Books
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary’s acolytes hide behind 150 fronts (LINK ONLY)
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Terrorism
Legal
Three Central Asians charged in Sweden with plotting terrorist crime
(Reuters) Three Central Asian men have been charged in Sweden with plotting to commit a terrorist crime as well as — along with three others — financing the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said on Thursday. “Three (of the suspects) acquired and […]
Legal
Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers want death sentence tossed
(AP) Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s convictions or death sentence should be tossed because it was impossible for him to get a fair trial in the same city where the shrapnel-packed, pressure cooker bombs exploded, his lawyers told a federal appeals court […]
News: Europe
Key French jihadist Peter Cherif set to return behind bars
(AFP) One of France’s most wanted jihadists, considered a potential source of valuable information by Western intelligence agencies, is set to return to prison Thursday following seven years on the run. Peter Cherif, 36, was close to the brothers who massacred staff […]
Clerics & Preachers
South Florida alleged ISIS bomb-making instructor previously arrested for strangling wife Did Romaisa Waseem know about her husband Tayyab Ismail’s terrorist dealings?
(FrontPage) Tayyab Ismail’s family-life appears to be over, or at least it is going to take a very big hiatus. On Friday, December 14th, Ismail was arrested on terrorism-related charges. Federal authorities claim that he repeatedly posted bomb-making instructions on forums frequented […]
Children & Teens
Belgian judge orders repatriation of six children of Islamic State militants: Belga
(Reuters) A Belgian judge has ordered the government to repatriate six children of Islamic State (IS) militants and their mothers who have been detained in a camp in Kurdish-controlled Syria, the national news agency Belga said on Wednesday. Tatiana Wielandt, 26, and […]
Law Enforcement
German police find Islamic State flag after suspected attack on railway
(Reuters) German police said on Tuesday they had found a flag of the Islamic State (IS) militant group near the site of a suspected attack on a railway track in Berlin and that investigators were examining whether the perpetrators had any political […]
Holidays
High security in Barcelona following US terror warning
(AP) Security is high in Barcelona following a U.S. warning of the risk of a terror attack during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The security alert, posted online and sent to U.S. citizens in Spain’s second-largest city, recommends exercising “heightened caution” […]
News: Europe
Charlie Hebdo journalist: ‘Islam must submit to criticism’
(Breitbart) Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui has received rape and death threats for saying “Islam must submit to criticism.” The journalist, who has lived under police protection since a number of her colleagues at the satirical magazine were murdered by [a] radical […]
Legal
Suspect tied to Charlie Hebdo attack sent to France, charged
(AP) French authorities handed preliminary terrorism charges Sunday to a fugitive extremist who is suspected of fighting U.S. forces in Iraq and helping to organize the 2015 shooting attack at satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people. Peter Cherif, who […]
News: Europe
Charlie Hebdo attack suspect arrested, French officials say
(AP) French authorities confirmed on Friday the arrest of a suspected extremist linked to the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine that killed 12 people. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed the arrest after French media reported that French citizen Peter Cherif, […]
Interfaith
Belgian Jewish museum attack suspect appears in court
(AFP) An alleged French jihadist accused of returning from Syria and shooting dead four people in an attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium in central Brussels appeared in court Thursday. Mehdi Nemmouche, allegedly the first foreign fighter to return to stage […]
Government & Politics
Nation of Islam receiving federal cash to teach prisoners
(Washington Examiner) The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. A black nationalist […]
Government & Politics
Swedish cities lose track of returning ISIS fighters
(Breitbart) Half of Sweden’s 300 Islamic State fighters have returned from the Middle East, but a survey has revealed several municipalities have little idea who among their residents are former fighters. The survey found that out of the municipalities believed to be the […]
Law Enforcement
Returning jihadists ‘threaten new wave of terror in Europe’ (LINK ONLY)
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Alcohol & Drugs
Canadian, 20, gets 40-year terrorist sentence in U.S. despite mental illness
(Canadian Press) A young Canadian convicted of plotting terrorist attacks in New York City was sentenced by an American court on Wednesday to 40 years in prison, his Canadian lawyer said. The sentence handed down to Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 20, came despite […]
Clerics & Preachers
German police raid Berlin mosque over suspected ‘terror financing’ Authorities raided several buildings in the German capital as part of a larger terrorism probe. One imam is suspected of sending money to an Islamist fighter in Syria in order to carry out 'terrorist criminal acts.'
