Legal
London man, 21, charged with eight terrorism offences (LINK ONLY)
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Terrorism
News: Europe
Manchester Arena inquiry: No sign bomber was extremist, friend says
(BBC) There was no indication the Manchester Arena bomber held extremist views and was planning a terrorist attack, his friend has told an inquiry. Alzoubare Mohammed said Salman Abedi “distanced himself” from friends and “would probably go to the mosque more often” […]
Legal
Bulgaria approves transfer of terrorism convict to Belgium
(AFP) A Bulgarian court on Monday authorised the transfer of a man convicted of terrorism to Belgium, where he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison in 2015. Yassine Lachiri was arrested in Bulgaria on November 10 after entering the […]
Legal
How the Islamic State ran its meticulous terror operation from Syria
(Radio France) During the past week at the Paris special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried over the November 2015 terrorist killings that cost 131 people their lives, witnesses offered a chilling glimpse of the methodology of murder elaborated by […]
Citizenship
Shamima Begum: IS bride insists she ‘didn’t hate Britain’ when she fled to Syria — and now wants to face trial in UK She left home in London aged 15 for the promise of paradise, instead she found 'hell, hell on Earth.' Begum rejects accusations that she carried out atrocities as part of IS as 'all completely false.'
(Sky News) Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl who fled to Syria and joined IS, has told Sky News she was groomed by friends and older men she met online before joining the terror group. Speaking from a prison camp in Syria, […]
Health & Medicine
Police fear terror threats flying below radar as reports to extremism scheme fall by a fifth (LINK ONLY)
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Apostasy
Liverpool bomber ‘reverted to Islam’ in months before attack (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
ISIS using TikTok to recruit young suicide bombers in bid to carry out Christmas attacks (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Court hears of family life and terrorist trajectories of slain Bataclan killers
(Radio France) On Friday, the special criminal court in Paris continued to hear evidence of anonymous police investigators, this time on the terrorist careers of the three Bataclan killers: Sami Amimour, Ismaël Mostefaï and Fouad Mohamed Aggad. Amimour appears to have become […]
Government & Politics
US wins appeal over keeping man in cold Detroit border cell
(AP) An appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against a U.S. border agent who was accused of wrongly detaining a young man for hours in a cold cell at a Detroit international bridge. In a 2-1 decision, the court said Friday that […]
Legal
Man jailed for plotting to kill police, attack buildings in terror acts has [sentence] reduced A man convicted over a crude terror plot to kill police officers and attack NSW government buildings has had his sentence reduced.
(NCA NewsWire) A man convicted of plotting to commit terrorist acts — some of which included killing police, attacking government buildings and engaging in “guerrilla warfare” — has had his jail term reduced. Jibryl Almaouie had pleaded guilty in 2017 to multiple […]
Law Enforcement
Liverpool bomb was made using homemade explosive with ball bearings (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Treat terrorism like other crime regarding mental health, says watchdog (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Priti Patel to announce plan to make support for Hamas illegal (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
The cruelty behind the Islamic State’s overseas terrorist operation
(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial on Thursday heard from two police witnesses. The first explained the way in which Islamic State organised its overseas terrorist operations. The second outlined the grisly career of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the Paris killers, himself […]
Legal
Manchester man faces jail after admitting terrorism crimes (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Liverpool bomb: Police trace relative of Emad Al Swealmeen
(BBC) Counter-terrorism officers have traced a relative of the Liverpool bomber and are due to speak to them, a police chief has said. Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said Iraq-born Emad Al Swealmeen had been officially named as the taxi passenger killed […]
Apostasy
Liverpool bomb: Church not aware of converts abusing asylum system
(BBC) The Church of England says it is not aware of any link between conversion and asylum system abuse after it emerged Liverpool bomb attacker Emad Al Swealmeen had become a Christian. Al Swealmeen, who died in the attack on Sunday, was […]
Legal
NYC man gets 38 years without parole for assisting ISIS, stabbing jail guard
(Essex Daily Voice) A Queens man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years without parole in federal prison for trying to support ISIS, followed by another eight years for assaulting a federal correctional officer. Ali Saleh, 28, will have to serve out just […]
Government & Politics
Former interior minister says he will be haunted by Paris attacks ‘until my last breath’
(Reuters) The minister in charge of France’s security at the time of the 2015 attacks in Paris in which Islamist gunmen killed 130 people told a court on Wednesday that he was haunted by the question of whether authorities could have done […]
Government & Politics
PM calls for improvement at ‘joining dots’ to identify potential terrorists (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
More patrols by armed police at key locations after terror threat raised (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Paris trial given theoretical and practical lessons on jihadist terrorism
(Radio France) The special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, heard two expert witnesses on Tuesday. Hugo Micheron is a researcher who has worked on radical Islam in […]
Law Enforcement
Italy arrests ‘IS teen’ with links to Vienna attacker
(AFP) Police in Italy arrested a 19-year-old Italian-Kosovar woman on Wednesday accused of belonging to the Islamic State group, who was said to be “willing to become a martyr” and had ties to the Vienna attacker. The woman, identified only by the […]
Immigration
Judge finds Omar Ameen can be removed from US, rejects claims Sacramento resident was terrorist
(Sacramento Bee) A federal immigration judge in Van Nuys ruled Tuesday that Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen lied on his application forms seeking entry to the United States and can be removed from the country, but she said the government had not proven […]
Apostasy
Concerns raised about asylum seekers in Liverpool ‘pretending to convert’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Liverpool bomb: Judges had refused attacker permission to appeal to stay in UK
