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Macedonia: "Al-Qaeda had training camps in Macedonia" Via B92 : Al-Quaeda had three training camps in Macedonia, claims retired professor of the Skopje Faculty of Security Ivan Babamovski. (...) Babamovski stated that 25 members of "an ethnic group" in Macedonia had undergone terrorist training in Tehran, Iran, and that one of the leaders of that community had been to Qom, the Shia spiritual center, where he was trained in leading groups related to terrorism.  ( source )

Azerbaijan: Eurovision Terror, Assassination Plots Foiled The news reports don't mention when these arrests took place.  Via Bloomberg : Azerbaijan said its agents foiled plots by Islamic rebels to kill foreigners at the Eurovision song contest in Baku and assassinate President Ilham Aliyev. Azeri law-enforcement officials killed two members of the armed group, including its leader, and arrested 40 more, the National Security Ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. The rebels have links to insurgents in the Dagestan region of neighboring Russia, according to the ministry.  ( source )

Denmark: Two Somali brothers held over terror plot Via UKPA : Two Somalian brothers have been arrested in Denmark on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, the country's security service has said. The pair, aged 18 and 23, were arrested late on Monday - one in the western city of Aarhus and the other as he arrived by plane at Copenhagen's international airport, said the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, or PET. The men were suspected of "being in the process of preparing an act of terror" after they were overheard talking about methods, targets and different weapons types, PET said in a statement, suggesting the suspects had been under surveillance.  ( source )

Somalia: Al-Shabab plotting attack in Netherlands, UK Via RNW : A former commander of the Somali Al Qaeda-linked organisation al-Shabab has said that dormant cells in the Netherlands are secretly preparing terrorist attacks. The commander, who left al-Shabab because of a dispute with its leaders, said the militant Islamist group is actively recruiting and training members of the Somali diaspora in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States to launch attacks in the countries where they have a residence permit. ( source )

Germany: Online terrorist threat against far-right party, magazine Via AP: German officials say they�ve taken security measures at a popular German magazine and for members of a small far-right party after a known terrorist called for them to be attacked in a video online. (...) In it, Bonn-born Yassin Chouka, who is believed to be with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, calls for Muslims to kill Pro NRW members. He also calls for the murder of Der Spiegel employees for printing pictures showing the cartoons. ( source )

 EU: German sues Macedonia for rendition Via AP : A German citizen took his claim that the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan to Europe's human rights court Wednesday in what could be the final chapter of a case that has shed light on U.S. practices in the war on terror. Khaled El-Masri, who is of Lebanese descent, says he was brutally interrogated at a secret CIA-run prison in Afghanistan for more than four months after being kidnapped from Macedonia in 2003, apparently mistaken for a terror suspect. He says he went on a hunger strike for 27 days and was eventually flown back to Europe and abandoned in a mountainous area in Albania. ( source )

UK: Al-Qaeda bomb plot foiled by British double agent Via The Telegraph : He was recommended by a close relative who was trusted by leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the network's Yemeni wing, according to US intelligence. His British passport made him attractive as a recruit for a suicide mission as he would be able to board a flight to America under the visa-waiver programme. But AQAP strategists were persuaded that he was a true believer willing to blow himself up on a plane to the US by what they believed to be his reliable family roots. The mole, who has been moved with his family to a country outside the Middle East under Western intelligence protection, was reportedly born in the region, but grew up Europe and had British citizenship.  ( source )

Macedonia: Thousands of ethnic Albanians protest jailing of co-nationals Via AKI : Thousands of ethnic Albanians on Friday protested in the capital Skopje and several other cities over the jailing of five of their co-nationals in connection of killing of five Macedonians last April. Demonstrators carried banners �Muslims are not terrorists�, �Pristina, Tirana � ethnic Albania� and glorifying the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which fought for Kosovo independence from Serbia. Demonstrators smashed windows on the government building in Skopje, but there were no other major incidents. Protests were also held in other Albanian-populated cities like Tetovo, Debar, Kicevo, Struga and Gostivar. ( source )

Switzerland: Swiss residents join jihad groups Via Swiss Info : Several Swiss residents last year travelled abroad to join jihadist terrorist groups, the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) said on Tuesday, noting that an increase in jihad-motivated travel had been observed generally across Europe. Releasing its annual report on Switzerland�s security situation, FIS said it was aware of several former Swiss residents who are currently in �a jihad area like Somalia or Afghanistan/Pakistan in order to take part in hostilities�. However, the report said that while an increase in jihad-motivated travel movements had been observed across Europe � including in Switzerland � last year, the number of cases remained small, making it difficult to determine if there had been an increase in travel specifically from Switzerland.  ( source )

Macedonia: Albanians Protest Police Arrests   Via Balkan Insight : About a thousand mainly young Albanians gathered for the protest in Skopje�s Cair municipality after the end of midday prayers in Skopje�s Jaja Pasha Mosque. Chanting �Allah is great�, �Those who don�t protest are traitors� and �We will not allow rigged trials�, the group started by marching towards the Skopje court building, heading later towards the government building, demanding the release of all ethnic Albanians detained in Tuesday�s police action. �I am here to express my revolt against the police arrests of innocent Albanians,� one youth told Balkan Insight. �Albanians are not terrorists but there will be trouble as long as the Macedonian police treat them as such,� another said. ( source ) Some of the protestors held the black Jihad flag .

