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But their plans changed wednesday night when one of the group's bombs detonated prematurely, killing one of the terrorists and causing the others to flee. when police responded. left behind, at least 21 propane gas canisters that can be seen in the rubble. canisters officials believe were intended for some powerful truck bombs. >> if these attackers would have been better bomb makers, we would have seen hundreds of deaths. >> reporter: after the explosion at the villa in the town of alcanar, police say some members of the cell headed to barcelona for the van attack against pedestrians. other l...

Takeaways this morning is what was originally thought to be a driver behind this is a terror cell, looking at eight suspect involved in this. >> they are connected to a bunch of other people and my argument is we are not looking at this correctly. it is framed as terrorism, islamist insurgency, and the hard line that says secular democracy, man-made rules is evil and offensive to god. i signed up for an online jihadi school and was taught what they were teaching people, don't always think of carrying out an attack, build the infrastructure, set up a mosque, spread and build as many recruits an...

This complex investigation. conner what, are we learning right now about a possible terror cell? >> reporter: so originally it looked like this could have been the work of a lone wolf attacker. there was a van and one person driving down las ramblas. there was thought that this was a lone wolf attacker. but what we've seen over the last 24 hours is a very sizable cell according to spanish authorities. they are still looking for the driver of that vehicle. they believe he is a moroccan that is the younger brother of one of the four people that they've arrested here in barcelona. now, there are ...

Accidentally bly upew up a hous. they believe those bomb was part of the plan. police stopped five terrorists, killing them, who tried to drive an audi van into more pedestrians. and at the placa rambla, they must realize there's a terror cell in spain and some members are clearly still on the loose? >> reporter: yes. still trying to hunt those various different elements down, jake, but spain has actually been fighting its own quiet war against terrorism for quite some time. the country right now really trying to come to terms with the violence over the last day. it's almost hard to imagine th...

When we say multilayered, it has convoluted, the term, so it is a part of the middle east, we have to beef up security and continue pressing with the intel agencies inside the neighborhoods. the other thing, from what i understand, the central intelligence shared with the spanish intelligence agencies have just over the summer, a couple of months ago about a certain terror cell that was cooking inside of spain. the problem is that they did not have the information. europe does not seem to be acting on it. if that's a push that we are missing. >> trace: jim, the last question to you, we have to...