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Clerics & Preachers
Manchester bomber friend known to MI5, BBC reveals
(BBC) A Muslim preacher who was close to the Manchester bomber had been suspected by MI5 of radicalising people more than a decade earlier, the BBC can reveal. A public inquiry into the atrocity will this week report on how Salman Abedi […]
Law Enforcement
Mustafa Dirani’s ‘extreme beliefs’ laid bare in court Lawyers have argued a man was not privy to a terrorist conspiracy unfolding in Sydney’s west despite sharing 'extreme' Islamic material.
(NCA NewsWire) Lawyers for Mustafa Dirani have asked a jury to put his “extreme beliefs” aside in judging if he was part of a terrorist conspiracy that led to police accountant Curtis Cheng’s death. Mr Cheng was gunned down outside the Parramatta […]
Legal
French court sentences homegrown militant to 30 years in prison for crimes in Syria
(Reuters) A Frenchman who converted to Islam and went abroad to fight for Islamic State was sentenced by a Paris court on Friday to 30 years in prison in France’s first successful prosecution of an Islamist militant for crimes committed in Syria. […]