IS Attacks Foiled In Jordan

March 2, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

Jordan says a raid in the city of Irbid that left seven suspected jihadist militants dead foiled attacks being plotted by so-called Islamic State.

Those killed were planning to blow up civilian and military targets in the country, according to the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). A security officer was also killed and five were injured during the overnight raid, which triggered armed clashes.

MoD Criticised Over Deaths Of Three Soldiers

March 2, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

The Ministry of Defence is to be reprimanded over the deaths of three soldiers on an SAS training exercise in the Brecon Beacons.

L/Cpl Edward Maher, L/Cpl Craig Roberts and Cpl James Dunsby died as a result of neglect on the 16-mile march in 2013. The Health and Safety Executive said the MoD would be censured - the highest action the HSE can take.

The MoD "acknowledged" the censure and apologised for failings. A censure means that if it were not for crown immunity, the MoD would have faced prosecution.

The Brecon Beacons march was held on one of 2013's hottest days.

The Story Of Dave McKelvey Ex Head Of Crime Squad In Newham

March 1, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

Dave McKelvey, head of the crime squad in Newham, east London, vividly recalls the moment he believed a contract had been taken out to kill him and two of his officers.

"I remember literally going cold, a moment of sheer terror. Then a sort of controlled panic sets in," he says. It was 2007 and Detective Chief Inspector McKelvey had spent the best part of his 25-year career with the Metropolitan police fighting organised crime in north and east London. As McKelvey was interviewing a petty criminal, information was offered up that a well-known hitman had been contracted for £1m to kill three pol…

IS Claim Bombing At Shia Funeral In Iraq

March 1, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

At least 38 people have been killed by a suicide bomb at a Shia funeral north-east of Iraq's capital, officials say.

Another 58 people were injured in the blast in Muqdadiya, Diyala province, some 80km (50 miles) from Baghdad.

Several leading figures in the Shia-dominated Popular Mobilisation Forces were among the victims. The so-called Islamic State (IS) said it organised the bombing - a day its militants killed at least 70 in a Shia area of Baghdad.

German Far Right Group May Be Banned By High Court

March 1, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

Germany's highest court is considering whether to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD).

The federal upper house (Bundesrat) took the case to the constitutional court in the western city of Karlsruhe. The petition argues that the NPD is racist and anti-Semitic, and poses a threat to Germany's democratic order.

A previous attempt to ban the NPD failed in 2003 because the judges dismissed evidence provided by state agents who had infiltrated the party.

Case Against Omagh Bombing Suspect Collapses

March 1, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

The case against a man accused of murdering 29 people in the Real IRA bomb attack in Omagh in 1998 has collapsed.

Seamus Daly, 45, from Jonesborough, County Armagh, was arrested in 2014. The bricklayer, originally from Culloville, County Monaghan, also faced charges of causing the explosion. The Omagh bomb was the biggest single atrocity in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It happened just four months after the Good Friday Agreement was signed.

IS Bombings Kill Dozens In Baghdad

February 29, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

The death toll from Sunday's twin suicide bomb attack in Baghdad by Islamic State (IS) militants has risen to at least 70, Iraqi officials say.

Several of those critically wounded when the bombers targeted a busy market in the Shia district of Sadr City died overnight, officials said.

More than 110 others reportedly remain in hospital, while five are missing.

Emergency Services Take Part In Disaster Training Exercise

February 29, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

Hundreds of emergency services staff and volunteers are taking part in Europe's largest disaster training exercise.

Firefighters, police officers and ambulance staff are facing a scenario based around a tower block collapsing on to Waterloo tube station in London.

Four separate venues in London as well as a disused power station in Dartford, Kent, are being used for the exercise. A total of 2,000 volunteers will act as the casualties over four days.

Nanny Beheads Child In Moscow

February 29, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

Police in the Russian capital Moscow have arrested a woman on suspicion of murdering a child after she was found apparently carrying a severed head.

The woman, believed to be the victim's nanny, is suspected of killing the child before setting fire to its parents' apartment. CCTV appears to show the woman, dressed in a hijab, walking near a metro station with a head in her hands. A police officer then intercepts her and wrestles her to the ground.

Calais Migrant Site: Eviction Begins

February 29, 2016 / By Armoured Cars / In security

French demolition teams acting on an eviction order have begun dismantling huts with hammers in part of the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle.

They seem to be leaving inhabited huts intact as they move through the camp's southern sector, with riot police standing by in support.

Two bulldozers have appeared on the periphery and a water cannon has been deployed although not yet used. The government plans to relocate migrants to proper reception centres. Those living in the camp, mainly from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa, hope to cross the Channel to reach the UK, often using people…