Deradicalization
Home Office thwarted return home of Isis suspect Jack Letts (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
Law Enforcement
Ex-police officer again gets 15 years on terror conviction
(AP) A former police officer who tried to help the Islamic State by purchasing $245 in gift cards will still serve 15 years in prison, even though some of his convictions were tossed out on appeal. Nicholas Young of Fairfax, Virginia, was […]
Legal
Brownsburg man who tried to join Islamic State group is sentenced to federal prison
(Indianapolis Star) A Brownsburg man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and planned to travel to Syria to join them was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in federal prison, officials said. U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker […]
Legal
NSW inmate says he’ll always support jihad
(AAP) A radicalised NSW inmate has told a court he’s sorry for waterboarding and carving an Islamic State slogan into his cellmate’s forehead but not for attacking the former soldier. A “physical attack would be OK,” Bourhan Hraichie said from the dock […]
News: Europe
Jack Letts, Islamic State recruit: ‘I was enemy of UK’
(BBC) Jack Letts, who left the UK to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, has said he had been an “enemy of Britain.” The Muslim convert, who is in custody in a Kurdish jail, admitted he was once ready to […]
Legal
Isis suspect Jack Letts’ parents found guilty of funding terrorism (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Two suburban men guilty of providing support to Islamic State It’s rare for a terrorism case to go to trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. And in the lead-up to this one, defense attorneys convinced the judge they should be allowed to present an entrapment defense to the jury.
(Chicago Sun-Times) The FBI descended on their north suburban home in a raid two years ago that began with a “boom,” neighbors said. Then, the feds unveiled a 77-page criminal complaint in April 2017 that accused Joseph D. Jones and Edward Schimenti […]
Government & Politics
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto: ‘We welcome all refugees and immigrants’ despite alleged refugee terror plot
(KDKA) Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto reaffirmed his support for the refugee and immigrant community just hours after a Syrian refugee was charged with plotting an ISIS-inspired terror bombing at a local church. “Pittsburgh has historically been a home for refugees and immigrants […]
Christians
FBI: Syrian Islamic State sympathizer in Pittsburgh planned to bomb North Side church
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) A young Syrian refugee living in Pittsburgh plotted to blow up a North Side church next month in support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, according to the FBI. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, who came to the U.S. […]
Academics & Education
Inspectors find no evidence of hard-line Islam at Amsterdam school
(Dutch News) Senior staff at Amsterdam’s Islamic secondary school have been involved in financial misconduct but there is no hard evidence that the school is indoctrinating pupils in the fundamentalist form of Islam know as “Salafism,” according to a report by school […]
Legal
Illinois woman gets 6 1/2 years in federal prison for supporting St. Louis County man who fought and died in Syria
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) An Illinois woman was sentenced Tuesday to six and one-half years in prison for helping to support terrorists, including a former St. Louis County man who fought and died in Syria, prosecutors said. Mediha Medy Salkicevic, 39, of Schiller […]
Moderation & Reform
How Australian tinnie terror ringleader turned into a ‘rabid dog’ ahead of audacious Philippines plot
(9 News) Jesse Morton, a former Al Qaeda recruiter and propagandist from the US who turned FBI informant, can vividly remember his final communications with Robert “Musa” Cerantonio, the jailed Melbourne ringleader of the so-called tinnie terrorist plot. Cerantonio, who was already […]
Law Enforcement
Spain busts gang that helped ‘finance Al Qaeda militia’
(AFP) Spanish police on Tuesday detained 10 nationals of Syrian origin accused of financing “Al Qaeda terrorist militia” in Syria, the interior ministry and a source close to the probe said. With Europol’s collaboration, more than 350 agents took part in an […]
Law Enforcement
London brother of ISIS fighters with ‘links’ to Jihadi John arrested in Portugal (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
ISIS ‘Beatle’ Jihadi Ringo begs to return to UK with secret wife and 3 children (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Terror threat in Spain raised to ‘severe’ as Brits warned of ‘high risk’ of attacks (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
IS focus on millennial women is worry for future: Europol
(AFP) The Islamic State group is targeting women from the millennial generation as it seeks new recruits after the fall of its so-called caliphate, the EU’s police agency said Friday. In a report on IS propaganda focussed on women, Europol said that […]
Legal
20 years in federal pen for Brooklyn ISIS supporter who pondered Times Square terror attack
(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn man will spend 20 years in prison for supporting ISIS and discussing plans to use a garbage truck to crush people in Times Square. Mohamed Rafik Naji, 40, flew to Yemen in March 2015 in hope of […]
Health & Medicine
Wannabe IS fighter walks from NSW jail A Sydney man stopped at Sydney Airport trying to travel to Islamic State territories has been handed a five-year good behaviour bond.
