Government & Politics
Police investigate whether David Amess specially targeted for killing (LINK ONLY)
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Terrorism
Government & Politics
Sir David Amess: MP murder suspect held under Terrorism Act
(BBC) The man arrested by police following the killing of the MP Sir David Amess has been named as Ali Harbi Ali. The 25-year-old is being held under the Terrorism Act and officers have until Friday to question him. Whitehall officials confirmed […]
Legal
A day of disruption, sadness and rage as Bataclan survivors continue to testify
(Radio France) Friday’s session at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged participation in the November 2015 terrorist attacks, heard the anger and grief of the survivors and their families expressed in different accents, […]
Government & Politics
Risks related to terrorist-linked migrants brought under control — Lithuanian officials
(Baltic Times) Migrants suspected of being linked to terrorist organizations have been isolated and pose no threat, Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas and Laurynas Kasciunas, chairman of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, said on Friday. Speaking with journalists in […]
Legal
Time is taking a heavy toll, say broken families of Paris attacks victims
(Radio France) There are no easy days at the Paris attacks [trial], but Thursday’s evidence from the families of victims was particularly intense. We heard from a woman who lost her sister in the attack on the Belle Équipe restaurant in central […]
Government & Politics
David Amess: MP’s killing declared a terrorist incident (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
French schools hail teacher killed over Mohammed cartoon
(AFP) Pupils in schools across France on Friday paid tribute to Samuel Paty, a year after the teacher was beheaded by an extremist for showing his class cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Paty’s violent death sent shockwaves through France and beyond, […]
Health & Medicine
Mental illness may have triggered Norway bow-and-arrow attack
(AFP) A bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead this week appears to have been motivated by mental illness, authorities indicated Friday, as the perpetrator was ordered to be kept in a medical facility. Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish […]
Government & Politics
MP David Amess dies after being stabbed at constituency meeting (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Manchester Arena inquiry: Bomber’s friend ordered to give evidence
(BBC) A friend of the Manchester Arena bomber will be forced to answer questions at the inquiry into the atrocity or face arrest, a judge has ruled. Ahmed Taghdi, 29, helped to buy a car which was used to store components of […]
Legal
Bataclan murders: A mother remembers the day the sun went out
(Radio France) Wednesday’s Paris terror trial hearing opened with evidence from Luciana Milani Solesin, the mother of Italian national Valeria Solesin, who was murdered by Islamists at the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital on 13 November 2015. Behind the dignified […]
Law Enforcement
Norway bow-and-arrow attack appears to be ‘act of terror’ — police
(Reuters) A bow-and-arrow attack in which a Danish convert to Islam is suspected of killing five people in a Norwegian town appears to have been an “act of terror,” police said on Thursday. Investigators named the suspect as Espen Andersen Braathen, a […]
News: Europe
Manchester Arena inquiry: Terror offender ‘will not answer questions’
(BBC) A convicted terror offender who was the Manchester Arena bomber’s friend has refused to co-operate with the inquiry into the attack, his lawyers have said. Abdalraouf Abdallah, from Manchester, was visited by Salman Abedi in jail in the months before his […]
Legal
Reading terror attacker loses bid to appeal whole-life prison sentence (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Assailant with bow and arrows kills 5 people in Norway
(AP) A man armed with a bow fired arrows at shoppers in a small Norwegian town Wednesday, killing five people before he was arrested, authorities said. The police chief in the community of Kongsberg, near the capital of Oslo, said there was […]
Legal
Justices seem set to revive marathon bomber’s death sentence
(AP) The Supreme Court sounded ready Wednesday to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In more than 90 minutes of arguments, the court’s six conservative justices seemed likely to embrace the Biden administration’s argument that a federal […]
Academics & Education
France honours ‘hero’ teacher killed for Mohammed cartoon
(AFP) A year after the brutal murder of a French teacher, beheaded for showing his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, schools are struggling with how to teach core French values without inflaming tensions with young Muslims. Samuel Paty, who was 47, […]
Legal
The bereaved families of Bataclan victims get their chance to speak
(Radio France) Survivors of the Paris terrorist attack on the Bataclan concert hall in November 2015 continue to testify before the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried for alleged involvement in the planning and preparation of a night of […]
