Children & Teens
Boy, 13, arrested on suspicion of terror offence in London (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Children & Teens
Syrian migrant suspected of raping 15-year-old Ukrainian refugee girl
(Breitbart) A 19-year-old Syrian migrant has been accused of rape by a 15-year-old Ukrainian refugee girl but has not been kept in custody, in what some are claiming is a scandal. The alleged rape took place in the late evening last Wednesday […]
Crime
Manager of radical French mosque arrested for fraud and embezzlement on a grand scale
(Breitbart) The manager of a suspected radical mosque, along with three others, was arrested this week in northern France over allegations of fraud and embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of euros of foreign cash. The manager of the Al Houda mosque in […]
Immigration
Passengers on German train overpower knife attacker
(AP) An off-duty police officer and two other passengers on a regional train in Germany overpowered [an] Iraq-born man who wounded five people including the officer with a knife on Friday, authorities said. A top law enforcement official said the 31-year-old attacker […]
Crime
Austria police smash int’l ring smuggling Syrians
(AFP) Police have smashed a group believed to have smuggled tens of thousands of Syrians with two of them found suffocated in a van last year, Austria’s interior ministry announced on Thursday. A total of 205 people suspected to be linked to […]
Academics & Education
Three people arrested on suspicion of involvement in female genital mutilation at unregistered school (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Spain: Five Pakistan-linked men accused of glorifying terror attacks
(Breitbart) Spanish authorities have arrested and placed under investigation five young men, all linked to a radical party in Pakistan, who are believed to have glorified terrorist attacks, including the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. All five of the young men are […]
Crime
UK arrests suspected migrant boat ‘kingpin’
(AFP) The UK’s National Crime Agency announced Wednesday it had arrested the suspected leader of an international criminal operation supplying small boats to people smugglers taking migrants across the Channel. The numbers of migrants crossing the busy shipping lane from northern France […]
Government & Politics
Intelligence agency needs to keep a closer watch on extremism in prisons, report says Authors of internal review call out ‘lack of coverage’ of people convicted of terrorism
(CBC) Canada’s spies could be doing a better job of investigating extremism in the prison system, says an internal report. The document, obtained through an access to information request, emerged from a behind-the-scenes review of how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the […]
Crime
Cyprus detains 2 for smuggling after 24 Syrians land in boat
(AP) Cyprus police on Friday detained two men on suspicion of helping two dozen Syrian asylum-seekers reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. A court ordered the two men — aged 30 and 28 — held in police […]
Crime
Sweden’s failed integration creates ‘parallel societies,’ says PM after riots (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Jordan’s questioning of Mayorkas about migrants on terror watch list goes off the rails 'That's amazing,' Jordan told Mayorkas
(Fox) Republican Rep. Jim Jordan was cut off and left seemingly stunned while grilling Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on whether 42 illegal immigrants on the terror watch list have been released into the United States. “Forty-two illegal immigrants were encountered at […]
Law Enforcement
Teenage boy, 18, arrested in west London on suspicion of encouraging terrorism (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Denmark arrests man over promotion of IS on social media
(AP) A man was arrested in Denmark on Wednesday on suspicion of violating anti-terrorism laws by allegedly promoting the Islamic State group on social media. Police said domestic security agency PET took part in the operation, but they did not give further […]
Crime
Police in Sweden block Danish extremist’s new demo
(Local) Police in western Sweden have rejected an appeal by the Danish extremist Rasmus Paludan against a decision to deny him permission for a Koran-burning protest in Borås. “Rasmus Paludan has a rhetoric which is intended to create disorder and chaos,” Emelie […]
Crime
Following antisemitic incitement at pro-Palestinian rally, Berlin politicians urge tougher police crackdown
(Algemeiner) Muslim activists in Germany who chanted antisemitic slogans at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin last Saturday were motivated not by a personal connection to the conflict, but by their exposure to bigoted religious and media messages, a leading Middle Eastern expert on […]
Crime
Police find 18 migrants in North Macedonia, nab car driver
(AP) Police in North Macedonia say a patrol discovered 18 migrants in the south of the country and arrested the driver after a brief chase. A police statement released Monday said the 18 migrants, 14 Syrians and 4 Pakistanis, were discovered late […]
Crime
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Germany chant antisemitic slogans, assault journalists and police
(Algemeiner) Germany’s interior minister denounced pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Berlin Saturday, who chanted antisemitic and anti-Israel slogans, attacked police officers and harassed journalists. “There is no place in our society for antisemitism,” Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser tweeted on Sunday. […]
