Recent research from Tilburg University stresses the importance of the common background between Moroccan jihadists in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. On Facebook they sympathize with each other, says researcher Claudia Lemos de Carvalho. She speaks of an “e-jihad ‘. There are bands of Moroccan networks with IS. “North Africa, especially Morocco networks have members…
The events of the 13th Friday confirm once again the terrorist links between networks in France and Belgium, which in turn stand in connection with Dutch networks. These are links that take place via social media important radical ideological exchanges and where actually offline contacts, ‘on the ground’ occur because of the geographical proximity.
A 22-year-old woman was arrested at Madrid’s Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport on Monday night, on suspicion that she was planning to fly to Turkey to join the militant group Islamic State (ISIS), Interior Ministry sources have told EL PAÍS. The woman is originally from a village in Huelva, in southern Spain, and had converted to Islam…
Spain’s National Court has convicted and sentenced 11 members of a recruitment network that sent militants to carry out attacks for al-Qaida-linked groups fighting in Syria. A court statement Friday said the group, members of the Jabhat al-Nusra organization, recruited the militants in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta and in neighboring Morocco. The court…
July 21, 2014 A new human rights report offers a blistering assessment of the Justice Department’s role in the fight against terrorism, taking aim at tactics used to identify and prosecute suspects. In a lengthy examination of U.S. terrorism prosecutions, Human Rights Watch, working with Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute, said the FBI and…
