Anti-terrorism police in Morocco and Belgium have detained 11 suspects with alleged links to both Belgium and Al-Qaeda offshoots in Northern Africa. Authorities say that members of the group may have plotted attacks on a luxury hotel in Brussels and European Union facilities. Moroccan officials also said that attacks were plotted in their country, but…
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Spanish authorities had concrete evidence against the nine Pakistani nationals arrested for planning terrorist attacks in Spain and Europe. “The Spanish investigators have solid evidence against nine of the twelve Pakistanis arrested in Barcelona. The material used in the blast was recovered from them,” said Qureshi,…
The brother of a terrorist who died in an airport suicide attack has been jailed for 18 months for withholding information about the plot. Sabeel Ahmed, an NHS doctor, was sent a chilling email about the mission two days before his older brother Kafeel rammed a jeep into the air terminal in Glasgow. In it…
The Italian special branch of the police force arrested an ex-member of Prima Linea, the Lombard section of the Italian Red Brigade. The arrestee, Roberto Sandalo, was taken into custody in Milan. His arrest was part of an investigation by the public magistrate concerning attempted attacks on mosques and sites of Islamic culture/cultural centers, made…
Three French who allegedly trained to join the Iraqi insurgency have faced preliminary charges of having links to terrorism. The three men, aged 24 to 34, are accused of “criminal conspiracy with a terrorist organization“. The three men were taken into custody the week before in southern France.
