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Spain: Police say Barcelona truck crash is “terrorist attack”

Aug 17, 2017 12:10 pm By Robert Spencer

Last June, the Islamic State published a poster depicting an SUV driving over a heap of skulls and bearing the legend “Run Over Them Without Mercy.”

And the Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

“LIVE: Barcelona van crash is ‘terrorist attack,'” Sky News, August 17, 2017:

12:02

TV3 reporting that the two armed men entered a Turkish restaurant
11:59

Video footage posted online shows people lying on the ground for 200 yards along the pavement in Las Ramblas, many of them very badly hurt
11:55

El Pais newspaper is reporting that one person has been killed, and 20 people injured. That has not been confirmed
11:54

Interior ministry is telling people in the area to remain where they are until police tell them they can leave
11:49

Local media is reporting that two armed men have entered a restaurant in Barcelona following the van crash
11:45

Images from Spanish TV broadcasters have shown people lying on the ground being helped by police officers
11:43

Number of people run over after van hit crowds in the Las Ramblas area of Barcelona. Several injured
Barcelona police say the crash is a “terrorist attack”
Driver of vehicle reportedly fled on foot after the crash
Reports of armed men entering restaurant shortly after crash
Metro and railway stations closed near the incident and people warned to stay away from the Placa Catalunya

11:41

Las Ramblas is an iconic tourist hotspot in the Catalonian city.

It is full of stalls and shops and runs through the heart of Barcelona. The centre of the road is pedestrianised, but cars can travel on either side
11:40

El Pais newspaper, citing a police source, has said the driver of the van fled the scene after the crash
11:39

Tweet from the interior ministry. It reads:

A large number of people have been run over on Las Ramblas in Barcelona by a person in a van. Several injuries
11:37

Image from the scene, with emergency services attending to seemingly injured people
expanded thumbnail
11:35

Lawyer Aamer Anwar, who is at a conference in the city, said: “All of a sudden I heard a crashing noise, and the whole street just started to run screaming.

“I saw a woman next to me screaming for her kids.”…

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  1. WorkingClassPost says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    The information war is being lost.

    Mentioned this to my teenage son who immediately responded that it might be “White Suppremessists”

    I thought he’d finally developed a sense of humour, until I realized that he was actually serious.

  2. Paul says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 12:32 pm

    It was a disaster waiting to happen. I live here in Barcelona, and both the main Rambla and Rambla Catalunya are very soft targets indeed; in neither case is there any physical barrier between street and pedestrian zone, there’s always thick crowds, no real way to control the approaches. Personally, I try to avoid going there, and when I do I am ALWAYS thinking which way to run. Spain is part of the historic Caliphate, after all, so we’ve gotten off relatively easy so far, compared to France and the UK. The only good news is that is was a van and not a truck, could have been much worse. Pity they didn’t shot the driver on the spot, send him to his imaginary virgins and let him be disappointed.

    • mariam rove says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 12:42 pm

      And I work in NYC and I avoid time square because it is a target waiting to happen. m

    • PRCS says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 1:12 pm

      I always hope they’ll take the bastards alive–and talking.

      Better the public gets to hear the truth about Islam–from the asses’ mouths.

    • Mike Blackford says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 6:23 am

      Amen.

  3. Esperanza Barco Alonso says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    I live in Barcelona, my son has just whatsapped me from the sea end of Ramblas. I am in anguish and in deep rage.
    It is time to start an Europewide RECONQUISTA!

    • Paul says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 12:48 pm

      I tant! Prou amb aquest “religió de pau”!

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 12:53 am

      “I am in anguish and in deep rage.
      It is time to start an Europewide RECONQUISTA!”

      Go for it, mate! Good on you! Hold onto that anger and channel it constructively. Start by telling all your damn politicians – “Got Muslims? GOT JIHAD” (which means: lots of dead infidels – Madrid and now Barcelona). Tell them – you want the Muslims OUT. And no more let in!

      From Australia I, a non-Muslim Aussie of Scot, English, Irish, German and Danish ancestry say, I too am angry. I am angry on your behalf.

      I am filled with *fury* at those among us who bleat that there is nothing to be done, who bleat and squeal and make excuses for the murderous Mohammedan mob that has been allowed to settle and proliferate in our midst and is now KILLING us, or is producing so many plots to kil us that our police and homeland security are being overwhelmed trying to track all the potential jihadi raiders (in Australia, we have 600 000 mohammedans; in the past three years *fifteen* would-be mass-murder plots have been, fortunately, foiled; but our police are running in circles trying to keep tabs on it all).

