Government & Politics
Channel migrant crossings ‘far from being a crisis’ — UN officials (LINK ONLY)
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Day: September 29, 2020
Government & Politics
Priti Patel looked at shipping UK asylum seekers to south Atlantic (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrant boats intercepted in English Channel
(BBC) Three boats have been intercepted in the English Channel as migrants continue to try to reach the UK. The Home Office said the vessels were carrying 48 people but has not given details of where they were from. Dan O’Mahoney, clandestine […]
Arts & Entertainment
Paris knife attacker charged with ‘attempted terrorist killings’: prosecutor
(AFP) A man who wounded two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week has been charged with “attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise,” French anti-terrorist prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. A judge also placed the man — […]
News: North America
Terrorism on a budget: Americans who joined ISIS or planned attacks did so with little money Americans supporting ISIS left a much smaller financial footprint than Al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks, a concerning trend, says a new report.
(NBC) A new report on terrorism financing shows that for most Americans who sought to join or support ISIS, the trip was cheap and the money came easily, making it harder for investigators to track would-be terrorists. “[S]ave for a few exceptions, […]
Legal
Liam Fenn: Muslim convert who downloaded suicide vest videos jailed
(BBC) An “obsessional” Muslim convert who downloaded videos on how to make a suicide vest has been jailed. Liam Fenn, 21, repeatedly accessed an “enormous volume” of extremist material online, Manchester Crown Court heard. He admitted eight counts of possessing a document […]
Immigration
Rights group: Cyprus pushed back migrants, ignored claims
(AP) Cypriot authorities pushed back 200 migrants and refugees arriving from Lebanon aboard boats earlier this month, ignoring their claims for asylum while in some instances using violence and coercive tactics, a human rights watchdog said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch accused […]
Law Enforcement
French police arrest 29 in a terrorist financial backer sting: prosecutor
(Radio France) Twenty-nine people accused of financing jihadists in Syria via cryptocurrency were arrested by police, according to a statement put out by the French anti-terrorism prosecutor (PNAT) on Tuesday. This network has been “active since 2019 and is mainly based on […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim Brotherhood fails to expand across Europe Terrorist attacks in Europe have dampened the extremists' reach
(National-UAE) Attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to expand into central and eastern Europe have failed, a report says. Terrorist attacks in Europe, including the 2015 Paris atrocity and the 2016 Brussels suicide bombings that killed dozens of people, have led to a […]
Government & Politics
Poland deports five Tajiks suspected of terrorism
(Radio Free Europe) The Polish authorities have deported five Tajik nationals suspected of having links to the Islamic State group and recruiting Poles and Ukrainian citizens for terrorist acts in Poland. Radio Poland reported on September 28 that four of the Tajik […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Bomb plotters ‘still at large’
(BBC) The brothers who carried out the Manchester Arena attack “did not act alone” and others who knew about it are still “at large,” an inquiry has heard. Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb […]
Children & Teens
Italy repatriates female Islamic fighter and her 4 children
(AP) Italian carabinieri arrested a female foreign fighter on Tuesday after returning her and her four young children to Italy from a displaced person’s camp in Kurdish-controlled territory. The woman, Alice Brignoli, traveled in 2015 with her Moroccan-born husband, Mohamed Koraichi, and […]
Immigration
Police break up Calais migrant camp, biggest since ‘the Jungle’
(AFP) French police on Tuesday dismantled a camp of about 800 migrants in the port city of Calais, the biggest such operation since the sprawling “Jungle” shantytown was broken up four years ago. Calais continues to attract migrants from the Middle East […]
Arts & Entertainment
Paris attacker wanted to set Charlie Hebdo offices on fire, prosecutor says
(Reuters) A Pakistani man accused of wounding two people with a meat cleaver in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo last Friday did not know the satirical magazine had moved and wanted to set its offices on fire, the Paris […]
Children & Teens
Boy, 14, started making bombs during lockdown after watching Isis propaganda, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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