Terrorist Knife attack at Turku FInland

[Montmorency]

Perhaps we could treat this thread as covering both contemporaneous attacks, noting that the Barcelona attacks involved a more complicated plot and many more identified actors.

Apparently in Barcelona the network was operating an explosives or munitions factory in a residence and launched their attacks prematurely once that base of operations accidentally went up in smoke.

Weirdly, both the Barcelona and Turku (see article connections for Barcelona) attacks seem to have involved only Moroccans, and Morocco-born for that matter, with most (all?) of them having been unauthorized aliens, more-or-less recent immigrants, or asylum seekers. Not second-gen this time.

Weird, because Morocco. I've understood Morocco to have been fairly quiet out on the periphery. Here we have a pretty direct terrorist incursion of the older style - though it's not clear if these were indeed IS members or trainees, as opposed to a different or even one-off organization.