“But the jihadists had accidentally detonated an explosive at the house on the eve of Thursday’s attack in Barcelona, an error that likely forced them to modify their plans.”
And so they turned to vehicular jihad.
“Spain attack fugitive whereabouts unknown as Barcelona mourns,” by Daniel Bosque and Hui Min Neo, AFP, August 19, 2017:
Barcelona (AFP) – Spanish police said Sunday that the Moroccan man suspected of driving the van used in one of the devastating twin attacks that claimed 14 lives could be at large outside Spain, as grief-stricken Barcelona mourned victims of the vehicle rampage.
“We don’t know where he is,” said regional police chief Josep Lluis Trapero, referring to 22-year-old suspect Younes Abouyaaqoub, as officials confirmed that the cell behind the carnage had been preparing “one or more” assaults in Barcelona.
More than 120 gas canisters have been uncovered in a house where the suspects were believed to have been building bombs, Trapero said.
But the jihadists had accidentally detonated an explosive at the house on the eve of Thursday’s attack in Barcelona, an error that likely forced them to modify their plans.
Instead, a vehicle was used to smash into crowds on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas boulevard as it was thronged with tourists, killing 13 people and injuring about 100.
Several hours later, there was another attack in the seaside town of Cambrils in which one woman was killed.
Police shot and killed the five attackers in Cambrils, some of whom were wearing fake explosive belts and carrying knifes….
Michael Copeland says
“Do you want more Moroccans, or fewer?”
Geert Wilders
dumbledoresarmy says
One hopes that Wilders is taking the opportunity to rub the supercilious noses of some of his Dutch political enemies in the unpleasant facts connected with the latest wave of murderous jihad attacks, to wit, the involvement of *Moroccan* Muslims.
He has now got cast-iron opportunities to say, “I told you so”.
Paul N Silas says
Heck, if Madrid won’t take them, Minneapolis will!
Mockingjay says
– They were not just planning a massive jihad bombing – they were planning to blow up the Sagrada Familia, Gaudi’s cathedral.
Imagine that.
somehistory says
If they had succeeded, the U.K. would be looking to ban propane.
The “best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”… Thankfully the plans of terrorists… don’t always work out. No telling how many innocent people would be dead as a result if they hadn’t had their *accident* wile working on their murder weapon.
brane pilot says
The number of gas canisters shows that the Islamists did not intend merely to bomb Sagrada-Familia Cathedral in Barcelona in the hopes of killing some people.
They intended to level the structure to the ground in a 9/11 style attack.
Vent a truckload of compressed propane gas into the structure, then ignite it.
The massive scale of the intended attack does not seem to have sunk in. The media is avoiding this angle.
Sagrada-Familia is one of the architectural wonders of the world and has been under construction since 1882.
Rolf Wittwer says
Exactly.
If something satanic big-scaled attack would happen against our civilized Culture, we never should hesitate, to harm them too – adequate!
Otherwise it’s capitulation!
Bob Blackthorne says
Well, as the London Mayor emphatically stated, this just something you must accept as living in large cities….. Oh, wait. Ahhh, HE’S a muslim! In MY always humble opinion, citizens need to just start SHOOTING these Bass-Turds who revel in beheading infidels and raping little girls AND little boys! Come HERE, you slimy shrunken dick reprobates. The USA welcomes you. We, all 100 MILLION of us LAW-Abiding CITIZENS owning GUNS, including the 15.6 MILLION of us LICENSED to carry CONCEALED weapons, we WILL shoot your worthless asses. Badda-Bing!
WorkingClassPost says
Our governments are running scared of what might happen next.
But they don’t care about how many are killed or what is destroyed, just that it doesn’t happen on their watch.
That’s probably a big reason for their fear that we may ‘provoke’ an attack while they’re still in office.
Instead of being outraged by what these jihadis were planning, they are simply relieved that it hasn’t happened in their jurisdiction, yet.
James says
Here’s one UK politician who said the right things:
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/our-region/portsmouth/portsmouth-ukip-councillor-labels-muslims-an-evil-cult-after-london-terror-attack-1-7992597
dumbledoresarmy says
Thanks for that. Nice to know that someone is thinking clearly. Namely, one “Councillor Stuart Potter, ward member for Paulsgrove on Portsmouth City Council”.
Here’s what he said, in the wake of one of the recent jihadi terror attacks on UK soil.
“Islam, Muslims, Isis have no morals, they are an evil cult and need to be completely removed from our country before more innocent men and women and children are killed.”
God bless him! I hope he has dug in his toes and persists in his grim recognition of the ugly truth about Islam, Muslims and the global Jihad.
Add him to the list that all jihadwatchers should be quietly compiling – the list of politicians and other persons in public positions who exhibit signs of willingness to speak something like the truth about Islam, Muslims, and the JIhad.
I do hope that our British jihadwatchers here present will find some way of communicating with Mr Potter, to express support provide him with more ammo (e.g. the statements made by Conor Cruise O’Brien, Winston Churchill, John Quincy Adams and William Gladstone on the subject of Islam, would do pretty well, for starters).
PS I read the comments at the linked article; I observed that there were quite a lot expressing agreement with Mr Potter; and that those comments tended to get quite a few ‘likes’. Interesting.
The British Lion is far from dead.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; I strongly suspect the London ”Grenfell Tower” massive high-rise fire, happened because there was bomb-making materials being stored within.
Did anyone think that the Muhammadans residing the”Grenfell Tower” would’ve alerted authorities in the country where Muhammadans are living for free, and are protected from the consequences of their actions because religious reasons?
They weren’t stocking-up for ”Fourth-of-July”, in Britain, folks.
Carolyne says
As in London and Paris, the locals will bring flowers to put at the site and go on their way until the next time.