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Fraud experts have uncovered "significant" links between insurance fraudsters and terrorist groups, but wider publicity of the issue by the industry is being prevented amid police concerns. Market views on instances of insurance fraud funding terrorism were aired following a speech by Metropolitan Police commissioner Mark Rowley at the British Bankers' Association conference in late September, in which he claimed "a third of counter-terrorism policing", as measured by arrests, was fraud-related. In particular, Rowley linked false claims on home and motor insurance policies to the travel of radicalised British Muslims to join the Islamic State movement in Syria and Iraq. One senior fraud source told Post links between terrorism and fraud are widely recognised in the insurance industry. "We all know this type of activity is funded in various ways," they said. "I have little doubt some of the things we have looked at will have links wit...

British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered a remarkable and powerful speechMonday on combatting radical Islamist extremism, a topic many other Western leaders including President Obama avoid tackling head on. Cameron, speaking at a Birmingham school, appropriately distinguished between "Islamist extremism" – a fundamentalist political ideology with religious underpinnings and "Islam the religion." He directly addressed moderate British Muslims, framing the struggle against radical Islam as a phenomenon that is plaguing the Muslim community. "I know too how much you hate the extremists who are seeking to divide our communities and how you loathe that damage they do," he said. Cameron defined what he saw as the roots of the threat. While many point to poverty or Western wars in the Middle East, Cameron explicitly called out Islamist ideology and radicalization as driving the violent threat facing British and other societies. There is no ...

By Alexis Knutsen The United States began withdrawing its remaining personnel from Yemen Saturday, citing deteriorating security conditions. About 100 American troops, including the special operations forces assisting the Yemeni military in the fight against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), were evacuated. The move diminishes America’s intelligence footprint in Yemen and abandons the country to AQAP, the Iranian-backed al Houthis, and, now, the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham (ISIS). What does the Obama administration intend to do about the threat from Yemen? So far, not much. Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, AQAP, is nowhere close to being defeated, and is, in fact, benefiting from Yemen’s chaos. Yemen has slowly collapsed into two rival governments – one in northern Yemen controlled by the Zaydi Shia rebel group known as the al Houthis, and the other in southern Yemen under former President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, whom the US still...

By  Sage Eurasian (UK) At this moment when Russia is being hit with a new propaganda attack over ‘political murder’ in Moscow it’s a good time to recall 12 notable US national political figures, all found murdered or suspiciously dead – Senators, Congressmen, Federal Prosecutors, Federal Judge, Governor, CIA Director – after questioning corruption or disturbing US oligarch leadership – since the 1963 JFK assassination. With 4 coup d’état ‘hits’ on the last 10 US Presidents themselves. The list makes clear the ongoing menace of murder of any US prosecutor or national judge or politician who does not serve US ruling political families. Especially note the recent, media-hidden shooting murder of US Federal (national) Judge Roll after ruling against the US regime, along with the ‘suiciding’ deaths of two US Federal Prosecutors Ross and Colbert … ‘hits’ which keep even the US Supreme Court and all US prosecutors in terror and behaving submissively. Source:...

Political assassinations have been part of social reality since the emergence of communal social frameworks, as the leaders of tribes, villages, and other types of communities constantly needed to defend their privileged status. In the ancient world assassination featured prominently in the rise and fall of some of the greatest empires. While many people are familiar with the military victories of Alexander the Great, few today recall that his ascendance to power was facilitated by the assassination of his father (an innovative and talented politician in his own right), who was struck down by a bodyguard as he was entering a theater to attend his daughter’s marriage celebrations. In a somewhat more famous incident, Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BCE by Roman senators who increasingly feared that Caesar would revoke their privileges. In modern times, political assassinations continue to play an important role in political and social processes and, in some cases, ha...

The modern media often use the term ‘Terrorist cell’ but rarely explain what exactly a terrorist cell is.  The ‘Cell system’ is an effective and long established method of organisation for terrorist or resistance groups.  It has been and still is being used by terrorist organisations like Al Qaeda to great effect. A terrorist cell is a small group of terrorists who have a specific task and operate together normally all knowing each other but having very little contact if any with anyone else in the terrorist organisation. This allows an efficient specialisation of role but also reduces the damage to the organisation if a cell is infiltrated or members captured. Think of the cell system as a damage control mechanism, once a cell is captured it is easy to prevent the damage spreading into the rest of the organisation and some cells may actually be physically close to each other and not know of each others existence. Cells are tightly knit and all members know each other w...

Assassination as a method of terrorism can be defined as the killing of an important or famous person as opposed to a random shooting or killing. For the terrorist viable assassination targets fall into 2 broad categories; firstly a target could be someone who would attract a lot of media attention such as a monarch or political leader here the murder is purely to attract media attention and heighten the fear of terrorism and the fear that no one is safe. The second type of target for assassination is of value as an opponent of the terrorist’s aims. This could be a political rival such as a president, or part of the security services hunting the terrorist group such as a police chief. Sometimes a victim can cover both aspects such as the killing of Lord Louis Mountbatten by the IRA in Cork in 1979. Assassination is one of the oldest and simplest of terrorist methods; the word assassin entered the English language after the crusades due to the Ismaili fedayeen cult of the assassins...