THE PAIN IN SPAIN – AT 10:52 A.M. ET:  There are terror arrests in Spain.  Spain suffered one of the worst terror attacks of the new century in 2004, when terrorists attacked commuter trains, killing 191 people and wounding 1800. 

Despite those attacks, the Spanish people, only weeks later, went to the polls and elected an anti-American, left-wing government that was decidedly pro-Muslim.  It hasn't done them any good.  Terrorists can't be appeased.  From Fox: 

MADRID – Spanish National Police arrested four suspected jihadis Saturday in the country's North African enclave of Ceuta who allegedly had formed a terror cell and were ready to carry out an attack, the Interior Ministry said.

Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said investigators, working with their Moroccan counterparts, were struck by the similarities between the suspected cell members and the two French brothers who killed 12 people in an attack upon the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris.

"These are two pairs of very radicalized brothers who are highly trained militarily, physically and mentally and are prepared to carry out an attack, and ready, according to the police, to blow themselves up in the act," Fernandez Diaz said.

Two houses in Ceuta were searched in Saturday morning police raids and four men, all Spanish citizens of Moroccan origin, were arrested, the agency said. Officers found an automatic pistol, ammunition, military fatigues, face-concealing hoods, Spanish vehicle license plates, large machetes, knives and documents.

The ministry said the four were following instructions given by the al-Qaida in Iraq leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, via what it called "a powerful and aggressive communication campaign" including jihadi Internet forums and websites.

COMMENT:  Maybe it's time to lose the term "lone wolf."  There's no such thing as a lone wolf.  As the interior minister said, these terrorists were radicalized and were "highly trained militarily, physically and mentally..." 

There were, just days ago, major arrests in Belgium, stopping what Belgian authorities called an attack about to be launched.

But, gee, I have to wonder why, right after the terror attacks in France, there is all this arrest activity throughout Europe.  Did all this information float down to authorities after Paris?  Or were they holding back on arrests, perhaps under political orders.  Just askin'.

January 24,  2015