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• 6th CHALLENGE Training School : Internal & External Insecurities: The EU’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy and International Cooperation

  28 October 2008, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  The Centre of European Policy Studies (CEPS) is pleased to invite you to the 6th CHALLENGE Training School on « Internal & External Insecurities: The EU’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy and International Cooperation ». The event will take place at CEPS during the 6 and 7 November 2008

• PROPOSITION DE LOI visant à prolonger l’application des articles 3, 6 et 9 de la loi n° 2006-64 du 23 janvier 2006 relative à la lutte contre le terrorisme et portant dispositions diverses relatives à la sécurité et aux contrôles frontaliers

  28 octobre 2008, par Haenel Hubert, Sénat
  La loi n° 2006-64 du 23 janvier 2006 relative à la lutte contre le terrorisme et portant dispositions diverses relatives à la sécurité et aux contrôles frontaliers (LAT) apporte la réponse la plus opérationnelle possible à la menace terroriste, tant dans le domaine de la prévention qu’en matière de répression des actes de terrorisme. Elle vise également à contribuer à l’efficacité du dispositif de sécurité afin de concourir à la préservation de l’ordre public et à l’amélioration des contrôles frontaliers. Elle comporte donc, à ce titre, certaines dispositions qui concernent la police administrative et d’autres, la répression des actes du terrorisme.

• Security and Human Rights, Counter-terrorism and the United Nations

  22 September 2008, by Amnesty International
  In this brief, Amnesty International considers the impact of terrorism on human rights, examines UN work on counter-terrorism, notably of the Security Council, and conducts a brief review of the type of human rights violations committed in the pursuit of counter-terrorism measures, citing a range of country examples from every region of the world.

• Au nom du 11 septembre... Les démocraties à l’épreuve de l’antiterrorisme

  9 septembre 2008, par Bigo Didier, Bonelli Laurent, Deltombe Thomas
  Depuis les années 1990, et surtout depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, les États-Unis et les États de l’Union européenne ont multiplié les initiatives pour répondre aux menaces du « terrorisme islamiste » : durcissement des législations, renforcement de la coopération antiterroriste internationale, actions ouvertes ou clandestines violant souvent le droit international. Et les effets de sidération produits par des attentats spectaculaires et meurtriers ont largement inhibé l’attention critique des citoyens face aux autres menaces que la plupart de ces initiatives font peser sur les démocraties.

• Call for Papers : Internal and External Insecurities: The EU’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy and International Cooperation

  8 September 2008, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  The Centre of European Policy Studies (CEPS) is organising the Sixth CHALLENGE Training School on « Internal and External Insecurities: The EU’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy and International Cooperation ». The event will take place at CEPS on the 6 & 7 November 2008. You may find below the detailed Call for Papers.

• Preempting Justice : Counterterrorism laws and procedures procedures in France

  11 August 2008, by Human Rights Watch
  The report looks at how France uses a vaguely defined ‘terrorism association offense’ to arrest large numbers of people based on minimal evidence. Human Rights Watch documented credible allegations that terrorism suspects are subjected to oppressive questioning in police custody, linked to a policy that delays a suspect’s access to a lawyer.

• THE EU’S MATURE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY – A CRITICAL HISTORICAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT

  8 July 2008, by Bossong Raphael
  This paper takes stock of the EU’s response to international terrorism since 9/11. The first part provides a summary historical overview, which highlights the event-driven and contingent development of the EU’s counterterrorism policy. The second part presents a critical assessment of policy outcomes according to the objectives set out in the EU’s Counterterrorism Strategy. Measures ‘to pursue’, and ‘to protect’ against, terrorists seem to have grown substantially. In practice, however, they are undercut by a lack of focus and use at the operational level.

• Development v. Terrorism — migrant remittances or terrorist financing?

  8 July 2008, by Vlcek William
  This paper discusses recent developments in the campaign to combat terrorist financing in Europe and the intersection of these with the flow of migrant remittances from the Members States of the European Union to Third Countries. New regimes of control within the European Union (EU) towards migration affect more than just those seeking entry to Europe. Migrants frequently leave behind families that they expect to support from their earnings once they secure employment at their final destination.

