Counter-terror by proxy

Between 1983 and 1987, mercenaries adopting the pseudonym GAL ( Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación , Antiterrorist Liberation Group) paid by the Spanish treasury and relying upon national intelligence support were at war with the Basque militant group ETA ( Euskadi (e)Ta Askatasuna , Basque Country and Freedom). Over four years, their campaign of extrajudicial assassinations spanned the French-Spanish border. Nearly thirty people were killed in a campaign comprised of torture, kidnapping, bomb