Terrorism – Page 71 – Eye on Islamism

Terror laws: Australian Human Rights Commission, AFP weigh in on review Controversial legislation that aims to keep terrorists behind bars — even after they’ve completed their jail terms — has been subjected to intense scrutiny.

November 21, 2022 Madeleine Achenza and Adelaide Lang

(NCA NewsWire) A controversial law that aims to keep terrorists behind bars after the completion of their prison sentences is under review. On Monday the independent national security legislation monitor (INSLM), Grant Donaldson SC, continued his assessment of Division 105A of the […]

Shamima Begum was sexually exploited by ISIS, appeal hearing told Ms Begum, now 23, left Britain with two friends from the Bethnal Green Academy in east London, who are thought to have been killed in the conflict.

November 21, 2022 Duncan Gardham

(Sky News) Shamima Begum, the jihadi bride, was trafficked by ISIS for sexual exploitation, her lawyers have told a hearing to appeal against her deprivation of citizenship. She launched her main appeal against the decision, with her lawyers telling a tribunal: “Shamima […]

Spain to repatriate women and children from Syria

November 21, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Spain has decided to repatriate several Spanish wives and children of Islamic State fighters from jihadist detention camps in Syria, the government said Monday. The return of relatives of captured or killed jihadist fighters from Syria and Iraq has been a […]

Shamima Begum ‘knew what she was doing’ with move to Syria, MI5 officer tells court

November 21, 2022 Unlisted Author

(ITV) Shamima Begum “in some respects … would have known what she was doing” when she travelled to Syria as a teenager to join a terror group, an MI5 officer has told a court. Ms Begum, now 23, was 15 when she […]

Top counter-terror chiefs and victims’ families warn lives at risk if ‘Martyn’s Law’ delayed

November 20, 2022 Unlisted Author

(ITV) Lives are at risk because ministers are dragging their feet with a law requiring venues to improve their security, counter-terror chiefs and victims’ families have warned. Britain’s former top counter-terror officer Neil Basu joined Figen Murray, whose son died in the […]

Dominic Raab warns terrorists over further prison time

November 20, 2022 Rachel Russell

(BBC) Terrorist offenders will face longer sentences if they commit crime while in prison, Dominic Raab has said. Currently, prisoners will usually get a maximum sentence of 42 days for offences carried out behind bars. But the justice secretary says crimes committed […]

Ex-Canadian spy calls for Shamima Begum’s UK return after spy agency ‘cover-up’

November 18, 2022 Rohit Kachroo

(ITV) A former Canadian intelligence officer has called for Shamima Begum to be returned to the UK because of what she claims were failures and a cover-up involving the spy agency she once worked for. Huda Mukbil, who used to be a […]

Denmark jails IS ‘wife’ for three years

November 18, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A 35-year-old Danish woman was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for entering Syria and promoting the Islamic State (IS) group’s activities, prosecutors in Denmark said. During the mother of five’s trial, the prosecutor had argued that wives were […]

Birmingham man and boy accused of planning to join IS

November 18, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A man and a teenage boy from Birmingham have appeared at the Old Bailey accused of planning to join the Islamic State group in Afghanistan. Muhammad Abdul Haleem Heyder Khan, 20, and a 17-year-old who cannot be named due to his […]

Schaerbeek murder: Liberal leader calls for external oversight of judiciary

November 17, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Brussels Times) Georges-Louis Bouchez, president of French-speaking liberal party MR, repeated on Wednesday his call for an independent body to oversee the justice system after the assailant who murdered a police [officer] last week was found to have already been under increased […]

Former DePaul University student gets 7.5 years for trying to help Islamic State with computer program Thomas Osadzinski’s prosecution was believed to be the first of its kind when it began three years ago — a terrorism case brought against a U.S.-based defendant involving computer code.

