Law Enforcement
Terror arrest at Gatwick over suspect material (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Police foil reprisal operation by Chechens in French town
(AFP) France’s interior minister on Sunday vowed that no community would be allowed to take the law into its own hands after police thwarted a bid by Chechens to violently avenge an alleged assault on a member of their community. Three men […]
Immigration
North Macedonia police find 80 migrants, arrest truck driver
(AP) Police in North Macedonia said Sunday they have found 80 migrants during a routine check in the central part of the country and arrested a truck driver for suspected migrant smuggling. Police said in a statement that 79 Pakistanis and an […]
Law Enforcement
Jihadi bride who lost an arm and a breast as ISIS crumbled is back in Britain (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Cleric extradited from Jamaica to NYC on terrorism charges
(AP) A radical Islamic cleric has been extradited to New York City on charges he recruited followers and fighters for the Islamic State through fiery online lectures and militant propaganda, prosecutors said Friday. Abdullah al-Faisal, who had been behind bars in Jamaica, […]
Internet
How the Toronto-registered websites of al-Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban were taken down
(Global News) When the Toronto-based tech company Tucows Inc. discovered it was providing domain registration services to the Pakistani Taliban, it immediately contacted the RCMP for guidance. Days later, it was still waiting for a response. By Tuesday, it had waited long […]
Immigration
North Macedonia: Police find 148 migrants in trucks
(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 148 migrants crammed into trucks in two separate operations in central and northern parts of the country, and have arrested two men on suspicion of trafficking migrants. Police said their patrol stopped a […]
Banks & Banking
Reporting of potential terrorist financing more than doubles in NZ
(Radio NZ) Reporting of potential terrorist financing has more than doubled in New Zealand since the 15 March mosque shootings. Police said people are far more vigilant when it comes to potential terrorist acts after the Christchurch attacks, which killed 51 and […]
Immigration
North Macedonia police find 94 migrants hidden in truck
(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have found 94 migrants packed into a truck in … the country’s southeast. A police patrol stopped the truck with Macedonian national license plates late Saturday near the town of Radovish, 110 kilometers (68 miles) […]
Law Enforcement
Swedish police, civilians working at no-go area police station to get escort
(Breitbart) Swedish police and civilian workers at a police station in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby will receive police escorts to and from the building to maintain their safety. The workers at the newly built police station in Rinkeby have previously […]
Immigration
Polish border guards detain 34 people from Middle East found in a lorry
(Reuters) Polish border guards have detained 34 people from the Middle East, including four women and four children, who were traveling in a trailer of the lorry that came from Turkey via Slovakia, authorities said on Saturday. They were detained on Friday […]
Banks & Banking
Le Havre hostage-taker consumed by plight of Palestinians, say police
(Reuters) The armed man who seized six hostages in a French bank on Thursday spoke to negotiators of hardships facing Palestinians and called himself a mujahid but made no reference to Islamist groups, a police source involved in the operation said. The […]
Banks & Banking
Hostage taker surrenders outside French bank, all six captives unharmed
(Reuters) A gunman who took six people hostage in a bank in northern France on Thursday surrendered to elite police after a six-hour operation to free his captives. The hostage-taker, a 34-year-old with a history of mental illness, emerged slowly from the […]
Law Enforcement
Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism chief warns new attack on London is ‘likely’ after lockdown (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Illegal migrants are being offered passage across the Channel in small boats for as little as £500, reveals National Crime Agency (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Albania transfers IS terror cell suspect to Germany
(AP) Albania has transferred to Germany a Tajik man accused of being part of a cell of the Islamic State group that allegedly planned to attack U.S. military facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Tuesday. The suspect, identified only as Komron B. in […]
Law Enforcement
Norway says arrests man wanted in Italy over terror plot
(AFP) Norwegian intelligence and police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted in Italy over a terror plot, with media saying he is linked to an Islamist preacher extradited from Norway to Italy in March. The Norwegian intelligence service PST said the man […]
Animals
Sheep seized in police crackdown on illegal animal slaughter
(Brussels Times) About 10 [sheep] were seized on Friday by police in the Brussels-Midi zone (Anderlecht, Saint-Gilles, Forest) in three raids conducted in connection with the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Adha, according to the Help Animals association. The association had requested the intervention […]
Children & Teens
