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Bombay Stock Exchange unveils its new Sharia law share index
Bombay Stock Exchange unveils its new Sharia law share index
France’s spy service bulks up amid terror threats
Christmas bomb plot: 9 men remanded over plan to ‘blow up Big Ben and Westminster Abbey’
A court charged nine Muslim men for conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the United Kingdom. Twelve men were detained on Dec. 20 during raids in Birmingham, London, Cardiff, and Stoke-on-Trent; three others detained during the raids have been released.
Yemen to crack down on regional al-Qaeda wing with special forces deployed to provinces
British forces face secret new threat from Iran
US intelligence chief unaware of UK terror arrests
UK – Christmas bomb plotters were radicalised in jail’
US Lockerbie report: Scotland pressured to free Megrahi
UK – Terrorism plot suspects may be charged ‘within days’
Afghanistan – British troops will hunt Taliban’s winter hideouts, says senior officer
UK – Anti-terror police arrest 12 people in nationwide raids
UK – Anti-terror raids lead to 12 arrests over multiple bomb attack fears
Police arrested 12 Islamists suspected of plotting to carry out bombings during the Christmas season. The early morning raids took place in Birmingham, Cardiff, London and Stoke-on-Trent. Several of the men are from Bangladesh.
Stockholm bomber’s mosque website carries links to extremist preacher
UK: Banned extremists recruit near Stockholm bomber’s Luton home
Printer bomb plot: police unwittingly considered transporting live device
Sweden probes suicide bomber’s Facebook
Stockholm bomber: police fear accomplice is on the loose
Stockholm bomber’s wife and children are victims too, says grandfather
From The Telegraph, via Channel Four News, comes this report that two “white” Britons were killed in the Dec. 10 Predator strike in the village of Khadar Khel in the Datta Khel area of South Waziristan: A pair of white British Muslim converts who joined al-Qaeda have been killed in a drone attack in a […]
Mahmud Abu Rideh was detained in the United Kingdom for four years, and his control order was lifted last summer. His death has not been confirmed.
A court was told that Abid Naseer, a Pakistani citizen, planned to carry out a bombing in Manchester in April 2009 as part of al Qaeda’s plot to carry out attacks in Europe and the US. The US is seeking the extradition of Naseer for his involvement with al Qaeda.
Suicide bomber in Sweden not on security list
Al-Qaida site: Sweden bomber targeted newspaper
UK mosque: Stockholm bomber didn’t seem violent
Analysis: Conviction grows Sweden bomber had help
Stockholm bomber: police hunt accomplices after ‘mystery cough’ on tape
Sweden bomber sought big targets; new threat made
While this seemed painfully obvious the day of the attack, it now appears certain that Taimour Abdulwahab, the Stockholm man who attempted to detonate the car bomb and then a vest in the city, died from that most horrible affliction known to suicide bombers: premature detonation. And via The New York Times, we learn that […]