Weekly Security Brief - Sept 22nd

Dilitas Weekly Security Brief

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The threat to the UK from International Terrorism is SEVERE
The threat to Great Britain from Irish Republican Terrorism is MODERATE


Domestic:
A new video has been released showing a British man believed to be held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants. The man says he is journalist John Cantlie and that he is a prisoner. Dressed in orange, Mr Cantlie, who in 2012 escaped an earlier kidnapping in Syria, asks why he and others have been abandoned by the US and UK governments. IS has recently killed three hostages and, in a video showing the death of UK aid worker David Haines, threatened to kill British man Alan Henning next.
The Foreign Secretary has said that the intelligence services do not know where Alan Henning is being held hostage by Islamist militants, making a rescue mission to save his life by Special Forces impossible. The candid remarks by Philip Hammond come as Britain's intelligence services are believed to be trying to locate Henning, whom Islamic State (ISIS) are threatening to murder.

The wife of a British taxi driver being held hostage by Islamic State has pleaded with the militants to "see it in their hearts" to release him. Alan Henning, from Eccles in Salford, was seized while on an aid mission to Syria last December. In a statement released via the Foreign Office, his wife Barbara said he had been driving an ambulance stocked with food and water at the time. Mrs Henning said she had sent messages to IS but had received no response.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that sending in combat troops to fight Islamic State militants on the ground should not be ruled out. Mr Blair said in a BBC interview: "Unless you're prepared to fight these people on the ground, you may contain them but you won't defeat them."
He said there was "no appetite for ground engagement in the West" and that local forces could take on the role.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is to meet foreign ministers from around the world to discuss plans to tackle IS militants in Iraq and Syria. This comes after the public beheading of British hostage David Haines, and released videos of aid work Alan Henning and more recently, journalist John Cantlie. Since the release of the video showing Alan Henning, who is threatened with death by IS extremists in Syria, British Muslim Leaders have called for the immediate release of the aid worker. In a letter published in the Independent newspaper, signatories described IS as ‘un-Islamic fanatics’ and urged them to show mercy on Mr. Henning.
The prospect of Britain joining military action against the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi group moved closer as Prime Minister Cameron led international condemnation of the ritualized killing of the British aid worker David Haines and threats against a second UK citizen, Alan Henning. As western diplomats reported that several Arab states had offered to join a US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the insurgents, the prime minister said the UK was "ready to take whatever steps are necessary" to deal with the threat of ISIS.
British children under ten are being turned into “junior jihadis” as extremists bombard them with dangerous propaganda, London's deputy mayor has warned. Stephen Greenhalgh said he and Boris Johnson have been briefed about radicalised primary school pupils. “It starts very young with them being subjected to propaganda, extremist ideology, and being trained to be junior jihadis,” he said.
Politicians and the media should stop referring to the extremist group controlling parts of Syria and Iraq as "Islamic State" in a bid to discourage Britons from joining them, leading Muslims have warned. A group of prominent civic and religious figures have written to the Prime Minister urging him to "refuse to legitimise" the terror group by switching to an alternative such as "Un-Islamic State".
Britain is set to impose curbs on Muslim Brotherhood-linked organisations and block activists moving to London after a report by a senior diplomat raised concerns over the group's links to extremists in the Middle East. David Cameron has asked the UK’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, to compile a full report on the Muslim Brotherhood after Gulf allies put pressure on the government to curtail the movement's London-based operations. Critics of the movement accuse it of links to jihadist groups and of pursuing divisive sectarian politics that infringe the freedom of other religions and Islamic interpretations.
Anti-terror police searched a field close to Luton Airport on 15 September after reports of two Asian men were looking at planes with a range finder. Armed police and sniffer dog units descended on the rural outskirts of the town after a 999 call reporting "suspicious activity." The worried man who made the emergency call, who did not want to be named, said, "There were two Asian men using a range finder and they were watching the planes going past. "It just didn't feel right so I called the police." Dozens of officers were dispatched to a field in Slip End - three miles from the UK's fifth largest airport, which has 12 million passengers per year.

