[PDF of Original Report]: ‘Specific approach necessary for young women traveling to ISIS’
Link to Original Report (In Dutch): vrouwelijke-isis-gangers
Security and Counterterrorism
Specific approach necessary for young women traveling to ISIS
February 4, 2015 The motives of girls and young women to travel to ISIS in Syria differ from the motives of young men. It is therefore a good idea to develop a different approach to prevent these young women to leave. Involve the parents actively with these interventions. Work on the defensibility of these women…
Dutch terrorism-expert Peter Knoope: “A large part of the world hates us”
The Dutch antiterrorism-expert Peter Knoope searches for the motives of terrorists and warns the West. “A large part of the world hates us. What we think is progress, they find neocolonial.” The Dutch specialist in international relations Peter Knoope warns the West: we force our way of thinking about history upon the rest of the…
California terror suspect swore return to Syria
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An Iraqi-born man living in California swore that “America will not isolate me from my Islamic duty” as he used a social media account associated with the Islamic State group to plot a return to Syria, according to court documents made public Friday. Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab was indicted in Sacramento Thursday…
Police: Suspect says he shot Philly cop ‘in the name of Islam’
The suspect in the wounding of a Philadelphia police officer in an execution-style ambush told officers he carried out the attack “in the name of Islam,” police said Friday. Police Commissioner Richard Ross said the suspect, Edward Archer, 30, fired 13 shots from a semiautomatic pistol that hit Officer Jessie Hartnett, 33, and his car Thursday night. Hartnett returned fire, hitting the gunman at least three times….