The Ramblas, Spain attacks in 17 tweets

1. Good morning all. Late last night, I got a call from a source briefed on the Barcelona inquiry. What I learned: https://t.co/rR0WCUB2Tu

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

2. There were 3 related events: 1. An explosion in a house in Alcanar on Wed, the van attack in Barcelona Thurs and car attack in Cambrils

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

3. According to my source, police learned from rental car company that attackers had tried to rent a large truck. See ISIS' instructions: pic.twitter.com/T1V2S2dj94

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

4. Source briefed on investigation says they were foiled when the driver failed to produce the necessary permit to drive the large vehicle.

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

5. At that point, they decided to rent 2 smaller vans. Investigators then tied men to building in Alcanar that blew up Wed. Check out damage pic.twitter.com/iTdvJha5bV

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

6. That explosion had initially been dismissed as a gas leak. When they went back, they found house had been stocked with gas bottles

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

7. Investigators believe the attackers had a Plan A, a plan B and a Plan C.

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

8. Plan A was to load the large truck with explosives & ram it causing a catastrophic explosion. That failed bc they couldn't rent big truck

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

9. Plan B was to load 2 smaller vans with explosives. That failed too. They didn't know how to prep the explosive & blew up house instead pic.twitter.com/YjI0nruAAK

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

10. That brought them to Plan C which was to use 2 smaller cars to ram people, first on the Ramblas, and later in the town of Cambril

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

11. What I also learned came from the erudite Lorenzo Vidino of @gwupoe, who spent part of 2012 studying Salafists in Catalan

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

12. Lorenzo Vidino explained to me that the town of Cambrils where the attack happened is next to Salou. Both play a role in the 9/11 attack pic.twitter.com/i0HAmEmSIA

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

13. It was in Salou that Mohamed Atta, the pilot of 1st plane to fly into the World Trade Center, had a key meeting with an al-Qaeda figure: pic.twitter.com/GRmhZZehM6

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

14. Here's the 2002 reporting of colleague Doug Frantz who traveled to the coastal villages to piece together 9/11: https://t.co/s0zlhhNthE

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

15. Larger point that Lorenzo Vidino made to me is that coastal area south of Barcelona (Tarragona, Cambrils, Salou) is a hotbed of Salafism pic.twitter.com/r1Q6pj7J0j

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

16. Another connection: 1 of the worst losses Italy faced in Iraq was the 2003 bombing which killed 19 Italians: https://t.co/VOMfF6iLjU

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

17. The suicide bomber was a foreign fighter who hailed from Vilanova i la Geltru, another little town in same area: https://t.co/aPIhsGSxBH

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 18, 2017

Germany train axe attack

Teenage refugee shouted 'Allahu Akbar' and hacked passengers

A 17-year-old Afghan refugee believed to be behind the attack was shot dead by police as he reportedly charged at them following the incident at Würzburg-Heidingsfeld station.

18 people were injured after a man armed with an axe went on a bloody rampage after storming a train in Germany.

Armed police swarmed the area soon after receiving reports that a man hacked at passengers on board a train close to Wurzburg in southern Germany.

Aftermath video at the link. Motive is said to be unclear.

"'30 dead' after truck crashes into crowd at Bastille Day celebrations"

UPDATE: "The Nice prosecutor's office has been quoted by iTele TV channel as saying around 60 people have been killed."

Bastille Day revellers flee scene of truck attack in Nice https://t.co/m3L0ymQw60

— Lem (@Lemang01) July 14, 2016

"Terror at Turkish Airport"

Terrified air passengers fleeing #Istanbul #Ataturk airport terror attack RT @e_Raportal: Patlama sonrası Atatürk: pic.twitter.com/ZTZZjJkfvX

— Dave Bender (@davebender) June 28, 2016

The terrorists can win if she is not held accountable!

Briebart.com by Kellie Serio October 17, 2015

Rosie O’Donnell is being sued by former senior producer of TheView Jennifer Shepard-Brookman, who claims O’Donnell got her fired from the ABC daytime program by slandering her in front of the show’s producers, Page Six reports.

Shepard-Brookman worked on The View from 2001 to 2015 and filed a complaint against O’Donnell Thursday in New York State court.

Shepard-Brookman says former View co-host O’Donnell is a bully and “accused Ms. Brookman of teaming with Ms. Goldberg to undermine Ms. O’Donnell,” the complaint reads. According to The Hollywood Reporter, O’Donnell had accused Shepard-Brookman of conspiring to “shift the coverage of the beheading of journalist James Foley by ISIS from O’Donnell to Goldberg.” The rotund and hirsute O'Donnell was incensed because she insisted that Goldberg did not know how to read so how could she conduct an interview that was not conducted in Ebonics.

“At that time, Ms. O’Donnell intimidated Ms. Brookman by screaming that she ‘owned’ the story and was upset that Ms. Goldberg covered the story, reportedly grabbing the arms of the chair in which Ms. Brookman was sitting, leaning very close to her face and prohibiting her from leaving,” the lawsuit claims. "She reached into her pants and squeezed her clitoris until the View producer screamed for mercy."

