Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)
A drone attack on Myanmar border police reportedly kills 5. A resistance group claims responsibility
A drone attack on a police headquarters in a major border town in eastern Myanmar has killed at least five officials including a senior army officer and a district administrator, members of two emergency rescue teams and media reports said Monday. The attack, carried out Sunday evening in two stages, is believed to be the…
Read MoreUganda police foil bomb attack on church
Police in Uganda said on Sunday that they had foiled a bomb attack on a church in the capital, Kampala. They said the attacker was detained as he was entering church grounds. Hundreds of churchgoers were evacuated from the Lubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral after the failed attack, police spokesman Patrick Onyango said. “We have carried…
Read MoreFBI still searching for Sterling Hall bombing suspect 53 years later
The FBI Milwaukee Field Office released age-progressed photographs on Thursday of Leo Frederick Burt, a suspect in the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall. The bombing of Sterling Hall, a building on the University of Wisconsin campus, happened on August 24, 1970. The FBI says the blast from the explosion, combined with the fire, resulted in…
Read MoreSwedish cities hit by four residential explosions in an hour
Bomb squad experts have been called in after Swedish cities were rocked by four explosions in an hour, police have said, with the country struggling to rein in a rise of gang-related violence. Just after 1am local time (midnight BST), police in Gothenburg received reports of two explosions at separate addresses, 10 minutes apart. “Both…
Read MoreMore than a dozen people charged by US unit for threatening election workers
More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a justice department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic threats against people who count and secure the vote. Government employees are being bombarded with threats even in normally quiet periods between elections, secretaries of state and experts…
Read MoreOttawa man charged with promoting neo-Nazi terrorist group released on bail
An Ottawa man who has been charged with terrorism offences for promoting a far-right group has been granted bail. Patrick Gordon Macdonald, 26, was charged in July with participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity and wilfully promoting hatred for a terrorist group. The RCMP say he helped make propaganda material…
Read MoreIraq court sentences 5 people to life in prison in killing of US citizen, officials say
An Iraqi criminal court convicted five men and sentenced them to life in prison on Thursday in the killing of a U.S. citizen in Baghdad last year, officials said. Stephen Edward Troell, 45, a native of Tennessee, was fatally shot in his car in November by assailants as he pulled up to the street where…
Read MoreFinnish Border Officials Manage to Detain Russian Terrorism Suspect Due to Facial Recognition Software
Thanks to facial recognition technology, Finnish Border Guards have identified and stopped a Russian citizen traveling illegally through the country. A 36-year-old man who goes by the name of Voislav Torden was detained into custody on suspicion of committing terrorism offenses in Ukraine, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. According to Yle, the Finnish news website, the suspect was…
Read MoreWeston-super-Mare man faces trial on terrorism charges
An alleged far-right extremist has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of having and sharing a terrorist video about explosives. Gabriel Budasz, 23, was charged on 4 August with possession and dissemination of a terrorist document. The charges related to a video about the explosive TATP and an improvised explosive device, which was allegedly shared…
Read MoreProud Boy Joe Biggs receives 17 years in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case
Joe Biggs, a Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says “served as an instigator and leader” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on Thursday. It is among the longest sentences in Capitol riot cases. The record is the 18-year sentence…
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