Barcelona Terror Attack, August 17, 2017: v2

[WhitebeltXL]

So basically the terror we saw was only a fraction of what they've planned

Plans to blow up a cathedral in Barcelona apparently.

 

[S Class]

Not an argument. Putting up gay hashtags on Twitter everytime one of these backwards thinking fucks kills someone is not attacking the issue. I think liberals are running out of hashtags. You're going to have to better than that if we want this shit to stop.

Exactly: hashtags, petty words, and being outright passive to it all won't don't do anything. The citizens of those countries have to ACTIVELY (that's the key word) do something about it. "Internet activists" from people in the US safely typing on their computers and are located an ocean away from what's going on aren't helping with their facebook&twitter nonsense.

 

[lecter]

Plans to blow up a cathedral in Barcelona apparently.

One of the reasons why it's stupid to dismiss the terror threat based on statistics "between X and Y only n people died from terrorist attacks"...
Single events can have such a high impact and the consequences are often unpredictable
It's probably pure luck that many of them are dumbasses and don't manage to carry out their plans or are caught because they're doing some stupid shit
Who knows how many people would have died if only a handful of additional plots in Europe had been successful

 

[rokzilla]

One of the reasons why it's stupid to dismiss the terror threat based on statistics "between X and Y only n people died from terrorist attacks"...
Single events can have such a high impact and the consequences are often unpredictable
It's probably pure luck that many of them are dumbasses and don't manage to carry out their plans or are caught because they're doing some stupid shit
Who knows how many people would have died if only a handful of additional plots in Europe had been successful

In this case a few bad apples have spoiled the bunch.

 

[WiolentOne]

His name was Julian Cadman.

Rest in peace, little man.

 

[WhitebeltXL]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4807232/Vandals-deface-Spanish-mosque-racist-graffiti.html

Vandals deface a Spanish mosque with racist graffiti as right-wing radicals let off flares amid a spate of anti-Islamic assaults following Barcelona terror attack

• Seville Mosque Foundation's centre was targeted with anti-Muslim slogans

• The graffiti also included threats to behead Muslims with a machete

• Targeting of the Seville mosque happened just hours before right-wing radicals attacked a mosque in the Andalucian city of Granada two hours drive east.

 

[lecter]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4807232/Vandals-deface-Spanish-mosque-racist-graffiti.html

Vandals deface a Spanish mosque with racist graffiti as right-wing radicals let off flares amid a spate of anti-Islamic assaults following Barcelona terror attack

• Seville Mosque Foundation's centre was targeted with anti-Muslim slogans

• The graffiti also included threats to behead Muslims with a machete

• Targeting of the Seville mosque happened just hours before right-wing radicals attacked a mosque in the Andalucian city of Granada two hours drive east.

Hey Ahmad whatcha doin?

 

[WhitebeltXL]

Barcelona's chief rabbi urges Jews to move to Israel because 'Europe is lost'

In an interview with the Jewish news agency JTA, Mr Bar-Hen said: "Jews are not here permanently.

“I tell my congregants: Don’t think we’re here for good. And I encourage them to buy property in Israel. This place is lost. Don’t repeat the mistake of Algerian Jews, of Venezuelan Jews. Better [get out] early than late.”

He went on to say the attacks had exposed the presence of "radical fringes" within the Muslim community, a problem he said applied to Europe as a whole.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...jews-move-israel-europe-is-lost-a7903111.html

 

[Diamond Jim]

 

[Rozko]

Good

 

[lecter]

Barcelona attack: Imam at centre of investigation among dead in house explosion
Abdelbaki Es Satty had links to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2016 Brussels attacks

An imam thought to be the ringleader in terror attacks that left 15 people dead was among those killed at an explosion in a house in the town of Alcanar, Spanish police have confirmed.

A van was used to kill 13 and injure more than 130 people in Barcelona on Thursday 17 August, one man was stabbed to death in a car outside the city and hours later another attack took place in the seaside town of Cambrils, leaving one person dead and 13 injured. Police raided the home of Moroccan imam Abdelbaki Es Satty over the weekend, and he has now been formally linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and had recently travelled to Belgium where he had spent three months at the time of the Brussels attacks.

Police are now investigating his role in radicalising the younger members of the group that carried out the atrocities. Es Satty’s remains were found among those of at least three people who were killed at a suspected bomb-making factory in the town of Alcanar, about 120 miles south west of Barcelona. Police said about 120 butane gas cylinders were found at the house and believe he was plotting a much bigger attack, but the accidental explosion prompted the remaining group of militants to carry out a less elaborate plan. Four people have been arrested in connection with the attacks so far, and today police shot dead Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, the man believed to have been at the wheel of the van that drove at high speed into crowds on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas.

