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    Default How Lee Rigby’s murder changed the face of terror

    A long article reflecting on Fusilier Rigby's murder (run down by a car and knifed / axed) nearly five years ago by Raffaello Pantucci, of RUSI and sub-titled:
    The murder of Lee Rigby five years ago ushered in a wave of ‘easy’ extremist violence. But will such random acts result in radical Islam losing its malign ideological power?
    Link:https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...urder-woolwich
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    A British teenager was convicted Monday of plotting a grenade attack on the British Museum after failing in her ambition to become a jihadi bride in Syria.

    Safaa Boular, 18, of London was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism. Her mother and sister admitted helping her, making the case Britain’s first involving an all-female cell of Islamic state-inspired plotters.

    Boular plotted a grenade and gun attack in messages exchanged with her ISIS lover, who she hoped to marry before he was killed in 2017, prosecutors said. Boular “bonded” with her lover over their favorite show “Deal of No Deal” and the couple discussed how they’d kill former President Obama.
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06...er-sister.html
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    A canter down some dark defile
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    There are two UK extensive articles on this trial, where the sentences have not been given yet. The BBC:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44359958 and The Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...le-terror-cell

    As one SME remarked:
    Much has been written about the power of Isis’s tactics to attract young recruits to Syria. According to Dr Joana Cook, a senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King’s College London, this case reflects a trend largely unique to Isis – the involvement of young women. “When we see younger women involved in terrorist organisations, there’s automatically a general assumption that they are groomed,” Cook told the Guardian. “For some cases this very well may be correct. But there’s also a tendency in analysing cases like this to not recognise the agency and independent choice that some women may have to become involved in plots like this, or to engage and reach out to actors that might facilitate it.”
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    Default UK CT strategy: a new version and more

    Last week the UK government published an updated edition of 'Operation Contest', along with attendant publicity and with some new legislation being presented to Parliament.

    The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid (IIRC a non-practicing Muslim), placed an emphasis in his speech on:
    Ultimately, our approach is about ensuring that there are no safe spaces for terrorists...First, we will work to disrupt threats earlier and we are bringing forward new legislation to enable us to do that.WeÂ’ll intervene earlier in investigations.....Fourth, we will work more closely with key partners outside of central government. We are piloting new multi-agency centres in London, Manchester and the West Midlands, to bring together the widest range of partners and improve our understanding of those at risk of becoming involved in terrorism. No government can say it will be possible to stop every single attack before it happens.This is the reality.
    Link:http://https://www.gov.uk/government...orism-strategy

    One London-based writer was very critical:
    Javid is now in danger of capitulating to terrorismÂ’s prime goal, which is to undermine the liberties and dignities of the state. Britain is utterly obsessed with terrorism....We must be educated to accept a balance of risk. Terrorists aim to change our way of life. They want to show our much-vaunted freedoms and tolerances to be a sham. The one thing not to do is suggest they might be right. That is what Javid is doing today.
    Link:http://https://www.theguardian.com/c...itain-freedom?

    In response to the new legislation Liberty, a human rights NGO, has issued a briefing.
    Link:https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.u...ll%20FINAL.pdf

    In one parliamentary debate the Security Minister (a former Army officer who served in Northern Ireland) stated that "400 fighters had returned from the Middle East, only 10% have been prosecuted".

    Yesterday the UK's top police officer responsible for CT issued a statement:
    In the year to March 2018, 441 arrests were made, compared to 378 in the preceding year, marking a 17 per cent increase.
    Link:http://http://news.met.police.uk/new...st-year-310599

    The police statement refers to the published figures and with my emphasis:
    143 (32%) resulted in a charge, of which 114 (80%) were terrorism-related and 250 (57%) were released without charge. Individuals can be detained for up to 14 days (solitary confinement) under the Terrorism Act. There were 156 detentions in 2017, only 52 of which led to a charge.
    Link:https://assets.publishing.service.go...8-hosb0918.pdf
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    Default Mother and daughter jailed for terror plot

    An update on posts 239 & 240 and the title comes from a BBC report:
    A mother and daughter, who were part of the UK's first all-female terror cell, have been jailed over a planned knife attack near the Houses of Parliament. Rizlaine Boular, 22, who was going to carry out the attack, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 16 years. Her mother, Mina Dich, 44, has been given six years and nine months at the Old Bailey for helping her daughter. The pair pleaded guilty to the preparation of terrorist acts.
    Two others will be sentenced later (a sister and a male).
    Link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44496433

    A slightly more detailed report, which mentions:
    The plot was foiled by counter-terrorism police and MI5 agents, who bugged the family home, recorded phone conversations and posed online as Islamic State operatives.
    Link:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...on-knife-plot?
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    Default The Black Country bomber: an update

    Ho hum too close to his former home:
    A car mechanic from the West Midlands who became a master bomb maker for Isis is the reason for America’s laptop ban on flights, a former MI6 spy has revealed. Hamayun Tariq, 41, from Dudley, twice evaded the UK authorities to travel abroad where he is believed to have helped create bombs that could be disguised as laptop batteries and taken on planes. He is now feared to be adapting drones to strike football stadiums and other crowded venues.

    Described as a “psychopath”, Tariq is thought to be the most accomplished terrorist bomber to emerge from Britain. The disclosures come from Aimen Dean, a former al-Qaeda explosives expert recruited by MI6 and MI5 to infiltrate UK jihadist circles.
    Link:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/u...hts-kchj3mqcf?


    Post 142 on pg.8 is an earlier reference to his appearance.
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    Default When all the jigsaw pieces come together

    From the BBC News a pre-sentencing report on a Jihadist attacker:
    Khalid Ali was carrying three knives when he was tackled by armed officers near Downing Street in April 2017 - and was just moments from being able to attack police, politicians or military personnel. But unknown to him, clues picked up from bomb parts recovered from Afghanistan more than four years earlier meant that police were watching his every move....Ali's mother - concerned by his behaviour - went to his room and found four knives, which she took to a different part of the house....On his return an argument broke out when Ali realised the knives were missing. His mother called the police.
    Link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44570128
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