The Globe and Mail – February 7, 2012 Sayfildin (Sayf) Tahir Sharif, 39, is the contractor who Ms. Rain, a first nations woman, quickly fell in love with after they met in the summer of 2009. She converted to Islam to be with the man, an Iraqi Kurd who was granted Canadian citizenship in 2005….
7 October 2011 Hassan Bakir, secretary general of Moroccan Islamist group Shabiba Islamiyya, was arrested in Spain while on vacation with his family, and detained for the past two months while Spanish courts rule on is possible extradition to Morocco. Bakir had been living in the Netherlands since 2005. In 1985 at the age…
05.05.2011 On Thursday, the German-Syrian Rami M. confessed to being a member of the Al Qaeda network in the opening day of his trial in Frankfurt/ Main. The 25-year-old confessed to being part of the terror organization and having received training by them in a terrorist camp in Pakistan. Following his arrest by Pakistani security…
December 2, 2010 The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has asked Spain to stop the extradition process to Morocco of Ali Aarras. The Moroccan authorities consider Aarras member of the Movement of the Mujahideen in the Maghreb related to the Casablanca bombings of May 16, 2003 and the extradition was agreed by the…
December 2 2010 The family and friends of two Amsterdam men arrested last week on terrorist charges have written to the city’s mayor to request his assistance. The men, two out of three arrested in the city, are both social workers without criminal records, and their arrest has shocked their local communities. The men are…
