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Islamists planned to blow up synagogue in Barcelona

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A group of jihadists has been arrested in Barcelona for plotting to bomb a Jewish bookstore.

The seven suspected members of an Islamist terror cell were also planning to target synagogues and public buildings in the Catalonia region of northern Spain.

In all 11 arrests were made. The terror cell call themselves Islamic Brotherhood for Jihad Predication and are similar to the Islamic State movement.

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