News: Europe
Cherie Blair denies smuggling Isis bride into UK but ‘she should be let back’ (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
News: Europe
‘I’ve lost my babies. I’ve lost my friends. I just want to come home’ (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Germany: Man convicted of membership in Islamic State group
(AP) A German court has convicted a German-Tunisian man of membership in the Islamic State group and another extremist organization. The Stuttgart state court sentenced the 30-year-old man to two years and five months in prison on Wednesday. The court said he […]
Legal
Brooklyn man who gave cash to wannabe ISIS fighter found guilty in federal court
(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn man who handed a wannabe ISIS fighter a stack of cash to cover his travel and weapon expenses bought himself a prison term Tuesday instead. Dilkhayot Kasimov was convicted in Brooklyn Federal Court Tuesday of trying to […]
Children & Teens
More French IS children repatriated from Syria
(Xinhua) France has brought home two French mothers and their nine children from families that had fought with Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Syria, local media reported on Tuesday. The children, aged between 3 and 13 years, reached French soil early on […]
Internet
Terror suspect remanded in custody
(Euro Weekly) National Police have arrested an alleged member of DAESH (ISIS) who was storing manuals on how to carry out terror attacks. The man was a member of several restricted pro-DAESH jihadist messaging groups, which have been the main source of […]
Law Enforcement
Columbia man accused of trying to aid ISIS pleads guilty
(KRCG) A Columbia man charged in federal court with trying to aid a terrorist operation has pleaded guilty to a single charge in federal court. Robert Lorenzo Hester, 28, pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to providing material support or resources to terrorists. A […]
Legal
Trial opens for five women over ‘plot’ to bomb Notre-Dame
(AFP) Five women went on trial Monday over an alleged plot to detonate a car bomb in front of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris three years ago, when France was battling a wave of Islamist attacks that since 2015 have killed over 250 […]
Demonstrations
Muslim of the Year nominee is probed by police after she was filmed telling a rally ‘jihad is the only solution’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
‘Crying out for help:’ Calgary radicalization program evolves to help others
(Canadian Press) The soft-spoken young man wasn’t being recruited by neo-Nazis or the Islamic State, but he was in a downward spiral. Andy, who asked not to have his real name published, says he hit rock bottom a few years ago when he was […]
Employment
Mechanic pleads not guilty in airliner sabotage case
(AP) A former American Airlines mechanic who prosecutors say may have some links to terrorists pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he sabotaged an aircraft with 150 people aboard. The plea came at a hearing in Miami federal court for Abdul-Majeed […]
Legal
Second brother guilty of plane bomb plot
(AAP) Two Sydney brothers have now been found guilty of plotting to blow up an Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder and to carry out a lethal poisonous gas attack. The siblings plotted with their older brother, Tarek […]
Demonstrations
Anti-Israel activist voted off Women’s March board after two days She has repeatedly denigrated Memorial Day, U.S. troops
(Free Beacon) Zahra Billoo, who has been outspoken about her hatred of Israel and Memorial Day, was voted off the board of the Women’s March Wednesday night after serving only two days. Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area […]
Crime
Witnesses clash on what Islamic mechanic told FBI
(Journal Inquirer) When an FBI agent questioned a Manchester auto mechanic in June 2015 about his involvement with Islamic charities and his shipment of packages to Pakistan, both men had witnesses present. The mechanic — Fareed Ahmed Khan, 61, who has lived […]
Legal
Lebanon court acquits one Australia bomb plot suspect: lawyer, NNA
(Reuters) Lebanon’s military court has acquitted one of four brothers accused of planning to blow up a flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi nearly two years ago, his lawyer said on Thursday. State news agency NNA said the Lebanese-Australian man, Amer Khayat, […]
Government & Politics
Tech execs say they’re acting faster on extremist content
(AP) Executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter told Congress on Wednesday that they’ve gotten better and faster at detecting and removing violent extremist content on their social media platforms in the face of mass shootings fueled by hatred. Questioned at a hearing […]
Employment
Amid terrorism talk, bail denied in aircraft sabotage case
(AP) A mechanic accused of sabotaging an American Airlines jetliner had expressed a desire for Allah to hurt non-Muslims, stored violent Islamic State videos on his cellphone and has a brother in Iraq possibly involved with the extremist group, according to new […]
Law Enforcement
Alabama man arrested in terrorism probe
(AP) An Alabama man has been apprehended as part of a yearslong terrorism probe in which the FBI says he told agents he would execute a U.S. soldier if ordered to do so by the Islamic State group. FBI agents took Nayef […]
