One of the hijackers of the Italian ‘*’ cruise ship is due to be expelled from Italy after serving a 21-year sentence in jail, and three years under police surveillance. Abdellatiif Ibrahim Fatayer was one of four Palestinian militants who hijacked the cruise ship in 1985, taking 450 people hostage in exchange for the release…
Al Qaeda’s North African wing said on Thursday it had given Austria three days to secure the release of some of its members held in Algeria and Tunisia in return for two Austrian hostages it was holding. The group said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site that it had informed the Austrian…
A Belgian appeals court acquitted seven far-leftist Turkish militants of charges of belonging to a terrorist organization, and gave three of the acquitted a suspended sentence for illegal arms possession. The ruling came in a retrial that was ordered after the first trial was declared unfair for technical reasons. Their arrest followed the discovery of…
Fourteen suspected Islamic militants were arrested in Spain on January 19th, and may have been planning a terrorist act in Barcelona, according to interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. Rubalcaba said more arrests were expected, and the country was on high security alert. Searches of the suspects’ homes uncovered suspicious material, including four timers. Those arrested…
A Belgian court convicted five Islamist militants of belonging to a group that was active in recruiting suicide bombers into Iraq. Bilal Soughir, currently in detention, was sentenced to ten years in prison for being a ringleader of the operation. Four other men tried in absentia were also sentenced for organizing and aiding the plans,…
