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Iraq
Thousands of Iraq Chemical Weapons Destroyed in Open Air, Watchdog Says
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United Kingdom
Two Londoners, Abu Abdullah al Habashi and Abu Dharda, are reported to have been killed while fighting for the Islamic State in Syria. West Midlands counterterrorism police arrested a suspected terrorist from Coventry at Heathrow Airport on Nov. 20 upon his arrival from Jordan. A powerful explosion shook a central London hotel last night, injuring 14 people, destroying part of the building, and forcing the evacuation of 500 guests; investigators are looking into the cause.
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United Kingdom
A judge ordered that extremist cleric Anjem Choudary and six other Islamist associates be allowed to preach publicly while out on bail. Ofsted found that six Muslim schools in east London are putting their students at risk of Islamic radicalization, and threatened to close the schools if changes are not implemented; the four secondary and two primary schools were all found to focus on Islamic knowledge to the exclusion of other subjects. British hostage John Cantlie appeared in another Islamic State video, the seventh in which he has been featured. An official report on the murder of UK soldier Lee…
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United Kingdom
Nadir Ali Sayed, Yousaf Shah Syed, and Haseeb Hamayoon, who were arrested three days before Remembrance Sunday, were charged with being “jointly engaged” in preparing terrorist acts. A fourth suspect was released on Nov. 15. The three men reportedly planned to behead a member of the public in the UK. An Ofsted report accused an east London secondary school of failing to protect students from extremism; a Facebook page run by senior students in the school’s Islamic society contained links to extremist clerics.
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Afghanistan
Europe, facing multiple threats, still isn’t spending on defense
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United Kingdom
Jihadist rapper filmed ranting at police on first night of London riots in Tottenham in 2011
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United Kingdom
In a largely secret trial, Erol Incedal, a law student from London, was convicted of possessing a manual on how to make bombs. Incedal is thought to have been planning a Mumbai-type attack as well as targeting former prime minister Tony Blair, and faces retrial on those charges in 2015. Incedal’s co-defendant, Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, also from London, pled guilty to possessing a bomb-making manual. Police are investigating reports that Cardiff student Nasser Muthana, 20, appeared in the Islamic State’s video on the beheading of US citizen Peter Kassig. Muthana’s brother Aseel is also thought to have joined the Islamic State…
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Al Nusrah Front
ISIS tightens up its entry requirements
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United Kingdom
Amal El-Wahabi, 28, of London, was sentenced to 28 months in jail for trying to send 20,000 euros to her jihadist husband Aine Davis, an ex-convict who was fighting for the Islamic State in Syria. Mirza Masroor Ahmad, spiritual leader of Ahmadi Muslims worldwide, said governments need to stop the flow of funding to the Islamic State, and claimed that no Ahmadi Muslims have joined the terrorist group. He called for imams in the UK to preach in English and teach “love of country.” The government is considering new legislation to bar jihadists from returning to the UK.
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Afghanistan
Opium harvest in Afghanistan reaches record levels after troop withdrawal
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United Kingdom
Terror suspect Siddartha Dhar a.k.a. Abu Rumaysah, who was arrested along with extremist cleric Anjem Choudary in September, is thought to have traveled to Syria the day after his Sept. 26 release on bail. After dismissal of the jury yesterday in the “secret” trial of terror suspect Erol Incedal, who is accused of plotting against former prime minister Tony Blair, Lord Chief Justice Thomas said that defendants should never be brought to trial without being publicly identified.
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United Kingdom
The UK conducted its first drone strike against the Islamic State in Iraq over the weekend, targeting militants who were emplacing IEDs near Baiji. Chief of Defense Staff Nick Houghton cautioned that the Islamic State will regenerate even if top leaders such as Abu Bakr al Baghdadi are killed, so long as the political aspects of the strategy against the group are lacking.
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United Kingdom
Kabir Ahmed a.k.a. Abu Sumayyah, a Briton who had joined Jund al-Sham in Syria and then the Islamic State, was reportedly killed while carrying out a suicide bombing in Baiji, Iraq on Nov. 7. Ahmed had been jailed in 2012 for calling for the execution of homosexuals. Police said four men suspected of an Islamist plot possibly targeting Remembrance Day celebrations will be detained seven more days.
