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• EUROPOL: Coordinating the fight against serious and organised crime

  19 November 2008, by House of Lords Select Committee on European Union
  Europol, the European Police Office responsible for coordinating the fight against serious and organised crime, began operations from its headquarters in The Hague in 1999. In January 2010 it will become an agency of the EU. The Council Decision bringing about this change in its constitution has made some amendments to its objects, powers, working methods and governance.

• Spain acquits 14 accused Islamists

  3 November 2008, by News Agencies
  The Spanish Supreme Court overturned convictions against 15 of the 20 men accused of forming an Islamist group plotting to blow up Madrid’s High Court. The ruling found «non-existent the crime of conspiracy to commit a deadly terrorist attack.» Convictions for five of the men were upheld. Thirty suspects were originally arrested four years ago, most of whom were from Algeria and Morocco.

• Arrests during nationwide anti-terror raids

  3 November 2008, by News Agencies
  Spanish police arrested 13 men accused of harboring Islamic extremists, including several suspected of having connections to the 2004 Madrid bombings, and helping them flee Spain. The arrests were made in areas near Barcelona, Madrid, and Algeciras. The recent arrests stemmed from an operation three years ago, in 2005, in which Spanish police broke up a cell that allegedly recruited people for suicide attacks against US-led forces in Iraq. At least eight of the detained are of Moroccan origin; details about the others have not been provided

• UK suspect ’key al-Qaeda member’

  3 November 2008, by BBC
  A British Muslim man was an important member of al-Qaeda with a terrorist contacts book that had sections written in invisible ink, a court has heard. Rangzieb Ahmed, 33, of Manchester, denies directing terrorism and being a member of al-Qaeda. The prosecution at Manchester Crown Court alleged he was assisted by Habib Ahmed, 28, a city taxi driver.

• Two doctors face car-bomb terror trial in London

  31 October 2008, by Associated Press
  Two doctors charged with trying to bomb a Glasgow airport and London’s West End will be portrayed by prosecutors as terrorists in thrall to a fundamental form of Islam, a jury in London heard Wednesday. Justice Colin Mackay also instructed jurors to set aside their prejudices and prepare for «an interesting case.» Bilal Abdulla, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 28, have been in jail awaiting trial since the abortive June 2007 attacks.

• U.K. Tries to Thwart Al-Qaeda Recruitment in Schools

  30 October 2008, by Bloomberg
  The U.K. government said schools in England must do more to prevent violent extremists and terrorist groups including al-Qaeda from recruiting students, and issued guidelines on how to combat the threat.

• GERMAN TERROR ARRESTS: From the Rhine River to the Jihad

  29 October 2008, by Spiegel Online
  The arrest of two Muslim extremists at the Cologne-Bonn airport last week shows that German converts continue to volunteer for the jihad. Investigators fear that some are on their way back now that they’ve received training. It was Friday morning, shortly before 7:00 a.m., and all passengers had boarded KLM flight 1804 at the Cologne-Bonn airport. The small Fokker 50 was ready for takeoff. This particular Friday was a special day for devout Muslims, being one of the last days of the holy month of Ramadan.

• Manual outlines Muslim radicalization in prisons

  29 October 2008, by Associated Press
  Security officials from several European countries have developed a manual to help prison authorities prevent their jailhouses from becoming incubators for Muslim extremists. The manual, developed by France, Germany and Austria, includes signs that may indicate that a prisoner was becoming radicalized, including the presence of a growing beard. A prison group feared the manual could stigmatize Muslim inmates. The document was distributed at a two-day closed-door conference of European security experts that ended Wednesday. It will be given to prison personnel.

• Muslim fanatic prisoners to be ’de-programmed’ using controversial techniques to ’cure’ them of beliefs

  29 October 2008, by Mail on Sunday
  Psychologists in the Prison Service will try to ‘cure’ extremist Muslim inmates of their political beliefs with controversial therapies similar to those used to ‘de-programme’ members of religious cults

• 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

• « Bâtir une Europe de l’asile » : à quel prix ?

