Citizenship
Lisa Smith cannot be stripped of Irish citizenship, legal conference hears (LINK ONLY)
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Terrorism
Legal
Key questions about London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan answered (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
London Bridge attacker had asked for help to deradicalise — lawyer (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Two Belgian IS women detained in Antwerp and Bruges
(Brussels Times) Two Belgian IS women originally from Antwerp were repatriated from Turkey on Friday and placed under detention in Antwerp and Bruges, the spokesperson of the Directorate of Prisons confirmed on Saturday. The two sisters, Fatima and Rahma Benmezian, were sentenced […]
Law Enforcement
London Bridge attacker in 2008: ‘I ain’t no terrorist’
(BBC) Speaking to the BBC in 2008 the man who carried out Friday’s London Bridge attack denied being a terrorist. Usman Khan was speaking after his address was raided by anti-terror police in 2008. He later admitted being involved in a terrorist […]
News: Europe
Islamic State says London Bridge attack carried out by one of its fighters
(Reuters) Islamic State said the London Bridge attack on Friday was carried out by one of its fighters, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Saturday. The group did not provide any evidence. It added that the attack was made in response […]
Clerics & Preachers
Usman Khan: Knifeman was friend of hate preacher Anjem Choudary (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Usman Khan profile: Terrorist who wanted to bomb London Stock Exchange (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
How Melbourne teenager Ali Khalif Shire Ali became a terror plotter
(Age) In an unassuming family home in the heart of Werribee, a 16-year-old boy watched the atrocities of Islamic State with his brother for up to three hours each night. Videos of beheadings and bloody executions in the Middle East consumed his […]
News: Europe
First two Belgian IS women will arrive in Belgium on Friday evening
(Brussels Times) Turkey has sent the first two Belgian IS women, Fatima (24) and Rahma (31) Benmezian, to Belgium by plane on Friday. When the plane lands at Brussels Airport Zaventem on Friday evening, the two sisters will immediately be arrested and […]
Legal
Twenty suspects face trial for deadly 2015 Paris attacks
(AFP) French prosecutors called Friday for 20 suspects to go on trial over the massacre of 130 people by suicide bombers and gunmen in Paris four years ago. In a 562-page indictment, the office of the national anti-terror prosecutor (PNAT) charged 14 […]
Law Enforcement
London Bridge: Attacker had been convicted of terror offence
(BBC) The man who carried out the stab attack at London Bridge on Friday, named by police as Usman Khan, had previously been jailed for terrorism offences. Khan, 28, was wearing a GPS police tag and was out of prison on licence […]
Law Enforcement
London Bridge: Two killed in stabbing attack
(BBC) Two members of the public have died and another three people were injured in a stabbing attack at London Bridge, the Met Police’s commissioner has said. Cressida Dick told a press conference the stabbing attack, which has been declared a terrorist […]
Children & Teens
Tusla involved in welfare plans for Lisa Smith’s child — Taoiseach (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Melbourne terror plotter reveals brother’s death made him renounce IS
(Age) A failed Melbourne terrorist says the death of his terrorist brother in the Bourke Street attack was the “icing on the cake” in realising his plan to kill innocent people at Federation Square was wrong all along. New Year’s Eve terror […]
Apostasy
Man who threatened to behead police intends to convert to Judaism, court told
(Sydney Morning Herald) A convert to Islam who said he was “gearing up for martyrdom” weeks after he approached police with a knife and threatened to behead them has told a court he recently requested the Jewish holy book in prison and […]
Government & Politics
Germany probing 116 Daesh/ISIS repatriates 95 alleged German Daesh/ISIS backers in jail in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, say authorities
(Anadolu) German authorities are currently investigating 116 returnees to Germany from areas previously controlled by the Daesh/ISIS terror group, according to local reports. The return of suspected Daesh supporters to Germany has been pre-occupying German security officials for weeks as Turkey recently […]
