Imam Masterminded Barcelona Jihad Attack

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Imam who ‘masterminded’ Barcelona massacre had links to 2004 Madrid attackers and lived with a suicide bomber who blew himself up in Iraq

  • Police were last night investigating Islamic preacher Abdelbaki Es Satty’s link
  • They searched his flat for samples of DNA and fingerprints to verify whether he was killed at the bomb factory where the cell prepared a planned attack
  • Es Satty, 45, began preaching in Ripoll around two years ago but stopped in June
  • Police sources said he followed the fundamentalist Salafi branch of Islam
  • Neighbours said he left for Morocco on Tuesday and has not been heard from

By Tom Worden for MailOnline, 20 August 2017:

An Imam who ‘masterminded’ the deadly attack on Barcelona had links to the terror cell behind the 2004 Madrid massacre.

Abdelbaki Es Satty, who was based in Ripoll, had previously been convicted of importing cannabis.

He is believed to have radicalised members of the terror cell responsible for Thursday’s attacks.

Local media claimed Satty has connections with suspects detained over the 2004 al-Qaeda train bombings which killed 191 people and injured 1,500 in Madrid, counter-terrorism sources told El Pais.

News website OK Diario reported the preacher previously lived in Barcelona with members of a terrorist cell which was smashed by police in 2006.

Another of his former flatmates, Belgacem Bellil, blew himself up in a suicide attack in Iraq in 2003, the website said.

Belgacem, an Algerian, detonated 3500lbs of explosives in a truck at a military base, killing 28 people including 19 Italians in al-Nasiriyah in November 2003.

Es Satty also spent two years in prison after being caught smuggling cannabis between north Africa and Spain, El Periodico newspaper reported.

Police have raided the flat of Islamic preacher Abdelbaki Es Satty in Ripoll, Spain, as they investigate his possible role in the Barcelona terror attack

Police are investigating whether Es Satty was responsible for radicalising the members of the cell who carried last week’s atrocities in Barcelona and Cambrils.

They searched the imam’s flat in Ripoll, Spain, for samples of DNA and fingerprints to verify whether he was killed at the bomb factory where the terror cell prepared a planned attack with butane gas bombs.

Police found the remains of two bodies in the factory in Alcanar and are said to be searching for a third.

Images from inside the home show outdated appliances, white walls and bedrooms with mattresses on the floor.

Papers bearing what appeared to be French names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses were seen by reporters in Es Satty’s apartment after it was searched.

The walls are mostly bare, though a couple framed images hang on the walls of the sitting room.

Es Satty, 45, began preaching in Ripoll around two years ago but stopped two months ago, sources at the town’s mosque said.

The president of the mosque where Es Satty preached, Ali Yassine, said he hadn’t seen him since June, when he announced he was returning to Morocco for three months.

They searched his flat for samples of DNA and fingerprints to verify whether he was killed at the bomb factory where the cell prepared a planned attack with butane gas bombs

Es Satty's flatmate said he hadn't seen him since Tuesday, when Es Satty said he was going to Morocco to see his wife

Images from inside the home show outdated appliances, white walls and bedrooms with mattresses on the floor

The flat's kitchen features patterned wal, paper, a small gas stove and oven, as well as a small refrigerator

The flat’s kitchen features patterned wal, paper, a small gas stove and oven, as well as a small refrigerator

The walls are mostly bare, though a couple framed images hang on the walls of the sitting room

The walls are mostly bare, though a couple framed images hang on the walls of the sitting room

In the bathroom, toothbrushes and shaving cream still sit by the sink, next to a large bottle of soap

In the bathroom, toothbrushes and shaving cream still sit by the sink, next to a large bottle of soap

‘He left the same way he came,’ said a bitter Wafa Marsi, a friend to many of the attackers, who appeared Saturday alongside their families to denounce terrorism.

Police sources told Spanish media he followed the fundamentalist Salafi branch of Islam.

