The trial against what was once the nation’s largest Islamic charity ended in a mistrial Monday as federal prosecutors in Dallas were unable to gain a conviction on charges that the group’s leaders had funneled millions of dollars to Mideast terrorists. The jurors in the high-profile case acquitted Mohammad el-Mezain, the former chairman of the…
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 Lebanese man on trial for a failed train bombing in Germany last year testified Thursday that he and another suspect planted crude bombs to protest cartoons that ridiculed Islam’s prophet Muhammad, but he denied any links to al-Qaida.
Two Islamic preachers recruited, groomed and corrupted young Muslims, taking them to camps across Britain where they trained with members of the failed July 21, 2005, bomb plot, a court was told. Atilla Ahmet, 42, from south-east London, the ringleader of the alleged group, admitted encouraging others to commit murder, Woolwich Crown Court was told….
The Spanish anti-terrorist court announced the date of October 31st to hand down verdicts on the 28 suspects on trial for the 2004 Madrid train bombings. The blasts of the terrorist attack, which were claimed in the name of Al-Qaeda, killed 191 people and injured 1,841 others. The top suspects face a sentence of up…