  21 octobre 2008, par Coordination française pour le droit d’asile (CFDA)
  Au moment où les chefs d’État et de gouvernement de l’Union européenne, réunis à Paris les 15 et 16 octobre, viennent d’adopter le Pacte européen pour l’asile et l’immigration proposé par la présidence française, la CFDA (Coordination française pour le droit d’asile) rend publiques ses préoccupations à propos de l’évolution de la situation de l’asile en Europe dans une note intitulée « Bâtir une Europe de l’asile » : à quel prix ?

• Germany Arrests 2 Suspected in Terror Plot

  8 October 2008, by Washington Post
  German police arrested two men near Frankfurt on terrorism charges Friday, alleging they were involved in a cell that had plotted to blow up U.S. targets in Germany a year ago.

• Germans raid plane, arrest 2 terror suspects

  8 October 2008, by PR Inside
  Armed police officers boarded a jet just minutes before takeoff Friday and arrested a pair of ethnic Somalis, saying they found a suicide note from the men that claimed the pair wanted to fight in a holy war and die in a terrorist attack. A 23-year-old Somali and a 24-year-old German born in Somalia boarded the KLM Flight 1084 without incident after the surprise early morning raid at Cologne-Bonn Airport, police said. Police said authorities did not think the men planned to hijack the plane.

• Germany on alert for 2 terror suspects

  8 October 2008, by Associated Press
  German authorities are searching for two men linked to a group of terrorist suspects whose alleged plot to blow up American targets in Germany was foiled in 2007.

• German commandos arrest two terror suspects on aircraft: police

  8 October 2008, by AFP
  German police commandos arrested two Somali-born terror suspects on a KLM aircraft Friday who media reports said had links to a group behind a foiled 2007 plot to attack US interests. Security forces boarded the Amsterdam-bound plane with 48 passengers on board at Cologne-Bonn at 6:55 am (0455 GMT) and took a 23-year-old Somali and a 24-year-old German citizen of Somali origin into custody, police spokesman Frank Scheulen said.

• Dutch court extends prison for 4 terror plotters

  8 October 2008, by News Agencies
  The Hague appeals court re-convicted four Dutch nationals of Moroccan descent for plotting attacks on Dutch politicians, and convicted them of the additional charge of membership in a terrorist organization. Both defendants and prosecutors appealed the original 2006 ruling – the defendants asking for acquittal, and the prosecutors sought stricter sentences.

• The last peace process in the basque country: 14 months of hope

  6 October 2008, by Forero Alejandro, Rivera Iñaki, Rodríguez Fernandez Gabriela, Ubasart Gemma
  The present work shows the genesis and development of the last peace process that took place in the Basque Country from March, 2007, in the frame of antiterrorist excepcionalism. The paper focus on the origins of the Basque conflict - outlining the history of the movement ETA- and in the influence that both the diverse actors and a part of the Spanish written press (the newspapers El País, El Mundo and Gara) have had in the development of the events.

• TABLES RONDES INTERNATIONALES CHALLENGE : Contrôles extra-territoriaux et démocratie, 9 octobre 2008

  29 septembre 2008, par Challenge French Team
  Logiques de collaboration anti-terroriste, technologies de sécurité et protection des données au delà des frontières

• CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLES : Extraterritorial controls and democracy - October 9, 2008

  29 September 2008, by Challenge French Team
  Antiterrorism collaboration logics, Security technologies and Data protection beyond borders

• Judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-402/05 P and C-415/05 P : Yassin Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission

  22 September 2008, by Court of Justice of the European Communities
  Setting aside the judgments of the Court of First Instance, the Court rules that the Community judicature has jurisdiction to review measures adopted by the Community giving effect to resolutions of the Security Council of the United Nations. In exercising that jurisdiction, it considers that the regulation infringes Mr Kadi and Al Barakaat’s fundamental rights under Community law

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