      • Santa Voorhees says

        Aug 18, 2017 at 1:19 am

        I am angry as well.
        From Italy I, a non-Muslim Italian with Greek and Polish ancestry, I say this multicultural madness must end! We got plenty of multiculturalism and multi ethnic backgrounds on our own already.

  4. Paul says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    Local radio says they have not yet caught the driver, but he jumped out and ran in the direction of a neighborhood “Raval”, which is a ghetto of immigrants, very dense Muslim concentration.

    • IQ al Rassooli says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 2:50 pm

      Hi Paul

      Interesting that the Muslim terrorist was from Raval

      Read the following PROPHECY which is unraveling EXACTLY as PREDICTED~

      The following is a translation of an article which was published in Spain AFTER the Madrid bombings by a Spanish journalist Sebastian Vivar Rodriguez: November 21, 2004.

      “ I was walking along Raval (in Barcelona) when all of a sudden,
      I understood that Europe died in Auschwitz.

      We assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million Muslims!
      We burnt in Auschwitz the culture, intelligence and power to create.

      We burnt the people of the world, the one who is proclaimed the chosen people of God.
      We must admit that Europe, by relaxing its borders and giving in under the pretext of tolerance to the values of a fallacious cultural relativism, opened it’s doors to 20 million Muslims, often illiterates and fanatics that we could meet, at best, in places such as Raval, the poorest of the nations and of the ghettos, and who are preparing the worst, such as the 9/11 and the Madrid bombing and who are lodged in apartment blocs provided by the social welfare.

      We have also exchanged culture with fanaticism, the capacity to create with the will to destroy, the wisdom with the superstition. We have exchanged the transcendental instinct of the Jews, who even under the worst possible conditions have always looked for a better peaceful world, for the suicide bomber. We have exchanged the pride of life for the fanatic obsession of death.

      Our death and that of our children.
      What a grave mistake that we made!!!

      Having studied these subjects over a period of two decades, I would like to point out the following simple FACTS, that invariably escape the attention of people, who do not have the time or make the effort to reflect upon these issues:

      1 The Jews have lived in Europe for nearly 2000 years especially after the conquest of their country Judea by the Romans.

      2 The Jews were NEVER a threat to Europe nor to Christianity in any way shape or form:
      a) Not numerically
      b) Not militarily
      c) Not economically
      d) Not culturally
      e) Not theologically
      f) Not racially
      g) Not demographically
      h) Not intellectually
      i) They assimilated without loosing their identity
      j) They survived in spite of their persecution & slaughter
      k) They contributed enormously in the sciences, economics, medicine and other fields out of proportion to their numbers
      l) They fought in the defense of their countries of residence whether French, German, English or Russian
      m) They OBEYED all the rules of the lands they lived in and were utterly loyal to them

      3 On the other hand:
      a) The Muhammadan Muslims do NOT integrate or assimilate, because they are PROHIBITED from doing so by the Quran
      b) They DEMAND their religious rights in our democracies while they deny every which one to US in their countries
      c) They declare publicly, and in their mosques every Friday, their intention to SUBVERT our systems of freedoms and human rights and subjugate them instead to Muhammadan Islamic Shari’a
      d) They use our own democracies and liberties to bring about the very changes that will destroy us
      e) They are a threat demographically & theologically to Christian Europe
      f) Their loyalty is first and foremost NOT to the countries they reside in but to the UMMA of Muhammadan Islam
      g) Their threat to our freedoms, our religions, our liberties and our democracies is both INTERNAL as well as EXTERNAL

      If some of these observations may sound racist or inflammatory to the ultra sensitive ears of the Politically Correct, they are NOT, since they are based entirely on FACTS & REALITY as we read about them and see them daily in our news.

      Our worst enemies are from within us represented by many of:

      Our SPINELESS politicians, our CRIMINALLY IGNORANT media, our UNCOMPREHENDING & MISGUIDED clergy and last but not least our utterly CONTEMPTIBLE academicians, all of whom are thus AIDING, ABETTING and COLLUDING with the very Muhammadans who seek our destruction.

      IQ al Rassooli
      Kafir & Proud!

  5. Paul says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:00 pm

    Death toll has risen to 12. They are looking for a 2nd van.