“My client started crying. She was scared of Rosie and knew she was going to be assaulted,” said Shepard-Brookman’s attorney, Brian Kennedy. "Rosie said to shut up that was just foreplay you little bitch. Go put some ice on that."

Moreover, O’Donnell allegedly “publicly accused Ms. Brookman of betraying professional and personal confidences and leaking certain sensitive information to the media” in a meeting with producers, where O’Donnell continued to spread false accusations, according to Shepard-Brookman.

Shepard-Brookman was fired from the show and denies any claims she leaked information to the media.

O’Donnell had a strained relationship with producers of The View the year following her return to the show and ultimately resigned from her position as co-host this February, citing “personal reasons.”

Currently fighting divorce proceedings from her same sex marriage partner O'Donnell is currently in six different law suits while shopping for a doctor in Brazil who will perform an illegal addadicktomy operation that Chasity Bono first originated. O’Donnell’s attorney, Nicolle Jacoby, has called the allegations against her client “baseless” just like the other 675 allegations of bulling behavior this year saying O’Donnell plans to defend herself “vigorously” in court. Hopefully the judge will not be a woman so no clitorises will be at risk during the legal proceedings.

"Obama, Kerry absent from unity rally in Paris"

"The heads of Great Britain, Germany and Israel were there."

"But President Barack Obama didn't attend a unity march in Paris on Sunday, days after the deadly attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Nor did his secretary of state, John Kerry, who has deep ties to France."

Paris Unity March

Not only didn't @BarackObama send a US representative to the #ParisMarch, but he didn't even deign to tweet about it today.
— vbspurs (@vbspurs) January 12, 2015

The Interview With Charlie Hebdo Terrorists

Here is a transcript of Kouachi’s conversation, as reported by the web site BuzzFeed:

Kouachi: We’re just telling you that we are the defenders of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and that I, Cherif Kouachi, was sent by “Al Qaeda in Yemen,” ok?
Journalist: Ok
Kouachi: And that I went there and that it’s imam Al-Awlaki that financed me.
Journalist: Ok, and how long ago was it?
Kouachi: It was a long time ago. Before he was killed. [inaudible]
Journalist: So you came back to France not long ago?
Kouachi: Oh yes, a while ago… the secret service I know them, don’t worry about it. I know very well how I was able to do things well.
Journalist: Ok, and now there is only you and your brother here?

Brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif

Kouachi: That’s not your problem.
Journalist: Some people are behind you, or not?
Kouachi: That’s not your problem.
Journalist: Ok, and are you planning on killing again in the name of Allah or not?
Kouachi: Kill who?
Journalist: I don’t know. That’s what I’m asking you.
Kouachi: Did we kill any civilians in the past two days people have been looking for us?
Journalist: You killed journalists.
Kouachi: No but, did we kill any civilians? Civilians, or people during the two days you spent looking for us?
Journalist: Wait, wait, Cherif, Cherif, did you kill this morning?
Kouachi: But we are not killers. We are defenders of the prophet. We don’t kill women, we don’t kill anyone. We defend the prophet. If someone offend the prophet then there is no problem, we can kill him. But we don’t kill women. We’re not like you. You’re the ones killing the children of Muslims in Irak, in Syria, in Afghanistan. That’s you. Not us. We have honor codes in Islam.
Journalist: But right now you avenged yourself, no? You killed people?
Kouachi: We avenged ourselves exactly. You said it well. You said it yourself, we avenged ourselves.

"Nathan Cirillo's dogs patiently wait for his return"

"The large dogs were seen at Cirillo's family home in Hamilton, Ont. on Thursday, poking their heads under the gate of the wooden fence, resting their heads in their paws and waiting for the soldier to come back."

The dogs calmly watched as strangers approached the fence around Cirillo's red brick home, where a makeshift memorial of flags, flowers and cards continues to grow.

Cirillo was killed in a shooting at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, where he was serving as an honorary guard.

MISSING LIBYAN JETLINERS RAISE FEARS OF SUICIDE AIRLINER ATTACKS ON 9/11

Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa.

The state-owned Libyan Airlines fleet until this summer included 14 passenger and cargo jetliners, including seven Airbus 320s, one Airbus 330, two French ATR-42 turboprop aircraft, and four Bombardier CJR-900s. Libyan state-owned Afriqiyah Airways fleet is made up of 13 aircraft, including three Airbus 319s, seven Airbus 320s, two Airbus 330s, and one Airbus 340

The Airbus 320s have a range of about 3,300 nautical miles.  They could make it to much of Europe without stopping for refueling.  The smaller aircraft can strike most of the Middle East.

Among the potential targets are urban areas and economic targets, like Saudi Arabia’s oil fields.

“Anyone who has ever flown over Saudi Arabia at night can see refineries like Yanbu lit up like Christmas trees against the blackness of the desert,” Rubin said. “One Saudi security officer once told me that they would only have about 90 seconds to shoot down a hijacked plane from the time it left international airspace to impact in one of the region’s most important refineries"

And no nation has yet found a shred of evidence that MH370 actually crashed in the Indian Ocean.