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• London bombs home-made from pharmacy ingredients

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  Explosives found by detectives investigating the London bombings were home-made using ingredients that can be found in high street chemists. The highly volatile explosive - acetone peroxide - has been discovered in a house in Leeds thought to have been used as a bomb-making factory. The discovery has raised fears of other British fanatics making their own explosives and following the example of the London suicide bombers.

• Islamic fanatics are openly using the internet to recruit children in Britain, says Civitas

  1 July 2008, by Mail on Sunday
  Islamic extremists in Britain are openly trying to recruit children via the internet, a report warns.

• Report: Berlin fears German being groomed as suicide bomber

  1 July 2008, by Earth Times
  Police fear that a convert, Eric B, 20, is being groomed by Jihadists to become the first German suicide bomber, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. German police had lost track of B several weeks ago in the wilds in or near Afghanistan, where he was in training with Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an Uzbek-origin terrorist group regarded as just as threatening as Arab-based al-Qaeda.

• Denmark: Three Muslims attacked after embassy bombing in Pakistan

  30 June 2008, by 24 Timer
  Former spokesperson of the Islamic Faith Society (ISF) Kasem Said Ahmed was attacked on his way to work, shortly after the attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was announced in the Danish media. The attack occurred in Copenhagen, and Ahmed said he was punched in the face after being asked if he was an imam.

• Islamist Angst: How Germany Is Dismantling Civil Rights amid Terror Fears

  30 June 2008, by Spiegel Online
  Germany has so far been spared a bloody Islamist terror attack. But it only took two planned attacks in Germany to persuade a majority of the population to support a massive dismantling of civil rights.

• Spain arrests two on militant recruitment suspicion

  30 June 2008, by News Agencies
  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.

• Norway: Bhatti acquitted of terrorism, convicted on other charges

  30 June 2008, by Aftenposten
  Norway’s first terrorism trial ended with the acquittal of Arfan Bhatti, who was charged with firing shots at a synagogue in Oslo, and planning attacks on embassies. His alleged accomplices were also acquitted, but Bhatti was convicted for other shootings and attempted murder. Instead of terrorism, Bhatti was essentially convicted of vandalism instead - though some viewed his verbal threats, thoughts, and ideas conveyed by cellphone as frightening.

• Spanish judge indicts 11 on terror charges

  25 June 2008, by News Agencies
  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.

• Eight Algerians arrested on terrorism charges

  25 June 2008, by Expatica
  Eight Algerians were arrested on charges related to terrorism, and are believed to have ties to a cell spreading propaganda, recruiting volunteers, and engages in the lending of economic and logistical support for groups forming part of the ‘Islamic Maghreb’ - a North African branch of al-Qaeda.

• Netherlands Re-Arrests Freed Terrorist Suspect

  25 June 2008, by News Agencies
  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.

• Parliament adopts directive on return of illegal immigrants

  24 June 2008, by European Parliament
  The compromise reached between Parliament negotiators and the Council on the directive on the return of illegal immigrants was approved at first reading by the full Parliament on Wednesday. This legislation, which is a step towards a European immigration policy, will encourage the voluntary return of illegal immigrants but otherwise lay down minimum standards for their treatment.

• Le Parlement européen adopte la directive « retour »

  24 juin 2008, par Parlement européen
  Le compromis négocié entre le rapporteur et le Conseil sur le retour des immigrés illégaux a été adopté aujourd’hui. La directive, une étape vers une politique d’immigration européenne, va favoriser le retour volontaire des immigrants illégaux et établir des standards minimaux en matière de durée de rétention et d’interdiction de retour, mais aussi un certain nombre de garanties juridiques. Les Etats membres restent libres d’appliquer des normes plus favorables.

• Council Conclusions on the management of the external borders of the member states of the European Union

  16 June 2008, by European Justice and Home Affairs
  Recalling the Hague Programme on strengthening freedom, security and justice in the European Union and related Action Plan, the Global Approach to Migration and the Council Conclusions of 4 December 2006 on integrated border management

• Council Conclusions on enhancing the Global Approach to Migration

  16 June 2008, by European Justice and Home Affairs
  The Council welcomes the progress being made in applying the Global Approach to Migration through the development of instruments such as migration missions and the related follow-up process, cooperation platforms, mobility partnerships and migration profiles and through making use of existing structures for dialogue and cooperation. The Council believes that these instruments need to be further tested, evaluated, implemented and enhanced.

• Press release following 5/6 JHA Council meeting

  16 June 2008, by European Justice and Home Affairs
  The Council expressed its support to an overall compromise on the proposal for a directive of the EP and of the Council on common standards and procedures in MS for returning illegally staying third-country nationals. It also reached a general approach on a decision laying down the necessary administrative and technical provisions for the implementation of a decision on the stepping up of a cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime («Prüm decision»). Regarding counter-terrorism, the Council shared the view of the EU counter-terrorism coordinator on his proposals to concentrate work in the coming months on the prevention of radicalization and on the identification of technical assistance to Northern Africa/Sahel and Pakistan.

• Conclusions du Conseil sur l’instauration de mécanismes de coopération entre les missions civiles relevant de la PESD et Europol en ce qui concerne l’échange d’informations

  16 juin 2008, par European Council
  Tenant compte de l’initiative lancée par la présidence dans le but d’instaurer des mécanismes de coopération entre Europol et les missions civiles relevant de la Politique européenne de sécurité et de défense (PESD) pour l’échange d’informations ...

• Terror deportation: Lecturers petition home secretary

  10 June 2008, by Education Guardian
  The University and College Union (UCU) today protested to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, against the deportation of a Nottingham University administrator caught up in a police investigation of terrorist literature. Hicham Yezza, who was working as an administrator at the university, was arrested for printing out a copy of the widely available al-Qaida training manual for his friend, Rizwaan Sabir.

• Top Police Chief: ’We Must Start Negotiating with Al Qaeda now to Stop Terror’

  10 June 2008, by Evening Standard
  A police chief was slapped down by the Government yesterday for suggesting Britain could open talks with Al Qaeda. Sir Hugh Orde, head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said he knew of no terror campaign that had not ended with negotiation. And he said his 30 years spent tackling the IRA had convinced him that security work and arrests were not enough to defeat terrorists.

• New plan to tackle violent extremism: Mentors to be drafted in to help reverse the process of radicalisation

  10 June 2008, by Travis Alan
  A nationwide «deradicalisation» programme is being developed to tackle people who have been drawn into Islamist violent extremism in Britain, the government will reveal today. The Home Office said the strategy was needed to help bring back those who had «already crossed the line» in terms of ideology and outlook, but not yet committed any clear criminal offence.

• Spain, Saudi Arabia to cooperate in terror fight

  10 June 2008, by Trading Markets
  Spain’s King Juan Carlos and several Saudi leaders agreed that their respective governments would work together to combat terrorism. In addition, Spain will support a Saudi initiative to create an international center to fight terrorism - a plan that is currently in progress.

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