Spanish police are not thought to have had the imam or other members of the terror cell under surveillance, despite Es Satty’s extremist connections and knowing of a period when he was in prison. People who knew the imam said he was not religious until he was jailed for drug smuggling and breaking Spanish immigration laws. Es Satty spent four years in prison during which time he befriended Rachid Aglif, who was serving time for his part in the al-Qaeda inspired Madrid bombings. After his release from prison, he spent several months trying to find employment at mosques in Brussels’ Vilvoorde district in the north of the city. Vilvoorde is known for Islamist activity, but when Belgian police were informed by locals of El Satty’s attempts to get work, and contacted the Catalan department of justice, they were told he had no links to extremist violence.

In 2015 Es Satty started teaching at one of the two mosques in Ripoll, the quiet Spanish town in the north-east of the country near to the French border and around 62 miles from Barcelona. Ripoll was home to all of the main suspects in the attack. Friends and relatives of the terrorists, which included a waiter, an extreme sports instructor and some of whom even spoke Catalan, said they had appeared to live normal lives until they started to attend Es Satty’s sermons. A woman who knew several members of the group said the imam repeatedly preached about jihad and killing “infidels”, adding: “I feel like I could have done something. I feel a little bit guilty now.
“Everybody knew it. It was an open secret. But I can't say it because these people are dangerous and they could come after me. I don't trust anybody now.”

Catalonia is gaining a reputation as a centre of Islamist extremism, with the US State Department calling for a regional counter-terror hub to be set up there. A Spanish think-tank said that almost a third of Isis-linked arrests in Spain were now made there. Of the main suspects, four have been detained, five killed by police marksmen following the attack in Cambrils, two have disappeared, three died in the explosion in the bomb making factory, including Es Satty, and the driver of the van, Abouyaaqoub, was caught in a Barcelona suburb and shot dead by police today. As the investigation progresses, Spanish police can expect questions over how a group of more than a dozen militants were able to build a significant weapons factory and plan sophisticated terror attacks without being detected.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ion-islamist-terrorist-plot-las-a7905226.html

 

[Hard To Tell]

The reason why these scumbags can go on the run for so long and evade capture is because they have a large network of support and no shortage of people willing to help them in the wider 'moderate' Muslim community.

 

[Rozko]

Barcelona attack: Imam at centre of investigation among dead in house explosion
Abdelbaki Es Satty had links to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2016 Brussels attacks

An imam thought to be the ringleader in terror attacks that left 15 people dead was among those killed at an explosion in a house in the town of Alcanar, Spanish police have confirmed.

A van was used to kill 13 and injure more than 130 people in Barcelona on Thursday 17 August, one man was stabbed to death in a car outside the city and hours later another attack took place in the seaside town of Cambrils, leaving one person dead and 13 injured. Police raided the home of Moroccan imam Abdelbaki Es Satty over the weekend, and he has now been formally linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and had recently travelled to Belgium where he had spent three months at the time of the Brussels attacks.

Police are now investigating his role in radicalising the younger members of the group that carried out the atrocities. Es Satty’s remains were found among those of at least three people who were killed at a suspected bomb-making factory in the town of Alcanar, about 120 miles south west of Barcelona. Police said about 120 butane gas cylinders were found at the house and believe he was plotting a much bigger attack, but the accidental explosion prompted the remaining group of militants to carry out a less elaborate plan. Four people have been arrested in connection with the attacks so far, and today police shot dead Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, the man believed to have been at the wheel of the van that drove at high speed into crowds on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas.

Spanish police are not thought to have had the imam or other members of the terror cell under surveillance, despite Es Satty’s extremist connections and knowing of a period when he was in prison. People who knew the imam said he was not religious until he was jailed for drug smuggling and breaking Spanish immigration laws. Es Satty spent four years in prison during which time he befriended Rachid Aglif, who was serving time for his part in the al-Qaeda inspired Madrid bombings. After his release from prison, he spent several months trying to find employment at mosques in Brussels’ Vilvoorde district in the north of the city. Vilvoorde is known for Islamist activity, but when Belgian police were informed by locals of El Satty’s attempts to get work, and contacted the Catalan department of justice, they were told he had no links to extremist violence.

In 2015 Es Satty started teaching at one of the two mosques in Ripoll, the quiet Spanish town in the north-east of the country near to the French border and around 62 miles from Barcelona. Ripoll was home to all of the main suspects in the attack. Friends and relatives of the terrorists, which included a waiter, an extreme sports instructor and some of whom even spoke Catalan, said they had appeared to live normal lives until they started to attend Es Satty’s sermons. A woman who knew several members of the group said the imam repeatedly preached about jihad and killing “infidels”, adding: “I feel like I could have done something. I feel a little bit guilty now.
“Everybody knew it. It was an open secret. But I can't say it because these people are dangerous and they could come after me. I don't trust anybody now.”

