The Taliban attacked a British convoy on Thursday killing five people.
The homicide bomb attack focused on a vehicle from the British embassy and killed two embassy workers, one British and one Afghani.
The attack wounded at least 30 bystanders.
“I am deeply saddened to confirm that a British national civilian security team member and an Afghan national working for the embassy were killed in the incident,” Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in a statement.
The blast was the first of the day. A second blast a few hours later struck at a compound run by a contractor for the U.S. aid agency in the country. It shook buildings throughout the diplomatic section of Kabul and was the start of an hour long shootout between terrorists and Afghani security forces.
A foreign national and two terrorists died in the second explosion.
There have been five major terrorist attacks by the Taliban this week.
A British woman has been revealed to have killed her disabled 12 year old daughter by stopping hydration and nutrition.
Nancy Fitzmaurice died in August after officials at London’s Great Ormand Street Hospital stopped her support. The child suffered from hydrocephalus, meningitis and septicemia at the time of her death.
Her mother had petitioned a judge to allow her to kill her child via a slow death from lack of hydration. The mother, Charlotte Fitzmaurice Wise, said that she felt her daughter had suffered enough.
The death in August was kept secret until the parents came forward to advocate for the parents of other special needs children to be able to kill their children without court approval.
Disability advocates around the world immediately condemned the family for their killing and said that approval of such actions sets a dangerous precedent.
“Euthanasia of people with disabilities is an extremely dangerous and wholly inappropriate solution to inadequate pain management. In cases where painkillers are insufficient, a number of alternatives for pain management exist. A policy of euthanasia targets vulnerable people, particularly when it is applied to children. People with disabilities who experience chronic pain should have same access as others to life-sustaining medical treatment,” the Autism Self Advocacy Network said in a statement.
Foreign fighters who have grown disillusioned by the truth of ISIS once they begin fighting for the group are finding it hard to leave as the terrorist outfit threatens to kill anyone who leaves.
British newspaper The Observer quotes a source in Syria as saying dozens of British citizens who became radicalized and joined ISIS want to come home to Britain but are being held against their will.
“There are Britons, who, upon wanting to leave have been threatened with death, either directly or indirectly,” the source said.
Moazzam Begg, who had been a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, told the newspaper that when someone joins ISIS they swear an allegiance to the caliphate, which is in essence saying you are a citizen of that “state”.
“When it becomes solidified as an Islamic State, a caliph, and you swear allegiance, thereafter if you do something disobedient you are now disobeying the caliph and could be subject to disciplinary measures which could include threats or death,” said Begg.
The article in the Observer comes days after 19-year-old Mehdi Hassan, a British man who had tried to return to Britain, was killed in battle fighting for ISIS. Hassan was caught trying to leave and imprisoned for four days by ISIS leaders until he agreed to stay with the terrorists.
British police have stopped and Islamic terror plot aimed at London.
Four men were taken into custody according to London’s Metropolitan Police. Police did not release details on the attack but said they were “part of an ongoing investigation into Islamist related terrorism.”
“They have all been taken to police stations in central London and remain in custody,” Metropolitan Police said.
The arrests come on the heels of 10 men arrested two weeks ago on similar terrorism related charges. The men were charged with supporting a banned organization and encouraging terrorism.
The UK’s Press Association said that radical British cleric Anjem Choudary, who has been accused of brainwashing men in Belgium to fight for Islamic terror groups in Syria, was among the men arrested in late September.
UK officials say that at least 500 British citizens are in Iraq or Syria fighting with Islamic terrorist groups. The country has banned any Briton who fights with an Islamic terror group from being able to return to the country.
The Islamic extremist group ISIS has murdered another western hostage.
The group posted a video on Saturday labeled “a message to the allies of America” where they showed footage of British Prime Minister David Cameron condemning ISIS and then cut a video of British aid worker David Haines kneeling in front of a masked man.
Haines then made a statement that condemns Britain and blames Cameron for his execution although most intelligence experts say his captors were feeding that message to him.
The terrorist who killed Haines is believed to be the same British man who beheaded two American captives.
Islamic extremists kidnapped the 44-year-old Haines last year while he was providing humanitarian aid in Syria.
ISIS is threatening to kill another British hostage if airstrikes continue against their terror organization.
A British imam appeared on a Russian television program and confirmed that terrorism is part of the Islamic faith.
Imam Anjem Choudary was being interviewed by Russia Today journalist Oksana Boyko about the beheading of two American journalists by the Islamic terrorist group Islamic State.
