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Spain suspect admits terror cell planned bigger attack

Mohamed Houli Chemlal , Driss Oukabir, Salah El Karib and Mohamed Aallaa, are all suspected of involvement in the Barcelona terror cell " height="125" src="http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqxKR1.img?h=125&w=300&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=144&y=155" width="300" /> © Provided by AFP Mohamed Houli Chemlal , Driss Oukabir, Salah El Karib and Mohamed Aallaa, are all suspected of involvement in the Barcelona terror cell An alleged member of the terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week admitted to a judge Tuesday that he and other suspects had planned a bigger attack, a judicial source said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal , 21, was the first of four surviving suspects to be questioned in Madrid's National Court , which deals with terror-related cases, over the attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort that claimed 15 lives and wounded more than 100 people. The Spaniard was injured in an accidental exp...

Barcelona attack suspected mastermind was in Brussels

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Abdelbaki Es Satty (pictured) was involved in the deadly ISIS attacks on the Brussels airport and underground in 2016" class="blkBorder img-share" /> Police are now looking into whether Abdelbaki Es Satty (pictured) was involved in the deadly ISIS attacks on the Brussels airport and underground in 2016 The Imam suspected of masterminding the Barcelona terrorist attacks travelled to Belgium three months before the Brussels bombing and was friends with the Madrid train bombers , it has been revealed.  Police are now looking into whether Abdelbaki Es Satty , who is believed to have radicalised members of the terror cell that attacked Barcelona and Cambrils, was involved in the deadly ISIS attacks on the Brussels airport and underground in 2016. Last week, a 12- strong terror cell launched attacks in northern Spain leaving 14 dead and around 130 injured.  Es Satty was reportedly friends with some of those jailed for the Madrid train bombings in 2004, having sp...

Alcanar: the coastal idyll where young militants hatched Barcelona plot | World news

T he young men on powerful motorbikes had been coming and going for months, the throbbing sound of Kawasaki engines and the scattering of stones on the track leading to their country house in Alcanar, eastern Spain, announcing their arrival. Neighbours doubted the men, mostly young-looking and all seemingly of north African origin , had rented the house as a holiday home – despite the views out across the sparkling Mediterranean from this ramshackle estate of properties surrounded by scrub, pines and small olive groves . But they knew that Banco Popular had repossessed it and, having lived through a destructive, loan- fuelled property crash , Spaniards tend not to feel much concern when such properties are squatted. “Perhaps someone should have called the police,” said Carmen Circiumaru, who lives a few doors away. “But they never did anything that seemed especially suspicious.” Indeed, the young men, and at least one older, bearded man who sometimes appeared here, were quiet and respe...