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[Link] ‘Death weapons’ : Inside a teenage terrorist network
Read: 4/8/2022 www.politico.eu
When Lukas F. walks onto the site of an abandoned army barracks in the summer of 2021 as part of his training to be a terrorist, he is 16 years old, a slender boy with dark hair. The site is about 45 minutes from the center of Potsdam, a city just southwest of Berlin, Germany.
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[Link] The Taliban Are Blacklisted by Facebook. Then Why Are They Allowed to Post?
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
For years, Facebook has prohibited the Taliban from using its platform under its counter-terrorist and hate group community standards.
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[Link] Terror detectives charge Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Terror detectives have charged a Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives, as police continue to investigate threats against Victorian MPs who supported the state's controversial pandemic legislation.
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[Link] Taxi Explosion Outside UK Hospital Declared Terrorist Incident
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
An explosion that took place outside a hospital in Liverpool on Sunday has been declared a terrorist incident, UK police have said. The male passenger died in the explosion while the driver managed to escape the car and was treated in hospital before being released today.
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[Link] Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.
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[Link] ‘Honest mistake’: US strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians was legal, says Pentagon
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A US drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians was a tragic mistake but did not violate any laws, a Pentagon inspector general said after an investigation.
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[Link] Afghanistan’s neighbours gather in Tehran to discuss its future
Read: 4/11/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Iran says the main goal of the event is to emphasise the call for the formation of an ‘inclusive’ government in Afghanistan.
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[Link] The Taliban Have a Growing ISIS-K Problem
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Taliban face a growing insurgency from ISIS-K, a jihadist group inspired by Islamic State and founded by former Taliban fighters in early 2015.
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[Link] The Taliban says US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
Read: 11/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The US has agreed to provide humanitarian aid but refused to give political recognition to Afghanistan's new rulers, the Taliban says. The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of Coalition troops at the end of August.
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[Link] Does the fall of Kabul increase the terror threat to the west?
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
In three days in earlier this month Islamist militants killed more than 120 civilians in a series of attacks in the Sahel, a belt of increasingly anarchic and violent territory across Africa, where such groups have gone from strength to strength in recent years.
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[Link] Adelaide man charged with extra offences after counter-terrorism investigation
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide man has been charged with additional offences as a result of a joint counter-terrorism investigation. The 33-year-old man was arrested in April and charged with three offences over the alleged possession of an explosive device.
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[Link] From kickboxing to Adolf Hitler: the neo-Nazi plan to recruit angry young men
Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
An unprecedented look inside Australia’s radical fringe shows their deep links to violent international groups, and what they’ll do if they are banned.
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[Link] What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five years ago, I began to notice that the perpetrators of some of the worst terrorist attacks had something in common.
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[Link] Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Read: 28/7/2021 www.reuters.com
July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.
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