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• Cyberconflits : vers la première cyberguerre

  12 mai 2008, par Ifrah Laurence
  Depuis quelques mois, les systèmes d’information des pays occidentaux sont victimes d’attaques virulentes provenant de la RPC (République populaire de Chine). Organisées ou non par l’Armée populaire de libération de la Chine (APL) il n’y a aucun doute sur le fait qu’elles proviennent de pirates informatiques (hackers) de haut niveau qui ont bénéficié de moyens techniques et financiers importants complétés par des informations précises sur les infrastructures de leurs cibles.

• EC Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements: Implementing a New EU Security Approach in the Neighbourhood

  29 April 2008, by Kruse Imke, Trauner Florian
  With the Eastern Enlargement successfully completed, the EU is searching for a proper balance between internal security and external stabilisation that is acceptable to all sides. This paper focuses on an EU foreign policy instrument that is a case in point for this struggle: EC visa facilitation and readmission agreements. By looking on the EU’s strategy on visa facilitation and readmission, this paper aims at offering a first systematic analysis of the objectives, substance and political implications of these agreements.

• Les présidents du Conseil JAI de l’UE, Lovro Šturm et Dragutin Mate, participeront à la 8ième réunion du Conseil de partenariat permanent UE–Russie dans le domaine de l’espace commun de liberté, de sécurité et de justice

  23 avril 2008, par European Presidency
  M. Lovro Šturm, ministre slovène de la Justice, et M. Dragutin Mate, ministre slovène de l’Intérieur, participeront, dans le cadre de la troïka présidentielle, à la 8ième réunion du Conseil de partenariat permanent UE–Russie dans le domaine de l’espace commun de liberté, de sécurité et de justice, qui débutera, le 24 avril 2008 à Saint-Pétersbourg, par un dîner de travail et une discussion sur la lutte contre les stupéfiants. Le lendemain, la rencontre se poursuivra à une réunion officielle et se terminera par une conférence de presse.

• Rapport annuel 2007 de la Commission nationale de déontologie de la sécurité

  15 avril 2008, par Commission nationale de déontologie de la sécurité
  Par ce rapport annuel, remis au Président de la République et au Parlement, la Commission nationale de déontologie de la sécurité présente les résultats de son activité au cours de l’année 2007, ainsi que les conditions de son fonctionnement. Émanant de parlementaires (sénateurs ou députés) et d’autorités administratives indépendantes (Défenseur des enfants, Médiateur de la République, Président de la HALDE), les saisines transmises à la Commission aboutissent, après l’étude des faits allégués dans les réclamations, à des décisions, avis et/ou recommandations. En 2007, la Commission nationale de déontologie de la sécurité a traité 117 saisines, transmises au cours des années 2005, 2006 et 2007, qui figurent dans ce rapport annuel.

• Islamic terror chief ’Osama Bin London’ facing life in jail

  7 April 2008, by Mirror
  An Islamic terror chief who dubbed himself «Osama bin London» and helped train the 21/7 bombers faces life in jail, it was revealed yesterday. Mohammed Hamid, 50, called on followers to carry out attacks even worse than the 7/7 atrocity in which 52 died when four devices exploded on London’s public transport system.

• The Abolition of Internal Border Checks in an Enlarged Schengen Area: Freedom of movement or a scattered web of security checks?

  7 April 2008, by Faure Atger Anaïs
  This paper assesses the implications and practicalities stemming from the removal of land and sea internal border controls in an enlarged EU on December 2007. Freedom of movement represents a central feature of the supranational status of EU citizenship. Its practical application to the enlarged EU territory has constituted a necessary step to ensure equality among all European citizens. After providing an account of the processes and logic leading to the removal of checks at common borders, the state of play within the Schengen area is described. Particular attention is paid to the national security strategies carried out by the EU-15 member states currently in place and their consequences on the freedom of movement of individuals and on liberty.

• Security Policies and Human Rights in European Football Stadia

  7 April 2008, by Tsoukala Anastassia
  This paper addresses the issue of the increasing infringement of European football supporters’ civil rights and liberties since the mid-1980s. The analysis of the national and supranational regulation of football hooliganism in the light of the evolution of crime control policies in Europe uncovers that this jeopardising of freedoms, owing to the institutionalisation of the control of deviance and to the blurring of the frontiers between the executive and the legislative powers, is not a side-effect of the counter-hooliganism policies.

• Fascism and Islamism thrive in Bradford, report claims

  7 April 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  A Yorkshire city risks becoming a front line in the global clash between the West and Islam, a report has claimed. Bradford has slipped into a political vacuum where debate on community cohesion is stifled, allowing «fascism and Islamism» to thrive, according to academic Dr Alan Carling. He says the city is in danger of becoming «a patchwork quilt of rival ethnic fiefdoms» that makes it a «fault line» in the clash between cultures.

