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United Kingdom
Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call
IRGC
BBC Persian Reporter Interrogated Online By Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
United Kingdom
Four UK nationals of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origins admitted to involvement in an al Qaeda-inspired plot to bomb UK targets around Christmastime in 2010. They were arrested with five others in raids in London, Cardiff, and Stoke-on-Trent. Planned targets included the London Stock Exchange and the US Embassy. They could all be freed in six […]
Al Qaeda
The View From The Gulf: America’s Quiet Go-between Speaks
Afghanistan
France’s Afghanistan withdrawal decision raises worries
Afghanistan
Britain calls for NATO to stick to 2014 Afghan pullout
United Kingdom
Shabaaz Hussain admitted to funneling an estimated $14,000 to three British men to train for jihad in Somalia. Police found a large amount of jihadist literature, including videotapes from Abu Hamza and Osama bin Laden, during a raid on his home.
United Kingdom
David Cameron: human rights laws stop Britain protecting against terrorism
United Kingdom
Prime Minister Cameron urged the Council of Europe to reform the European Court of Human Rights to give deference to national legal decisions, including deportation orders. The court, which has a backlog of 150,000 cases, recently overruled a British court’s attempt to deport radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada to his home country, Jordan.
British al Qaeda/Shaabab leader may have been killed after calling home
Relatives of Bilal al Berjawi think he was traced after calling his wife, who had just given birth.
Al Qaeda
British ‘al-Qaida member’ killed in US drone attack in Somalia
Pakistan
Pakistan – Aasia Bibi’s case: Weighed down by guilt, blasphemy accuser mulls pulling back
Al Qaeda
How Pakistan helps the US drone campaign
Al Qaeda
In bin Laden town, father mourns another militant
British Shabaab operative killed in airstrike in Somalia
Bilal al Berjawi, a British citizen of Lebanese origins, “was from the early people who came to jihad in Somalia.” Shabaab said he was killed today in a US drone strike. He was second-in-command to slain al Qaeda leader Fazul Mohammed.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda planner had ties to UK extremists
India
Salman Rushdie pulls out of Jaipur literature festival
Iran
As Powers Maneuver, Israel Says No Decision Yet to Attack Iran
European Human Rights Court rules on landmark terror case
The European court ruled that Abu Qatada, al Qaeda’s representative in the UK, cannot be transferred to Jordan.
United Kingdom
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that radical cleric Abu Qatada should not be deported to Jordan from the UK. Convicted in absentia of terrorism in Jordan, he claimed he faced possible retrial in Jordan that might involve evidence obtained through torture. Unless the UK appeals the court’s ruling, Qatada will be released.
Europe
Europe Weighs Implications of Shrinking US Troop Presence
India
Somali pirates struggle against international crackdown
United States
Study Ranks Countries on Nuclear Security
Syria
‘Most dangerous’ terrorist Nezar Hindawi to remain in jail
Iran
Royal Navy sends its mightiest ship to take on the Iranian show of force in the Gulf
Afghanistan
No comment on Mullah Omar’s claim: US
Somalia
UK: Fate of ransom payments to pirates unclear
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
The mutating al Qaeda threat
African Union
Britain’s new year resolution: intervene in Somalia