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Court puts plea deal on pause for 9/11 mastermind KSM: 23 years later, justice for terrorists is delayed again The pause prolongs a decades-long crusade for justice by the victims' families

January 9, 2025 Morgan Phillips

(Fox) A federal appeals court has delayed Friday’s scheduled military court hearing where suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-conspirators were expected to plead guilty as part of a deal negotiated with prosecutors. The pause, though welcomed by the many […]

A contentious push to wrap up the 9/11 prosecutions takes an emotional toll on victims’ families

January 9, 2025 Jennifer Peltz

(AP) After his only child was killed on 9/11, Ken Fairben looked for justice in a far-off military courtroom on the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba. He traveled there multiple times to observe hearings for accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh […]

Rapper convicted over Tommy Robinson video

January 8, 2025 Andy Giddings

(BBC) A rapper has been found guilty of posting a “menacing” video on social media, aimed at the former English Defence League leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson. In it, he mentioned artillery and made a gun gesture while shouting […]

Top Republicans roll out bill that would undo 9/11 plea deals The bill would allow the death penalty to remain an option for 3 suspected terrorists

January 8, 2025 Morgan Phillips

(Fox) Top Republicans in Congress are introducing a new bill to stop the White House from offering plea deals to suspected 9/11 terrorists. A pretrial agreement between the 9/11 defendants and the government removed the death penalty as a possibility for punishment, […]

Guantanamo’s prisoners have reached a pivotal moment. So has the 9/11 case. Here’s what to know

January 8, 2025 Ellen Knickmeyer

(AP) After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is reaching a pivotal moment this month. Court battles and dealmaking are deciding the future of many of those last […]

European court rules against Greece over migrant’s illegal deportation, calls practice ‘systematic’

January 7, 2025 Derek Gatopoulos

(AP) The European Court of Human Rights in a landmark ruling Tuesday found that Greece illegally deported a woman back to neighboring Turkey, and described the use of summary expulsions, or “pushbacks,” as systematic. The decision could impact how Europe handles migrants […]

Man pleads not guilty to helping Daniel Khalife after escape

January 7, 2025 Daniel Sandford

(BBC) A 25-year-old man has denied helping former soldier Daniel Khalife after his escape from Wandsworth Prison in September 2023. Imran Chowdhury of Chingford in north-east London pleaded not guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to a charge of assisting an escaped prisoner. […]

Biden administration asks court to block plea deal for alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks

January 7, 2025 Eric Tucker and Ellen Knickmeyer

(AP) The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the […]

Belgian-Lebanese activist to take legal action after Israeli minister’s threat

January 6, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Belga) Belgian-Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah plans to take legal action over threatening social media posts from an Israeli minister, who referred to Israel’s pager attack against Hezbollah. The threat comes shortly after Abou Jahjah and his organisation Hind Rajab Foundation filed […]

The ex-Hezbollah terrorist behind Hind Rajab Foundation, doxxing IDF soldiers A leaked Israeli Diaspora Affairs Ministry profile on Dyab Abou Jahjah described him as a 'former Hezbollah operative.'

January 6, 2025 Michael Starr

(Jerusalem Post) Dyab Abou Jahjah, the man behind the Hind Rajab Foundation, which has been doxxing Israeli soldiers and seeking legal action against them in foreign states, admitted to joining Hezbollah as a youth and implied that he was returning to Lebanon […]

The child rape scandal dominating UK politics after Musk criticism

January 6, 2025 Kate Holton

(Reuters) A child sexual abuse scandal that revealed how gangs of mostly Pakistani men had groomed, trafficked and raped young white girls more than a decade ago has returned to the political agenda in Britain following criticism from Elon Musk. Musk, a […]

Woman guilty of possessing IS terror video

January 6, 2025 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A woman who applied to be a teacher at an Islamic Sunday school has been found guilty of possessing a terrorist document. Dzhamilya Timaeva, 20, from Windsor, Berkshire, had an Islamic State group video that encouraged viewers to carry out arson […]

Man on trial 10 years after attack on former offices of Charlie Hebdo

January 6, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) Ten years after the 2015 terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, the trial of the man who was behind an attack outside the magazine’s former offices in 2020 opened at a special juvenile court in Paris Monday. Zaheer Mahmood […]

The Hind Rajab Foundation behind IDF soldiers’ doxxing, legal campaign threats — explainer Most recently, the foundation targeted soldiers vacationing in the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.

