Author: Database Desk

On the evening of 26 July 2008, 16 explosives, many of which were set up with timers on bikes around Ahmedabad, were detonated simultaneously or very near to it. Two car bombs exploded outside of two hospitals, the others exploded approximately 20 minutes earlier in

Two of the arrests took place in Barcelona, in Catalonia. The men are Sid Ali Taukoucht, born on August 19, 1968 in Pallat, Algeria, and Abdelghani Himmouri, born on Jun 27, 1979 in Becha, Algeria. The wife of Taukoucht was also arrested at first, but

The trend towards increased terrorist financing through legitimate companies and registered charities presents a difficult challenge for law enforcement agencies wishing to curb the logistical infrastructure of terrorist organizations. The recent CSNZ Memo earding growing financing trends in New Zealand accurately warns of the dangers

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported on June 27th, 2008 that the prosecutor of the Jordan Security Court (SSC) has charged three men with plotting suicide attacks on a church and security premises in Amman in early 2008. Two suspects, Majed Qatanani, 22, and Ali Abu Arab,

On 24 July 2008 the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the New South Wales (NSW) police force raided the office of the Muslim Aid Australia (MAA) located in Lakemba, Sydney, home to a majority of Sydney’s Muslim community. During the seven-hour raid of the office

In June of 2008 the United States government accused two Venezuelan men, both of Lebanese decent, of maintaining ties with the terrorist organization Hezbollah. This is not the first time government officials and citizens of Venezuela have been found to engage in business with militants,

The international media reported on the 9th of August, 2008 that police in Bologna say they arrested four Tunisians and a Moroccan and are seeking a sixth man. They were investigating an alleged international terrorist ring, which they say recruited suicide bombers for Iraq and

The aftermath of the 12th of February, 2008 assassination of Hezbollah’s Imad Mughniyeh – which Hezbollah attributed to Israel – has seen a string of warnings about increased Hezbollah activity worldwide. Israeli intelligence experts increasingly think Hezbollah is determined to attack an Israeli target –