“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Moroccan jihadist who planned to machine gun tourists on Benidorm beach is arrested before he can carry out slaughter,” by Natalia Penza, MailOnline, January 28, 2023:
A Moroccan man said to have been planning to machine gun tourists on a Benidorm beach has been arrested in Spain in an operation involving the FBI.
The 26-year-old, described by police as being in an ‘advanced state of jihadist radicalisation’, was held in the Catalan city of Girona.
A judge who remanded him in prison yesterday pending an ongoing investigation said in his jail ruling the terror suspect had expressed an interest in acquiring weapons to carry out a potential attack on beaches in the famous Costa Blanca resort loved by British tourists.
Local reports said he had been planning to film the machine gun attack and post it on social media networks run by ISIS, which is better known in Spain as Daesh.
He is also said to have been seeking information on the Dark Web about the components needed to make TATP, a peroxide-based explosive known as Mother of Satan found in the ruins of a bomb factory used by the terrorists behind the murderous attacks in Barcelona’s Las Ramblas and nearby Cambrils in August 2018.
Spanish Interior Ministry sources also said the suspect, named locally as Fath Allah Benhachem Grarrass, had regularly viewed videos of Islamic extremist attacks in Europe, including a stabbing on a train he watched 18 times to allegedly ‘improve his technique.’
He was arrested two hours before another Moroccan injured a priest and killed a church sexton in Algeciras on Wednesday evening after attacking them with a machete….
