Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena bomber’s brother held in UK after extradition (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
Clerics & Preachers
Norway arrests Iraqi preacher convicted in Italy for ‘terrorism’
(AFP) Norway has arrested controversial Iraqi Kurdish fundamentalist preacher Mullah Krekar after he was convicted in Italy of “terrorist” conspiracy, the PST intelligence service said Tuesday. A refugee in Norway since 1991, 63-year-old Krekar — whose real name is Najumuddin Ahmad Faraj […]
Government & Politics
Donald Trump twists Ilhan Omar’s comments about al-Qaida
(PolitiFact) President Donald Trump drew wide criticism July 14 for a tweet that told “‘progressive’ Democrat congresswomen” to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Some commentators said Trump’s tweet was racist. It […]
Legal
Trial for 2016 Brussels suicide bombings set for 2020
(AFP) Suspects charged in connection with the 2016 Brussels suicide bombings will be tried next year in the former NATO headquarters in the city, Justice Minister Koen Geens said Friday. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks that killed 32 […]
Immigration
Driverless car bomb plot man Farhad Salah found guilty
(BBC) A man has been found guilty of trying to make a bomb to be used in a driverless car. Farhad Salah was convicted at Sheffield Crown Court of preparing to commit acts of terrorism. He “posed a very real risk to […]
Children & Teens
Sweden man blames Ramadan after assaulting wife and children
(Breitbart) A man living in Sweden was found guilty of physically abusing his wife and children but blamed his actions on being hungry due to Ramadan fasting. The unidentified man, who lives in the south-west Swedish province of Dalsland, was sentenced to […]
Children & Teens
Germany must repatriate from Syria IS fighter’s wife and children: court
(Reuters) A Berlin court has ruled that Germany’s foreign ministry should repatriate from Syria the German wife and three children of a suspected Islamic State fighter, in what a court spokesman said was the first such ruling against the government. The man’s […]
Deradicalization
America faces a new counter-terrorism problem it is completely unprepared for Country lacks system to ensure that scores of jailed extremists no longer pose a threat after release
(National-UAE) Few people have defined America’s post-9/11 homegrown terrorist threat like John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban.” On May 23, having served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for aiding a terrorist organisation, Walker Lindh walked free from a high-security prison […]
Law Enforcement
Fishers brothers charged with trying to sell guns to Islamic State group
(Indianapolis Star) Two brothers from Fishers accused of trying to sell manufactured firearms and ship the weapons overseas to the Islamic State group are facing federal charges, authorities said. A federal grand jury indicted Moyad Dannon, 21, and Mahde Dannon, 20, with […]
Academics & Education
Boy, eight, wins £3.5k payout after teachers wrongly accuse him of wearing T-shirt supporting ISIS (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Moroccan jailed by Portugal for recruiting for Syrian war
(Reuters) A 65-year-old Moroccan citizen was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday after being convicted by a Portuguese court of recruiting young people to fight in Syria. Abdesselam Tazi was also found guilty by the court in Lisbon of financing […]
Legal
ISIS terrorist who launched Paris attacks that killed 130 awarded compensation (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Houston man who wanted to join ISIS, be a martyr, pleads guilty in federal terrorism case
(Houston Chronicle) A Houston native described by his lawyer as a youth engaging in “dangerous fantasy” pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to providing aid to ISIS by offering to be a martyr and spreading bomb-making knowledge. Kaan Serclan Damlarkaya, 20, has […]
Government & Politics
Government rejected military plan to bring home suspected Isis supporter Lisa Smith (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Islamic State ‘are maintaining the rage’: Inside Australia’s fight against terrorism
(Sydney Morning Herald) Like many a 20-year-old, Greenacre youth Isaak el Matari harboured big ambitions. But if allegations made against him in court this week prove correct, his dreams were far from the run-of-the-mill variety shared by most young men his age. […]
News: Europe
London gangster is fourth man in Isis phone video (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Smith faces complex dynamic in bid to leave Syria for Ireland (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
German ‘Islamic State’ bride jailed for 5 years Sabine S. traveled to Syria and Iraq to marry an Islamic State (IS) fighter and praised jihadi life in several blogs. She left her two children in Berlin after becoming radicalized.
