Showing posts with label death threats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death threats. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Tommy Robinson Reveals Death Threats after Quitting EDL
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The former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson has said he has become "the most wanted man on either side" since leaving the far-right group.
The 30-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, said he had received a number of death threats since resigning last week.
Appearing in court charged with two public order offences, he said his decision to quit had "upset a lot of people".
"The people who the death threats are coming from are the people who I was opposing anyway – they were the elements that were always on the outside of the English Defence League, they were around it always wanting to hijack it," he said.
Yaxley-Lennon, from Luton, said he had received threats from Muslim extremists and from Nazis. "I am the most wanted man on either side," he said. » | Press Association | Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Monday, September 24, 2012
"We have received more than 300 insulting emails of which several contain death threats," Closer said, adding that it had notified the police.
After their debut in the French weekly, the photos of the Duchess of Cambridge have appeared in magazines in Denmark and Sweden, Ireland's Daily Star and Italy's Chi, which like Closer is owned by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mondari media group.
The pictures were taken when the royals were vacationing in southern France at a chateau owned by Viscount Linley, the son of Princess Margaret, the deceased sister of the Queen.
After publication, Pieau defended them saying they were not in the "least shocking". » | Telegraph reporters | Monday, September 24, 2012
Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Site Monitoring Service, a private intelligence organisation that watches online activity, said Wednesday that the threat was posted a day earlier on the Shumuka al-Islam forum, a popular internet destination for radical Muslims.
The contributor, who identified himself as Umar al-Basrawi, was reacting to what he said Letterman did after the US military announced on June 5 that a drone strike in Pakistan had killed al-Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri.
Al-Basrawi wrote that Letterman had made reference to both Osama bin Laden and Kashmiri and said that Letterman had "put his hand on his neck and demonstrated the way of slaughter."
"Is there not among you a Sayyid Nosair al-Mairi ... to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever?" Al-Basrawi wrote, referring to El Sayyid Nosair, who was convicted of the 1990 killing of Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane. Letterman is not Jewish. » | Thursday, August 18, 2011
Thursday, October 14, 2010
MAIL ONLINE: Sir Salman Rushdie has revealed he receives a reminder every year from Iranian extremists that they still want to kill him.
The author said the threat comes in the form of a 'sort of Valentine's Day' card each February 14th.
Mr Rushdie said the card was a reminder from Iran that it had not given up on its 21-year-old promise to kill him.
Rushdie revealed details about the unusual card when he told the New York Times he was penning a book about his life during the years he was forced into hiding. Salman Rushdie still receives death threats from Iranian extremists 21 YEARS after fatwa >>> Paul Thompson | Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: A French conservative politician at the forefront of a campaign for a full ban on Islamic veils has been placed under police protection after reportedly receiving death threats.
Jean-François Copé, who leads the parliamentary group of President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party, has had a security officer accompanying him since January, it emerged on Friday.
Mr Copé submitted a proposed bill on banning the veil in public in January, on grounds of security and women's equality. On Wednesday, the government announced its intention to push through a full ban as early as this summer.
Mr Sarkozy, who has said that full veils oppress women, chose to defy France's highest administrative body, which says a full ban could be declared unconstitutional.
In a sign the French are already clamping down on the wearing of the garment, it emerged on Friday that a woman driver wearing an Islamic face veil had been fined 22 euros (£20) by French police for not having a clear field of vision.
Traffic police in the western city of Nantes fined the 31-year-old woman in early April. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Democrats who supported sweeping changes to America's health care system have been subjected to death threats and vandalism as the tide of anger and outrage over the bill grows.
The FBI has been called in to investigate after bricks were thrown through Democrats' windows and menacing phone messages were left for politicians who supported the bill.
Four Democratic offices across the country have been targeted and [at] least 10 members of Congress have reported some sort of threat. No arrests have so far been made.