Law Enforcement
Spain arrests 5 people as suspected members of jihadist cell
(AP) Spanish police said Wednesday they arrested five suspects — four in Barcelona and one in Madrid — believed to be part of a jihadist group that sought to recruit others to its cause and was attempting to acquire weapons. Police said […]
Health & Medicine
Manchester Arena inquiry: Victim would have had ‘high’ survival chance
(BBC) A Manchester Arena victim would have had “quite a high” survival chance had he been treated sooner, a court heard. It took paramedics nearly an hour to treat John Atkinson, 28, the public inquiry into the 2017 bombing was told. Former […]
Health & Medicine
Manchester Arena inquiry: John Atkinson badly let down, family says
(BBC) The family of a man killed in the Manchester Arena attack say he was “badly let down” by some members of the emergency services. John Atkinson, 28, was one of 22 people who died in the bombing on 22 May 2017. […]
Legal
Sydney man jailed for five years after preparing for Bangladesh terror attack
(Sydney Morning Herald) A Sydney man has been jailed for more than five years for preparing for a terror attack in Bangladesh, after he was stopped at Sydney Airport and found with camouflage gear, tactical boots and an electronic copy of the […]
Government & Politics
Netherlands to soon bring back more ISIS-affiliated women to stand trial
(NL Times) The Netherlands will soon bring back more women affiliated with the terrorist organization ISIS, the AD reported. On Monday, a session will be held in the Rotterdam court regarding 13 women suspected of being affiliated with ISIS. The judge stated […]
Legal
Appeals court sentences Islamic State member to life imprisonment
(Hungary Today) Budapest’s municipal appeals court on Monday sentenced Syrian national Hassan F. to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed as a member of the Islamic State terrorist organisation. In its binding ruling, the appeals court upheld the life sentence imposed […]
Legal
Man sentenced after planning terrorist attacks on Australian targets
(Sydney Morning Herald) A Sydney man who had “grandiose” plans to commit a terrorist act in Australia before attempting to travel to Pakistan to join Islamic State fighters on the front lines has been sentenced to just over seven years’ jail for […]
Legal
Bataclan survivors offer accounts of a night of violence, horror — and heroism
(Radio France) The fifth week of the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of involvement in the November 2015 attacks was marked by the start of hearings of the evidence from survivors of the Bataclan, the concert venue where 90 of […]
Legal
Charge dropped in Ontario man’s terrorism hoax case: lawyer
(Canadian Press) The lawyer for an Ontario man charged with falsely claiming to have committed terrorist acts as a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant says his client is relieved after the charge was withdrawn. Shehroze Chaudhry was arrested […]
Legal
Trying to live a life ‘submerged by permanent sadness’ after Bataclan attack
(Radio France) Friday’s witnesses came from Los Angeles, from Turkey, from the central French Nièvre region. And, as from the start of the witness testimony, all the stories from the Bataclan survivors and their families are the same. And each is absolutely […]
Legal
NYC man convicted of trying to join Taliban to fight the US
(AP) A New York City man has been convicted on charges alleging that he tried to help the Taliban fight American forces. Delowar Mohammed Hossain, 36, was convicted late Friday in Manhattan federal court on charges that he tried to provide material […]
Legal
Marathon bomber faces revived death sentence in high court
(AP) The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by arguing that a jury had no need to examine evidence that the government itself relied on […]
Legal
Sydney terror plotter to be sentenced
(AAP) A Sydney man who [was] stopped at the airport on the way to engage in extremist violence is set to be sentenced on Monday. Nowroz Rayed Amin, 30, was on his way to Bangladesh, where he admits he planned to engage […]
News: North America
I worked inside Al Qaeda as a jihadi recruiter — we lured runaways like Shamima Begum and paved the way for ISIS (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
EU warns of security risks linked to migration from Afghanistan
(Reuters) Europe must take the security threats that might arise from migration out of Afghanistan more seriously, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson warned on Friday. “On the terrorist threat from Afghanistan, I must say that my assessment is that the alert […]
Legal
Court to decide next week if Eindhoven terror suspects should stay in jail
(Dutch News) Judges will decide next week if nine young men from Eindhoven should remain in custody while police continue to investigate them for possible terrorist offences. The nine were, according to the public prosecution department, planning to launch a terrorist attack, […]
Legal
Bataclan survivor came to court ‘to laugh at’ accused Paris attackers
(Radio France) At the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings of 130 people, survivors of an attack at the Bataclan concert hall on Thursday described the night of horror […]