Crime
Norwegian police clash with counter-demonstrators at Koran-burning event
(Local) Norwegian police used tear gas against several people during a Koran-burning demonstration on Saturday afternoon, after hundreds of counter-demonstrators clashed with police in the town of Sandefjord. The anti-Muslim organisation “Sian” held the demonstration in Sandefjord, which is about 90 kilometres […]
Crime
Death threat to Jews sung openly at rallies across the UK (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Riots over Koran burning test Swedish tolerance
(AFP) Riots across Sweden sparked by a notorious anti-immigrant provocateur threatening to tour the country burning the Koran has challenged the country’s limits to free speech. Police clashed with groups of mostly masked young men in several towns and cities after the […]
Government & Politics
42 arrested at border under Biden on terror watch list: DHS data
(Washington Examiner) Forty-two people on the U.S. government’s terror watch list have been arrested attempting to enter the United States illegally since President Joe Biden took office, according to federal data obtained by the Washington Examiner. The 42 arrests happened across the […]
Government & Politics
White House says terrorist encounters at border are ‘uncommon,’ touts Border Patrol for ‘doing their job’ The Border Patrol stopped 23 people on the terrorist database at the southern border in 2021
(Fox) The White House on Monday said encounters with suspected terrorists at the U.S. southern border are “uncommon,” after 23 individuals on the terror watchlist were apprehended in 2021. Fox News first reported on Monday that U.S. Border Patrol apprehended at least […]
Immigration
Border Patrol stopped 23 people on terrorist database at southern border in 2021: CBP data Over 1 million migrant encounters in 2022 fiscal year so far
(Fox) Border Patrol apprehended at least 23 people coming across the southern border whose names are on the terror watchlist in 2021, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained by Fox News. Between Jan. 20 and Dec. 27, 2021, there […]
Crime
Sweden links riots to criminal gangs that target police
(AP) Swedish police said Monday that the riots that have shaken several cities and towns in the Nordic country are extremely serious crimes against society and suspect some protesters are linked to criminal gangs that intentionally target police. Sweden, a nation of […]
Immigration
Greek police: Migrant shot dead while crossing from Turkey
(AP) A migrant was killed by gunfire at the Greece-Turkey border while she and several others attempted to cross a river separating the two countries, Greek police said Sunday. It wasn’t immediately clear who fired the shot that killed the woman on […]
Crime
Riots in Sweden against far-right group leave 3 injured
(AP) Swedish police said they fired warning shots during a riot in an eastern city to disperse protesters angry about demonstrations over the past several days by a Danish anti-Islam group in Sweden. Three people were slightly injured during the clashes. A […]
Crime
Unrest sparked by far-right demos continues in Sweden
(AP) Unrest broke out in southern Sweden late Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. Scuffles and unrest were reported […]
Crime
Nine police injured during protest in Sweden
(AFP) Counter-protesters demonstrating against a far-right group’s intention to burn a Koran in Orebro in central Sweden clashed with police on Friday, leaving nine police officers injured, authorities said. Police said in a statement that nine officers were injured in all. Their […]
Crime
Three police injured after riot in Sweden
(AFP) Three police officers had to be taken to hospital after a riot broke out in a Swedish town where a demonstration that included a Koran burning was planned, police said Thursday. While two of the officers had minor injuries, the state […]
Crime
Police on Rhodes arrest suspected migrant traffickers
(Kathimerini) Police on Rhodes announced on Monday that they arrested four foreigners suspected of involvement in a criminal organization that trafficked migrants to the island. Those arrested come from Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. The group allegedly collected migrants from beaches and transported […]
Government & Politics
US: Man impersonated agent, claimed ties to Pakistani intel
(AP) One of two men accused of impersonating federal agents and giving actual Secret Service agents gifts and free apartments in Washington has claimed to have ties to Pakistani intelligence and had visas showing travel to Pakistan and Iran, federal prosecutors said […]
Government & Politics
FBI arrests 2 men in DC accused of impersonating federal officers; 4 Secret Service agents placed on leave
(CNN) The FBI arrested two men in Washington, DC, Wednesday for allegedly impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years, giving expensive gifts to federal agents in DC, providing them apartments and offering to purchase a weapon for a […]
Law Enforcement
Germany arrests Syrian accused of torturing captives with IS
(AP) German investigators on Wednesday arrested a Syrian man accused of war crimes for allegedly torturing captives while he was with the Islamic State group in Syria in 2014. Federal prosecutors said the man, identified only as Raed E. in line with […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Americans on FBI watchlist face detention, extra screenings when flying The ACLU estimates 1.6 million people are currently on the federal watchlist.