The brick flung through the window of a county Democratic Party office in Rochester, New York, over the weekend had a note attached: "Extremism in defence of liberty is no vice," roughly quoting 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater.
Some of the anger over the bill spilled over in a flood of obscenity and threat-filled phone and fax messages to the office of Rep. Bart Stupak. His office released some of the messages it has received since the health care bill passed.
"I hope you bleed ... (get) cancer and die," one male caller told the congressman.
A fax with the title "Defecating on Stupak" carried a picture of a gallows with "Bart (SS) Stupak" on it and a noose attached. It was captioned, "All Baby Killers come to unseemly ends Either by the hand of man or by the hand of God." >>> | Thursday, March 25, 2010
TIMES ONLINE: Barack Obama's historic US healthcare legislation is to be returned to the House of Representatives for a new vote because of a procedural "violation", only a day after it was signed into law.
Two Republican challenges on points of order under budget reconciliation rules have been upheld, forcing another vote by the House just days after it passed the package on Sunday.
The points of order involved the revamp of the student loan programme included in the package, a spokesman for Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, said.
Under the reconciliation rules, each provision in the package must have a budgetary impact.
The decision came as the US Senate met in a middle-of-the-night session to try to finalise details of the Bill, which was signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday.
The decision is a major blow for the Democrats and could set up another politically difficult vote in the House, which narrowly passed the $940 billion (£630 billion) overhaul to cap a year-long political struggle. >>> Times Online | Thursday, March 25, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Preacher under police protection after Gaza conflict raises tensions in poor Paris suburb
Hassen Chalghoumi has devoted his life to bringing people together. For years he has preached the values of inter-faith harmony from his mosque in Paris's poor and fractious north-eastern suburbs, working with Jewish leaders, inviting them to his home and urging young people of all religions to embrace harmony in place of hatred.
But today the imam, whose work has been hailed by religious and political leaders, was in fear of his life and under police protection in Drancy after the tensions lying dormant in his community were reawoken by the conflict over 2,000 miles away in Gaza.
Enraged by his determination to show solidarity with the Jewish community at a time when they feel the battle lines are clear, unknown French Muslims have left death threats on his mobile phone. Some have stopped him in the street to warn him he is going "too far". His car has been vandalised and drenched in fuel.
"It is very hard to work for rapprochement in such a climate," he said. "But it has to be done."
In a fortnight which has seen the Palestinian death toll from Israel's assault exceed 1,000, the European country with the largest Muslim and Jewish populations has been served an uncomfortable reminder of the tensions that continue to divide it.
Synagogues in several towns across France have been daubed with antisemitic graffiti. One in Lille was decorated with a swastika. Others have been attacked with petrol bombs and set alight. Dozens of people have been arrested after pro-Palestinian protests turned violent and Israeli flags were burned in the street. According to the French Jewish students' union, there have been 55 antisemitic incidents since 27 December. The police have not published an official list. >>> Lizzy Davies, Paris | Friday, January 16, 2010
Hat tip: Always On Watch >>>
Monday, August 24, 2009
TIMES ONLINE: The Obama Administration will launch criminal investigations into brutal Bush-era terror interrogations after a report tonight revealed that operatives threatened to kill the children of a key September 11 suspect, and told another his mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him.
The report, which also said detainees suffered mock executions and death threats, convinced Eric Holder, President Obama’s Attorney-General, to appoint veteran federal prosecutor John Durham to investigate CIA abuse of terror suspects.
The 2004 report, which has been suppressed for five years but was released after a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), lays out in grim detail the abuse of terror suspects between 2002 and 2004 at secret CIA “black site” prisons.
Its contents, and the decision by Mr Holder to explore prosecutions, will reignite the partisan debate on Capitol Hill over the issue of torture. Mr Obama has repeatedly said that he wants to look forward, rather than get bogged down in investigations of Bush-era abuses – a sentiment repeated by his spokesman yesterday. >>> Tim Reid in Washington | Monday, August 24, 2009
Thursday, August 06, 2009
TIMES ONLINE: President Obama’s approval rating fell to just 50 per cent for the first time today as a growing number of Democratic congressmen across the country contend with angry mobs decrying his economic policies.
