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WASHINGTON — At least six men suspected or convicted of crimes that threaten national security retained their federal aviation licenses, despite antiterrorism laws written after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that required license revocation. Among them was a Libyan sentenced to 27 years in prison by a Scottish court for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie. In response to questions from The New York Times, the Transportation Security Administration, which is supposed to root out such individuals, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration suspended the licenses on Thursday. The two agencies appeared to be unaware that the men were among the nearly one million people licensed as pilots, mechanics and flight dispatchers. They were identified by a tiny family-owned company in Mineola, N.Y., demonstrating software it developed to scrub lists of bank customers for terrorism links. The list also includes an Iranian-American convicted of trying to send jet fighter … [Read more...] about 6 Considered Threats Kept Licenses for Aviation

An alleged member of the Islamic State (IS) group’s ‘Beatles’ kidnap-and-murder cell will face trial in the UK this month on terrorism charges, a judge said on Monday. Aine Davis is accused of belonging to the notorious group of hostage-takers, who grew up and were radicalised in London. Active in Syria from 2012 to 2015, they were allegedly involved in abducting more than two dozen journalists and relief workers from the United States and other countries. The group members were nicknamed the “Beatles" by their captives because of their distinctive British accents. The hostages, some of whom were released after their governments paid ransoms, were from at least 15 countries, including Denmark, France, Japan, Norway, Spain and the United States. The IS tortured and killed their victims, including by beheading and releasing videos of the murders for propaganda purposes. Davis, 38, will go on trial on February 27 at the Old Bailey criminal court in London, judge Mark Lucraft … [Read more...] about IS ‘Beatle’ Cell Members to Face Trial in UK on Terror Charges

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will maybe, possibly consider finally taking the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights should it continue blocking pro-border control measures in the country. The UK government is once again supposedly mulling pulling the country out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) amid problems with the European court associated with it preventing pro-border control laws from being implemented in the country. While the threat is being reported in UK paper of record The Sunday Times , it does not mean however that any action against the court will necessarily be taken by the government anytime soon, with authorities in the Tory Party having talked about pulling out of the ECHR for numerous years to no avail. According to the publication , Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is once again considering getting the UK to leave the human rights accord and replacing it with something more appropriate to the British legal tradition, which is … [Read more...] about UK to Maybe, Possibly Consider Leaving Euro Rights Court if Law Blocked

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A man who was arrested on the grounds of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow pleaded guilty to treason on Friday for planning to attack Queen Elizabeth II . Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, admitted to a charge under the Treason Act of intending to “injure the person of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, or to alarm her Majesty.” He also pleaded guilty to making threats to kill and possessing an offensive weapon. Chail appeared at London’s Central Criminal Court by video link from Broadmoor , a secure psychiatric hospital where he is detained. He is due to be sentenced on March 31 after the judge assesses psychiatric reports. Chail was arrested at the royal residence west of London on Dec. 25, 2021, when the queen was staying there. The monarch died in September 2022 at age 96. Prosecutors say the former … [Read more...] about UK man admits treason over crossbow plot against queen

Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff in England will walk out today in the ongoing dispute over pay, in what is set to be the biggest strike in the history of the NHS . Nurses Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and ambulance workers from the GMB union will walk together for the first time today. Further action from the RCN is expected tomorrow, as nurses say they are tired of being "on our knees." Emergency department nurse Mark Boothroyd, 37, fears we are seeing the “collapse of the NHS and the nursing profession”. He told the Mirror: “I have been nursing for ten years and every year conditions have worsened. Inflation has driven our pay down by 20% and we have seen more and more nurses leaving the profession. It’s at breaking point.” NHS leaders have warned the service is facing its worst day of disruption yet. Today could see the biggest day of strikes yet ( Image: PA) The GMB union has said more than 10,000 ambulance workers in England and Wales … [Read more...] about NHS strikes: Nurses and ambulance workers fear ‘collapse of NHS’ amid biggest day of action yet

