By Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88 a.pandey@ibtimes.com on June 27 2015 2:39 AM EDT Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid announced on Saturday that authorities would shut down 80 mosques in the country accused of promoting terrorism. Pictured: A broken glass window of the Imperiale Marhaba hotel after a gunman opened fire at the beachside hotel in…
June 21, 2015: Norway, supplied with information on known Islamic terrorists, compared that list with one of the most recent Moslem refugees it had accepted and found at least ten of these asylum seekers had an Islamic terrorist background. Similar discoveries are being made in other countries that accept these refugees via a UN resettlement…
Middle East May. 08, 2015 | 12:47 PM Palestinian children look at mortars and spent ammunition that, Suleiman Abu Jamaa, 35, collected around his destroyed home in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 11, 2014.AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB Agence France Presse GAZA CITY: A jihadi group that recently emerged in…
March 1, 2015 John Rosenthal His jihadist career has taken on nearly mythical dimensions. According to some reports, he is the mastermind behind Islamic State media operations. According to another, he was recently the target of a “honey-trap” set by a female FBI agent sent to Syria in order to extract information from him.…
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 13 Issue: 4 February 20, 2015 11:13 AM Age: 2 days By: Wladimir van Wilgenburg Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda. Recent events have raised fresh questions over the relationship between the Islamic State militant group and…
Terrorism & Insurgency IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review – 14 January 2015 Thousands of people gather at Republique Square in Paris on 11 January for a rally to honour the 17 victims of the terrorist attacks. On 14 January, AQAP claimed responsibility for the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo. Source: PA …
Lessons from the Charlie Hebdo Attack By Robin Simcox January 12, 2015 A memorial for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack, January 10, 2015. (Stephane Mahe / Courtesy Reuters) “If you can kill an American or European infidel, especially the spiteful and cursed French,” said Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, spokesman for the Islamic State of…
Terrorism & Insurgency IHS Jane’s Terrorism & Insurgency Monitor 08 January 2015 Suspected Islamist gunmen fire their weapons outside the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015 moments after killing 11 people inside the office. Source: PA Key Points Two gunmen attacked the offices of…
Jeff Weyers of iBRABO, a Canadian open source intelligence site, spoke to the Vancouver Observer about open source security intelligence, and about Canadian examples being referenced in ISIS propaganda. Jenny Uechi Jan 3rd, 2015 An Ontario-based open source intelligence research group, iBRABO, exposed a New Zealand ISIS fighter who was unwittingly broadcasting his location in Syria on twitter. Mark…
Link to Resource: The new frontiers of Islamist extremism: understanding the threat that al-Qaeda affiliates pose to African security External Links icon The new frontiers of Islamist extremism: understanding the threat that al-Qaeda affiliates pose to African security External Links icon Tobias Feakin Australian Strategic Policy Institute 23 September 2014 This paper examines three…
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