An 18 year-old man from the West Midlands has been arrested in Brighton in connection with a 2013 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Home Office website. This incident highlights ‘Lone Actor’ cyber attacks targeting. There is no denying the exponential growth of the cyber threat; however, reporting to date suggests the current perpetrators are either motivated by criminal gain or political activism/grievance

Northern Ireland and Eire:

Drew Harris has been appointed deputy chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. A Policing Board member has claimed that promotion prospects are limited for any police officer who signs an arrest warrant for a Sinn Féin member. Drew Harris had sanctioned the arrest of the Sinn Féin president earlier this year. when Gerry Adams was detained and questioned for four days about the IRA murder of Belfast mother-of-ten Jean McConville in 1972. He was later released without charge.
The biggest military training exercise to be held in Northern Ireland since before the Troubles is being held in the North West next week. Lieutenant Colonel Matt Monroe, who commands the Royal Scots Borderers said it was a "really important" exercise.
 "This is about preparing them for potential operational service overseas. It's right to do it now, because we face an uncertain future, there's a tremendous amount going on in the world so it's important that our soldiers are prepared appropriately and well." He also said while 500 soldiers were taking part in what he described as a military skills competition, not all of them would be involved at the same time. He said local people should not be alarmed if they see large numbers of soldiers in their area. He said the regiment had been received well since coming to Northern Ireland.
A new full inquest is to be held into the IRA massacre of 10 Protestant workers shot dead in South Armagh in 1976. The men were taken out of their minibus and then riddled with bullets at Kingsmills. Their sole Catholic colleague was spared because of his religion. Although the Provisional IRA never publicly admitted it was responsible, victims' campaigners, republicans and politicians blame its South Armagh Brigade. No one has been convicted in relation to the deaths. The Historical Enquiries Team – the police unit tasked with investigating unsolved past crimes from Ulster's Troubles – has also laid the blame for the massacre at the Provisionals' door.

International:

French jets have carried out their first strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, the office of President Francois Hollande says. A statement said planes had attacked an IS depot in north-east Iraq, and there would be more raids in the coming days. The US has carried out more than 170 air strikes against the jihadist group in Iraq since mid-August. IS remains in control of dozens of cities and towns in Iraq and Syria, where it has declared a caliphate.

Turkey has allowed thousands of Syrian Kurds fleeing Islamic State (IS) militants to cross its southern border, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. TV footage showed exhausted people, mostly women and children, crossing into the south-eastern border village of Dikmetas under tight security. The move followed clashes with Turkish Kurd protesters who were calling for the refugees to be allowed in. Syrian Kurds have been massing along the Turkish border since Thursday.
Turkey has begun to close some of its border crossings with Syria after about 100,000 Kurdish refugees entered the country over the past two days. On Sunday Turkish security forces clashed with Kurds protesting in solidarity with the refugees. Some protesters were reportedly trying to go to Syria to fight Islamic State (IS).
Most refugees are from Kobane, a town threatened by the advancing militants.

Suicide bombs and mortar fire have killed at least 15 people in a Shia district of Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. The attacks took place in the northern Kadhimiya area of the capital, the site of a major Shia shrine. At least 30 people were wounded in the evening assault, police reported. Earlier attacks in and around the capital killed 15 people, the Associated Press news agency says. In Kadhimiya, police officers say a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a security checkpoint. Minutes later, mortar shells landed in different parts of the district, hitting houses and a bus station. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni militants, including members of the Islamic State (IS) group, often target Iraq's Shia majority, whom they regard as heretics.

An attack in the Sinai region of Egypt has hit an armoured convoy killing 6 people, reported to be police officers. The attack on the border with Gaza is the latest of many in the region over recent months.
At least 3 soldiers were killed when a suicide VBIED attacked a military convoy in Kabul.
Security services in Uganda say they have foiled an imminent terrorist attack after the seizure of "substantial amounts of explosives and suicide vests” in raids which saw 19 people arrested. The authorities say the suspected al-Shabaab terrorist cell was planning an assault on the capital Kampala.
The Iraqi ambassador to the Holy See has warned that one of ISIL’s goals is to assassinate Pope Francis. Habeeb al-Sadr said that while he does not have any intelligence on an impending attack, ISIL’s “genocide” of Yazidi Christians indicate their intent. He added that ISIL “don’t just threaten,” and that it is “clear” they want to kill Pope Francis. He also warned that an attack on the Pope may not necessarily happen in an Arab or Muslim-majority country, as some ISIL militants “have Western passports.” “ISIL could send these fighters to commit a terrorist attack in Europe,” he said.

