Legal
Revealed: Almost half of terrorists jailed last year received short sentences (LINK ONLY)
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Terrorism
Legal
Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika wants to appeal his continuing detention order A convicted terrorist who admired Osama bin Laden is planning another bid to get out of jail — and he wants taxpayers to pay for it.
(NCA NewsWire) A convicted terror leader who admired Osama bin Laden wants taxpayers to fund his bid to get out of jail after he was ordered to spend an extra three years behind bars because he was too dangerous. Abdul Nacer Benbrika […]
Law Enforcement
Three terror plots foiled in Britain during pandemic, say police (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Sweden attacker identified as 22-year-old Afghan: media
(AFP) The suspect in the stabbing that left seven injured in Sweden is a 22-year-old Afghan, who arrived in the Nordic country in 2018, media reported Thursday. Swedish police are investigating a possible terror incident after a man stabbed and injured at […]
Government & Politics
UK prisons must not become ‘terrorist training grounds’ as sentences increased, government warned (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Eight injured in ‘suspected terrorist’ stabbings in Sweden
(AFP) A man stabbed eight people Wednesday in the Swedish city of Vetlanda, seriously injuring five of them in what police called a potential terror incident. The assailant was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg by police as he […]
Legal
Zion man sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for conspiring to assist ISIS
(Chicago Tribune) A north suburban man was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in federal prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State terrorist group by providing cellphones to an undercover FBI agent to be used as detonators for bombs. Joseph Jones and […]
Legal
Woman on trial in Norway provides glimpse of life under IS
(AFP) A woman on trial in Norway for supporting the Islamic State group provided a glimpse this week of life with members of the terror group she said she was unable to flee despite numerous attempts. The woman, who AFP and other […]
News: Europe
Manchester Arena attack: Fire bosses ‘risk-averse’ over bombing
(BBC) Fire crews should have gone straight to the Manchester Arena bombing scene rather than a rendezvous point three miles away, a public inquiry has heard. In a debrief, crew manager Nicholas Mottram urged Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (GMFRS) bosses […]
Legal
Soft Sweden risks becoming refuge for returning jihadists wanting to avoid punishment, warns prosecutor
(Breitbart) The chief prosecutor of Sweden’s National Security Case Unit has criticised the country’s terror laws, saying they could create a situation where terrorists flee to the country to escape prosecution in other nations. Prosecutor Per Lindqvist stated that Sweden could become a […]
Children & Teens
Belgian jihadist and children missing from Syrian Al-Hol prison camp
(Brussels Times) Jihadist Nora Verhoeven and several other Belgian women and children have reportedly gone missing from the Syrian Al-Hol prison camp, according to a psychologist involved in the possible repatriation of the group. Two doctors and two psychologists had planned to […]
Legal
‘Quite difficult to prove’: One year after launch, no charges made under new Swedish counter-terror law
(Breitbart) Despite being in force since March 2020, no one has been charged under Sweden’s anti-terrorism law that enables the [prosecution] for membership of terrorist groups. The lack of prosecutions comes despite many Islamic State fighters returning to Sweden over several years. Per […]
News: Europe
Manchester Arena attack: Firefighters ‘felt shame’ at being held back
(BBC) A fire officer has told an inquiry he “felt ashamed to be a firefighter” after being held back from responding to the Manchester Arena bombing. The first fire engine did not arrive at the scene until two hours after the explosion […]
Legal
Man accused of terror plot said he wanted to ‘hunt down’ gay people in UK, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Terror charge accused granted bail but staying in custody for now
(Age) A young woman accused of associating with a person who intended to fight for Islamic State has been granted bail but remains in custody pending an appeal by commonwealth prosecutors. Hadashah Sa’adat Khan, 23, has spent the past year in custody […]
Citizenship
Shamima Begum: IS bride ‘angry, upset and crying’ after court rules she can’t return to UK Her friends at their camp in northern Syria told Sky News she is refusing to speak to them.
