2008年9月26日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Two terrorist suspects arrested on plane in Germany (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 04:30 AM CDT

Reuters - German police boarded a Dutch airliner at Cologne airport and arrested two men suspected of planning to take part in terrorist attacks, a spokesman said.

2 terrorist suspects arrested on KLM flight (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 04:12 AM CDT

AP - German police commandos grabbed two terrorist suspects from an Amsterdam-bound flight early Friday before the plane took off from Cologne, police said.

Palin's parents: Retirees, part-time rat killers (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:30 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, left, is shown the New York City Fire Department memorial on the side of Engine Company 10 by Tribute WTC Visitor Center president and co-founder, Lee Ielpi, a former fire fighter whose son, also a fire fighter, perished at the World Trade Center site, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - More than six years before Sarah Palin visited ground zero as the Republican vice presidential nominee, her parents were there as part of the response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — trapping rats.


India faced with home-grown terrorism (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Five arrests made over the past two weeks in connection with the Sept. 13 bomb blasts here are forcing the country with the world's second largest Muslim population to acknowledge that it cannot blame every bomb attack solely on Pakistan. India is seeing a rise in home-grown terrorism.

AP IMPACT: Nuclear waste piles up at hospitals (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 01:11 AM CDT

Waste is secured inside steel drums, encased in concrete vaults in an uncapped trench at Energy Solutions in Barnwell, S.C. Friday, Sept. 19, 2008.  A South Carolina law that took effect July 1 ended nearly all disposal of radioactive material at the landfill, leaving 36 states with no place to throw out such stuff. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic)AP - Tubes, capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and research installations around the country, stoking fears they could get lost or, worse, stolen by terrorists and turned into dirty bombs.


Pakistan warns US troops after exchange of fire (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 04:30 AM CDT

Map locates areas in Afghanistan where Pakistani troops fired on U.S. helicopters;AP - Pakistan warned U.S. troops not to intrude on its territory Friday, after the two anti-terror allies traded fire along the volatile border with Afghanistan.


Pakistan's president condemns unilateral attacks (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:09 PM CDT

Asif Ali Zardari, president of Pakistan, holds up a picture of his assassinated  wife, Benazir Bhutto,  at the beginning of his address the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, Thursday Sept. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Angered by U.S. raids into Pakistan in search of terrorists, Pakistan's new president warned Thursday that his country cannot allow its territory to "be violated by our friends."


Officials: Ground zero transit hub redesign sought (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 09:40 PM CDT

Crowds gather on the sidewalk to catch a glimpse of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as she tours Engine Company 10, Ladder Company 10, next to the World Trade Center site, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - The World Trade Center site's owner is proposing to redesign part of its over-budget transit hub to save money and ensure the nearby Sept. 11 memorial would open before the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, The Associated Press learned Thursday.


Border incident highlights Pakistani-US tension (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:00 PM CDT

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands guard on a street in the semi-autonomous Bajaur tribal district on August 8, 2008. President Asif Ali Zardari here Thursday disputed Washington's version of a NATO-Pakistani military encounter that highlighted tension among the close allies in the US-led war against terror.(AFP/File)AFP - President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday disputed Washington's version of a NATO-Pakistani military encounter that highlighted growing tension between the allies in the US-led war on terror.


Canadian man found guilty in landmark terror case (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 01:08 PM CDT

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer keeps watch near a security barrier outside the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa June 5, 2006. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)Reuters - A Toronto-area man was found guilty by an Ontario court on Thursday of being part of an al Qaeda-style terrorist conspiracy, the first verdict tied to an alleged plot to bomb key Canadian landmarks.


Germany on alert for 2 terror suspects (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 11:54 AM CDT

AP - German authorities are searching for two men linked to a group of terrorist suspects whose alleged plot to blow up American targets in Germany was foiled in 2007.

Palin defends Alaska-Russia foreign policy remark (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 06:57 PM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin talks to reporters outside of Engine Company 10, Ladder Company 10 next to the World Trade Center site, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her remark that the proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her foreign policy experience, explaining in a CBS interview airing Thursday that "we have trade missions back and forth."


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