Document details Kingston teenager’s descent into ISIS terrorism
(Global News) On Jan. 21, 2019, a 16-year-old Kingston resident disclosed to a contact that he secretly supported the so-called Islamic State. He also hinted he was about to take action, saying he “may carry out a solo operation in the next […]
Crime
Police officer injured as fight breaks out during Ilford Eid celebrations (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Convicted jihadist arrested for terrorism financing
(NL Times) Samir A., a convicted member of terrorist organization Hofstadgroep, was arrested in Rotterdam at the end of June on suspicion of terrorism financing, his lawyer Tamara Buruma said to NOS. He is suspected of raising money for women and children […]
Health & Medicine
Police clear migrant camp outside Paris at high virus risk
(AFP) French police on Wednesday evacuated some 1,500 migrants from a camp north of Paris where crowded living conditions and a lack of water and sanitation exposed them to a high risk of coronavirus infection. The migrants were taken from the camp […]
Children & Teens
Lebanese-German woman arrested over ISIS membership Fadia S is accused of taking her children from Germany to Syria in 2015 as lawyers say she and her husband wanted to live in an ‘Islamic state’
(National-UAE) Police in Germany have arrested a Lebanese-German woman they say took her four young children with her to Syria, where she joined ISIS. Fadia S is accused of leaving Germany in April 2015 to follow her husband — known as Ahmad […]
Law Enforcement
Woman accused of joining IS arrested on return to Germany
(AP) German prosecutors said Monday a German woman who allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Syria was arrested upon her return to the country. She is accused of membership in a foreign terrorist group, war crimes against property and other crimes. […]
Law Enforcement
Chandler woman arrested at Sky Harbor after attempting to send money to al-Qaida to ‘kill American soldiers’
(Arizona Republic) A 35-year-old Chandler woman was arrested Wednesday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after attempting to send money to a member of al-Qaida, a terrorist group, for rifle scopes that would be used to “kill American soldiers,” according to a […]
Law Enforcement
Terrorism charges laid against Calgary man after 7-year probe Hussein Sobhe Borhot, 34, accused of participating in a kidnapping, helping ISIS in Syria
(CBC) Alberta’s RCMP Integrated National [Security] Enforcement Team has laid terrorism charges against a Calgary man following an investigation that lasted seven years. Hussein Sobhe Borhot, 34, of Calgary has been charged with three counts of participation in the activity of a […]
Law Enforcement
Cressida Dick: We have a plan to deal with Shamima Begum (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
RCMP make national security arrest in Calgary
(Global News) A suspect has been arrested in Calgary following a national security investigation, the RCMP said on Tuesday. “Alberta RCMP can confirm that an individual was arrested in Calgary today in relation to a national security file,” said RCMP spokesperson Fraser […]
Law Enforcement
Police may drop ‘Islamist’ term when describing terror attacks (LINK ONLY)
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Cemeteries & Funerals
Blackburn police not investigating 250 at mosque
(BBC) Officers will not investigate a breach of coronavirus rules after 250 people attended a funeral, police confirmed. It comes after the imam who led prayers at the Jamia Ghosia Mosque in Blackburn tested positive for Covid-19 following the funeral on 13 […]
Cemeteries & Funerals
Blackburn mosque ‘faces police investigation’ over 250 at funeral
(BBC) Leaders at a mosque in Blackburn say they are being investigated by police and health officials after “around 250 people” attended a funeral service. The chairman of Jamia Ghosia Mosque said they thought there were no restrictions on numbers if hygiene […]
Immigration
North Macedonia police discover 55 migrants in truck, car
(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have found 55 migrants in two separate incidents. One migrant was injured when the truck carrying him and 42 others hit a concrete pillar at a toll station. Both incidents took place Friday, police announced […]
Citizenship
Round-the-clock surveillance on Shamima Begum could ‘cost taxpayers £10million’ over her lifetime (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Six traffickers arrested for sailing migrants to Italy
(AP) Greek police have arrested six people who were trafficking migrants from Greece to Italy using sailboats and were searching for five more suspects, police said Saturday. One suspect was arrested Friday offshore from the island of Corfu, the Greek island closest […]
Law Enforcement
Former Islamic State suspect Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif to be monitored by AFP
(ABC-Australia) An Adelaide woman acquitted of being an Islamic State member will have her social media use, employment and movements controlled by the Federal Police for a further four months, a court has ruled. Federal Court Justice Natalie Charlesworth today ruled that […]
Law Enforcement
Police in Germany conduct raids on suspected Islamists in Berlin Berlin police are investigating 12 suspects who are accused of financing terrorism, among other crimes. Investigators have carried out a total of 20 search warrants.