(Sky News) IS bride Shamima Begum is “very angry, upset and crying” after being refused permission to return to the UK to fight a decision to strip her of British citizenship. On Friday, five Supreme Court justices unanimously turned down her request […]
Legal
Suspected Vienna terror attack accomplices denied bail
(Swiss Info) Two Swiss men suspected of conspiring in a deadly terror attack in Vienna last year have been denied bail, according to media reports. The duo were aged 18 and 24 when they were arrested in the Swiss city of Winterthur in […]
Children & Teens
Jacinda Ardern says children of NZ-born suspected Islamic State terrorist better off in Turkey than Syria, but should go to Australia
(Newshub) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she’s still trying to get Australia to take responsibility for a New Zealand citizen suspected of being an Islamic State terrorist recently captured in Turkey. Suhayra Aden, arrested by Turkish authorities near the border with Syria, […]
Law Enforcement
Terrorist who stabbed 3 men to death using £2,000 legal aid to fight police complaint (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
North Macedonia: Clashes at protest over terror convictions
(AP) Protesters clashed with police in North Macedonia’s capital Friday after a court this week upheld the terrorism-related convictions of ethnic Albanian men accused of killings nine years ago that inflamed ethnic tensions in the Balkan country. At least seven policemen were […]
Legal
4 men convicted in 1993 WTC bombing have had sentences cut
(AP) Decades after going to prison, some of the men responsible for the World Trade Center bombing that killed six people 28 years ago Friday are still trying to whittle down their onetime life sentences on the remote chance that they could […]
Government & Politics
Manchester attack: ‘Martyn’s Law’ would ‘minimise terror risk’
(BBC) New anti-terrorism legislation in memory of a Manchester Arena bombing victim should “protect people and be proportionate,” the justice secretary has said as a consultation is launched. Building on “Martyn’s Law,” the new Protect Duty will require public places and venues […]
Citizenship
Shamima Begum cannot return to UK, Supreme Court rules
(BBC) Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, will not be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court said in a unanimous ruling that […]
Citizenship
Blocking Shamima Begum’s return will further terrorist threat against UK, senior Tories warn (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Truck attack plot suspect diagnosed with delusional disorder
(AP) A Maryland man charged with planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., was diagnosed with delusional disorder and refused to take psychotropic medication while in federal custody last year, a judge said in a […]
Clerics & Preachers
Abu Walaa, the preacher guilty of supporting ‘Islamic State’ terrorism The trial of suspected 'Islamic State' recruiter Abu Walaa has lasted three and a half years in the German city of Celle. He was sentenced to over 10 years in prison.
(Deutsche Welle) Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 11 1/2 years for Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah A., also known as Abu Walaa. They said the defendant, who was born in Iraq, was the head of an “Islamic State” (IS) network and worked to […]
Legal
NSW to watch uni student for terror threat
(AAP) A Sydney university student with extensive connections to violent extremists will be monitored for three years, despite a finding that he hasn’t shown a current desire to become a terrorist. The NSW Supreme Court this week ordered Marsfield man Maywand Osman […]
Legal
Belgium to try 14 over 2015 Paris attacks
(AFP) Belgium will put 14 suspects on trial for allegedly aiding those who carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 people dead, the federal prosecution service said Wednesday. Those facing trial are accused of having transported, housed or provided […]
Crime
Westminster terrorist and Taliban bomb maker Khalid Ali attacked prison officer with frying pan Then stabbed him with Biro during attack at Wakefield jail
(Yorkshire Evening Post) A terrorist who plotted to kill MPs outside the Houses of Parliament attacked a prison officer with a frying pan and stabbed him with a pen in Wakefield Prison. Khalid Ali, who is also serving a life sentence for […]
Clerics & Preachers
German ‘IS leader’ handed lengthy prison sentence
(AFP) A notorious Iraqi preacher said to be the Islamic State jihadist group’s de facto leader in Germany was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison by a German court on Wednesday. The 37-year-old Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah Abdullah, better known […]
Health & Medicine
Manchester Arena attack: Ambulance service warned medical delays would ‘cost lives’
(BBC) The ambulance service warned a year before the Manchester Arena bombing that lives would be lost if specialist medical help was delayed during a terror attack, an inquiry heard. It took more than two hours to deploy triage teams in a […]
Legal
Federal grand jury indicts former University of Florida student for attempting to assist ISIS
