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Characters interact in the Second Life virtual community in an undated handout image. Spain's bitter political wrangling has spread to Second Life with supporters of socialist and conservative parties trying to burn down each others' party offices in the virtual world. REUTERS/Linden Research, Inc./Handout

Characters interact in the Second Life virtual community in an undated handout image. Spain's bitter political wrangling has spread to Second Life with supporters of socialist and conservative parties trying to burn down each others' party offices in the virtual world.

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MADRID | Thu May 17, 2007 8:18pm EDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's bitter political wrangling has spread to Second Life with supporters of socialist and conservative parties trying to burn down each others' party offices in the virtual world.

"They have thrown bombs, entered the building with sub-machine guns, lit fires, everything you could imagine," an official from Spain's ruling Socialist Party, using the Second Life moniker Zeros Kuhm, told Reuters.

In the real world, hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters have flooded Spanish streets over the past year, accusing the government of capitulating to Basque separatist guerrillas ETA.

"We have complained to the Second Life commission about the terrorism," a spokesman for the conservative opposition Popular Party said in Second Life.

Second Life is a popular online virtual world with millions of registered users and its own economy and currency.
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