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On Tuesday morning, Spanish National Police made two arrests in the Basque province of Biscay as part of an operation against ETA. According to Spanish news agency EFE, Urko Izagirre, from Algorta, and Enrique Noya, from Bilbao, were wanted in connection with a bomb attack carried out by the armed group on a Civil Guard quarters in Calahorra, La Rioja, in 2008.

Both stand accused of providing ETA with a van with which to carry out the attack on the quarters in Calahorra on 21st March 2008, though it was not the vehicle on which the bomb was planted. The explosion caused extensive material damage, though nobody was hurt.

The car-bomb contained 70 kilos of explosives and it was apparently the alleged leader of the ''Bizkaia'' commando, Arkaitz Goikoetxea, now in custody, who made the call advising of the attack.

What eventually led to Tuesday''s arrests were the earlier detentions of Jon Rosales and Adur Aristegi, who were captured a week earlier in Camprodon (Girona) whilst trying to escape into France.