Legal
Wounded in ‘body, heart and soul’ by ‘blind inhumanity’ at the Bataclan
(Radio France) On Wednesday, at the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, survivors from the Bataclan music venue, where 90 people lost their lives, began to recount their long […]
Children & Teens
Islamic State families evacuated from Syrian camp and back in Denmark Three [women] and 14 children back on Danish soil after arriving in the early hours of Thursday morning
(Copenhagen Post) Three women and 14 children — who were yesterday evacuated from the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria, where the inmates are primarily the families of slain or captured Islamic State warriors — arrived in Denmark at around 03:00 […]
Children & Teens
Islamic State mother Nicole Jack says ‘don’t sweep us under carpet’
(BBC) A British woman who joined the Islamic State group with her young children has said UK politicians should “open your minds” to allowing them to return. Nicole Jack and her three daughters are currently being held in a detention camp in […]
Government & Politics
ISIS women deported to Sweden were too dangerous to keep in Syria
(Breitbart) Documents from the Swedish state department reveal that Kurdish authorities wanted Sweden to take back Islamic State women from prison camps as they deemed them too dangerous to remain in Syria. On September 5th, three Islamic State women and their children […]
Children & Teens
Germany repatriates 8 women, 23 children with ties to IS
(AFP) Germany has repatriated eight women who joined the IS terror group and 23 children from northern Syria in the biggest such transfer since 2019, the foreign ministry said. “The children are not responsible for their situation … the mothers will have […]
Legal
Paris attack survivors relive horror of ‘playing dead’ at Bataclan
(AFP) Survivors of the 2015 Islamic State massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Wednesday told the trial being held over a night of bloodshed in the French capital they “played dead” on the ground for hours to avoid being […]
Legal
Paris attacks victims deliver emotional messages to terrorist Abdeslam
(Radio France) Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist groups that murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015, has frequently interrupted proceedings at the trial where, along with 19 co-accused, he faces charges of conspiracy, perpetration or complicity in terrorism. […]
Legal
High Wycombe man accused of IS membership appears in court
(BBC) An alleged member of the Islamic State group has appeared in court charged with terror offences after he was arrested at Heathrow Airport. Shabazz Suleman, 25, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, is alleged to have performed guard duty and carried out military […]
Crime
German police raid ring suspected of laundering $162 million
(AP) Police carried out large-scale raids in 25 German cities Wednesday, after a chance discovery last year put investigators on the trail of a money-laundering network alleged to have funneled millions in ill-gotten gains abroad. Officials said the raids, which began in […]
Law Enforcement
TEK arrests Hungarian man linked to Islamic State
(Hungary Today) Hungary’s counter-terrorism force (TEK) has arrested a Hungarian man associated with the Islamic State terrorist organisation, TEK’s head said on Monday. János Hajdu told public broadcaster M1 the case was related to a Hungarian known as V. Kende who claimed […]
Immigration
IS suspect to face prosecutor in Athens
(Kathimerini) An Iraqi asylum-seeker who was arrested in Athens on Monday on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State terror group is to be formally charged by a prosecutor on Tuesday. The 34-year-old was taken into custody in his home […]
Legal
Denmark charges 3 citizens with planning terror attacks
(AP) Danish prosecutors said Tuesday that they have charged three people with attempting to carry out acts of terrorism by acquiring bomb-making chemicals and equipment that were to be used for an attack “in an unknown place either in Denmark or abroad.” […]
Law Enforcement
Man charged with terror offences after arrest at Heathrow Airport, Thames Valley Police say Shabazz Suleman, 25, who is accused of being a member of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Wednesday.
(Sky News) A man has been charged with terror offences after being arrested at Heathrow Airport, Thames Valley Police said. Shabazz Suleman, who is also accused of being a member of the Islamic State group, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on […]
Legal
Jailed terrorist admits to prison attack
(AAP) A woman serving a decades-long jail sentence has pleaded guilty to engaging in a terrorist act in prison. Momena Shoma is serving a 42-year prison sentence in Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost women’s prison. Shoma, 28, on Monday faced the Victorian Supreme […]
Legal
Canada should have prosecuted Toronto man who was ‘voice of ISIS,’ lawyer says
(Global News) A Canadian ISIS member caught in Syria and flown to the United States to stand trial should have been prosecuted in Canada, a lawyer representing his family said Monday. “If there is evidence against Canadians who are being arbitrarily detained […]