Internet
Facebook still auto-generating Islamic State, al-Qaida pages
(AP) In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group and al-Qaida before it’s reported. […]
Legal
Trial begins for Brooklyn man accused of giving cash to ISIS recruit
(NY Daily News) It was a three-minute crime with a 30-year penalty, a prosecutor said Tuesday in the trial of a Brooklyn man accused of financing a terrorist operation. Opening arguments began in the trial of Dilkhayot Kasimov, who is accused of […]
News: North America
American inside Syrian prison says he was recruited to ISIS online
(CBS) In northern Syria, [prisons] are filled to the point of bursting, with foreign ISIS fighters. They want to return to their home countries, but nobody wants them. CBS News was given rare access to one of these prisons, the first time […]
News: North America
ISIS suspects in overcrowded Syrian prison tell CBS News they’re Americans
(CBS) A U.S.-backed Syrian militia running a prison packed with thousands of alleged ISIS fighters is struggling to keep control of the detainees. The prisoners want to return to their home countries, and their jailers warn that if something isn’t done to […]
Internet
Facebook taps London police to track terror livestreams
(AFP) Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police as part of a ramped-up effort to thwart live-streams of terror attacks such as the New Zealand mosque massacre. A self-professed white supremacist used a head-mounted camera in March to broadcast live […]
Health & Medicine
Defense seeks competency exam for man accused of terror plot
(AP) A defense attorney is seeking a court-ordered psychiatric or psychological exam for a man accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C. Rondell Henry’s lawyer filed the request under seal this week, but […]
Arts & Entertainment
New Women’s March board member: US military and ISIS terrorists are ‘comparably evil’
(Daily Caller) A new board member for the left-wing activist group Women’s March has repeatedly compared the U.S. and Israeli militaries to the terrorist groups ISIS and Al Qaeda. The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [San Francisco chapter], […]
Legal
Trial of trio accused of acquiring drone parts for IS starts today ‘Taxachaufføren,’ ‘Cykelhandleren’ and ‘Underviseren’ could be handed life imprisonment if additional terror charges stick
(Copenhagen Post) The long-awaited trial of three Danes charged with acquiring drone parts on behalf of Islamic State is scheduled to start today at Copenhagen City Court. Additionally they are charged with terrorism. It will be contended that the trio spent 400,000 […]
Children & Teens
Families sue French foreign minister over children stuck in Syria
(AFP) The families of several children and wives of French jihadist fighters in Syria have filed lawsuits against France’s top diplomat over his refusal to let them come to France, lawyers said Monday. The suits, filed in July and September, accuse Foreign […]
Citizenship
Lib Dems to call for overhaul of revocation of UK citizenship rules (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
ISIS bride Shamima Begum ‘has not been secretly flown back to UK’ (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
This smuggler claims he’ll move ISIS members throughout Europe. The price: $8,000
(CBS) Human smuggling is a big business in Athens and CBS News has found evidence that ISIS members are being moved through Greece to the rest of Europe. In central Athens, an area around Omonia Square is notorious as a center of criminal […]
Citizenship
Swiss revoke citizenship from dual-national Islamic State recruiter
(Reuters) Switzerland has revoked the citizenship of a man convicted of helping recruit jihadist fighters, invoking a law allowing dual nationals to be stripped of their Swiss passports for conduct detrimental to national interests or reputation. Though the Swiss federal immigration office […]
Legal
Accused ISIS sniper from Brooklyn would ‘take up arms’ if released: feds
(NY Post) A former Brooklyn man accused of being a top ISIS sniper admitted he would “take up arms” in support of the terror group again if he was released, prosecutors claimed Wednesday. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, 42, who was busted in July on charges […]
Law Enforcement
Germany: Raids carried out against terror financing suspects Special police units carried out raids in northern Germany to investigate alleged financial supporters of terrorist groups in Syria. Prosecutors said hundreds of thousands of euros were allegedly sent to militants.
(Deutsche Welle) Police carried out raids in northern Germany to investigate alleged terrorist suspects in several cities on Wednesday morning, prosecutors said. A senior prosecutor for the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Ulrike Stahlmann-Liebelt, said the raids were to investigate the suspected formation of an organized […]
Government & Politics
German court rejects plea to repatriate suspected jihadi from Syria A German court has found the government isn't responsible for repatriating a citizen imprisoned by Syrian Kurds on suspicion of joining the 'Islamic State.' The ruling was based on a technicality.