January 5, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) The Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint last week against an IDF soldier vacationing in Brazil, accusing him of “participating in massive demolitions of civilian homes in Gaza during a systematic campaign of destruction.” Subsequently, the Brazilian Federal Court […]

France holds Algerian influencers on charges of urging violence

January 5, 2025 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French authorities on Sunday held three Algerians suspected of inciting violence in TikTok videos, with at least two of them facing terror-related charges. The arrests come amid growing political tensions between Paris and its former North African colony. A video blogger […]

Terror threat rising in Switzerland, says attorney general

January 5, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) The number of active terrorism investigations in Switzerland has doubled since 2022, according to the country’s top prosecutor. There are 120 cases of suspected terrorism currently being conducted in Switzerland, Attorney General Stefan Blättler said in an interview with the […]

Algerian TikToker faces French trial on terror-incitement charge

January 4, 2025 Unlisted Author

(AFP) An Algerian online influencer will stand trial in France next month, accused of inciting terrorism on TikTok, prosecutors said Saturday. The 25-year-old suspect was remanded in custody on Friday in the western city of Brest, prosecutor Camille Miansoni said in a […]

German authorities seek mental evaluation of Magdeburg attack suspect

January 2, 2025 Unlisted Author

(DPA) German prosecutors are commissioning a detailed mental evaluation of the suspected attacker behind a vehicle rampage through the crowded Magdeburg Christmas market that left five dead and more than 230 injured. The suspect, identified as 50-year-old Taleb A, drove his car […]

Feds: Upper St. Clair man traveled to Lebanon, Syria trying to join Hezbollah

January 2, 2025 Megan Guza

(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) An Upper St. Clair man allegedly spent months traveling through Lebanon and Syria last year attempting to join Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militant group in Lebanon. Jack Danaher Molloy, 24, is accused of trying to aid a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist group […]

Toronto-area teen arrested over alleged plan to travel to join ISIS Police recently applied for terrorism peace bond to restrict movements of 18-year-old from Newmarket

January 2, 2025 Thomas Daigle

(CBC) A Toronto-area teen has been arrested on suspicion he was planning to travel abroad to join ISIS, CBC News has learned. Court records show the RCMP applied last month for a terrorism peace bond in the case, which would restrict the […]

An Iraqi couple is charged in Germany with keeping and abusing Yazidi girls as slaves

December 30, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AP) Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes, alleging they kept two young Yazidi girls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them. The man and the woman, identified only as Twana H.S. and […]

Pentagon appeals court upholds plea deals in Sept. 11 case The three-judge decision appeared, at least for now, to put plea proceedings for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two others back on track to take place in early January at Guantánamo Bay.

December 30, 2024 Carol Rosenberg

(NY Times) A Pentagon appeals panel on Monday upheld a military judge’s finding that the plea deals in the Sept. 11 case are valid, clearing the way at least for now for a guilty plea hearing next week with the accused mastermind […]

Swiss foreign ministry to re-examine case of Swiss Islamic State fighter

December 27, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) The Federal Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a Swiss former fighter for the Islamic State held in Syria. The Swiss foreign ministry must now consider the 30-year-old’s request for repatriation. In December 2023, the detainee’s lawyer lodged an […]

Five found guilty in Amsterdam riots after Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv football match

December 24, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The first five men brought to trial for rioting in Amsterdam that targeted Israeli and Jewish football fans were found guilty on various charges related to the violence. The District Court in Amsterdam handed out sentences of up to six […]

‘Reckless’ man jailed after brandishing deactivated AK-47 in video on X during summer riots Habeeb Khan pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to making threats of death or serious harm contrary to the Online Safety Act.