(Deutsche Welle) Police raided a mosque and several other buildings in Berlin on Tuesday morning in an operation into suspected terrorism financing, prosecutors said. State criminal police, intelligence officers as well as special police forces took part in the raids, which included […]
Deradicalization
Strasbourg attack: Do French prisons breed jihadists?
(Radio France) Chérif Chekatt had been imprisoned 27 times and was about to be arrested again when he opened fire on the Strasbourg Christmas market last week, killing five people and injuring 11. Although the motives for his attack are not clear, […]
Academics & Education
Universities took $600 million tied to Muslim nations while forming grade school curricula for US students
(Daily Caller) Universities funded by the Department of Education to help shape the way U.S. K-12 schools and colleges portray the Middle East and Israel are simultaneously bankrolled by $600 million tied to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Muslim-majority countries, a Daily […]
Christians
Somali man arrested in Italy after comments about attacking Vatican: police
(Reuters) Italian police said on Monday they had arrested a 20-year-old Somali man suspected of having been a member of Islamic State and who had threatened to bomb churches in Italy, including St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. They told reporters in […]
Internet
FBI: Florida man posted bomb instructions for extremists
(AP) A Florida man is facing charges of posting detailed bomb-making instructions to online sites frequented by extremists such as supporters of the Islamic State group, according to an FBI complaint unsealed Monday. An FBI affidavit charges Tayyab Tahir Ismail, 33, with […]
Legal
French authorities charge Strasbourg gunman’s ‘accomplice’
(AFP) A French anti-terrorist court on Monday charged a man arrested for allegedly supplying a revolver used in a mass shooting at a Christmas market in Strasbourg last week, a judicial source said. The 37-year-old, who was not immediately identified, was ordered […]
News: Europe
Four family members of Strasbourg gunman released: prosecutors
(AFP) Four family members of the gunman who went on a deadly shooting spree at a popular Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg were released from custody on Saturday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Three more people close to the […]
News: Europe
Father of Strasbourg attacker said his son backed IS group
(AP) The man described as the father of the 29-year-old suspect in this week’s deadly Christmas market attack in Strasbourg says his son subscribed to the beliefs of the Islamic State group. The interview with Abdelkrim Chekatt by the state-run France 2 […]
Government & Politics
Mayor of Nice urges Emmanuel Macron to lift ban on anti-terror phone app (LINK ONLY)
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Books
Revealed: May let hate preacher make his home in Britain (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Is Strasbourg really a hotbed for violent Islamist extremists?
(Local) After the deadly Christmas market terrorist attack, there have been claims that the eastern city of Strasbourg and the area around it houses more Islamist extremists than elsewhere in France. But is this really true? Since the attacks, claims that the […]
Law Enforcement
One person detained on terror charges in western Sweden following police raids
(Local) One person has been detained on terror charges following several raids in western Sweden. Sweden’s security police Säpo carried out the raids in coordination with the national police and National Operations Department (NOA) across multiple locations on Thursday morning, including the Lilla […]
Law Enforcement
Strasbourg Christmas market gunman shot dead by French police
(AFP) The gunman who killed three people at a Christmas market in Strasbourg was shot dead by French police on Thursday as the Islamic State jihadist group claimed him as one of its “soldiers.” More than 700 French security forces had been […]
Banks & Banking
Banks told to watch for signs of ‘extremist travellers’ returning to Canada
(Global News) Canada’s financial intelligence agency warned banks on Thursday to watch for signs that foreign terrorist fighters may be trying to return home from places like Syria and Iraq. The reactivation of a dormant bank account linked to an “extremist traveller” […]
Government & Politics
Germany’s terrorism watch list: What you need to know The suspected Strasbourg attacker was named on a French high-security watch list. German authorities, in turn, keep tabs on hundreds of potential terrorists — who are they and what are authorities doing about them?
