Homeland Security News

The Boogaloo Bois have a new martyr.

His name is Eric Allport, and he was killed by federal agents during a shootout in the parking lot of a Texas Roadhouse near Detroit over the weekend.

Details about Allport’s death are still a little fuzzy, but the FBI said that the 43-year-old opened fire while they were executing an arrest warrant for a federal weapons offense on Friday afternoon.

One agent was hit by gunfire but survived. The shooting is still under investigation, but in his initial remarks, special agent in charge of the FBI Detroit field office Steven D’Antuono suggested that Allport had fired first. “It’s always stressful and concerning when one of our agents gets shot,” he told the Detroit Free Press. “We’re trying to effect a lawful arrest and this is what happens.”

Read more: Vice

A week before 36-year-old Timothy Wilson decided to blow up a Kansas City-area hospital that was already reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, he considered attacking a slew of other targets instead, including several local mosques, a synagogue and an elementary school filled with Black children.

But, according to FBI records, before the avowed white supremacist from Raymore, Missouri, picked his final target in March, Wilson texted an associate with a particular question: “How did McVeigh do it?”

More than 25 years ago, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people and injured nearly 700 others when he bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City, making him the most ruthless domestic terrorist in U.S. history.

Read more: ABC News

A Greek court ruled on Wednesday that the far-right Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organization, following a politically charged five-year trial against dozens of defendants, including former lawmakers of what had become Greece’s third largest party.

Delivering landmark verdicts, the court ruled that seven of the party’s 18 former lawmakers, including party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, were guilty of leading a criminal organization, while the others were guilty of participating in a criminal organization.

Those convicted of leading a criminal organization face between five and 15 years in prison, while the others face sentences of up to 10 years.

Read more: AP

Convicted terrorist Bilal Khazal will be subject to a highly restrictive control order for a year after the Federal Court found he posed an ongoing risk to public safety following his release from prison at the end of August.

Khazal, a former baggage handler, served a 12-year sentence for compiling a do-it-yourself terrorism manual that was published online. Born in Lebanon, he trained with extremists in Afghanistan and was a contact of Osama bin Laden.

Since his release from Goulburn Supermax, Khazal has been under an extensive interim control order requiring him to wear a tracking device and observe a 12am-6am curfew. Among the 19 conditions, he is also prevented from visiting Sydney Airport and other transport hubs, acquiring a vehicle weighing over 4.5 tonnes, and contacting people linked to terrorism activities.

Read more: Sydney Morning Herald

The al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab has released two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya and held for a year and a half in neighboring Somalia, officials say.

A senior Somali intelligence official told The Associated Press that the doctors were released over the weekend after months of negotiations with their captors. He declined to give further details. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Several sources told the AP that Somali intelligence, acting at the request of the Cuban government, negotiated for the doctors’ release after it obtained a video showing them a few months ago.

Read more: Washington Post