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by Patrick Dunleavy • August 23, 2017 •
IPT News
 
In
the wake of the horrific terror attacks in Barcelona that killed 15 people
and injured as many as 120, including 7-year-old Julian Cadman, authorities
are trying to understand how a group of young Moroccan men went from
football teammates who occasionally smoked marijuana together to radical
Islamic terrorists.
August 22, 2017
Palestinian
terrorists and their families are receiving far higher payments than
welfare recipients, according to an analysis of the Palestinian Authority's
(PA) budget by The Middle East Media Research Institute.
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August 24, 2017 • France 24
French
satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published Wednesday a provocative
front-page cartoon about Islam and the recent terror attacks in Spain,
leading to criticism that it risked fanning Islamophobia.
August 24, 2017 • Swiss Info 
A
Libyan imam who received Swiss welfare and preached messages of hatred has
lost his asylum status. Local authorities are looking into deporting him.
August 23, 2017 • El Pais - English
The
imam lived in a two-bedroom apartment he rented on the sixth floor of a
building next to the famous monastery of Ripoll and aroused few suspicions.
August 23, 2017 • El Pais - English
Aqbouch
Abouyaaqoub, the 80-year-old grandfather of the chief suspect, asks for
forgiveness but says his grandson's crime has nothing to do with Moroccan
culture and tradition.
August 23, 2017 • Asharq Al-Awsat
The
Israeli Mossad agency voiced on Tuesday Tel Aviv's concern over Iran's
growing power in the region. It delivered a report on Iran's influence in
Syria to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his meeting
with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Russian city of Sochi on
Wednesday.
August 23, 2017 • The Washington Free
Beacon
New
photographs obtained by congressional leaders show Iran shipping militant
soldiers to Syria on commercial airline flights, a move that violates the
landmark nuclear agreement and has sparked calls from U.S. lawmakers for a
formal investigation by the Trump administration, the Washington Free
Beacon has learned.
August 23, 2017 • News Front
The
main suspect in Friday's knife attack in Turku was a threatening presence
at Turku's Pansio reception centre, and the centre's management warned him
about his behaviour more than once.
August 23, 2017 • The Jerusalem Post
A
former Al Jazeera English bureau chief in Cairo, who was imprisoned in
Egypt, says governments like Israel rightfully take a tough stance against
Qatari network due to its unethical methods. ... Al Jazeera openly
supported not only the Arab Spring in Egypt but also was sympathetic toward
the Muslim Brotherhood.
August 23, 2017 • MEMRI TV
On
August 23, 2017, the Islamic State (ISIS) Raqqa Province released a video
featuring a 10-year-old American boy named Yusuf who threatens President
Trump, saying that the war will come to the U.S.
August 22, 2017 • The Detroit News
Federal
prosecutors Monday linked Sebastian Gregerson to a Virginia man who
threatened to commit a domestic terror attack in support of the Islamic
State. The link was revealed in a 47-page federal court filing that more
fully describes ties between Gregerson and like-minded associates,
including a radical imam in Maryland who bankrolled Gregerson's weapons
purchases.
August 22, 2017 • DW.com - Deutsche Welle
The
deportations of an Algerian and a Nigerian, both born in Germany and
classed as dangerous, have been backed by Germany's top administrative
court. The evictions stem from a little-used clause in German residency
law.
August 22, 2017 • The Daily Telegraph -
Australlia
Lebanon's
police intelligence helped to foil a plot to blow up an Emirati passenger
plane bound for the United Arab Emirates from Australia last month, the
country's interior minister said.
August 22, 2017 • FrontPage Mag
CNN
has attacked freedom of speech and exposed itself to legal consequences by
running the SPLC's smear. And the Freedom Center won't take it lying down.
August 21, 2017 • The Denver Post
Three
Afghan prison officials who traveled to Colorado on temporary training
visas disappeared Saturday from a teaching program run by state prison
tactical experts. It was the third time in four years that Afghanistan
prison officials have fled from the same prison training program.
August 21, 2017 • Wales Online
A
group of Cardiff companies allegedly financed Islamic State terror plots in
the US and helped ship military-grade equipment to Syria and Spain,
according to FBI documents.
August 21, 2017 • The San Diego
Union-Tribune
A
call by the student Republican Club at San Diego State University for the
Muslim Student Association to denounce the Barcelona terrorist attack
triggered a strong backlash — including at least one physical threat,
according to the GOP student leader.
August 21, 2017 • Toronto Star
The
first research of its kind to probe the practice within this tightly knit
South Asian community, the study found that 80 per cent of Dawoodi Bohra
women surveyed have undergone FGM and two of the study's 18 Canadian
participants said it happened within Canada's borders.
August 20, 2017 • WorldNetDaily.com
An
investigative journalism center is passing off as fact a report by the
Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations that hate crimes against
American mosques
jumped sharply in 2015 and continue to occur at historically high
rates — about once every three days.
August 20, 2017 • New York Post
After
the violence in Charlottesville, Va, some tech firms and social-media sites
were quick to ban white supremacists — far quicker than they were when it
came to scrubbing radical Islamic terrorists.
August 19, 2017 • Global News Canada 
A
Canadian man is on an Interpol list that identifies Islamic State fighters
believed to have been trained for suicide attacks in Europe, Global News
has learned. Former Toronto resident Tabirul Hasib, 25, is among 173 ISIS
fighters Interpol has named as potential suicide bombers, based on data
uncovered by U.S. intelligence.
August 19, 2017 • The Jerusalem Post
Qatar
has breached the secret Riyadh Agreement, which required that Qatar stop
supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. ... "If citizen journalism was
meant to help the Davids triumph against the Goliaths of pro-government
media, Al Jazeera's all-out investment in the Islamic output brought back a
Goliath on steroids."
August 18, 2017 • Newsweek
As
ISIS loses its once expansive foothold in Iraq and Syria, experts say its
desire and capacity to inflict damage on the West appears to be increasing.
August 17, 2017 • Breitbart
More
evidence of the emerging No Go Zones investigated by Breitbart London
editor Raheem Kassam in a new book has emerged in Birmingham, England,
where a message reading 'NO Whites Allowed After 8 pm' appeared on the side
of a building in the inner-city neighbourhood of Alum
Rock.
August 17, 2017 • Ynetnews.com
Two
North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the
country's chemical weapons program were intercepted in the past six months,
according
to a confidential United Nations report on North Korea sanctions
violations.
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