2008年8月27日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

5th arrest in alleged plot to kill British PM (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 03:28 AM CDT

Police have arrested a 24-year-old man for alleged terror offences, after three others from the same town were detained over a reported plot to kill Prime Minister Gordon Brown, pictured here.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Police in Britain say that a fifth suspect has been arrested in an alleged plot to kill British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.


Bank of China denies aiding terrorists (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 12:10 AM CDT

AP - A major state-owned Chinese bank on Wednesday denied accusations in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles that it transferred money to terrorist groups and said it would fight the case.

Radical tied to Obama compared US actions to 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 11:10 PM CDT

AP - The release of a 2004 interview with former 1960s radical William Ayers, in which he compared U.S. government actions to the Sept. 11 attacks, drew renewed attention Tuesday to his association with Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

U.S. boy in Afghan custody likely terror suspect's son (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 07:23 PM CDT

Aafia Siddiqui in an undated combination photo. The U.S.-trained neuroscientist and al Qaeda suspect was arrested in Afghanistan in mid-July and flown to New York earlier this month to be charged with attempting to kill and assault U.S. soldiers. (FBI/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - An 11-year-old boy detained with a Pakistani woman accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan is believed to be her son, U.S. prosecutors said in a court letter obtained on Tuesday.


Two Guantanamo detainees transferred to Algeria: Pentagon (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT

The sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base. Two detainees at the Guantanamo war-on-terror jail were recently transferred to Algeria, the US Department of Defense said Tuesday, adding that about 260 people are still being held at the facility.(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)AFP - Two detainees at the Guantanamo war-on-terror jail were recently transferred to Algeria, the US Department of Defense said Tuesday, adding that about 260 people are still being held at the facility.


Fourth arrest over alleged plot to kill British PM (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 10:33 AM CDT

Police have arrested a 24-year-old man for alleged terror offences, after three others from the same town were detained over a reported plot to kill Prime Minister Gordon Brown, pictured here.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - Police arrested a 24-year-old man for alleged terror offences Tuesday, after three others from the same town were detained over a reported plot to kill Prime Minister Gordon Brown.


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