Citizenship
Shamima Begum to find out next week if she can potentially return to the UK (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
Children & Teens
UN, rights watchdogs urge Canada to save its ‘arbitrarily detained’ children in Syria
(Canadian Press) A United Nations rights advocate and Human Rights Watch Canada say the Trudeau government isn’t living up to its new international campaign against arbitrary detention because it is abandoning 25 Canadian children trapped in northern Syria. Fionnuala Ni Aolain, the […]
Government & Politics
Amnesty defends signing anti-Prevent statement with Islamist-linked groups (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Violent raps were ‘drill music parodies,’ alleged Isis-supporting terror plotter told police (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Three jailed between 22-30 years for attack plot in France
(AFP) Two French citizens and a Moroccan on Wednesday received heavy prison terms for an attack plot that was foiled after an intelligence agent posing as a jihadist infiltrated their cyber network. The criminal court sentenced Hicham Makran to 22 years in […]
Government & Politics
Isil Kiwi ‘shook with fear’ as she spoke of how she wanted to come home — to Australia
(NZ Herald) The New Zealand woman detained in Turkey as a “terrorist” spoke of how she had a last-minute change of mind about going to Syria but was bundled into a van and driven across the border. It comes as Prime Minister […]
Legal
Judges mull verdict in Barcelona attacks trial
(AFP) Spanish judges on Wednesday began deliberating a verdict in the trial of three men accused of helping the jihadists behind the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town that killed 16. The Islamic State (IS) group took responsibility for the […]
Government & Politics
Turkey files investigation into Dutch lawmaker Investigation opened over Twitter post insulting Turkish president
(Anadolu) Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey’s president. Prosecutors in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe of Wilders, who heads the Dutch Party […]
Legal
Suspected terrorist revealed plan to poison royal family with ice cream (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Manchester Arena inquiry: Terror offender ‘unfit to give evidence’
(BBC) A convicted terror offender who was the Manchester Arena bomber’s friend “is unfit to give evidence” to the inquiry into the attack, his lawyer has said. Abdalraouf Abdallah was visited by the bomber Salman Abedi in prison in the months before […]
Government & Politics
Families of Vienna attack victims sue state
(AFP) The families of two of the victims of November’s jihadist attack in Vienna city centre are suing the Austrian state for compensation because of official failings, their lawyers said Tuesday. Convicted Islamic State sympathiser Kujtim Fejzulai killed four people before being […]
Citizenship
PM responds to NZ-Aus woman arrested at Syria-Turkey border
(NZ Herald) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand woman identified as an international terrorist by Turkish authorities should have been deported to Australia. The woman, named by ABC as Suhayra Aden, has been known to New Zealand and Australian authorities […]
Legal
Five Tajiks charged over membership in German IS cell
(AFP) Germany has charged five Tajik men with membership of an Islamic State terror cell that recruited members and planned attacks on German soil, prosecutors said Monday. A sixth member of the same cell, Ravsan B., was sentenced to seven years in […]
Legal
Man accused of planning Isis-inspired attack ‘became friends with terror offenders in prison’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
New Zealand woman identified as Isis terrorist captured at Syria border with two children
(NZ Herald) A New Zealand woman named as an international terrorist by Turkish authorities is facing deportation, along with her two children, after being caught trying to leave Syria. The Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence says the 26-year-old woman is […]
Immigration
Convicted terrorist on verge of winning 27-year legal battle to remain in Britain as a ‘refugee’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Danish police find IS flag in raid of bomb-making suspects
(AP) Fourteen people have been arrested in Denmark and Germany on suspicion of preparing one or several attacks in the two countries, Danish police said Friday, adding that the discovery of an Islamic State group flag could indicate the suspects “have a […]
Legal
‘Straight Isis supporter’ rapped about killing non-Muslims while plotting terror attack, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
French far right’s Le Pen faces off with hardline interior minister in TV debate
(Radio France) Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far right, and hardline Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin are to clash Thursday evening on public TV channel France 2 in a debate seen as [a] litmus test for the 2022 presidential election. The […]
Law Enforcement
Fourteen arrested in Germany, Denmark over attack plots
(AFP) German and Danish authorities announced Thursday they had arrested 14 people over alleged attack plots, including three Syrian brothers … accused of planning an attack with several kilogrammes of explosive chemicals. Denmark’s intelligence service PET announced a total of 14 people […]
Immigration
Germany: Syrian man charged in Dresden knife attack German prosecutors say the 20-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker was motivated by homophobia when he murdered a tourist and seriously injured his partner.