Pope Francis has denounced extremists around the world for "perverting" religion to justify violence during a visit to Albania. Tens of thousands of Albanians attended an open air Mass celebrated by the pontiff in the capital, Tirana. He praised the "peaceful coexistence" of religions in the country, where a Muslim majority lives alongside Catholics and Orthodox Christians. Security is tight for the visit amid rumours of a jihadist plot against him.

President Obama has said Congress's backing for his $500m plan to aid moderate Syrian rebels shows the world the US is united against Islamic State. He spoke moments after the US Senate approved his plan, a day after it was passed by the House of Representatives. "The strong bipartisan support in Congress for this new training effort shows the world Americans are united in confronting the threat from Isil." On Thursday, the US continued to strike IS targets in Iraq.
The White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters 12 September that the US is officially “at war” with ISIL, this just 24 hours after US Secretary of State John Kerry denied it. “The United States is at war with ISIL in the same way we are at war with al-Qaeda and its affiliates all around the globe,” he said. Also on the same day, Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said, “Make no mistake, we know we are at war with ISIL.” However, Mr Kerry baulked at calling it war, describing it instead as “a very significant counter-terrorism operation.”
The CIA has reportedly said that IS may have up to 31,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria; three times as many as previously feared. A spokesman said the new estimate was based on a review of intelligence reports from May to August. Reports suggest that Jordan alone has more than 2000 people fighting for the militant group. IS has seized vast swathes of Iraq and beheaded several hostages in recent months, leading to US airstrikes. US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Turkey, seeking more support for action against IS. Currently 10 Arab states have agreed to rally behind Washington in the fight against Islamic State agreeing to, “do their share in the comprehensive fight".
The militant Islamic State group has released a video warning the US that fighters await in Iraq if Barack Obama sends troops there. The video was released after the US military stepped up its campaign against Islamic State (IS) militants with a series of airstrikes across Iraq and Syria. The 52-second film, entitled “Flames of War”, shows militants blowing up tanks, wounded US soldiers and others about to be killed. It then shows a clip of the US president saying that combat troops will not return to Iraq, ending with a text overlay that reads “fighting has just begun.”
Support for ISIL has increased since US air strikes began in Iraq, the FBI Director James Comey said last week. "ISIL's use of social media and growing online support intensified following the commencement of US airstrikes in Iraq," he said. Mr Comey also warned that ISIL may take more hostages to force concessions from Washington. Separately, the director of the National Counterterrorism Centre in the US, told Reuters that Syria remains a prime training ground for militant groups. "The rate of travellers into Syria exceeds the rate of travellers who went into Afghanistan/Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen or Somalia at any point in the last 10 years," he said.
Around 930 French citizens or residents, including at least 60 women, are either actively engaged in jihad in Iraq and Syria or are planning to go there. In an interview with Le Journal de Dimanche weekly, the French Interior Minister said, “930 French citizens or foreigners usually resident in France are today involved in jihad in Iraq and Syria.

Germany has announced an immediate ban on all activity that promotes ISIL, including distributing propaganda material, displaying the group’s symbols, or taking part in activities connected to the group. Security agencies estimate that at least 400 people from Germany have joined ISIL, and that at least 100 jihadists have returned to the country. The German Interior Minister has warned that ISIL poses a “threat to public security in Germany,” and said its recruitment efforts must to be stopped.
An alleged German jihadist went on trial last week accused of fighting in Syria for the Islamic State group, amid calls for tougher action to prevent attacks in Europe by militants. In the first German criminal proceedings involving IS, Kreshnik Berisha, a 20-year-old born near Frankfurt to a family from Kosovo, has been charged with membership of a foreign terrorist organisation. He could face 10 years in prison if convicted by the city’s superior regional court. Source Germany is currently investigating 140 cases connected to ISIL membership.
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. spoke at a rally in Berlin condemning a rise in hate crime against the Jewish community and calls for ‘fight against Anti- Semitism’. As seen across Europe, Germany saw a marked increase in anti-Semitic crime during the Gaza crisis. Separately, a synagogue in Brussels, Belgium was the very recent target of an arson attack, which comes 5 months after the terrorist shooting at a Jewish museum in the capital.