(Deutsche Welle) A 32-year-old German woman on Friday was sentenced to five years in prison for being a member of the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist organization. Sabine S. converted to Islam and moved to Syria and Iraq from the end of 2013 […]
Government & Politics
Ilhan Omar sends somber Fourth of July message days after celebrating Somali Independence Day
(Daily Caller) Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar urged Americans to celebrate the Fourth of July by reflecting on “how much further we have to go,” standing in contrast to her joyful celebration of Somali Independence Day four days prior. “Today gives us […]
Law Enforcement
Swedish woman arrested over terror offences after landing at London’s Gatwick Airport (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Vice reporter loses final bid to block RCMP demand for background material
(Canadian Press) A reporter’s last-ditch attempt at blocking an RCMP demand for his background materials in a terrorism case failed Thursday with a judge refusing to stay the production order. In her ruling, Ontario Superior Court Justice Breese Davies said the Mounties still […]
Children & Teens
IS bride Lisa Smith denies training girls to become fighters
(BBC) A former Irish soldier, who became an IS bride but now lives in a Syria refugee camp with her child, says she wasn’t involved in fighting and did not train girls to become fighters. Lisa Smith joined the Islamic State group […]
Government & Politics
Muslim Brotherhood dangerous for social peace — German intelligence
(Ahval) Germany’s domestic intelligence agency 2018 report for the North Rhine-Westphalia state said the Muslim Brotherhood was being closely monitored by Germany due to dangers the report said legal, non-violent Islamist groups posed to the country’s democracy, German state-run Deutsche Welle Turkish […]
Crime
Sweden: Female cops told to submit to Islamic State or be raped
(Breitbart) A 34-year-old man in Sweden has been convicted of uttering threats after telling two female police officers to submit to Islamic State or face being raped. Fadi Daoud was convicted last week for the threats made in Norrköping in May 2017. Police […]
Government & Politics
Foreign fighter exclusion plan moves ahead
(AAP) Foreign fighters seeking to return home to Australia could soon be banned from doing so for up to two years. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton introduced legislation to the lower house on Thursday which would temporarily ban any citizen suspected of […]
News: Australasia
Alleged Islamic State terror plotter says ‘we are terrorists’: court docs
(Sydney Morning Herald) A 20-year-old man charged with planning a terror attack in the Sydney CBD proclaimed himself the “General Commander of Islamic State Australia” and created a stronghold in the Blue Mountains from which to conduct “guerilla-style” attacks, court documents allege. […]
Children & Teens
German IS trial: Mother of tortured girl questioned in Munich A woman thought to be the mother of a Yazidi girl left to die of thirst, allegedly by an Islamic State couple, has been questioned in a Munich court. A German national is on trial for the enslaved girl's death.
(Deutsche Welle) Nora T. is believed to have witnessed the agonizing death of her 5-year-old Yazidi daughter while they were both kept as slaves by a couple affiliated with “Islamic State” in Iraq in 2015. German national Jennifer W. is on trial in Munich […]
Legal
Chesterfield chip shop owner denies ‘unhealthy interest in Islamic State’ during terror trial (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Three charged over IS Sydney terror plot
(AAP) A man accused of being a member of a terrorist cell which allegedly planned to carry out an attack in Sydney for Islamic State has smiled as the case was detailed in court. Federal and NSW counter-terrorism police arrested three men […]
Law Enforcement
‘Sworn allegiance to ISIS’: Sydney men arrested over foiled terror plot
(Sydney Morning Herald) Two Sydney-based Islamic State members had reached out to contacts overseas to obtain weapons and explosives as part of a plot to carry out attacks on city churches, courts, police stations and defence locations, police allege. Counter-terrorism police raided […]
Law Enforcement
Sweden’s security police request deportations over suspected terror links
(Local) Sweden’s security service Säpo has requested the deportation of several individuals believed to be linked to international terror organizations. Säpo head Klas Friberg did not want to confirm the number of people concerned or to give further information about their identity, […]
Legal
Sydney man’s views ‘more extreme than IS’
(AAP) A Sydney man who planned to fight for Islamic State overseas got cold feet because his views were even more extreme than the terrorist group’s, a court has heard. Amin Elmir, 29, pleaded guilty in February to preparing to travel from […]
Legal
Redhill man Haider Ahmed jailed over knife terror plot
(BBC) A supporter of Islamic State (IS) who planned a terror attack with a hunting knife has been jailed for six years. Haider Ahmed, 19, from Redhill in Surrey, was found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism at an earlier hearing […]
Children & Teens
Islamic teacher gets 10-year prison sentence for pursuing young teen
(Washington Post) A local Islamic schoolteacher who cultivated sexual video conversations with a 15-year-old student will go to prison for 10 years. Seitu Sulayman Kokayi, 30, was convicted at trial in Alexandria federal court earlier this year of sending pornographic images to […]
Clerics & Preachers
London Bridge attack: Anjem Choudary ‘incited’ ringleader to commit carnage — so why wasn’t he arrested, ask families (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Schoolgirls feared FGM after being sent abroad to be ‘de-westernised’ (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Countries urged not to strip terror suspects of citizenship
(Reuters) Stripping terror suspects of citizenship does not increase national security and may even make it worse, legal experts told a conference on ending statelessness. They are particularly concerned over the increasing use of the measure by Britain which this year revoked […]
Clerics & Preachers
Al Qaeda’s master terrorists are still on Facebook and YouTube Facebook and YouTube say they have scrubbed tens of thousands of violent extremists' posts. But we found 105 from the most dangerous preachers of jihadist terror.
