2008年10月4日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

New, controversial FBI guidelines go into effect (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 08:11 PM CDT

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, seen here, has signed new guidelines for FBI operations he said are designed to better protect the country from terrorist attacks, but that raise concern of some lawmakers and civil rights group(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - US Attorney General Michael Mukasey has signed new guidelines for FBI operations he said are designed to better protect the country from terrorist attacks, but that raise concern of some lawmakers and civil rights groups.


FBI given new rules for investigations (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 06:38 PM CDT

AP - The Bush administration issued new rules Friday designed to allow the FBI to pursue potential national security threats with the same vigor and techniques used against common criminals. Civil libertarians said the guidelines will come at a cost to constitutional protections.

Ex-sailor wants new trial in terrorism case (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 05:05 PM CDT

AP - A former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements to suspected terrorist supporters sought a new trial Friday, saying prosecutors lacked evidence and inflamed the jury.

Blast kills 7 Russian soldiers in South Ossetia (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 03:57 PM CDT

Heavy smoke billows over the site of an explosion at the Russian peacekeepers base in Tskhinvali. Seven Russian soldiers were killed on Friday in an apparent car bomb attack in the Georgian separatist region of South Ossetia condemned by Moscow as an attempt to undermine the EU-Russia peace accord.(AFP)AP - A car exploded Friday, killing seven soldiers outside Russia's military headquarters in South Ossetia, and Russian authorities charged it was a terrorist bombing meant to wreck the tense cease-fire that ended their war with Georgia.


Kenya terror suspects in Ethiopia to come home (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 02:21 PM CDT

AP - Eight terror suspects flown to secret jails in Ethiopia a year and a half ago for questioning, some of them by American agents, will return to Kenya, a police spokesman said Friday.

British law could breach rights convention: Council of Europe (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 04:54 AM CDT

A prison van leaves the Belmarsh prison in London, 2005. Council of Europe deputies rounded on plans by Britain to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge, warning the legislation could lead to arbitrary arrests.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Council of Europe deputies rounded Friday on plans by Britain to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge, warning the legislation could lead to arbitrary arrests.


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