THE TERRORISM NEWSLETTER
Domestic
Terrorism
July 31, 2019
On July 30, 2019, a federal judge vacated Hamid
Hayat's conviction and sentence because of ineffective defense
representation by his original defense attorney. The order means Hayat's
appellate attorneys can seek his immediate release from a federal prison
in Phoenix, where he had been serving his 24-year sentence.
July 29, 2019
[DAZ] Ahmed Mahad Mohamed and Abdi Yemani Hussein were
arrested for conspiring to providing material support to ISIS. Both men
desired to travel overseas to fight on behalf of ISIS or to conduct an
attack within the United States if they were unable to travel.
Ultimately, the defendants purchased airline tickets to travel to Egypt,
with the intention to travel on to Sinai and join ISIS. FBI agents
arrested Mohamed and Hussein after they checked in for their flight at
the Tucson International Airport in Arizona. According to court
documents, both defendants came to the United States as refugees from
Somalia. At the time of their arrest, Mohamed had obtained lawful
permanent resident status and Hussein remained a refugee.
June 30, 2019
The ISIS terrorist organization is threatening to
launch new attacks in San Francisco, New York, and London, according to
new warning messages posted on the group's social media channels.The
messages, carried across the internet via the Telegram networking
website, feature the three cities and call for adherents of the terror
group's radical ideology to "kill them all," according to
copies of the warnings obtained by the Middle East Media Research
Institute, or MEMRI, a group that monitors jihadi networks.
International
Terrorism
July 28, 2019
At least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan's
capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice
presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh's office, the government said in a
statement on Monday. Saleh, a running mate of Afghan president, Ashraf
Ghani, was slightly injured in the attack. Afghan forces killed three
militants who entered Saleh's four-storey office after a suicide bomber
blew himself up during rush hour, said the interior ministry.
July 28, 2019
A Hamas delegation headed by Musa Abu Marzouq, a
member of the Hamas political bureau, visited Russia, according to a July
28 report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
(ITIC). The delegation met with Mikhail Bogdanov, deputy Russian foreign
minister and the Russian presidential representative for the Middle East
and Africa. Also a member of the delegation was Muhammad Sawalha, a
senior Hamas operative who lives in London, where he collaborates with
the Muslim Brotherhood (Britain is the European center of their
activities). Hamas tries to conceal or at least downplay Muhammad
Sawalha's activities to keep the British authorities from making life
difficult for him. So far Britain has not taken effective steps to
prevent Muhammad Sawalha from functioning as a Hamas operative.
July 27, 2019
More than 60 mourners leaving a funeral in north-east
Nigeria have been killed by the militant group Boko Haram, according to
Nigerian officials and other sources in the area.Ten years after the
group's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was murdered in police custody after a
crackdown on his followers, Boko Haram's factions are continuing to wage
a bloody insurgency against the Nigerian security forces and civilians,
defying government attempts to destroy the group. In the latest attack, a
number of men were walking back to their village after the funeral
prayers for a relative when armed men turned up on motorcycles and opened
fire, said the head of the Borno Hunters Association, Bunu Bukar. The
village is to the north of Maiduguri, Borno's state capital, in the area
of Nganzai.
Terrorist
Designations
July 31, 2019
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action Wednesday against the Iranian
regime's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif (Javad Zarif), pursuant
to Executive Order (E.O.) 13876 because Zarif acted or purported to act
for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Supreme Leader of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. On June 24, 2019, the President issued E.O.
13876 imposing sanctions on the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of
Iran and the Supreme Leader's Office (SLO), and authorizing sanctions on
others associated with the Supreme Leader or the SLO. Concurrently,
Treasury added the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Husseini Khamenei, to
OFAC's List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN
List) under this new authority.
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