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☆ How ISIS has Europe and the US in sights after deadly Moscow attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Tim Lister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

ISIS claimed responsibility for the Moscow attack. Maxim Shemetov/ReutersHe regards the Moscow attack as a “breakthrough success” for the group, demonstrating a level of planning not previously seen beyond south Asia. Russia’s support for authoritarian regimes in central Asia – which ISIS-K has described as Russia’s “puppets” – has deepened the animus. The attitude of the Russian government, both pre- and post- the Moscow attack, may not help it confront the threat. For ISIS-K, the Moscow attack is a coup.

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☆ Fact Check: UK parliament paint attack was from environment protest in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Footage from September 2022 showing white paint sprayed on fences around the UK’s parliament has been falsely suggested online to be linked to rallies in 2023 calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza strip. On Nov. 15, a post on messaging platform X (archived), formerly known as Twitter, shared the video of parliament painted white with the caption: “Big Ben - Jihadis attack Big Ben with paint. Khans Met standing around.”A Facebook post (archived) from the same day sharing a screenshot of the video read: “Oh look more trouble and big Ben painted white. News outlets reported on the incident at the time and said the Metropolitan Police arrested ten people. The video dates to 2022 and is unrelated to the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

Persons: Ben, Big, Read Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, Twitter, Metropolitan Police, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, London, Palestinian, Israel

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — New fighting erupted between the Malian military and armed rebel groups in an area south of Kidal late Friday, with both sides claiming to control the town of Anefis as night fell. The violence is the latest in a string of increasing attacks by the rebels, known as the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development (CSP-PSD). Political Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesThe 2015 peace deal called for the ex-rebels to be integrated into the national military among other things. Former colonizer France, which led a 2013 military intervention to oust jihadis from power, has since moved its forces outside Mali. Since the peacekeepers completed the first phase of their withdrawal in August, attacks in northern Mali have more than doubled.

Persons: Wagner, “, Staff Gal, Oumar Diarra, Assifmi Goita, jihadis Organizations: Malian, Peace, Security, Development, Analysts, Staff, Islamic, colonizer Locations: BAMAKO, Mali, Kidal, Anefis, Malian, Azawad, West, colonizer France

☆ Opinion | The Deluge Facing Africa’s Leaders Is Going to Get Worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Alex De Waal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

An uninterrupted swath of African countries from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea is now under military rule. Some of the putschists deposed elected leaders, like Niger’s president, Mohamed Bazoum. Others forestalled elections or even overthrew the leaders they had installed. Throughout much of Africa, citizens also overwhelmingly want democracy, but they get frustrated when elected leaders don’t deliver. When people do welcome a coup, it’s often because they see it as the path to a better elected government.

Persons: Mohamed Bazoum, Russia’s Wagner, can’t, don’t, it’s Organizations: African, Russia’s Wagner Group Locations: Mali, Guinea, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Niger, Washington, Brussels, London, Addis Ababa, African Union, Moscow, Africa

☆ Does Israel Need So Much Aid? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One sign of changed times: Almost a quarter of Israel’s arms exports last year went to Arab states. Aid to Israel is now almost exclusively military assistance that can be used only to buy American weaponry. In reality, it’s not so much aid to Israel as it is a backdoor subsidy to American military contractors, which is one reason some Israelis are cool to it. “Israel should give up on the American aid,” Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli minister of justice, told me. “Israel’s economy is strong enough that it does not need aid; security assistance distorts Israel’s economy and creates a false sense of dependency,” Kurtzer said in an email.

Persons: it’s, “, ” Yossi Beilin, Daniel Kurtzer, ” Kurtzer, Israel, ” Organizations: jihadis Locations: Israel, Japan, Niger, United States, “ Israel, American

☆ The Paradox of Prosecuting Domestic Terrorism
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( James Verini | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +52 min

The preventive approach to domestic terrorism goes back even further than the 1990s and it begins with the basic police work and surveillance of the joint terrorism task forces. In fact, there is no section of the U.S. Criminal Code that criminalizes domestic terrorism as such. The absence of clear law around domestic terrorism, and the imperatives of prevention, mean that investigators and prosecutors who work domestic terrorism cases must focus on more common charges: weapons violations, illegal drug possession, burglary, aiding and abetting and so forth. But this was not enough to overrule the fear of domestic terrorism that was gripping the nation and that hung in the courtroom. It reflected the legal paradoxes of the case and domestic terrorism law in general or, maybe more accurately, the absence of it.

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