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2017-09-01 Europe

Spain admits receiving Barcelona attack warning

[Al Ahram] Spain received a warning in May that 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....
group was planning an attack in Barcelona but decided it lacked credibility, Catalan regional authorities said Thursday.

But they denied news reports that US security agencies were behind the warning of an attack targeting the city, where the jihadists claimed a deadly van rampage two weeks ago.

The daily El Periodico de Cataluna reported that the US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) had alerted Spanish intelligence officers to the threat weeks before a man ploughed his van into crowds of tourists along Barcelona's Las Ramblas boulevard on August 17, killing 14 people.

"Unsubstantiated information of unknown veracity from late May 2017 indicated that the Islamic State of Irak and ash-Sham (ISIS) was planning to conducted unspecified terrorist attacks during the summer against crowded tourist sites in Barcelona, Spain, specifically La Rambla street," according to what the paper claims was an NCTC briefing note dated May 25.

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#1 So, the Catalan authorities operate at the same level as our FBI. Congrats there boys.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-01 06:57|| 2017-09-01 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 The daily El Periodico de Cataluna reported that the US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) had alerted Spanish intelligence officers to the threat weeks before a man ploughed his van into crowds of tourists

Ah, the NCTC. Part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. And Clapper is gone. It wasn't a warning from real Klingons, you see.

Posted by Pappy 2017-09-01 08:40|| 2017-09-01 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Strange, nothing from the embassy. Perhaps there was a meeting or something. One would think SOMEONE would have been down on the Las Ramblas, ....or no ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-01 08:46|| 2017-09-01 08:46|| Front Page Top

#4 No one from the embassy likes to go to Las Ramblas. It's full of tourists. And because the Spanish, more specifically the Catalans, and especially the Barcelonans, don't like tourists.

One should always be sensitive to one's hosts, you know.

Posted by Pappy 2017-09-01 10:48|| 2017-09-01 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 message delivered on the el-tarmac-o?

Posted by USN Ret. 2017-09-01 19:58|| 2017-09-01 19:58|| Front Page Top

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