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Legal
US soldier sentenced to 14 years for role in planned terror attack In online conversations, Cole Bridges discussed and offered ideas for attacks on the U.S. and his fellow service members. He didn't know there was an FBI agent on the other side of his messages.
(Courthouse News) A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 14 years in Manhattan federal court on Friday for trying to help the Islamic State group plan to attack the 9/11 Memorial in New York City and target his fellow servicemen in the Middle […]
Academics & Education
Four Wakefield pupils suspended after Quran damaged at school
(BBC) Four pupils have been suspended from a West Yorkshire secondary school after a copy of the Quran was damaged by students. Wednesday’s incident at Wakefield’s Kettlethorpe High School happened when a copy of the Islamic text was brought in by a […]
Deradicalization
Can John Walker Lindh be deradicalized?
(VOA) John Walker Lindh, the former jihadi dubbed the “American Taliban,” was released from prison Thursday after completing 17 years of a 20-year sentence for supporting the Afghan insurgent group. The first American detainee in the U.S. war on terror, Lindh, now […]