Crime
Man charged with criminal damage after Manchester Arena memorial vandalised (LINK ONLY)
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Terrorism
Legal
Birmingham woman who shared extremist material jailed
(BBC) A woman convicted of terrorism offences after sharing extreme videos has been jailed for five-and-a-half years. Aaminah Amatullah, 39, sent images of dead bodies, including children, to an online contact, who was in fact an undercover police officer. Sentencing at Birmingham […]
Citizenship
UK handing ‘propaganda gift to Isis’ by refusing to repatriate detainees from Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Meaningless media frenzy greets Abdeslam who takes the stand to say nothing new
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the Palais de Justice in central Paris was invaded by hordes of journalists anxious to report on the testimony of Salah Abdeslam, brother of one of the suicide bombers, and the sole survivor of the attack teams who […]
News Media
Saudi Arabia backed anti-Iran TV channel in Netherlands tied to terror convictions: report
(NL Times) Research by radio program Argos, the Danish public broadcaster DR and the Norwegian NRK has revealed that the anti-Iranian satellite channel Ahwazna TV in Rijswijk has been receiving money from the Saudi Arabian intelligence service. The Danish-led wing of the […]
Legal
10th Circuit reinstates group prayer lawsuit of 1993 WTC bomber
(Colorado Politics) The federal appeals court based in Denver has reinstated a Muslim inmate’s religious liberty lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, finding a lower court misunderstood the level of access prison officials were providing to group prayer. A three-judge panel […]
Legal
Germany: Suspected ‘IS’ wife charged with war crimes The German national is believed to have married several members of the 'Islamic State' terrorist organization. One of her alleged husbands had kept a Yazidi woman as a slave.
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities have pressed war crimes charges against a suspected member of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS), the federal prosecutor general in Karlsruhe announced Wednesday. What do we know so far? The German national, Jalda A., is believed to have married several members of […]
Interfaith
‘Lady Al Qaeda’ social media campaign surged before Texas synagogue attack: report A social media campaign to free Aafia Siddiqui spiked before Malik Akram attacked the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas
(Fox) Researchers say they’ve uncovered a coordinated spike in Twitter activity sympathetic to the convicted terrorist “Lady Al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui leading up to the hostage crisis at Texas’ Congregation Beth Israel, where an Islamic extremist demanded her release from a U.S. […]
Legal
Paris attacks suspect claims backed out of suicide bomb plan
(AFP) The only suspected assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 claimed Wednesday he went back on a plan to blow himself up, as he took the stand for the first time in the trial over […]
Legal
‘I can’t give her back her daughter. But I owe that woman an answer to her questions’
(Radio France) Tuesday’s main witness at the Paris terror trial was the 28-year-old Tunisian, Sofien Ayari. He was arrested in Brussels at the same time as Salah Abdeslam, engaging in a gun battle with police officers. On the basis of DNA evidence, […]
Government & Politics
Terror attacks: UK threat level lowered to ‘substantial’
(BBC) The UK’s terror threat level has been lowered from severe to substantial, meaning a terror attack on British soil is considered “likely.” The level was raised to severe — where an attack is “highly likely” — after two terror attacks late […]
Government & Politics
German intelligence on alert for extremists travelling to Afghanistan Intelligence chief says Al Qaeda could establish new training camps in country
(National-UAE) German security services are bracing themselves for the possibility of extremists in Europe travelling to Afghanistan to fight or train with Al Qaeda. Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, said the Taliban’s return to power had made Afghanistan […]
Children & Teens
Kingston, Ont., teen handed three-year sentence for terror charges
(Canadian Press) A Kingston, Ont., teen who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges was handed a three-year sentence on Wednesday, as an Ontario judge agreed the youth was unlikely to reoffend and commended his progress “in the face of enormous obstacles” while detained […]
Legal
Lisa Smith watched ‘barbaric’ Isis drowning video before going to Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Burnley M&S double stabbing trial jury discharged