The screaming groups, who have hung effigies of Democratic politicians on nooses and even issued death threats, are accused of being orchestrated mobs paid for by conservative groups.
Yet they have captured the spotlight and point to the raging national debate over Mr Obama’s increasingly desperate push to reform health care, the centerpiece of his domestic agenda. The clashes also come amid deep concerns about the exploding budget deficit, a ballooning debt which is threatening the president’s entire economic policies.
After a month in which his poll ratings suffered a significant slide, a new Quinnipiac survey had his approval rating down to just 50 per cent. As in other recent polls, and more ominously for Mr Obama, a majority of Americans now disapprove of his handling of the economy and the issue of health care. >>> Tim Reid, Washington | Thursday, August 06, 2009
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.
Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service.
Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.
Most however, are kept under wraps because the Secret Service fears that revealing details of them would only increase the number of copycat attempts. Although most threats are not credible, each one has to be investigated meticulously.
According to the book, intelligence officials received information that people associated with the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab might try to disrupt Mr Obama's inauguration in January, when the Secret Service co-ordinated at least 40,000 agents and officers from some 94 police, military and security agencies. >>> Toby Harnden in Washington | Monday, August 03, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
MAIL Online: The best suggestion of the past week about how to punish Sir Fred Goodwin is that he should be obliged to report personally at an RBS branch to collect his pension cheques. If customers do not lynch him, staff will.
But too much attention has focused on Goodwin.
Of course, he is contemptible. But he is only one among thousands of monstrously over-rewarded merchants of failure.
At least the former RBS chief executive is no longer at his desk. Almost all the others still occupy fat, padded chairs in City institutions. The time has come to address the entire robber banker culture.
Lord Turner’s impressive Financial Services Authority report this week promised an end of ‘light touch’ regulation. Turner makes plain his distaste for the City’s reward structure.
I would go much further. In dealing with the sort of people who have created a disaster which will cripple this country’s finances for decades to come, drastic sanctions will be necessary.
Statistics from America show that top executives of the seven biggest failed financial institutions have taken home $464 million in alleged performance pay since 2005, while their businesses have racked up $107 billion losses in the past two years alone.
British bankers have profited from rip-offs identical in kind, if not quite in scale.
Yet those responsible remain convinced they are entitled to seven-figure remuneration, even though it’s taxpayers who are having to stump up the money.
It is as if a man who has driven a Bentley into a brick wall demands that the manufacturer should present him with a new one, because it is the only car he is used to driving.
These bankers think they are above criticism and the lesson for us, the public, is that we need to get the boot in and keep kicking.
Only thus might we begin to change the wicked culture which has brought Western nations, Britain prominent among them, to the edge of ruin. >>> Max Hastings | Saturday, March 21, 2009
THE GUARDIAN: AIG Warns Staff to Travel in Pairs after Death Threats over Bonuses
Executives fear for safety after £115m payout / Hide firm's logo and park in lit areas, employees told
The embattled US insurance company AIG has warned its staff to travel in pairs after dark, not to wear company logos and to avoid discussing their work outside the office, as public outrage boils over at multimillion-dollar executive bonuses.
AIG's employees have been subjected to death threats since the company handed out $165m (£115m) in "retention" awards to employees in its disastrously loss-making financial products division this week.
Recipients of the bonuses said they feared for their own safety. A union-backed campaign group is today taking protesters on a bus tour of AIG executives' homes in a wealthy enclave of Connecticut known as the "gold coast".
In a leaked company-wide memo, AIG's corporate security team this week warned staff to take special precautions "due to a growing sense of public attention fuelled by increased media scrutiny".
