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AUG 2016 Part C.Pdf Page | 1 CBRNE-TERRORISM NEWSLETTER – August 2016 www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com Page | 2 CBRNE-TERRORISM NEWSLETTER – August 2016 Theresa May tells Islamist extremists: 'The game is up' Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11488942/Theresa-May-tells- Islamist-extremists-The-game-is-up.html March 23 – Theresa May will today tell radical Communities become segregated and cut off Islamists that the "game is up" and that they from one another. Intolerance, hatred and were no longer tolerated in Britain as she bigotry become normalised. Trust is replaced by sets out Tory plans for a crackdown on fear, reciprocity by envy, and solidarity by extremism. division. The Home Secretary is expected to say that a "Where they seek to divide us, our values are future Conservative government target Sharia what unite us. Where they seek to dictate, law, change the rules on granting citizenship to lecture and limit opportunity, our values offer ensure people embrace British values and young people hope and the chance to succeed. introduce "banning orders" for extremist groups. The extremists have no vision for Britain that Radicals will also be barred from working can sustain the dreams and ambitions of its unsupervised with children amid fears that people. Theirs is a negative, depressing and in young people are being brainwashed, while staff fact absurd view of the world - and it is one we at job centres will be required to identify know that in the end we can expose and defeat." vulnerable claimants who may become targets She will appeal to "every single person in for radicalisation. Britain" to join her in a new "partnership" to In a speech in London she will invite all celebrate British values and defeat moderate Muslims to join her in exposing the ignorance. "hatred, bigotry and ignorance" of extremists She will say: "But to those people who do not who seek to undermine the values of want to join this new partnership, to those who democracy, equality and free speech. choose consciously to reject our values and the The new counter-extremism policy is aimed at basic principles of our society, the message is tackling radical preachers and individuals who equally clear. The game is up. try to brainwash young Muslims and encourage "We will no longer tolerate your behaviour. We them to embrace extremist views. will expose your hateful beliefs for what they are. She will say that a "small but significant" number Where you seek to spread hate, we will disrupt of people in Britain are trying to undermine the you. Where you break the law, we will prosecute nation's values and create a "clash of you.Where you seek to divide us, we will stand civilisations". united. And together, we will defeat you." She will cite the Trojan Horse plot to take over The Home Secretary will say that a future state schools in Birmingham, corruption in Conservative government will commission an Tower Hamlets in East London and the use of independent review into the operation of Sharia Sharia law being used to discriminate against courts in Britain, while councils will be ordered women. to "take steps to ensure the safeguarding of She will also condemn hate preachers, the children in hithero unregulated places", such as practice of gender segregation at some tuition centres. universities and the thousands of "honour" British values will form "an integral part of crimes committed every year. applying for a visa" which even visitors will have Mrs May will say: "Extremism is not something to comply with. that can just be ignored. It cannot be wished The Home Secretary will also introduce away. It must be tackled head on. Because “banning orders” for extremist groups, which where extremism takes root the consequences would make it a criminal offence to be a member are clear. Women’s rights are eroded. There is of or raise funds for a group that spreads or discrimination on the basis of race and sexuality. promotes hatred. The maximum sentence could "There is no longer equal access to the labour be up to 10 years in prison. market, to the law, or to wider society. www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com Page | 3 CBRNE-TERRORISM NEWSLETTER – August 2016 EDITOR’S COMMENT: Theresa May is now the Prime Minister of Great Britain in the Brexit era – let us see how she will materialize her views and counter-terrorism actions. Not all attacks are terrorism, Brandis warns after Munich shooting Source: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/07/24/not-all-attacks-are-terrorism-brandis-warns- after-munich-shooting July 24 - Nine people were shot dead in Munich community’s efforts to track suspected on Saturday by German-Iranian teenager Ali extremists, counterterrorism officials say. David Sonboly - the third act of violence against "If we're going to understand this problem we civilians in Western Europe, and the second in have to analyse it correctly. We must be very southern Germany, in eight days. careful in our use of language so that we don't Munich police say Ali David Sonboly acted spray the word terrorism around too loosely." alone and had no links to the self-proclaimed He rejected suggestions that views speculating Islamic State group, but added that he did have on the role of religion in the Munich shooting mental health issues. should be censored. Speaking in the aftermath of Incoming senator Pauline Hanson posted a the attack, Australia's message on Facebook hours after the attack in Attorney-General George Munich, singling out religion as a motivating Brandis (photo) warned factor. Australians against using the "We’re waking up again to what appears to word "terrorism" too loosely be another terrorism attack in Munich, as the government tries to German," the message read. "Let’s see identify possible "lone-wolf" which 'peace loving' religion is behind this attackers. latest attack.” Senator Brandis said one Senator Brandis said Pauline Hanson's views phenomena that had emerged recently is the development of lone actors who self radicalise, most commonly online, and very frequently these are young men with mental health issues. He warned it is very important to be careful in our use of language. Caution urged on use of language "Not every mass casualty attack is an act of terrorism. Not every premeditated act of violence is an act of terrorism," he told ABC's Insider's program. are shared by a large section of Australian Senator Brandis said terrorism is an act of society - and to silence those views would be violence committed for a political, religious dangerous. or ideological cause. "What we have to do is we have to Recent attacks on civilians in the U.S. and engage her, we have to explain Europe have exposed a gap in the intelligence why the views that she expresses www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com Page | 4 CBRNE-TERRORISM NEWSLETTER – August 2016 about, for example, the Muslim community are Mr Brandis said the federal government no unhelpful and frankly wrong," he said. longer has plans to abolish or reduce the Government launches review into lone wolf strength of section 18C in the Racial attacks Discrimination Act. His comments come after Prime Minister Former prime minister Tony Abbott scrapped Malcolm Turnbull this week asked Australia's plans to reform the Racial Discrimination Act in counter-terrorism coordinator to examine how to September 2014, after criticism from community prevent lone-wolf attacks, or those generated by groups. lone individuals. EDITOR’S COMMENT: You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs! Political courtesy/civility is part of the problem! We love to talk of terror – but after the Munich shooting, this hypocritical catch-all term has finally caught us out How come a Muslim can be a terrorist in Europe but a mere ‘attacker’ in south-west Asia? Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/munich-shooting-nice-attack-terrorism-robert-fisk-catch- all-finally-caught-out-a7153176.html A memorial to those shot by the Munich gunman, who was said to be obsessed with mass shootings Getty Images The frightful and bloody hours of Friday night and Saturday morning in Munich and Kabul – despite the 3,000 miles that separate the two cities – provided a highly instructive lesson in the semantics of horror and hypocrisy. I despair of that generic old hate-word, “terror”. It long ago became the punctuation mark and signature tune of every facile politician, policeman, journalist and think tank crank in the world. Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Or terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist. www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com Page | 5 CBRNE-TERRORISM NEWSLETTER – August 2016 But from time to time, we trip up on this killer same factions, it wasn’t long before the activists cliché, just as we did at the weekend. Here’s who organised the demonstration began to how it went. When first we heard that three suspect that the authorities themselves were armed men had gone on a “shooting spree” in behind the massacre. Of course, we in the West Munich, the German cops and the lads and did not hear this version of events. Reports from lassies of the BBC, CNN and Fox News fingered Kabul concentrated instead on those who the “terror” lever. The Munich constabulary, we denied or claimed the atrocity. The horrid were informed, feared this was a “terrorist Islamist Taliban denied it. The horrid Islamist act”. The local police, the BBC told us, were Isis said they did it. And thus all reports centred engaged in an “anti-terror manhunt”. on the Isis claim of responsibility. And we knew what that meant: the three men But wait.
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