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| Jihadi John (Mohammed Emwazi) |
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan requested permission from parliament to borrow $1 billion to help equip the armed forces in its fight against the Islamist-insurgent group Boko Haram.
“I would like to bring to your attention the urgent need to upgrade the equipment, training and logistics of our armed forces and security services to enable them to more forcefully confront this serious threat,” Jonathan said in a letter dated July 15 and read out today in the capital, Abuja, by Senate President David Mark. The $1 billion may be sourced from other governments, said
Jonathan.
Though $6 billion was allocated to defense and security this year’s budget, Nigeria ’s government is struggling to curtail a five-year-old insurgency by Boko Haram militants, who are seeking to impose Islamic law on Africa ’s biggest economy and most populous nation of about 170 million people.
Courtesy:
Bloomberg
The government and media have blown the Islamist terrorism threat out of proportion, giving extremists publicity which is counter-productive, a former head of Britain's intelligence service has said.
Sir Richard Dearlove, chief of MI6 at the time of the Iraq invasion, said there had been a fundamental change in the nature of Islamist extremism since the Arab Spring. It had created a major political problem in the Middle East but the west, including Britain, was only marginally affected, he told an audience in London on Monday.
Richard Dearlove said Britons spreading 'blood-curdling' terrorism messages should be ignored.
Unlike the threat posed by al-Qaida before and after the 9/11 attacks on the US in 2001, the west was not the main target of the radical fundamentalism that created the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), he said.
Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute, a security and defence thinktank, Dearlove made it clear that the way the government and the media were giving the extremists the "oxygen of publicity" was counter-productive.
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Courtesy:
The Guardian
The man was arrested in the capital on suspicion of assisting in the preparation of an act of terrorism
Police have made the arrest in Cardiff
An 18-year-old man from Cardiff has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences today.
The teenager, from the Grangetown area, has been arrested under the Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 for assisting in the preparation of an act of terrorism. It is understood he has been taken to Cardiff Bay Police station.
A spokesman for South Wales Police said: "On Wednesday 2nd July, officers from North West Counter Terrorism Unit (NWCTU) assisted by Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU) arrested an 18-year-old man from the Grangetown area of Cardiff. This arrest is part of an ongoing investigation.
"He has been arrested under the Section 5, Terrorism Act 2006 for assisting in the preparation of an act of terrorism."
The spokesman said it was too early to rule out links with the three Cardiff Jihadists who appeared in an apparent recruitment video in Syria.
Grangetown area of Cardiff where the teen is from
The Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU) is a collaboration of the four Welsh Police Forces.
