As usual, the source of Islamic Jihad is from the good old mosque, and Muslims wonder why they're accused of not being proactive in stopping terror.....because it all starts... AT THE MOSQUE.
Barcelona attacks: Families believe Muslim cleric is to blame
Ripoll, Spain: In the Spanish mountain town where the Barcelona terror attacks were born, people want to know how it all had started.
The Spanish interior minister boasted on Saturday that the terrorist cell that had carried out attacks in the capital and a nearby seaside village has been "completely dismantled".
But at the centre of the mystery there are questions: how did a dozen young men from a small town - some friends since childhood - come together to plot in secret and carry out the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain in more than a decade, considering some were barely old enough to drive and most still lived with their parents.
As many as eight of 12 young men named as suspects in the terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils are first and second-generation Moroccan immigrants from the picturesque town of Ripoll, perched high in the forests at the edge of the Pyrenees, a two-hour drive on the highway from Barcelona
Parents of the young men here said they fear their sons were radicalised by a visiting cleric who spent the last months praying, preaching - and possibly brainwashing gullible youngsters who spoke better Spanish than Arabic.
Others were not sure what drove the young men to such extreme violence. One assailant drove a white rented van down a crowded pedestrian boulevard in Barcelona, killing 14 and seriously wounding scores. Five others attacked police and bystanders after running a checkpoint. Two other suspects, still unidentified, were blown up in an explosion at a house being used by the cell to make a bomb, which authorities say was to be deployed in "a major attack".
Spanish authorities said on Saturday that they are searching for Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan-born man from Ripoll, who they now believe drove the van.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/barcelona-attacks-families-believe-muslim-cleric-is-...