Al Qaeda contemplated giving Canadian journalists ‘special media material’ for 10th anniversary

The Toronto Star – May 4, 2012   When Al Qaeda contemplated the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, the organization didn’t forget to include Canada in its plans. Al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn mused the organization should reach out to a group of 30 to 50 select journalists and writers who would be candidates to…

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100 Muslims protest against religious radicalism in Paris

May 4, 2012   A hundred Muslims gathered on the steps of the Opera Bastille in Paris to “say no to religious radicalism” and proclaimed their attachment to France and the values of the Republic.   With French flags on their jackets and under a banner saying “Together against fanaticism”, demonstrators observed a moment of…

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Spanish Court, “The terrorist act is more than the expression of radical ideas”

26 April 2012 To condemn the thought of an individual it is not the task of the Court and based on this affirmation the Audiencia Nacional (Spanish Court) has sustained the acquittal of nine Ceuti citizens charged with terrorist practices in the operation Dune (operation started in 2006 by the judge Baltasar Garzon accusing the…

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UK ‘may have been complicit in rendition’

Successive British governments have always said they were never complicit in illegal rendition and torture but that may not be the case. The BBC has obtained documents that suggest that MI6 was involved in the rendition of Abdel Hakim Belhaj who was believed to be helping recruit British jihadis for Iraq. The BBC also now…

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Arrest without bail for the Al-Qaeda librarian

The head of the Central Court of Instruction, Pablo Ruz, has ordered the prison without bail of Mudhar Hussein Almalki, considering that there is evidence that he was engaged in internet broadcasting of all types of Salafi-jihadi exaltation materials, and manuals on making explosives, gases or poisons. The judge understood that Hussein Almalki, arrested Tuesday…

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