Posted on 08/19/2017 6:16:49 PM PDT by marshmallow
* Police believe the terror cell behind Thursday's atrocity in Barcelona planned attack of 'bigger scope'
* It could have included a plan to blow up a gas-filled van by the world-famous cathedral Sagrada Familia
* Killers were forced to abandon plans to use butane gas and plastic explosive TATP following accidental explosion on Wednesday
* TATP - also known as 'Mother of Satan' - caused devastation when it was used in the 7/7 attacks in London One person died and police believe there may be a second corpse in rubble of home in Alcanar, 120 miles from Barcelona
* Investigators think vans were used because jihadists didn't have the right permit to rent a large lorry
The terrorists who killed 14 people and wounded over a hundred in Catalonia had originally planned to drive three vans packed with explosives into iconic parts of Barcelona including the Sagrada Familia cathedral, it has been reported.
Had their butane-filled gas containers not accidentally detonated the night before the atrocities on Thursday, the 12-person terror cell would have used them to maximise deaths in the tourist hotspots of the Spanish city, local media suggest.
They intended to explode one van in Las Ramblas, a second by the world-famous Sagrada Familia cathedral and the last in the port area of the city, El Espanol has claimed.
To detonate the gas, they intended to use the same TATP explosives - also known as the 'Mother of Satan' - that were blown up in the 7/7 bombings in London.
The cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most visited attractions in Europe.
Architect Antonio Gaudi began construction in 1882 and, despite him dying in 1926, it is still officially incomplete.
In 2010 it was consecrated by Pope Benedict XVI as a....
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I didn’t know Obama’s mother was still living; didn’t Stanley Dunham die years ago?
Oh my gosh ... they aren’t even finished building it yet and the a-holes want to blow it up?
It is normally packed with visitors, waiting in lines for their turn to go inside. It also serves mass. This would have been a horrible tragedy. Evil surely exists.
There is one world missing from this article.
Care to guess what it is?
Let me be the Catholic who points out that this church isn’t a cathedral. It’s a basilica. Only one Catholic cathedral exists per diocese, and Barcelona already has another cathedral. Who knows though? They should probably move the cathedra to Sagrada Familia when it’s finished as it is such a spectacular, world-famous church that blows away 99.9% of other official cathedrals.
Mmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm mmmmmmus mmmmmmmmuslim?
Amish?
Hey, who do these guys think they are, the Weathermen? The WUO blew up one of their Greenwich Village rich lady’s townhouses in March 1970 when Ted Gold dropped an active stick of dynamite.
Took out the whole place. Unfortunately five top reds escaped including Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson. (Other realistic suspects would have included Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, possibly Mark Rudd, Jeff Jones and/or Howard Machtinger/or Fliegelman.
The details are in the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee’s Report “The Weather Underground”, Sen. Judiciary Committee, Jan. 1975. Worth reading. Lots of Obama’s friends and supporters show up in it, sort of premature “Friends of Obama” and “Progressives for Obama” election campaign groups.
It kind of reminds me of the movie sets of “Metropolis” and “M”.
Mother? Who’s the daughter then??
Shouldn’t the word moozlum be in that headline somewhere???
Sagrada Familia is (in my opinion) the most spectacular worship space ever built. It ranks with the wonders of the world.
A work of genius, a labor of love.
Even the Catalan anarchists -— atheists though they are-—love and respect the genius of the design and construction. I do believe they’d even defend it from the Muslims, if it came to that.
It’s just gut-wrenching to think of anybody wanting to blow up one of the noblest conceptions of human creativity.
"... despite him dying ... it is still officially incomplete"? The DM's writer, Ian Burns, might be a native speaker of English; but his education in written English is incomplete.
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