Hamas Founder Calls for Global Jihad for Friday
“It’s time for Jihad to be applied on the ground,” ex-Hamas leader Khalid Mashal urged in a video message targeting Muslim extremists worldwide.
“It’s time for Jihad to be applied on the ground,” ex-Hamas leader Khalid Mashal urged in a video message targeting Muslim extremists worldwide.
Troops have assisted in fighting jihadist insurgency
In two separate jihadi suicide bombings, at a metro station in the EU Quarter and Brussels Airport in Zaventem, 32 people lost their lives.
Europol’s annual report states that of 380 people arrested across all 27 member states last year on suspicion of terror-related offenses, 266 people, or 70% of those arrested, were arrested for jihadist offenses.
The raids on the alleged Islamic State sympathizers come mere weeks after intelligence agencies warned that a resurgent IS is plotting attacks in the West.
Counter terrorism police conducted raids in the port city of Hamburg and Kempten, and found the Syrian Islamist planning to manufacture a suicide vest.
It is of course impossible to gauge what proportion of the BBC’s diversity quota is allocated for returning jihadis, but what is clear from Begum’s series is that the current thinking at Broadcasting House is that it’s “best to be ahead of the game.”
Spanish police issued a statement saying that the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
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