Archive for July 2024
Team Approach to Keeping Potential Attackers Off ‘Pathway to Violence’
When a Texas teenager made vague threats on social media in 2022 glorifying the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas—where a young man killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School just months earlier—tips started to come in. A police department investigator in Texas quickly developed a picture of the subject: a 19-year-old man…
Read MoreChinese social media companies condemn hate speech against Japanese after knife attack
China’s top social media companies have condemned online hate speech targeting Japanese, delivering a vigorous response to comments triggered by a knife attack last week that killed one person and injured a Japanese mother and child. Such waves of sentiment, and a vocal nationalist element, are not uncommon, but companies from WeChat-owner Tencent to TikTok’s…
Read MoreHagerstown man charged after threat to blow up Maryland MVA
A Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration employee has been charged with making a threat of mass violence after allegedly threatening to blow up his workplace south of Hagerstown, according to the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal. Investigators would later search Anthony Jacob Fritz’s home in Hagerstown’s North End and find 26 guns and 67…
Read MoreBurlington, Ont., man faces terrorism charges for online threats related to ‘incel ideology’
A Burlington, Ont., man is facing allegations of terrorism, after being charged with making online threats related to “incel ideology.” On April 29, the 24-year-old was charged with two counts of uttering threats, under section 264.1 of the Criminal Code. The offences are alleged to constitute terrorist activity under the code, police said in the…
Read MoreAustralia terrorism charge after armed 19-year-old enters politician office
An Australian man was charged with a terrorism offence on Thursday after walking into a politician’s electorate office with plans to kill him, the authorities and local media said. The 19-year-old man entered the office of New South Wales state parliamentarian Tim Crakanthorp in Newcastle, about 170 km (105 miles) north of Sydney, on Wednesday…
Read MoreAttacker killed after firing crossbow at policeman guarding Israeli embassy in Serbia
An attacker who fired a crossbow at a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was shot dead on Saturday in what President Aleksandar Vucic called a terrorist attack against Serbia. No embassy staff were wounded in the attack, the Israeli foreign ministry said, and the policeman was in a stable condition in hospital…
Read MoreUS military bases in Europe raise security threat levels
U.S. military bases in Europe were put on a heightened state of alert over the weekend as installations urged vigilance among their members. At U.S. European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, the Army garrison on Sunday issued a communitywide alert that the force protection threat level was elevated to condition “Charlie” until further notice. Similar directives…
Read MoreFemale suicide bombers kill at least 18 in coordinated attack in Nigeria, authorities say
Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria that killed at least 18 people, local authorities said Sunday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the the attacks in Borno state, which has been heavily affected by the insurgency launched in 2009 by Boko Haram. The extremist…
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