Here is a collection of tweets about the latest terror attack in Barcelona. It includes a very insightful twitter thread by The New York Times Correspondent Rukmini Callimachi.
SPAIN
– Terrorist attack
– Barcelona and Cambrils
-14 killed, over 100 wounded
– Victims from 34 countries
– Five suspects killed by police— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) August 18, 2017
1. Good morning all. Late last night, I got a call from a source briefed on the Barcelona inquiry. What I learned: https://t.co/rR0WCUB2Tu
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
3. According to my source, police learned from rental car company that attackers had tried to rent a large truck. See ISIS' instructions: pic.twitter.com/T1V2S2dj94
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
5. At that point, they decided to rent 2 smaller vans. Investigators then tied men to building in Alcanar that blew up Wed. Check out damage pic.twitter.com/iTdvJha5bV
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
7. Investigators believe the attackers had a Plan A, a plan B and a Plan C.
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
9. Plan B was to load 2 smaller vans with explosives. That failed too. They didn't know how to prep the explosive & blew up house instead pic.twitter.com/YjI0nruAAK
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
11. What I also learned came from the erudite Lorenzo Vidino of @gwupoe, who spent part of 2012 studying Salafists in Catalan
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
12. Lorenzo Vidino explained to me that the town of Cambrils where the attack happened is next to Salou. Both play a role in the 9/11 attack pic.twitter.com/i0HAmEmSIA
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
13. It was in Salou that Mohamed Atta, the pilot of 1st plane to fly into the World Trade Center, had a key meeting with an al-Qaeda figure: pic.twitter.com/GRmhZZehM6
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
14. Here's the 2002 reporting of colleague Doug Frantz who traveled to the coastal villages to piece together 9/11: https://t.co/s0zlhhNthE
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
15. Larger point that Lorenzo Vidino made to me is that coastal area south of Barcelona (Tarragona, Cambrils, Salou) is a hotbed of Salafism pic.twitter.com/r1Q6pj7J0j
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
16. Another connection: 1 of the worst losses Italy faced in Iraq was the 2003 bombing which killed 19 Italians: https://t.co/VOMfF6iLjU
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
17. The suicide bomber was a foreign fighter who hailed from Vilanova i la Geltru, another little town in same area: https://t.co/aPIhsGSxBH
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017
And should give some pause to what you dubbed the "but-they-would-claim-anything illuminati."
— Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) August 18, 2017
Recalling the great expert of Jihadism in Spain, @F_Reinares, #Barcelona has the biggest pocket of Jihadist radicalization in the country. https://t.co/qDVl2s38xA
— Alberto Fernandez (@VPAFernandez) August 17, 2017
11. Spanish media just reported TATP traces found at bomb factory. That would take plot into different league: https://t.co/enaMeNu1bV
— Paul Cruickshank (@CruickshankPaul) August 18, 2017
Spanish terror cell 'planned to attack Barcelona church'. Their original plot for carnage was even more devastating. https://t.co/0w016zDqHj
— Secure Freedom (@securefreedom) August 19, 2017
Barcelona attack suspect posted "kill the infidels" online https://t.co/FaXGnmwne2 pic.twitter.com/IjVDYPQ09W
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 19, 2017
Barcelona Van Attack Celebrated By ISIS Supporters Online https://t.co/SsECJNjZyP pic.twitter.com/zgJtIDRpTT
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) August 18, 2017
Why did ISIS attack Barcelona? The history of Islam in Spain holds answers https://t.co/eVLk4MEQ7x pic.twitter.com/JRhIh5e2BJ
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) August 19, 2017
The attacker of #Barcelona shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claiming Jews control world. Nazis and Islamists – a match made in hell.
— Julie Lenarz (@MsJulieLenarz) August 17, 2017
No room for negotiations with people that strap suicide belts around children to usher in era of Islamic theocracy.https://t.co/EhJ3ScnFKe
— Julie Lenarz (@MsJulieLenarz) August 18, 2017
Turkey's pro-gov't daily claims CIA carried out the #BarcelonaAttack in reaction to the transfer of soccer star #Neymar to Qatari-owned PSG! pic.twitter.com/bpjSwY7Aul
— Aykan Erdemir (@aykan_erdemir) August 19, 2017
Crowds leave flowers and pay their respects to the 13 victims of the Las Ramblas attack in #Barcelona https://t.co/utnKhU9kbZ pic.twitter.com/jg8qa2qmTB
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 19, 2017
BOSNIA:
Mostar Old Bridge in colors of Spain for solidarity with the victims of terror attack in Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/9XxKwuUN7A— Sanjeev Choudhury (@intenceroselove) August 18, 2017
Nervana 
Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News and commented:
Hard to understand the self-loathing and hatred that these sad people carry in their souls.
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