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Spanish police captured a Frenchman of Moroccan origin while transporting a crude bomb made of butane tanks and fireworks. The suspect was carrying jihadi literature and shaved his body, an act common among Islamist suicide bombers.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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