Finland: Police Arrest Suspected Jihadi For Plotting Terror Attack
Finnish police and domestic intelligence have arrested a 21-year-old suspected Islamic extremist plotting to carry out a terrorist attack.

Finnish police and domestic intelligence have arrested a 21-year-old suspected Islamic extremist plotting to carry out a terrorist attack.
French authorities in Strasbourg arrested seven radicalised people and have indicted two over allegations of preparing a terrorist attack.
Spanish police have arrested a suspected radical Islamic extremist who allegedly procured an antique hand grenade.
Two young Muslims who plotted a terrorist attack in Italy both avoided jail as one was sentenced to house arrest and the other was released.
French police in the department of Drôme have arrested an 18-year-old they claim was plotting to carry out a terrorist attack over the weekend and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group. The 18-year-old was arrested last Friday, then indicted
Authorities have foiled 65 terrorist plots in France since 2015, according to official figures which also revealed that terrorist attacks have claimed the lives of over 260 people during that period.
An Algerian linked to the Islamic State who was arrested by Spanish police and is believed to have led a terrorist cell in Barcelona came to Spain as an illegal immigrant.
Two men, both radical Muslims who sympathize with the Islamic State terrorist group, are on trial this week in a Paris court after being arrested for building explosives in 2017.
A Moroccan migrant got a rare “emergency” deportation from France after he threatened to behead a member of France’s gendarmerie.
French police have arrested four people aged 16 to 18, at least three of whom are believed to be of Chechen heritage, on charges of plotting a terrorist attack.
The Swedish security police Säpo arrested two Afghans, a man and a woman, during the Easter holiday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Stockholm county.
A Paris court handed out jail terms of between 22 and 30 years to three jihadists after they were found guilty of plotting a terror attack in the French capital in December 2016.
One of the three radical Islamist extremists who plotted to blow up a residential building in Paris claimed that killing babies was justified, according to the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
Belgian police have arrested two teenagers who are suspected of plotting to stab police officers and had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.
A man has been arrested by police in the Paris suburb of Yvelines after his father reported to authorities that the man wanted to copy Thursday’s terrorist attack in Nice. The man, whose age and name are currently unknown, has
Two Islamic convert girls have been sentenced after being convicted of plotting to attack a police station in the city of Saint-Etienne.
French investigators have opened at least nine preliminary terrorism investigations since the start of the coronavirus lockdown and warn that radical Islamic terrorism is still a significant threat.
According to a new investigation by Swiss media, a cell of jihadists based in Geneva plotted to bomb cisterns full of oil near the city’s airport in a major terror attack.
A radical Islamic extremist who plotted to massacre the staff of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2010 has been released by Swedish authorities, despite plotting more attacks while in prison.
A Pakistani-born teenager was arrested Thursday in Queens, New York, for allegedly planning to carry out a knife and bomb attack for ISIS, reports said.
Two Queens women pleaded guilty to plotting an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack in New York City involving bombs, authorities say.
Police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia say they thwarted a terror attack this week, arresting six radical Islamic extremists in their homes.
A man is being held by police in Brussels, Belgium on suspicion of planning a terror attack on the U.S. embassy.
Two Islamic State sympathisers have been arrested in Italy after investigators discovered they were plotting to carry out a terror attack.
Two Islamic extremists have been arrested by police in Paris after allegedly plotting to massacre a kindergarten full of children.
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities arrested 11 people Friday during a series of raids on a group of people suspected of planning an Islamic extremist attack using a vehicle and firearms.
The French government has blamed a senior member of the Iranian regime for sponsoring and being behind a foiled terror plot that would have seen the bombing of a rally in Paris’s Villepinte suburb.
Copenhagen train station was evacuated on Wednesday night after a 46-year-old Syrian prisoner, involved in a major terrorist case in Italy, escaped custody and is still on the loose.
A self-styled “teacher” and Islamic State supporter has been jailed for trying to radicalise Muslim boys as young as 11 in a London mosque, encouraging them to attack landmarks including Big Ben.
LONDON (AP) — A man accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May faces trial next summer. Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman is suspected of planning a bomb and knife attack on the prime minister at her 10 Downing Street residence.
An Islamic fundamentalist plot to allegedly bomb a London Christmas market has been foiled, after police raided an “Islamic community centre” and arrested a number of men, with claims one could be a Syrian migrant.
Counter-terror officials believe a serious, well-advanced Islamic extremist terror plot against the UK has been foiled after two potential jihadists were arrested.
A report claims the 19-year-old Syrian Islamist who was arrested for plotting a terror attack last week was given refugee status without a formal interview or background check.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish prosecutor says she is appealing a six-year prison sentence given to a Danish teenage girl convicted of attempted terrorism, saying she should be incarcerated in a mental institution instead.
Four men have been arrested in east London on suspicion of plotting an Islamist terror attack.
PARIS (AP) — French police searched Tuesday for three men suspected of plotting an Islamic State group-inspired attack after authorities conducted a major operation at a Paris train station. A ticket vendor in the northern town of Valenciennes thought she
DUBAI – Bahrain said on Wednesday it had caught an Iranian-linked cell plotting attacks on its territory, days after it followed its close ally Saudi Arabia in cutting ties with Iran. There was no immediate reaction from Iran on the
The judge noted that the most important evidence was obtained by the FBI. An undercover FBI agent produced 25 hours of secretly-recorded conversations between him and the two would-be Jihadists. The agent posed as a wealthy Islamist Saudi Arabian interested in funding terrorism in Canada and the US. Jaser and Esseghaier also considered using a sniper rifle to murder “wealthy and prominent Jews” in Toronto.