November 17, 2022 Jon Seidel

(Chicago Sun-Times) An unusual terrorism case in Chicago came to a close Thursday when a federal judge handed a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence to a former DePaul University student who tried to aid the Islamic State with a computer script. Before he was […]

France has released 343 convicted Islamist terrorists in last four years

November 15, 2022 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) Over the last four years, France has released 343 convicted terrorists from prison, releasing 72 so far this year, with detainees still considered threats and placed under intelligence and judicial supervision. Islamic terrorist convicts are still numerous in French prisons, with […]

Michigan man linked to ISIS, charged with attempting to support terrorism

November 15, 2022 Frank Witsil

(Detroit Free Press) Federal officials charged a former metro Detroit man with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, a terrorist organization, and for being a felon in possession of a destructive device. The indictment, which […]

Suspected Brussels police killer had hundreds of Islamic books at residence

November 15, 2022 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) The main suspect in an alleged terrorist attack that left one police officer dead and another injured last week in Brussels is said to have been in possession of hundreds of Islamic books. Yassine Mahi, the man arrested for the killing […]

Government rejects returning Canadians from ISIS camps in Syria

November 15, 2022 Stewart Bell

(Global News) It would be “unprecedented and unprincipled” to help Canadian ISIS suspects detained in Syria, the federal government has argued in a court filing. Responding to a lawsuit by the families of Canadians captured during the fight against ISIS, the government […]

Police attack: Deradicalisation centre wanted ‘full psychological follow-up’ of suspect

November 15, 2022 Maïthé Chini

(Brussels Times) The deradicalisation centre for the support and care of anyone affected by violent extremism and radicalism (Caprev), which followed up on the suspect of the knife attack — Yassine M. — that killed one police officer and gravely injured another […]

France pays homage to Paris terrorism attacks seven years on Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and former president François Hollande have paid homage to the victims of the attacks today (November 13) in memory of the 130 who lost their lives

November 13, 2022 Hannah Thompson

(Connexion) French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is among those to have paid homage to the victims of the terrorist attacks of November 13, seven years after 130 died and 350 were injured. A minute of silence was observed today, November 13, 2022, […]

Jihadist who ‘wanted to martyr himself on Remembrance Day’ arrested in Murcia

November 11, 2022 Vickie Scullard

(Euro Weekly) The National Police in Spain say they have detailed a jihadist in Murcia who planned to martyr himself today, on Remembrance Day. The detainee, who allegedly consumed “violent and propaganda material of a jihadist nature,” had also “expressed his desire […]

Fatal stabbing of Belgian officer raises security questions

November 11, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Belgian authorities faced questions Friday over how a convict on a terrorism watch list was able to stab a police officer to death, hours after making threats and demanding psychiatric treatment. Between 2016 and 2018, Belgium faced a wave of deadly […]

Belgium stabbing suspect was on list of potential extremists

November 11, 2022 Raf Casert

(AP) Belgian authorities said Friday that the lone assailant who killed one police officer and wounded another in a stabbing attack had been on a counterterrorism list of potential extremists. The Belgian suspect, who had served six years in prison for common-law […]

Man planned to carry out terror attack in Auckland, inspired by previous mall attack

November 10, 2022 Catrin Owen

(Stuff) An Auckland man told a person on social media he wanted to kill “non-Muslims” and began planning a terror attack in New Zealand, Stuff can now report. The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted […]

Convicted al-Qaida terrorist trainer returned to England

November 10, 2022 Flint McColgan

(Boston Herald) ICE agents returned a British-born member of al-Qaida, who pleaded guilty in 2015 to trying to start a terrorist training camp in Oregon, to England. Haroon Rashid Aswat, 48, of Batley in West Yorkshire, England, had been at a federal […]

Police officer killed in suspected Brussels terror attack

November 10, 2022 Samuel Petrequin and Raf Casert

(AP) A lone assailant killed one police officer and wounded another Thursday in a stabbing attack that two Belgian judicial officials said was suspected to be terrorism-linked. The suspect was shot and taken to a hospital. Eric Van der Sypt, from the […]

Prosecutors charge New Jersey teen whose Islamist manifesto threatened synagogue attack

November 10, 2022 Asaf Elia-Shalev

(JTA) Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged a New Jersey teenager with extremist Islamist views with making the threat that led to a sweeping FBI warning for the state’s synagogues last week. Omar Alkattoul, 18, of Sayreville, New Jersey, is charged with […]

Man admits threatening to kill non-Muslims, distributing Isis video

November 9, 2022 Catrin Owen

(Stuff) An Auckland man has admitted threatening to kill “non-Muslims” and distributing an Isis video. The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted threatening to kill, two charges of distributing objectionable publications and six counts of […]

Migrant banned from Europe and on terror watchlist arrested in Paris no-go suburb

November 9, 2022 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) A Tunisian migrant banned from entering Europe and on a French terrorist watchlist was arrested in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis on Sunday. The 24-year-old Tunisian migrant named Omar J. was arrested last Sunday in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis and […]

AFP faces grilling over ISIS brides in senate estimates The women who returned to Australia after marrying ISIS fighters are under ongoing investigation, federal police have revealed.

