Two men, 40-year-old Christopher Gibbons and 36-year-old Tyrone Patten-Walsh were both jailed following an investigation by London’s Metropolitan Police, the police announced on Thursday The pair had been investigated by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command after their podcast was found to encourage listeners to commit violent acts against Jews and other ethnic...
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu intends to refile a rejected $13.3 million federal counter-terrorism grant at the Jan. 24 City Council meeting, but it may be discussed among the nine affected communities at a separate meeting this week. A Wu spokesperson said the mayor will be refiling the U.S. Department of...
The UK should “urgently consider” new laws to stop AI recruiting terrorists, a counter-extremism think tank says. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) says there is a “clear need for legislation to keep up” with online terrorist threats. It comes after the UK’s independent terror legislation reviewer was “recruited” by...
A man who planned a gun attack at central London’s Hyde Park has had his jail sentence increased. Edward Little, 22, had intended to kill Christian preacher Hatun Tash after travelling from Brighton to the capital on 23 September 2022. He had £5,000 to buy a firearm and bullets when...
An investigation into the threat made to Queensgate on Thursday (December 28) is to be carried out by counter terror officers. Cambridgeshire Police were called to the shopping centre in the city centre at around 10:30am on Thursday following a “security threat” that forced the centre to be evacuated for...
Amidst the growing unrest in the Sahel region, Burkina Faso’s military has escalated its counter-terrorism operations, focusing specifically on the eastern part of the country. The objective is to cleanse the area of menacing threats posed by various terrorist factions, thus restoring peace, stability, and state control in the region....
Tunisian security forces killed on Wednesday three “terrorists” during an ongoing operation in a mountain area near the Algerian border, said the interior ministry. National guard and army forces were involved in the “counterterrorism operation” near the city of Kasserine, the ministry said, without providing further details on those killed....
An ex-soldier who admired Adolf Hitler and planned to burn down a left-wing bookshop has been jailed for nearly five years. A court heard William Howitt, 27, wrote a detailed guide on his phone to carry out the arson attack on the Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham. The plan included...
The UK police have released footage of a detained suspect gathering information on Iran International’s headquarters as his trial unfolds in London. Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev (Mohammad-Hussein Dovtaev), 31, originally from Chechnya but residing in Austria, was detained at Chiswick Business Park by officers from London’s Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command in February. According to...
Counter-terror police arrested two men in connection with the explosion which damaged a Ulez camera on the same day it had been installed. Two men have been arrested after an ultra low emission zone (Ulez) camera was blown up the same day it was installed. Counter-terrorism officers from the Metropolitan Police investigating the incident...
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