A man accused of planning to assist the Islamic State militant group and attempting to murder US soldiers has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Mufid A Elfgeeh, 30, a naturalised citizen from Yemen, was arrested in May after an undercover operation. Mr Elfgeeh, from Rochester, New York, tried to buy two handguns from an FBI informant, court documents said. He allegedly planned to kill Shia Muslims and American military personnel returning from the Middle East. The hearing last Thursday was unusually long, as the entire indictment against Mr Elfgeeh was translated into Arabic for him, a local newspaper reported. His lawyer told the court Mr Elfgeeh does speak some English but he wanted to make sure the accused fully understood the allegations against him, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

A deal to form a government of national unity in Afghanistan has been signed at a ceremony in Kabul. The signing comes after months of wrangling following presidential elections in April and June. Under the deal, Ashraf Ghani becomes president while runner-up Abdullah Abdullah nominates a CEO with powers similar to those of prime minister. Later, the election commission declared Mr Ghani as winner of the bitterly fought poll.

Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Basindwa has resigned amid escalating clashes in the capital between Shia Houthi rebels and pro-government forces. The rebels also claim to have taken over government headquarters, key ministries and state broadcasters. Scores have died and hundreds have fled their homes in the latest crisis. The latest development comes a day after a UN envoy announced a truce deal - yet to be signed - between the government and the rebels.
Fighting between Shia rebels and Sunni militias in Yemen has escalated, with clashes on the edge of the capital. Armed rebels, known as Houthis, shelled buildings of the state TV and the main Sunni Islamist party, Islah, in Sanaa. Hundreds of residents have fled their homes and international flights to the city have been suspended. About 40 people have been killed since Tuesday, reports say. The rebels have staged protests for weeks, demanding political and economic reforms.

Al-Qaeda attempted to hijack a Pakistani naval vessel and use it to attack US Navy vessels, Pakistani security officials said. The attack on the frigate PNS Zulfiqar was attempted on 6 September in part by Pakistani Navy personnel recruited by al-Qaeda. In a suicide bombing and an exchange of fire, 10 militants and one naval officer were killed. The incident raised fears about terrorist infiltration of Pakistan's military force. News of the incident, which may have been timed to coincide with the anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre, was concealed until information was recently leaked.
A new armed group calling itself the ‘Caliphate Soldiers in Algeria’ has split from al-Qaeda's North African branch and sworn loyalty to the radical breakaway group Islamic State fighting in Syria and Iraq. A breakaway of key Algerian commanders from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM, would show deepening rivalry between al-Qaeda's core command and the Islamic State over leadership of the transnational Islamist militancy.

The United Nations mission in Mali says five of its peacekeepers have died and another three were wounded by an explosive device. The attack happened in the north of the country, in the Kidal region. The deaths of the soldiers, who were all from Chad, brings the number of UN peacekeepers in Mali killed so far this month to ten.

Police have carried out anti-terrorism raids in Sydney sparked by intelligence reports that Islamist extremists were planning random killings in Australia. PM Tony Abbott said a senior Australian Islamic State militant had called for "demonstration killings", reportedly including a public beheading. The raids, with at least 800 heavily armed officers, led to 15 arrests. One man has been charged with planning an attack. Prosecutors said it involved "gruesomely" killing someone. Omarjan Azari, 22, is accused of conspiring with Mohammad Ali Baryalei - believed to be the most senior Australian member of IS - and several others between May and September, according to court documents.
Security is being upgraded at the Australian parliament following "chatter" suggesting extremists could target it for attack. PM Tony Abbot said Australian Federal Police would assume responsibility for security at the site in Canberra. The move came a day after major anti-terrorism raids took place in Sydney. They were aimed at thwarting an alleged plan by Islamic State (IS) supporters to carry out killings in Australia, including an on-camera beheading.

