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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Wonders if Barcelona Terrorist Attackers Were Inspired by Charlottesville

In July of last year, ISIS introduced the concept of mass killings by way of vehicle, killing 86, injuring another 458 — some very severely. Today, a terror cell in Spain conducted two separate vehicle attacks, killing at least 13, wounding 100.

This comes on the heels of the events in Charlottesville, which of course was an act or terror — but completely unrelated to the goals of ISIS.

Enter Wolf Blitzer and CNN’s national security expert, Jim Sciutto, who pondered out loud if in fact ISIS was inspired by the events in Charlottesville, causing them to become copycats and carry out the horrible events in Barcelona today.

This is reporting at its very worst.

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37 comments

  1. MoonshineDelight
    MoonshineDelight

    Christmas square in Germany
    London bridge twice
    Timesquare

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    • dopefeller

      106 individuals were killed by far-right violent extremists in 62 separate incidents in the US since 9/11.

      And.
      That.
      Was.
      Before.
      Charlottesville.

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      • Dr. Fly

        Dopefeller

        I am not doubting your facts. But can you post them here so we can fact check.

        Also, if you don’t mind, juxtapose that against ISIS terror numbers.

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        • slowmo

          The report he is relying on is http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf

          Of course, this same report classified Christopher Harper-Mercer’s killings at Umpqua Community College as white supremacist—but he was a black guy with a hatred of organized religion and wanted to be famous as a mass murderer. Hardly right wing–so scratch 9 killings off the list.

          The report did not include any discussion of left wing violence, such as the murder of five cops in Dallas, the murder of three cops in Baton Rouge, the murder of two police officers in New York–all committed by lefties.

          Try again, dopefeller

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          • Cricket

            Thank you for the link. Wow. Just Wow.

            What a biased report. And the end result is 106 murders over a period 2001 to 2016 – 15 years?

            So a rate of 7 murders per year, across a population of 300 million, are so-called ‘white-extremists’, whatever that means, and the GAO states the following:

            “In response to this threat, in 2011, the U.S. government developed a national strategy and a Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) for countering violent extremism (CVE).3 Primarily led by the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice (DOJ) through an interagency task force, ….”

            Cricky. Lets see, 7 MURDERS PER YEAR against a US murder rate of 44 MURDERS PER DAY. By comparison 50 people per year die of bee stings according to the National Safety Council. Blowing things out of proportion much? Was this an attempt to create the impression that indigenous ‘white supremecists’ are in any way a threat?

            The FBI, in 2014, stated that there were 33,000 gangs in the US. A partial listing, that cuts across all racial and ethnic lines, is provided by Wikipedia:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gangs_in_the_United_States

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          • Cricket

            No doubt there is racial or ethic supremacy going on with some of these 33,000 gangs; it is clear that many of the link above are divided across ethnic lines. Some of them (oh shock and horror) might even have a leftist ideology. So why did the Obama administration try to elevate the ‘white supremacist’ meme to such prominence with such completely insignificant numbers? Hmmm, I wonder …

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      • gappingandyapping
        gappingandyapping

        800 people were killed last year in Chicago by black gangs, this year 500 as of this coming weekend have also been killed by the same group. Which should we focus on first? I agree they are both bad, but let’s talk numbers.

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      • heaterman

        Time to quit doing the dope, feller.
        Your strawman arguments will get you nowhere here. The level of intelligence is a wee bit above a typical CNN viewer and most here look at the whole picture.

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  2. ironbird

    Beware the midgets. They are on teevee for a reason.

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  3. skulduggery

    Actually I think Stephen King invented the mass murder by automobile in his novel “Mr. Mercedes” in 2014? Very pedestrian effort by King. A simple unremarkable detective story, save the Mercedes sedan as weapon of choice.

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  4. NotGekko

    The vile filth on the left are very opportunistic. There’s blood in the water and they will continue to bite. They will stop at nothing to remove all of our rights eventually. Incrementalism is their skill.

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  5. stockslueth

    He’ll get a Peabody Award for this. Brilliant, insightful and precise.

    Why didn’t I see it coming!

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  6. natehois

    CNN is still looking for MH370

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  7. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    I like the rationale and I agree with it so I am going to let you guys know a little secret here as long as you don’t tell anyone else. Black people in Chicago are inspiring all of the shooting incidents that are taking place. Prime example is the Bataclan attack, that was all inspired by black people in Chicago. They showed jihadis exactly how to kill people and they really should be blamed for the attack. What say you?

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    • t.c.

      They were raping women with knives at Bataclan. It’s more likely they got that from the Brad Pitt movie “Seven.” Once again Hollywood is to blame for the violence. Hollywood and blacks too, really anybody buy the peaceful jihadis.

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      • gappingandyapping
        gappingandyapping

        Rape? Pfft that’s a minor crime committed by misguided honor students. Women need to be more accepting of others ideas and values.

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        • t.c.

          Truly, we should all be more tolerant! You are correct.

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        • heaterman

          Didn’t Pocahontas volunteer to be raped by ISIS … or something along those lines?

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        • moosh

          Unless it is totally falsely made up to accuse white students in Charlottesville of such a charge in order to pimp a rolling stone article a few years ago. Then it is bad bad bad.