(BBC) The jury in the trial of a man alleged to have tried to kill two women in a department store has been discharged. The manager of Marks & Spencer in Burnley, Lancashire, was wounded in the neck and a customer was […]
Law Enforcement
Potential new ‘Sharia4Belgium’: 13 arrests in terror case involving jihadist propaganda
(Brussels Times) Thirteen suspected members of a terrorist group were arrested in a major police operation in Antwerp on Tuesday morning. The suspects were alleged to have distributed jihadist propaganda, De Standaard reports. Nearly 100 investigators of the federal judicial police raided […]
News: Europe
Two suspected British Islamic State recruits seized by Taliban at border (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Alleged Islamic State member Lisa Smith told gardaí that prosecution witness was a ‘liar’ — trial hears (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Supreme Court frontrunner was a zealous advocate for Gitmo terror suspects Ketanji Brown Jackson pushed conspiracy theories about Bush administration policies, records show
(Free Beacon) Supreme Court frontrunner Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was an active and dedicated advocate for terror suspects housed at Guantanamo Bay, contrary to press accounts and her own representations. Jackson has portrayed her work for the detainees as that of a […]
Law Enforcement
Islamist who escaped Italy jail caught in France Terror suspect arrested at Metz, 2nd man still on the run
(ANSA) A suspected “radicalised” Moroccan Islamist suspected of terrorism who escaped from Avellino jail south of Naples on January 11 was caught at Metz in northeast France Sunday, but a second jail breaker, a 21-year-old Romanian, is still on the run, sources […]
Legal
‘Fish brain’ terror plotter Hamza Abbas launches new legal fight A 'fish brain' terror plotter locked up for planning to behead people at an iconic Melbourne location has launched a fresh legal fight.
(NCA NewsWire) One of the men who helped plot a Christmas Day terror attack to behead and bomb people at an iconic Melbourne location is arguing the jury verdict was “unsafe and unsatisfactory.” Hamza Abbas was found guilty of committing an act […]
Academics & Education
Imam who supported an al-Qaeda terrorist is given the green light to open a nursery by Ofsted (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Biden, Dem lawmakers take cash from convicted terrorist financier
(NY Post) A convicted felon accused by the US government of supporting “the cause of violent jihad” — and promoting 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden — donated to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and a host of progressive Democrats following his release from […]
Legal
A good man surrounded by ‘barbarians, mentally ill psychopaths’
(Radio France) Abdellah Chouaa is suspected of having helped with the preparation of the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks which cost 131 people their lives. He risks 20 years in prison if convicted. On Friday he gave evidence about himself, and about […]
Academics & Education
Student who praised terrorists as ‘heroes’ gets academic role at Sheffield Hallam University (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Saudi-backed Iran spies found guilty in Denmark
(BBC) A Danish court has found three members of an Iranian opposition group guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia. The three men were detained by police in February 2020 and are members of the Saudi-backed Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of […]
Legal
Repatriated Dutch women to face IS terror charges
(AFP) Five woman jihadist travellers are expected to appear in a Rotterdam court Monday on terror charges after being repatriated from a Syrian refugee camp, prosecutors said Friday. The five women and 11 children arrived in the Netherlands earlier in the day, […]
Legal
Minor participants Attou and Oulkadi testify at Paris attacks trial
(Radio France) On Thursday, it was the turn of Hamza Attou and Ali Oulkadi to give evidence at the Paris attacks trial. Both are suspected of having helped Salah Abdeslam, the only member of the Paris terror squads still alive, to avoid […]
Law Enforcement
American who got Lisa Smith out of women’s ‘prison’ wanted by FBI, court told (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Second Swiss man cleared of involvement in Vienna attack
(Swiss Info) Federal prosecutors have now cleared both Swiss nationals suspected of supporting the November 2020 terror attack which killed four people in Vienna. The pair were arrested in November 2020 on suspicion of having made a “causal contribution to support or […]
Legal
Kansas woman charged with leading an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria ordered jailed ahead of trial
(CBS) The Kansas woman accused of traveling to Syria in support of the Islamic State was ordered detained pending trial on Thursday following her arrest late last month. Allison Fluke-Ekren, described in charging documents as a mother and teacher turned ISIS battalion […]
