A British man who had made bombs for the Taliban in Afghanistan and was plotting an attack near London’s parliament was convicted of terrorism offences on Tuesday.
Khalid Ali was carrying three knives when he was arrested by armed police in April last year.
Only just over a month earlier, a British-born convert to Islam had ploughed a car into pedestrians on nearby Westminster Bridge, killing four people, before stabbing a policeman to death in the grounds of parliament.
Read more: Reuters
A Nevada man has been indicted in Arizona on terrorism and other felony charges after his arrest last week in a large vehicle that blocked traffic on a Colorado River bridge on the main highway between Phoenix and Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that 30-year-old Matthew Phillip Wright was indicted Thursday by a grand jury in Kingman, Arizona.
Wright was being held Friday at a jail in Kingman pending appointment of a public defender to his case and his arraignment July 5 in Mohave County Superior Court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear Sudan’s appeal of $314.7 million in damages awarded in a lawsuit seeking compensation for American sailors injured in 2000 in the deadly al Qaeda bombing of the Navy destroyer USS Cole in Yemen.
The damages were levied by default because Sudan did not appear before a lower court to defend itself against allegations that it provided support to the Islamist militants. Sudan contends that it had not been properly notified of the lawsuit, in violation of U.S. and international law.
Read more: Reuters
A college student from Spring who got cold feet en route to joining ISIS fighters in Syria was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison by a federal judge who warned him against following “impulses” in a search for “easy answers.”
In a sharp departure from the federal sentencing guidelines, U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes ordered Asher Abid Khan, 23, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Houston, to prison followed by five years of supervision after deciding he had shown potential for rehabilitation.
With three rows of his family and friends looking on in the courtroom, Khan apologized to the sobbing mother and other relatives of Sixto Ramiro Garcia, a former Klein Oak High School classmate who was killed in Syria after joining the jihadists.
Read more: Houston Chronicle
A militant alleged to have been part of the cell that murdered former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto has appeared in a Taliban video denying his involvement.
Ikramullah is believed to have been a back-up suicide bomber, who was meant to detonate his explosive vest if the first attacker did not succeed.
But officials say he walked away after the other bomber blew himself up, killing Ms Bhutto and at least 20 others at rally in Rawalpindi in 2007.
A senior Bhutto aide said he was lying.
In his first public statement on the case, Ikramullah appears in a video produced by a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban which was obtained by the BBC. It is believed to have been filmed in eastern Afghanistan, where the militants are based.
Read more: BBC News
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