Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & trends’
Chicago businessman-turned-terrorist appears in India court wearing black hood
A convicted terrorist from Chicago appeared Monday in court in India, where he had been extradited and now faces the death penalty for his alleged role in the 2008 “Mumbai Massacre” by Pakistani extremists. Tahawwur Rana, a convicted terrorist from Chicago, lost an extradition fight and is now fighting execution in India. Rana faces a…
Read MoreColombian national extradited to Houston to face narco-terrorism and international cocaine distribution charges
A 45-year-old Colombian national will make his initial appearance in U.S. federal court on charges of narco-terrorism and distributing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Colombia, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. Adrian Alberto Cano Gomez, an alleged member of the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional aka ELN), was extradited from Colombia and is…
Read MoreIraq arrests ISIS suspect linked to deadly truck attack in New Orleans
Iraqi authorities have arrested a suspected member of ISIS for inciting a January truck-ramming attack that killed 14 people in the US city of New Orleans, Iraq’s judiciary said Sunday. The city in the southern state of Louisiana was plunged into a panic early on New Year’s Day when a US army veteran, who the…
Read MoreMaryland Man Indicted for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Armed Separatist Fighters to Murder, Kidnap, and Maim Individuals in Cameroon and For Making Threats
A federal grand jury in Baltimore returned an indictment yesterday charging a Cameroonian national, Eric Tataw, also known as “the Garri Master,” 38, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, with conspiring to provide material support to armed separatist militias in Cameroon and threatening violence against Cameroonian civilians. He surrendered and will make his initial court appearance before U.S.…
Read MoreTensions escalate between India and Pakistan following attack in disputed Kashmir
Tensions between India and Pakistan were high on Thursday as New Delhi mounted a diplomatic offensive against Islamabad, blaming it for a deadly attack that killed 26 people in Kashmir and shattered India’s claims of calm in a disputed region where a bloody rebellion against Indian rule has been ongoing for decades. A rare attack…
Read MoreHouthis shoot down growing number of US drones
Three U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drones have been shot down by Houthi militants in Yemen this past week, bringing the number of drones that have been brought down by the Houthis since March 15, when the Trump administration began a sustained air campaign against the militant group, to six, according to a U.S. official.…
Read MorePalestinian president urges Hamas to lay down arms
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Hamas on Wednesday to lay down arms and hand the running of Gaza to his Palestinian Authority, part of efforts to answer international doubts over the authority’s role at a key moment for the region. Abbas was speaking at a leadership council where he is expected this week to…
Read MoreJordan bans Muslim Brotherhood after arrests over attack plots
Jordan’s government has banned the Muslim Brotherhood a week after it said members of the Islamist group had been arrested on suspicion of planning rocket and drone attacks. Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya told a news conference that all of the Brotherhood’s offices would be closed and its assets confiscated, and that any activities would be…
Read MoreAbbas calls Hamas ‘sons of dogs’ and demands release of Gaza hostages
Mahmoud Abbas has called Hamas “sons of dogs” in a fiery speech in which he demanded the group release the hostages it is still holding, disarm, and hand over control of Gaza in order to end the war with Israel. The president of the Palestinian Authority told a meeting in the occupied West Bank that…
Read MoreMilitants in Indian Kashmir segregate men from women and children before opening fire
Militants who killed 26 people in India’s Kashmir region, opens new tab separated the men from the women and children and asked the men their names before shooting them at close range, security officials and survivors said on Wednesday. About 1,000 tourists and 300 local service providers were in the Baisaran Valley – known as…
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