Security and Counterterrorism
Met’s most senior Muslim woman ‘ostracised’
A Muslim woman responsible for upholding racial and religious diversity within the Metropolitan police claims she was so marginalised that she was not even allowed to make the coffee. Yasmin Rehman, 42, the force’s director of partnerships and diversity, is taking her bosses to an employment tribunal claiming she was bullied because of her colour…
9/11 response ‘huge overreaction’ – ex-MI5 chief
She made it clear she abhorred “war on terror” rhetoric and the government’s abandoned plans to hold terrorism suspects for 42 days without charge. She also criticised politicians including Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, for trying to outbid each other in their opposition to terrorism and making national security a partisan issue. “National security has…
Call to sniff out bomb ‘brainwashers’
A Muslim advisor has called for the extremists who “brainwashed” failed Exeter suicide bomber Nicky Reilly to be brought to justice. Muslim convert Reilly from Plymouth has admitted attempted murder at the Giraffe restaurant on 22 May. During the inquiry, police said he had been radicalised. Imam Dr Abdul-Jalil Sajid, from the Muslim Council for…
Fanatical prisoners to be ‘de-programmed’ of their beliefs
Psychologists in the Prison Service will try to ‘cure’ extremist Muslim inmates of their political beliefs with controversial therapies similar to those used to ‘de-programme’ members of religious cults. The experimental treatments are being developed by a special Extremism Unit set up by the Ministry of Justice in January last year, it has been reported….
Nine Convicted in French Terror Trial in Paris
A criminal court in Paris convicted nine suspects on charges linked to the financing of and association with a terrorism group. One of these was Safé Bourada, a French-Algerian former prison inmate who established an Islamic group that called for armed jihad in France. The group, known as “Ansar al-Fath” or Partisans of Victory, was…