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(Radio France) Since the fall of the self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq in October 2019, the threat of mass terror attacks has waned. But a new book shows home-grown French jihadists still pose a threat as they seek to reconfigure themselves […]
(BBC) Terror offenders will face more time in jail and be monitored more closely as part of new laws being introduced within weeks, the government has said. Automatic early release from prison will be scrapped for terror offenders while a minimum jail […]
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(BBC) The psychologist behind the UK’s main deradicalisation programme for terror offenders says it can never be certain that attackers have been “cured.” Christopher Dean told the BBC some terror offenders who take part in his Healthy Identity Intervention (HII) scheme appear […]
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(Breitbart) French former anti-terrorist judge Marc Trévidic has warned that there is a substantial danger posed to the public by terrorism convicts set for release in the next two years. Mr Trévidic said that starting in 2020 and 2021, prisoners convicted for joining the […]
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(BBC) Boris Johnson has said the “grim reality” is that “some people can’t be rehabilitated” in prison. The PM called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release after convicted terrorist Usman Khan killed two people on London Bridge on Friday. […]
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(AFP) A Paris court on Friday sentenced a jailed Islamist radical to 28 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of two prison wardens in September 2016, the first jihadist attack in a French prison. Bilal Taghi was serving a five-year sentence for […]
(Deutsche Welle) A family of seven German Islamists arrived in Berlin on Thursday after the Turkish Interior Ministry announced earlier this week that it would start deportations of captured “Islamic State” supporters. There are no German arrest warrants for the family of German-Iraqi Kanan B., meaning […]
(Global News) A Toronto man convicted of travelling to Turkey to join the so-called Islamic State has been released from prison four months after he was sentenced, an official said Wednesday. Pamir Hakimzadah was charged with terrorism in April 2017 following what […]
(AFP) Tania Joya has devoted her life to “reprogramming” extremists and reintroducing them into society — a process she understands well as a “former Islamic jihadist” herself. “My aim is for them to feel a sense of remorse and to train them […]
(National-UAE) Few people have defined America’s post-9/11 homegrown terrorist threat like John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban.” On May 23, having served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for aiding a terrorist organisation, Walker Lindh walked free from a high-security prison […]
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(IPT) One group, radicalized Muslims, dominates the UK prison system, Britain’s Ministry of Justice found in a study into prison gangs released earlier this month. The study included interviews with 83 inmates and 73 staffers from several prisons. Operating as a prison […]
(Politico) John Walker Lindh walked out of prison last month and returned to American life, having served 17 years for providing support to the Taliban. But another American who pleaded guilty in a high-profile terrorism case after the Sept. 11 attacks is […]
(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 […]
(AFP) When is it too late to save a radicalised Muslim teenager? Two-time Cannes winners the Dardenne brothers said Tuesday their new film is a call not to give up on these “lost” youths. “Young Ahmed,” which premiered at the world’s top […]
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(National-UAE) European countries will release 1,500 convicted terrorists over the next 12 months, posing a major security challenge for authorities grappling with the fallout from wars in Syria and Iraq, a London counter-terrorist conference heard on Wednesday. The wave of releases coincides […]
(Canadian Press) A Toronto man who tried to join Islamic State militants in Syria was sentenced to just over four years in prison on Thursday after a judge found he had taken responsibility for his actions and abandoned his radical views. Pamir […]
(Global News) A Toronto man who travelled to Turkey in 2014 to join the so-called Islamic State pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting the witness who reported him to police. Appearing in a Toronto courtroom, Pamir Hakimzadah admitted to the 2015 attack on […]
(Conservative Review) A senior official in the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is serving as a pro bono attorney for Hoda Muthana, a Yemeni terrorist and former U.S. resident who wants to come back to the United States following the dissolution […]
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(Irish Catholic) Catholic methods of examining scripture could help tackle radicalisation in Islam, a leading Jesuit academic has said, after it was revealed an Irish citizen was captured having left Ireland to fight for the so-called Islamic State. Originally from Belarus, Alexandr […]
(BBC) A man who planned to drive a van into 100 people in London was working with a government de-radicalisation programme at the time, a court has heard. Islamic State (IS) supporter Lewis Ludlow pleaded guilty last August to planning the Oxford […]
(Radio France) Chérif Chekatt had been imprisoned 27 times and was about to be arrested again when he opened fire on the Strasbourg Christmas market last week, killing five people and injuring 11. Although the motives for his attack are not clear, […]
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(Deutsche Welle) “Speak after me,” the red-bearded German convert and Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel says as he publicly summons the young woman. Cheered on by an enthusiastic crowd in the pedestrian zone of the western city of Offenbach, she does exactly that, […]
(Gatestone) The Islamist firebrand preacher Anjem Choudary, described as Britain’s “most dangerous extremist,” has been released from prison after serving only half of the five-and-a-half-year sentence he received in 2016 for pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. Prison authorities could not prevent […]
(Gatestone) Spanish police have dismantled a jihadi network operating inside and across more than a dozen Spanish prisons. The network, allegedly linked to the Islamic State, was established and operated by one of the most implacable jihadis in the Spanish prison system […]
(Breitbart) Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has said the UK must not “become a country that polices thought” and speech, and Muslims who say potentially “extreme” things should be forgiven. The Tory peer — who has called for a crackdown on “Islamophobia” and last […]
(BBC) Security concerns have been raised about the imminent release from prison of the radical preacher Anjem Choudary and other supporters of the banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun. About a dozen followers are out or will be soon, as restrictive terror protection orders […]
(Reuters) Tugay Sarac was just 15 when he first talked about traveling from Germany to Syria to fight for Islamic State. But unlike his friends at the time, Sarac had turned to radical Islam as a way of avoiding coming to terms […]
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(PJ Media) A debate has long circled around the proposition that American prison systems at state and federal levels need counter-radicalization programs. The hypothesis claims that circle-talking and counseling will preempt the manipulation of predisposed inmates by predatory visiting prison imams, or […]
(IPT) As the United States and its coalition partners continue to squeeze ISIS out of its remaining territory in Iraq and Syria, more and more foreign fighters are returning to their home countries. This migration from the battlefield to the hometown is […]
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