Law Enforcement
British ISIS suspect had nearly €50,000 in bitcoin when arrested (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
Legal
Swiss Islamist radical facing trial for running Islamic State news agency
(Breitbart) A Swiss man from the city of St. Gallen is facing trial after allegedly distributing propaganda for the Islamic State terrorist group between February 2018 and October 2019. The 27-year-old man, identified only by his initials A.Z., is set to face […]
Law Enforcement
Suspected Islamist extremist, 25, is arrested at Heathrow Airport (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Nine Eindhoven terrorism suspects remanded into custody
(NL Times) The nine terror suspects arrested in Eindhoven last week will remain in pre-trial detention for two weeks longer. The examining magistrate of the court in Rotterdam remanded them into custody on Wednesday. The men, aged between 18 and 31, are said […]
Health & Medicine
ISIS supporter who attacked at Canadian Tire store denied parole
(Global News) A Toronto woman who carried [out an] ISIS-inspired attack at a Canadian Tire store in 2017 has been denied parole and ordered to serve out the remainder of her sentence in prison. A decision released Wednesday by the Parole Board […]
Government & Politics
Terrorist-linked migrant sent out of Lithuania — minister
(Baltic Times) The migrant suspected of having had ties with terrorists has been already sent out of Lithuania, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite has confirmed. “Yes, that person is definitely no longer in the Republic of Lithuania,” she told ministers on Tuesday. In […]
Law Enforcement
Man who spread terrorist propaganda arrested
(Budapest Times) A Hungarian-born man suspected of posting jihadist content on a German online platform has been arrested, a Budapest court said on Monday. Hungary’s anti-terrorism centre (TEK) caught the man in cooperation with the German authorities and proceedings have been launched […]
Legal
Scars from 2015 Paris stadium bombing still pain victims
(AP) It is almost the forgotten attack of Nov. 13, 2015: France’s national stadium was the sole site outside Paris to come under assault that night from Islamic State extremists. The three suicide bombers who struck killed one man out of the […]
Law Enforcement
Man claiming to be former ISIS fighter arrested for threatening French police
(Breitbart) A man who claimed to be a former Islamic State fighter was arrested in Perpignan, France, after threatening to attack several police stations with a Kalashnikov rifle. The suspect had called stations in Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Narbonne, and the Paris […]
Citizenship
Denmark strips would-be attacker of nationality
(AFP) A court in Denmark jailed a dual Turkish-Danish national for 10 years on Tuesday and stripped him of his citizenship for “planning a terrorist attack.” The 24-year-old — who was not named by the court — will serve his prison sentence […]
Children & Teens
Why Canada took 18 months to get an orphan out of a Syrian detention camp
(Global News) On Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, a Canadian government delegation crossed the Tigris River into northeast Syria to take custody of a five-year-old orphan. Amira was the only survivor of a Canadian family killed by an airstrike during the fight against […]
Children & Teens
Families of ISIS detainees held in Syria take Canada to court over inaction
(Global News) The families of more than two dozen Canadians held at prisons and camps for ISIS detainees in Syria have filed a case in the Federal Court accusing the government of failing to bring them home. Eleven families, which were not […]
Law Enforcement
British terrorist who fled ISIS caught because he couldn’t stop eating kebabs (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Poland plans to extend border emergency despite migrant deaths
(AFP) Poland’s interior minister on Monday asked for a state of emergency along the border with Belarus to be extended for 60 days as the EU slammed migrant deaths on that stretch and demanded explanations from Warsaw. The emergency measures adopted earlier […]
Legal
Bataclan attack survivors to testify at Paris trial
(AFP) Survivors of the November 2015 Paris attacks will testify at a historic trial from Tuesday, reliving the most traumatic events of their lives as they try to put the horror into words. One by one over the coming weeks, 300 survivors […]
Legal
Terror plotter spoke of ‘recipes’ for bombs in veiled messages, court hears A man who admitted to planning a violent terrorist act used code words to talk about explosives in messages with fellow extremists.
