CAIRO – With violence engulfing Cairo over the weekend, the Egyptian military never took its eye off of the northern Sinai Peninsula, 300 kilometres to the northeast. It’s a lawless, angry place, and […]
terrorism
“Dutch Breivik” arrested
A 23-year-old Dutchman was arrested in the Belgian town of Sint-Niklaas on Nov. 13 on suspicion of plotting terror attacks on Flemish state television and political targets. Øyvind Strømmen The man, whose name […]
Neo-Nazi plot on Schröder?
The German terrorist trio known as the National Socialist Underground (NSU) may have plotted the assassination of Gerhard Schröder, then the German chancellor, in 2002. (more…)
Boston bombers’ reading list
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, downloaded and read variety of literature held in high regard by extreme Islamists before the Boston bombings. The indictment against Tsnarnaev – whose […]
“Heathen” zealot held in France
The Norwegian right-wing extremist Varg Vikernes, a musician and devotee of Old Norse tradition, was detained in France on Tuesday morning on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, though no charges have been […]