• Counter terrorism chief praises Scottish approach

  2 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  SNP Home Affairs spokesperson, Pete Wishart MP, has welcomed comments by the Director-General of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism praising Scotland’s community cohesion and ability to prevent young people becoming radicalised and joining terror groups. In an interview, Charles Farr, said: «I think the nature of communities in Scotland is discernibly different from the nature of communities south of the border. You have an ability to reach in and develop a strategy of this kind.»

• More money invested to tackle radicalisation

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  New guidance to help and support local authorities, schools, community groups and the police in tackling violent extremism and prevent radicalisation in communities was launched on Tuesday by the government. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls rolled out their counter terrorism strategy which hopes to prevent people getting involved with violent extremism.

• Terror law to allow 42-day detention opposed by MPs

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  The government is unveiling a major new package of a counter-terrorism laws, a plan that gives the right to detain terrorist suspects for upto 42 days without charge. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is understood to have outlined concessions and appealed to MPs not to inflict further damage on the Government after a series of election disasters and policy U-turns. Under long-awaited changes to the Counter-Terrorism Bill, Home Secretary Miss Smith revealed the power to detain suspects without charge would only be used in the face of a «grave, exceptional terrorist threat» to Britain.

• UK terror suspect says bomb plans were stunt

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  A man has denied leading a plot to cause mass murder by blowing planes out of the sky with the excuse that he had meant instead to explode small devices inside the Houses of Parliament as part of a publicity stunt. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, said that suicide videos which the prosecution claims prove a plot to bomb seven planes flying to North America were in fact made as part of a «propaganda» documentary planned for release after the small explosions in Westminster.

• London bombs home-made from pharmacy ingredients

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  Explosives found by detectives investigating the London bombings were home-made using ingredients that can be found in high street chemists. The highly volatile explosive - acetone peroxide - has been discovered in a house in Leeds thought to have been used as a bomb-making factory. The discovery has raised fears of other British fanatics making their own explosives and following the example of the London suicide bombers.

• Islamic fanatics are openly using the internet to recruit children in Britain, says Civitas

  1 July 2008, by Mail on Sunday
  Islamic extremists in Britain are openly trying to recruit children via the internet, a report warns.

• Report: Berlin fears German being groomed as suicide bomber

  1 July 2008, by Earth Times
  Police fear that a convert, Eric B, 20, is being groomed by Jihadists to become the first German suicide bomber, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. German police had lost track of B several weeks ago in the wilds in or near Afghanistan, where he was in training with Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an Uzbek-origin terrorist group regarded as just as threatening as Arab-based al-Qaeda.

• Denmark: Three Muslims attacked after embassy bombing in Pakistan

  30 June 2008, by 24 Timer
  Former spokesperson of the Islamic Faith Society (ISF) Kasem Said Ahmed was attacked on his way to work, shortly after the attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was announced in the Danish media. The attack occurred in Copenhagen, and Ahmed said he was punched in the face after being asked if he was an imam.

• Islamist Angst: How Germany Is Dismantling Civil Rights amid Terror Fears

  30 June 2008, by Spiegel Online
  Germany has so far been spared a bloody Islamist terror attack. But it only took two planned attacks in Germany to persuade a majority of the population to support a massive dismantling of civil rights.

• Spain arrests two on militant recruitment suspicion

  30 June 2008, by News Agencies
  Police in Barcelona arrested two people on Tuesday on suspicion of recruiting Muslims to fight for militant groups, news agency EFE reported. The report said they were not connected to 11 other Islamist militants who a Spanish court charged on Thursday with offences related to suicide bomb plots in the Spanish city and Germany.

• Norway: Bhatti acquitted of terrorism, convicted on other charges

  30 June 2008, by Aftenposten
  Norway’s first terrorism trial ended with the acquittal of Arfan Bhatti, who was charged with firing shots at a synagogue in Oslo, and planning attacks on embassies. His alleged accomplices were also acquitted, but Bhatti was convicted for other shootings and attempted murder. Instead of terrorism, Bhatti was essentially convicted of vandalism instead - though some viewed his verbal threats, thoughts, and ideas conveyed by cellphone as frightening.

• Eight Algerians arrested on terrorism charges

  25 June 2008, by Expatica
  Eight Algerians were arrested on charges related to terrorism, and are believed to have ties to a cell spreading propaganda, recruiting volunteers, and engages in the lending of economic and logistical support for groups forming part of the ‘Islamic Maghreb’ - a North African branch of al-Qaeda.

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