BARCELONA:
Fourteen suspected Islamic militants arrested in Spain on Saturday may have been planning a terrorist action in Barcelona, the interior minister said.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said more arrests were expected and the country was on high security alert.
The arrests in Barcelona were prompted by information from several unspecified European intelligence agencies, and there was evidence the suspects - 12 Pakistani nationals and two people from India - could have been planning "a terrorist action" in the northern city, he told a news conference.
BBC:
The Civil Guard detained the suspects in Barcelona as part of a joint operation with Spain's National Intelligence Centre (CNI).
Several premises were searched and officers seized computers and materials to produce explosives.
The operation is ongoing and more arrests have not been ruled out.
Mr Rubalcaba said the evidence suggested that they were faced with "a radical Islamist group with a significant level of organisation which seems to have taken a step beyond ideological radicalisation".
He said the group appeared to have been "planning to equip itself with material to make explosives and so to carry out violent actions".
- I DIDN'T KNOW THAT CATALONIA WAS A HOTBED OF GOP, NEOCON, ZIONIST, LIKUDNIK, WARMONGERS!?
- I MEAN... ER UM... WHY ELSE WOULD MUSLIMS TARGET BARCELONA!?!?
It's the global jihad, stupid!
- The enemy wants to reestablish the Caliphate under Salafist sharia.
- They will succeed if we don't fight back.
- And we must fight the Leftist dhimmitudinizers as hard as we fight the jihadists.
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I'm no leftist, but I do have to wonder. How exactly would setting off a couple bombs (and good show to Spain, for spending her resources at home, rather than abroad, and catching this thing), impose Sharia law?
ReplyDeletePlease explain to me the logistics of the Third World's invasion and conquest of the United States. Or even Spain?
They have no army, navy, air force, or marines to speak of. They have proved themselves incompetent in every aggressive military action. They seem to do pretty well on their own territory, and people who are stupid enough to try to fight them at home may well regret it (think about the Soviet Union ... remember them?), but if we're not occupying their land, and their not occupying ours, I say all is well.
Maybe we'll have to dump a few of them in prison, but we've got room. I'd rather take 'em out back and shoot 'em. But 3,000 miles is a pretty good buffer.