• Local Terrorist Convicted in UK

  7 April 2008, by All Africa
  A Ugandan was among seven men found guilty of involvement in terrorist training activities by a British court on Tuesday. Ugandan-born Yassin Mutegombwa, 23, was sentenced to three years and five months in jail by the Woolwich Crown Court during one of the largest terrorist trials in Britain. A resident of South London, Mutegombwa had pleaded guilty to attending the training camps.

• Terror grooming camp leaders jailed

  4 April 2008, by Times Online
  The two ringleaders of a British al-Qaeda-style terrorist recruitment and training cell, who organised terror camps in beauty spots around the UK, were jailed today. Mohammed Hamid - who once called himself «Osama bin London» - and Atilla Ahmet both groomed impressionable young Muslim men to fight jihad against non-believers. Among their followers were several of the failed suicide bombers who attacked the capital on July 21, 2005.

• Judge says Al Qaeda suspects unfit for trial

  4 April 2008, by News Agencies
  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, by News Agencies
  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.

• Berlin Exhibition Closes after Muslim Threats

  3 April 2008, by Spiegel Online
  A Berlin gallery has closed an exhibition of satirical art by the controversial Danish group Surrend after receiving threats from a group of Muslims. The men were objecting to a picture of the Kaaba at Mecca under the title «Dumb Stone.» Eighteen months ago, the severed head of Muhammad was enough to get an opera temporarily cancelled in Berlin. This time around, it’s an irreverent image of the Kaaba in Mecca that has caused an exhibition in the German capital to shut its doors.

• Belliraj suspected of more terror attacks

  3 April 2008, by De Morgen
  A delegation of American CIA and FBI agents were in Morocco to examine the terrorist network of Belgian-Moroccan terrorist and informant Abdelkader Belliraj. US interest in Belliraj is based on a connection between him and al-Qaeda and Hezbollah. Meanwhile, the Belgian police delegation has returned from Morocco and convinced of Belliraj’s significance in the network, and may be responsible for more incidents of terrorism than initially presumed.

• Alleged Moroccan extremist was a spy

  3 April 2008, by News Agencies
  Abdelkader Belliraj, the alleged leader of a Moroccan extremist group and suspect of several murders in Belgium, was revealed to be a paid informant for the Belgian security services. Belliraj was revealed to be an informant for Belgian authorities, for up to eight years; Belgian authorities were apparently unaware of his other activities during his time as an informant. While a spokesman for Belgium’s justice ministry refused to confirm or deny the reports, the ministry said a statement may be released concerning the news.

• Defendants deny all charges in Austrian Islamist terror case

  2 April 2008, by Earth Times
  Cultures clashed at Vienna’s provincial court on Monday, as judges heard Austria’s first-ever case of alleged Islamist terrorism and banned one defendant for refusing to remove her burka. Two defendants, Mohamed M. and Mona S., aged 22 and 21, face charges of membership in a terrorist organization, having allegedly planned bomb attacks in Austria during the upcoming European football tournament, on European politicians and producing an Islamist threat video distributed on the internet. Prosecutors accused Mohamed M. of membership of «al-Qaeda, or respectively other internationally active Islamist terrorist networks», spreading their terrorist ideology and goals in the German-speaking world.

• Union européenne et sécurité intérieure :institutionnalisation et fragmentation

  2 avril 2008, par Revue Politique Européenne
  L’UE joue un rôle grandissant en matière de sécurité des personnes et des biens. Depuis le début des années 90, d’importantes initiatives sont prises dont la création d’un « espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice » constitue l’emblème. Un de ses aspects spécifiques est abordé ici : la coopération policière et judiciaire pénale.

• Austrian court adjourns Islamist threat video trial till March 12

  2 April 2008, by Earth Times
  Court proceedings in the trial against the alleged producers of an al-Qaeda-promoting threat video, billed Austria’s first case of Islamist terrorism, were adjourned on Thursday until March 12. Two defendants, Mohamed M. and his wife Mona S., aged 22 and 21, face charges of membership in a terrorist organization, having allegedly planned bomb attacks in Austria during the upcoming European football tournament and against European politicians, and producing an Islamist threat video distributed on the internet.

• Human rights court sides with terror suspect in deportation dispute

  2 April 2008, by News Agencies
  The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy would violate its obligations under the European Convention of Human rights if it deports Nassim Saadi, a Tunisian terror suspect from Italy, citing the very real risk of torture if he were to return to his home country. Human rights group Amnesty International applauded the ruling, as a «landmark» ruling on the absolute prohibition of torture, inhuman, and otherwise degrading treatment.

• Europe, very much on al-Qaida’s radar

  2 April 2008, by Middle East Times
  At a recent security conference in Munich, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told European nations that they were under direct threat from Islamist extremists and that this phenomenon would not go away. Gates tied European security to NATO success in Afghanistan. In fact, Western intelligence services have recently established operational links between al-Qaida in Afghanistan and al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) whose goals include striking at the heart of Europe.

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