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Unexpected

madrid: Until last Thursday, the shocking images of New York’s collapsing twin towers had begun to fade. For all its continued attacks in the Middle East and beyond and the suicide bombings in Iraq, in Europe at least al-Qaida had come to seem a rather more distant peril – still dangerous, certainly, but no longer the existential threat implicit in America’s global "war" against terrorism.

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a week before the Madrid bombings Britain’s Tony Blair warned against complacency. The danger from Islamist terrorism, he said, was as clear and present as it had ever been. Much of the succeeding commentary was scornful, accusing the prime minister of willful scaremongering to justify his own part in backing President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.

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But Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, disagreed with this accusation.

"Nobody should believe they can opt out of the war against Islamic terrorism, he said. Al-Qaida demands surrender or nothing."

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The first reaction in spain was horror

At first, the worst thing was the silence. The loudest, most raucous city in Europe – famous for its working class which never draws breath and always there with an opinion – was suddenly mute.

Before the rallies began, offices, shops and cafes across Spain emptied at noon as people stood in silence on the streets to honor the dead. Authorities had requested a minute’s silence but many people in Madrid stood in drizzly, chilly weather for about 10 minutes

The silence ended when the people broke into spontaneous applause in a traditional sign of respect and solidarity.

Yesterday he joined hundreds of expatriate Spaniards in a communal outpouring of grief and outrage. There was a minute’s silence at The Spanish Club in Liverpool Street before a chant of "Basta ya!" – Enough is enough – went up that lasted for minutes.

"People who saw this in the morning are still coming to terms with the awful, bloody mess. We will come together over this – fight together to defeat this evil."

A police spokesman on the street said officers flying overhead in helicopters estimated the crowd in Madrid alone at more than two million.

Friday night’s massive rallies in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia and other cities and towns were a remarkable show of unity in a nation divided by regional loyalties and languages.

"We all need to be here to repudiate these killings. All of us. It is our duty," said Manuel Velasco, a university professor who was drenched from the rain.

Gloria Alcaine, a grandmother from Burgos, said: "This has killed the Spanish soul, numbed us. It has ripped the heart right out of Spain. "People are crying in their homes, that has never happened before. They have killed all of us, all of us." At Atocha’s makeshift memorial shrines with candles, flowers and virgin Marys on pavements and concourses sat those who would have been on the trains that day and who had now come into the city centre to march.

"We Were All On That Train" read one banner in Madrid, in reference to 10 bombs which tore apart four commuter trains on Thursday, injuring some 1,450 people and sparking protests from Seville to Barcelona.

And let’s get serious as Europeans. In two weeks, there’ll be the regular meeting of EU heads of government in Brussels, under the presidency of the Irish, who know a thing or two about the bloody impact of terror.

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