(Deutsche Welle) Investigators from Berlin’s Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) are executing 20 search warrants against 12 suspects from the Islamist scene, Berlin’s public prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. A total of 450 officers and police officials were deployed in the operation, […]
Law Enforcement
Police detain two Algerians in anti-terrorism operation in Barcelona
(Reuters) Two Algerian men were detained in an anti-terrorism raid in Spain’s second largest city Barcelona on Tuesday morning, police said. The two Algerians were part of a cell, under investigation since 2017, which was planning an attack with explosives in Barcelona, […]
Government & Politics
Quds Force spy captured in Germany, says intel agency Islamic Republic, China, Russia, Turkey are 'key players' of espionage in the federal republic
(Jerusalem Post) German federal police caught a suspected spy for Iran’s terrorist Quds Force in the state of Hesse, according to a review of the new Federal Intelligence Service report released by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s interior minister on Friday. “In February 2019, […]
Law Enforcement
Two Syrians arrested in Germany for aiding Islamist execution
(AFP) Two Syrians have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of helping to carry out an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, prosecutors said Monday. Named only as Khedr A.K. and Sami A.S., the men are accused of having […]
Law Enforcement
Three men and teenager questioned over suspected terror plot
(BBC) Four people are being questioned following a series of terror arrests on Thursday as part of an investigation into a suspected plot in the UK. Armed police raided a house in Ilfracombe Gardens, Romford, and a flat in Frank Slater House, […]
Children & Teens
Syrian in forced marriage attempt charged with Malta’s first honour crime Man remanded in custody after allegedly beating his teenage daughter and trying to force her into an arranged marriage
(Malta Today) “Help me, please help me,” were the first words a 15-year-old girl told the police when they stormed her house to arrest her father, who was charged earlier today with Malta’s first “honour crime.” The man, from Syria, was remanded […]
Law Enforcement
Counter-terrorism police arrest four men over ‘potential attack’ (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Italian police arrest ISIS supporter accused of inciting violence Nicola Ferrara shared images online of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi and Osama bin Laden
(National-UAE) Italian police have arrested a 38-year-old man who was spreading ISIS propaganda online and allegedly inciting people to carry out violent attacks. Nicola Ferrara is originally from Bari in Puglia but now lives in Milan where he was detained. He is […]
Crime
Channel migrants: Man arrested after boat intercepted
(BBC) A man has been arrested after a small boat carrying migrants was intercepted in the Channel. The Home Office said a Border Force cutter intercepted a vessel carrying 10 men who said they were Somali, Sudanese and Yemeni on Tuesday. A […]
Demonstrations
Police surveillance concerns US Muslims amid BLM protest crackdown With coronavirus hitting the US hard, there are growing fears community groups will have to resort to funding provided by surveillance programmes
(Middle East Eye) The killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis triggered the largest protests over systemic racism and police brutality the United States has seen in more than a generation. Black Lives Matter protests swiftly spread to more […]
Law Enforcement
Safiyya Shaikh: How undercover operation caught a drug addict jihadist
(BBC) A supporter of the banned Islamic State terror group has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years after admitting a plot to blow herself up in a bomb attack on St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Muslim convert […]
Law Enforcement
Bulgarian of Syrian descent arrested in Bourgas for terrorism
(Novinite) A Bulgarian national of Syrian descent as well as 15 of his associates were arrested on July 1 for suspected terrorism. The operation took place in Bulgaria’s coastal city of Bourgas and was conducted jointly by the State Agency for National […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Italy seizes drugs from Syria worth one billion euros
(AFP) Italian police said Wednesday they had seized a 14-tonne haul of amphetamines allegedly made by the Islamic State group in Syria, calling it the biggest seizure of such drugs in the world. The drug, in the form of around 84 million […]
Crime
Arrests after five migrants found on fishing boat
(BBC) Four men have been arrested during a people smuggling investigation after five migrants were found on board a fishing boat in France. The five, thought to be Albanian, were found on the boat as it was about to leave Cherbourg on […]
Demonstrations
Muslim groups decry ‘excessive’ prosecution of lawyers charged with torching police car
(Religion News) Dozens of Muslim rights groups have joined a chorus of support for two Brooklyn human rights attorneys facing possible life sentences over charges of torching an empty police vehicle. Lawyers Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis stand accused of throwing a […]