Blow for Basque terrorists as leader arrested.

(From Yorkshire Post)

ETA chief Ibon Gogeascoechea and two other suspected separatists were arrested in a joint French-Spanish police operation in the village of Cahan, France, following a long surveillance operation on a cottage that had been rented using false identity papers, said Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba."We understand one of those detained is the maximum leader of ETA at this moment," he said at a news conference.The two other suspects were part of an ETA "commando unit" that was preparing "to enter Spain almost certainly with the worst of intentions", Mr Rubalcaba said.French judicial sources confirmed the arrests and said the suspects had been …