VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION

UNCLAS MADRID 001204 SIPDIS VISAS VIPER DEPT FOR CA/VO/L/C AND INR/IC/TIPOFF E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL (SEGUROLA QUEREJETA, JOSE ET AL) SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION ¶1. POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: ¶2. SPANISH PRESS OF MARCH 24, 2005 REPORTED THAT THE TWO ETA ACTIVISTS REFERENCED BELOW WERE ARRESTED BY FRENCH POLICE IN LANNEMEZAN, FRANCE. THE ARRESTED WERE FOUND IN POSSESSION OF TWO PISTOL GUNS AND FALSE IDENTIFICATION. THE POLICE ALSO SEARCHED THE STOLEN VEHICLES THEY DROVE AND FOUND SEVERAL FALSE LICENSE PLATES, THREE KILOGRAMS OF EXPLOSIVES, CHEMICALS, DETONATORS AND TIMERS. ¶2. NAME: SEGUROLA QUEREJETA, JOSE - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: 29 YEARS OLD, AZPEITIA, GUIPUZCOA, SPAIN - CLASS: NEGATIVE - IN 2001, SEGUROLA WAS A MEMBER OF ETA'S "COMMANDO ARANBA." HE FLED SPAIN AFTER A POLICE RAID IN WHICH THE MAJORITY OF ITS MEMBERS WERE ARRESTED. SPANISH POLICE INVESTIGATORS HAVE STATED THAT SEGUROLA PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE MILITARY NETWORK OF ETA TOGETHER WITH THE PRESENT LEADER, GARIKOITZ ASPIAZU RUBINA, (JUL 6, 1973, SPAIN - CLASS POSITIVE). SEGUROLA ALLEGEDLY PROVIDED OTHER ACTIVISTS WITH A VAN CONTAINING 536 KILOGRAMS OF EXPLOSIVES THAT WAS INTERCEPTED BY THE SPANISH POLICE IN MARCH 2004. ¶3. NAME: ZALDUA IRIBERRI, MIREN ITXASO - GENDER: FEMALE - DPOB: 1972, SAN SEBASTIAN, GUIPUZCOA, SPAIN - CLASS: NEGATIVE - ZALDUA WAS NOT KNOWN BY POLICE AS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE MILITARY NETWORK OF ETA, ALTHOUGH SHE WAS PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED IN 1992 AS A MEMBER OF THE YOUTH RADICAL BASQUE NATIONALIST ORGANIZATION "JARRAI" ALLEGEDLY LINKED TO ETA. MANZANARES