#terrorism

#terrorism

Instead of building a better life for the Palestinians, Hamas diverted resources to build over 400 miles of tunnels and terror infrastructure, rocket production facilities, and hid their military command posts and launch sites in hospitals, schools, and mosques. So if you went after them, you'd be after them, and you wouldn't even realize you ended up knocking out a hospital or school or a mosque. That's a terrible thing. Terrible, terrible way to have to fight. No fight is good, but that's a real bad one.

He called the ICE employees, people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck. He wrote that he intended to maximize lethality against ICE personnel, and to maximize property damage at the facility. He hoped to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the detainees and any other innocent people. It seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees, or harm them. It's clear from these notes that he was targeting ICE agents and ICE personnel.

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You know, 96% of attackers when you're looking at the US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center, looking at 172 mass attacks in the US between 2016 and 2020 96% were non-trans men, Keilar said. So I know you're focusing on this shooter being trans. The shooter was trans and that is certainly of note. But are you missing the bigger picture here when you zero in on that instead of more broadly these school shooters as an epidemic and you perhaps miss the through line that connects them all?

Talland managed his children's band, Embers of an Empire, and was a leading figure of the Blood & Honour neo-Nazi network which promoted their ideology through music festivals and the sale of merchandise for white power rock bands, counter terrorism police said. He also ran a record label, Rampage Productions, which distributed CDs by neo-Nazi groups. The albums encouraged right-wing terrorism with songs calling for people to join the fight against race mixers, to let the blood flow and smash heads in,

"There's nothing but hatred and contempt. There can't be forgiveness for such an act of evil. I really, truly don't believe that. I think forgiveness is something that you earn. Forgiveness is something that you would be genuinely sorry for what's happened. "I believe if he hadn't have killed himself, he'd have gone on to do it again. And I looked at that man in the face before he detonated that bomb and there was no hesitation."

A teenager who listed Hitler, Mussolini and the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik as his inspirations and who planned a terrorist attack on a mosque has been sentenced to 10 years in custody. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named because of his age, had intended to set fire to an Islamic centre in Greenock, Inverclyde, after befriending the imam and mapping out the building's interior on his phone.

We have reported Sally Rooney to the Terrorism Police is the type of thing you'd imagine reading on Twitter in 2020, hours after the Hulu and BBC adaptation of Normal People dropped and everyone was reckoning with Paul Mescal's thighs for the first time.

The gang, which Canadian officials accuse of working for India, has claimed responsibility for multiple recent murders in the South Asian community.

Marighella believed terrorism was a tool for the oppressed, allowing the working class to assert their marginal status against the dictatorship's power.

Gena Heraty has been abducted in a Haitian town besieged by a criminal group deemed a foreign terror organization by the US government. No demands or suspects have been identified.

Three gunmen were killed in clashes with security forces who responded to the attack, according to Iran's state news agency.

Michael Gann, a Long Island man, was arrested for attempting to blow up homemade explosives around Manhattan, including one device placed on a subway track.

"There is a gap in the law around the planning of mass attacks that can be just as serious [as terrorism] in their implications for communities, their impact, the devastation that they can cause and the seriousness of the crime."

The list separated people broadly into two categories - those he considered undercover police officers and others as race traitors, a jury heard.

The report found that Prevent suffered from a long string of failings while trying to deradicalise the man who later assassinated Sir David Amess. Much blame is attributed to poor judgment and lack of communication regarding the assessment and mentoring process.

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 70, was convicted for a pair of bombings in Israel she helped execute in 1969 - one at a Supersol supermarket that killed two college students and a second at the British Consulate in the country.

This Canadian cell shows all the hallmarks of being inspired by US-style right-wing militia groups, with their embrace of accelerationism, their radical anti-authority pose, and their desire to build followers by offering self-contained base camps, access to weaponry, and military-style training.

Alfie Coleman, arrested in an MI5 sting, admitted possessing firearms and documents useful to terrorism but denied preparing an attack.