Detectives were said to be investigating whether he radicalised the young men who planned and carried out the atrocity on Thursday afternoon.

Es Satty’s flatmate, named only as Nourddem, said the preacher had left home on Tuesday ‘because he was leaving for Morocco’. Nourddem has heard nothing from him since.

‘The last time I saw him was Tuesday and he told me that he was going to see his wife in Morocco,’ Nourddem told AFP.

Police sources told El Mundo newspaper Es Satty’s age and profile suggested he might be the leader of the terror cell. The Mossos d’Esquadra would not comment on that claim.

Everyone so far known in the cell grew up in Ripoll, a town in the Catalan foothills near the French border 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Barcelona.

A police document published by Spanish media said two alleged members of the group, Youssef Aallaa and Mohamed Hichamy, now both believed dead, had travelled to Zurich in December 2016.

Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger said Swiss police confirmed that at least one of the Barcelona suspects had been in Zurich in December 2016, although it said it was not yet possible to say if the suspects had any connections to Switzerland. An investigation of the visit was under way, it said.

One of the pictures in the flat's living room sits nearly parallel with the door frame, and appears to be an image of a mosque

A bedroom is seen after the police raided the flat where imam Abdelbaki Es Satty lived in Ripoll, north of Barcelona

The entrance to the flat where imam Abdelbaki Es Satty lived is seen after the police raided it

Es Satty, 45, began preaching in Ripoll around two years ago but stopped two months ago, sources at the town's mosque said

Es Satty, 45, began preaching in Ripoll around two years ago but stopped two months ago, sources at the town’s mosque said

The president of the mosque where Es Satty preached, Ali Yassine, said he hadn't seen him since June, when he announced he was returning to Morocco for three months.

Shoes are seen at a mosque where imam Abdelbaki Es Satty preached in Ripoll, north of Barcelona

Police sources told Spanish media Es Satty followed the fundamentalist Salafi branch of Islam

Detectives were said to be investigating whether he radicalised the young men who planned and carried out the atrocity on Thursday afternoon

Spanish police searched nine homes in Ripoll, including Es Satty’s, and two buses, and set up a roadblock that checked each car entering the town. Across the Pyrenees, French police carried out extra border checks on people coming in from Spain.

Neighbors, family and even the mayor of Ripoll said they were shocked by news of the alleged involvement of the young men, whom all described as integrated Spanish and Catalan speakers with friends of all backgrounds.

Halima Hychami, the weeping mother of Mohamed Hychami, one of the attackers named by police, said he told her he was leaving on vacation and would return August 25. His younger brother, Omar, slept late Thursday and left mid-afternoon.

Mohamed Hychami is believed among the five attackers shot to death by police in Cambrils. She hasn’t heard from Omar since he left.

‘We found out by watching TV, same as all of you. They never talked about the imam. They were normal boys. They took care of me, booked my flight when I went on vacation. They all had jobs. They didn’t steal. Never had a problem with me or anybody else. I can’t understand it,’ she said.

Even with Abouyaaquoub at large, Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido declared the cell ‘broken’ Saturday.

Authorities in Spain and France pressed the search Saturday for the supposed ringleader of an Islamic extremist cell that carried out vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort

This rented van brought terror to the streets of Europe when it was driven at speed down a busy street in central Barcelona, killing 14 including a three-year-old boy

A man lying on the street in Barcelona after the van ploughed into pedestrians along Las Ramblas 

In addition to the five killed by police, four were in custody and two or three were killed in a house explosion Wednesday. He said there was no new imminent threat of attack.

Police also conducted a series of controlled explosions Saturday in the town of Alcanar, south of Barcelona, where the attacks were planned in house that was destroyed Wednesday by an explosion.

Authorities had initially thought it was a gas accident, but took another look after the attacks.

Initially, only one person was believed killed in the Wednesday blast. But officials said DNA tests were underway to determine if human remains found there Friday were from a second victim. On Sunday, it was revealed that there might be third body.

