...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
who they believe was planning a murderous Moslem attack.
The Guardia Civil force said it had arrested the man, described as deeply radicalized, after a joint investigation with security forces in Morocco and the United States.
"The suspect intended to carry out a terrorist act, the details of which are unknown," police said in a statement on Friday.
His links to Islamic State date back at least four years, police said, though he had not displayed any outward signs of radicalization until recently.
After Spain imposed a coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...lockdown on March 14, his interest in the jihadist movement increased, police said.
Since then, the suspect made public pledges of allegiance to Islamic State and declared his hatred of the West on social media, police said.
He also made several furtive trips around the city, during which police believe he was scouting out potential targets for an attack.
Police said he was likely to have been responding to calls from Islamic State for followers in the West to carry out attacks in the countries where they live.