ISIS in Spain: Two Arrested for Recruiting Jihadis Near Barcelona
Spanish authorities arrested two individuals on Tuesday who were suspected of attempting to recruit aspiring jihadis through official Islamic State (IS/ISIS) propaganda.
Tag: terrorism
Twitter Just the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Pentagon Hunts Terrorists on Mysterious ‘Dark Web’
CNN’s report on the hunt for ISIS terrorists in the darkest corners of the Internet begins with a remarkably dour assessment of the war effort thus far: “After months of bombing by the U.S. and coalition forces, ISIS remains undefeated on the ground and has now entered a new phase, using the cyber-world as a weapon… It’s a trend that has captured the attention of law enforcement and now the military.”
Security Pumped Up at Cannes Film Festival After Charlie Hebdo Shootings
“When Cannes rolls out the red carpet May 13, it will also be on red alert,” quips the Hollywood Reporter. Security will be greatly heightened at the legendary film festival, not due to any specific threat, but because of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, and what the Reporter confusingly describes as “a subsequent series of several smaller attacks against religious targets.”
ISIS Supporters Threaten a #LondonAttack
A week after a pair of “lone wolf” jihadis were killed in an aborted terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, ISIS supporters are generating a wave of social media chatter under the hashtag #LondonAttack, promising a new wave of terrorist violence.
Australian Teen Arrested with Homemade Bomb Left Long Jihadi Facebook Trail
The UK Daily Mail reports on a major terrorism bust in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday afternoon. Three homemade bombs were recovered from the suspect’s residence, identified as an underaged teen. Nine days of investigative work led up to the raid.
Report: ISIS Forcing Captive Yazidi Children to Train as Child Jihadis
Sheikh Shamo, a Kurdish Yazidi member of Iraqi Parliament, reported this week to Kurdish outlet Rudaw that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has forced many abducted Yazidi children to be soldiers for the terrorist group.
Freed Al Jazeera Journo: Network an Arm of Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood
After spending 400 days in an Egyptian prison, an Al Jazeera English journalist is suing his network for $100 million dollars in damages, and has accused the Doha-run news organization of violating his contract.
Security Beefed Up Around Garland Shooters’ Mosque
Phoenix police officers have been tasked with providing extra patrols around the area of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, the mosque attended by two now-deceased radical jihadists who attempted to commit mass murder last week at a “Draw Muhammad” free speech event in Garland, Texas.
Muslim Comic Obeidallah: Radical Islam ‘Made Up’
Forget about the hundreds-of-thousands that are being slaughtered in the Middle East under the banner of Islam, radical Islam is a “made-up idea,” according to Dean Obeidallah, the Daily Beast’s resident comedian/writer.
New York Times Editorial Board Suggests Fighting Climate Change Will Stabilize Middle East
The intellectual elites at the New York Times Editorial Board have weighed in on what should happen “Beyond the Iran Nuclear Deal,” when President Obama is finished securing a nuclear deal with the Ayatollah’s theocratic regime in Tehran.
State Department Spokesperson Gives Exclusive Interview To Iran State Media
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Alan Eyre gave an exclusive interview on Monday to Iran’s state-controlled Fars News Agency, according to the Tehran-based outlet.
Report: Military Vets Told Not to Act ‘Pompous’ Online to Avoid Ire of ISIS ‘Lone Wolves’
Over the weekend, military bases across the United States were placed on higher alert for domestic terror attacks, in response to a surge in threatening chatter from ISIS and its sympathizers. “It is the highest level of security since the tenth anniversary of September 11,” notes Fox 13 News in Tampa Bay, home of MacDill Air Force Base. “No specific threat has been announced, but the alert comes after an FBI warning that there are hundreds of known, active ISIS supporters in the United States.”
National Security Experts Condemn Hersh Report on Bin Laden Raid
Journalist Seymour “Sy” Hersh has written a piece in the London Review of Books alleging that U.S. President Barack Obama engaged in a massive coverup surrounding the 2011 operation that resulted in the death of al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.
FBI Increasing Monitoring of Jihadists on Social Media Following Texas Shooting
The FBI announced their agents will monitor people suspected of supporting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) more closely after the attack on a Draw Mohammed Contest hosted in Garland, TX. At the same time, Congressmen from Texas are meeting in Washington, DC, to develop new methods to monitor Americans drawn to radical Islam.
Rubio on Jihadists: ‘We Will Look for You. We Will Find You. And We Will Kill You’
GREENVILLE, South Carolina – GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said the way to defeat global jihadists is to take a note from Liam Neeson’s line in the movie Taken: “We will look for you. We will find you. And we will kill you.”
Nigerian Refugees Who Fled Boko Haram Left in Limbo
Africans are slowly returning to Nigeria as Boko Haram continues to lose ground. But the task of repatriating is a challenging one: The neighboring NigerRepublic has begun deporting Nigerian refugees.
Senior AQ Leader Who Claimed Charlie Hebdo Attack Killed in Drone Strike
Nasr Ibn Ali al-Ansi, a top-level commander in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and former confidant of Osama bin Laden, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike, according to a message released by the terror entity.
The Who’s Pete Townshend: ISIS Makes It ‘Very Important That We keep Our Ammunition Ready’
In an interview published by Rolling Stone on May 7th, the Who’s Pete Townshend said ‘it’s very important that we keep our ammunition ready.”
Report: NSA Designated Al Jazeera Bureau Chief as Al-Qaeda Terrorist
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has labeled Al Jazeera’s Islamabad bureau chief as an al-Qaeda terrorist, according to files leaked by former NSA contractor-turned-defector Edward Snowden.
UN Official: ISIS Forces Girls to Undergo Virginity Surgeries, Marry Them off 20 Times
Zainab Bangura, the United Nations Special representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, recently interviewed numerous females the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) kidnapped and forced to be sex slaves. She found what others have previously discovered: rape, slavery, slave markets, and women undergoing surgery to restore their virginity.
Texas Terror Shooter’s Parents Say He Was ‘Pushed’ Into Jihad
Nadir Soofi was, by all accounts, the junior partner in the Texas Terror jihad attack. His roommate Elton Simpson was a “known wolf” who was very much on law enforcement’s radar screen, which is giving rise to some awkward questions about why counter-terrorist agencies could manage little more than a last-minute heads-up to the Garland police.
Report: U.S. Military Bases Raise Threat Levels in Response to Heightened ISIS Activity
CNN is reporting that U.S. military bases raised their threat alert levels on Thursday night in response to increased activity on the part of the Islamic State, and on a message released Wednesday by the jihadist group claiming that they have 71 “trained” jihadists prepared to attack within the United States.
Suicide Attack Targets Nigerian Business School, Boko Haram Suspected
A gunman and suicide bomber believed to be affiliated with the jihadist terror group Boko Haram attacked northern Nigeria’s College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum on Friday, injuring several students struggling to escape the blast and bringing into question Nigerian military claims that Boko Haram’s grip on the nation’s north is loosening.
France Approves Domestic Spying with ‘Almost No Judicial Oversight’
The Surveillance State faces stiff criticism in the United States. Limiting domestic surveillance, or at least subjecting it to more extensive oversight, is likely to be a prominent feature of several 2016 presidential campaigns. But in France, Parliament just took domestic surveillance up a notch, granting internal intelligence services “their most intrusive domestic spying abilities ever, with almost no judicial oversight,” as The New York Times puts it.
AP Slams Pam Geller as Having ‘No Regrets’ That Two Terrorists Died in TX
The Associated Press appears to be siding against free speech with its latest tweet attacking free speech advocate Pamela Geller by knocking her as unapologetic that two terrorists were killed during her weekend event.
