Soak your knives with their blood, trust me it’s the sweetest of all.”
They warned us. They told us.
MEMRI
On August 17, 2017, a van drove into a crowd of pedestrians near the popular Las Ramblas area of Barcelona, Spain, killing at least 12 people and injuring over 80 others. Shortly after the attack, the Islamic State (ISIS) posted a statement claiming responsibility, referring to the attackers as “soldiers of the Islamic State.” It added that they had carried out the attack in response to ISIS’s call to target the coalition countries fighting it. The statement, posted by the ISIS news agency A’maq, cited a “security source.”
Both Al-Qaeda and ISIS have encouraged vehicular attacks in the past. Recently, on June 24, 2017, ISIS’s Nasher News Agency published posters calling for stabbings and vehicular attacks;[1] earlier, on November 26, 2016, the French-language ISIS news agency An-Nur Media Center, urged supporters to carry out attacks using trucks.[2]
Also, after the July 14, 206 terror attack in Nice in which Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel killed 84 people with a truck, Al-Qaeda released a special issue of its English-language Inspire online magazine devoted primarily to that attack, Articles in it praised it and presented suggestions for improving such attacks to inflict greater carnage.[3] In another response to the Nice attack, Al-Wafa’, a media company affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS), published an article on July 18, 2016 titled “Spain [of] Fernando, We Vow [to Seek] Revenge,” by Abu Marya Al-Aseef, that called on Muslims to target nightclubs, shopping centers, ships, and airplanes in Spain using explosives, machine guns, and trucks. This, it said, was to avenge the crimes committed by Spain against Muslims, past and present, from the Inquisition to today’s participation in the coalition forces fighting terrorism.[4]
The following are some of the reactions by ISIS supporters on Telegram, Twitter, and Instagram to the August 17 Barcelona attack. MEMRI will continue to provide updates on reactions as they are posted.
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