the open town far behind the lines occupied
precisely three hours and a quarter during which a powerful fleet of
aeroplanes ... did not cease unloading on the town bombs weighing from
1,000lbs downward and it is calculated more than 3,000 two-pounder
aluminium incendiary projectiles. The fighters, meanwhile, plunged low
from above the centre of the town to machine-gun those of the civilian
population who had taken refuge in the fields."

Spain
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/81d8dbb28dc1c1d4

Basques
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/4e6a162ff5c76299