(AFP) The Austrian justice ministry said Wednesday it would take into account fierce criticisms levelled by judges and the opposition at proposals for an anti-terror law formulated following a deadly jihadist terror attack. In the days after the convicted sympathiser of the […]
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(AFP) The fallout from last November’s shootings on the streets of Vienna has shone a light on Europe’s dilemma in dealing with jihadists, particularly the continent’s struggles to deradicalise such individuals. An Austrian court had in 2019 already convicted Kujtim Fejzulai, the […]
(BBC) A counter-terror chief has expressed confusion over why police would declare a marauding terrorist firearms attack and not tell other emergency services, the Manchester Arena inquiry has heard. Operation Plato was declared by a duty officer from Greater Manchester Police some […]
(Age) Secret jailhouse letters traded between a convicted terrorist and a Melbourne woman accused of recruiting for Islamic State have been read aloud in court as one of the women fights to be released back into the community. Hadashah Sa’adat Khan, 23, […]
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(Euronews) More than five years after the 2015 Paris attacks, the Belgian justice system has finally begun its examination of the people accused of aiding and abetting the terrorists. Tuesday’s hearing, which took place at the Brussels Council Chamber, was held in […]
(Anadolu) The Grand Mosque of Pantin near Paris, closed as part of a crackdown against radical Muslims by the French government in the aftermath of history teacher Samuel Paty’s assassination, will soon be reopened, the interior minister announced Monday. The mosque was […]
(BBC) Investigating terror attacks like the Manchester bombing can feel like being “repeatedly punched in the face,” a counter-terrorism officer has said. Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu was the UK’s senior national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism at the time of the 2017 atrocity, which […]
(WCJB) A former Gainesville resident is back in the United States and is facing terrorism charges. He was arrested overseas on Friday and arrived in north-central Florida early Sunday morning. Mohamed Fathy Suliman is charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to […]
(BBC) A fear of seeming rude can prevent criticism of emergency services’ performance, the Manchester Arena inquiry has heard. The probe into the 2017 bombing has been listening to evidence from the Greater Manchester Resilience Forum. It heard a terrorist firearms exercise […]
(Breitbart) Since 2014, the Belgian police have identified and closed 192 entities, including prayer rooms and organisations, linked to radical Islamic terrorism in Brussels as part of an anti-terror project. The Belgian Fighters project — Belfi for short — placed a total […]
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(CBC) France’s court of appeal has ordered Canadian academic Hassan Diab to stand trial in connection with a 40-year-old bombing attack outside a Paris synagogue — three years after a lower court set him free due to a lack of evidence. Diab’s […]
(BBC) Security errors were made at Manchester Arena before it was attacked, but they had not contributed to the bombing, an inquiry has heard. Showsec’s barrister Jonathan Laidlaw QC told a hearing the security firm had fallen short in some areas at […]
(Kathimerini) Greece will extradite to the Netherlands a 37-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who is wanted for suspected terrorism offences, it was announced Wednesday. The man, who arrived on the island of Samos from Turkey on 4 October 2018, was arrested at a […]
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(AP) A panel of federal appellate judges expressed concerns about ordering wholesale changes to a government watchlist of roughly 1 million individuals labeled as “known or suspected terrorists,” despite a lower court finding that the list was constitutionally flawed. The 4th U.S. […]
(BBC) A man found with bomb-making manuals and speeches on Islamic State has told a court he is “not a terrorist.” Souhaib Embarek was caught sharing “terrorist tutorials” and had videos and images of terrorist attacks. He admits five charges of possession […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Tuesday sentenced a man to seven years in prison over plans to … shoot dead a critic of Islam as part of an “Islamic State” (IS) terror cell. Summing up the four-month trial, a Düsseldorf court […]
(BBC) The operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it “deliberately sacrificed safety” in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing. An inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack. Venue operator SMG […]
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(KSAT) A 22-year-old Guadalupe County man pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, Jaylyn Christopher Molina (aka Abdur Rahim) admitted in federal court in San Antonio […]
(BBC) In 2013, Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan left their lives in Cardiff to fight for Islamic State in Syria. Three months later Nasser’s younger brother Aseel also went out to join them. I went to sixth-form college with both Nasser and […]
(BBC) A “fatal cocktail” of security failures contributed to Manchester Arena being unsafe on the night it was bombed, the inquiry into the attack has heard. John Cooper QC, representing 12 bereaved families, told a hearing the failures were not “slight or […]
(Breitbart) Three radicalised Muslims face trial after being accused of plotting to commit a terror attack against Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protestors in Paris in 2018. The three men, brothers Kamel and Hilial A. and 54-year-old Islamic convert Rémi M., were first accused of […]
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(Arizona Republic) The Council [on] American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed an appeal Friday in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a decision dismissing a case against the Maricopa Community College District and one of its professors for teaching material that […]
(BBC) A man accused of having explosives, detonators and documents referring to jihad and combat has appeared before Westminster magistrates. Asad Bhatti, charged with terrorism offences, did not enter a plea. The 47-year-old from Redhill, Surrey, was arrested after police raided a […]
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(iNFOnews.ca) An alleged ISIS supporter who moved to Enderby in the summer of 2019 after having been acquitted of several terrorism-related charges has moved to a different B.C. community, iNFOnews.ca has learned. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada confirmed Othman Ayed […]
(BBC) A man from Surrey has been charged with terrorism offences, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) said. Asad Bhatti, 47, of Holland Close, Redhill, has been charged with two counts of possessing an article for the purpose of terrorism. He has […]
(BBC) The attorney general’s bid to increase the minimum sentence of a Newcastle man who incited a German terror cell to commit mass murder has failed. Lawyers for Suella Braverman argued that Fatah Abdullah’s nine-year minimum term was too lenient. They also […]
(BBC) An Islamic extremist has admitted sharing “terrorist tutorials” and having a stash of bomb and poison-making instructions. Souhaib Embarek, 34, was arrested after firearms officers forced entry into his Bristol home on 9 December 2019. He denied two charges of disseminating […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist organiser and friend of the Manchester Arena bomber has been returned to prison weeks after being released on licence, the BBC has learned. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after being found guilty of helping people travel […]
(Reuters) A 24-year-old Italian suspected of fighting in the Middle East since 2014 with al Qaeda-affiliated groups was arrested in Turkey and jailed in Italy, police said on Wednesday. The unnamed man, who had lived with his wife and their four children […]
(BBC) Fears of an “active shooter” were raised by the ambulance service in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bomb, the inquiry in the attack has heard. The inquiry was told a call from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) to fire control […]
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(NL Times) On the day of a terrorist attack on a tram in Utrecht, seven bank employees looked up the details of the suspected terrorist in the bank systems, thereby violating the bankers’ oath. The Banks Disciplinary Commission on Tuesday decided not […]
(AP) A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York City’s 9/11 Memorial and other landmarks and attack U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said. Cole James […]
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(AP) Two Syrians have been charged in Germany for alleged links to a terrorist organization on suspicion they were involved in the killing of an army officer in their homeland in 2012, prosecutors said Monday. Khedr A.K. was charged with membership in […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) A man has been charged after he allegedly breached a court order less than two weeks after he was released from prison, by accessing online material that supported executions, beheadings and torture. Radwan Dakkak, 25, from Denistone in Sydney’s […]
(Swiss Info) A French court has sentenced a Swiss man to 15 years in prison for terror-related charges after finding him guilty of recruiting a group of men online to prepare terror attacks in France and Switzerland. The 31-year-old from Yverdon, canton […]
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