Following an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing North West (CTPNW) supported by Lancashire Police a 37-year-old man has been jailed for 2 years and 8 months. Kieran Turner (DOB: 8 February 1987) of Earlesdon Avenue in Earby, Lancashire appeared at Manchester Crown Square Court on Thursday 8 February 2023. Turner...
Monthly Archives: February 2024
Following an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) a 16-year-old boy from Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, has been convicted of terrorism offences. The boy was charged with preparation of terrorist acts under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act on 17 July 2022. He was further charged...
A 34-year-old man has been arrested after police found an explosive device during a security alert at a flat in Newtownards, County Down. Homes were evacuated during the operation in Rosevale Avenue on Tuesday. Police are no longer at the scene. The man is still being questioned on suspicion of...
Police today arrested a man on suspicion of assisting Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi – as they confirmed a new sighting of him on the night of the outrage. Police have been hunting for the fugitive since he allegedly doused a 31-year-old woman and her daughters, aged eight and three, with a...
Terrorists could potentially exploit artificial intelligence (AI)-based platforms like ChatGPT for their destructive and evil purposes, according to Prof. Gabriel Weimann of Reichman University’s School of Government. Working with five interns from the university’s International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Weimann investigated how terrorists or violent extremists could take advantage of such AI...
A suspected chemical attacker who left a ‘vulnerable’ young mother and her three-year-old daughter with ‘life-changing injuries’ after dousing them with an alkaline substance in Clapham last night has been named as 35-year-old Abdul Ezedi. Police said the ‘dangerous’ fugitive is from the Newcastle area and has ‘significant injuries to the...
The Boston City Council finally approved a $13 million federal counter-terrorism grant for the region on Wednesday, but the vote was not without fireworks, with several councilors pointing to a lack of transparency around how it was handled. The anti-terror grant, blocked in December and again last week when it...
A pro-Hamas ‘suicide bomber’ has stormed a factory owned US cosmetics giant Procter & Gamble near Istanbul in protest at the war in Gaza, a police spokesman said. The assailant took people hostage at a plant owned by It was not immediately clear how many people were being held at the plant,...
Witnesses have described a “horrific” scene after a mother and her two girls were doused in their car with a “corrosive substance” in south London. One witness told the BBC the mother cried: “I can’t see, I can’t see” as he tried to help. “It was quite horrific,” he added....
The Georgian State Security Service on Wednesday said it would summon Beka Vardosanidze, a far-right activist and blogger with pro-Russian sentiments, as part of its ongoing investigation over emails that threatened use of explosives against public venues and events over a recent period. Citing “extensive investigative and operational efforts”, the...
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