A short piece for HSToday highlighting the apparent role of Kashmiri terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed as a connector for Westerners seeking jihad. I realize now that I didn’t highlight some of the other plots in which they have appeared – for example, the network around Aabid Khan and some previous American plots. None of this is [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Western Appeal
Posted: December 29, 2009 in HSTodayTags: al muhajiroun, jaish e mohammed, Pakistan, terrorism, UK, US
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Somalia’s foreign legions
Posted: December 16, 2009 in Free Rad!calsTags: denmark, Europe, Italy, shabab, Somalia, terrorism
My latest for FreeRadicals about Shabaab its European recruits. The links at the end don’t work, but you can find the articles referred to elsewhere on this blog. Am planning more on this topic in the near future, so watch this space… http://icsr.info/blog/Somalias-foreign-legions Somalia’s foreign legions View more articles by Raff Pantucci Filed under: Radicalisation, Somalia, [...]
Airlines Plot “Backroom Boys” guilty
Posted: December 11, 2009 in Free Rad!calsTags: Pakistan, terrorism, UK, US
More for Free Radicals on the Airlines Plot from August 2006, following the conviction of three more this week. This also is not quite the end yet of this plot though, still another retrial to go.. http://icsr.info/blog/Airlines-Plot-Backroom-Boys-guilty Airlines Plot “Backroom Boys” guilty View more articles by Raff Pantucci Filed under: Radicalisation, Terrorism, UK The conclusion [...]
Heartland
Posted: December 4, 2009 in Free Rad!calsTags: book review, far right, guantanamo, terrorism, UK
Busy day today. Here is a second post, this time for FreeRad!cals, providing a book review of a rather fun piece of fiction I just finished. I used to read so much more fiction… http://icsr.info/blog/Heartland Heartland Filed under: Radicalisation, Terrorism, UK I’ve just had the pleasure of finishing reading Heartland by Anthony Cartwright. It is [...]
American Jihad
Posted: December 4, 2009 in Terrorism MonitorTags: radicalization, shabab, Somalia, terrorism, US
My latest for Jamestown, this time looking at the new revelations around the group in Minneapolis (and interestingly a parallel group that appears to be popping up in Canada). Am still trying to track down some of the court documents, so if anyone comes across any more, I would be hugely appreciative. http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35797 American Jihad: [...]
My latest on Free Radicals about the recently released report into Operation Pathway, back having difficulty with hyperlinking, so if you want to read the linked up version: http://icsr.info/blog/Pathway-to-what Pathway to what? Filed under: UK, Operation Pathway Much of the media attention into the publication of Lord Carlile’s review of the dramatic arrests back on [...]
