Archive for December 23, 2024
Jordanian National Pleads Guilty to Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility
Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 44, of Orlando, pleaded guilty today to four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility. “With this plea, we are holding this defendant accountable for his threats to carry out hate-fueled mass violence in our country, motivated in part by his desire to…
Read MoreFlorida Woman Convicted of Civil Rights Conspiracy Targeting Pregnancy Resource Centers
Gabriella Oropesa, of Cooper City, Florida, was convicted yesterday for her role in a conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate employees of pro-life pregnancy help centers in the free exercise of the right to provide and seek to provide reproductive health services. The defendant and her co-conspirators selected reproductive health facilities that provided and…
Read MoreCaptain in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Charged with Murder and Terrorism Offenses
A complaint was unsealed today charging Mohammad Reza Nouri, 36, of Iran, also known as Muhammad Rida Husayn, Ali Asghar Nuri, and Abu Abbas, an Iranian national and officer in the IRGC, in connection with Nouri’s alleged role in orchestrating the Nov. 7, 2022, murder of American Stephen Troell in Baghdad, Iraq. Nouri was arrested…
Read MoreWoman dies after being set on fire on NYC subway; Person of interest taken into custody, police say
A woman died after she was set on fire while sleeping on a New York City subway car Sunday morning in Brooklyn, according to police. A person of interest was taken into custody later in the day, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at an early evening news conference. Police said the person…
Read MoreGermany: Man arrested over TikTok Christmas market threat
Police in the northern German port city of Bremerhaven have arrested a man over an online threat to stab everyone with an “Arab or southern” appearance at the local Christmas market. The arrest comes after a man drove a car through the Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least five people. The individual,…
Read MoreSuspect in German Christmas market attack held on murder charges
A man suspected of ploughing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday. Friday evening’s attack in the central city of Magdeburg shocked the country and stirred up tensions over the charged…
Read MoreUS airstrike kills ISIS leader in Syria: Officials
The U.S. military killed a top Islamic State leader and another member in an airstrike conducted in Syria on Thursday, U.S. Central Command said. The strike targeted Abu Yusif, also known as Mahmud, in the Dayr az Zawr Province, an area formerly controlled by the Syrian regime and Russians, CENTCOM said. He and an unidentified…
Read MoreSuspect in UnitedHealth CEO’s killing faces terrorism charges in New York
Luigi Mangione, the man suspected of fatally gunning down UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, is due to be arraigned on Monday on state murder charges that brand him a terrorist. At the hearing in New York state court in Manhattan, Mangione is expected to be asked to enter a plea…
Read More8 convicted of terrorism charges in teacher’s 2020 beheading in France
France’s anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Paris four years ago, a horrific death that shocked the country. Paty, 47, was killed by an Islamic extremist outside his school on Oct. 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the…
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