For the first time one European country now contains both NATO troops and Russian combat units, although they are deployed at opposite ends of Ukraine about 700 miles apart. America and the leading Western powers began a military exercise in Ukraine last week after renewed fighting in the east claimed at least six lives in breach of a supposed ceasefire. About 1,300 troops from 15 countries joined Exercise Rapid Trident held in the western region of Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of people have marched in Moscow to protest against Russia's involvement in the Ukraine conflict. People carrying Russian and Ukrainian flags chanted "No to war!" and "Stop lying!" Similar rallies took place in St Petersburg and other Russian cities. Ukraine accuses Russia of arming rebels in the east and sending Russian troops across the border. Moscow denies this.
Two people have been killed and others hurt in a series of blasts in China's Xinjiang region, Chinese media say. A local Communist Party news site said the blasts took place on Sunday in at least three locations in Luntai county. Xinjiang has seen rising tensions between the local Muslim Uighur population and Han Chinese settlers.

Gunmen have attacked a teacher training college in the Nigerian city of Kano, with officials saying at least 15 people have been killed. The attackers exchanged fire with police outside the college before running inside. Another 34 people were injured. It is not clear who was responsible, although suspicion will fall on militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009.
Torture has become such an integral part of policing in Nigeria that many stations have an informal torture officer, Amnesty International says. Both the military and police use a wide range of torture methods including beatings, nail and teeth extractions and other sexual violence, it says. One woman accused of theft in Lagos said she was sexually assaulted, and had tear gas sprayed into her vagina. Nigeria's police told the BBC the force had a "zero tolerance for torture".

Eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about Ebola have been killed by villagers using machetes and clubs in Guinea, officials say. Some of the bodies - of health workers, local officials and journalists - were found in a septic tank in a village school near the city of Nzerekore. Correspondents say many villagers are suspicious of official attempts to combat the disease. More than 2,600 people have now died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
A French aid worker from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia, reports say. It follows a warning by the World Bank that the epidemic is threatening economic disaster across West Africa. The woman is being repatriated to the French capital Paris under maximum security.

A three-day curfew began last week in Sierra Leone to enable health workers to find and isolate cases of Ebola, in order to halt the spread of the disease. Many people have been reluctant to seek medical treatment for Ebola, fearing that diagnosis might mean death as there is no proven cure. A team of 30,000 people is going house-to-house to find those infected and distribute soap. But critics say the lockdown will damage public trust in doctors. Meanwhile in neighbouring Guinea, the bodies of eight missing health workers and journalists involved in the Ebola campaign have been found.
A three-day curfew aimed at containing the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has been declared a success by authorities. The wide-ranging curfew ended at midnight on Sunday (GMT) and will not be extended, authorities said.

An American who travelled to North Korea and reportedly claimed asylum, ripping up his visa on arrival, will serve six years in a labor camp. North Korea's Supreme Court said Matthew Miller, a 24-year-old from Bakersfield, California, had entered the country illegally and tried to commit an act of espionage. Mr Miller was arrested in April and put on trial last weekend. The court denied him any appeal, and details of the proceedings were not published.

Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide. The People's Climate March is campaigning for curbs on carbon emissions, ahead of the UN climate summit in New York next week. In Manhattan, organisers said some 310,000 people joined a march that was also attended by UN chief Ban Ki-moon. Earlier, huge demonstrations took place in Australia and Europe. "This is the planet where our subsequent generations will live," Mr Ban told reporters. "There is no 'Plan B' because we do not have 'Planet B'." The UN Secretary General was accompanied by primatologist Jane Goodall and the French Ecology Minister, Segolene Royal.
The Mexican authorities have issued a new alert about a toxic spill into a river from a copper mine run by the mining giant Grupo Mexico. Officials in the northern state of Sonora asked people not to use water from the Bacanuchi river after an orange stain appeared in it. On 7 August gallons of sulphuric acid poured into the river. At the time local officials accused the company of trying to conceal the accident and of lax supervision. The chemical, which is used to dissolve copper from ore, turned a 60km (40-mile) stretch of the Sonora River orange, causing the authorities to shut down the municipal water supply to 20,000 people in seven towns. Following the reports of a new spillage, the mining company said a storm overflow after heavy rains had caused a new leak.