(NCA NewsWire) A man who admitted to plotting a violent terror attack spoke of “recipes” and “cooking class” in veiled references to making bombs in messages with a fellow extremist. Sydney man Nowroz Amin was asked to explain his past words at […]
Academics & Education
Finland secretly organised distance learning for Finnish children in al-Hol camp
(Helsinki Times) According to several sources, Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs organised a distance learning programme for Finnish children being held in Syria’s al-Hol camp without the knowledge of Kurdish authorities. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with other ministries and […]
Children & Teens
Sweden: ISIS woman arrested for war crimes, allegedly forced son to be child soldier
(Breitbart) A 49-year-old Islamic State woman has been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of taking part in serious war crimes in Syria, including forcing her own son to become a child soldier. The alleged crimes … are said to have taken place […]
Law Enforcement
Third week of Paris terror trial marked by contrast between cowardice and courage
(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris was entirely devoted to police and expert evidence. Much of what we heard and saw was difficult for the families of […]
Clerics & Preachers
Ex-Islamic radical says extremists are present in every Swedish mosque
(Breitbart) A former radical Islamic Salafist preacher says that radicalism is present in every Swedish mosque and that Salafism is becoming more and more popular with younger people. Anas Khalifa, who had been a radical Salafist preacher for around 20 years, was […]
Legal
Bombs, bodies and Islamic State propaganda shock Paris terror trial
(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in Paris came to an end with three very different reports from expert witnesses. The themes were DNA, explosions and Islamic […]
Children & Teens
Organisation sues Denmark for failure to evacuate children from Syrian camps
(Local) Campaign movement Repatriate the Children (RTC) plans to sue the Danish state for its failure to evacuate five children from Syrian detention camps. The organisation is to sue Denmark on behalf of the five children, who have Danish citizenship but have […]
Law Enforcement
Toronto men caught with bomb-making manuals, al-Qaeda literature on phones, documents allege
(Global News) Six months after Kevin Omar Mohamed‘s prison sentence for terrorism came to an end, the RCMP’s Toronto O-INSET national security team decided to check up on him. What they found set off alarms. Not only was he violating his probation […]
Law Enforcement
Nine men arrested in Eindhoven for preparing terrorist attack
(NL Times) Nine men were arrested in Eindhoven on Thursday under suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist act, and training to perpetrate the crime. The nine suspects allegedly sympathize with the jihadist principles of ISIS, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said […]
Children & Teens
Denmark to evacuate dual national from Syrian camp in exception to own policy
(Local) A Danish woman with dual nationality is to be evacuated along with her children from a detention camp in Syria, in an exception to normal government policy. Immigration minister Mattias Tesfaye has defended the government’s decision to evacuate a woman and […]
Legal
Thessaloniki judges council approves extradition for Moroccan man
(Kathimerini) The Council of Appeals judges in Thessaloniki on Wednesday approved the extradition of a Moroccan man to his country, where he is wanted on terrorism charges. The man, aged 28, had been sought on an international warrant issued by Moroccan authorities […]
Legal
French court lengthens jihadist’s sentence on appeal
(AFP) A French appeal court on Tuesday increased a jihadist’s sentence for his senior role with the Islamic State group in Syria from 30 years to life in prison. Frenchman Tyler Vilus had already been convicted for his work with the IS […]
Legal
Man jailed for Catalonia attacks out on parole
(AFP) A Spanish court on Tuesday granted parole to one of the men convicted for his role in the 2017 attacks in Catalonia that claimed 16 lives. The special court responsible for terrorism cases ordered the conditional release of Said Ben Iazza, […]
Citizenship
Denmark strips Islamic State recruiter of citizenship, orders deportation
(Breitbart) A Danish court has sentenced 29-year-old Adam Touhou to six years in prison and to be stripped of his citizenship followed by deportation for recruiting for the Islamic State terror group. Touhou began speaking with Hafed Matoussi on Facebook in 2013 about […]
Legal
Silent for once, Salah Abdeslam watches his brother, Brahim, blow himself up
(Radio France) On Monday, at the start of the third week of the Paris November 2015 terror trial, two police experts described the scenes at La Belle Équipe bar, where 21 people died in a hail of bullets, and at the Comptoir […]
Legal
Ypsilanti man arrested by FBI counterterrorism team convicted in gun case
(Detroit News) An Ypsilanti man indicted on gun charges who the FBI accused of being an Islamic State supporter was convicted Monday in the first federal, criminal jury verdict in Metro Detroit since the start of the pandemic. Yousef Ramadan, 32, was convicted […]
Legal
Fifteen years in prison for jihadist caught in Amsterdam debate center
(NL Times) Aziz A. was sentenced to 15 years and nine months in prison on Monday for, among other things, leading a terrorist organization and preparing terrorist crimes. A., who suddenly popped up in De Balie debate center in Amsterdam in 2017, […]
Legal
A difficult week for the families as Paris terror trial goes over the forensic details
