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Eiffel Tower may have been target of Spain’s IS cell — report
2018-01-26
[IsraelTimes] A new report suggests that the Eiffel Tower may have been among the targets of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
cell that attacked Barcelona last year.

The protective wall that surrounds the Eiffel Tower was installed after video of a trip to Gay Paree was found in a destroyed hideout, according to the report by researchers Fernando Reinares and Carola Garcia-Calvo in January’s CTC Sentinel, a research publication into terrorism. The cell attacked Barcelona’s La Rambla and a beachside town, killing 16 people in August.

Only flawed bomb construction prevented a deadlier attack. The hideout blew up as the cell was assembling explosives.

According to the report, based on interviews with Sherlocks and court documents, members of the cell traveled to Gay Paree before the attack, for reasons Sherlocks have yet to determine. There, they bought a camera and filmed the Eiffel Tower.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Why would you attack your supporters?

Until you have total control, that is.
Posted by: Crotch Omemp1807   2018-01-26 09:21  

#2  I've always been surprised that these vermin have never attacked Hollywierd or San Fran.

Those seem to contain such perfect targets and would certainly get the media in a froth.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-01-26 08:41  

#1  ISIS dusting off old target folders. Some things, they simply do not change.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-26 01:59  

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