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Hostages killed after armed militants seize train in Pakistan with hundreds on board
The attack by armed militants on a train in Pakistan has ended, with local authorities saying 21 hostages and 33 insurgents are dead.
The day-long siege began after Baloch Liberation Army militants seized a train with more than 400 passengers on board.
A government official said efforts to free remaining hostages was hampered on Wednesday by militants wearing explosive vests sitting near the hostages.
Far-right extremist admits hosting terror website
Oliver Wright - BBC News Fri 12 April 2024 3:28am
Colin McNeil is due to be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on 5 July [PA Media]
A far-right extremist who ran a website used by convicted international terrorists is facing jail after admitting four terrorism charges.
Colin McNeil, 46, pleaded guilty to distributing a terrorist publication with the intention of encouraging acts of terrorism at Sheffield Crown Court.
Counter terror police said McNeil, from Leeds, “showed admiration for terrorist publications on his website” and shared “racist and extreme right-wing views”.
He is due to be sentenced on 5 July.
McNeil was arrested in March 2022 by Counter Terrorism Policing North East (CTPNE) after investigators found the website he operated was being used to share material supporting extreme right-wing ideologies.
CTPNE said when he became aware of the material “he continued to play an active role in its administration” and share his own views.
A spokesperson said the website was used by “a number of likeminded convicted international terrorists” to further their ideologies.
Det Ch Supt James Dunkerley said: “There is simply no place for racism in our society. We will continue to seek out those that facilitate and distribute these harmful ideologies.
"Removing harmful, violent and extremist content online is critical to our efforts to reduce the spread of terrorist material and propaganda.”
Dying man tells police he was on Japan’s most wanted list for 50 years
By Mark Saunokonoko, 7:49am Feb 28 2024
A Japanese man’s deathbed confession - that he was one of the country’s most wanted fugitives and had been on the run for nearly 50 years - has turned out to be true.
The 70-year-old, who was dying of stomach cancer, told the police he wanted to die using his real name, Satoshi Kirishima, instead of his alias, Hiroshi Uchida.
Four days before he died, Kirishima revealed to police he was part of a radical group that carried out bombings in the 1970s.
A wanted poster for Satoshi Kirishima, a fugitive long wanted for one of a series of terrorist bombings in Japan. (AP/ Eugene Hoshiko)
DNA test results processed after his death confirmed he was telling the truth.
Born in 1954, Kirishima was a university student in Tokyo when he became involved in extremism and joined the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a militant group that carried out a series of bombings targeting major Japanese companies in the 1970s.
Eight people died more than 160 were injured in the 1975 bombing of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building which was blamed on the group.
Kirishima was allegedly involved in a number of the bombings.
He was wanted on charges of setting off a time bomb in a building in Tokyo’s posh Ginza district in April 1975 in which no one was injured.
Though not a key member of the group, he was said to be the only one of the 10 members who was never caught.
While on the run, Kirishima did not have a mobile phone or health insurance and had his salary paid in cash to avoid detection, according to NHK public television.
A photo on Kirishima’s wanted poster shows him smiling, with long hair and glasses.
Two members of the group were sentenced to death, including founder Masashi Daidoji, who died on death row in 2017.
Satoshi Kirishima had been a member of the extreme left-wing group East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front. (AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
Two of the eight members of the group were indicted in the bombings are still at large after their release in 1977 as part of a deal negotiated by another radical group, the Japanese Red Army, when it hijacked a Japan Airlines plane in Bangaladesh.
Police are continuing to investigate how he managed to evade capture for 49 years, and whether anyone helped him build a new, second life.
The Japan Times reported Kirishima had been living in Fujisawa in the Kanagawa Prefecture, in Tokyo’s west.
He had been employed at a building firm for around 40 years.
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Australia imposes fresh sanctions on Hamas-linked individuals and groups
By Richard Wood, 11:17am Jan 23, 2024
Foreign Minister Penny Wong today announced Australia was imposing further counter-terrorism financing sanctions on 12 persons and three organisations linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The individuals include Hamas leaders, financial facilitators, and persons who have provided training to terrorists, as well as three entities that have helped in the transfer funds to Hamas.
“This action is concurrent with further sanctions imposed on Hamas-linked targets by the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union,” Wong said.
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong announced the sanctions on individuals and organisations linked to Hamas this morning. (Nine)
The federal government says the individuals and entities have supported and helped facilitate terrorism.
Australia has already imposed sanctions on Hamas, Hizbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a further 17 persons and seven organisations with links to these groups.
Once listed for sanctions, it is a criminal offence to use or deal with the person or entity’s assets, or to make assets available to them.
Those who breach the measures can face penalties of up to 10 years’ imprisonment and/or heavy fines.
The US yesterday announced sanctions against a network of Hamas-affiliated financial exchanges in Gaza, including financial facilitators that transferred funds through cryptocurrency from Iran to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
The Western sanctions come as Israel’s bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip continues, killing 25,000 Palestinians so far, according to the Gaza Strip Healthy Ministry, and Iranian-backed militias in Iraq launch regular strikes against bases housing US forces in Iraq and Syria.
Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters train in a village in southern Lebanon. The group is among organisations targeted by a new round of Australian sanctions. (AP)
In other news, the US and British militaries bombed multiple sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday, the second time the two allies have conducted coordinated retaliatory strikes on an array of the rebels’ missile-launching capabilities, several US officials said.
According to officials, the US and UK used warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets to take out Houthi missile storage sites and launchers.
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Terror accused released despite allegedly breaching bail conditions
By Rex Martinich AAP, 4:35pm Jan 17, 2021
A man accused of terrorism-related offences will again be granted bail despite facing allegation that he breached the conditions of his release.
Ahmed Luqman Talib was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in Victoria in March 2021, then aged 31, and extradited to Queensland.
Talib was accused of helping an aspiring foreign fighter arrange to travel to Syria to join a terrorist group in conflict with that nation’s government between September 1, 2013 and October 1, 2020.
Talib was released on bail in the Brisbane District Court today. (Toby Crockford)
Talib, who was born in the United Kingdom and is an Australian citizen, lived in south-east Queensland around the time of the alleged offending.
Barrister Tim Ryan applied for Talib’s bail in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Wednesday and said his client had four grounds by which to argue his further detention was not justified.
“The first of these is the alleged breaches of bail conditions are minor,” Ryan said.
Talib did not attend court or appear by videolink.
Ryan said Talib had been accused of not charging his ankle monitoring bracelet on two occasions for a total of two hours.
“There is no suggestion the device he was required to wear was not operative or was not always charged,” Ryan said.
Ryan said Talib had taken the monitoring device back to police because he thought it was defective.
Talib had also been accused of downloading the LinkedIn social media application to his phone in March 2023.
Ryan said there was no allegation Talib had used LinkedIn to contact anybody and he was no prohibited from using the internet.
“The charges are disputed… the time he has spent in custody since November 30 exceeds the length of any sentence imposed if he was found guilty of all the alleged breaches,” Ryan said.
A Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions representative presented an affidavit in response to the bail application but did not speak further.
Justice Declan Kelly said he would issue an order to grant Talib bail along with his reasons for doing so.
“I’m satisfied based on the material… that (Talib) has shown cause,” Kelly said.
Czech Republic mourns victims of Prague university mass shooting
By Oliver Slow, BBC News
People gathered for Mass at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague to remember those killed
The Czech Republic observed a minute’s silence at midday (11:00 GMT) to commemorate those killed in Thursday’s mass shooting at a Prague university.
Flags on official buildings were flown at half-mast to mark a day of national mourning.
Fourteen people were shot dead at the Faculty of Arts building of Charles University in the capital by a student who then killed himself.
Police are working to uncover the motive behind the attack.
It is one of the deadliest assaults by a lone gunman in Europe this century.
Those killed in Thursday’s attack included Lenka Hlavkova, head of the Institute of Musicology at the university.
Other victims were named as translator and Finnish literature expert Jan Dlask and student Lucie Spindlerova.
The shooting began at around 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) at the Faculty of Arts building off Jan Palach Square in the centre of the Czech capital.
The gunman opened fire in the corridors and classrooms of the building, before shooting himself as security forces closed in on him, police say.
US tourist Hannah Mallicoat told the BBC that she and her family had been on Jan Palach Square during the attack.
“A crowd of people were crossing the street when the first shot hit. I thought it was something like a firecracker or a car backfire until I heard the second shot and people started running,” she said.
“I saw a bullet hit the ground on the other side of the square about 30ft [9m] away before ducking into a store. The whole area was blocked off and dozens of police cars and ambulances were going towards the university.”
In a statement, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the country had been shocked by this “horrendous act”.
“It is hard to find the words to express condemnation on the one hand and, on the other, the pain and sorrow that our entire society is feeling in these days before Christmas.”
The gunman is thought to have killed his father at a separate location. He is also suspected in the killing of a young man and his two-month-old daughter who were found dead in a forest on the outskirts of Prague on 15 December.
The attack had one of the largest death tolls of any mass shooting by a lone gunman in Europe this century:
- Norway, July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people by planting a car bomb that killed eight at an Oslo government building and then shooting dead 69 more, most of them teenagers, at an island summer camp run by the ruling Labour Party’s youth wing
- Germany, April 2002 Robert Steinhauser, 19, killed 16 people - 13 teachers, two pupils, and a policemen - at the Gutenberg Gymnasium secondary school in the city of Erfurt. He had been expelled from the school the previous autumn
- Germany, March 2009 Tim Kretschmer, 17, killed 15 people in a shooting that began at his former school in the town of Winnenden, near Stuttgart. He shot dead nine students and three teachers at the school before going on to the nearby town of Wendlingen, where he shot another three passers-by.
- Switzerland, September 2001 Friedrich Leibacher entered the regional parliament building in the city of Zug dressed in a police uniform and shot dead 14 people and injured another 10
- Serbia, April 2013 Ljubisa Bogdanovic shot dead thirteen people, including a two-year-old boy, and injured his wife in a village outside Belgrade. Bogdanovic was a military veteran who had fought with Serb forces in the Croatian War of Independence in the early 1990s.
Founded in 1347, Charles University is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic and one of the oldest such institutions in Europe.
