Spain: Who did the bombing?

At first it was thought that it was the Basque separatist group, the ETA. Now Al Qaeda is taking credit. They say they are 90% ready for an attack on the U.S.:

"We bring the good news to Muslims of the world that the expected 'Winds of Black Death' strike against America is now in its final stage...90 percent (ready) and God willing near."

Spain's 9/11: 200+ dead and 1200+ injured.

The first response is prayer. Having laid our troubles before the mercy-seat, we arise in full faith and confidence that Jesus lives, the victory's won. If it is Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism, we already know how the fight will end, and the Islamofascists are not the victors. Thus, we consider events unfolding from a position of certainty, from the stance of the victor. For, we know that we are looking at the last gasp of a desperate and futile ideology.

The Cross before, my second response is to unearth the fighting words of poets and warriors. For, we may not stand above the fray, but are in the midst and thick of it. This, therefore, demands a human response for we must screw our courage to the sticking point to do that which must be done. Thus, I look to the words of Claude McKay, written in an earlier time, under different circumstance, but still applicable to today.

If We Must Die
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Source: Claude McKay, "If We Must Die,” in Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922).

Furthermore, I look to the words of the warrior Winston Churchill whose June 4, 1940, "We Never Surrender" speech was a powerful rallying cry to a nation at war and close to defeat. Churchill said:

I have myself full confidence that if all do their duty,
If nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made,
As they are being made,
We shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our island home,
To ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny,
If necessary for years - if necessary alone.

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do.
That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government - every man of them.
That is the will of Parliament and the nation.
The British Empire and the French Republic,
Linked together in their cause and in their need,
Will defend to the death their native soil,
Aiding each other like good comrades
To the utmost of their strength.

Even though large tracts of Europe
And many old and famous States
Have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo
And all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule,
We shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France,
We shall fight on the seas and oceans,
We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets,
We shall fight in the hills;
We shall never surrender,

And even if, which I do not for a moment believe,
This island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving,
Then our Empire beyond the seas,
Armed and guarded by the British Fleet,
Would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time,
The new world, with all its power and might,
Steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Also, Winston Churchill, before the House of Commons, reiterated, "Never Give In"

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" (House of Commons, June 4, 1940)

At Harrow School, Churchill declared emphatically,

"Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." (Harrow School, October 29, 1941)

Finally, from the warrior-king Henry V to the Bishop of Canterbury:

Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,
How you awake our sleeping sword of war:
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;

Whoever did it, may God have mercy on your soul, for, God before, we will come after you.