14/09/21

UK-Northern Ireland Dungiven: Viable pipe bomb found during security alert

Homes were evacuated after a suspicious object was discovered in Ard Na Smoll in Dungiven on Sunday. Police said the alert was now over and residents have returned to their homes. Inspector Stephen McCafferty said it was a "completely reckless" act to leave a device in a residential area, and it showed "no regard" .....

13/09/21

FBI releases first declassified 9/11 document after Biden order

(Reuters) - The FBI on Saturday released a newly declassified document related to its investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and allegations of Saudi government support for the hijackers, following an executive order by President Joe Biden. The partially redacted 16-page document released by .....

09/09/21

ESSEX MAN CONVICTED FOR LEADING FAR RIGHT TERROR GROUP

An 18-year-old man from Essex has been found guilty of two terror offences, after heading up the UK sect of an online far-right group. Matthew Cronjager (11/04/2003) was found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of one count of engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism and one count of disseminating a .....

07/09/21

UK’s Troubles amnesty plan goes further than Pinochet’s, study says

The UK government’s plan to end all Troubles-era prosecutions in Northern Ireland would create an amnesty wider than the one Augusto Pinochet introduced to shield human rights violators in Chile, according to a study. Downing Street’s plan would offer a level of impunity more sweeping than almost 300 other .....

07/09/21

Close to home: how US far-right terror flourished in post-9/11 focus on Islam

The far right and white supremacists are responsible for the vast majority of extremist-related fatalities but only a fraction of counter-terrorism resources are devoted to them The US government acted quickly after 9/11 to prevent further attacks by Islamic extremists in the US. Billions of dollars were spent on .....

03/09/21

Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief 3rd Sept

Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief September 3, 2021   **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 .....

03/09/21

UK - Reading stabbings: Bravery awards for police who tackled terrorist

Four police officers who captured a terrorist after he killed three men in a park are to receive bravery awards. James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, were stabbed to death on the afternoon of 20 June 2020 in Reading's Forbury Gardens. PC James Packman, Sgt Iain Watkinson, PC Liam Steele .....

01/09/21

U.S. Hate Crimes Rose in 2020 With Jumps in Racially Motivated Incidents

Hate crimes in the U.S. rose about 6% last year, fueled by an increase in anti-Asian, anti-Black and antiwhite incidents, according to FBI statistics released Monday, reaching levels not seen in more than a decade. State and local police reported 7,759 criminal incidents in 2020 motivated by bias, amid a global .....

29/08/21

UK - Derry: Man arrested after shots fired at republican mural

The incident took place near a mural of former INLA prisoner Michael Devine in the Galliagh area of Derry A man has been arrested in connection with shots fired at a commemoration in Londonderry last Friday. The 30-year-old man was arrested under the Terrorism Act after a raid on a house in Derry on Saturday .....

24/08/21

Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief

Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief August 24, 2021   **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 .....