(AAP) A young Sydney man who was stopped at Sydney Airport when trying to join Islamic State in Syria has walked free from jail on a five-year good behaviour bond. Moudasser Taleb had a bag of military-style clothing but no plane ticket […]
News: Europe
Ten terrorists released from jail were sent back to prison last year (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
London Bridge inquest hears MI5 lost tipoff about attacker (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Dayton man convicted of trying to join ISIS sentenced to 15 years
(Dayton Daily News) The man convicted in the first terrorism-related trial in the Southern District of Ohio was sentenced to 15 years in prison, a judge ruled Thursday. Laith W. Alebbini, 28, was found guilty last year by U.S. District Court Judge […]
Clerics & Preachers
Sweden to deport Iraqi imam: reports
(AFP) Sweden is to deport three foreigners including an Iraqi imam suspected of playing a central role in an Islamist movement, media reports said Wednesday, quoting the Swedish migration office. Counter-terrorism police arrested Abu Raad, the imam of a mosque in the […]
Government & Politics
Swedish authorities sound alarm over rise in extremists, recommend deportations
(Breitbart) The Swedish security service Sapo has sounded the alarm over the rise of extremists saying that the number of known extremists in some circles has risen from hundreds to thousands in a short period of time. Sapo have recommended and applied […]
Government & Politics
France’s Le Pen to go on trial for tweeting gruesome IS images
(AFP) French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial for tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a judicial source told AFP on Wednesday. Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after IS jihadists […]
Legal
Swedish appeals court overturns bombing plot conviction
(Reuters) A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday overturned a seven-year sentence handed down to an Uzbek man by a lower court for plotting to carry out a bombing in the name of Islamic State. While the Svea Appeals Court freed David Idrisson, […]
Government & Politics
Republicans to send letter to Twitter calling for Hamas ban
(Daily Caller) Sixteen Republican congresspeople plan to send a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Tuesday encouraging the platform to ban all content promoting terror specific to Hamas, the Daily Caller has learned. The signatories on the letter include Rep. Lee Zeldin […]
Children & Teens
Minister defends deal to bring orphans back from Syria: no change in policy
(Dutch News) Anti-immigration MPs have criticised the government’s decision to bring two orphans, aged two and four, back to the Netherlands from a Syrian camp after their jihadi parents died. On Monday it emerged that French officials picked up the two Dutch […]
Legal
Muslim couple deny terror-related charges in Madrid re-trial
(AP) A Moroccan-born Spaniard and his Mexican wife are denying charges in their retrial that they helped recruit militants for the Islamic State group in Madrid. Aziz Zaghanane initially received a six-year prison sentence at last year’s trial and his wife Ana […]
Children & Teens
14 French, Dutch children repatriated from Syria
(AFP) Twelve children of French jihadists, most of them orphans, were flown home Monday from camps in Syria, along with two Dutch orphans who were handed over to the Netherlands, the foreign ministry said in Paris. The latest repatriations of foreigners from […]
Legal
SC man gets maximum 20-year sentence for attempting to join Islamic State
(Charleston Post and Courier) A South Carolina man will serve the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for attempting to join the Islamic State terror group, a federal judge in Charleston ruled Monday. Prior to the sentence being issued, Zakaryia Abdel […]
Government & Politics
Iraq seeks French compensation for ISIS trials and commuting death sentences Baghdad is demanding millions of euros for dealing with French members of ISIS, security official says
(National-UAE) Iraq and France have been negotiating for months on a deal to commute the death sentences of 11 French citizens and a French resident convicted of joining ISIS in exchange for millions of euros, a security official told the National. “There […]
Arts & Entertainment
Unmasked: Islamic extremist linked to ringleader of London Bridge terror attacks and hate preacher Anjem Choudary (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Trump officials pushing to strip convicted terrorists of citizenship Critics fear a dangerous new front in how the legal system treats naturalized U.S. citizens convicted of terrorism offenses.
