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• Guantánamo inmate Binyam Mohamed to return to the UK

  17 March 2009, by News Agencies
  Guantánamo inmate and British resident Binyam Mohamed is said to be sent home to the UK within a short time. The student from West London went on hunger strike on 5 January and is in a very weak physical condition. Trying to avoid a British fatality US authorities have pressed ahead with negotiations.

• 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.

• Spanish soldier arrested over posting ’jihad’ videos on the internet

  17 March 2009, by News Agencies
  Spanish police arrested a Spanish solder and his girlfriend for allegedly posting videos on the internet promoting Islamist extremist views and calling for attacks in Spain according to the Ministry of Interior. The 23-year-old suspects, both Muslim, were arrested in the city of Granada.

• Interview with British Home Secretary: «No Day This Year without a Terror Trial»

  17 March 2009, by Spiegel Online
  In an interview with SPIEGEL, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith discusses her country’s experience in taking in former inmates from the Guantanamo prison camp and how her country is seeking to reach out to young Muslims before they radicalize.

• EU doubts over taking in former Guantánamo prisoners

  16 March 2009, by The Guardian
  EU countries could be willing to help the US close down Guantánamo Bay by taking in released detainees despite the doubts of some member states, the EU foreign policy chief said today as European foreign ministers struggled to find common ground in Brussels.

• Europe: Germany, Britain, Netherlands Agree to Enhance Anti-Terror Cooperation

  16 March 2009, by Deutsche Welle
  The governments of Germany, Britain, and the Netherlands have pledged to increase cooperation on countering Islamic extremism.

• Passport forgery suspects in Spain found not linked to terror activities

  16 March 2009, by Expatica
  A judge has ruled that 13 members of a group recently detained for alleged passport forgery, do not have any link to Islamic terror networks.

• 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.»

• Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2009

  9 March 2009, by European Commission
  The Joint Report examines the Member States’ integrated national strategies on social inclusion, pensions, healthcare and long-term care. It reviews the main trends across the EU and at national level and is the outcome of a process involving the European Commission and the Council. Most of the work involves the Social Protection Committee (a group of high-level officials established in 2000 to serve as a vehicle for cooperative exchange between the Commission and the Member States).

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