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Legal
Soccer star tied to al-Qaida begins terror trial in US Jailed since 2001, Nizar Trabelsi goes to trial here on charges related to ones he faced abroad: the plot to attack a NATO airbase in Belgium.
(Courthouse News) A former professional European soccer player convicted in Belgium 20 years ago of planning a suicide bombing attack on Americans in Europe appeared in U.S. federal court on Monday to begin his jury trial. Opening arguments began with the prosecution […]
Crime
Man attacks UK migrant processing centre in Dover, kills himself
(Reuters) A man threw petrol bombs attached to fireworks at a centre for processing migrants in the southern English port of Dover on Sunday and then killed himself, a Reuters photographer said. The attacker, a white man in a checked shirt, drove up […]
Law Enforcement
Teenage Islamic State fanatic Matthew King admits plots to torture and kill military personnel
(ITV) A teenage Islamic State fanatic has admitted a plot to attack police officers or soldiers on home soil. Matthew King, 19, expressed a desire to “torture, mutilate and kill military personnel” as he prepared to stake out a British Army barracks […]