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United Kingdom
Counterterrorism police yesterday announced the arrest of four men suspected of involvement in an Islamist plot to conduct an attack in the UK, possibly against an upcoming public event. MI5 and counterterrorism police conducted three armed raids, and a number of properties are being searched in the ongoing investigation. Extremist cleric Anjem Choudary said he wants to leave the UK to join the Islamic State; his passport was revoked in September. Eamon Bradley, 25, was arrested in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Nov. 6 and charged with Syria-related explosives and firearms offenses; he is said to have fought in Syria with…
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United Kingdom
The Defence Ministry said UK military trainers will be deployed to Iraq to help Iraqi forces in the battle against the Islamic State. A passenger bus caught fire and exploded in south London; the cause has not been established. A Bangladeshi man arrested yesterday in Cornwall on suspicion of terrorism was released on bail.
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Al Qaeda
British Intelligence Official Says US Tech Companies Offer Terrorists ‘Networks of Choice’
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United Kingdom
A Bangladeshi man was arrested in Cornwall on suspicion of Syria-related terrorist activity. The head of Britain’s GCHQ warned that US-based Internet services “have become the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals,” and said the GCHQ, MI5, and the Secret Intelligence Service will need more cooperation from the private sector. A government audit of alleged corruption in east London’s Tower Hamlets found improper diversion of funds to Bangladeshi and Somali groups; witnesses in a case on Tower Hamlets elections say they have been threatened. A Cabinet official said the borough’s administration had allowed “allegations of extremism, homophobia and…
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United Kingdom
Erol Incedal, 26, a Turkish-born Briton currently on trial for suspected terrorist activity including a plot targeting former prime minister Tony Blair, also tried to plan a robbery with three sons of extremist cleric Abu Hamza – Hamza, Sufyan, and Yaasir. Counterterrorism police are investigating the hacking of a Yorkshire rugby club’s website by Islamic State sympathizers.
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United Kingdom
The Foreign Office issued a warning to Britons living or traveling abroad to be vigilant due to the threat from persons and groups “motivated by the conflict in Iraq and Syria.” The heightened threat is said to generalized, not a reflection of specific intelligence. RAF jets intercepted a Russian military jet as it approached British airspace, the second such incident in three days.
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United Kingdom
An appellate court upheld the extended sentences for convicted terrorists Richard Dart a.k.a. Salahuddin al-Britani, Zahid Iqbal, and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, on the grounds that the three men posed a continuing threat to society. The Government Prosecution Service reported that the number of persons arrested in the UK under European Arrest Warrants has risen significantly, to 1,660 last year, up from 1,057 four years ago.
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China
UK government can be sued over rendition claims, judges rule
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Europe
European women convert, join IS
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United Kingdom
Antiterrorism police arrested a man in east London who is suspected of Syria-related terrorism offenses. Police are questioning a man who doused himself with gasoline and tried to set himself on fire outside the Woolwich barracks, close to the spot where British soldier Lee Rigby was murdered by Islamist extremists in May 2013.
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Islamic State
Interview with an Islamic State Recruiter: ‘Democracy Is For Infidels’
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United Kingdom
Armed soldiers have been deployed to guard military barracks in Whitehall after last week’s terrorist attacks in Canada. Counterterrorism police are looking into reports that Sparkbrook resident Tareena Shakil left the UK with her young son to join the Islamic State in Syria. UK authorities have arrested over 100 people so far this year for Syria-related terrorist activities, and have denied or revoked passports for 21 people. Jaffar Deghayes, a teenager who left Brighton to join his brothers fighting in Syria, was recently killed fighting for the Al Nusrah Front; Jaffar’s uncle is ex-Gitmo detainee Omar Deghayes.
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United Kingdom
Mustakim Jaman, the brother of slain British jihadist Ifthekar Jaman, was charged with preparing terrorist acts. The day before, Tuhin Shahensha, also from Portsmouth, was charged for the same crimes. The UK handed over Camp Bastion, its last base in Afghanistan, to the Afghan government; 453 British soldiers died during the UK’s 13-year involvement in the war in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan
Britain ends combat role in Afghanistan, last US Marines hand over base
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United Kingdom
Muhammad Mehdi Hassan, one of four young men from Portsmouth who traveled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State, has been killed in Syria. Senior Islamic State figures are reportedly threatening some 30 British jihadists with death if they leave the group. British hostage John Cantlie appeared in another Islamic State video. British military leaders admitted they had miscalculated the magnitude of the conflict in Afghanistan.
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Canada
Islamist preacher rejects link to Ottawa shootings, warns of threat to Britain
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Islamic State
In West, ISIS Finds Women Eager to Enlist