(Deutsche Welle) What is a “potential terrorist”? A potential terrorist (referred to in German as “Gefährder,” lit. “endangerer”) is someone who could pose a threat to public safety as certain “facts justify the assumption that he or she may commit a severe crime.” […]
Crime
Strasbourg suspect: violent criminal on France terror watchlist
(AFP) The 29-year-old man sought by police over a shooting in Strasbourg lived in a small apartment in a ramshackle housing bloc and has convictions in France and several European countries after a life of crime, officials say. The man, Cherif Chekatt, […]
Crime
To neighbors, suspect in French market killings seemed just a local boy
(Reuters) The fugitive Strasbourg man suspected of shooting and knifing people as he shouted “Allahu Akbar” at the French city’s Christmas market is a criminal who turned radical Islamist in jail, officials say. Neighbors remember Cherif Chekatt as an ordinary local guy, […]
Crime
French police hunt gunman after Christmas market attack
(AFP) Hundreds of French anti-terror police are hunting for a fugitive gunman who attacked Christmas shoppers at a market in the eastern city of Strasbourg while shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest), officials said Wednesday. The attack in the heart of the […]
Demonstrations
Linda Sarsour, unfazed by new anti-Semitism charges, will keynote radical Islamist gathering
(Conservative Review) Women’s March leader and Islamist activist Linda Sarsour is scheduled to speak at the end of the month at the Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America (MAS-ICNA) annual conference in Chicago. The announcement comes on the heels of a Tablet […]
Children & Teens
Sydney teenager jailed for at least 12 years for terror plot
(Sydney Morning Herald) The boy arrested in a Bankstown backstreet with hunting knives and a desire to kill had once been “your average Muslim 16-year-old boy,” according to the teenager’s father. “He slit his eyebrows thinking it was ‘cool’; he wore ordinary […]
Interfaith
Man accused of planning attack on Toledo-area synagogue arrested on terror-related charge
(WSYX) A 21-year-old Ohio man is accused of attempting to provide support to foreign terrorist organizations, after investigators say not only did he plot to support ISIS, but he was trying to plan an attack on a Toledo-area synagogue after he was […]
Mosques
Controversial Muslim charity sets up branch in Ireland (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Italy adopts hardline immigration law
(Gatestone) The Italian Parliament has approved a tough new immigration and security law that will make it easier to deport migrants who commit crimes and strip those convicted of terrorism of their Italian citizenship. Italy’s lower house of parliament, the Camera dei […]
News: Europe
Irish lecturer stabbed to death in Paris had ‘insulted the Prophet Mohammed,’ says his Pakistani killer (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Terror laws designed to stop Kiwis joining Isis results in eight passports cancelled or suspended
(NZ Herald) Terror laws created to block Kiwis leaving to fight for Islamic State have resulted in eight people having New Zealand passports torn up. The Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Act, passed in December 2014, amended three existing laws to bolster New […]
Government & Politics
‘Serious mismanagement’ revealed at Muslim charity International agency Muslim Aid is criticised for failing to keep track of funds
(National-UAE) A prominent international Muslim charity failed to carry out proper checks to ensure it was not handing out money to terrorist or extremist organisations, according to an official report published on Thursday that detailed a raft of management failures. Former management […]
Government & Politics
Man who threatened Geert Wilders in kebab shop video ‘was not alone’
(Dutch News) The Pakistan national arrested at The Hague’s main railway station in August after placing a video on Facebook in which he appears to say he is planning to attack Geert Wilders did not travel within the Netherlands alone. The public […]
Health & Medicine
Soldier who tried to help terrorists gets 25-year sentence
(AP) A soldier based in Hawaii was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for trying to help the Islamic State group. Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang, 35, pleaded guilty in August to four counts of attempting to provide material support to […]
Government & Politics
French MPs vote to create anti-terror prosecutor
(AFP) French lawmakers on Monday approved the creation of a national prosector’s office to combat terror, a key justice reform to boost the country’s response to the threat of attacks. Under the legislation, passed at the first reading on a show of […]
Crime
Island for foreign ‘undesirables’ grabs international headlines In other news, Islamic State, another group not wanted in Denmark, continues to affect policy, both home and abroad
(Copenhagen Post) For many years the idea has remained in the realm of science fiction: sling all of society’s undesirables onto an island and let them sort it out. It was more or less the plot of “No Escape,” a really bad […]
Legal
When terrorists learned ‘lawfare’ works: The Holy Land Foundation trial’s 10-year anniversary
(PJ Media) In November, a writer for the American Thinker called to ask for my recollections about covering the trials and tribulations of what is often described as the largest terrorist fundraising operation in U.S. history. It hadn’t occurred to me, but […]
Academics & Education
Government’s counterterrorism is limiting texts and topics students can access, experts say (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Taos 5 may face federal terrorism charges
(Albuquerque Journal) The five defendants arrested after authorities found a dead child at a compound north of Taos in August are now under investigation for a specific terrorism-related charge that has never before been filed in New Mexico, according to a court […]
Government & Politics
Prevent critics ‘on side of extremists,’ says home secretary Sajid Javid (LINK ONLY)
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