A U.S. judge on Wednesday handed down 65-year prison sentences to two founders of a U.S. Islamic charity convicted of illegally funneling $12.4 million to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The sentences came some six months after a grand jury convicted the Holy Land Foundation and five of its leaders for conspiracy to support a foreign terrorist organization, money laundering, tax fraud and other charges.
Far-right-wing vigilantes burned a makeshift mosque in Athens over the weekend after Muslim immigrants in Athens attacked police with rocks and bottles over an incident in which a policeman reportedly defaced a Koran.
Bangladesh is 'safe haven for British Islamic terrorists'
Increasing surveillance in Pakistan has prompted fundamentalists to seek new hideaways for training
By Rachel Shields in Dhaka
Security experts have warned that extremists training in Bangladesh could pose a major threat to Britain, adding hat the south-Asian country has become a "safe haven" for terrorists.
Rising numbers of British-born fundamentalists are travelling to Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) for jihadist training, prompting the Bangladeshi government to launch a database to monitor the movements of suspected terrorists.
The authorities said the bombing at the Khan al-Khalili bazaar was intended as the start of a campaign of terrorism aimed at destabilizing Egypt through attacks on oil facilities and tourist sites. They said the group, which they identified as the Islamic Army of Palestine, had also planned attacks outside of Egypt, including in France.
Stabbing, Bombing Attacks Strike Near Two Churches in Egypt
Copt leaving sanctuary knifed in Minya; bomb explodes near venerable structure in Cairo.
By Roger Elliott
ISTANBUL, May 22 (Compass Direct News) – In separate attacks in Egypt earlier this month, a Coptic Christian suffered severe stab wounds as he left a worship service in Minya, and a car-bombing outside a venerable church in Cairo disrupted a wedding.
A Minneapolis resident has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda and faces a prison term of up to 15 years, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, a naturalized Canadian citizen of Somali descent, was indicted in January, 2004, charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda, which plotted the September attacks.
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood officials face 'terror camp' charges
AKI
Cairo, 18 May (AKI) - Thirteen officials from Egypt's banned opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, have been formally charged with terrorism and money laundering in Cairo. According to the Arab daily, al-Hayat, the leaders have been accused of running "secret training camps called 'jihadist camps' where they trained groups of students in armed combat".
“A lot of people think that terrorists are recruited in special recruiting grounds, but the truth is that it actually goes on in mosques a lot of the time”
A Muslim teenager in London gives the first inside account of how extremists are luring recruits
Kevin Dowling
A TEENAGER has revealed how he was recruited by Al-Qaeda-inspired extremists and groomed to carry out suicide attacks in Britain.
Radical Muslims guilty of firebomb plot on publisher of Prophet Mohammed book
Ali Beheshti set out with "fire-making equipment" to the publisher's home
A radical Muslim who dressed his baby daughter in a hat with “I love al-Qaeda” on it tried to firebomb the home of the publisher of a controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammed.
'Hurling a Stone At a Mosque' Rumor Leads to Attack on Christians in Egypt
(AINA)
As a result of a rumor that a young Christian Copt hurled a stone towards a mosque, thousands of Muslims congregated and attacked Copts and their properties, leaving several injured and arrested.
The incident, which took place on Wednesday, May 13, 2009,in the area of Saft El-Labn, Giza, resulted in the injury of 14 people from both sides. The police arrested 20 Copts, including 6 women, and 7 Muslims, and security imposed a curfew on the region.
KOTA: Taliban fighters are shaving off their beards and trying to flee from a Pakistani army offensive in their Swat bastion, the military said on Friday.
Clashes had erupted in various parts of the region, the military said on Friday, adding it was achieving successes. It also appealed to civilians to identify Taliban fighters trying to flee.
Egyptian Christian Kidnapped, Pressured to Convert to Islam
AINA
On May, 6 2009, in broad daylight, four bearded Muslim men broke into the home of a Coptic Christian family in Alexandria, armed with swords, sticks and knives, assaulted their son, bundled him into an unregistered car waiting in front of the house and disappeared. The terrorized neighbors were fearful and did not stop them, according to an appeal received by the Middle East Christian Association.
Pakistani men 'part of al-Qaeda network planning attacks in Britain'
Telegraph
Ten Pakistani men released without charge after an investigation into an alleged plot to bomb shopping centres in Manchester were part of an al-Qaeda network planning attacks in Britain and should be deported, a tribunal has heard.
The men were arrested on April 8 after former Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick entered Downing Street with details of the operation against the men visible under his arm.
Egypt cleanses itself of its pig population - god they believe is on their side. Not a single pig or confirmed human infection. A process that they estimate will take 6 months.
Is it wise to kill the capital’s rubbish-ridding pigs?
A high-security prison has been put on alert after intelligence reports that a group of Muslim extremists were plotting to escape.
The gym at HMP Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has been turned into a makeshift mosque so prison staff can keep a better eye on inmates after the chapel, usually used for group prayer, was deemed too 'high-risk'.
Denmark unable to deport him on "humanitarian grounds"
(AFP)
COPENHAGEN - Danish intelligence agency PET suspects a 42-year-old Iraqi man living in Denmark of being the chief Northern European recruiter for suicide bombers for Iraq, Danish newspaper Politiken said Sunday.
PET has for more than a year tried to expel Amer Saeed from Denmark under special anti-terror legislation on the grounds that he poses a threat to the Scandinavian country’s national security, Politiken said.
A Christian man stabbed as he leaves a church in Minya Egypt
From United Copts GB correspondant
United Copts GB learnt from reliable sources that a Christian youth who is an army conscript was subjected to a knife attack on Thursday 30th of April just as he left St Mary church in the village he lives “Dagof” , Samalout district, in Minya province , Egypt which seems to have a hot bed for Muslim fundamentalists.