Legal
Florida man sentenced to 16 years for publishing online propaganda to aid ISIS terrorists
(Miami Herald) A Cuban-born man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to supporting a foreign terrorist group by distributing propaganda videos on social media, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami said Wednesday. Jonathan Guerra Blanco, 24, who […]
Children & Teens
Dutch pick up 5 mothers, 11 kids in Syria; women to be prosecuted for ISIS ties
(NL Times) The Netherlands collected five Dutch women and their 11 children from a Kurdish refugee camp in northern Syria. They’ll be brought to the Netherlands so that the women can be prosecuted for participation in terrorist organization ISIS, insiders told NOS. […]
Legal
Accused terrorist Yassine Atar’s family says his only crime is being related to his brother
(Radio France) Yassine Atar faces a life sentence for his suspected role in providing a hideout for the terrorists who killed 131 people in the November 2015 attacks in Paris. Along with close family members, he took the stand Tuesday and Wednesday, […]
Legal
Lisa Smith believed she would ‘burn in hell’ if she did not go to caliphate (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Burnley M&S attacker’s knife got stuck in victim’s bag, court hears
(BBC) A man who attacked a shopper in a Marks & Spencer store would have continued to stab her if his weapon had not jammed in her handbag strap, a jury has heard. Munawar Hussain, 58, stabbed Janet Dell and the store […]
Legal
Lisa Smith moved to Syria to help build Muslim state, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Special Criminal Court rules Lisa Smith arrest was lawful
(RTÉ) A former Defence Forces member accused of terrorist offences has lost a challenge in court to the legality of her arrest just over two years ago. Lisa Smith has pleaded not guilty to financing terrorism and membership of the terrorist organisation […]
Interfaith
Did YouTube hate videos inspire Texas synagogue siege? (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Berlin highway attack suspect kept at psychiatric clinic
(AP) A Berlin court has ordered a man who deliberately drove a car into other vehicles on a highway in the German capital in 2020 held at a psychiatric hospital, ruling that he can’t be held criminally responsible for his actions. The […]
Government & Politics
Bern and Vienna vow to boost cooperation on migrants and terrorism
(Swiss Info) Switzerland and Austria want to strengthen cooperation on migration and security, they said on Tuesday. This came at a meeting in Vienna between Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter and her new Austrian counterpart Gerhard Karner. Their talks focused on European […]
News: North America
Accused American ISIS leader ‘highly intelligent’ and ‘marksman’: former friend A detention hearing is set for Thursday afternoon.
(ABC) The Kansas woman who allegedly “fantasized” about committing an attack against the United States was a “highly intelligent” mom and teacher who became increasingly radicalized when she lived overseas and sowed division in her family, a former friend of hers told […]
Legal
‘This f***er’s not having me’: M&S manager describes escape from knife attacker who believed department store ‘funded Israel’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Lisa Smith lawyers challenge legality of her arrest when she returned to Ireland (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Revealed: How fake passports allow IS members to enter Europe and US (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Family wants no contact with woman facing terrorism charge
(AP) The family of a Kansas woman charged with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all-female battalion says they want nothing to do with her, a prosecutor said Monday. Allison Ekren, 42, made an initial appearance on Monday afternoon in […]
Interfaith
Texas synagogue siege: Second man held in Manchester released
(BBC) The second of two men arrested in Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue siege has been released without charge. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead after a standoff with police on 15 […]
Military
Terrorist who plotted to kidnap and murder soldier denied parole (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Britain’s youngest Islamist terrorist back behind bars (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Paris attacks accused fails to live up to the glowing image painted by his father, wife
(Radio France) On Friday, it was the turn of Mohammed Amri to testify before the Paris court trying himself and 19 other individuals for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 massacres which cost 131 people their lives. Amri admits that he […]