16 Year Old From Netherlands Apprehended Travelling to Syria

May 17 2013   A tip from Dutch security service AIVD led police to stop a 16-year-old girl from leaving the Netherlands to fight in Syria, according to NRC. A police spokesperson says the teenager was stopped in connection with an investigation into people actively recruiting youth to join armed struggle in Syria. The AIVD…

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Moroccan police dismantles terrorist recruiting cell in Ceuta

20 January 2013 Moroccan police have dismanteled a terrorrist recruitment cell of young Moroccans in Ceuta to be trained in terrorist tactics and then employed at the orders of Al Qaeda related organizations, as reported by the Ministry of Interior. These volunteers received intense training in military operations and suicide bombings. Among the operating cell…

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French Arrest Man Suspected of Financing al Qaeda

News Agencies – July 3, 2012   French authorities have arrested the administrator of an extremist French website suspected of playing a key role in financing and recruiting for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups from Pakistan to Spain, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.The man—whom prosecutors call an “operational vector and formidable financier of the…

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Sentencing set for man after guilty plea in bomb plot

BALTIMORE — A Maryland man who said he wanted to wage jihad against the United States faces sentencing for plotting to bomb a military recruiting center. Prosecutors are recommending a 25-year prison term for Antonio Martinez, who is to be sentenced Friday morning in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Martinez pleaded guilty in January. Prosecutors…

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Man pleads guilty to Catonsville military recruiting office bomb plot

A Baltimore man pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to blow up a Catonsville military recruiting station. Antonio Benjamin Martinez, 22, was arrested on Dec. 8, 2010 after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be explosives at the armed forces recruiting station near Baltimore. According to Martinez’s plea agreement, he was a recent convert…

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