1.   Police had already cordoned off the area after a telephone warning from ETA to a Basque newspaper, Gara.

2.   The government said any talks must be direct, and denied a Basque newspaper report that the rebels had proposed a foreign mediator.

3.   A Basque newspaper had been warned of the bomb by a caller claiming to represent the Basque separatist group ETA.

4.   A judge on Monday jailed eight people arrested last week in a raid on a radical Basque newspaper linked to the armed separatist group ETA.

5.   A pro-independence Basque newspaper published similar anonymous threats last Sunday in which separatists claimed responsability for bombing Tour sponsors in recent weeks.

6.   A pro-independence Basque newspaper published similar anonymous threats on Sunday, in which separatists claimed responsibility for bombing Tour sponsors in recent weeks.

7.   An ETA statement published Wednesday in the Basque newspaper Egin said the separatists killed Alberto Jimenez Becerril and his wife.

8.   An anonymous caller had told a Basque newspaper where he could be found.

9.   An anonymous caller told a Basque newspaper that Delclaux had been freed and where he could be found.

10.   An anonymous caller told the Basque newspaper that Delclaux had been freed and where he could be found.