(Politico) John Walker Lindh walked out of prison last month and returned to American life, having served 17 years for providing support to the Taliban. But another American who pleaded guilty in a high-profile terrorism case after the Sept. 11 attacks is […]
Children & Teens
Bulgarian teen arrested, police suspect possible bomb attack
(AP) A 16-year-old was arrested after Bulgarian police found explosive devices, an Islamic State group flag and other items in the boy’s home that could have been used in a mass attack, a prosecutor said Saturday. Police in Bulgaria’s second-biggest city, Plovdiv, […]
Converting to Islam
Extremist Muslim gangs are recruiting prisoners to be their foot soldiers and ‘beating them’ if they refuse to convert to Islam (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Man sought guns, grenades for Times Square attack, feds say
(AP) A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group and Osama bin Laden, and feared being known as the “Looney […]
Legal
Tunisian-German couple in court over ‘ricin attack plot’
(AFP) A Tunisian man and his German wife went on trial Friday, charged with planning a foiled biological bomb attack in Germany with the deadly poison ricin. Sief Allah H., 30, and his wife Yasmin, 43, were arrested a year ago by […]
Law Enforcement
Judge closes courtroom for testimony by undercover operative in terrorism trial in Chicago
(Chicago Tribune) Over objections by the Chicago Tribune, a federal judge on Thursday ordered her courtroom cleared of spectators and the media for the testimony of an undercover operative in the trial of two north suburban men accused of lending material support […]
News: Europe
Widow ‘cannot register’ that husband was London Bridge attacker (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Army War College under fire over historian’s upcoming lecture on ‘clash of civilizations’ between Islam and the West
(Task & Purpose) The Philadelphia chapter of a leading Muslim civil rights group is urging the U.S. Army War College to reconsider an upcoming lecture by an Islamic history scholar over his “simplistic, inaccurate and often prejudicial view of the long history […]
Law Enforcement
London Bridge attacker ‘had been caught with Isis propaganda’ (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Former al-Qaida propagandist launches counter-jihadi magazine
(VOA) Once al-Qaida’s chief American propagandist, Jesse Morton is now propagandizing for peace. In 2009, Morton, then part of a group of Muslim extremists in New York, helped launch Jihad Recollections, the first in a line of online glossy magazines that captured […]
Legal
RCMP explores crimes against humanity charges for Canadian ISIS members
(Global News) The RCMP is looking into whether war crimes laws can be used to prosecute Canadians detained in Syria over their alleged involvement in the so-called Islamic State, Global News has learned. National security investigators are exploring not only whether terrorism […]
Legal
‘Repugnant’ tiny terrorist gets 42 years
(AAP) Roger Singaravelu opened his heart and home to a young woman who had left her native Bangladesh to study in Melbourne. Less than 48 hours later, while napping with his five-year-old daughter, the woman plunged a knife into his neck with […]
Children & Teens
Syrian Kurds send 8 American IS women, children back to US
(AP) Kurdish authorities in northern Syria have transferred eight U.S. women and children who were captured with the Islamic State group back to America, Kurdish officials said Wednesday. Abdulkarim Omar, a senior official in the Kurdish self-rule administration, said the group includes […]
Law Enforcement
London Bridge attack: Family’s warning was not passed to police (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Iraq sentences all 11 French IS suspects to death
(AFP) A Iraqi court Monday sentenced to death two more French nationals for joining the Islamic State group, leaving all 11 Frenchmen transferred from Syria facing the gallows and potentially opening the door for other cases. Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, […]
Legal
Iraq death sentences a ‘disgrace’ for France: lawyers
(AFP) The execution of nine French jihadists on death row in Iraq would be a disgrace for France and leave an “indelible stain” on the mandate of President Emmanuel Macron, a group of prominent French lawyers said Monday. With controversy growing in […]
Legal
Nine French jihadists now on death row in Iraq
(AFP) Nine French jihadists are now on death row in Iraq after a court sentenced two more to death on Sunday for joining the Islamic State group, rejecting a claim of torture. Fodil Tahar Aouidate and Vianney Ouraghi were among 11 French […]