July 17, 2014 While ISIS militias continue their progress in Iraq and Syria, in Spain the fight against jihadist cells is intensified especially in Catalonia which is considered by the intelligence Service, the hottest spot for jihadism. CNI is searching the area for cells that may be ready to send mujahideen to Iraq and Syria….
July 1, 2014 In a new study released Tuesday, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that “concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations.” This comes at a particularly fraught moment in the Middle East: the jihadist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has seized whole swaths of…
June 08, 2014 Spain’s greatest experts on Jihadism, are unanimous: the Portuguese authorities have reasons for concern. “Portugal must be very alert to the movements of jihadists in the territory and for the radicalization within and outside its frontiers” warns Fernando Reinares, principal investigator of the International Terrorism Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid. The same…
June 2, 2014 Following the recent arrest of Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old Frenchman who is the primary suspect of the Brussels Jewish Museum shooting, Franco-Muslim leaders fear the shift towards jihad by radical Islamists in France. Nemmouche visited Syria in December 2012 immediately after being released from prison. He was apprehended on May 30 in…
19th May 2014 A university student who was caught with thousands of pounds worth of banknotes in her underwear at Heathrow airport has denied funding terrorism. Nawal Masaad, 26, is accused of trying to smuggle the cash to Turkey on January 16 this year, from where the prosecution alleged it would be taken by a…
