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• Palestinian hijacker freed in Rome

  16 July 2008
  One of the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro has been released, after serving more than two decades in an Italian jail. Ibrahim Fatayer Abdelatif was one of a group of Palestinian militants who hijacked the ship in 1985. Authorities have ordered Ibrahim to leave Italy, though his lawyer says that he has nowhere to go. Although Ibrahim has officially been expelled from Italy, he cannot leave until he finds another country that will accept him.

• Crown presents strong e-mail evidence in Khawaja case

  2 July 2008
  The strongest evidence in the case of the first man charged under Canada’s antiterrorism act was revealed in court – emails he wrote over the course of a year prior to his arrest. Mohammad Mowin Khawaja, 29, wrote messages to conspirators in Britain referring to detonation devices, routing recruits to a house in Pakistan, as well as ways to send money and night-vision goggles to insurgents in Afghanistan.

• Spain arrests two on militant recruitment suspicion

  30 June 2008
  Police in Barcelona arrested two people on Tuesday on suspicion of recruiting Muslims to fight for militant groups, news agency EFE reported. The report said they were not connected to 11 other Islamist militants who a Spanish court charged on Thursday with offences related to suicide bomb plots in the Spanish city and Germany.

• Spanish judge indicts 11 on terror charges

  25 June 2008
  A Spanish judge charged eleven men with plotting suicide attacks against the public transportation network in Barcelona. The indictment says the cell of ten Pakistanis and one Indian, had plans to carry out an attack between January 18-20 of this year. The indictment said that the men were «very close to achieving full technical capacity with explosives» to carry out the attack.

• Netherlands Re-Arrests Freed Terrorist Suspect

  25 June 2008
  Dutch authorities re-arrested a Pakistani suspect that had been previously released in April, who will now be extradited to Spain. Dutch authorities released the man because there was insufficient evidence that he was involved in planning a terrorist attack; however, a Spanish magistrate issued an international arrest warrant against the man. The man is allegedly part of a jihad network planning to launch attacks in Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, and England.

• Italian police target foreigners in crackdown on illegal immigration

  28 May 2008
  Italy’s police arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants last week in a sweep of migrant shantytowns in major Italian urban areas across the country. Nearly 400 people were arrested, and 100 were immediately expelled - most of who were Moroccans and Romanians who violated immigration laws, were involved in theft and prostitution, or drug dealing.

• Belgium-based Moroccan behind dismantled «terror network»

  28 May 2008
  Anti-terrorism police in Morocco and Belgium have detained 11 suspects with alleged links to both Belgium and Al-Qaeda offshoots in Northern Africa. Authorities say that members of the group may have plotted attacks on a luxury hotel in Brussels and European Union facilities.

• Spain court convicts 20 radicals of terrorism charges

  4 April 2008
  A judge in Madrid’s National Court acquitted 20 Islamic terror suspects of the most serious charges in an alleged plot, but convicted them of lesser offences. The court found 18 of 20 suspects guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization, and convicted two others of collaborating in the alleged plot to blow up a court, revealed in late 2004.

• Judge says Al Qaeda suspects unfit for trial

  4 April 2008
  Spain has dropped the extradition of two British residents formerly held as terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay. High Court judge Baltasar Garzon shelved the case of two inmates in after medical reports from British authorities declared them to be unfit to stand trial after suffering years of abuse and torture, according to their lawyers.

• Dutch raise terror threat alert over anti-Islam film

  3 April 2008
  On Thursday, the Netherlands raised its national risk level of a terrorist attack to «substantial,» ahead of the launch of a film by right-wing politician Geert Wilders. In a report to the Dutch parliament, he Dutch counter-terrorism agency said that the assessment was also influenced by increased arrests and threats of individuals and groups suspected of associating with, planning, or carrying out terrorist attacks in Europe.

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