(Daily Beast) In 2006, Ibrahim Suleiman al-Rubaish was repatriated to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo Bay after he’d served more than five years as an enemy combatant for training with al Qaeda, and fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan against the United States. […]
Law Enforcement
Britain has ‘by far the highest rate of returning jihadi fighters in Europe’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Sweden police call for criminalisation of possession of terror propaganda
(Breitbart) The chief of the Swedish Security Police (Säpo) has demanded the government look at tabling laws to criminalise the possession of terrorist propaganda. Säpo head Klas Friberg argued that not only do police regularly find propaganda in the possession of terror […]
Law Enforcement
Bosnian arrested over 2015 Paris attacks: German police
(AFP) German authorities said Thursday they had arrested a Bosnian man wanted in connection with the 2015 Paris attacks and are preparing his extradition to Belgium. The German federal police office and Dresden prosecutors said in a joint statement that the 39-year-old […]
Children & Teens
Pennsylvania officials join bigoted CAIR for ‘Islamophobia’ events
(IPT) Last week, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) identified charitable organizations that recently showcased radical Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) activists with a history of bigoted and anti-Semitic views. Philanthropic organizations and foundations should be held accountable for failing to do […]
Government & Politics
Cities can be ‘antidote’ to extremism, says London mayor
(Reuters) Cities can provide an “antidote” to populism and extremism if they build bridges between their diverse communities, London’s mayor said on Tuesday, as he met the leaders of other major European cities in the British capital. From funding parenting classes to […]
Government & Politics
Artificial intelligence can’t solve online extremism issue, experts tell House panel
(Hill) A group of experts on Tuesday warned a House panel that artificial intelligence is not capable of sweeping up the full breadth of online extremist content — in particular posts from white supremacists. At a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing, lawmakers cast […]
Immigration
Mexican officials confirm U.S. warned them about suspected ISIS terrorists headed to border
(Breitbart) Mexican authorities are on high alert regarding three ISIS-linked terror suspects who are believed to be making their way from Central America to Mexico and potentially the U.S. border. Authorities were warned the suspects could try to enter Mexico within a […]
Government & Politics
Terror threat level still ‘substantial’ in Netherlands
(NL Times) There is a very real concern in the Netherlands regarding potential terror attacks, particularly from ISIS recruits and jihadists, right-wing extremists, and radical activists, according to Dutch counter-terror office NCTV. Because of this, the terror threat level in the country […]
Law Enforcement
Belgium arrests man suspected of plotting attack on US embassy
(AFP) Belgian counter-terror police have arrested a man suspected of plotting an attack against the US embassy in Brussels, federal prosecutors said Monday. The police on Saturday arrested the man following “converging signs raising fears of an attack against the US embassy,” […]
Internet
New Jersey woman sentenced for supporting ISIS — again
(NY Post) A New Jersey woman who was already busted for providing material support to ISIS went right back to her evil ways — even as she was supposed to be helping the feds fight the terror group, officials revealed Monday. Sinmyah […]
Government & Politics
Germany loses track of 160 ‘Islamic State’ supporters About 1,000 Germans traveled to the Middle East to join the 'Islamic State' after 2013. A third of them have since returned to Germany. Some died on the battlefield, others are in prison, but many appear to be missing.
(Deutsche Welle) The German government has lost track of more than 160 German “Islamic State” (IS) supporters who traveled to Syria and Iraq to join the terror group, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper has reported. The figure from the Interior Ministry was […]
Legal
‘Jihadi Jack’ Letts: I’d love to come home, I won’t blow up Brits Speaking to Sky News from a jail in Syria, Jack Letts urges his parents who were convicted of funding terrorism 'not to give up.'
(Sky News) A suspected Islamic State militant from the UK, dubbed “Jihadi Jack,” has told Sky News he regrets what he did and feels guilty for what he put his parents through. Speaking from the prison in Syria where he is being […]