Government & Politics
Turkey to send 11 Daesh/ISIS members back to France Turkey also to repatriate Daesh terrorists to Belgium, Ireland on Friday, Saturday, says interior minister
(Anadolu) As part of Turkey’s policy of repatriating foreign Daesh/ISIS members to their home countries, next month 11 French national members of the terror group will be sent back to France, said Turkish officials on Thursday. “This week we will carry out […]
Law Enforcement
Parents shocked by son’s terrorism arrest; older suspect from Iran
(NL Times) The parents of a 20-year-old man arrested on Monday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in the Netherlands [are] shocked by the accusations against their son. “We never expected this. If it is true, we strongly reject it. But […]
Military
Lisa Smith married four times before leaving for jihad in Syria as IS bride’s road to joining terror group revealed (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Brooklyn man charged with encouraging NYC subway attacks
(AP) A Brooklyn man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he tried to help the Islamic State group, in part by encouraging attacks on New York’s subway system. Zachary Clark, 40, was detained after an initial appearance in Manhattan federal court, where […]
Citizenship
Denmark strips citizenship from man under new anti-jihadist law
(Local) The Danish government has withdrawn the citizenship of a man who is wanted for suspected terrorism, applying a hotly-debated new law. The man’s lawyer, Mette Grith Stage, confirmed to newspaper Berlingske that his citizenship had been revoked. A 25-year-old Danish-Turkish citizen […]
Law Enforcement
Dutch arrest two on suspicion of preparing ‘jihadist attack’
(Reuters) Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday they had arrested two men on suspicion of preparing an Islamist militant attack with “bomb vests or one or more car bombs” in the Netherlands. Police conducting a raid on one suspect’s house seized a dagger, […]
Law Enforcement
Turkey detains French woman allegedly linked to Daesh 21-year-old suspect reportedly aimed to illegally cross Turkish border to Syria, security sources say
(Anadolu) Turkish anti-terror police teams arrested a French woman who was allegedly trying to join [the] Daesh/ISIS terror group in southern Adana province, according to security sources on Tuesday. Anissa L., 21, who reportedly flew from France to Istanbul and then arrived […]
Legal
Widow of ISIS fighter pleads guilty to terrorism charge
(Times of Northwest Indiana) An Elkhart, Indiana, woman who gained national attention as the widow of an ISIS sniper pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to a reduced terrorism charge. Samantha “Sally” Elhassani, 33, of Elkhart, Indiana, gave up her right to a jury […]
Academics & Education
‘We need to take our revenge now.’ South Florida man wanted ISIS to bomb colleges, feds say
(Miami Herald) A North Miami Beach man who wanted the “establishment of Islamic law” plotted to bomb deans at two of his former colleges, federal authorities said Monday. Salman Rashid, 23, appeared in Miami federal court on Monday charged with soliciting another […]
Internet
European police attack Islamic State’s online presence
(Reuters) European police agencies have knocked out several internet servers used by Islamic State in a significant blow to the armed group’s ability to spread propaganda online, the Europol police agency said on Monday. The move shut down a large number of […]
Immigration
Alleged jihadist to be deported from Switzerland
(Swiss Info) A man is in deportation custody following his arrest at the federal asylum centre in Kreuzlingen in northern Switzerland. He was initially suspected of being a member of a terrorist organization. Having consulted with the Office of the Attorney General […]
Law Enforcement
Two Belgian IS women arrested in Turkey
(Brussels Times) Two Belgian jihadist widows, Tatiana Wielandt (27) and Bouchra Abouallal (26), have been arrested by Turkish police, reports VRT NWS. They fled Syria to go to Turkey with their six children on Wednesday. De Standaard claimed they handed themselves in […]
Government & Politics
British IS fighters could be brought back to the UK to face prosecution The US has put significant pressure on Britain and other European allies to deal with hundreds of detained IS militants.
