On March 24, AQIM renewed a threat to kill its French hostages and called on their families to pressure France’s government to end its military operation against radical Islamists who had seized control of northern Mali. The Al-Qaeda franchise is currently holding at least five French hostages in the region. It announced last week it had killed a sixth, business traveler Philippe Verdon, although Paris has not yet confirmed his death. Read Article
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OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES The sometimes controversial senior journalist and Al Qaeda expert looks serious and intimidating as he approaches a huge group of fans and well-wishers waiting outside a session at the recent Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, where he gave a talk about After Bin Laden, his latest book. Serious, that is, until […]
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The video was taken on January 2013, shows a group of terrorists in Syria while shooting at a civilian airplane near Damascus international airport, The airplane belongs to an Iranian commercial fleet.
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A car-bombing at the airport of the historic city of Timbuktu has killed a Malian soldier and wounded 6 others, this is the first suicide attack to hit the former Islamist stronghold since French and African forces ousted rebels from Mali’s northern territories in an operation that began in January. Read Article
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A bomb threat halted rail traffic for six hours through the Simplon tunnel on Wednesday, police and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) said. Media in the southern Swiss canton of Valais received an anonymous threat at 11:15am stating that there were explosives on a train carrying out maintenance in the tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy, local […]
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Hundreds of German police officers raided suspected Islamist extremists in several states on Wednesday, aiming to confiscate possessions and funds belonging to three now banned groups. The country’s Interior Ministry confirmed that in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse alone, officers targeted 20 houses thought to belong to people connected to Salafist groups – a radical branch […]
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USAtoday.com reported that the Dutch government raised its terror threat level Wednesday from “limited” to “substantial,”… The warning comes just two months before hundreds of thousands of people are expected to descend on Amsterdam for mass celebrations around the abdication of Queen Beatrix and investiture of her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, as the country’s new […]
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A suspected gun has been discovered close to the scene of a bomb attack near three police officers on a busy coastal path. A call from a public phone box nearby may also be linked to the explosion on a tow path beside a motorway in north Belfast on Saturday night, metres from officers responding […]
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Three suspected Islamist militants arrested in southern France appeared to be planning an attack in the days ahead, the Paris prosecutor said on Monday, the anniversary of an al Qaeda-inspired shooting that rocked France. Police found weapons and explosives at the home of one of the suspects in the town of Marignane, near Marseille, and […]
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As covered by thelocal.fr, “Two men arrested in France this week on suspicion of wanting to carry out terrorist acts had bought explosives and were “ready to take action”, police sources revealed on Friday.A 20-year-old and 18-year-old were arrested by anti-terrorist police in the town of Marignane, near Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhone region on Thursday.” […]
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