(Radio France) The second week of the Paris trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killing of 130 people brought us from the legal technicalities of the crimes allegedly committed to the stark humanity of the dead, the […]
News: Europe
Shamima Begum’s lawyer denies ex-Isis bride would withhold intelligence (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum tells pals she will never name Brits who joined ISIS (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Man renounces IS saying he was brainwashed
(AAP) A Sydney Islamic State member whose online martyrdom posts included Canberra’s Parliament House flying a black flag says he was naive and brainwashed. “I have completely renounced my membership of IS and any other terrorist organisation,” Youssef Uweinat told the NSW […]
News: Europe
Six of Britain’s most dangerous convicted terrorists could be back on the street in months as cases face Parole Board (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Austria appoints Jordanian as security chief Appointment follows criticism of old security organisation after failure to prevent attack by Islamic State sympathiser in November
(Middle East Eye) An Austrian-Jordanian has been appointed … head of the country’s new security agency, following harsh criticism of the previous institution’s failure to prevent an attack by an alleged Islamic State (IS) sympathiser. The appointment of Omar Haijawi-Pirchner as head […]
Legal
Ten to be tried over 2016 Brussels bombings
(AFP) Ten men accused of involvement in the March 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people will face trial, Belgian federal prosecutors said Friday. Six of the suspects, including 32-year-old French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, are currently on trial in France over […]
Christians
Man pleads guilty in plot to bomb Pittsburgh church in the name of ISIS
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) The Syrian man accused of plotting to bomb a North Side church in 2019 talked about potentially planting a second explosive device, timing its detonation to coincide with when first responders would begin to arrive, federal prosecutors said Thursday. That […]
Law Enforcement
Repatriating Islamic State terror suspect Suhayra Aden cost $60,000
(Stuff) The repatriation of Suhayra Aden, a woman who joined Islamic State, has cost the government more than $60,000. The government organised a “managed return” of Aden and her two children from Turkey earlier this year, after she was detained at the […]
Legal
Germany indicts 4 for supporting al-Nusra in Syria German federal prosecutors have said they indicted four men on suspicion of providing help to Islamist militant group Jabhat al-Nusra.
(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors on Thursday said they had indicted four men on suspicion of supporting Islamist extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra. One of the men is also accused of joining the group and traveling to Syria to fight with the breakaway […]
Legal
Car salesman jailed over plan to travel to Kashmir to fight
(Age) Khaled Temssah listed his attributes like he was making a pitch in his daytime job of selling cars. He knew martial arts, could use a rifle and had been hunting many times, spoke Arabic and was blessed with a “good tongue” […]
News: Europe
Shamima Begum apologises to UK public and says she’d ‘rather die’ than return to IS
(ITV) Shamima Begum has said she is “sorry” to the UK public for joining the Islamic State (IS) and says she would “rather die” than go back to the terrorist organisation. Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain from a Syrian camp where […]
Legal
Paris attacker says France ‘knew risks’ of IS strikes in Syria
(AFP) The sole survivor of the jihadist cell that killed 130 people in Paris six years ago Wednesday claimed France “knew the risks” of attacking jihadist targets in Syria at the trial into France’s worst postwar atrocity. “We attacked France, targeted its […]
Law Enforcement
Defence anger at implacable police presentation of an extraordinary investigation
(Radio France) The second week of the Paris November 2015 terror trial began with the continuation of the reading of the court president’s report, the ten-hour overview of the facts as they appear after six years of criminal investigation. And then the […]
Demonstrations
France: Muslims arrested for ‘provocation’ street prayers on September 11th
(Breitbart) Police arrested three Muslim men who engaged in a street prayer on September 11th using a loud sound system to broadcast the prayer. The three men had gathered on Saturday between 7 am and 7:30 am on the rue du Maréchal […]
Crime
Republican lawmaker presses DHS on Afghan refugees flagged for terror ties Rep. Mark Green also requests info on reports of 'sexual assault, theft, and violence in evacuee processing facilities'
(Free Beacon) A Republican lawmaker is demanding the Department of Homeland Security address reports that some Afghan asylum seekers are on terror watchlists and have been accused of sexual assault, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “According to […]
News: Europe
Two of Britain’s most dangerous terrorists could be free in weeks as UK faces biggest threat from extremists in decades (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Ohio supporter of ISIS sentenced to 20 years in prison
(Cleveland.com) A northwest Ohio resident who admitted plotting a mass shooting at a Toledo-area synagogue to show his allegiance to ISIS was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison. Damon M. Joseph, aka Abdullah Ali Yusuf, 23, of Holland, Ohio, was arrested […]