Police officers in Kirklees will be taking part in an Islam Awareness program believed to be the first of its kind in the UK. Front line PCs and PCSOs are to begin a series of six separate sessions at four different mosques across the district. It will involve increasing their understanding of the Islamic faith…
A policeman has been knocked unconscious and two others have been injured during a protest in London against the fighting in Gaza. An initially peaceful demonstration ended with a group of protesters throwing missiles at police and smashing windows on Kensington High Street near the Israeli Embassy. Riot officers from the Metropolitan Police force charged…
Spain’s National Court acquitted three Islamist extremists suspected of helping to finance al Qaeda. The acquittal is raising questions over the country’s law and judicial systems. Recently acquitted Imad Eddin Baraka Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah, who is serving a 12 year sentence on a separate charge of having headed in al Qaeda cell in…
