As everyone must know by now, since this happened yesterday evening local time, four terrorists blew themselves up when surrounded by Spanish police in an apartment in the Madrid working-class suburb of Leganes. The dead include "The Tunisian", Jamal Ahmidan, and Abdennabi Kounjaa, three of the suspects with international arrest warrents on them, and a fourth yet unidentified man. They took a police officer with them, Javier Torrontera, age 41, with two children. 12 other police officers were injured, none especially seriously. They're all in good condition at local hospitals.

At about 5:30 local time yesterday afternoon, the police began their raid on a Leganes apartment they knew some of the terrorists were hiding out in. The terrorists started shooting, and by 6 PM the cops had the area evacuated and cordoned off. Between 6 and 8 PM the terrorists held out in a desultory shootout with the police. At 8 PM the helicopters were over the area, and at 9 PM the GEOs, the "Grupo Especial de Operaciones", the Spanish SWAT team, assaulted the apartment. The terrorists then blew themselves up with a bomb, killing themselves and Torrontera. Inside the apartment were found 200 detonators and ten kilos of unexploded dynamite.

This is war, folks. Get used to it, because Zap's not going to be much help, I don't think.