If confirmed, the arrest of ETA's military chief is the latest in a series setbacks for the separatist group, which has waged a bloody campaign for an independent Basque state in parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.
VOA: standard.2010.05.20
An alleged member of the Basqueseparatist group Eta can be sent to Spain to face terrorism charges, a UK court has ruled.
The groups include the Basqueseparatist organisation ETA, Irish Republican Army dissidents and loyalist paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland, and the Greek far-left group November 17.
As well as pursuing Gen Pinochet, Mr Garzon also rose to prominence in Spain for investigating Basqueseparatist group Eta, 1980s-era government death squads and indicting Osama Bin Laden.