Six men were arrested on October 23, 2007 in Toulouse (Lot), presumably affiliated to a jihadist network recruiting men to go to Iraq. The men were between 25 to 45 years old and are now in the custody of authorities. One of them is accused of training for combat members of the same network who…
Six men are accused of operating a network to recruit people in Belgium, to join an Islamic militant group. Among the recruitments was a female convert to Islam, who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq near a U.S. patrol in November 2005. The trial, which began Monday in Brussels, takes place amid rising fears…
A mentally unstable man shot dead by police in Amsterdam after he knifed two officers had ties to the extremist group involved in the murder of Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh, police said Monday. Bilal B., a 22-year old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, was “interviewed as a witness after the arrest of members connected…
Ayman al Zawahiri, the number two of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, has instigated his followers to clean the North African region of the sons of Spain and France in a video posted today.
They translated and prepared terror videos, claims of responsibility and al-Qaida propaganda on the Internet. Austrian police have now attributed this handiwork to the Global Islamic Media Front and the leader of this network is reportedly among the arrested. Yassin Musharbash reports.