Cyber Issues:

A team of British computer hackers as young as 16 who call themselves ‘ISIS’ are facing extradition to the US for allegedly threatening to carry out school massacres. Investigators suspect three people in the UK - two of whom are said to be in Scotland - are linked to more than 12 hoax calls threatening mass murder, hostage taking and the release of poisonous gas. The calls made on Skype are believed to have cost US authorities more than £600,000 ($1million) in emergency response units - and the UK gang members face up to 15 years in jail if convicted.
Extremist groups in the Middle East are reportedly preparing to launch a massive cyber-attack against the United States. According to a Fox News report, leaders of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and al-Qaeda are stepping up efforts to seek a digital caliphate. One of the jihadist leaders had allegedly hacked the Gmail account of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. ISIS militants have openly bragged on the Internet that it was only a matter of time before they can get away with disrupting the US financial and infrastructure system. ISIS, an extremist group claiming to have established a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, is publicly announcing its plans of a caliphate in the Internet. Reports said it will be secured by encryption software the jihadists developed.
Iran is behind cyber-attacks against Israel, including during this summer’s Gaza conflict, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said last weekend. He spoke of the significance of Internet security both in the fight against terrorism and for the country’s future economy. “I want to make clear that the party behind the cyber-attacks against Israel is first and foremost Iran,” Netanyahu said as he addressed the fourth international cyber-security conference at Tel Aviv University. This includes cyber-attacks by Hamas and other terrorist groups, Netanyahu added. “Iran and its proxies take advantage of the security and anonymity of cyber space” to attack Israel and other countries, Netanyahu said.

