Two Basques, arrested last week on charges of illegal possession of guns, are members of the organization that bombed Madrid's major international airport, Barajas, in December 2006, Spanish government announced on Wednesday.
Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said that the two suspects were arrested in Guipuzcoa and charged with being members of illegal armed separatists organization Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA).
ETA was founded in 1959 with the aim of establishing an independent homeland in Spain's Basque region and the southwestern French provinces of Labourd, Basse-Navarra, and Soule.
Spain's police said the two under arrest, along with two others still at large, had been part of an ETA attack unit formed in 2002,which had been acting independently since 2005.
The unit had been smuggling guns and explosive to other ETA units since 2004 through the French border, according to the police.
ETA has killed 850 people since 1968.
Source:Xinhua
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