A new piece for Jamestown looking at a case currently ongoing in the UK against a Bangladeshi chap who may or may not have been in contact with Anwar al-Awlaki. An interesting case, and I have a feeling the fact he confessed to the JMB charges will probably play against him. Al-Awlaki Recruits Bangladeshi Militants [...]
Posts Tagged ‘legal’
Al-Awlaki Recruits Bangladeshi Militants for Strike on the United States
Posted: February 18, 2011 in Terrorism MonitorTags: Anwar al awlaki, AQAP, Bangladesh, counter-terrorism, Jamaat ul Mujahedeen, legal, online extremism, UK, UK terrorism, US terrorism, Yemen
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UK-US Face Problems in Terror Suspect Extradition
Posted: July 20, 2010 in HSTodayTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, legal, legislation, Pakistan, terrorism, UK, US
A new piece for HSToday.us, exploring an issue I believe I have mentioned before, but not in any great detail. Since this was written, it now emerges that a chap who had been listed in the SIAC judgment as being under risk of torture if he was returned to Pakistan, has now in fact returned. [...]
What do we think of CT legislation?
Posted: March 19, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: counter-radicalization, legal, radicalization, terrorism, UK
My latest over at Free Rad!cals, already attracted some remarkably insightful comments. I mean where do they come from? Of course, any thoughts or reactions hugely appreciated, in particular from those at DSTL who produced this. http://icsr.info/blog/What-do-we-think-of-CT-legislation What do we think of CT legislation? View more articles by Raff Pantucci Filed under: Terrorism, UK The UK [...]
Ghost Plane
Posted: March 16, 2010 in Terrorism and Political ViolenceTags: counter-radicalization, legal, legislation, terrorism, US
I have a book review in the latest issue of the Terrorism and Political Violence journal covering Stephen Grey’s fascinating and detailed book Ghost Plane. It is behind a firewall so I cannot simply post it, but as usual if you get in touch I can help out getting a copy probably.. The book is [...]
U.K. Prosecutors Lose a Legal Option in Preventing Terrorism
Posted: February 27, 2010 in Terrorism MonitorTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terror legislation, legal, legislation, online, terrorism, UK
My latest for the Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, looking at a different aspect of the legal problems that the British government is having with some of the cases they are pursuing in the courts. This looks in particular at the case against Mohammed Atif Siddique who was recently released in Scotland, and went on to do [...]
British Hostage Threatened with Death Unless Abu Qatada is Released from British Prison
Posted: May 18, 2009 in Terrorism MonitorTags: legal, prisons, terrorism, UK
My latest for the Jamestown Foundation which somewhat builds on previous work I have done for them about Abu Qatada. For those interested, I would naturally commend you to read my previous post looking at his “Comfortable British Jihad” (http://raffaellopantucci.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/abu-qatadas-comfortable-british-jihad/), and I am sure he will be a topic for future writing given the fact [...]
European Views on the First 100 Days
Posted: May 8, 2009 in HSTodayTags: counter-radicalization, Europe, guantanamo, legal, terrorism, UK, US foreign policy
This is a slightly older piece that I actually missed when it first ran, which I suppose is quite embarrassing. It was originally meant to run in the monthly magazine I write for Homeland Security today (www.hstoday.us), but in the end it got shunted to the website. It is in essence a counter-terrorism perspective from [...]
Appearance is key in tackling terrorism
Posted: May 4, 2009 in GuardianTags: counter-radicalization, legal, terrorism, UK
More for Comment is Free for the Guardian (still burdened with that awful picture) – this time looking at the presentational problems which the British government is having with terrorist trials and cases. It is a problem since it is worrisome how much this is exacerbating a long-term problem – and it is very hard [...]
How to end an extraditions roadblock
Posted: December 28, 2008 in Washington PostTags: guantanamo, legal, terrorism
Another epistolary contribution, this time in the Washington Post in reaction to an article in last week’s paper by Craig Whitlock on “Extradition of Terror Suspects Flounders” – I see they ran it after another letter by someone from Human Rights Watch so maybe I should’ve used my title. My original was a bit longer, [...]
What to do with detainees?
Posted: November 20, 2008 in International Herald TribuneTags: guantanamo, legal
A rather more modest contribution today, in the form of a letter in today’s International Herald Tribune, also since they chose to cut my initial text down, I am using this opportunity to publish the whole thing after the jump for those interested in reading the whole thing. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/opinion/edlet.php (and here is the article I [...]
