Aug

20

Britain`s `youngest terrorist` jailed

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A London court has criminalized three men and a teenager on the charges of anti-terrorism. The teenage boy, now 18, Hammaad Munshi is the youngest Briton who found responsible for such wrongdoings.

He is a grandson of a renowned Islamic scholar Sheikh Yakub Munshi, was at the age of 16 when he was detained in a police attack on an extremist cell for which he was considered as an expert in computer operation.

Black friars Crown Court detained him for handing important instructions out on how to create napalm, explosives, detonators and grenades online. He did not keep the information with himself rather found guilty of constructing information record.

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Aug

13

US said: Al-Qaeda trained terrorists for attacks on West

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US top intelligence officer said that the al-Qaeda has succeeded in “recruiting, training and positioning” terrorists for attacks against the West, including America, from its sanctuary in Pakistan and has formed groups which were previously focused on Kashmir.

The new assessment is seen as an update from a National Intelligence Estimate issued a year ago, which said al-Qaeda was seeking to deploy agents trained to carry out operations in the West.

Ted Gistaro National Intelligence Officer said, “…al-Qaeda is identifying, training and positioning operatives for attacks in the West, including in the US.

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Aug

4

China attack :16 policemen killed and many injured

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Sources said that 16 policemen were killed and several others injured today after a border patrol armed police division was attacked in China’s Muslim-majority northwestern Xinjiang province, just four days ahead of Olympics.

Xinhua said that 2 attackers drove a lorry into the police station in Xinjiang city of Kashi this morning and threw two grenades causing explosions.

They threw two grenades, which exploded, before they were arrested, Xinhua said.

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Jul

31

British NASA hacker to face US trial

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A British computer expert Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal on Wednesday against extradition to the United States where he is accused of “the biggest military hack of all time” and could face up to 70 years in prison.

Gary McKinnon was arrested in 2002 after U.S. prosecutors charged him with illegally accessing computers, including the Pentagon, US army, navy and NASA systems, and causing $700,000 worth of damage.

He told reporters in 2006 that he was just a computer nerd who wanted to find out whether aliens really existed and became obsessed with trawling large military networks for proof.

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Jul

29

Al-Qaida utter Muslims to kill Saudi king

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An al-Qaida commander who escaped from a US prison has posted a web video urging Muslims to kill the Saudi king for leading an interfaith conference in Madrid earlier this month.

Abu Yahia al-Libi who escaped from Afghanistan’s Bagram prison in 2005, said “bringing religions together…means renouncing Islam.”

Saudi King Abdullah sponsored the dialogue among Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists and encouraged all faiths to turn away from extremism.

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Jul

26

16-year-old girl suspected of bank robberies in France

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Official said that a 16-year-old French girl arrested in connection with a bank robbery is suspected of involvement in a series of other hold-ups.

A judge at a court in Creteil on the outskirts of Paris on Friday remanded her in custody following requests by the prosecution.

Dominique Gaillardot prosecutor said, ”This minor has been remanded today and is suspected of involvement in seven thefts or attempted thefts at bank buildings in the Val-de-Marne (west of Paris) since the beginning of July,”.

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Jul

10

Woman kills husband with folding couch

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A Russian woman in killed her drunk husband with a folding couch. St Petersburg’s Channel Five said the man’s wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall.

The couch, which doubles as a bed, folds up automatically in order to save space. After the attack man fell between the mattress and the back of the couch.

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Jun

9

Japan shocked and bewildered by random knife killings

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Passers-by prayed and placed flowers on a busy Tokyo shopping street on Monday where seven people were killed the day before in a stabbing rampage, as Japan tried to make sense of the attack and others like it.

Police arrested a blood-spattered 25-year-old man who they said drove a truck into a crowd of people, then got out and began a frenzied knife attack. “Japan has entered a period of selfishness. People have the feeling that they can do anything,” said Jinsuke Kageyama, a criminal psychologist at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Continue reading…



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May

27

Police charge 21-year-old in Harry Potter actor knifing

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Police in London have been given more time to question a 21-year-old man held on suspicion of fatally stabbing a teenager actor who played a role in the forthcoming Harry Potter film, Scotland Yard said on Monday

Rob Knox, 18, was killed outside the Metro Bar in southeast London in the early hours of Saturday morning while reportedly trying to protect his brother from a man wielding a knife. Continue reading…



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May

24

E-mail warns of bloody weekend in Mexican border city

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The crowded streets of Ciudad Juarez are having not a single person after the cops are aware of a warning email that in Mexican border city, ‘this weekend will be the bloodiest‘. The email said that the gunmen will fire at malls, night clubs, restaurants, and other public places i.e. the blood in the whole city.

In a news release, Ciudad Juarez Police Chief Roberto Orduna said that the threats will be taken seriously and assured people that the police will be attentive. Continue reading…



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