The Underground Conservative

News from Spain today of a potential terrorist attack thwarted:

Islamic radicals may have been plotting attacks in Barcelona, Spain’s Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Saturday, after police found bomb-making materials and arrested 14 South Asians.

Rubalcaba told a news conference civil guard police found explosives and other equipment during raids on five addresses in Spain’s second city, and arrested 12 Pakistanis and two Indians after receiving information from its own and other European intelligence agencies.

The group was almost ready to move forward with the attacks, apparently:

Rubalcaba said the group, which had stockpiled bomb-making materials including timers and ball-bearings, had been ready to act. Computers were also seized during the operation in the historic district of Raval just after midnight.

And here’s a choice factoid, buried in the article:

One of raided targets included a prominent mosque, media quoted local residents as saying.

Religion of peace, huh?

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