“You said just recently on CNN that the decapitation of journalist James Foley was, in fact, an attempt by the Islamic State to terrorize their enemy, which in this case is the United States,” Boyko said to Choudary. “I wonder whether something like that could be justified under the Sharia law. Can you really hold an individual responsible for the actions of a collective? Is that legal in Islam?”
Choudary said that every action for a Muslim has to be based on the Qur’an and the teachings of Mohammed. Then he surprised many with his next statement.
“I would first invite the people to think about and embrace Islam, but those who are already Muslim must know that Allah mentions in the Koran—in fact if you look in chapter 8 verse 60, he said, ‘Prepare as much as you can steeds of war to terrorize the enemy,’” he explained.
“So terrorizing the enemy is in fact part of Islam.”
Choudary is the former leader of Al-Majajiroun which is banned in England. Two former members of the group were involved in the beheading of a British soldier in broad daylight on a public street.
Scientists in Britain have developed a test that can detect as much as a year in advance if a patient will develop Alzheimer’s disease.
The test comes after a decade of research by Oxford University and King’s College London. A study showed that the brain develops 10 proteins just before the disease takes hold in the brain.
The doctors hailed the test as groundbreaking because once someone develops Alzheimer’s, there’s no real way to treat it. With the development of an early warning test, doctors hope to find a way to treat a patient to stop the development of Alzheimer’s.
“Although we are making drugs [to treat Alzheimer’s] they are all failing. But if we could treat people earlier it may be that the drugs are effective,” said Simon Lovestone, professor of translational neuroscience at Oxford. “Alzheimer’s begins to affect the brain many years before patients are diagnosed with the disease. If we could treat the disease in that phase we would in effect have a preventative strategy.”
The test has been proven to have 87 percent accuracy in predicting the onset of Alzheimer’s.
A British woman whose daughter survived an attempted abortion says that she will “always regret” attempting to kill her daughter.
A doctor told Shannon Skinner to abort her child when she became pregnant with her second child because of complications with the first pregnancy. The 20-year-old went home and took a handful of abortion drugs and waited for the miscarriage to begin.
“I told myself it wasn’t a baby yet,” Skinner told the Christian Institute. “I was out of my mind with worry that the abortion pills had affected the baby, but it wasn’t until I saw the 3D scan of my daughter on Christmas Eve that I fell in love with her. Once I’d seen her face, everything was different.”
However, doctors weren’t done trying to get her to kill her baby. Doctors told her because she had taken abortion drugs that the baby would likely be deformed and that she should undergo the abortion process at 20 weeks.
“To see your daughter’s face and then be told you can still go through with an abortion…how can you?” Skinner told the London Daily Mail. “To survive the first abortion, my daughter obviously wanted to be here and I couldn’t go through with a surgical abortion. It didn’t matter to me if she was born healthy or not.”
Skinner says she will have to wait to see if the abortion drugs had any impact on the long term mental health of her daughter Amelia, but she doesn’t care either way.
“Every time I look at her I think: ‘She really shouldn’t be here.’ But now that she is, I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has released a video where they offer to release some of the girls they kidnapped in return for terrorists behind held in Nigerian prisons.
Terrorist leader Abubakar Shekau says in the 17-minute video that he will only release the girls that have not “submitted” to the terrorists, which from the video implies they have converted to Islam and are serving as slaves to the terrorists.
“The girls, these girls you occupy yourself with…we have indeed liberated them,” Shekau said. “These girls have become Muslims. We will never release them until after you release our brethren. Here I mean those girls who have not submitted.”
The international search for the kidnapped girls is now increasing in speed as teams from the United States and Great Britain arrive in Nigeria. The international effort is very diverse with countries as small as Israel sending in special forces units to help try to find and save the girls.
A British scientist says that the implanting of microchips in humans will be something that won’t be seen as optional in the near future.
Dr. Mark Gasson of the University of Reading in Britain says that RFID tags will become so commonplace that everyone will be expected to have one for business and healthcare.
“It’s not possible to interact in society today in a meaningful way without having a mobile phone,” Dr. Gasson told the Sydney Morning Herald. “I think human implants will go along a similar route. It will be such a disadvantage not to have the implant that it will essentially not be optional.”
Gasson is known as the first human being to contract a computer virus after a chip in his arm placed in 2009 that carried a virus, which infected his school’s entire computer network.
“It has the potential to change the very essence of what it means to be human,” Dr. Gasson said.
VeriChip, a company that provides RFID chips to medical facilities, has recently began a campaign encouraging parents to microchip their children to protect their children in the event of kidnapping. However, it has been revealed the company’s chips do not have GPS technology, so they would be useless in an actual search for missing children.
