Spanish appeasement has led to this:
Al-Qaida Statement Threatens Australia With Attacks
Statement Warns Australia To Withdraw From Iraq

POSTED: 5:23 pm EDT July 24, 2004

CAIRO, Egypt -- An online statement is threatening to turn Australia into "pools of blood" if it doesn't withdraw its troops from Iraq.

The statement appeared Saturday on an Islamic Web site known as a clearing house for al-Qaida and groups linked to the terror network.

It's the second statement this week by a previously unknown group representing itself as al-Qaida's European branch. The Tawhid Islamic Group on Wednesday threatened attacks in Bulgaria and Poland if their troops remained in Iraq.

The statement threatens to "shake the earth under your feet as we did in Indonesia." That's an apparent reference to the 2002 Bali bombing that killed 202 people, many of them Australian tourists.

The statement said Australia should follow the model of the Philippines and Spain, which have pulled their troops out of Iraq.

It also warns Italy to comply with an earlier warning.
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