Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & domestic extremist threats & trends’
Bomb goes off outside Hellenic Train offices in Athens
An explosion occurred outside the offices of Hellenic Train in Athens, Greek police said on Friday, adding there were no immediate reports of injuries. Police cordoned off the area after two Greek media organizations received warning calls that an explosive device would go off within 35 minutes, police officials said. A suspicious-looking bag was spotted…
Read MoreUK police chiefs draw up plans for national counter-terrorism force
Plans for a new national police body to lead the fight against terrorism and serious organised crime are being drawn up, as UK police chiefs consider the biggest overhaul of policing since the 1960s. Under the proposals, counter-terrorism policing units would gain independence from local forces and become part of a new force covering at…
Read MoreUS neo-Nazi group with Russia-based leader calls for targeted Ukraine attacks
A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin. The Base, which has a web of cells all over the world, was founded in 2018 and…
Read MoreNeo-Nazi terror propagandist ‘Dark Foreigner’ guilty on all counts
An Ottawa man has been found guilty of sowing hate, fear and division by helping create racist recruitment videos and other terrorist propaganda for a now defunct far-right international terrorist group and a prominent neo-Nazi. Superior Court Justice Robert Smith found Patrick Gordon Macdonald guilty of the three charges he faced: participating in terrorist activity,…
Read MoreTokyo police launch section for lone-offender terrorism
The Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday set up a section specializing in investigating lone offender terrorism, which involves attacks by people who do not belong to any organizations or groups. The launch of the first such police section in Japan is designed to help prevent terrorist attacks by lone offenders on important persons and facilities.…
Read MoreMan convicted of plotting 9/11-style attack asks for new lawyers at sentencing
The sentencing of Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a Kenyan national who was convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on the United States, was adjourned Monday after he asked for new lawyers. “I was thinking of having new lawyers who will represent me,” said Abdullah, who represented himself during the trial last year that ended with him…
Read MoreHigh-Ranking MS-13 Leader Arraigned in Long Island Federal Court on Terrorism and Racketeering Charges After His Arrest in Mexico
Earlier today, a high-ranking leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, was arraigned on a four-count indictment charging him, along with a dozen other high-ranking MS-13 leaders, with directing the transnational criminal organization’s unlawful activities in the United States, El Salvador, Mexico, and elsewhere over the past two decades. Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales, also…
Read More17-year-old becomes first person in Harris County charged with terrorism under new Texas law
A Hockley teen has become the first person in Harris County to be charged with terrorism under a new state law. Seventeen-year-old Laith Adil Shehzad is being held on a $10 million bond. According to court documents, Shehzad was plotting to kill people in a mass shooting by using a Glock semi-automatic firearm equipped with…
Read MoreFive jailed in Germany for far-right plot to overthrow the government
The defendants had planned to use bombs to cause nationwide blackouts and kidnap former Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, prosecutors said. A German court has jailed five people for plotting to overthrow the country’s government in a far-right coup. The defendants also planned to kidnap a former German health minister. The defendants were convicted of founding…
Read MoreFormer Navy Sailor Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Attack Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago
A former Navy sailor has pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago to plotting to attack Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, Illinois, purportedly on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Xuanyu Harry Pang, 38, of North Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty to conspiring to and attempting to willfully injure and destroy national…
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