Significant Forthcoming Anniversaries:
Sept 23, 1983 United Arab Emirates: Gulf Air aircraft bombed; 111 killed including one American
 25/26 Sept 2014 Jewish Festival - Rosh Hashanah
1 Oct 2001 Prime Minister Blair declared war on Afghanistan.
1 Oct 2005 Bali: Resort bombings kill 26 and injure more than 100.
1 Oct 1995 Sheikh Umar Abd al-Rahman convicted in plot to blow up UN Headquarters and other landmarks in New York
 3 Oct 1990 Unification of East and West Germany
3 Oct 2014 Islamic: Al-Hajj, the Pilgramage, begins (ends 7 October 2014)
5 Oct 2010 Faisal Shahzad convicted, sentenced to life imprisonment, for role in failed vehicle bombing in Times Square, New York City
 6 Oct 2002 The French oil tanker Limberg is attacked and damaged in the Gulf of Aden. One dead. Al-Qaeda blamed.
 6 Oct 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated during a military parade by Egyptian Islamic Jihad
 6 Oct 1973 Yom Kippur War begins.
7 Oct 2004 Terrorists car-bomb Hilton resort in Taba, Egypt, and two other tourist areas. 34 people killed, more than 100 wounded.
 7 Oct 2001 The US-led coalition begins its military campaign in Afghanistan in response to 9/11 attacks
 7 Oct 1985 Hijacking of Achille Lauro cruise ship in which one US citizen is murdered.
 12 Oct 2000 Seaborne suicide bombing of the USS Cole of Yemen kills 17 US Naval personnel.
 12 Oct 2002 Multiple car bombs explode outside nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, killing 202.
 12 Oct 1984 The attempted murder of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by the Provisional IRA detonating a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton during Conservative Party conference. Five people were killed in the attack.
 13 Oct Columbus Day. Public holiday in US
15 Oct 2003 Palestinian militants bomb a U.S. Embassy motorcade in the Gaza Strip killing three diplomatic security contractors.
 17 Oct 1995 Suspected Algerian Islamists (GIA) bomb the Paris Metro wounding 30
 19 Oct 1983 U.S. troops invade Grenada.
23 Oct 1983 In Lebanon, Islamic Jihad mount a VBIED attack on a U.S. Marines (and French paratroopers) barracks in Beirut killing 241 U.S. Marines and 58 paratroopers.
 23 Oct 2002 Moscow theater siege begins. 50 Chechen extremist take over theater with 800 hostages. In a military resolution by Russian SF, 124 hostages (including one American), and all the Chechen hostage takers, are killed.
 23 Oct 1998 Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign a peace deal at Wye River, Maryland, USA
 24 Oct 1945 United Nations formerly established
25 Oct 2014 First of Muharram - Islamic New Year
26 Oct 1988 Publication by Penguin books of Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’.
 26 Oct 1994 Jordan and Israel sign peace accord.
26 Oct 2001 The USA PATRIOT Act is signed into law by President Bush – Background
 26 Oct 2014 British Summer Time ends. Clocks in the UK go back one hour. (In U.S., Daylight Saving Time ends 3 November 2011)
 27 Oct 1947 Indian occupation of Kashmir.
28 Oct 2002 USAID official Laurence Foley is murdered in Amman, Jordan
29 Oct 2005 Bombings in New Delhi, India, kill 55, wound close to 200. A radical Islamist group claimed responsibility
 29 Oct 1975 West Germany: Three Black September terrorists hijack Lufthansa plane and demand release of jailed terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre.
 31 Oct 1984 India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
 31Oct 2014 Halloween
2 Nov 1922 Balfour declaration leading to the creation of an Israeli State
3 Nov 2001 A 60lb vehicle bomb left outside Birmingham rail station is made safe. Blamed on Irish republican dissidents, this is the last recorded terrorist incident linked to Northern Ireland to have occurred on mainland UK.
 4 Nov 1979 U.S. Embassy in Tehran seized, 66 taken hostage
4 Nov 1995 Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzak Rabin.
6 Nov 2012 Election Day (U.S.)
9 Nov 2005 Three near simultaneous bombs function at Western hotels in Amman, Jordan killing 50 and injuring 110. Al-Qaeda in Iraq claims credit.
 9 Nov 2003 18 people are killed in an attack on a Riyadh residential compound mounted by Saudi al-Qaeda members.
 9 Nov 1938 ‘Kristalnach’ – Night of the broken glass when Nazi’s in Germany took action against the Jews.
 12 Nov 1997 Pakistan: Four U.S. nationals and their Pakistani driver are murdered in a Karachi ambush
 13 Nov 1995 Saudi Arabia: A VBIED at a U.S. military advisors facility in Riyadh kills 7 people and injures 60 others.
 13 Nov 1988 Palestinian National Council recognizes Israel
14 Nov 1948 Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales – Gun salutes in Hyde Park
15 Nov 1988 Palestinian symbolic day of Independence
17 Nov 1997 Egypt: Al Gama al’Islamiya attacks tourists in Luxor killing 71 people.
 17 Nov 1973 Student uprising in Greece results in police killing 34 students. The November 17 terrorist group in Greece takes its name from this event.
 20 Nov 2003 Turkey: Near simultaneous vehicle borne IED’s function at the gates of the British Consulate in Istanbul and at the British HSBC Bank killing 30 people. Al Qaeda blamed for the attack.
 22 Nov 1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
23 Nov 1996 Hijacked Ethiopian airliner crashes into sea in Comoros Islands killing 127 people, one of whom was an American national.
 25 Nov 1984 The U.S. Embassy in Portugal is hit by four mortar rounds – blamed on the domestic terrorist group, FP25
 26 Nov 2008 Terrorists attack several sites in Mumbai; sieges end three days later with more than 170 dead and 300 wounded; surviving attacker says LT responsible
 27 Nov 1978 Founding day of the Kurdish extremist group, the PKK.
28 Nov 2002 Kenya: Three suicide bombers mount an attack on the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa killing 15 people. Al-Qaeda blamed.
 29 Nov 1987 Korean Airlines flight 858 is sabotaged by two North Korean agents over the Adaman Sea killing all 115 passengers and crew.
 29 Nov 1947 UN Resolution that partitions Palestine. Now designated as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.


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