Legal
Revealed: Almost half of terrorists jailed last year received short sentences (LINK ONLY)
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MI5
Government & Politics
Manchester Arena attack: MI5 witness to give evidence anonymously
(BBC) A senior MI5 officer will be allowed to give evidence anonymously from behind a screen at the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena attack. Families of the 22 people murdered in the 2017 bombing had argued against the move, feeling it […]
Government & Politics
Usman Khan: MI5 had intelligence that Fishmongers’ Hall terrorist was planning attack before prison release (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
UK terrorism threat level lowered to ‘substantial’
(BBC) The UK’s terrorism threat level has been downgraded from “severe” to “substantial.” Home Secretary Priti Patel said the move followed a “significant reduction” in the momentum of attacks in Europe — since those seen in Austria and France between September and […]
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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Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena attack ‘like being punched in face’
(BBC) Investigating terror attacks like the Manchester bombing can feel like being “repeatedly punched in the face,” a counter-terrorism officer has said. Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu was the UK’s senior national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism at the time of the 2017 atrocity, which […]
Clerics & Preachers
Ban on Anjem Choudary’s gospel of hatred is about to be lifted (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Reading attacker Khairi Saadallah given whole-life prison sentence (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Shamima Begum must be treated as a threat, anti-terror commander Neil Basu says (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Osama bin Laden pal Adel Abdel Bary to cost taxpayer £400,000 after return to UK (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Terrorist lifer among more than 40 extremist convicts freed from prison (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Manchester Arena inquiry: Salman Abedi ‘trained with Islamist militia’
(BBC) Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi trained or fought with an Islamist militia in Libya, an inquiry has heard. His cousin Abderahman Forjani told police Abedi travelled to Libya during its 2011 revolution and “obtained a job locating Gaddafi supporters.” Abedi had […]
News: Europe
British terrorist secretly married ISIS bride with one of two sons killed in air strike (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Javid advised of ‘hostile public sentiment’ to Shamima Begum, court told (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Reading park attack: Khairi Saadallah pleads guilty to three murders (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Boy in beheading plot among 100 terrorists up for release (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
UK terror threat upgraded to severe after France and Austria attacks (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Never-before-seen footage shows Manchester bomber Salman Abedi at a rally organised by Jeremy Corbyn’s pro-Palestine group (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Manchester Arena attack: Abedi’s brother Ismail refuses to engage with inquiry
(BBC) The elder brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber has refused to say why he is not co-operating with the public inquiry into the atrocity. The inquiry has heard that Ismail Abedi has declined to answer questions in case he incriminates […]
Government & Politics
Manchester Arena bomber linked to six MI5 ‘subjects of interest,’ inquiry hears (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Manchester bombing families attack MI5’s ‘obsessive secrecy’ in public terror inquiry (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Jihadists attempted terror attacks every fortnight in Europe since ISIS fall, study finds (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Manchester Arena inquiry: Terror attack investigation opens
(BBC) The public inquiry into the Manchester Arena terror attack has begun. The hearing comes more than three years after Salman Abedi set off a bomb as people left a concert on 22 May 2017, killing himself and 22 others. It was […]
News: North America
ISIS Beatles fear ‘Hell on Earth’ supermax prison that’s ‘fate worse than death penalty’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism chief warns new attack on London is ‘likely’ after lockdown (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Manchester Arena attack: Families oppose screen for MI5 witness
(BBC) The families of 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena bombing have opposed moves to allow a senior MI5 officer to give evidence behind a screen at the public inquiry into the terror attack. Government lawyers want the security service member […]
News: Europe
IS prisoner issue a ticking timebomb for the West
(BBC) The latent danger posed by thousands of defeated and captured fighters who joined the Islamic State (IS) group is festering and growing in the squalid, overcrowded prison camps of north-east Syria, where riots and attempted breakouts are becoming commonplace. IS has […]
Law Enforcement
Counter-terrorism police arrest four men over ‘potential attack’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Safiyya Shaikh: How undercover operation caught a drug addict jihadist
(BBC) A supporter of the banned Islamic State terror group has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years after admitting a plot to blow herself up in a bomb attack on St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Muslim convert […]
Legal
St Paul’s bomb-plotter Safiyya Amira Shaikh given life sentence (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Labour calls for judge-led review on strategy for lone attackers (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Reading attack: Suspect ruled out as possible terrorist twice in two years (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Reading terror suspect was classified as ‘high mental health risk’ amid fears he was not getting help he needed (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
Reading killings: Suspect Khairi Saadallah was on anti-terror programme (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Libyan held over Reading multiple stabbing ‘known to security services’ (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Fears of rise in UK terrorist recruits as anti-radicalisation referrals collapse (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Terrorism in the UK: Number of suspects tops 40,000 after MI5 rechecks its list (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Ex-MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the most serious terrorists should get ‘whole life’ jail sentences and die behind bars (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
MI5 boss Andrew Parker asks tech firms: Create a way to let us read suspects’ secret messages to stop UK terror attacks
(ITV) The director general of MI5 has called on tech companies to create methods which would allow the security services to access the secret, encrypted messages of people suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in the UK. Speaking to ITV, Sir Andrew Parker […]
Law Enforcement
Streatham attacker was released amid fears he felt terrorism ‘justified’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Questions for investigators over surveillance of attacker (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Government terror adviser warns ‘no magic test’ to stop reoffending (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Home Office proposes offence of possessing terrorist propaganda (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
MI5 to hire behavioural scientists as it seeks new ways to combat terrorists (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
HMP Whitemoor: Brusthom Ziamani named as attack suspect
(BBC) An inmate suspected of attacking an officer at a maximum security prison was jailed for planning to behead a soldier, the BBC has learned. He is understood to be Brusthom Ziamani, 24, who was found guilty of preparing an act of […]
Immigration
Foreign terror suspect thought to have been planning an IS-style attack granted legal aid to fight extradition (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Counter-terror police arrest five men at sites across England (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Forty Islamist terrorists freed after serving half their jail terms will go back to prison (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Jihadis on our streets: 350 convicted and suspected terrorists have been freed in the past seven years, latest figures reveal (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
London Bridge attacker had asked for help to deradicalise — lawyer (LINK ONLY)
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