The Metropolitan police jailed a counter-terrorism officer from Spalding, Lincolnshire being involved in fraud of a property scam amounting thousands of pounds during the July 7 bombings investigation.Quick after the terrorist attacks on London in 2005, Detective Constable Daren Pooley, 41 years old, took it as advantage from their employers.
London’s Crown Court imprisoned him for three years.The Court also imprisoned Mrs. Nicola, his wife, for 36 weeks followed by 18 months suspension after finding her guilty of conspiracy to defraud.
11 arrested in Belgian terrorism probe
Authorities have arrested 11 people in connection with a suspected terror plot targeting Belgium, officials there said Tuesday.The suspects were using a jihadist website to plan an attack on an unspecified target, police said.
“Long months of undercover investigation” led to the arrests, the authorities said. It was “clear to us that the target was Belgian soil, just not clear enough to say where and when,” Belgian public prosecutor Lieve Pellens told CNN.
Seven of the arrests were in Antwerp, Belgium, she said. One was in Aachen, Germany, and the other three were in the Netherlands. Those arrested are Belgian, Dutch, Moroccan and Chechen, authorities said.
Terrorists entering Yemen as refugees
Somalia militants are taking refugee routes to enter Yemen to contact al-Qaeda group holding responsibility for a series of plots against the West. Officials of Yemen claims that al-shabaab terror group members are arrested from the refugee camps recently.
In addition to this, officials also states that there are regular links between al-quaeda and al-shabaab including transferring of armed forces.
One former Somali official claimed that he has seen Shabaab people on the streets of Aden. He is now living on a two-room hut in the al-kharaz refugee camp being threatened to fly away from there.
Troops should know African language
A top general remarked that the Pentagon requires many trained troops in the african language and culture to tackle the increasing terror threat from the continent in a better way.
The nominee to U.S. Africa Command, Army General Carter Ham, told a senate committee that one of the great challenges faced by the army commands is the terror threat from Somalia and other areas of East Africa.
He added that even the troops are trained, they are not moving forward and train others. Al-Shabab and other Al-Qaida linked terrorist groups residing in Yemen and Africa have increasingly targeted Western interests.
Abdel Kareem Nabil is now free
An Egyptian blogger, well-known for writings against Islam and for referring President Hosni Mubarak “a symbol of tyranny” has been set free yesterday after four years of imprisonment.
Abdel Kareem Nabil is noted to be the first blogger in Egypt who s famous for his writngs against government in a case. His prosecution served as a attack on the bloggers and other media outlets by the government and Egyptian right groups.
Abdel Rahman, his brother, reported that he was confined for ten more days after his sentence notice. He also added that Kareem has been treated very cruelly by a State security Inverstigation Officer behind bars.
Women accused of helping Somali terrorist
Federal police forces have captured a Women from San Diego for supplying money and personnels to Somali terrorist. Nima Ali Yusuf, 24, US resident. She is believed to help many terrorist attacks at Somali, reports said.
Sources reported that she was charged with conspiring at South California to support al-Shabab who is a renowned al-quaeda linked militia and who is trying to build a Islamic state in Somali.
In addition, she was also charged with declaring false statements to FBI as if she was not sending money to anyone in Somali in past years.
Explosion rocks central Karachi
An attack on anti-terrorist police headquarters in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, has left 20 dead and at least 100 injured.
Police say they exchanged fire with militants trying to storm theCriminal Investigation Department building. Then a truck laden with explosives slammed into its boundary wall, detonated its load and almost completely destroyed the structure. The blast could be heard across several miles of the city of 14 million people.
Eyewitnesses said the blast left a crater 12 metres (40ft) wide in front of the gutted building in Pakistan's financial and commercial capital.TV footage showed bloodied victims being taken away on stretchers and dozens of security officers combing through the wreckage.
Yemen wants much more US aid to fight terrorism
Yemen wants far more military aid than the U.S. has promised in the fight against escalating terrorism - billions of dollars more than Washington has in mind.And yet Yemeni authorities have little to show for the significant Western aid that has already poured into the impoverished country.
In fact, the al-Qaida offshoot that claimed responsibility for the failed plot to send mail bombs from Yemen to the U.S. appears more emboldened than ever. And Yemen's government seems to feel more threatened by an increasingly restless secessionist rebellion in the south, where it has little control, than by militants linked to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Since the Oct. 28 discovery of the two mail bombs, U.S. officials are pressing Yemen for more and faster cooperation on intelligence-sharing and more opportunities to train Yemeni counterterrorism teams. Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world and the government's authority is weak in areas outside the capital of San'a.
Accused helped build bombs that killed 224 in Africa
The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial is a cold-blooded killer and terrorist who slipped away the day before his cohorts carried out a plot to attack two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, a prosecutor said Monday in closing arguments.
Ahmed Ghailani joined two known al-Qaida operatives on a plane to Pakistan, where they could "congratulate themselves on the massacre of innocents they have caused," Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry Chernoff told jurors in federal court in Manhattan.
Chernoff asked the jury to reject defense claims that Ghailani was an unwitting dupe for a terror cell. He said the men were thugs operating on orders from Osama bin Laden.
Over 90 killed in Pakistan terror bombings, plane crash
At least 67 people were killed and over 100 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in a mosque near Kohat town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - province, officials and the state-run PTV said. Kohat is about 70 km from the provincial capital of Peshawar.
Hours after the Kohat bombing, another bomb exploded at a mosque in Bada Beer area of Peshawar, killing at least five worshipers and injuring dozens. In another tragedy, 21 people, all Pakistani nationals working for a foreign oil company, were killed when a small private plane crashed near Karachi airport in southern part of the country.
Police officials said the suicide bomber who carried out the blast in the Kohat mosque was around 17-18 years old. A Geo TV report said the number of dead was feared to rise as some of the injured were critical.
3 charged in US with aiding Somali terror group
A federal grand jury has charged three men, including one from St. Louis and one from Minneapolis, with conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in Somalia that the U.S. says has ties to al-Qaida.
In an indictment returned Oct. 21 and unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, prosecutors charged St. Louis taxi driver Mohamud Abdi Yusuf, a Somali national who immigrated to the U.S. as a refugee, with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and three counts of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization - the radical Islamist group al-Shabab.
The government contends that Yusuf and Abdi Mahdi Hussein sent money through a Minneapolis wire-transfer business where Hussein worked to al-Shabab supporters in Somalia between 2008 and at least July 2009. Hussein, who is also of Somali descent, is charged with one count of conspiracy to structure monetary transactions. Yusuf also faces that count.
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