Two Iranian men have been found guilty of plotting terrorist attacks against Western government facilities in Kenya.
Ahmed Mohammed and Sayed Mansour were arrested in Nairobi, Kenya last June with 33 pounds of explosives. The men were found to have connections to an Islamic terror group that planned to blow up British, U.S. and Israeli targets.
Both men deny the charges but a judge said they have been “proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt of all terror-related charges.” Prosecutors said the men had the explosives “in circumstances that indicated they were armed with the intent to commit a felony, namely, acts intended to cause grievous harm.”
The men arrived in Kenya on June 12, 2012 and traveled to the port city of Mombasa to obtain RDX, a powerful explosive significantly stronger than TNT and considered one of the most powerful explosives in the United States’ military arsenal. After their arrest a week later in the capital of Nairobi, their explosives were found hidden at a golf course outside of Mombasa.
Police say the men have an accomplice that has not yet been apprehended by authorities and could be trying to arrange for alternate attacks. The terror group is suspected of bringing more than 190 pounds of RDX into the country for terrorist bombing attacks.
Both Mohammed and Mansour face up to 15 years in prison.
The Taliban continued to attack political parties and civilian groups ahead of Pakistani elections, killing 8 and wounding at least 40 in a homicide bomb attack in Peshawar, Pakistan.
According to witnesses, the bomber passed a police vehicle and then donated his device next to a passenger bus. Continue reading →
The Taliban announced they are beginning an offensive against what they call “foreign transgressors” and those who are working against them in Afghanistan. The terrorist organization is promising their “spring offensive” will be “monumental.”
“We once again call on all the officials and workers of the stooge Karzai regime to break away from this decaying administration in order to conform to Islamic commands, national interests and protection of yourselves, and to choose a life of prosperity living alongside your own people in an atmosphere of peace and security,” the Taliban said in its statement. Continue reading →
MidEast Christian News has released a video recorded April 7th when Muslims attacked a cathedral where Christians were mourning five men killed by a Muslim group.
The video shows men shooting guns, throwing stones and swinging machetes as the Christians carry caskets out of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral while police stand and watch the Islamists attack. At one point in the video, a police officer is shown helping a gunman aim at a courtyard of mourners. Continue reading →
Three British Muslims have been sentenced to prison for their parts in planning terrorist attacks near the time of the London Olympic Games.
Richard Dart, a Muslim convert, was sentenced to six years. Imran Mahmood received a 9 year, 9 month sentence and Jahangir Alom will spend four and a half years behind bars. All three men pled guilty in March to charges related to their plot. Continue reading →
In the first major terrorist attack on a foreign embassy in Libya’s capital, the French embassy was attacked Tuesday in a car bombing.
The blast destroyed the compound’s security wall and the ground floor reception area. An embassy guard was severely injured and is in critical condition. Continue reading →
Two foreign men living in Canada have been charged with plotting to blow up a passenger train with support from Al-Qaeda in Iran.
Officers with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, into custody Monday. The two men have been charged in connection with a plot to derail a VIA passenger train in the Toronto area. Continue reading →
Friday night, less than a week after killing three people and injuring over 170 others in a terrorist bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is the custody of FBI and Boston police officials.
Tsarnaev, 19, identified as “suspect two” in the photographs released by the FBI this week, was discovered hiding inside a boat in the backyard of a home in Watertown, Massachusetts. The homeowner had been in his backyard earlier in the day and saw nothing but as evening approached noticed something amiss about the boat just after the police order to stay inside had been lifted by Governor Deval Patrick. Continue reading →
Four men who plotted to blow up a British Army base by placing a bomb inside a toy car have been jailed after pleading guilty to the plot.
Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain all will be spending at least five years behind bars for their roles in the conspiracy. Iqbal and Ahmed were sentenced to 16 years, 11 in jail, after the judge called them a “continuing risk” to the public. Continue reading →
Somalia’s Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon has told media outlets that the terrorists who carried out a bomb and gun attack on one of the city’s main courthouses were foreign terrorists.
The al-Qaeda linked Islamic terror group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the assaults that have now resulted in the deaths of 29 people. 58 people have been confirmed wounded by the attack. Continue reading →