A lucky Brit who won a quarter of a million pounds on the lottery has been jailed for failing to pay a £12,000 court debt. Gerry Donaldson, 52, struck gold when he nabbed the £250,000 prize but seemingly appeared to blow it all. The lotto winner has since been convicted of growing cannabis and an initial confiscation order of £11,750 was levelled back in 2018. But four years on, the figure has been raised to £12,335 with interest, according to a hearing at Jedburgh Sheriff Court in Scotland last week. Donaldson, who won big on a scratch card back in 2010, was heard to have been on a fast decline since pocketing the prize. Prosecutor Fiona Hamilton said: "He won a significant amount on the lottery some time ago but there are no details on where this has gone." The case was heard at Jedburgh Sheriff Court in Scotland ( Image: Daily Record) Investigators found the grandfather had received £36,000 for the sale of his home in March 2021, Ms Hamilton explained. … [Read more...] about Lottery winner who scooped £250,000 jailed for failing to pay £12,000 court debt

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . Late one summer evening in 2018, an American citizen named Joseph Mahmoud Dibee was sitting in José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba — trying, unsuccessfully, to sleep — when he was approached by three men. Dibee, a civil engineer, was in Havana on a layover. After a long business trip in Ecuador, he was heading home to Russia, where he lived with his wife and stepson. The men demanded his passport, then led him out of the terminal and into a waiting sedan. Dibee asked where they were going, but got no response. Sandwiched between his captors, he was driven miles through the night before finally arriving at what appeared to be a jail. For the next three days, Dibee would claim in a subsequent court filing, he was imprisoned without explanation and, in effect, tortured. His small concrete cell was open to the elements; during the day, the cage baked. As … [Read more...] about The Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground

When Robert Eringer first saw Craig Rosebraugh in the news, he knew his professional contacts would be very interested in the young man’s story. A masterful account of Mr. Rosebraugh’s life as a radical environmentalist — not to mention his connections with domestic terrorists — would certainly impress the people who paid Mr. Eringer. He was a pro at getting people to reveal intimate details of their lives in the memoirs he helped them produce. He would reach out to Mr. Rosebraugh and get him to write a book, to tell his story in all of its specifics. That story had begun in the blink of an email one evening in 1998, as Mr. Rosebraugh, a tall, thin environmentalist, was making dinner. Alone in his one-bedroom apartment in Portland, Ore., he spotted an encrypted message in his inbox and decoded it to find a communiqué, addressed to him, from the Earth Liberation Front. Two days earlier, on Oct. 19, 1998, eight fires had torched a mile-long stretch of Vail Mountain in Colorado, … [Read more...] about The Case of the Eco-Terrorists and the Book Deal

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $50,000 reward for a Seattle man it says is a domestic terrorist. But that has not kept him from keeping his pilot’s license or from trying to sell his airplane online, apparently because the Transportation Security Administration has not compared the F.B.I.’s wanted list with the Federal Aviation Administration’s list of licensed pilots. The pilot, Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, 31, was indicted with 10 other people in January 2006, in Eugene, Ore., on charges that they committed arson, destroyed an electric tower and other acts of domestic terrorism. Credit for those acts and others were claimed by two groups, the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front. The F.B.I. says Mr. Dibee may have fled to Syria. According to F.A.A. records, Mr. Dibee still owns a single-engine airplane, a 1977 Grumman/American Cheetah. He is also trying to sell the plane on the Internet for $39,000. The New York Times learned … [Read more...] about Fugitive Still Licensed to Fly by the F.A.A.

Nearly two decades after fleeing the United States, a Seattle man with ties to environmental extremist groups pleaded guilty in federal court last week to conspiring to commit arson attacks on commercial and government-owned animal-processing facilities in Oregon and California, federal prosecutors said . The man, Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, now 53, fled the country in 2005 and was first indicted in 2006 by a federal grand jury in Oregon. Prosecutors said Mr. Dibee’s pending criminal case in the Western District of Washington was resolved by his guilty plea on Thursday. Mr. Dibee conspired with at least 15 other members of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front to damage commercial and government-owned animal-processing facilities with improvised explosives concocted with ingredients including fuel-filled milk jugs and model rocket igniters, according to court documents. Members of the groups, referred to as the Family, vowed to keep their identities secret from law … [Read more...] about Man Who Fled U.S. in 2005 Pleads Guilty to Environmental Arson Conspiracies