December 23, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Sky News) A “reckless” father, who brandished a decommissioned AK-47 assault rifle as he threatened to “blow away” the English Defence League (EDL) in an “inflammatory” video, has been jailed for 27 months. The footage of Habeeb Khan in his living room […]

Suspected Isis terrorist who ‘recently converted to Islam’ accused of plotting mustard gas attack He allegedly expressed a desire to harm and kill infidels and members of the Jewish community

December 23, 2024 Eliana Silver

(GB News) A man suspected of becoming an Isis terrorist has been accused of plotting an attack using mustard gas, a court has heard. Jordan Richardson, 20, of Oliver Close in [Goole] appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday accused of engaging […]

Italy vows to push ahead with dormant migrant vetting centers in Albania

December 23, 2024 Colleen Barry

(AP) Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government vowed on Monday to open controversial migrant processing centers in Albania that have remained dormant after Italian courts refused to validate the transfer of the first two groups of migrants. Government ministers “repeated the firm intention […]

Pretrial detention for Magdeburg Christmas market suspect A court in Magdeburg has approved a pretrial detention warrant for the suspect in Friday's Christmas market attack. The 50-year-old faces five homicide charges, among other counts.

December 22, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Deutsche Welle) Magdeburg police said in the early hours of Sunday that the suspect in the Christmas market car attack in the city on Friday night had been issued a warrant for pretrial detention. Magdeburg’s district court approved an appeal from the […]

French court hands activist five-month suspended sentence for ‘intifada in Paris’ call Pro-Palestine campaigner Elias d'Imzalene declares victory after charges 'could've resulted in 15-year jail sentence'

December 20, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Middle East Eye) A prominent French pro-Palestine activist has been handed a five-month suspended jail sentence for calling for an “intifada in Paris” during a protest earlier this year. Following a trial that began on 23 October, Elias d’Imzalene was sentenced and […]

Man sent cryptocurrency to Islamic State group

December 20, 2024 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A man has been jailed for sending more than £16,000 worth of cryptocurrency to an Islamic State (IS) group. Amin Rahman, 24, from Luton, had admitted funding the Afghanistan-based IS franchise ISKP — Islamic State Khorasan Province — between last December […]

Jury convicts woman’s dad and brother accused in kidnapping plot

December 20, 2024 Patrick Lakamp

(Buffalo News) Jurors delivered guilty verdicts Friday for the father and brother of a woman who was lured to Yemen and stranded there, in what prosecutors called a kidnapping plot to prevent the former Lackawanna resident from marrying a man the family […]

Pair deny alleged plot to attack Jewish community

December 20, 2024 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Two men have denied plotting an Islamic State group-inspired gun attack on the Jewish community in the UK. Walid Saadaoui, 37, and Amar Hussein, 51, pleaded not guilty on Friday to preparing acts of terrorism between 13 December [2023] and 9 […]

Italian court acquits Matteo Salvini in migrant ‘kidnapping’ case The far-right former interior minister prevented more than 140 migrants, including kids, from coming ashore in Italy.

December 20, 2024 Elena Giordano

(Politico) Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was acquitted Friday on kidnapping charges over his decision in 2019 to block a migrant rescue ship carrying more than 140 people from coming ashore in Italy. Salvini, who was serving as Italy’s interior minister […]

French court hands down heavy sentences in teacher beheading trial

December 20, 2024 Alain Jean-Robert

(AFP) A French court on Friday handed heavy sentences to several men convicted of having played a role in the jihadist beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in 2020 — a murder that horrified France. Paty, 47, was murdered in October 2020 by […]

Man arrested in Quebec for alleged plot to kill Jews in NYC transferred to Montreal

December 20, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Canadian Press) A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City has been transferred to a provincial detention centre in Montreal from Rimouski, Que. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, who appeared in Quebec Superior Court this […]

Italy’s Salvini faces verdict for blocking migrants at sea. Case weighs limits of stemming migration

December 19, 2024 Colleen Barry

(AP) Italy’s deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, has sounded defiant ahead of Friday’s court verdict in Sicily for blocking some 100 migrants at sea on a humanitarian rescue boat in 2019 when he was interior minister. Salvini, who leads the Euroskeptic, anti-migrant League, […]

Hamas supporter in PM knife emoji threat jailed

December 19, 2024 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A self-styled “keyboard warrior” and Hamas supporter who threatened Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with a knife emoji on social media has been jailed for a year. Mohammed Nafees Ahmed, 32, from Tipton, near Birmingham, had previously appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ […]

