U.S. Embassy complains of threat; Zapatero´s email hijacked

·The U.S. Embassy in Madrid filed a complaint with Spanish judicial authorities after White House officials reportedly received an electronic mail from someone in Spain threatening to kill President Bush, the daily El País reported Thursday. The email from someone who identified himself as "Ignacio P.S., español" charged that Bush was "responsible for thousands of deaths in Iraq." It also contained a series of insults lodged at the American president, the Spanish newspaper said.

·The Spanish government for its part has had to assure dozens of embassies and news organizations that Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero Rodríguez did not pen a controversial open letter in an email entitled "Spaniards, how sickening, what shame." La Moncloa Palace said that someone began sending the bogus email on Monday supposedly written by Zapatero in which he hurls insults and claims that Spaniards "have been a plague for all of Latin America." Zapatero´s chief of staff has apologized to the embassies and news organizations for the hoax, and said an investigation is underway.