  6. Santa Voorhees says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    Carry on exactly as before is working out great, isn’t it?

    • PRCS says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 1:13 pm

      Shouldn’t take long for officials to recommend just that.

  7. ed says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    13 INFIDELS DEAD CLASSIC DAR AL HARB !

  8. Paul says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    Only a little more than 2 hours after the event, they still haven’t caught the driver, but Radio Catalunya is already interviewing a security expert specialized is Jihadi terrorism. Please, somebody in the UK or France send us someone who can explain to them that this is Islamophic!!!

    • Paul says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 1:25 pm

      Islamophobic, I wanted to say. Can’t even spell it right!

  9. John A. Marre says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    Well, well, well. No one is surprised to find out that it was Muslims who did the brutal killing. The only ones who will deny what they know will be those who revel at the thought that Muslims are streaming into Europe and replacing the inhabitants.

  10. IQ al Rassooli says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    Interesting that the Muslim terrorist was from Raval

    Read the following PROPHECY which is unraveling EXACTLY as PREDICTED~

    The following is a translation of an article which was published in Spain AFTER the Madrid bombings by a Spanish journalist Sebastian Vivar Rodriguez: November 21, 2004.

    “ I was walking along Raval (in Barcelona) when all of a sudden,
    I understood that Europe died in Auschwitz.

    We assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million Muslims!
    We burnt in Auschwitz the culture, intelligence and power to create.

    We burnt the people of the world, the one who is proclaimed the chosen people of God.
    We must admit that Europe, by relaxing its borders and giving in under the pretext of tolerance to the values of a fallacious cultural relativism, opened it’s doors to 20 million Muslims, often illiterates and fanatics that we could meet, at best, in places such as Raval, the poorest of the nations and of the ghettos, and who are preparing the worst, such as the 9/11 and the Madrid bombing and who are lodged in apartment blocs provided by the social welfare.

    We have also exchanged culture with fanaticism, the capacity to create with the will to destroy, the wisdom with the superstition. We have exchanged the transcendental instinct of the Jews, who even under the worst possible conditions have always looked for a better peaceful world, for the suicide bomber. We have exchanged the pride of life for the fanatic obsession of death.

    Our death and that of our children.
    What a grave mistake that we made!!!

    Having studied these subjects over a period of two decades, I would like to point out the following simple FACTS, that invariably escape the attention of people, who do not have the time or make the effort to reflect upon these issues:

    1 The Jews have lived in Europe for nearly 2000 years especially after the conquest of their country Judea by the Romans.

    2 The Jews were NEVER a threat to Europe nor to Christianity in any way shape or form:
    a) Not numerically
    b) Not militarily
    c) Not economically
    d) Not culturally
    e) Not theologically
    f) Not racially
    g) Not demographically
    h) Not intellectually
    i) They assimilated without loosing their identity
    j) They survived in spite of their persecution & slaughter
    k) They contributed enormously in the sciences, economics, medicine and other fields out of proportion to their numbers
    l) They fought in the defense of their countries of residence whether French, German, English or Russian
    m) They OBEYED all the rules of the lands they lived in and were utterly loyal to them

    3 On the other hand:
    a) The Muhammadan Muslims do NOT integrate or assimilate, because they are PROHIBITED from doing so by the Quran
    b) They DEMAND their religious rights in our democracies while they deny every which one to US in their countries
    c) They declare publicly, and in their mosques every Friday, their intention to SUBVERT our systems of freedoms and human rights and subjugate them instead to Muhammadan Islamic Shari’a
    d) They use our own democracies and liberties to bring about the very changes that will destroy us
    e) They are a threat demographically & theologically to Christian Europe
    f) Their loyalty is first and foremost NOT to the countries they reside in but to the UMMA of Muhammadan Islam
    g) Their threat to our freedoms, our religions, our liberties and our democracies is both INTERNAL as well as EXTERNAL

    If some of these observations may sound racist or inflammatory to the ultra sensitive ears of the Politically Correct, they are NOT, since they are based entirely on FACTS & REALITY as we read about them and see them daily in our news.

    Our worst enemies are from within us represented by many of:

    Our SPINELESS politicians, our CRIMINALLY IGNORANT media, our UNCOMPREHENDING & MISGUIDED clergy and last but not least our utterly CONTEMPTIBLE academicians, all of whom are thus AIDING, ABETTING and COLLUDING with the very Muhammadans who seek our destruction.

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

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