A teenager who became radicalised by Islamist propaganda online has been jailed for life after admitting a plot to carry out a terrorist attack against the British police or a military base. Matthew King, 19, carried out surveillance at police stations, railway stations and an British Army barracks in London and admitted preparation of terrorist acts,…
Teenager Who Threatened to Behead Prison Staff Is Jailed for Life for Terrorist Offences
13-Year-Old London Boy Arrested on Islamist Terrorism-Related Charge
The Metropolitan Police arrested a 13-year-old boy on Tuesday after he allegedly shared extreme Islamist material online. The boy was arrested in west London on suspicion of dissemination of terrorist material. It came after the Met obtained a PACE (Evidence Act 1984) warrant to search his address as part of a counter-terrorism investigation. The boy was…
UK Prison Service Has ‘Underappreciated’ Danger of Islamist Gangs: Report
Britain’s independent reviewer of terrorist legislation, Jonathan Hall QC, says the Prison Service has failed to tackle Islamist gangs and has allowed some jails to become breeding grounds for terrorism. In his report “Terrorism in Prisons,” Hall said: “The impact of Islamist groups has been underappreciated for too long by the authorities … Islamist group behaviour has…
At Least 30 Killed in Al-Shabaab Attack in Somalia: Security Official
MOGADISHU—An estimated 30 people died on Sunday when al Shabaab terrorist group launched an attack in a town in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, a security official said. The insurgents used car bombs in the assault on a military base in Galmudug’s Wisil town, located in central Somalia, triggering a fight with government troops and…
4 Held as French Investigate Suspected Islamic Terrorist Attack Killing Policewoman Inside Station
RAMBOUILLET, France—French authorities detained a fourth person Saturday as anti-terrorism investigators questioned three others after a policewoman was fatally stabbed by man shouting “Allahu akbar!” while she was on duty inside a police station outside Paris. French police killed the Tunisian suspect in the Friday slaying of an unarmed administrative employee at the entrance of her…
9 Killed in Hotel Attack in Somali Capital: Police
MOGADISHU—Nine people died after al-Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgents stormed a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, battling security forces until the early hours of Monday, a police spokesman said. A suicide car bombing on Sunday evening was followed by a shootout between al Shabaab militants and security forces at the Hotel Afrik. “The operation is over…
Pakistan Appeals Against Freeing Islamists Convicted of US Journalist Pearl’s Beheading
KARACHI, Pakistan—Pakistan’s government on Friday appealed to the Supreme Court to review its decision to free a British-born Islamist and three others convicted of beheading U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, a day after the United States expressed “deep concerns” over the ruling. A panel of three judges of the court on Thursday acquitted Ahmad Omar Saeed…
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