Assassination throws Spanish politics into turmoil

Saturday, March 8, 2008

MADRID, Spain — The murder of a Basque politician two days before elections threw Spanish politics into turmoil Friday, conjuring memories of the last national ballot — when a bombing onslaught by Islamic radicals killed 191 people on Madrid trains.

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