2008年12月8日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Mumbai attacker's hometown is in Pakistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - The lone gunman captured alive by Indian police during last month's terrorist attack on Mumbai (formerly Bombay) comes from a dirt-poor village in Pakistan's southern Punjab region where a banned Islamist group has been actively recruiting young men for "jihad," according to residents of the village and official records seen by McClatchy Newspapers.

9/11 suspects face Gitmo court, victims' families (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:34 AM CST

In this file photo from March 1, 2003 obtained by the Associated Press, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. The mothers of two men killed in the Sept. 11 attacks are traveling to Guantanamo Bay and will be among spectators Monday Dec. 8, 2008 at a pretrial hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 plotters. (AP Photo, File)AP - The confessed architect of the Sept. 11 attacks and four alleged co-conspirators are to appear before a military judge Monday, even as the first U.S. war-crimes trials since World War II teeter on the edge of extinction.


9/11 relatives to watch court proceedings in Guantanamo (AFP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 11:52 PM CST

File picture shows a court artist's sketch of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks for the first time will watch in Guantanamo Monday as alleged mastermind of the terror strikes, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appears in a US military tribunal.(AFP/Pool/File/Janet Hamlin)AFP - Relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks for the first time will watch in Guantanamo Monday as an alleged mastermind of the terror strikes, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appears in a US military tribunal.


Amnesty hopes Obama will restore US rights reputation (AFP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 08:47 PM CST

Work goes on outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC in preparation for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. The world will look to Obama to restore the United States' human rights reputation after it was tarnished by the war on terror, the head of Amnesty International told AFP(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - The world will look to President-elect Barack Obama to restore the United States' human rights reputation after it was tarnished by the war on terror, the head of Amnesty International told AFP.


Mystery phone call put Pakistan and India on the brink of war (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 05:11 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan_A mysterious night-time phone call brought nuclear India and Pakistan close to the brink of war at the height of the crisis over the Mumbai terror attacks last week, Pakistani officials said Sunday.

England go ahead with India Test cricket series (AFP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 03:09 PM CST

Members of the England cricket team attend a morning practice session at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi. England will go ahead with a two-Test series in India after receiving security assurances following the Mumbai terror attacks, it was announced at their training base here Sunday.(AFP/Haider Shah)AFP - England will go ahead with a two-Test series in India after receiving security assurances following the Mumbai terror attacks, it was announced at their training base here Sunday.


Terrorism remains greatest US threat, Rice says (AFP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 12:15 PM CST

Outgoing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, pictured in October 2008, said Sunday that the risk of a terrorist attack remains AFP - Outgoing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that the risk of a terrorist attack remains "the greatest threat" to the United Sates.


Rice regrets bad Iraq intelligence; defends war (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 01:38 PM CST

In this photo provided by ABC News, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears for an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week, in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008.  (AP Photo/ABC News, Fred Watkins)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she regrets the U.S. relied on flawed intelligence as the basis for going to war in Iraq and took partial responsibility for mismanaging the post-invasion occupation.


India attacker rose from crook to militant (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 04:11 AM CST

In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, a gunman identified by police as Ajmal Qasab walks at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India. Qasab, the only gunman captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a senior police officer said Sunday Nov. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza, File)AP - The lone gunman to survive the Mumbai terror attacks was a petty street thug from a dusty Pakistani outpost who was systematically programmed into a highly trained suicide guerrilla over 18 months in jihadist camps, India's top investigator into the attacks said Saturday.


Villagers confirm surviving Mumbai attacker is Pakistani (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 02:44 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - FARIDKOT, near Depalpur, Pakistan — The lone gunman captured alive by Indian police during last week's terrorist attack on Mumbai comes from a dirt-poor village in Pakistan's southern Punjab region where a banned Islamist group has been actively recruiting young men for "jihad," according to residents of the village and official records seen by McClatchy Newspapers.

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