Terrorism Watch

EU functionaries are using technicalities to assure Palestinian organizations that new EU rules against financing groups directly or indirectly linked to terrorism do not apply to them. A letter sent by a representative of the European Union to the Palestinian Authority, which includes a promise to find a way around new EU instructions that prohibit the transfer of any financial aid to civil groups that are directly or indirectly linked to terrorism has aroused strong criticism in Israel as well as the EU. On March 30, German diplomat  Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff  sent the letter to the umbrella organization that represents Palestinian civil groups, announcing continued funding for their activities, even if their members include individuals who are linked to terrorist groups. The main paragraph in contention states: "It is understood that a natural person affiliated to, sympathizing with, or supporting any of the groups or entities mentioned in the EU restrictive list is not excluded

Earlier this week, President Trump tweeted: 'The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization' Antifa is an   umbrella term to describe radical left-leaning militant groups that typically confront neo-Nazism and white supremacists at demonstrations. Public and elected  officials , including President  Trump , have blamed antifa activists for  violence  at protests sparked by the death of  George Floyd  last week. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died last Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes. HOW SHOULD AMERICA HANDLE ANTIFA? But officials have said that in parts of the country, what started as peaceful protests have devolved into organized riots. Short for “anti-fascists,” antifa has no hierarchical structure or universal set of tactics that makes its presence immediately recognizable, though members tend to espouse revolutionary and anti-authoritarian views, said Mark Bray, a

An injured man is removed from the wreckage after an explosion near the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998. (George Mulala/Reuters) Last month, the Supreme Court  ruled  that Sudan owes punitive damages for victims of the horrific Aug. 7, 1998, dual bombings of the American Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. This  historic court win  represents another big step in the long struggle by victims and their families to ensure that regimes that support unspeakable acts of terror against Americans are brought to justice. It comes just as the Trump administration is close to finalizing a diplomatic settlement agreement with Sudan to resolve all the claims of those, like us, who have long pursued the Sudanese government in court for providing safe haven and support to the al-Qaeda terrorists who carried out the two attacks. The search for justice is very personal to me. My father, Julian L. Bartley, the first African American consul general to serve our country in Kenya, was a high

In a major shot in the arm for the security agencies, the National Investigative Agency on Saturday  arrested  a key plotter in the 2019 Vishakhapatnam espionage case from Mumbai for allegedly honey-trapping Navy personnel on social media for gathering sensitive information about locations and movement of Indian Naval ships and passing it on to his Pakistani handlers.  The accused, identified as Abdul Rehman Abdul Jabbar Sheikh, aged 53, was arrested from his residence in Mumbai after inputs received from those arrested in the case and technical analysis. The security agency has retrieved several digital devices and incriminating documents while searching the residence of accused Abdul Rehman.  Rehman is the 15th man to be arrested in the espionage case so far. Earlier, his wife Shaista Quaiser, a Pakistani-born Indian woman, was among the 14  arrested  in the case. Last month on May 15, the NIA  arrested  another key conspirator Mohammed Haroon haji Abdul Rehman Lakdawala, 49, from Mu

The United States is a racist society and it has to change in order to regain some type of credibility on the international level, an African-American journalist and political analyst in Detroit says. Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on the Trump administration’s handling of nationwide protests against police violence and systemic racism sparked by the recent police killing of unarmed, handcuffed African-American man George Floyd. Former US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey has slammed President Donald Trump for his handling of nationwide protests against police violence and systemic racism sparked by the recent police killing of unarmed, handcuffed African-American man George Floyd. Trump has called on the country's governors to deploy their national guards, urging them earlier in the week that they needed to "dominate" protesters. Trump has called on the country

By Dr. Jarrod Sadulski  Faculty Member,  Criminal Justice , American Military University and Efren Munoz Major,  Criminal Investigation Directorate and INTERPOL ,  National Police of Colombia Recently, Major Efren Munoz of the National Police of Colombia and I had the opportunity to meet in Bogota, Colombia, as part of a research project on current issues in Colombia. Start a  Homeland Security degree  at American Military University. The visit included research and meetings at some of the top Colombian police units. This provided the opportunity to hear from the experts within Colombia who are on the front lines combating the challenges of  drug trafficking ,  human trafficking , and  internal armed conflict with insurgent groups . Thanks to Major Munoz, we had the opportunity to visit the Criminal Investigation Directorate and INTERPOL, referred to as DIJIN, the  Police Anti-Narcotics Directorate  (DIRAN), and the main judicial institution, the General Prosecution Office of the Natio

When the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, agreed to demobilize as part of Colombia’s landmark 2016 peace agreement, it ended 50 years of armed conflict. It also left the Colombian army without its chief adversary. The country still faces internal armed threats, like the smaller guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army, and about 10,000 fighters are scattered across dozens of smaller militias,  some of them led by former FARC members . But for Latin America’s largest army, the adjustment has been fraught with difficulty. The army built up a formidable intelligence apparatus during the country’s decades of internal conflict, thanks to generous assistance from the U.S., which saw Colombia as a partner in its fight against drug traffickers and terrorism. A major intelligence law that was passed in 2013, during Juan Manuel Santos’ presidency, placed important limits and oversight protections on civilian and military intelligence agencies’ ability to spy on citizens. Mea