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Monthly Archives: November 2021

Ayub Khan, 19, is accused of possessing a knife connected with the ‘commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism contrary to Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000’. Khan is further accused of sending terrorist material to a group chat via WhatsApp in May this year with the...

The coronavirus pandemic may have “exacerbated” the number of people self-radicalising online, the UK security minister, Damian Hinds, said in the wake of the Liverpool bombing. Hinds said the security services had disrupted more than 30 late-stage plots in the last few years. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/16/more-people-may-have-self-radicalised-online-in-pandemic-warns-minister   Liverpool bomber Emad al-Swealmeen was born in...

The UK’s terror threat level has been raised from “substantial” to “severe”, meaning an attack is now judged to be “highly likely”. The move, confirmed by Home Secretary Priti Patel, follows an explosion outside a hospital in Liverpool on Sunday which police have declared a terror incident. Detectives have arrested four...

Three men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after a man was killed in a car explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Counter-terrorism police said the men – aged 29, 26 and 21 – had been held in connection with the incident which happened just before 11:00 GMT. The passenger...

The Secretary of Homeland Security has issued an updated National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin regarding the current heightened threat environment across the United States. The Homeland continues to face a diverse and challenging threat environment as it approaches several religious holidays and associated mass gatherings that in the past...

Londoners have been warned to be alert to thwart the threat of a pre-Christmas extremist attack in the capital as Cressida Dick described the killing of Sir David Amess as a “chilling reminder” of the continuing terrorist  danger. The Met Commissioner, writing in the Standard, said it was vital that...

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