2008年10月10日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Suicide attacks a growing threat in Pakistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A suicide bomber struck the headquarters of the Anti-terrorism Squad of the Islamabad police force Thursday afternoon, just as lawmakers were preparing to convene 15 miles away to discuss growing militancy in the country.

Showdown ahead over 17 Uighur detainees (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A dispute over what to do about 17 Chinese Muslims detained at the Guant??namo Bay military prison is developing into a major showdown over the power of the judiciary to enforce fundamental constitutional rights in the war on terror.

Ohio charity accused of terrorist ties sues feds (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 08:08 PM CDT

AP - An Ohio-based charity that the U.S. government says is linked to Hamas is demanding that officials unfreeze its assets.

U.S. may drop North Korea from terrorism list: report (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:29 PM CDT

North Koreans participate in celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of North Korea in Pyongyang, September 9, 2008, in this picture distributed by North Korea's official news agency KCNA, September 10, 2008. (KCNA/Reuters)Reuters - The Bush administration looks poised to provisionally remove North Korea from the State Department's terrorism blacklist, perhaps as soon as Friday, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.


US: Libya begins payments for US terror victims (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:16 PM CDT

View of Geneva. Libya will withdraw its assets from Swiss banks estimated at seven billion dollars and stop shipping oil to Switzerland, Jana news agency reported.(AFP/File/Thomas Coex)AP - Libya has started making payments into a nearly $2 billion fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, another step in the full normalization of long-strained ties between Washington and Tripoli, the State Department said Thursday.


British court told bombers planned 'wholesale' murders (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 11:10 AM CDT

Police officers search the area where a burning car slammed into Glasgow Airport's main terminal building on June 30, 2007. Two men who plotted failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow last year wanted to commit AFP - Two doctors accused of plotting failed car bombings in London and Glasgow wanted to commit "indiscriminate and wholesale" murder, prosecutors alleged Thursday on the first day of a major anti-terror trial.


Libya said to begin payments for US terror victims (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 11:08 AM CDT

AP - A senior U.S. official says Libya has started to make payments into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s.

U.S. to take N.Korea off terrorist list in Oct: Kyodo (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:32 AM CDT

Top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill (R) speaks to the media after a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Kim Sook (L) at a hotel in Seoul September 30, 2008. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)Reuters - The United States has told Japan that it will remove North Korea from its terrorist blacklist this month, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday, quoting unidentified Japanese government sources.


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