Kidnappers repeat their call for freeing Islamists held in Algeria, Tunisia in exchange for Austrians’ freedom. Austria vowed Monday to press on with efforts to free two nationals seized by an Al-Qaeda group in north Africa, while the kidnappers were said to have extended a deal-making deadline into next month. “It is an additional extension…
The head of Germany’s intelligence agency said that ‘several hundred’ Muslim extremists are living in Germany and that al-Qaeda is forming a strong base in North Africa, a German magazine reported on Monday. Mr Ernst Uhrlau, who oversees the BND, the Germany intelligence agency, said that ‘up to 700 people are being surveilled, in different…
The Web site for an anti-Koran film being made by Dutch right-wing lawkmaker Geert Wilders was suspended by its US hosting service over the weekend. But a far-right party in the Czech Republic has offered to screen it if Wilders can’t find another outlet. A far-right political party in the Czech Republic has offered to…
