The Italian government investigated 216 terror threats against Italy last year, concluding that Islamist cells were the “primary threat to the public interest, both Italy and abroad.” The extent of the terror threats were revealed in an anti-terrorism report presented to the department of information security. Al-Qaeda “is still playing a central role” according to…
Spanish police arrested a Spanish solder and his girlfriend for allegedly posting videos on the internet promoting Islamist extremist views and calling for attacks in Spain according to the Ministry of Interior. The 23-year-old suspects, both Muslim, were arrested in the city of Granada. The investigation began last June when police detected videos calling for…
An Islamic sermon in Italian was posted on Facebook, before it was due to be read at a local mosque. While the sermon condemns war as heinous, the theme of the sermon – the first of its kind proposed and composed by Hamza Piccardo – was to discuss the meaning of jihad, meaning both ‘holy…
French authorities detained 80 “Islamic activists” suspected of links to terrorist recruitment cells in 2008, along with four leading figures of the Basque separatist group ETA, the interior minister said Monday. Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie said in a New Year’s speech that 80 Islamic activists linked to alleged “cells for recruitment or training for jihad”…
Islamists who post fierce messages on the internet along with bomb-making instructions are becoming a key part of international terrorism, Germany’s prosecutor general Monika Harms said Friday. The internet served as a means of communications between different terrorist groups and as a source of information on how to mount attacks, she said in Karlsruhe. “The…
