Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & domestic extremist threats & trends’
Paris court jails Indian man for leading sadist neo-Nazi cult that tortured girls
A Paris court on Friday sentenced a young Indian man to 20 years in prison for leading a masculinist group that forced young girls, many of them minors, to perform sexual acts and in some cases tortured them. Prosecutors had sought a 30-year jail term for Rohan Rane, a 29-year-old who they described as a…
Read MoreMan Arrested and Charged for Role in Plotting to Conduct a Mass-Shooting Event in Support of ISIS at the Mall of America
Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, of Richfield, Minnesota, was charged today by complaint with one count of knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition in order to commit a federal crime of terrorism. The FBI arrested the defendant on Oct. 6, and he made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright on Oct. 7.…
Read MoreUK Murder Suspect Is Charged With Preparing Acts of Terrorism, Including Against Farage
The British police on Friday charged a 28-year-old man with preparing to commit acts of terrorism, including against Nigel Farage, a member of Parliament and the leader of Reform U.K., the right-wing populist party. The man, Joshua Kerry of Rotherham, in northern England, was charged with one count of preparation of terrorist acts, the counterterrorism…
Read MoreISIS-inspired teens considered other targets before Gracie Mansion protest: Sources
The two Pennsylvania teens charged with attempting to carry out what authorities described as an ISIS-inspired attack in New York considered other targets before driving into Manhattan late Saturday morning with homemade bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News. Investigators searching a storage unit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where the teens are from, discovered a…
Read MoreConnecticut Man Who Attempted to Travel to the Middle East to Join and Fight for ISIS Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Prison
Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, of West Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in the District of Connecticut to 92 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to court…
Read MoreFirst terrorism charge with ‘misanthropy’ cited as motivation
A teenager found with an axe and a stash of knives in a duffle bag has been charged with preparing a terrorist attack in the first case said to be motivated by “misanthropy”. It comes amid concerns that young people preparing mass casualty attacks are escaping with relatively minor charges because they are not considered…
Read MoreRCMP say Quebec man researched chemical weapons, planned attack for ISIS
A 24-year-old Quebec City man has been charged with terrorism-related offences, according to federal police. The RCMP say Louay Angoud intended to carry out an attack on behalf of the Islamic State. He is alleged to have communicated online with members of a terrorist group and gathered information to build a chemical weapon that could…
Read More17-year-old detained in Poland over alleged plans for terrorist attack
Authorities in Poland have detained a 17-year-old accused of preparing an attack on a school and a mosque. A court has ordered that the teenager, named as Paweł G, be held in pre-trial detention for three months. The case is part of an ongoing investigation by Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) looking into individuals active…
Read MoreFrench police officer arrested over suspected far-right terror plot
A policeman who follows “a violent radical far-right ideology” has been arrested in France on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, sources told AFP late on Thursday. Confirming a report by the TF1/LCI broadcaster, a judicial source said that the man was also suspected of having manufactured weapons, among other crimes. A separate source close…
Read MoreEnglish far-right extremist who discussed killing Jews, Muslims and migrants is jailed
A rightwing extremist who discussed poisoning Jews and Muslims and called for the killing of migrants and minority communities has been jailed. Ivan Jennings, 46, called for the murder of hundreds of people he labelled “subhumans”, saying it was “justified and actually needed”, in extreme far-right groups over a period of three months in 2024.…
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