A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing searches, said investigators believed the remains may belong to Es Satty.

Spanish authorities said on Sunday that they have been unable to identify the remains found in at a house, complicating the manhunt for the Barcelona attackers because they are not confident about who is on the run.

The official said investigators also discovered ingredients of the explosive TATP, used by the Islamic State group in attacks in Paris and Brussels, as well as multiple butane tanks that the group may have wanted to combine with the homemade explosive and load into their vehicles.

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SRN99
SRN99
6 years ago

Did he died in the bomb blast? I hope he has time to curse his prophet.

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6 years ago

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vdorta
vdorta
6 years ago

A year ago I wrote a post in my blog about this key factor to understand Islam. When mosques are headquarters for planning and plotting, when Imams are terrorist leaders and when females are fighters, it is not a religion!

SRN99
SRN99
6 years ago
Reply to  vdorta

That is why every mosque is a legitimate target

Eugene Kaptur
Eugene Kaptur
6 years ago
Reply to  SRN99

But ONLY on Friday night!

Jack
Jack
6 years ago

Doesn’t anyone despite the carnage committed by these terrorists, find it odd that referring to the terrorists killed in the bomb factory, intentionally or not, VICTIM. I just cannot even begin to wrap my head around the Reporters incidious Pro-Islamic/Terrorist Goebbles type Propaganda

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6 years ago

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Shirley Rosenhohn
Shirley Rosenhohn
6 years ago

That utterly repugnant sour face of Htler resurrected makes me sick to my stomach!
YUKH!!!

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

The resemblance to H!tler is striking. It almost make you wonder if the Boys of Brazil was a documentary.

Michael Copeland
Michael Copeland
6 years ago

“Police sources told Spanish media he followed the fundamentalist Salafi branch of Islam.”

Memo to Spanish Police and media:

The metaphor, “branch”, is not quite appropriate for Salafis.
The Salafis are strictly orthodox Sunni Muslims.
Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab (d.1792) denounced developments such as worshipping tombs of famous muslims, and cleansed Islam “back to the roots”.
This is the nearest event to a Reformation in Islam.
Salafis are not a “branch”.
Salafis model themselves on the root of islam (Latin RADIX, as in “radical”).

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Wrong apartment, the picture of the lavatory shows a roll of toilet paper. muslims do not know what such a thing is, clearly the cops are barking up the wrong tree.

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6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Perhaps they can be taught ?

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Possibly, but, if the toilet is on the east wall, muslims will drown while grovelling on the floor.

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6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

One can only hope 🙂

Shirley Rosenhohn
Shirley Rosenhohn
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

LOL!
Much love,
Shirley

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Lots for you too.

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

I can’t see his hands……

Shirley Rosenhohn
Shirley Rosenhohn
6 years ago

where are these toilet paper rolls available?

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Good observation. And the mattress on the floor had no loose straw lying next to it, for the goats to nibble on between “sessions.” And, there was no “glory” hole in the bathroom, so yes, OBVIOUSLY wrong apartment.

wpjokari
wpjokari
6 years ago

western politicians won’t even bother to utter their usual “this is not islam”, “has nothing to do with true islam”

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

It’s only Salafi muslums that are the problem eh? Gee, I don’t remember ever hearing, reading or seeing anything about any mosque anywhere calling itself Salafi. I don’t seem to remember any muslum anywhere self-identifying as a Salafist either.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

The poor muslum bastage obviously lived in abject poverty…NOT.

l2a3
l2a3
6 years ago

If the imam is preaching death and destruction of others, don’t close the mosque, destroy it down to ground level, and NOT NO BUT HELL NO you can not build another one IN THIS COUNTRY FOREVER!! YES we can bar the practice of worshiping death cults which Islam is one of. It is not a religion, but a CULT! No religion requires you to kill other members of other religions, only Islam requires it. Again: IT IS A CULT!

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