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Barcelona: Muslim who rented van used in jihad massacre identified, arrested

Aug 17, 2017 3:46 pm By Robert Spencer

He’s from Morocco. But remember: if you oppose the mass migration of Muslims into Europe, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”

“Barcelona terror: 13 dead as van rams pedestrians,” by Art Moore, World Net Daily, August 17, 2017:

A van plowed into pedestrians in a busy tourist area of Barcelona, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens.

Police are now calling it a terrorist attack.

A Moroccan man named Driss Oukabier, believed to have rented the van used in the attack, has been arrested. The Spanish TV station TVE said it was unclear if Oukabir was among the attackers.

Another suspect, whom police are calling a terrorist, has died in a shootout with police, reported Spain’s TV3.

Local state television reported that about two and a half hours after the attack, the second suspect, driving a white Ford Focus, rammed a police officer at a police checkpoint. The suspect got out of the car and engaged in a shootout with police in which he was killed.

Police also said they investigated a van about 50 miles away in the small town of Vic in Catalonia. They found no explosives but believe the vehicle was related to the attack.

Spanish media previously reported the second van had been rented as a getaway car, Reuters reported.

Soon after the attack Thursday near the famous, tree-lined Las Ramblas promenade, Spain’s El Periodico newspaper reported two armed men were holed up in a nearby Turkish restaurant in the Spanish coastal city’s center.

But police now say what was thought to be a standoff was people barricading themselves in the restaurant….

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  1. Andy says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    What kind of a society do you prefer to live in? A sharia one? PEOPLE start to mobalize to eradicate this cancer of Islam which is happening over and over again. TIME TO TAKE A REAL STAND AND FIGHT BACK! Stop caving in to these stupid globalist politicians.

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    By a huge stroke of good fortune, this jihadi was captured and not killed.

    Now Europe (and Americans who pay attention to such events) will have plenty of further coverage when he is charged and, eventually, at the trial.

  3. mariam rove says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 4:03 pm

    Give him to the Russians. m

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 4:56 pm

      miriam, the Russians have done a lot to appease Islam, as well, with Putin opening a mega-Mosque–the biggest in Europe–alongside Erdogan and Abbas, and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church chiding Europeans for not taking in *more* Muslims, as Russia is doing.

      Unfortunately, very few countries are consistent on opposing Islam.

  4. WorkingClassPost says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 4:20 pm

    So did the Turkish muslims barackade themselves inside to prepare for the ‘inevitable’ backlash?

    Or were they just shitty little cowards preventing others from finding shelter?

  5. Georg says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    Handsome guy. Brings to mind the Kouachi brothers who attacked Charlie Hebdo. Doubt there’s a branch on the family trees between them.

  6. Henner720 says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 7:13 pm

    Revenge or vers 3,28 from quran. Arabs are vicked 4 a reason. Let them travel home to arab.. They do not deserve our hate.the unvilling we have to deport to restore order.make west free from arabs, so we do not suffer innocent killed in streets anymore.simple.but complicated. But clear.for western culture survival.so what we thougt 4 a while globalism worked- looked pretty gave us a grandure feeling.it missed the target . let start doing the obvious. Lets invest in africa.drop arabs all together.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 1:29 am

      Not just ‘arabs’. It’s MUSLIMS – whether arab or non-arab. The Muslims in the UK are mostly of south asian ethnicity – Bengali or Pakistani. They are just as much trouble as any ‘Arab’ Muslims. In Germany most of the Muslims are Turkish ethnicity; doesn’t make any difference. Somali Muslims – African ethnicity – are also TROUBLE, as the USA is discovering in those places where large numbers of Somali Muslims have settled.

      • aniruddha biswas says

        Aug 18, 2017 at 2:25 am

        I completely agree. It’s not just Arab. It’s all Muslims. It’s no coincidence that all non-Arab Muslims look up to the Arab Muslims, who they consider the purest Muslims of all. After all, they have perfected the fine art of murdering innocent men, women and children, the shortcut to a future in heaven where 72 virgins await.

  7. More Ham Ed says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 10:52 pm

    I thought Morocco was sup. to be one of the more “moderate” ISLAMIC places. The unholy ko ‘ran is 100% radical everywhere it is followed.

  8. John A. Marre says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 8:12 am

    Not only is their ideology unfit to be part of the human experience, no only do they hate humans, not only do they reject science, literature, culture and music, not only do they enjoy killing humans, not only do they hate dogs, but they are ugly as hell as well!

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