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12. The catastrophic explosion killed 2 of the 10 members of the cell and sent a 3rd to the hospital. The surviving members then scrambled to put their plan in action. It appears a phone call from the police to the attacker who drove the van into Las Ramblas set it all in motion
13. According to the phone logs, police called the driver of 1 of the vans at 3 pm on the day of the attack. At that point, he was 1 hour outside the Barcelona city center. By 430 ppm the same van was careening into tourists on Las Ramblas. Call appears to have set off attackpic.twitter.com/YValETiyGw
14. Nine hours later, a 2nd car rammed into pedestrians in the seaside town of Cambrils. Both the Las Ramblas and the Cambrils attackers were wearing fake suicide belts, a tactic promoted by ISIS supporters which is meant to draw police fire so that the killer can be "martyred"pic.twitter.com/KH4500ZAsC
15. The burning question for me is to what extent was ISIS involved? Were the attackers receiving cybercoaching from operatives abroad, as we've seen in numerous other attacks in Europe and beyond? For details on how ISIS remote controls attacks, see:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/world/asia/isis-messaging-app-terror-plot.html …
16. What we learn from @F_Reinares & @carolagc13 is that a notebook was found inscribed with the name of the group's ringleader. An inscription described the cell members as the "soldiers of the Islamic State in al-Andalus," the lingo ISIS uses for the Iberian penninsulapic.twitter.com/7pta0R4CN1
17. We also learn that the group bought pillowcases to store the TATP. (I confess, I don't fully understand why - but apparently that's where they planned to store some of it.). One of them is inscribed with the ISIS logo using a marker.
18. Those details show allegiance to ISIS - which we already knew. But is there evidence of actual contact? The report (sadly) is unable to answer that question, but it points to the mysterious and unaccounted for trips that members of the cell made to various foreign countries
19. In addition to the repeated trips to Paris - including one just before the attack where members of the cell stayed 6 km from a location where French authorities discovered another ISIS-linked TATP lab, one member of the cell traveled to Morocco in the days before Aug 17
20. Like most of the attackers, the cell member who traveled to Morocco is of Moroccan heritage, so that's not necessarily surprising. But what is surprising is family members say that the cell member failed to stop by to visit his own father, despite being there for circa 9 days
21. Other cell members made unexplained trips to Zurich. Could one of those trips have been for the purpose of connecting with ISIS operatives? The question remains unanswered. I hope someday we will get to the bottom of those mysterious trips.
22. What is clear is that once the Spanish discovered the footage of the Eiffel Tower in the rubble, they alerted the French. The French considered the footage troubling enough that they erected a glass barrier around the iconic monument to protect against vehicular attackspic.twitter.com/MXZsG1G639
23. One last tantalizing detail: 3 months before the attack, US intelligence sent authorities in Spain a warning, stating that they had unverified information indicating that ISIS may be planning to strike La Rambla in the summertime:pic.twitter.com/6XZ4tEHqgs
24. Both the head of Mossos and the president of the Catalan autonomous government and other officials denied having received this warning. Later they conceded that they had received it, but called it information of "low probability." Thank you to all for following and g'night!
Ms Callimachi , what police? : Policia Nacional, Guardia Civil o Mossos?
I think it was Mossos, but please check the report to be sure
It couldn't have been @mossos because all the communications with foreign police is through foreign affairs and Spanish intelligence service CNI.
The question is referring to which police force called the driver of the Las Ramblas attack. It’s a domestic call.
you know; here in Catalonia we have officially @mossos, but there are barracks of NP (spanish national police) and GC (paramilitary spanish police), so the domestic call could have been done by any of these forces.
About @mossos, Europol and Spanish State Center of Antiterrorist Coordination (in catalan):https://www.ara.cat/societat/junta-seguretat-Catalunya-reuneix-despres-8-anys_0_1829817148.html …
The report clearly said @mossos called phones related to two vehicles parked in front of the blown Alcanar property after unsuccessfully questioning the injured. One reaching Younes Abouyaaqoub. This happened at 3pm and that the attack was at 4:30pm.https://ctc.usma.edu/spaniards-going-suffer-inside-story-august-2017-attacks-barcelona-cambrils …
The report states that the terrorists might have had an urge to perform an alternative attacked, thinking their plans were about to be discovered because of their colleague in hospital or because of the call.
El q escriu aquesta Sra és mooolt greu! Hem de provocar una investigació oficial i transparent d’alguna manera...@mossos @parlament_cat
Segons l'informe la trucada és dels mossos, per intentar localitzar als terroristes, utilitzant els contactes del terrorista ferit a Alcanar. Res a veure amb la planificació de la cèl·lula ni de l'atemptat.
Tot l’informe descriu fets molt greus, x això crec q s’hauria d fer investigació oficial i transparent, en mans de Ñ 
L'informe és molt malintencionat. No diu res de que l'imam cobrava del CNI i n'era confident mentre preparava els atemptats, només que hi havia contactat feia anys durant la seva estada a la presó.https://www.elnacional.cat/ca/politica/independentisme-atemptats-gihadistes-barcelona_232407_102.html …
X això cal investigació oficial i transparent! Surten informes de tots colors i hem d saber qui té mans tacades de sang...
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