Bangkok bombers planned to attack Israeli diplomats, say Thai police
Iranians who accidentally set off 'sticky' bombs intended to target individuals, according to investigatorsThai police have said three Iranians, arrested after accidentally setting off homemade...
View ArticleIsrael denies reports of thwarted attack on Ehud Barak in Singapore
Kuwaiti newspaper story that Mossad tipped off local agents over threat to defence minister, 'completely wrong' says IsraelIsraeli officials have firmly denied claims that a plot to assassinate...
View ArticleYemen al-Qaida militant killed by brother in family feud
Tareq al-Dahab dies with five bodyguards after being ambushed at mosqueA leader of al-Qaida's wing in Yemen has been killed by his brother at a mosque, in a family dispute which then led to the brother...
View ArticleAbu Qatada could be deported if UK can get guarantees on torture evidence
Council of Europe's human rights commissioner deplores 'Daily Mail-scripted debate' surrounding Islamist preacher's caseThe Islamist preacher Abu Qatada could be deported to Jordan if Strasbourg is...
View Article'Underwear bomber' Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab handed life sentence
Judge orders life in prison for Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up plane bound for Detroit in 2009A US federal judge has ordered life in prison for a Nigerian man who turned away from a...
View ArticleLetters: Garzón's extraordinary contribution to law
As human rights lawyers, we express our grave concern at the decision of the Spanish supreme court to ban Judge Baltasar Garzón from judicial office for 11 years for having authorised the wiretapping...
View ArticleThailand blasts: police search for two more suspects
Authorities confirmed that attacks, which Israel has blamed on Iran, were targeting Israeli diplomatsPolice in Thailand are searching for a further two suspects, including a possible bomb specialist,...
View ArticleFBI arrest man in terrorism sting operation outside US Capitol
Moroccan man had been under investigation for a year and was planning to detonate what he thought were live explosivesA 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested in an FBI sting operation near the US...
View ArticleHezbollah denies any connection to attacks in India, Georgia and Thailand –...
Hassan Nasrallah says Hezbollah would never target ordinary Israelis to avenge the death of its military commander Imad Mughniyeh
View ArticlePakistani border town hit by deadly suicide bomb inside market
Attack in north-western town of Parachinar near Afghan border kills or wound scores of Shia Muslims, say officialsA suicide bomber on a motorcycle has struck at a market in a Pakistani town close to...
View ArticleMan charged with attempted suicide bombing of US Congress
FBI arrests Moroccan Amine El Khalifi wearing what undercover agents had told him was an explosive vestA Moroccan man who allegedly believed he was working with al-Qaida has been charged with an...
View ArticleBali bombing suspect's interrogation downgrades link to al-Qaida
Umar Patek says he was unaware of Osama bin Laden's presence in Abbotabad, where he was capturedA top Indonesian terror suspect captured in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed...
View ArticleBriton on trial over Kenyan bomb plot
Jermaine Grant to appear before Mombasa court in case highlighting fears Somalia becoming training ground for terroristsA British man charged with possessing explosives is to go on trial in Kenya in a...
View ArticleUK Border Agency to be split in two
Theresa May announces division in response to report on border checks fiasco that prompted dismissal of Brodie ClarkThe UK Border Agency is to be split in two after an official inquiry report found...
View ArticleRacial profiling by law enforcement is poisoning Muslim Americans' trust |...
By using 'community outreach' to spy on citizens, counter-terror agencies are wrecking their most valuable asset: good willIn the same week, a Moroccan 29-year-old man was caught attempting to bomb the...
View ArticleAl-Shabaab: the Somali militant group recruiting young Britons to its ranks
Intelligence agencies say young extremists are travelling to training camps in Somalia as they once did in AfghanistanAt a court hearing on Monday in the port city of Mombasa, a young British man in a...
View ArticleBelfast 'supergrass' trial judge clears a dozen loyalists of terror charges
New blow to 'supergrass' cases after Northern Ireland judge brands evidence of two UVF informers as liesThe resurrected "supergrass" system aimed at convicting still-active terrorists in Northern...
View Article'Very positive response' to London Olympics terror attack drill
Mock July 7-style terror attack designed to test responses to attack during Games deemed 'very successful'The government, police and other emergency staff are very positive about their response to a...
View ArticleUse of supergrasses questioned after Belfast terror cases collapse
Northern Ireland judge says evidence of informers Ian and Robert Stewart was 'infected with lies' as 12 Ulster loyalists freedThe near collapse of a so-called "supergrass" trial against terrorist...
View ArticleThe US has broken its promise over Yunus Rahmatullah | Clive Stafford Smith
The US has refused a UK demand to return one of its prisoners, so why should we send our citizens to face trial there?When is a promise no promise at all? Sadly, when the US makes a promise and then...
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