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  8. roundwego

    Ha ha Wassreman Schultz pakastani IT goon is convicted. The noose is getting tighter on the dnc.

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  9. t.c.

    The damn muslim are copying white supremacists tactics. #notallmuslim #notallwhitesupremacists

    Let’s be tolerant to these groups so that they don’t face any ridicule for their beliefs.

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  10. cancel19

    So who are the REAL “deplorables” now?!

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  11. ferd

    Any idea as to why they are programming people to go after Trump just now? With the exception of, maybe, Syria, I thought he was doing pretty much doing as he was told.

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  12. t.c.

    3 terror attacks in Spain today. We must up our tolerance levels now. It’s an emergency. #Nomuslimban

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  13. sarcrilege

    When one thinks the corrupt news network that CNN is cannot stoop any lower, it takes one filthy zionist and former editor of AIPAC’s publication, one (((Ze’ev Blitzer))), to prove it can be done by keeping Soros’ et al. fine workmanship, Charlottesville, in the news.

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  14. heaterman

    Serious question. Is there anyone more cucked than Wolfie?
    Some of the bull he spews these days makes one wonder if his elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top anymore.

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  15. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    I forgot to mention that these retards tearing down statues has now inspired ISIS to tear down statues and historic relics. I would really look into them providing material support to a terrorist organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exKGHEjl-dE By the way, I wonder what these fucks over at TYT are saying about people tearing down monuments today? Yeah I bet they loved it and said its the right thing to do.

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    • ironturd

      Taking down monuments built in the Jim Crow era to intimidate blacks is hardly analogue to irreplaceable ancient historical cities and religious centers being destroyed by jihadists. Those monuments can be put in museums. The Who’s next argument, Washington? Jefferson? is illegitimate, they worked to found and build the country, not attacked it with a secessionist force. It is also a sensational argument, Trump and Tucker were desperate. Trump defended nazis when he didn’t need to. He played the “I always wait for all the facts” card which 100% of the world knows is complete bullshit. He never waits. He can’t wait. For anything. He has the self-discipline of a slot junkie in Reno.

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      • heaterman

        Watch and see.
        The whack jobs will be making noise about this countries founders before you know it.
        This week, hear in the north woods of Michigan, 2 replicas of Columbus’ ships sailed in to Traverse City.
        The local Indian tribe rowed out to greet them and protest ol Chris’s heavy handed treatment of them.
        I kid you not.

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      • cat

        Try again. The left has already started taking it a step farther – they torched a statue of Lincoln in Chicago. Here’s the link to the story:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/17/abraham-lincoln-monument-torched-in-chicago-an-abs/

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      • gappingandyapping
        gappingandyapping

        Wow where do I begin to address your fallacies? These statues were not put in to intimidate blacks, in fact Franklin D. Roosevelt put in Robert E. Lee statues and he was a Democrat president http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15303 To ISIS any statues of non-Muslims are considered infidels to ISIS so they are threats. You say who’s next Washington etc… Well you evidently haven’t seen the footage from CNN and others calling for Washington’s monuments to be removed, its not a joke. These people are looking to erase history and only allow speech that they approve, not open and inclusive of others beliefs. What if I came out with my tribe and started calling for MLK statues to be removed because he was part of the opression that Blacks and Whites caused with their invasion of my Native lands? They killed my people, the trail of tears took some of my ancestors lives. You show me a video of Trump saying he is defending Nazis, I won’t hold my breath because he didn’t do it and you know it. How many times has Trump been criticized by the left for speaking too quickly and calling terrorism terrorism? I remember when the left jumped all over him when he got off a plane during the campaign and said an attack was terrorism. So now you want him to immediately snap react where a couple months ago you criticized the guy for reacting quickly? Do you honestly believe that America is still a racist country? If so why did they elect a black man into the highest power of the land? You are spouting lies, but I get it, I don’t blame you as you have been brainwashed by entertainment news media and the catamites on both sides of the isle in Washington DC. I feel bad for you but I am sure one day you will see the truth.

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  16. NotGekko

    This entire issue of statues has nothing to do with the symbolism of said statues. It’s just the vehicle by which the enemies from within our country are using to strip us of our national identity. Once that’s gone, we won’t have any reason or motivation to fight back when the real invasion comes. It’s the first amendment that’s under attack now, soon they’ll go for the throats and attack the second in order to disarm the populace.

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  17. TJWP

    If you just cut off food stamps and housing assistance most of these parasites will disappear after one winter.

    The greatest irony is they protest “monuments of slavery” while living entirely beholden to the state, entirely dependent with only the veneer of freedom (provided the activity is state sanctioned). This state has created mental slavery, a class of people too stupid to help themselves.

    You have retards like Bishop James Dukes in Chicago calling for Lincoln statues to be removed, calling it a “slap in the face of the community” while his congregation is busy blowing each other away in broad daylight on the street. Is this the sort of “community leadership” we can expect?

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  18. roundwego

    Charles Hugh smith is a great thinker. Who knew if you don’t have doctors with exotic cars and strippers as pets then you get affordable health care with healthy citizens rather than sick citizens with expensive healthcare. Thanks for enlightening us charles. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-18/are-profit-and-healthcare-incompatible

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  19. roundwego

    Crash and burn time. Cognitive disonence causing libtard egos to go max retard.

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