Posts Tagged ‘recruitment & radicalization’
Armed man arrested at Nashville’s ‘No Kings’ protest had long fascination with Nazis, mass murder
An armed man arrested Saturday during Nashville’s “No Kings” protest has a long history of fascination with Nazis and mass murderers, and he was already on the FBI’s radar, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has learned. Elijah Millar, 19, of Murfreesboro, was arrested Saturday after he “brandished” a handgun while clashing with a few of the thousands…
Read MorePortugal arrests six people linked to far-right group and seizes cache of explosives and weapons
Authorities seized several explosives, firearms — some built with 3D printers — and rounds of ammunition and knives in the operation, police said in a statement. Portuguese authorities arrested six people linked to a far-right group and seized explosive material and several firearms, police said on Tuesday. The detainees are believed to belong to the…
Read MoreFormer Minnesota ISIS member granted early release after helping terrorism investigators
A Twin Cities man who joined the Islamic State group a decade ago left prison Tuesday after providing extensive help to the government in prosecuting other terrorism cases. In a rare move, a federal judge in Minneapolis cut Abdelhamid Al-Madioum’s 10-year sentence to time served with 15 years of supervised release. Al-Madioum, 28, was born…
Read MoreYemen’s al-Qaeda leader threatens Trump, Musk over Israel’s war on Gaza
The leader of al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch has targeted US President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk over United States backing for Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip and its besieged Palestinian population. “There are no red lines after what happened and is happening to our people in Gaza,” said Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki…
Read MoreWashington man supplied chemicals used in California fertility clinic bombing, authorities say
Two men who met in fringe online forums tested explosives in the California desert that were later used to blow up a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, killing one of them and sending the other fleeing to Europe, where he was arrested and extradited to the U.S., federal authorities said Wednesday. Daniel Park, 32, was…
Read MoreEdmonton-area youth, 15, arrested for terrorism-related offence
An Edmonton-area youth, linked to a violent online network that targets vulnerable children, has been arrested for a terrorism-related offence, RCMP said Thursday. RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region’s National Security Enforcement Team arrested the 15-year-old on May 12, police said in a news release. The youth is in custody and police have commenced proceedings “by…
Read MoreGeorgian National Extradited from Moldova to Face Charges for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack in New York City
Georgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as Mishka, Michael, Commander Butcher, and Butcher, 21, of Tbilisi, was extradited to the United States from Moldova on May 22, and will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn today. Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Chișinău, Moldova, in July 2024 in connection with a four-count indictment returned in the…
Read MoreMisogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government
Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said. Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies. The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of…
Read MoreFlorida man with ties to Wisconsin school shooter accused of mass shooting threats
A Florida man with ties to a teen girl behind a deadly shooting at a Wisconsin school last year has been arrested for allegedly making mass shooting threats. Damien Blade Allen, 22, was arrested Tuesday by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office on charges including intimidation-threatening a mass shooting, unlawful use of a two-way communications device…
Read MoreLeaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise
Leonidas Varagiannis, also known as “War,” 21, a citizen of the United States residing in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan Nepal, also known as “Trippy,” 20, of North Carolina, were arrested and charged for operating an international child exploitation enterprise known as “764,” a nihilistic violent extremist (NVE) network. Varagiannis was arrested yesterday in Greece; Nepal…
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