Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief **UNCLASSIFIED ** (U) STIC is providing this information to our partner agencies for situational awareness. This document contains information obtained from open source information. While STIC has gone to great lengths to verify the information found in open source documents on...
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A man has died after sustaining gunshot wounds in an incident involving armed officers, close to Kensington Palace in London. Police were called just after 3pm following reports of a man carrying a gun into a bank and a bookshop in Marloes Road in the Kensington area of the city....
France has arrested two men on suspicion of planning a “jihadist-inspired” knife attack, judicial sources told AFP. The attack was reportedly intended to target passers-by “around Christmas time” in shopping centres, universities, or in the street. Two suspects — both aged 23 — were arrested and have been placed in...
Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command have arrested a 26-year-old UK national at Stansted Airport on suspicion of preparation of acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006. He was arrested prior to boarding an outbound flight. Commander Richard Smith of the Met’s Counter Terrorism...
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...
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