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.

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