(ABC) Already missing their flight to Canada, Zainab Merchant held her then-6-month-old baby inside a cold room in an airport in September of 2016 while she waited for her husband’s screening to be over after her family was detained for a random […]
Crime
Greece: 2 arrested from sailboat in distress with 70 aboard
(AP) Two people were arrested on suspicion of migrant smuggling and endangering lives for steering a sailboat carrying 68 others that ran into trouble off Greece’s western coast last week, the coast guard said Tuesday. The coast guard said the two — […]
Law Enforcement
Police photos, audio provide harrowing glimpses of Bataclan night of horror
(Radio France) What did it sound like in the Bataclan concert hall when three terrorists machine-gunned the crowd at a rock concert on 13 November 2015? And what did it look like once the injured had been taken out, leaving only those […]
Children & Teens
‘Clunking fist terror law puts children at risk’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
FBI: Maine teen plotted ISIS-inspired attack targeting Chicago-area mosques
(WMTW) Federal prosecutors are offering new details about an alleged terrorist plot involving a Waterville, Maine, teenager arrested a month ago, and two unidentified juveniles in Illinois and Kentucky. A five-page declaration from Maine-based FBI agent Garret[t] Drew, unsealed Friday, depicts 18-year-old […]
Clerics & Preachers
Muslim men grilled by US customs agents about their faith sue feds On numerous occasions, customs and border patrol agents asked the men — all U.S. citizens — unnecessarily probing questions about their Muslim faith.
(Courthouse News) In 2017, Imam Abdirahman Aden Kariye returned to the United States from Saudi Arabia after participating in the hajj — the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca. When he entered the United States at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Customs and Border Protection agents […]
Law Enforcement
NYC Muslim community ‘traumatized’ by post-9/11 surveillance: Dr. Debbie Almontaser
(NY1) Fresh off a meeting with Mayor Eric Adams and Muslim community leaders, longtime advocate Dr. Debbie Almontaser joined Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Wednesday to discuss NYPD deputy commissioner John Miller’s denial of police wrongdoing during the post-9/11 surveillance of […]
Government & Politics
Muslim leaders want NYPD official censured for denying post-9/11 surveillance One attendee called for the ouster of John Miller, deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism.
(Politico) Muslim community leaders told Mayor Eric Adams during a closed-door meeting Tuesday that a high-ranking member of the NYPD should face consequences for claiming the department never surveilled Muslims in the wake of 9/11 — with one attendee calling for the […]
Government & Politics
Mayor Adams condemns NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims after top cop downplays it: ‘What we did was wrong’
(NY Daily News) Mayor Adams joined a growing chorus of local lawmakers and advocates Monday in condemning a top NYPD official’s defense of the department’s surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Speaking at an unrelated press […]
Immigration
Osama Bin Laden’s ‘spokesman’ back in Britain after police quiz lasting just one hour (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen acted alone, says police chief
(BBC) The man who carried out the terror attack outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital was probably acting alone, a senior anti-terror police chief said. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes said no-one else was linked to the attack but there were still “questions […]
Law Enforcement
Police must be ‘ready to adapt’ to constantly changing terror threat (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
German city closes ‘pro-terrorism’ Hezbollah mosque and association 'Post' exposed pro-terror statements: 'We Have Pledged Allegiance to [Ali] Khamenei; We Are Accused of Terrorism and Are Proud of It.'
(Jerusalem Post) Police in the western German city of Münster on Thursday stormed the Hezbollah-controlled Imam-Mahdi mosque and its affiliated center because intelligence determined that the mosque and its center are pursuing violations of the constitution. Sources told the Jerusalem Post in […]
Law Enforcement
UK holds terror conference to make Square Mile ‘safest city area in the world’ London's business district set to trial new counter-terrorism tool
(National-UAE) A terror conference took place [last week] in London with the aim of making the capital’s business district the “safest city area in the world.” Hosted by City of London Police, more than 150 security professionals, business leaders and counter-terrorism experts […]
Crime
Police in northern Greece net migrant smuggling gang
(Kathimerini) In an operation carried out with help from the European police agency Europol, law enforcement authorities in northern Greece have dismantled what they believe to be a large migrant smuggling ring. According to an announcement released by the Hellenic Police (ELAS) […]
Health & Medicine
Four terror arrests in Bari and Cuneo COVID-19 a soldier of Allah sent to strike west, say Albanians
(ANSA) Italian police on Monday arrested four Albanian men who have lived in Italy for many years on suspicion of plotting ISIS-inspired terror attacks in Italy. The arrests were made in the southern city of Bari in Puglia and the northern city […]