Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Lorenzo Vidino Quoted by Los Angeles Times on Terrorism in Spain

Lorenzo Vidino Quoted by Los Angeles Times on Terrorism in Spain

Lorenzo Vidino Quoted by Los Angeles Times on Terrorism in Spain


Los Angeles Times

Five times a day, a caretaker in a white knit prayer cap rolls a corrugated metal door over the side of the Al Furkan mosque in the Spanish village of Vilanova i la Geltru.

The metal muffles the muezzin’s call to prayer so that it can’t be heard across a scruffy industrial park and beyond, to beach resorts that line the glittering Mediterranean coast less than a mile away.

The green-and-white stucco warehouse-turned-mosque sits behind a padlocked 8-foot-high steel fence.

The unassuming space about 30 miles south of Barcelona is where Spanish police believe radicals planted the seed a dozen years ago for the kind of terrorist attack seen last month in Barcelona and Cambrils. The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for a van attack on pedestrians in Barcelona and a knife attack in Cambrils, which together killed 16 people.

 

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