Category: anti-terrorism

Radical Islamic Preacher Charged With 3 Terrorist Offences

Radical preacher Anjem Choudary, the alleged leader of the proscribed terrorist organisation, Al-Muhajiroun, has appeared in court in London amid allegations he colluded with a Canadian national to spread “an extreme form of Islam” online. Mr. Choudary, 56, is accused of directing a terrorist organisation, being a member of a proscribed organisation and addressing meetings to…


EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan Funding Terror in Kashmir Through Student Scholarship Program, Indian Investigator Says

NEW DELHI—Pakistan is funding terrorism in Indian-administered Kashmir through a medical scholarship program, according to an Indian investigator. The revelations add to long-held Indian claims that Pakistan is backing separatist militants in the region, which is one of the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoints. The official program, called the Pakistan Technical Assistance Program (PTAP), sponsors…


The Next Terrorist Attack

Commentary For 20 years since Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. presidents have been saying their anti-terrorism policies have worked, as evidenced by no new attacks on America. While we should be grateful another attack hasn’t occurred, past performance is no guarantee of future success. Fanatics are nothing but patient, as we have seen in Afghanistan. Joint…


French leaders condemn terrorist attack after policewoman stabbed to death

PARIS—The killing of a female police employee in a Paris commuter town on Friday was an attack on the French Republic, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Saturday. The attacker, a French resident of Tunisian origin, stabbed the police administrative worker, a mother of two, at a police station in Rambouillet, just south of Paris….


French Prosecutors Open Terror Probe in Official’s Killing

RAMBOUILLET, France—French prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation into the fatal stabbing Friday of a French police official inside a police station near the historic Rambouillet chateau outside Paris. Police shot and killed the attacker at the scene, authorities said. Anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard told reporters that his office took over the probe because the attacker…