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by Teri Blumenfeld • September
14, 2017 • IPT News  
Palestinian
Islamic Jihad board member Sami Al-Arian appears to be thriving in his
new environs after his 2015
deportation from the United States.
by Scott Newark • September
11, 2017 • Special to IPT News
With
the return of Canada's Parliament later this month, one of the security
issues sure to attract attention is Bill C-59. It aims to modernize
and clarify Canadian national security and intelligence operations. This
includes how the country collects and retains metadata, better
coordination
for oversight and review of counter-terrorism investigations.
by Abha Shankar • September 8,
2017 • IPT News
Legislation
seeking to ban federal funding to a UK-based
Hamas charity was withdrawn last Thursday after Islamist
groups advocated voting against the measure.
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September 15, 2017 • Ha'aretz
"Israel
opposes the Kurdistan Workers' Party [the PKK] and sees it as a terror
organization, as opposed to Turkey, which supports the terror
organization Hamas. But while Israel opposes terror as such, it supports
the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to achieve a state of their
own," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week.
September 14, 2017 • Associated
Press
Two
Minnesota mothers have been charged in an investigation of genital
mutilation in a Muslim sect, months after bringing their daughters to a
Detroit-area clinic.
September 14, 2017 • Al
Jazeera
Turkey's
leader has been a major supporter of Doha since June 5 when a Saudi-led
bloc cut ties and blockaded Qatar. Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al
Thani will visit Turkey on Thursday to meet President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan in his first trip abroad since the start of the Gulf diplomatic
crisis.
September 14, 2017 • Middle
East Monitor
The
Egyptian government agreed to allow the Palestinian resistance movement,
Hamas, to open an office in Cairo and appoint a permanent representative
there.
September 14, 2017 • The
Jerusalem Post
Two
months after an Israeli legal rights NGO warned U.S.-based Boeing that it
will place liens on its planes if it followed through with a since
completed deal with Iran, a Chicago federal court is asking U.S. Donald
Trump to decide if Boeing must disclose details of the controversial
transaction.
September 14, 2017 • The
Daily Beast
Multiple
spokespersons for the U.S. military have told The Daily Beast that they
are aware of reports that an American fighting in Syria for the so-called
Islamic State has been taken into custody.
September 14, 2017 • NBC
News
The
Trump administration plans to announce new sanctions against Iran as soon
as Thursday while also taking steps to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal
with Tehran for now by extending the sanctions relief in the accord,
senior administration officials familiar with the matter said.
September 13, 2017 • PJ
Media
During
the week of August 27, an Israeli delegation met with members of the
National Security Council (NSC) at
the White House to discuss the current threat to Israel
by the terror group Hezbollah.
September 13, 2017 • Conservative
Review
The
small Gulf nation of Qatar is investing millions of dollars into
influential Washington, D.C., lobbying groups in order to rehabilitate
its image with the American people and the Western world. As proven ties
to terrorist groups and actors continue to mount, Qatar is now relying on
an
aggressive public relations campaign to solve its predicament.
September 13, 2017 • Al-Bawaba
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Google
Plus has apparently left multiple ISIS accounts untouched, including what
appears to be the "official" account of Amaq News Agency, the
extremist group's main media outlet. Amaq has been using Google Plus to
publish press releases as well as videos and infographics, with many of
their posts receiving dozens of upvotes.
September 13, 2017 • The
Hill
The
House adopted measures on Wednesday to prevent sales of commercial
aircraft to Iran, despite warnings from some Democrats that it would
undermine the international accord to curtail the country's nuclear
weapons program.
September 13, 2017 • The
Algemeiner
On
June 22, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) awarded the
California-headquartered Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) a second
grant for general support for its operations. The two-year award,
totaling $140,000, is meant to assist JVP's
program goal of advancing a "just and durable peace" in
the Middle East.
September 12, 2017 • Reuters
An
American citizen will go to trial in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday
on charges that he supported al Qaeda and helped prepare a 2009 car bomb
attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
September 12, 2017 • Daily
News Egypt
The
three-month old crisis between four Arab countries and Qatar has
continued to escalate, as the latest conflict took place on Monday at a
UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva.
September 12, 2017 • Mida
The
PLO were the founding fathers of modern day Islamic terrorism that is now
spreading throughout the western world. Why then are they showered with
honors and money?
September 12, 2017 • Times
of Israel
After
a week of beating back simulated Hezbollah raids on border communities
and responding to fake rocket fire over much of Israel, the IDF went on a
mock offensive in southern Lebanon, as the military's largest exercise in
nearly two decades came to a culmination on Monday, a senior IDF officer
said.
September 11, 2017 • The
Washington Free Beacon
A
campus activist network will push student governments and university
administrations this year to pass a resolution calling for "an end
to ... the Israeli occupation
of Palestinian territory."
September 11, 2017 • Bloomberg
Less
than a year after being driven out of its Libyan stronghold, Islamic
State is re-emerging in the North African oil producer.
September 11, 2017 • The
Globe and Mail
What
drove three students at the University of Manitoba to travel to Pakistan
to join al-Qaeda? Newly-released correspondence reveals their state of
mind in their own words, including a nine page handwritten letter home.
September 11, 2017 • NJ.com
It
has now been 16 years since the chaos and bloodshed of the morning of
9/11, when an Air Force officer in Rome, New York, was recorded
observing: "This is a new kind of war."
September 10, 2017 • The
Local - DE
German
authorities believe the Islamic State group holds some 11,100 blank
Syrian passports that can be completed with any individual's details,
weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday.
September 10, 2017 • Politico
Jurors
at the trial of a Libyan militia leader accused of spearheading the
attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three
other Americans in 2012 cannot be told of evidence that the same leader
threatened to kill one of Stevens' successors, a federal judge
has ruled.
September 10, 2017 • Christian
Daily
A
Pakistani Christian teen who was arrested on Aug. 12 on blasphemy charges
after being accused of burning pages of the Koran now faces a possible
death sentence if he is convicted or mob violence at the hands of the
local Muslim community.
September 9, 2017 • Minneapolis
StarTribune
Among
them is an 18-year-old St. Louis Park college student who disappeared in
2015 while vacationing with family in Morocco.
September 9, 2017 • The
Telegraph
Some
teachers are too scared to discuss 9/11 with their pupils as they fear a
backlash from Muslim parents, a leading expert in counter-extremism
education has warned.
September 8, 2017 • Jewish
News Service
Members
of Congress and Jewish leaders are urging the U.S. to follow in Norway's
footsteps, after Oslo secured the return of funds it gave to a
Palestinian women's center that
was named in honor of a terrorist.
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