(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors charged a Syrian national suspected of stabbing two men last year in the eastern city of Dresden, German media outlets reported Thursday. The 20-year-old suspect is said to have been motivated by a radical Islamist ideology, and […]
Government & Politics
French far-right leader Le Pen on trial over IS tweets
(AFP) French far-right leader Marine Le Pen appeared in court Wednesday on charges she broke hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a case she slammed as a politically motivated attempt to silence her. The trial comes as opinion […]
Government & Politics
Biden govt supports repatriating jihadists: US diplomat
(AFP) President Joe Biden’s administration believes countries should repatriate jihadists and their families to counter the threat from the Islamic State group, an American diplomat told the United Nations on Wednesday. “The global threat from Isis will grow if the international community […]
Legal
Isis fighters’ brother bought sword and rapped about Lee Rigby ‘while planning terror attack’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Norway arrests Syrian teenager on terror suspicion
(AP) Norway’s domestic security agency said Friday that a Syrian teenager has been arrested in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on suspicion of planning an act of terror. The agency, known by its acronym PST, said the suspect, who was arrested Thursday, was […]
Legal
Man in court accused of sharing of IS beheading videos
(BBC) A man from north London who moved to Syria has appeared in court accused of sharing Islamic State group videos. Stefan Aristidou, 27 and originally from Enfield, is accused of texting videos of beheading and executions. He was arrested at Heathrow […]
Government & Politics
Austria’s draft anti-terror law provokes sharp criticism
(AFP) The Austrian justice ministry said Wednesday it would take into account fierce criticisms levelled by judges and the opposition at proposals for an anti-terror law formulated following a deadly jihadist terror attack. In the days after the convicted sympathiser of the […]
Deradicalization
Austria attack highlights Europe’s jihadist dilemma
(AFP) The fallout from last November’s shootings on the streets of Vienna has shone a light on Europe’s dilemma in dealing with jihadists, particularly the continent’s struggles to deradicalise such individuals. An Austrian court had in 2019 already convicted Kujtim Fejzulai, the […]
Legal
‘Love you to infinity and beyond’: Jailhouse letters revealed as alleged terrorism sympathiser fights for freedom
(Age) Secret jailhouse letters traded between a convicted terrorist and a Melbourne woman accused of recruiting for Islamic State have been read aloud in court as one of the women fights to be released back into the community. Hadashah Sa’adat Khan, 23, […]
Law Enforcement
Police arrest alleged Islamist foreign fighter attempting to return to UK at Heathrow Airport (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Brit ISIS jihadi boasts about ‘outwitting’ MI5 to flee UK despite weekly visits after his brother joined group (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Jewish baker iced out of Dutch Muslim political party — over her X-rated cakes
(JTA) Putting a small-town Jewish baker on the ticket was supposed to change the public image of the Netherlands’ Party of Unity — but not like this. Run by Islamic fundamentalists, the tiny party has had little impact at the ballot box since […]
Legal
Former Gainesville resident arrested for his connection to ISIS
(WCJB) A former Gainesville resident is back in the United States and is facing terrorism charges. He was arrested overseas on Friday and arrived in north-central Florida early Sunday morning. Mohamed Fathy Suliman is charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to […]
Law Enforcement
Brussels: Nearly 200 Islamic terror-related ‘entities’ shut down since 2014
(Breitbart) Since 2014, the Belgian police have identified and closed 192 entities, including prayer rooms and organisations, linked to radical Islamic terrorism in Brussels as part of an anti-terror project. The Belgian Fighters project — Belfi for short — placed a total […]
Clerics & Preachers
Ban on Anjem Choudary’s gospel of hatred is about to be lifted (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
London Bridge terrorist’s widow given £15,000 legal aid while victims’ families denied (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
‘I’m no Marvel villain,’ says Bristol terror defendant
(BBC) A man found with bomb-making manuals and speeches on Islamic State has told a court he is “not a terrorist.” Souhaib Embarek was caught sharing “terrorist tutorials” and had videos and images of terrorist attacks. He admits five charges of possession […]
Legal
Tajik IS cell member in Germany jailed for 7 years The man had been accused of forming an 'Islamic State' cell with other locals of Tajik origins. They had first planned to shoot dead an Islam critic inside Germany.