Catalonia is gaining a reputation as a centre of Islamist extremism, with the US State Department calling for a regional counter-terror hub to be set up there. A Spanish think-tank said that almost a third of Isis-linked arrests in Spain were now made there. Of the main suspects, four have been detained, five killed by police marksmen following the attack in Cambrils, two have disappeared, three died in the explosion in the bomb making factory, including Es Satty, and the driver of the van, Abouyaaqoub, was caught in a Barcelona suburb and shot dead by police today. As the investigation progresses, Spanish police can expect questions over how a group of more than a dozen militants were able to build a significant weapons factory and plan sophisticated terror attacks without being detected.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ion-islamist-terrorist-plot-las-a7905226.html

Why the fuck would you not deport they shit bag after the prison term?

 

[lecter]

The reason why these scumbags can go on the run for so long and evade capture is because they have a large network of support and no shortage of people willing to help them in the wider 'moderate' Muslim community.

 

[RockstarChris]

seeing as Wolf Blitzer referes to the terrorist as a Spaniard, nothing to see but domestic terrorism here.

 

[RockstarChris]

Aparently our true war is against Spaniards.

 

[loyalyolayal]

If I didn't know better, he could be the guy delivering my order of kung pao chicken.

 

[lecter]

Aparently our true war is against Spaniards.

War? There is no war. #coexist

 

[ALE]

die bitch.

like his 4 friends, killed by a spanish woman. bunch of cowards, they can only murder innocent harmless people.

 

[lecter]

Not really surprising after we heard about the explosives in their homes. Fortunately, most terrorists seem to be incompetent these days, otherwise their kill count could be much higher.

The cell behind the Barcelona van attack had planned to use explosives against monuments including the city's Sagrada Familia cathedral, a suspect has told a Madrid court. Mohamed Houli Chemlal is one of four surviving suspects giving evidence.

The group's plans were scaled back when a house packed with bomb-making equipment blew up the day before. Houli Chemlal was injured in the accidental blast that reduced the house to rubble in the town of Alcanar.The Alcanar explosion came the day before Thursday's Barcelona attack in which a van was driven at speed down the main Las Ramblas boulevard, killing 13 and injuring more than 100.

Judicial sources quoted Houli Chemlal as telling the court a much bigger series of attacks had been planned.
Assailants killed a total of 15 people in the van attack, the stabbing of a driver whose car was commandeered shortly afterwards, and a car attack in the resort of Cambrils hours later.

Eight members of the cell are dead - two were killed in the Alcanar explosion, and six were later shot by police, including five after the Cambrils attack. The last suspect to be killed was Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, believed to be the driver of the Las Ramblas van. Wearing a fake explosives belt and armed with knives, he was shot dead by police in a vineyard west of Barcelona on Monday. The surviving suspects were moved, under high security, from Barcelona to Madrid for Tuesday's hearing.


The four suspects have been charged in Madrid with terrorist murder. Houli Chemlal was the first to testify, wearing hospital pyjamas. He is still being treated for his injuries from the blast in Alcanar. Driss Oukabir, whose brother Moussa was among suspects killed after the Cambrils attack, has also given evidence to the Madrid court.

According to judicial sources, he has changed his story to say that he admits renting vehicles used in the attacks but thought they were to be used for a house-move. Under earlier police interrogation, he is said to have maintained that his brother Moussa hired the Las Ramblas van using documents stolen from him. Two other suspects were killed in the Alcanar explosion, including Abdelbaki Es Satty, the Moroccan imam from the town of Ripoll thought to have been a radicalising influence on the suspects.

Also appearing in court are:
Mohammed Aallaa, 27, alleged owner of the Audi car used in the Cambrils attack
Salah al-Karib, 34, accused of running an internet cafe in Ripoll used to send money to Morocco.
As Tuesday's Madrid hearing took place, Ana Suárez, a Spanish woman in her 60s killed in Cambrils, was buried in a private ceremony in Zaragoza.

Forty-five companies in a Catalonia association of undertakers and funeral companies have offered to perform funerals for the victims without charge. Meanwhile, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has confirmed previous reports that some of the attackers made an overnight visit to France days before.

He told BFMTV it had been an "extremely fast return trip" to the Essonne area of Paris on 11-12 August, during which their Audi A3 had been caught on speed cameras. But he insisted the cell had no French links - "they were exclusively Spanish". Most of the 12 suspects lived in Ripoll, north of Barcelona close to the French border. All were young men of North African descent.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41010469