Buried among the storms and the New Year

was the news that ETA - allegedly in peace talks and having declared a ceasefire - let off a huge car bomb at Madrid on Saturday which meant that two innocent Ecuadoreans never made it into 2007.

As the La Vanguardia columnist put it today:

ETA has now eliminated two dangerous enemies of the Basque people. That just leaves six billion people on earth.

Nice work guys.