The latest attack in London was a lethal mix of religious dissimulation and Western naïveté. It also, one hopes, buries all the British illusions of deradicalizing jihadists. As the Times reported, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), the so-called “nudge unit” formerly part of the Cabinet Office, had examined 33 deradicalization programs across the UK and found that only two were supposedly successful.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has suggested that relations between Moscow and NATO are “not just halted but…degrading every day,” citing a falloff that began “about five years ago.”
UPDATE, December 16: In the originally posted version of this article, I criticized a Norwegian translation of the Koran for whitewashing some of its more brutal passages. It turns out that the book contains reasonable translations of the passages in question; my confusion was caused by the fact that the verses in the Norwegian version are numbered in a way that differs from the standard numbering. I apologize for this inadvertent misrepresentation. – Bruce Bawer
Le général de Division Ibrahima Dahirou Dembélé a reçu en audience son homologue belge Philippe Goffin, en visite au Mali. Les entretiens qui ont porté sur la situation sécuritaire se sont déroulés le lundi 9 décembre 2019 au Ministère de la Défense et des Anciens Combattants.
Le Gouvernement de la République du Mali informe l’opinion nationale et internationale qu’il a décidé de déclarer Persona Non Grata, le responsable du Bureau de la MINUSMA à Kidal suite aux propos qu’il a récemment tenus.
En conséquence, le responsable concerné dispose de 24h pour quitter le territoire national.
Le 12 décembre 2019 se tiendra au Centre de formation des collectivités territoriales (CFCT) le Comité de pilotage de deux projets de l’Agence française de développement (AFD), baptisés « Sécurité et développement au nord du Mali – Phase 2 » et « 3 Frontières ».
Critics say that the razor wire functions as a significant deterrent to illegal immigration and that by removing it, the Spanish government not only risks unleashing new waves of mass migration from Africa, but also gives effective control of the Spanish border to Morocco, with which Spain has a tense relationship.
Turkey has deported to France the “Islamic State matchmaker” who lured a British teen bride to Syria as part of a drive to send foreign fighters back to their countries of origin.
Belgium is reshuffling and expanding its terrorism database in order to better equip law enforcement authorities to monitor and share information about “potentially dangerous people,” particularly behind bars.
Kosovo prosecutors filed terrorism charges Monday against three ethnic Albanians who returned to the small European country in May after allegedly joining the Islamic State group in Syria.