(WCJB) A federal grand jury has formally indicted a former University of Florida student accused of attempting to assist the terrorist organization ISIS. Mohamed Suliman was indicted on charges of attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization. Previously, a judge […]
News: Europe
Terror defendant released pending trial
(Views and News from Norway) A Norwegian-Pakistani woman who’d followed her radical boyfriend to join the brutal terrorist group IS in Syria has been released from prison in Oslo, pending her own trial on terror charges. She denies she actively supported the […]
Legal
Alleged terror plotter watched porn after Isis videos and aspired to be ‘like Alan Titchmarsh’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena attack: Senior officers ‘may not have read new terror plan’
(BBC) A new counter-terrorism plan was issued 10 days before the Manchester Arena attack but it may not have been read by senior officers, an inquiry has heard. Insp Simon Lear from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was charged with coming up with […]
Legal
Terror suspect told police he was a ‘one nation Tory,’ court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Leader of Islamist terrorist network jailed for over 3 years after sparking manhunt at UK borders (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena attack: Police ‘failed to co-operate’ in training
(BBC) Greater Manchester Police “left after doing their bit” in terror training exercises held prior to the Manchester Arena bombing, an inquiry has heard. Former fire service group manager John Fletcher told the Manchester attack inquiry he had “strong words” with the […]
Legal
Pensacola Navy base mass shooter had accomplices, help from Saudi Arabia, victims claim in terror lawsuit
(Washington Post) Families of three slain U.S. service members and 13 others wounded in a mass shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 alleged Monday that the government of Saudi Arabia facilitated the attack, which U.S. authorities concluded was an act […]
Children & Teens
Pressuring France to bring them home, women who joined ISIS stage hunger strike Frenchwomen who joined the Islamic State and are now held in squalid detention camps in Syria have gone on a hunger strike to protest France’s refusal to bring them back.
(NY Times) In a desperate appeal to France’s government, some 10 Frenchwomen who joined the Islamic State and are now being held in detention camps in Syria began a hunger strike on Saturday, protesting the government’s refusal to bring them home for […]
News: Europe
Luxembourgish presumed jihadist Steve Duarte to remain imprisoned in Syria
(RTL) A year after his interview with RTL, a return to Luxembourg still looks highly unlikely for Steve Duarte. Duarte is still being held in a Kurdish prison in Al-Hasakah, a city located in northeastern Syria. His wife Fatoumata Diallo and their two children, a […]
News: Australasia
NZ woman set to be deported from Turkey
(Radio NZ) It is believed a New Zealand woman and her two children who were detained at the Turkish border while trying to enter from Syria will be deported. The Turkish Ministry of National Defence alleges the woman — named as Suhayra […]
Legal
Alleged terror plotter told police he joined pro-Isis chat group ‘to find wife’ (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Sacramento grand jury indicts Russian citizen on attempting to help Syrian terror group
(Sacramento Bee) A federal grand jury in Sacramento has indicted a Russian national on charges of attempting to provide material support to a Syrian organization the U.S. State Department has labeled as a foreign terrorist organization. Murat Kurashev, a Sacramento resident who […]
Citizenship
Shamima Begum to find out next week if she can potentially return to the UK (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Ten years’ prison for threatening far-right Wilders over Mohammed cartoons
(NL Times) Junaid I. was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the appeals court for threatening an attack on PVV leader Geert Wilders in 2018 after the far-right politician announced a contest for the best cartoon featuring the prophet Muhammad. The […]
Children & Teens
UN, rights watchdogs urge Canada to save its ‘arbitrarily detained’ children in Syria
(Canadian Press) A United Nations rights advocate and Human Rights Watch Canada say the Trudeau government isn’t living up to its new international campaign against arbitrary detention because it is abandoning 25 Canadian children trapped in northern Syria. Fionnuala Ni Aolain, the […]
Crime
Convict in Utrecht terror attack stabbed a prison guard: report
(NL Times) Gokmen T., the man convicted for a terrorist attack on a Utrecht tram in 2019, stabbed a guard at the Rotterdam prison De Schie on Wednesday, Rijnmond and RTL Nieuws report. The guard sustained minor injuries to his face and […]
Legal
Violent raps were ‘drill music parodies,’ alleged Isis-supporting terror plotter told police (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Tlaib speaks at Kashmir event featuring jihad supporters
(IPT) A Kashmir Solidarity Day event, dedicated to promoting the Islamist narrative on a decades-old conflict, drew the radicalized son of a prominent jihadist as well as a sitting member of Congress. U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., spoke at the Feb. 5 […]