INTERVIEW WITH BRITISH HOME SECRETARY: ‘No Day This Year without a Terror Trial’

In an interview with SPIEGEL, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith discusses her country’s experience in taking in former inmates from the Guantanamo prison camp and how her country is seeking to reach out to young Muslims before they radicalize. SPIEGEL: In Germany, a national debate is simmering over whether the country should take in prisoners…

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Nine Convicted in French Terror Trial in Paris

A criminal court in Paris convicted nine suspects on charges linked to the financing of and association with a terrorism group. One of these was Safé Bourada, a French-Algerian former prison inmate who established an Islamic group that called for armed jihad in France. The group, known as “Ansar al-Fath” or Partisans of Victory, was…

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    Informant in Canada Terror Trial Calls Leader a Delusional Braggart

    A Canadian police informant testified that the alleged leader of the alleged terror plot of 2006 in Mississauga, Ontario was clearly a delusional braggart. Mubin Shaikh’s comments came on a second day of cross-examination of the trial of a youth accused of an alleged terror plot. The man on trial, who cannot be named because…

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      In On-Going Canadian Terror Trial Informant Testifies that Alleged Terror Plot was Serious

      A police informant testified last week that the leader of an alleged terrorist plot to attack high-profile Canadian buildings and take members of Parliament hostage was well-developed and widespread. Authorities said that the alleged plotters, who cannot be identified because of a publication ban, wanted Muslim prisoners being held in Afghanistan released. One of the…

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        Wiretaps Played at Terror Trial Suggest Youth Favoured Beheading Canadian Prime Minister

        According to police wiretaps played in court near Toronto on Wednesday, members of an alleged Canadian terrorist cell believed a then-teenager would be the best candidate to behead the Canadian Prime Minister because of his wood-chopping skills. On the same tape, the young man and one of his co-accused discuss the global fight to get…

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