(Sky News) British Islamic State detainees will be brought back from Syria if they can be prosecuted in the UK and there is no better place to try their case, the national security adviser has said. Sir Mark Sedwill’s comments are the […]
Children & Teens
Syria Kurds say repatriated US child, German and children
(AFP) Syria’s Kurds have handed over an American toddler and three German children and their mother to their respective governments, a Kurdish official and a Kurdish source said on Saturday. After years of leading the battle against the Islamic State group in […]
Deradicalization
French jihadist gets 28 years for prison attack
(AFP) A Paris court on Friday sentenced a jailed Islamist radical to 28 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of two prison wardens in September 2016, the first jihadist attack in a French prison. Bilal Taghi was serving a five-year sentence for […]
Children & Teens
Radicalised French woman who left child in Syria sentenced to 14 years
(Radio France) A 38-year-old French woman, who took four children to Syria to join ISIS, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail on terrorism and child abduction charges. The accused is Jihane Makhzoumi. Since Monday, the 38-year-old has been appearing before a […]
Children & Teens
Dutch state not obliged to take back Islamic State children: appeals court
(Reuters) The Dutch state is not obliged to actively help repatriate the young children of women who left the Netherlands and joined Islamic State in Syria, an appeals court in The Hague said on Friday, overturning an earlier ruling. A lower court […]
Children & Teens
No more orphans expected to be returned to UK from Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Trump appeal in ‘no-fly list’ suit
(Reuters) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to shield FBI agents from a lawsuit by three American Muslim men who said they were placed on the government’s “no-fly list” for refusing to […]
Holidays
French city opens famed Christmas market year after attack
(AFP) The celebrated Christmas market in France’s eastern city of Strasbourg opened for another festive season on Friday, with shopkeepers and visitors vowing not to be cowed by an attack last year by a radical Islamist gunman that killed five people. The […]
Legal
Federal Court imposes interim control order on former Islamic State suspect
(ABC-Australia) An interim control order has been imposed on an Adelaide woman acquitted of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist group. A Federal Court judge imposed 20 of the 21 conditions sought by the federal government to control aspects of […]
Academics & Education
A new study offers a glimpse of the unrepentant Australian terrorist
(Sydney Morning Herald) New research has painted a chilling portrait of the “average” Australian Islamist terrorist by creating a database [of] about 173 citizens or residents who have been charged with terrorist offences or joined terrorist organisations. An Australian terrorist is likely […]
Children & Teens
Some orphaned British children in Syria to be repatriated (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
9 Belgian IS women escaped Kurdish camps: This is who they are
(Brussels Times) Since the Turkish invasion of Syria, nine Belgian women have managed to escape from the Kurdish camps where they were imprisoned, and some are trying to get back to Belgium. Nine Belgian women affiliated with the terrorist group Islamic State […]
Academics & Education
Calls to shut Swedish school where ‘ISIS teachers’ taught in classrooms Politicians demand closure of leading state-funded school accused of hiring former militants as teachers
(National-UAE) Calls are mounting for the closure of a leading state-funded Islamic school in Sweden that was accused of hiring ISIS fighters as teachers after their return from Syria. The chancellor of Vetenskapsskolan school in Gothenburg, Abdel Nasser El Nadi, has been […]
Government & Politics
Democratic lawmaker introduces bill to tackle online terrorist activity
(Hill) Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday introduced a bill that could help reduce the amount of terrorist content circulating across the country’s top social media platforms. The Raising the Bar Act would create a government-backed program to help tech companies eliminate the scourge of posts, images and videos […]
Citizenship
Minister says IS women deportation is ‘very disappointing’
(Dutch News) Justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus has told reporters it is extremely disappointing that Turkey has sent two ISIS women back to the Netherlands. The two women were picked up at Schiphol airport on Tuesday after being deported by Ankara. Grapperhaus said […]
Legal
Sister of French IS brothers jailed for terrorist association
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday jailed Anne Diana Clain, whose two brothers were notorious propagandists for Islamic State, for nine years for terrorist association. Paris’s criminal courts handed down the sentence to Clain, 44, for having attempted between 2015 and 2016 […]
Citizenship
Turkey sends two ISIS women, plus two children, back to the Netherlands
(Dutch News) Turkey has sent two Dutch women who joined IS forces in Syria five and six years ago back to the Netherlands, Dutch media said on Wednesday. One of the women, who has two children aged three and four, has been […]
News Media
Times journalist ‘agonised’ over promise to call sister of ISIS bride Shamima Begum before filing exclusive (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Britain is country worst affected by terrorism in EU, study reveals (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Chicago man accused of helping preserve Islamic State propaganda on social media Thomas Osadzinski, a 20-year-old college student, has been charged in a criminal complaint with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization
(Chicago Sun-Times) Thomas Osadzinski said he couldn’t just “sit in the chair while Muslims are dying,” so he allegedly studied bomb-making and promised he would not be stopped “once I get my gun and explosive belt.” But the 20-year-old Lake View resident […]
Law Enforcement
Officials: Germany foils alleged attack plan after US tip
(AP) German special police forces arrested a Syrian man in a raid on his apartment Tuesday after receiving intelligence from American officials that he was planning an extremist attack, authorities said. The 26-year-old “radical Islamist” was planning an attack in Germany designed […]