By Hui Min NEO BERLIN, April 12, 2024 (AFP) – Police have detained two girls and two boys — all teenagers — in western Germany on suspicion they were planning an Islamist attack, prosecutors said on Friday, with churches or synagogues as possible targets. Three were arrested in North Rhine-Westphalia state, who are “strongly suspected of planning an Islamist-motivated terror attack and of having committed to carrying it out”, Duesseldorf prosecutors said in a statement. […]
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Iran suspected in plot to kill Swedish Jews: report
STOCKHOLM, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – Swedish radio reported Tuesday that an Iranian couple, believed to be working for Iranian intelligence, were deported after being suspected in a plot to kill Swedish Jews. According to an investigative report by Swedish Radio (SR), the couple, Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, had applied for and been granted asylum in Sweden posing as Afghans. Suspected of plotting to kill Swedish Jews, the couple were arrested in April 2021 […]
US issues terror alert over anti-government extremists
by Paul HANDLEY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Department of Homeland Security declared a nationwide terrorism alert Wednesday, citing the potential threat from domestic anti-government extremists opposed to Democrat Joe Biden as president. Extremists “emboldened” by the deadly January 6 assault on Congress by angry supporters of former president Donald Trump could undertake attacks against elected officials and government facilities, the alert said. The warning came as authorities in […]
Two arrested in Germany over mall attack plot: police
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German authorities have arrested two brothers on suspicion of planning an attack on one of the country’s biggest shopping centers, in the western city of Oberhausen, police said Friday. The two men, aged 28 and 31, are originally from Kosovo, police said, four days after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin killing 12 people. Investigators were trying to establish what stage of preparation the plot was […]
