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United Kingdom
Home Secretary May said “many hundreds” of Britons have traveled to fight in the ranks of Syrian rebels and “some will represent a real danger to us.” Ensuring that security forces have stronger Internet surveillance powers is now “a question of life and death, a matter of national security,” she said. The father of Ali Kalantar, of Coventry, who is believed to be fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Syria, said his son was radicalized at a local mosque. Humza Yousaf, Scottish government minister for external affairs, acknowledged “the enormity of the challenge” of addressing…
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Iraq
The British brothers fighting against ISIS in Iraq
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United Kingdom
A man appearing in a recent ISIS recruiting video has been identified as Raqib, a Bangladeshi from Aberdeen. Police, intelligence, and local Muslim communities have said that there is a problem of Islamic radicalization in Cardiff, the city where the other two jihadists in the video came from. Labour MP Khalid Mahmood claimed that as many as 2,000 Britons may have been recruited by extremists. Lord Carlisle, a former independent reviewer of terrorism laws, echoed the assessment of former MI6 counterterrorism director Richard Barrett that UK authorities will not be able to track all returning British jihadists, and recommended reintroducing…
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Kenya
Jermaine Grant trial: ‘Warning text’ in Kenya bomb plot
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Afghanistan
Morten Storm’s new book describes double life as jihadist/spy
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Iraq
How ISIS is spreading its message online
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United Kingdom
An Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham recruitment video surfaced, featuring three Britons and two Australians calling for Westerners to come to Iraq and Syria for jihad; UK counterterrorism officials were working to get the video taken offline. MI5 has now made tracking British jihadists in Syria its top priority. The counterterrorism chief for the Kurdistan Regional Government said ISIS is likely to use its surviving British jihadists to mount attacks against the UK; he also claimed that KRG intelligence told the US and Iraq in January that ISIS was planning to seize Mosul and advance on Baghdad but…
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Iraq
ISIS storms Saddam-era chemical weapons complex in Iraq
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Iran
US should launch targeted military strikes on ‘terrorist army’ ISIS, says General David Petraeus
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United Kingdom
Parliament banned the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), along with four other groups also linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq: Abdullah Azzam Brigades, including the Ziyad al-Jarrah Battalions (AAB/ZJB); Kateeba al-Kawthar (KaK); Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC); and Turkiye Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi (THKP-C). Security Minister Brokenshire said Syria is now the “number one destination” for jihadists worldwide. Abubaker Deghayes, the father of three men who traveled to Syria to fight for al Qaeda-linked forces, claimed that British fighters in Syria pose no threat to the UK. Deghayes is a…
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United Kingdom
Prime Minister Cameron warned that the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham threatens not only the Middle East but is also planning attacks on the UK. The ISIS is estimated to have up to 500 fighters from the UK. The government said it has arrested 65 people in the past 18 months for Syria-related terrorism offenses, including 40 arrests in the first quarter of 2014. Also, between April 2013 and March 2014, the passports of 14 people were seized, mostly to prevent jihadist travel to Syria. Two extremists under police investigation, Abu Aziz, an associate of Anjem Choudary; and Junaid…
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Iraq
Cameron says foreign fighters in Iraq, Syria most serious threat to UK
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United Kingdom
The trial of two suspected terrorists, Erol Incedal, a British national of Turkish origin, and Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, a British national of Algerian origin, who are both 26 and from London, was delayed until October. The Court of Appeal recently blocked the government’s attempt to hold the first completely secret criminal trial, ruling that while the “exceptional” nature of the case necessitated that the “core of the trial” remain private, the principle of open justice required that certain elements be disclosed.
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United Kingdom
Senior UK Shia cleric Fadhil al-Milani urged British Muslims not to fly to Iraq to fight the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, but still to offer “every assistance” to those in Iraq who are fighting the ISIS. The Foreign Office has advised Britons to avoid non-essential travel to Iraq except to the Kurdistan region.
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Iraq
Iraq crisis: despite decapitations and deaths thousands return willingly to city held by ISIS terrorists
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France
In Europe, no plans for military involvement in Iraq
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United Kingdom
How do you define Islamist extremism?
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United Kingdom
Six Birmingham men who had plotted to attack an English Defence League rally in 2012 with bombs, knives, and sawn-off shotguns and were sentenced to jail terms of up to 19 years, with five years of their terms “on licence,” or not in custody, lost their appeal for shorter sentences. The Home Secretary authorized the London Metropolitan Police to purchase three water cannon to help “maintain order on our streets.”
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United Kingdom
An investigative report by Ofsted on 21 Birmingham schools found they suffered from an “organised campaign to target certain schools” for Islamist indoctrination, and that “[a] culture of fear and intimidation has taken grip” in them. Ofsted chief Wilshaw called some of the findings “shocking” and said five of the schools would be placed under special measures. Education Secretary Gove said that starting in September, primary and secondary schools in England will be required not only to “respect” British values but to “actively promote” them, and called for a ban on extremist preachers at schools.
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United Kingdom
Trojan horse report: All school children to be taught British values from September, says UK Education Secretary
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United Kingdom
Ibrahim Hassan, a.k.a. Abu Nusaybah, and Shah Hussain, both of London, were sentenced to jail terms of three years each for disseminating terrorist material and encouraging terrorism. The two men, who pled guilty in March, had both been convicted in 2008 of encouraging terrorist activity overseas. Hassan is an associate of Lee Rigby murderer Michael Adebolajo. Details of a leaked Ofsted report on the “Trojan Horse” allegations of Islamist attempts to take over a number of Birmingham schools indicate that at least one of the schools has not adequately addressed extremism; a featured speaker at the school was extremist Australian…
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United Kingdom
UK Cabinet splits as Gove and May point finger over extremism in Birmingham schools
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Sudan
Sudan denies plans to free woman sentenced to death for apostasy
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Al Nusrah Front
Swedish spy chief warns of rise of Islamist threat
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Egypt
Brotherhood leadership struggles to regroup in exile
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Boko Haram
US ‘only’ country helping to find Nigerian schoolgirls, claims John Kerry
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United Kingdom
Mashudur Choudhury, a youth worker from Portsmouth, has become the first Briton convicted of a terrorism offense for traveling to Syria to join terrorists fighting there. He and four other men had gone to Syria at the urging of Iftekhar Jaman, who was later killed while fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. As many as 500 Britons are thought to have traveled to Syria to fight.
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Al Qaeda
Abu Hamza guilty: former MI6 chief denies cleric was informant
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Boko Haram
Nyanya: How mastermind was arrested in Sudan
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United Kingdom
Nawal Masaad, of Holloway, and Amal El-Wahabi, northwest London, were accused of seeking to finance terrorism. Masaad had tried to smuggle €20,000 (£16,300) in her underwear through Heathrow airport on her way to Istanbul, where she was allegedly planning to meet with El-Wahabi’s husband, a jihadist in Syria. The Foreign Office summoned Sudan’s charge d’affaires in protest against Sudan’s imposition of the death penalty on a pregnant woman for converting to Christianity.
