Barcelona attack - roundup

BBC News, Barcelona attack: Spain terror cell had 120 gas canisters Significant coverage here Program on Extremism, from which the following graphic is sourced .
Also see their report here on Catalonia by Lorenzo Vidino

'Isis wants to spread Ebola: security chief'

thelocal.es, Isis wants to spread Ebola: security chief, 30 Oct 2014 "Spain’s state secretary for security, Francisco Martínez, has told Congress that jihadists with connections to the extremist force Isis have discussed on internet forums how they could use Ebola as a weapon against the United States and the West in general."

Stepping Stones of Islamic Spain

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Stepping Stones of Islamic Spain, Episode 1

aQIM arrest

BBC News, Spain arrests al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb suspect, 17 Aug 2011 "Officials allege that Mr Chiba belonged to an armed group allied to AQIM and managed a website with radical Islamist content, including training manuals.

"|"Abdellatif is believed to be the general administrator of an internet site which was a jihadist forum with radical content," police said in a statement.""

Al-Qaeda has sleeper cells across west Africa: experts

AFP: Al-Qaeda has sleeper cells across west Africa: experts, 26 May 2011 "Al-Qaeda makes use of sleeper cells in several West African countries, security experts said Thursday after a regional meeting on terrorism and trans-border crime in Gambia.

""In countries like Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, across the sub-region, we have Al-Qaeda sleeper cells," said a statement issued after the meeting organised by the African Centre of Terrorism Research, an African Union body, in collaboration with Spain."

See ACRST for basic information on the African Centre of Terrorism Research

SL

CSM, A virtual world that breaks real barriers, 10 Sep 2010

"In Second Life's Al-Andalus, a virtual world patterned after medieval Andalus in Spain, avatars of Muslims mix with avatars of Jews and Christians to strive for a more perfect union."

I write about SL in iMuslims.

"Wanted" poster

Daily Mirror, FBI withdraw Osama 'wanted' photo... as it's really a Spanish MP, 17 Jan 2010 "The "wanted" image of the al-Qaeda leader as he might look now without his trademark long beard and turban was posted on the internet by the FBI."

Decoding the Alhambra

AFP/alArabiya, Spain decodes scriptures of Islamic Alhambra, 5 Apr 09 "Researchers armed with modern technology such as digital cameras and 3D laser scanners have embarked on a mission to catalogue and decipher for the first time the words that adorn Spain's most-visited tourist attraction.

"For centuries visitors to the Alhambra fortress-palace in Granada, built by Spain's medieval Moorish rulers, have wondered what the thousands of Arabic inscriptions that are carved into its walls and ceilings mean.

"What the researchers have found so far is that, contrary to what was widely believed; verses from the Koran and poetry represent only a tiny minority of the messages in classical Arabic that cover the Alhambra, Europe's jewel of Muslim architecture."