The president of Nigeria has declared a state of emergency in three of the country’s states after assaults from Islamic terrorists.
President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the military to be sent to Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states to take “all necessary action” to eliminate the terrorist threat in the region. Continue reading
A Saudi Arabian man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with an altered passport and a pressure cooker.
The man lied during questioning by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker he was carrying into the country. A pressure cooker was a key component in the Boston Marathon bombings. Continue reading
An Iranian national was convicted of smuggling arms into Nigeria in violation of international regulations against Iran shipping arms. Continue reading
A Tunisian national who met with one of the men arrested for plotting to bomb a Canadian train has been arrested in New York on visa fraud charges.
Ahmed Abassi is believed to have helped radicalize Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two men charged in Canada with conspiracy to carry out an attack and kill people. The indictment against Abassi alleges that he then came from Canada to obtain a U.S. work visa to “facilitate an act of international terrorism.” Continue reading
A magazine called “Al Qaeda Airlines” has surfaced on the internet and is filled with how-to guides on conducting terrorist attacks like the Boston Marathon bombing.
The 676-page “magazine” aims to encourage “lone wolf” terrorist attacks like the Boston bombing. Various stories tell the reader how to create homemade weapons of mass casualties like pressure-cooker bombs. Continue reading
A Coast Guard admiral told a gathering of Christians that within the U.S. military people of faith are being told to stay quiet.
“This is not a Christian issue,” Rear Admiral William Lee said. “It is not a Jewish issue or a Muslim issue or a Hindu issue. This is an American issue.” Continue reading
A 24-year-old Minnesota man was arrested by federal agents after he was found to be planning a terrorist attack.
Buford Rogers was arrested on Friday on a charge of being a convict in possession of a firearm. Continue reading
The government of Syria is accusing Israel of working with a group that has called for the deaths of all Jews in a bombing raid against Syrian military targets.
The Syrian foreign ministry said that Israel was working with the al-Qaeda affiliated group al-Nusra. Continue reading
Seven NATO forces have died in two attacks over the weekend according to a NATO spokesman.
The deaths come as the Taliban has announced their “spring offensive” against in an attempt to undermine the current Afghani government as NATO begins to remove troops. The Afghani military is expected to be given total control in 2014.
About 100,000 troops are still in the country. Continue reading
Two Iranian men have been found guilty of plotting terrorist attacks against Western government facilities in Kenya.
Ahmed Mohammed and Sayed Mansour were arrested in Nairobi, Kenya last June with 33 pounds of explosives. The men were found to have connections to an Islamic terror group that planned to blow up British, U.S. and Israeli targets.
Both men deny the charges but a judge said they have been “proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt of all terror-related charges.” Prosecutors said the men had the explosives “in circumstances that indicated they were armed with the intent to commit a felony, namely, acts intended to cause grievous harm.”
The men arrived in Kenya on June 12, 2012 and traveled to the port city of Mombasa to obtain RDX, a powerful explosive significantly stronger than TNT and considered one of the most powerful explosives in the United States’ military arsenal. After their arrest a week later in the capital of Nairobi, their explosives were found hidden at a golf course outside of Mombasa.
Police say the men have an accomplice that has not yet been apprehended by authorities and could be trying to arrange for alternate attacks. The terror group is suspected of bringing more than 190 pounds of RDX into the country for terrorist bombing attacks.
Both Mohammed and Mansour face up to 15 years in prison.
