Out of control? Too many convicted terrorists to track,
warns senior British police officer
warns senior British police officer
(Main) Police on Streatham High Road, London © AFP / ISABEL INFANTES (Top left) Senior counter terrorism chief, Neil Basu © AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS
British police are overwhelmed with suspected and convicted terrorists to track, as they simply cannot keep an eye on every single extremist, says Neil Basu, senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism.
In an article for the Evening Standard on Wednesday, Basu revealed that he was “supportive” of UK government plans to introduce emergency laws on February 27 that will prevent existing convicted terrorists from being automatically released from jail after serving just a third of their sentence.
Basu, who was speaking out after 20-year-old Sudesh Amman stabbed two people in Streatham, London before being shot dead by police officers, admitted that police were struggling to keep on top of surveillance of dangerous individuals.
With 3,000 or so subjects of interest currently on our radar and many convicted terrorists soon due to be released from prison, we simply cannot watch all of them all the time.
The counter-terrorism chief also said the sheer scale of the challenge to keep the streets of Britain safe from further attacks required the help of the public.
Amman was jailed in 2018 for “Islamist-related terrorism offences,” involving the sharing of terrorist manuals, including a tutorial on homemade bombs. He was under active police surveillance and was living at a bail hostel in South London.
Terrorist group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, naming Amman as one of their fighters. A statement released by the jihadist group through its media outlet Amaq, said the man answered its call to attack civilians in nations opposing IS.
The solution:
While the government plans to keep terrorists in prison for more than 1/3rd of their sentences, they should consider dramatically increasing the sentences for terrorism. Terrorism is a form of treason, and should come with an automatic 25 or 50 year sentence on top of the sentence they would normally receive. And they should have no possibility of parole during those 25-50 years.
Terrorists (read radical Muslims) need to be separated from western societies. Radical Muslims are too quickly and easily triggered into insanity. It is not possible to protect society from such lunatics by surveillance.
Streatham, London
Detained Afghan boy arrested for the knife act
in Staffanstorp, Sweden
Free Times, Swedenin Staffanstorp, Sweden
Translated by Google
This story happened in 2018, but I've only just found it now.
DOMESTIC. A so-called unaccompanied refugee child has now been arrested for the attempted murder in Skåne Staffanstorp this weekend, where a 16-year-old boy suffered serious injuries after a knife attack.
It was Saturday that police and an ambulance were sent to Järnvägsgatan in Staffanstorp after an alert about an abuse.
A seriously injured 16-year-old boy with stab injuries was found at the scene.
Another person, who is said to be 15 years old, was arrested on suspicion of knife cutting and a preliminary investigation into attempted murder was initiated.
"You are always disturbed when it is a knife act, that it is such an increase in the use of force," local police Jens Wibe told SVT.
The night before Sunday, the suspect was arrested by prosecutors on probable cause for attempted murder. The arrested person has now been re-arrested.
According to the detention petition, which the Free Times noted, is the detained citizen of Afghanistan. He is said to have been born in 2003 and is being kept in custody in Lund.
However, the police are sorry about the incident and do not want to tell about the motive behind the knife act. The position of the injured person is stated to be stable.
Car-ramming injured 14 IDF soldiers and two separate
shootings wounded a police officer and another soldier
shootings wounded a police officer and another soldier
By JNS and TPS
At least 14 soldiers were wounded, one critically, in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem early Thursday morning, according to police and medical services.
The attack, a vehicular assault, occurred at 2 a.m. at Jerusalem’s First Station and is being investigated as a terror attack, according to police.
A manhunt is underway for the driver of the vehicle, who fled the scene.
The wounded troops belonged to the Israel Defense Forces’ Golani Brigade, according to an IDF spokesperson, and had been visiting the First Station, a historic Jerusalem site, as part of a “heritage tour” ahead of their early-morning swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall.
According to a Magen David Adom spokesperson, paramedics treated the victims at the scene and evacuated them to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem and Shaare Zedek hospitals, including an unconscious 20-year-old man in serious condition with multiple injuries.
According to a United Hatzalah spokesperson, the emergency response organization’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit was also dispatched to the scene, where they treated eight people suffering from emotional and psychological shock.
Upon hearing of the attack, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Thursday morning, “We are praying for the recovery of the injured soldiers being treated in hospital today. I am confident the forces pursuing the perpetrator will find him soon and bring him to justice. We will not allow despicable terrorism to raise its head and will fight it without compromise.”
Temple Mount Attack
Later on Thursday, an Arab terrorist shot and lightly injured a police officer in an attack at the entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Policemen at the site shot and killed the terrorist.
Emergency medical services stated that they treated a man in his early 20s for light injuries to his shoulder.
MDA paramedic Israel Weingarten said then when they arrived at the scene they found the victim walking and fully conscious after suffering an injury to his arm.
“We put him in an intensive care unit, gave him medical treatment that included bandaging and painkillers, and took him in light and stable condition for continued treatment in the hospital,” he recounted.
The police shut down the Old City area, and specifically the Temple Mount, after unrest began at the holy site.
The attack occurred just hours after the car-ramming attack.