Germany: Foreign Minister calls for international campaign against Internet terrorism Via AFP : Germany's foreign minister on Friday called for international efforts to eradicate "virtual hiding places" for terrorists who use the internet to plan attacks. Speaking at a UN Security Council debate on terrorism, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said: "The Internet is increasingly abused by terrorist groups for incitement and recruitment." He highlighted a case in Germany where an extremist group had used the internet "unnoticed for many years" to "plan vicious attacks and recruit supporters."  ( source )

Ireland: Al-Qaeda targeting Irish for conversion Via the Irish Examiner : Details of the plan emerged in a letter from American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn to an unidentified recipient. The correspondence was found in the house in Pakistan where al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was shot dead by US forces last year. (...) "This was after I noticed the sympathy of the Irish people to the Palestinian issue, and the soft treatment by the Irish judicial system of the Muslims accused of terrorism, and also not participating with its troops in Bush�s crusade wars. "Also, what helped to prepare the message was the last economic crisis that affected Ireland a lot, thus forcing its youth to look for sources of living in the outside. The other matter is the increasing anger in Ireland towards the Catholic Church after exposing a number of sex scandals and others. The people there are moving towards secularism, after it was the most religious of atheist Europe, and why do not we face t...

Russia: Explosions in Dagestan Kill 13, Wound More Than 120 Via The Moscow Times : Two explosions went off at a traffic post in Makhachkala late Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 120 in what police have unequivocally ruled a terrorist attack. A suicide bomber heading out of Makhachkala, the regional capital of the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, detonated the first explosive at the Alaska-30 traffic station around 10:20 p.m. The exact sequence of events is unclear, with one version of the story that the terrorists rammed the checkpoint building with their car and setting off the explosions, and another that they detonated the bomb after police became suspicious of the vehicle and decided to check it as it was leaving the city.   ( source )

Germany: loner terrorists are greatest threat Via the Associated Press : Germany's top security official said Friday the greatest terror threat to the country no longer stems from big networks like al-Qaida but from small, independent terrorist cells or "lone wolf" perpetrators. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told The Associated Press that terrorist activities by Muslim extremist organizations have evolved to be decentralized, making their activities harder to track for authorities. "What worries us" is that there will likely also be more lone wolf attackers who are not directly connected to a major terror group but have radicalized themselves, often through propaganda available online, he said. "There will likely be more of them because the Islamists' propaganda networks seem to be further gearing up." ( source )

Kenya: Belgian, German seized over suspected terror links Via the Daily Nation : Police in Lamu have arrested two foreigners suspected to be members of the Al-Shabaab terror group. Lamu East police boss Samuel Obara on Wednesday said the Tunisian born men were Belgian and German citizens. ( source )

Macedonia: radical Islamists for lake murders Via EurActiv : Police in Macedonia arrested 20 people yesterday (1 May), including radical Islamists who reportedly fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, for the murder of five men at a lake near the capital Skopje in mid-April. On 13 April five slain Macedonian fishermen were discovered beside a lake at the village of Smiljkovci north of Skopje. Four of the victims were in their late teens or early 20s. The fifth was a man in his 40s. Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska said 20 people had been arrested in raids involving 800 police officers at more than 20 locations around the capital. Some would be charged with terrorism, and that the motive behind the attack had been "to spread fear", Jankulovska said. Most of those arrested were Macedonian citizens, she added. ( source )

Germany: Al-Qaeda plans buried in porn Via CNN : On May 16 last year, a 22-year-old Austrian named Maqsood Lodin was being questioned by police in Berlin. He had recently returned from Pakistan via Budapest, Hungary, and then traveled overland to Germany. His interrogators were surprised to find that hidden in his underpants were a digital storage device and memory cards. Buried inside them was a pornographic video called "Kick Ass" -- and a file marked "Sexy Tanja." Several weeks later, after laborious efforts to crack a password and software to make the file almost invisible, German investigators discovered encoded inside the actual video a treasure trove of intelligence -- more than 100 al Qaeda documents that included an inside track on some of the terror group's most audacious plots and a road map for future operations. Future plots include the idea of seizing cruise ships and carrying out attacks in Europe similar to the gun attacks by Pakistani militants ...

Norway: Muslims question focus on Breivik's sanity Via AP : Muslim leaders in Norway say they are concerned that the anti-Islamic ideology of Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic now on trial for killing 77 people, is being overshadowed by questions about his mental state. The self-described anti-Muslim militant shocked Norway on July 22 with a bombing and shooting rampage targeting the government headquarters and the Labor Party's annual youth camp. Since he has admitted to the attacks, the key issue for the trial is to determine whether Breivik is sane enough to be held criminally responsible. "I'm not a psychiatrist, but what is important is what he has done. That should be the focus, not how crazy he is," said Mehtab Afsar, head of the Islamic Council in Norway, an umbrella organization of Muslim groups in the country. ( source )

Germany: "We will conquer Rome!" Via KATH.NET , translated by Via Catholic Church Conservation : A 26-year-old regularly preaches in a mosque in Solingen - Cologne City Superintendent: His theses are an "impertinence", Representatives of Muslim organizations distance themselves Anti-Christian expressions of a radical Islamic preacher concern the Protestant Church Association of Cologne City. The 26-year-old Austrian Mohamed Mahmoud was released in September 2011 after a four-year prison sentence in a Vienna prison on charges of forming and promoting a terrorist organization . After a short stay in Berlin, he moved at the end of 2011 to Solingen, near D�sseldorf. Currently he is living in Erbach in Hessen(Odenwald). Several television stations reported on his challenge to Christianity: "We will conquer Rome! And then Peter's Square, or whatever it's called, yes, that is [...]to be the site of the conversion and the area to implement Allah's laws in o...

Denmark: 3 men arrested on terror suspicion Via AP : Three men have been arrested in Copenhagen on suspicion of plotting a terror attack after police found them with automatic weapons and ammunition, Denmark's intelligence service said Friday. (...) PET described the men as a 22-year-old citizen of Jordan, a 23-year-old Turkish man living in Denmark and a 21-year-old Danish national who lives in Egypt. ( source )