Homeland Security News

Senior members of ISIS are plotting mass prison breaks and a resurgence of terror after taking refuge in Turkey, according to the head of Iraqi Military Intelligence. 

Lt. Gen. Saad al-Allaq told CNN in an exclusive interview that Iraq had handed dossiers on nine alleged terror leaders to Turkey. The subjects included top financiers with access to "huge" amounts of money to fund operations around the world, he said.

And recent communications from ISIS point to plans to try to break prisoners out of camps and jails across Syria and Iraq, al-Allaq said.

Lt. Gen. Saad al-Allaq said ISIS leaders are planning jailbreaks to get manpower to relaunch the terror group.

"Huge international efforts should be taken to deal with this issue because these criminals ... are able to leave these camps and go back to their countries and thus they pose great danger in countries like Europe, Asia and northwest Africa," al-Allaq said.

Read more: CNN

Three men have been committed to stand trial on terrorism offences a year after they were arrested in a series of raids across Melbourne's northern suburbs.

Ertunc Eriklioglu, 31, his brother Samed Eriklioglu, 27 and their friend Hanifi Halis, 22, have each been charged with preparing for an act of terrorism between November 12 and 19 last year.

During a five-day committal hearing which began on Monday, the court heard the trio were planning "an attack on members of the public with firearms in a well-populated area of the city of Melbourne".

In redacted documents released by the court, prosecutors alleged the men had negotiated to buy a gun and had paid a deposit on an unregistered .22 calibre rifle.

Read more: ABC News (Australia)

A 26 year-old man has been charged with a terrorism offence after being deported to the UK from Turkey.

Mamun Rashid, from east London, was arrested on Thursday after he arrived on a flight to Heathrow Airport.

It came after Turkey announced it had sent back a British Isis suspect.

On Sunday the Metropolitan Police announced Rashid had been charged with preparation of terrorist acts under the Terrorism Act 2006.

He is now due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London on Monday.

Read more: Independent (UK) (via MSN)

The New York Times and The Intercept say they have reviewed hundreds of pages of purported Iranian intelligence documents that detail Iran’s massive influence in neighboring Iraq.

They say the unprecedented leak of 700 pages of Iranian intelligence cables shows Tehran’s efforts to embed itself in Iraq, including paying Iraqi agents working for the United States to switch sides.

Vanessa Gezari of The Intercept says her publication received the documents from an unknown source and that “we still don’t know who they’re from.” The Intercept shared the documents with the Times.

Read more: AP (via MSN)

The United States no longer has an adversarial relationship with the Sudanese government and is working with its counterparts on the possibility of removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, a senior State Department official said on Friday.

But Tibor Nagy, assistant secretary for African affairs, cautioned that doing so was a process with conditions.

“It’s not an event, it’s not flipping a light switch. It’s a process and we are heavily, continuously engaged with our Sudanese interlocutors on how we can go about doing that,” he told reporters in a briefing.

Read more: Reuters