November 8, 2022 Ellen Ransley

(NCA NewsWire) The four “ISIS brides” repatriated to Australia alongside their children could be subjected to control orders, with the matter under investigation. The Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw told senate estimates there was also an active investigation into whether the […]

Denmark charges Islamic State women for promoting terrorism

November 6, 2022 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) Danish prosecutors have charged three women, all in their thirties, for promoting terrorism after travelling to Syria where they joined the Islamic State and married members of the jihadist terror organisation. The three women, aged 33, 35, and 38, have been […]

Twelve women remanded into custody on terrorism charges after arrival from Syria

November 5, 2022 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The 12 women suspected of terrorism who were picked up from northern Syria on Tuesday will remain in custody for two more weeks, the examining magistrate of the court in Rotterdam decided on Friday. The women and their 28 children […]

Terrorist Abdeslam marries woman he never met in jail

November 4, 2022 Thomas Moller-Nielsen

(Brussels Times) French terrorist Salah Abdeslam — who is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 2015 Paris terror attacks — has married a woman he has never met, French media has reported. According to RTL France, Abdeslam, 33, […]

Manchester Arena attack: Key failings of emergency response

November 3, 2022 Emma Stanley

(BBC) The Manchester Arena inquiry has published a catalogue of failings and mistakes by the emergency services following the terror attack in 2017. Chairman Sir John Saunders highlighted a number of failures of the emergency response to the suicide bombing and said […]

Vic Libs reject ‘ISIS brides’ resettlement

November 2, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AAP) The impending resettlement of more relatives of Islamic State fighters has reared as a Victorian election issue, with the state opposition objecting. A group of 17 Australian women and children who have been in the al-Roj camp in Syria since the […]

Swiss government comes out against ban on Hezbollah group

November 2, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) The government says it has no plans to ban the Islamist militant Hezbollah group in Switzerland as it posed no major terrorist threat. The Lebanon-based group is not very active in Switzerland and no fundraising or other financial activities are […]

Kansas woman Allison Fluke-Ekren, who led all-female ISIS battalion, sentenced to 20 years in prison

November 1, 2022 Cristina Corujo and Robert Legare

(CBS) The Kansas woman who admitted she discussed an attack on an American college and trained over 100 fighters in an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria, 42-year-old Allison Fluke-Ekren, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison and 25 years of supervised […]

Netherlands to pick up 12 women in Syria on terrorism charges, along with 28 children

November 1, 2022 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) Twelve Dutch women were picked up in Syria and will be transported to the Netherlands where they will be taken into custody for crimes related to terrorism offenses, the Dutch Cabinet confirmed on Tuesday. Their 28 children were also collected, […]

Women, kids detained in ISIS camps should be repatriated to Canada quickly: expert

October 30, 2022 Sidhartha Banerjee

(Canadian Press) A psychiatrist involved in efforts to support children of Canadian women detained in Syria after travelling to join the Islamic State is urging Ottawa to speed up repatriation efforts. Dr. Cécile Rousseau, a pediatric psychiatrist at McGill University and an […]

Four women and 13 children return home to Australia from Syria after secret flight A ‘joyous’ father has been reunited with his daughter and grandchildren after four Islamic State families returned to Australia.

October 29, 2022 Hamish Spence and Madeleine Achenza

(NCA NewsWire) An emotional man has been reunited with his daughter and grandchildren as four families returned home to Australia after being taken from a camp for Islamic State families in Syria. Seventeen people — four women and 13 children — touched […]

‘Demonises Muslims’ — UK officials censor name, ethnicity of London terrorist in report

October 28, 2022 Jack Montgomery

(Breitbart) Local government officials in England will censor the name and ethnicity of the London Bridge terrorist in an official report, to avoid “demonising” Muslims. The Safeguarding Overview and Scrutiny Committee of Staffordshire County Council produced the report on Usman Khan, who stabbed […]

