2008年10月3日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Pakistan official: War until 'terror free' (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 01:58 AM CDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani talks with reporters as he arrives at the airport in Multan, Pakistan, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. The U.N. ordered children of its international staff to leave the Pakistani capital and other areas it considered unsafe, raising its security level following the bombing of the Marriott Hotel, the world body said Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - Pakistan's war against Islamic extremists will go on until the country is "terrorism-free," a senior official said Friday after mounting violence prompted the United Nations to raise its security stance.

Census: Big Brother anxieties could hurt count (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 10:20 PM CDT

In this file photo of Friday, June 20, 2008, construction cranes work above the Freedom Tower foundations at the World Trade Center site in New York. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's executive director, Chris Ward, announced Monday that nearly every project under construction at the World Trade Center site, which the agency owns, is behind schedule and that the Freedom Tower memorial would not be able to open by its latest target, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Fear of the government in some communities after the Sept. 11 attacks and years of debate over immigration policy could create problems in getting an accurate count of the U.S. population in 2010, the director of the Census Bureau said Thursday.

WTC owners rewrite expectations at ground zero (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 06:13 PM CDT

In this file photo of Friday, June 20, 2008, construction cranes work above the Freedom Tower foundations at the World Trade Center site in New York. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's executive director, Chris Ward, announced Monday that nearly every project under construction at the World Trade Center site, which the agency owns, is behind schedule and that the Freedom Tower memorial would not be able to open by its latest target, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - The owners of the World Trade Center site announced a delay in the completion of a multibillion-dollar transit hub Thursday but pledged to open a nearly finished Sept. 11 memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

NY appeals court overturns terrorism verdicts (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 04:53 PM CDT

AP - A federal appeals court Thursday overturned the convictions of a Yemeni cleric and his deputy, finding they were prejudiced by inflammatory testimony about unrelated terrorism links in a case the United States once touted as a victory in its war against terrorism.

Italy court upholds terror conviction (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 03:25 PM CDT

AP - Italy's top criminal court on Thursday upheld the conviction on international terrorism charges of an Egyptian jailed as one of the chief suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, a lawyer said.

London's police chief quits in showdown with mayor (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 02:12 PM CDT

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair reads a statement during a press conference at New Scotland Yard, London, where he announced his resignation, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. The head of London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's biggest force, has resigned after a tenure marred by controversy. Sir Ian Blair says he decided to resign because he thinks he didn't have the backing of London Mayor Boris Johnson. Blair took over as commissioner in February 2005. He presided over the force during its investigation of the 2005 suicide attacks on London's transit system. He was in charge when a Brazilian electrician mistaken for a suicide bomber was killed two weeks after the transit attacks. (AP Photo/Lewis Whyld/pool)AP - London's police chief had weathered controversy over terrorist attacks and the shooting death of an innocent man, but he quit Thursday, done in by a showdown with the city's new mayor.

Suspected Islamist militants tried in France over bomb plot (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 02:00 PM CDT

Reuters - Nine suspected Islamist militants went on trial on Thursday accused of plotting bomb attacks in France in a case that has underscored prosecutors' fears that prisons have become a recruiting ground for extremists.

Pope says laws against terrorism must be just (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 08:44 AM CDT

Pope Benedict XVI gestures to the faithful as he arrives to lead Wednesday general audience in St. Peter Square at the Vatican October 1, 2008. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)Reuters - Pope Benedict said on Thursday laws against terrorism should not be unjust or inhumane.

Dutch court extends prison for 4 terror plotters (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 08:29 AM CDT

AP - An appeals court on Thursday increased the prison sentences of four Islamic radicals accused of plotting attacks on Dutch politicians, convicting them of the additional charge of membership in a terrorist organization.

US candidates grapple for new foreign policy approach (AFP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 08:27 AM CDT

US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack arrives at his office in the Hart Building October 1, 2008 in Washington, DC. With America's reputation abroad tarnished, the White House contenders are tussling over Iraq and Afghanistan as saddled with the Bush AFP - With America's reputation abroad tarnished, the White House contenders are tussling over Iraq and Afghanistan as saddled with the Bush "war on terror" strategy they grope for a fresh foreign policy.

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