Defendants face judgement for actions that led to beheading of French teacher

December 19, 2024 Hugh Schofield

(BBC) Eight people accused of abetting the jihadist murder of French teacher Samuel Paty are to learn their fate after a six-week trial in a Paris court. They include the father of a schoolgirl whose lie about Paty’s alleged discrimination against Muslims […]

Two Swiss nationals indicted for supporting Islamic State

December 19, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has filed charges against two Swiss nationals aged 22 and 28 with the Federal Criminal Court. They are accused of supporting the banned terrorist group Islamic State. Both suspects already have a […]

Terrorism suspect in fatal stabbing at Rotterdam bridge says he was in psychotic state

December 19, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The 22-year-old man arrested for stabbing people at random at the foot of the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam said he was in a state of psychosis at the time of the incident. The Public Prosecution Service currently suspects that Ayoub […]

Salvini’s migrant verdict to test balance between rights and security in Italy

December 18, 2024 Angelo Amante

(Reuters) Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, faces a possible six-year prison term if a court finds him guilty on Friday of kidnapping a boat full of migrants who were held offshore Italy for almost three weeks in 2019. Salvini was interior […]

Germany jails Syrian for 10 years for Assad-era war crimes

December 18, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A German court handed a 10-year jail term to a Syrian former militia leader on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed under former president Bashar al-Assad. The man, named only as Ahmad H., 47, had come to Germany […]

Italy’s Meloni warns EU court against blocking Albania migrant relocations

December 17, 2024 Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte

(Reuters) Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni urged the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday to dismiss objections to her government’s flagship plan to send sea migrants to Albania. EU judges have been asked to weigh in on the scheme by Italian […]

Muslim school sues French politician for defamation The school administrators claim French officials are going all-out to rescind the state funding of the last Muslim school in France.

December 17, 2024 Aymen Alami

(Morocco World News) The Al-Kindi school group, a Muslim private school in Décines-Charpieu, a commune in the region of Lyon in south-eastern France, is suing a French MP for defamation after the politician accused the school of “denying history” and not teaching […]

Terrorist sues pub landlord over ‘deeply offensive’ Saracen’s Head sign claiming the image ‘scares him’

December 16, 2024 Danielle De Wolfe

(LBC) A convicted terrorist is suing a British pub over claims its sign is “deeply offensive” and the image “scares him.” Khalid Baqa, who has previously served four years behind bars for preparing jihadi propaganda, is suing the Saracen’s Head Inn in […]

Failed judicial nominee Adeel Mangi lashes out at Democrats, predicts ‘tsunami of bigotry’ under Trump Mangi's nomination stalled after Free Beacon reports on his links to anti-Israel and anti-police groups

December 16, 2024 Chuck Ross

(Free Beacon) Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi, who came under fire over his links to anti-Israel and anti-police groups, lashed out at “dark money” forces and some Senate Democrats on Monday, his first remarks following the collapse of his nomination to serve […]

Dutch court to rule on legality of discussing Muslim Jew-hate 'Facts can never be a criminal offense,' said Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer, who has appealed after being charged with incitement to intolerance in July.

December 16, 2024 Canaan Lidor

(JNS) A Dutch court will need to determine if it’s illegal to discuss antisemitism in the context of Muslim culture, following an appeal by a deputy prime minister regarding hate crime allegations leveled against her. Mona Keijzer, who is also the minister […]

Two charged in connection with Iran-backed drone strike that killed 3 US troops in the Middle East

December 16, 2024 Steve LeBlanc, Eric Tucker and Tara Copp

(AP) Two men, including a dual Iranian American citizen, have been charged with conspiring to export sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack in Jordan that killed three American troops early this year and injured dozens of other […]

Alleged Toronto ISIS attack plotter now faces war crimes charges Ahmed Eldidi, 62, has been linked to violent 2015 ISIS propaganda video

December 16, 2024 Thomas Daigle

(CBC) A Toronto man accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass murder in the city with his son is now facing war crimes charges, CBC News has learned. Ahmed Eldidi, 62, and Mostafa Eldidi, 27, both appeared in a Newmarket, Ont., courtroom late […]

French prosecutors seek up to 16 years in teacher beheading trial

December 16, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French prosecutors on Monday sought jail terms of between one and 16 years for eight people on trial over the 2020 beheading of a school teacher by an Islamist radical that shocked France. The harshest sentence was reserved for a defendant […]