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• Canada’s First Convicted Terrorist Sentenced

  22 April 2009, by News Agencies
  A judge sentenced a Canadian man to 10 1/2 years in prison for plotting with a group of British Muslims to bomb buildings and natural gas lines in the United Kingdom. Mohammed Momim Khawaja, 29, is the first person to be sentenced under Canadian anti-terrorism laws passed after the Sept. 11 attacks. His case is considered to be the first major test of the laws.

• Two men charged with terrorism in Germany

  22 April 2009, by Deutsche Welle
  Two men with alleged ties to a radical Islamic group have been charged with terrorism, German prosecutors said. Investigators said the accused had connections to a man who planed to bomb US interests in Germany.

• Police carry out anti-terror raids across country

  22 April 2009, by Adnkronos
  Twenty-six foreigners suspected of links to international terrorism and aiding illegal immigration, are being investigated by Italian police, after raids carried out in several Italian cities. The raids were carried out in the northern cities of Vicenza, Venice, Padova, Brescia, Como, Cuneo, Trento, and Florence.

• Police feared ‘Al-Qaida terror attack’ on UK was planned for Easter

  22 avril 2009, par News Agencies
  Counter-terrorism officials believe an alleged al-Qaida terror plot against the UK, designed to cause mass casualties, was due to be carried out over Easter. The police raided fifteen locations in the North-West of England on Wednesday, 8 April, arresting 12 suspects of whom 11 are Pakistani nationals. They are believed to be part of a Pakistan-based and trained al-Qaida cell.

• CIA warns terrorists targeting German vote

  23 March 2009, by The Local
  A CIA official on Monday warned that the US intelligence agency had received indications al Qaeda was planning to launch terrorist attacks in Germany with the aim of influencing the country’s general election this autumn. The anonymous official from the CIA told German news agency DDP that Washington’s intermediaries in Pakistan had supplied information on German Muslims plotting to return from training camps in northwestern Pakistan just a few weeks before the parliamentary election in September to prepare attacks on «high-ranking targets» in Germany.

• New Al-Qaeda video targets Germany

  18 March 2009, by Adnkronos
  A new video purportedly from Al-Qaeda criticizes the German government for squandering taxpayers’ money on troops stationed in Afghanistan. The video, which has been posted to jihadist websites, urges Germany to renounce capitalism and embrace Islam to escape economic recession.

• Jihad TV in Europe

  18 March 2009, by Wall Street Journal Europe
  Their propaganda notwithstanding, Hamas and, two years ago, Hezbollah suffered devastating military defeats that may diminish their ability to attack Israel with rocket fire. But these Iranian-backed terrorist organizations are deploying another dangerous weapon in their war against Western democracies — terrorist television stations.

• Trial about 2006 plot to blow up flights begins in London

  17 March 2009, by News Agencies
  London’s high-security Woolwich Crown Court has opened the trial about the 2006 attempted terrorist attacks on flights from London Heathrow to Canada and the US. Eight men, aged between 22 and 30, are on trial and they all deny conspiracy to murder. They plotted to detonate homemade bombs disguised as soft drinks.

• Sweden: Malmö man freed from terror financing charges

  17 March 2009, by The Local
  A Malmo court acquitted the head of the al-Aqsa Foundation in Sweden on charges that Khaled al-Yousef used funds from the charity to support Hamas. «This is good. Now the work of sending money to children can continue,» said al-Yousef’s defense attorney Laue Traberg. Al-Yousef was charged with violating terror financing laws, with an alternative charge of violating sanctions laws.

• Islamic terrors suspects on trial in Spain

  17 March 2009, by Boston Herald
  Fourteen people went on trial in Spain this week on charges of involvement with Islamic terrorist groups and recruiting extremists to fight in Iraq. The fourteen, all men and mostly of Moroccan background, are charged with collaborating with Islamic terrorist groups and for helping several suspects flee the March 11, 2004 Madrid bombings.

• Belgian al Qaeda cell found linked to 2006 airline plot

  16 March 2009, by News Agencies
  An alleged group of persons arrested last December in one of the largest counter-terrorism operations in Belgian history have been found to have connections to a senior al Qaeda operative who helped orchestrate the 2006 «airline plot.»

