Brookings: Fighting Radicalism, Not Terrorism: root causes redefined

In the years since the September 11th attacks, Western policymakers, analysts and academics have debated the best approaches to confronting and ending terrorism. Brookings Fellow Omer Taspinar argues that the global fight against extremist violence must move beyond the “war on terror” to a broader strategy of fighting radicalism with human development – an approach [...]

Terrorists smuggle fatwas out of secure prisons in Britain

Georgetown SLB reports that some of Britain’s most dangerous Al-Qaeda leaders are promoting jihad from inside high-security prisons by smuggling out propaganda for the internet and finding recruits. In a report, Quilliam, a think tank funded by the Home Office, claims “mismanagement” by the Prison Service is helping Al-Qaeda gain recruits and risks “strengthening jihadist [...]

US seeks seizure of mosques from Islamic foundation alleged to be Iran front

[JURIST] The US government on Thursday amended a complaint against Islamic charity the Alavi Foundation  to include a request for the seizure of assets, including four mosques, claiming that the organization is actually controlled by the Iranian government. The amended complaint, originally filed in 2008, alleges that Alavi is funneling assets to fund Iran’s nuclear [...]

British Journal of Criminology Special Issue on Criminology and the war on terror

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The Transformation of Violence in Iraq British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published on May 28, 2009 Br J Criminol 2009 49: 609-627; doi:10.1093/bjc/azp022 [Abstract]
 
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    Jude McCulloch and Sharon Pickering

Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism: Imagining Future Crime in the ‘War on Terror’ British Journal of Criminology [...]

Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism on his mission to Egypt

An advanced edited version of the UN Special Rapporteur’s report on Egypt is out now. (A/HRC/13/37/Add.2, 14 October 2009). It will be discussed at the Human RIghts Council’s Thirteenth Session in March 2010.

In this report the Special Rapporteur examines the emergency law, criminal law provisions on terrorist crimes, and amended article 179 of the Constitution [...]

Infamous German Islamist Imam Forswears Terror

Muslims should make peace with Germany, argues former hate preacher Mohammed El Fazazi, the man who once provided religious instruction to the men behind the 9/11 terror attacks such as Mohammed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh and Marwan al-Shehhi. Der Spiegel has published an abridged version of his open letter to Muslims. Early indications suggest that Fazazi’s [...]

Extremism Spreads Across Indonesian Penal Code

The New York Times reports that in recent years, as part of a decentralization of power away from the capital, Jakarta, at least 50 local governments have used their new authority to pass Shariah-based regulations regarding conduct and dress, though none have gone as far as Aceh to deal with criminal matters. Most experts and [...]

Interesting articles

Beth van Schaack – International Criminal Law & its Enforcement
This chapter, to appear in the 2nd edition of Beth Van Schaack & Ron Slye’s International Criminal Law & Its Enforcement (Foundation Press 2010), covers the crime of torture under international criminal law. It begins with a doctrinal discussion of the elements of torture as elucidated [...]

Pakistan Launches Full-Scale Offensive in war with domestic Taleban

The Pakistani military launched a major ground offensive Saturday in the insurgent haven of South Waziristan, starting a much-awaited fight that could define the nation’s increasingly bloody domestic struggle against Islamist extremism. Pakistani officials said nearly 30,000 troops were deployed in the Taliban and al-Qaeda stronghold, from which militants have planned a two-week-long string of [...]

UK government anti-terrorism strategy ’spies’ on innocent

The government programme aimed at preventing Muslims from being lured into violent extremism is being used to gather intelligence about innocent people who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism, the Guardian has learned.
The information the authorities are trying to find out includes political and religious views, information on mental health, sexual activity and associates, [...]