Tensions in Israel have been high in recent days following the publication of the White House’s “Deal of the Century” peace plan, to which the Palestinian Authority reacted with violent opposition.
Member of Knesset Orna Barbevai, a former IDF general, stated after the vehicular attack that the Palestinian Authority is “again mistaken in legitimizing the rising violence with the thought that intentionally setting fire in the streets against Israel will help it.”
She called on PA head Mahmoud Abbas to “take responsibility and reconsider his actions.”
The incident comes amid increased tensions between Israel and Palestinians following U.S. President Donald Trump’s roll-out of his Middle East peace plan last week.
UPDATE:
“Following an extensive operational and intelligence effort, the IDF, working with the Shin Bet, the Israel Police’s special police unit and other special forces, has arrested the terrorist who carried out the ramming attack in the predawn hours of this morning in Jerusalem,” the IDF said in a statement.
According to local media reports, the suspect is a 24-year-old Palestinian man, a flower shop owner from East Jerusalem.
The Temple Mount shooter converted to Islam from Christianity
He was initially believed to be Palestinian, he turned out to be an Arab Israeli citizen from the northern part of the country. According to media reports, the man in his 40s has recently converted to Islam from Christianity, yet no motive has been identified so far.
Third Attack
Israel saw three attacks on its security forces on Thursday. Besides the ramming attack, an Israeli Arab man opened fire on police in Jerusalem’s Old City, lightly injuring one officer before getting gunned down. Apart from that, an IDF military post near the settlement of Dolev came under a drive-by attack that left a soldier injured. The suspect fled the scene and remains at large.
3 foreigners stabbed in tourist hotspot Maldives,
police investigating links to extremism
police investigating links to extremism
FILE PHOTO. Maldives police officers. ©REUTERS / Dinuka Liyanawatte
The incident occurred on Tuesday evening at Hulhumale, the fourth-largest island of the archipelago, according to a police report. The three victims are in stable condition.
Maldives Police✔
@PoliceMv
The investigation of the incident of stabbing that occurred at Hulhumale’ last night is ongoing. We are also checking the validity of a video that is being circulated on the social media claiming to be related to it.
Three people were arrested following the stabbing. Police said the attack was carried out by “suspected extremists” and added that they are investigating a video circulating on social media. Speculation has arisen that the attack was committed by local sympathizers of Islamic State. However, there has not been any official confirmation of this yet.
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@JihadoScope
Authorities in Maldives examining video from purported ISIS cell who claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack on Australian & Chinese nationals. Claim as yet not verified by official Islamic State media but video elements from ISIS templates
A well-known tropical resort, the Maldives archipelago is not particularly known for religious extremism. In 2007, however, a homemade bomb exploded near an Islamic center in the capital, Male, injuring 12 tourists from China, Britain, and Japan. Three men were sentenced to 15 years in jail in connection with the bombing, but the sentences for two of them were suspended a few years later.
Beheadings, kidnappings amid surge in
Mozambique attacks: UN
Armed groups have committed 28 attacks in northern region of the country this year displacing thousands, says the UN.
People are fleeing a surge of attacks in northern Mozambique where witnesses have described beheadings, mass kidnappings and villages burned to the ground, the United Nations has said.
UN officials said armed groups have stepped up assaults in Cabo Delgado province, where a rebellion by a group that espouses its brand of Islam as an antidote to what it describes as a corrupt ruling elite, has killed hundreds since it started in 2017.
Mozambique is about 60% Christian and less than 20% Muslim. I would guess that the Christian contingent will reduce and the Muslim proportion will increase because of the violence by the Religion of Peace.
Displaced villagers have described killings, maiming, torture and destroyed crops, said Andrej Mahecic, the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
"They speak of men in particular being targeted and beheaded, and many, many reports of women and children ... being kidnapped or simply disappearing," he told a briefing in Geneva on Friday.
While some of the attackers appeared to be bandits, Mahecic added that there is "also the element of some of the groups being driven by ideological or other ideas".
"And they have been quite vicious ... in spreading the terror in this part of Mozambique," he said.
The UNHCR said there had been a sharp increase in violence in recent months, and the past weeks had been the most turbulent period since attacks began in October 2017.
In all, 100,000 people have been uprooted by the violence in the last two years, many fleeing to islands with little infrastructure, it said.
"In total, at least 28 attacks were carried out in the province since the beginning of the year," Mahecic said. The violence has spread to nine of the 16 districts in the province, he added.
The fighters in the region called themselves Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama, when they started launching attacks in 2017.
More recently, the ISIL (ISIS) group has claimed responsibility via its media outlets, though there has been no independent confirmation of a link.
Calls for more troops
The northern region of Mozambique is also home to one of the world's biggest recent gas finds, where Exxon Mobil Corp, Total and other companies have set up operations.
In recent days, Exxon and Total have called for more troops to guard their facilities in the north, Reuters news agency reported.
Resources in the northern region of the East African country had been further strained by Cyclone Kenneth in April of last year, which left 160,000 residents in need of aid.
And did they get it from Exxon or Total?
Infrastructure in the region has also been affected by recent floods, which have destroyed bridges.
Cyclone Kenneth struck just six weeks after Cyclone Idai devastated the central region of Mozambique.
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