• Al-Qaeda cell apprehended

  14 January 2009, by News Agencies
  Five men and one woman were held in Brussels from raids, and police say they believe one of those charged was planning a suicide attack. No information was given concerning target or location. Eight additional persons were held in the recent raids, but a judge decided that there was insufficient evidence to hold them.

• Bombs accused ’told absurd lies’

  23 December 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  A doctor accused of attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow has told «astonishing lies», jurors have heard. Bilal Abdulla, 29, claimed he did not know Kafeel Ahmed, 28, was planning a suicide attack when a Jeep was driven into a building at Glasgow Airport. Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC told Woolwich Crown Court Mr Abdulla gave a «simply absurd» account of the June 2007 attack on the terminal building.

• Mumbai attacks: How young Britons are radicalised in Pakistan

  23 December 2008, by The Telegraph
  Reports that some of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai were British has focused attention on the UK Muslims who receive military training at extremist madrassas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this report, filed three years ago, Telegraph correspondents expose how young Britons travel to al-Qaeda camps to learn how to destroy the West: Deep inside an anonymous office building at the heart of the Pakistani Army’s sprawling Rawalpindi headquarters last week, a metal door swung open and two smartly dressed British officials stepped into a spartan, windowless room.

• Leader wanted over 2006 train bombings

  23 December 2008, by The Guardian
  Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is said to have been one of the founders of Lashkar-e-Taiba when it was formed in 1989. When the Guardian met him in Pakistan in 1998, it found a «short, round man in spectacles» delivering a sermon to his disciples in which he told them: «Terrorists are killers, they kidnap and murder the innocent, but a jihad is to help the poor, the weak and the starving and to establish the supremacy of Allah.» His stated opponents then were those he regarded as heretics - liberal Pakistanis and the Shia Muslim, Christian and Hindu minorities.

• British Muslims have become a mainstay of the global ’jihad’

  23 December 2008, by Independent
  
More than 4,000 British Muslims have passed through terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to security agencies, providing a fertile recruitment pool for the Islamist international jihad. Men from the UK’s Kashmiri community have joined groups such as Lashkar-e-Toiba, the prime suspects in the Mumbai attacks, which have been fighting against Indian forces in Kashmir. Others from a Pakistani background are in the ranks of the Taliban and other groups taking part in action against British and Nato forces in Afghanistan.

• German Police Arrest Two in Connection With Islamist Web Site

  22 December 2008, by Deutsche Welle
  German federal police arrested two men Tuesday, Nov. 25, for operating a radical Islamist website and they are likely to face charges of supporting terrorism, prosecutors said. The German-language website, GIMF, which stands for Global Islamic Media Front, contained videos from al-Qaeda, Mesopotamian al-Qaeda and the radical group Ansar al-Islam. It also contained two videos made in Germany demanding the withdrawal of German and Austrian troops from Afghanistan, the prosecutor-general’s office in Karlsruhe said.

• Terror threat in the Netherlands ’substantial’

  22 December 2008, by News Agencies
  According to Dutch government counter-terrorism chief Tjibbe Joustra, the threat of a terrorist attack in the Netherlands is higher than ever. At present, the threat level rests at its second highest level – «substantial.» Justra, however, said that he believes the level should be set to «substantial plus.» He dies not say what specific threats have lead to this occasion.

• TERROR INVESTIGATION: German Islamist Resurfaces by Video from Afghanistan

  22 December 2008, by Spiegel Online
  Eric Breininger has been one of Germany’s most-wanted men since he joined the Islamist Jihad Union terrorist organization. He’s now resurfaced in a video from Afghanistan. His message: He has no plans for an attack against Germany. German officials have been looking for the young man for months. It is a search that has spanned the globe, but which had largely been fruitless. Until Tuesday that is, when Eric Breininger, a young German man from the western state of Saarland, popped up in an Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) terror video claiming he is currently in Afghanistan.

• Europe: Islamic groups in Europe condemn Mumbai attacks

  22 December 2008, by News Agencies
  The Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE) condemned the «inexcusable and reprehensible» terror attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai. «The Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe reminds of the vital importance of exercising self-restraint, and respect for the principle of peaceful coexistence and harmony in community relations in the multi-ethnic Indian society,» said a statement released by the Organization.

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