The memo, posted on the New York website Gawker, urges staff to "avoid wearing any AIG apparel (bags, shirts, umbrellas etc) with the company insignia". It advises workers to take off identity badges when they go outside, to report the presence of any strangers, and to call the emergency services if they think they are being followed. "At night, when possible, travel in pairs and always park in well-lit areas," it reads. >>> Andrew Clark in New York | Saturday, March 21, 2009
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Friday, March 13, 2009
DUTCHNEWS.nl: Anti-immigration MP Geert Wilders has received more threats than any other politician and last year reported 292 threatening messages to the team which deals with threats to politicians. >>> © DutchNews.nl | Friday, March 13, 2009
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
CRI ENGLISH.COM (China): A Dutch woman was sentenced to one year in jail and voluntary psychiatric care on Tuesday for sending more than 100 threatening emails to an anti-immigration and anti-Islam Dutch politician, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported.
Selima I., 35, was arrested in January 2007 in an office where she used a public computer to send death threats to Geert Wilders, a member of the lower house of parliament.
The woman, a librarian from the southern Dutch city of Tilburg, was sentenced to one year in prison and compulsory psychiatric care by a court in September 2007.
But an appeal court ruled on Tuesday that the treatment might be more successful if she was treated as an outpatient and changed the compulsory psychiatric care to a voluntary one. >>> Ma Ting, Web Editor, Xinhua | Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was "sick and in trouble."
John Solecki would be killed unless authorities released 141 women the kidnappers claimed were being held in Pakistan, according to a letter accompanying the video, which was delivered to a Pakistani news agency.
The video and the demands indicated that Mr Solecki, the head of the UN refugee agency in Quetta, a city near the Afghan border, was alive and that his captors wanted to negotiate.
Mr Solecki, who appeared blindfolded and with a shawl draped over his shoulders in the 20-second clip, said his message was addressed to the United Nations.
"I am not feeling well. I am sick and in trouble. Please help solve the problem soon so that I can gain my release," he said.
The kidnappers have identified themselves as the Baluchistan Liberation United Front, suggesting a link to local separatists who have waged a long insurgency against Pakistan's government, rather than to the Taliban or al-Qaeda. >>> | Saturday, February 14, 2009
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
LA TIMES: Attorney Todd Gallinger says the threat was sparked by his opponent, Councilman Steven Choi, who has tried to link an Islamic civil rights group to terrorism. Gallinger has worked for the group.
A Muslim candidate for the Irvine City Council said Thursday that a councilman's comment linking an Islamic civil rights group to terrorism has led to a death threat against him. Police said they are investigating.
Attorney Todd Gallinger, a Muslim convert, said a man called his office Tuesday, about three weeks after Councilman Steven Choi spoke at a forum and urged voters not to support a candidate who worked for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The council, which has 35 offices in the United States and Canada, is "a dangerous Islamic organization," Choi told 150 business leaders. Although he did not name Gallinger, the comment was clearly aimed at the 29-year-old lawyer, who has done legal work for the council's Southern California chapter in Anaheim.
Gallinger said the caller thought he was talking to him but told an employee, "I want to cut off your head just like all the other Muslims deserve."
"It's clear that the person was motivated by the political attacks against me by my opponent," Gallinger said.
Police spokesman Rick Handfield confirmed Thursday that the department is investigating the alleged threat.
On Thursday, Choi said he was surprised that someone would threaten Gallinger but did not believe it was inspired by his remarks at the Sept. 19 forum. Gallinger earlier that month had been interviewed about his association with the council on a KUCI-FM radio show.
"It's a ridiculous question," Choi said when asked if the caller was acting because of his comments. "Am I responsible for someone else making a threat to him? No. This is not my intent at all."
He said the media had "escalated the problem" by publishing his remarks, which he said were directed at the council and not individual Muslims. Muslim Candidate for Irvine City Council Gets Death Threat >>> By H.G. Reza and Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer | October 10, 2008
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