ETA military (Spanish: ETA militar) or ETA (m) was the minority faction of the Basquenationalist group ETA, which, during Spain's transition to democracy refused offers of amnesty, instead continuing and intensifying violent struggle. When their rival ETA (pm) integrated into political party Euskadiko Ezkerra, ETA (m) re-adopted the name ETA.
See ETA for more extensive discussion of ETA (m) and the rival ETA (pm).
The alleged ETAmilitary chief has been identified as Gorka Palacios, 29, said Interior Minister Angel Acebes, at a news conference in Marrakech, Morocco, where he was on an official visit.
ETA is blamed for more than 800 killings in a 35-year fight for Basque independence and is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, of which Spain is a member.
Palacios is wanted in connection with the ETA killings of an army officer in Madrid in January 2000 and with the shooting death of a town councilman in the southern city of Malaga in July 2000, Spain's state-run news agency EFE reported, citing police officials.
ETA was divided in ETAmilitary and ETA political-military.
ETA prisoners are deliberately dispersed across Spain and France, some as far from their families as in the Salto del Negro prison in the Canary Islands.
ETA was initially suspected of being the authors of a series of ten bombings which targeted three locations along Madrid 's suburban train lines on the morning of March 11, 2004, killing 192 persons (see 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks).
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