Australian women and children returning to Sydney from Syrian detention camp, where they were held after the fall of Islamic State

October 28, 2022 Suzanne Dredge and Dylan Welch

(ABC-Australia) The first group of Australian women and children held in a detention camp in north-east Syria since the fall of the Islamic State (IS) group in 2019 is en route to Sydney. The ABC can reveal four women and 13 children […]

B.C. wife of ISIS fighter is released on bail, pending peace bond hearing

October 27, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Canadian Press) A British Columbia woman who was repatriated to Canada from a detention camp in Syria this week after marrying an ISIS fighter has been granted bail pending a peace bond hearing. Kimberly Polman will be released on recognizance and will […]

Toronto 18 terrorist leader gets parole after RCMP interrogation to show he isn’t a threat The intense scrutiny of Zakaria Amara's radicalization and subsequent deradicalization while in prison for the past 17 years was his idea. And it paid off

October 27, 2022 Adrian Humphreys

(National Post) Zakaria Amara, leader of an al-Qaida-inspired terrorist plot to explode truck bombs in Ontario in 2006, recently faced two days of interrogation by RCMP national security investigators to assess what threat he might still pose as he sought release on […]

Quebec woman returning from Syria with children charged with joining Islamic State

October 26, 2022 Sidhartha Banerjee

(Canadian Press) A Quebec woman who allegedly travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group has been repatriated from a detention camp in Syria and is facing terrorism charges, the RCMP said Wednesday. Oumaima Chouay faces charges of leaving Canada […]

Crown to seek ‘terrorism peace bond’ against B.C. woman who married ISIS fighter Kimberly Polman has been detained for 3 years at al-Roj Syrian detention camp for families of ISIS fighters

October 26, 2022 Jason Proctor

(CBC) A provincial court judge will hold a bail hearing Thursday morning for a B.C. woman who returned to Canada this week after years spent in Syria as the bride of an ISIS fighter. Kimberly Polman made a brief appearance in Chilliwack provincial […]

2 women arrested in Canada after coming home from Syrian camp for ISIS fighters’ families 2 women and 2 children were repatriated from northeast Syria, Global Affairs Canada confirms

October 26, 2022 Ashley Burke

(CBC) Police have arrested two Canadian women and charged one with terrorism-related offences after the federal government repatriated them from a detention camp in Syria for ISIS fighters’ family members. The RCMP said it arrested Oumaima Chouay on terrorism charges Tuesday night […]

At least 2 Canadian women and their children returning from ISIS detention camp Source said they've learned Canadian Kimberly Polman has left the camp

October 25, 2022 Ashley Burke, Margaret Evans and Stephanie Jenzer

(CBC) At least two Canadian women have left a detention camp in Syria and will be arriving in Canada on Wednesday morning, CBC News has learned. The women left the al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria — which holds women allegedly tied to […]

Man jailed in France for online hate speech against Nice attack victims

October 25, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Euronews) A man has been jailed in France for posting online hate speech messages targeting victims of the 2016 Nice terror attack. The 21-year-old was found to have “praised” the attack on Instagram, posting that “80 fascists had disappeared.” Several videos and […]

‘Allahu akbar’ knifeman with deportation order arrested by French police

October 25, 2022 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) A man already subject to a deportation order from France was arrested over the weekend in the commune of Saint-Etienne after he publicly yelled “Allahu akbar” in the street while carrying a knife. The man, aged 31, was arrested on Saturday evening […]

Rashida Tlaib: Terrorist-affiliated charities ‘inspire me every single day’

October 24, 2022 Steven Emerson

(IPT) When U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib argued last month that true progressives cannot “back Israel’s apartheid government,” she and her supporters insisted it wasn’t an antisemitic statement covering the vast majority of American Jews. As I noted at the time, however, the […]

Family details horrific abuse at hands of female ISIS leader

October 24, 2022 Matthew Barakat

(AP) A Kansas native convicted of leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group had a long history of monstrous behavior that included sexual and physical abuse of her own children, family members said in court filings. Prosecutors cited the abuse […]

Man jailed over drone plot against Barcelona-Madrid match

October 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A man who received orders from the jihadist Islamic State group to carry out a drone attack against a Barcelona-Real Madrid football match was sentenced Monday by a Spanish court to three years in jail. Mohammed Yassi Amrani, a former bar […]