(BBC) The Liverpool bomb attacker was a failed asylum seeker who had been refused permission by judges to appeal to stay in the country. It had been reported — but unconfirmed — that Emad Al Swealmeen lost his asylum claim as long […]
Deradicalization
First Canadian convicted of leaving to join terror group sent back to prison over threats
(Global News) The first Canadian convicted of attempting to leave the country to join a terrorist group has been sent back to prison after allegedly threatening staff at the community home where he was living while taking part in a de-radicalization program. […]
Health & Medicine
Germany: Islamic extremist motive possible in train attack
(AP) German prosecutors say they are no longer ruling out an Islamic extremist motive in a knife attack on a train earlier this month that left four people wounded. Prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday that Islamic State group propaganda videos had been […]
Legal
Germany charges Syrian man in alleged extremist attack plan
(AP) A Syrian man who allegedly supported the Islamic State group’s ideology has been charged with making preparations for an attack in Germany, prosecutors said Tuesday. The suspect, who was identified only as Abdullah H. in keeping with German privacy rules, was […]
Law Enforcement
Liverpool Women’s Hospital explosion: Police name suspect killed in blast
(BBC) The man who died when a homemade bomb exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital has been named by police as Emad Al Swealmeen. The 32-year-old was a passenger in a taxi when his device blew up shortly before 11:00 GMT on Remembrance […]
News: Europe
Iraq war vet turned jihadi who went to Syria twice and tried to source guns for terror network is freed from jail (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Liverpool Women’s Hospital explosion: Terror threat level raised to ‘severe’
(BBC) The UK terror threat level has been raised to “severe” after an explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Taxi driver David Perry survived the blast but his passenger was killed when a homemade bomb exploded shortly before 11:00 GMT on Remembrance Sunday. […]
Law Enforcement
Liverpool hospital explosion: Counter-terror police arrest three men after taxi blast (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
ISIS bride Shamima Begum ‘fears for life’ after fanatics try to set tent on fire (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
France’s far-right Zemmour under fire over Bataclan tirade
(AFP) French far-right presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour came under fire on Sunday for delivering a blistering attack on ex-president Francois Hollande’s migration policy during commemorations marking the November 2015 Paris attacks. Zemmour, an ultra-nationalist TV pundit who has made no secret of […]
Government & Politics
A week of contrasts at Paris attacks trial, as France marked 6th anniversary of the massacres
(Radio France) A short week of sharp contrasts at the Paris special criminal court where the trial is taking place of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings in the French capital. With the 11 November national holiday, and […]
News: Europe
Escape attempt with bedsheets thwarted at Paris prison
(AP) French prison guards thwarted an escape attempt from the Paris region’s second-largest jail on Sunday, with French media identifying the would-be escapee as a suspected Islamic State sympathizer who dug a hole in the wall of her cell and rappelled out […]
Government & Politics
Harris, French PM lay wreaths six years on from Paris terror attacks
(AFP) US Vice President Kamala Harris and French Prime Minister Jean Castex laid wreaths at a Paris cafe and France’s national football stadium Saturday, six years since deadly terror attacks that left 130 people dead. The attacks by three separate teams of […]
Children & Teens
Mother of Canadian girl freed from ISIS detention camp in Syria heading to Canada soon Woman may return to Canada as early as next week, lawyer says
(CBC) The Canadian government has issued an emergency passport to the mother of a young girl who was freed from an ISIS detention camp in northeastern Syria earlier this year so she can return home to Canada and reunite with her daughter. “It’s […]
Clerics & Preachers
Paris Muslim leaders mark 6 years since Bataclan attacks
(AP) The Paris Mosque is marking the sixth anniversary Friday of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital that killed 90 people. Muslim leaders laid a wreath at the venue in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, one day before a […]
Clothing
Man admits terror offences after wearing T-shirts supporting banned Palestinian groups (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Organizer of 2010 Gaza flotilla launches congressional campaign Terrorist lawyer Huwaida Arraf says in campaign launch she's 'not afraid of a fight'
(Free Beacon) An anti-Israel activist who helped organize the 2010 flotilla of ships to the Gaza Strip and was the lawyer for a Palestinian terrorist who killed two Jewish college students is running for Congress as a Democrat in Michigan. Huwaida Arraf, […]
Law Enforcement
‘Allahu Akbar’ knifeman fatally shot in Oslo attempted similar attack in 2019
(Breitbart) A 33-year-old Russian national who was shot in Oslo on Tuesday after attempting to carry out a knife attack on random bystanders was also behind a similar attack that took place in 2019. The 33-year-old, who was shirtless and barefoot at […]
Clothing
Man charged with terror offence after wearing T-shirt ‘promoting banned group’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Belgium terrorism convict arrested in Bulgaria
(AFP) A man convicted of terrorism in Belgium has been detained as he entered Bulgaria through its southeastern border with Turkey, prosecutors announced Thursday. Border police and state security agents intercepted the man on Wednesday in a special operation, the prosecution said […]
Health & Medicine
Military-grade first aid kits to be put in crowded places to ‘increase survivability’ after terror attacks (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
The Netherlands to try to repatriate five terrorist suspects from Syria
(Dutch News) The government plans to try to bring five Dutch terrorist suspects back from Syria to ensure they don’t escape trial, justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus has told MPs. The decision follows Rotterdam court rulings, which said the cases could be suspended […]
Government & Politics
‘No evidence’ that longer prison sentences will deter terrorists, watchdog warns (LINK ONLY)
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History
History lessons to help us understand the brutality of modern jihadism
(Radio France) There was yet another dramatic shift in the emotional temperature at the Paris attacks trial on Tuesday, as two anonymous and invisible police investigators gave lectures on the history of Islamic holy war and the Syrian context of the 2015 […]