A man wanted by Interpol for alleged terrorist offences is advising Scotland Yard on ways to combat extremism among Muslims. Mohammed Ali Harrath, 45, regularly speaks to officers from a section set up to keep in contact with Britain’s Muslim community. Scotland Yard has also been urged by the former intelligence chief Baroness Neville-Jones to…
City chiefs have been handed just under £100,000 by the Government to help tackle future terrorist threats to the city. Plymouth City Council made a bid for money from the Preventing Violent Extremism Pathfinder Fund, which aims to “support priority local authorities in their work to tackle violent extremism in their communities”. A spokesman for…
Britain has been seeking new methods in the fight against radical Islam and extremism. A delegation from the British Islamic Community visited Turkey last week and met with officials from Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate. The group questioned how imams sent abroad are trained in Turkey, said a Religious Affairs Directorate official. But they did not…
The Muslim charity “The Holy Land Foundation” and five of its former leaders have been convicted of funding the Palestinian militant group Hamas, designated a terrorist group in the US. Full-text article continues here. (Some news sites may require registration)
Counterrorrist officials in the province of Quebec are searching for a man who has posted messages on the Internet forum called Minbarsos encouraging al-Qaeda to attack Canada. Under the pseudonym of Altar, the man wrote on September 25th, “the Canadian government supports the Americans. The government of Canada supports Israel. Canadian soldiers are sent to…
