Terrorist plots foiled across Europe, including France, United Kingdom, and Bosnia, have been announced by authorities.  This includes recent terrorist plots, most of which are linked to ISIS, in Orleans and Paris, France, in London, United Kingdom, and in Bosnia.  It included plots to attack police and fire stations, to use a false pregnancy bomb for a terrorist woman to hide a bomb, and a plot for terrorist attacks on New Year’s Eve.

In France, two men were arrested for a terrorist plot for an attack in Orleans, France, which was foiled by the French intelligence agency DGSI.  The terrorists arrested were reported to be  a “French native of Morocco, the other from Togo,” and were in contact with a French contact in Syria.  Le Monde reports that the terrorists in France “were preparing a ‘concrete’ project, with terrorist targets of “fire station, police station and gendarmerie in the region Orleans (police source). ”  According to Le Monde, the terrorists have been “charged and imprisoned for ‘criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise criminal.’ ”  The remainder of the English language translation of the Le Monde report can be seen at this link.    The French news media L’Express report (translated into English) that ” ‘An attack project to representatives of the security forces in the region of Orleans was foiled last week by ISB,’ said Bernard Cazeneuve in Toulouse Police Hotel, in a speech before the gendarmes and area police forces. The minister said that two French were arrested and charged on December 19. This is the 10th foiled attack since 2013.”

Another French terrorist plot inspired by ISIS was also foiled in Paris, according to French and British news sources.  The Guardian reports on December 23, 2015 of a woman arrested by French police “after finding a false pregnancy ‘bump’ that they suspect she may have been planning to use to hide a bomb.”  It reports “Investigators say the prefabricated plastic mold found during a search of her flat was covered in aluminium, which they believe was designed to fool bomb detectors.” “The woman, named only as Camille, 23, a Muslim convert and mother of a two-year-old child, was arrested in Montpellier on Monday along with her husband. Investigators told Midi-Libre newspaper that a computer at the flat had been used to search for information about kamikaze women and for instructions on how to manufacture explosives. During questioning the woman reportedly told police she planned to wear the bump in order to shoplift. However, detectives said the woman had recently inherited several thousand euros and had no need to steal.”  The French Midi-Libre reports that (translated into English) “She went out only veiled from head to foot, she spent in her apartment described as ‘ascetic’ for hours to view videos of atrocities committed by ISIS.”  Midi-Libre also reports that (translated into English) she “downloaded all the issues of Inspire, propaganda magazine Al-Qaeda and Dabiq, the Islamic State magazine. Moreover, she had made the web much research on female suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices. Finally, she told her family that she wanted to win Syria to die a martyr, and had convinced her husband to accompany her.”

Separately, a French terrorist Yassin Salhi supporting ISIS, who was part of the June 2015 ISIS terrorist spree during Ramadan, who beheaded a man, committed suicide in Prison.

In the United Kingdom, a south London terrorist plot was foiled by an arrest of a planned terrorist.  The UK Guardian reports on December 23, 2015 that “Armed police have arrested a man at a south London shop over alleged links to terrorism. The suspect, 31, was arrested just after 5pm on Tuesday evening and detained ‘on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.’  The arrest was planned and followed a joint investigation by Scotland Yard’s terrorism command and MI5. Detectives are investigating if the man had links or had been influenced by ISIS as part of their inquiries, and police said the arrest was being linked to Islamist terrorism.”

Other recent UK terrorist cases include the December 5, 2015 case, of an ISIS supporter,  Muhaydin Mire, who used a knife to attempt to behead a passenger on a London subway, but failed in his attempt, while injuring the passengers.   The ISIS terrorist said “this is for Syria,”  when he began his attack at the Laytonstone Underground station in east London and a man threatening other people with a knife. One man was seriously injured and two sustained minor injuries,e passenger and cutting part of his throat.  At his appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court on December 7, 2015, it was discovered that Muhaydin Mire had images on this smart phone of ISIS and it was clear that he “idolized” the ISIS terrorist group.

On December 15, a British court found a man believed to be working with MI5 guilty of 13 counts of terrorist offenses, according to BBC.  BBC reported that “A jihadi has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after police found he had a number of terror training videos. Mustafa Abdullah, 34, of Stockwell, south London, claimed to be on the M15 payroll. He was caught with the material at Gatwick Airport when he came back from Syria last year. Police found gun instruction videos and audio recordings about radical, violent and fundamentalist Islamic ideology.”

On December 7, 2015, a British married couple appeared in court after plots to commit a suicide bombing attack in London.   According to the Daily Mail on December 7, “A married couple accused of plotting a suicide bombing in London ‘repeatedly’ watched the martyrdom video of 7/7 bomber Shehzad Tanweer, a court has heard. Mohammed Rehman, 27, and wife Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, stockpiled chemicals and bomb-making material for a ‘catastrophic attack on London’, the Old Bailey heard. Rehman, using the name ‘Silent Bomber’ and a picture of ‘Jihadi John’ killer Mohammed Emwazi, allegedly took to Twitter to ask his followers to choose a target for the planned suicide bombing.  Jurors heard today that Rehman had also hand-written a pledge of allegiance to the barbarous Islamic State and its leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.”  It is alleged that “Rehman was considering detonating a bomb at a Westfield shopping centre in London.”  According to the report, “He also asked his followers for help picking a target, asking ‘Westfield or London Underground’, the court heard.   When police raided Rehman’s home in Reading, Berkshire, in May this year, they found more than 10kg of Urea Nitrate explosives.”

In Bosnia, on December 22, 2015, Bosnian news reports state that a total of 15 individuals were arrested in connection to an investigation over a plot for a New Year’s Eve terrorist attack.  The Balkan Insight reports that this included the arrest of 11 men, linked to ISIS.   The Balkan Insight reports: “Bosnian prosecution spokesperson Boris Grubesic told BIRN that the police will hand the men to prosecutors on Wednesday who will question the suspects and decide whether to file a custody motion by Thursday. The prosecution said that around 15 persons were targeted in total and, along with the arrests of 11 men, several houses and two ‘places of religious gatherings of radical persons’ were searched. ‘During the raids we found certain evidence that indicates connections to ISIS structures,’ Grubesic said. He added that part of the raid was conducted in Rajlovac, the suburb of Sarajevo where a man shot dead two soldiers a month ago.”  “Marina Zovic, the spokesperson of the Bosnian Federation police, which conducted the raid, said that the 11 men were arrested for connections to terrorism and terrorist groups. ‘They are suspected of inciting and preparing a criminal act as well as enlisting people to go fight abroad,’ Zovic said.”

In addition, the news agency Fena reported “The news agency Fena said it learned unofficially that ‘one of the main leaders’ of a group that was preparing a terrorist attack was among the suspects. Fena said that ‘about 15 people were the target of the activities,’ and that there was ‘information and evidence’ that this group was close to, and maintained contact with radical groups and structures of Islamic State, as well as with ‘structures connected with persons in Syrian and Iraqi fronts.’ ”

According to Balkan Insight, “Bosnian Security expert Vlado Azinovic said that the latest raid was clearly ‘a preventive’ act.  ‘The police and prosecution had information that at least some of the suspects could do ‘something concrete’ by the end of the year, considering that people from this ideological circle usually object to celebrations of New Year, so there were indications that they might be involved in planning something at a celebration where there could be a big group of people’, he said.  Bosnian media also quoted unnamed sources in the intelligence services as claiming that the arrested men were planning an attack on New Year’s Day.”

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