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• 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

• ‘War on terror’ moves into cyberspace

  3 November 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  Britain’s security agencies are fighting a covert war in cyberspace against extremist internet sites as part of a new anti-terrorist strategy, senior Whitehall officials revealed this week. The scheme is part of measures being introduced at a time when the threat level is described as being «at the severe end of severe», with, officials say, extremist groups determinedly attempting new attacks. As well running its own sites, the Government gives material support to groups that monitor and combat jihadist material on the web in an attempt to prevent indoctrination of young Muslims.

• 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

• Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police raids Paedophile websites are being used to pass information between terrorists

  29 October 2008, by Times Online
  A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain. Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists.

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