(Deutsche Welle) The German government is not required to repatriate one of its citizens believed to be imprisoned by Syrian Kurdish forces on suspicion of being a member of the “Islamic State” (IS), a Berlin administrative court ruled Tuesday. The German national, […]
Legal
Islamic State supporter plotted ‘lone wolf’ attack on barracks using drone to drop weapons, court told (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Terror legislation watchdog rejects call to change treason laws (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Widow of German IS rapper is arrested in Hamburg The German-Tunisian woman has been arrested just months after a cellphone provided fresh evidence about her time in Syria. She had married two IS fighters, one of whom was rapper-turned-extremist Denis Cuspert.
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities said on Monday that Omaima A., a German-Tunisian woman, was arrested in Hamburg last week for her ties to the “Islamic State” (IS). Omaima A. was once married to German rapper-turned-IS fighter Denis Cuspert, who is believed to have died […]
Law Enforcement
Police raids find huge arms cache linked to Islamic terror group (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Mosque trustees failed to monitor IS sympathiser who groomed boys for terrorism, inquiry finds
(Barking and Dagenham Post) The trustees of a mosque where children were groomed for terrorism failed to properly monitor an Islamic State sympathiser then attempted to cover up what happened, the Charity Commission has found. All five have been disqualified for 10 […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
CAIR’s research director endorsed jihadist-supporting charity
(IPT) The lead author of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) 2019 Islamophobia report has repeatedly endorsed a terror-tied Turkish charity. CAIR research director Abbas Barzegar, the lead author of “Hijacked By Hate: American Philanthropy and the Islamophobia Network,” has supported the […]
Children & Teens
Spain issues arrest warrants for ISIS women trapped in Syrian camps The three Spaniards and one Moroccan traveled to the war-torn country in 2014, and have since ended up in a Kurdish-run detention center with 17 minors under their care
(El País) Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, has recently issued arrest warrants for four women who traveled to Syria in 2014 to join the Islamic State (ISIS). All four are currently being held in two detention camps run by Kurdish militias […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Report: News coverage of Muslims is more negative than of other minority groups
(Religion News) A new study of how the media covers minorities in the United States finds that depictions of Muslims in the news remain by far the most frequent and the most negative. “Muslims are just way down there in comparison to […]
Law Enforcement
Shamima Begum: Journalists will not have to hand over notes (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
German IS fighter faces torture and murder terrorism charges in Düsseldorf court A German IS fighter is facing charges of murder and torture at a German high court. This is the second time that he has faced terrorism-related charges.
(Deutsche Welle) A fighter from the self-styled “Islamic State” (IS) group stood trial in Düsseldorf on Wednesday facing serious charges of committing war crimes, in addition to murder. This is the second time that the 29-year-old has stood trial for terror-related offenses, […]
Law Enforcement
Islamic State follower seeks lower bond in officer assault
(AP) An 18-year-old Islamic State follower who was shot earlier this year after throwing rocks at and wielding a knife toward a police officer in metro Phoenix is asking a judge to reduce his $500,000 bond or release him from jail with […]
Legal
Terrorist turncoat became an ISIS sniper: indictment
(NY Daily News) An alleged terrorist turncoat was indicted Tuesday on charges that he betrayed his American citizenship to provide material support to the ruthless ISIS network. A five-count indictment was filed in Brooklyn Federal Court said Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a naturalized […]
Government & Politics
B.C. man in terror case ordered released by Federal Court but awaits deportation
(Canadian Press) A British Columbia man who glorified terrorism by the Islamic State group in multiple Facebook posts has been ordered released from immigration detention by the Federal Court nearly a year after the Immigration and Refugee Board deemed him inadmissible and […]
Legal
Hungary charges Syrian accused of beheading, killing for IS
(Reuters) Hungarian prosecutors said on Tuesday they had charged a 27-year-old Syrian man with terrorism and crimes against humanity committed as a member of Islamic State in 2015. The man, identified only as F. Hassan, was charged with beheading and shooting people […]
Islamic Law
Finnish women in Syrian refugee camp in limbo awaiting return home Just one of six women interviewed said she would prefer life in a Sharia state rather than to return to Finland.
(Yle) The Finnish government is still to decide on the fate of Finnish women and their children detained at a refugee camp in a Kurdish region in Syria. A dozen or so Finnish women who followed their husbands as the men joined […]
Immigration
One dead, eight injured in French knife rampage
(AFP) A man wielding a skewer and knife went on the rampage in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, leaving a 19-year-old man dead and eight others injured, including three critically. A police source said the alleged perpetrator was an Afghan […]