(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Tuesday sentenced a man to seven years in prison over plans to … shoot dead a critic of Islam as part of an “Islamic State” (IS) terror cell. Summing up the four-month trial, a Düsseldorf court […]
Government & Politics
Terrorists ‘may find it easier to commit offences inside prison than when free,’ watchdog warns (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Guadalupe County man pleads guilty to providing material support to ISIS Jaylyn Christopher Molina faces up to 40 years in federal prison
(KSAT) A 22-year-old Guadalupe County man pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, Jaylyn Christopher Molina (aka Abdur Rahim) admitted in federal court in San Antonio […]
News: Europe
Isis: From Cardiff to the caliphate
(BBC) In 2013, Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan left their lives in Cardiff to fight for Islamic State in Syria. Three months later Nasser’s younger brother Aseel also went out to join them. I went to sixth-form college with both Nasser and […]
Demonstrations
Radical Muslims face trial for alleged terror plot against Yellow Vest protests
(Breitbart) Three radicalised Muslims face trial after being accused of plotting to commit a terror attack against Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protestors in Paris in 2018. The three men, brothers Kamel and Hilial A. and 54-year-old Islamic convert Rémi M., were first accused of […]
Marriage
CAIR’s Hassan Shibly resigns amidst domestic violence scandal New investigation launched against him by ex-CAIR director, now head of anti-abuse advocate.
(FrontPage) For a while, Hassan Shibly was arguably the most prominent representative of CAIR. His work in such things as attempting to regain the American citizenship of ISIS bride Hoda Muthana and trying to convince the courts that the federal “terrorism watch […]
Immigration
Enderby ISIS supporter moved to another B.C. town
(iNFOnews.ca) An alleged ISIS supporter who moved to Enderby in the summer of 2019 after having been acquitted of several terrorism-related charges has moved to a different B.C. community, iNFOnews.ca has learned. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada confirmed Othman Ayed […]
Legal
Bristol Islamic extremist shared ‘terror tutorials’
(BBC) An Islamic extremist has admitted sharing “terrorist tutorials” and having a stash of bomb and poison-making instructions. Souhaib Embarek, 34, was arrested after firearms officers forced entry into his Bristol home on 9 December 2019. He denied two charges of disseminating […]
News: Europe
Manchester attack: Prisoner in touch with bomber recalled to jail
(BBC) A convicted terrorist organiser and friend of the Manchester Arena bomber has been returned to prison weeks after being released on licence, the BBC has learned. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after being found guilty of helping people travel […]
Legal
Mum hid phone in bra for jail calls to Islamist extremist husband (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
US soldier arrested in plot to blow up NYC 9/11 Memorial
(AP) A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York City’s 9/11 Memorial and other landmarks and attack U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said. Cole James […]
Children & Teens
Britain’s youngest terrorist can be freed from jail, says Parole Board (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Two weeks out of jail, Radwan Dakkak allegedly accessed ‘material that supported beheadings’
(Sydney Morning Herald) A man has been charged after he allegedly breached a court order less than two weeks after he was released from prison, by accessing online material that supported executions, beheadings and torture. Radwan Dakkak, 25, from Denistone in Sydney’s […]