2008年10月24日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Four held in connection with Pakistan hotel blast (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 04:36 AM CDT

Reuters - Pakistani police have arrested four suspects in connection with a suicide truck bomb attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad last month and produced them in an anti-terrorism court on Friday, an official said.

Federal judge weighs key issue in detainee cases (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 06:58 PM CDT

A federal judge held a hearing Thursday on the meaning of AP - Lawyers sparred Thursday over how close a suspected terrorist must be to attacking the United States before he legally can be held without charges as an enemy combatant.


Chertoff to pursue changes in hiring rules (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 03:28 PM CDT

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday he'll try again to overcome a judge's objections to a proposal to force employers to get rid of workers whose Social Security numbers don't match their names.

Feds reject protest to nuclear waste storage plan (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 02:48 PM CDT

This April 12, 2001, file photo, shows the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis Obispo, Calif. Federal regulators on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008, denied an activist group's objections to a radioactive waste storage plan at Diablo Canyon. (AP Photo/Phil Klein, File)AP - Federal regulators ruled Thursday that a radioactive waste storage plan can go forward at a California nuclear power plant without further study of whether it's safe from terror attacks.


Pakistani refugees complain of army and Taliban (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 01:54 PM CDT

A Pakistani boy from the Bajur tribal region flies his kite at the Katcha Garhi camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. Refugees fleeing a Pakistani offensive against militants said the army is bombing their homes, killing women, children and livestock. Nearly 200,000 people have fled the fighting in Bajur regency to camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - The Taliban beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now army airstrikes are killing the innocent, say refugees who fled fighting set off by a Pakistani military offensive against the Islamic extremists.


Police: Palestinian man fatally stabs Israeli (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 12:56 PM CDT

Injured Palestinian Mohammed al-Baden is taken away by Israeli emergency personnel after he stabbed two Israeli men in Gilo, a Jewish settlement in the Arab section of Jerusalem. An elderly Israeli civilian was killed and a policeman wounded in a knife attack by a Palestinian in a Jerusalem settlement on Thursday, medics said.(AFP)AP - A Palestinian stabbed two Israelis in east Jerusalem on Thursday, killing an 86-year-old man and wounding a police officer in what authorities called a "terror incident."


Suspects' Internet habits eyed in Fort Dix trial (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 05:40 PM CDT

This artist's drawing shows defendants Shain Duka, bottom left, Eljvir Duka, Dritan Duka, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer and Serdar Tatar in a federal courtroom in Camden, N.J., Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. Opening arguments were presented Monday in their trial on charges the five men were planning to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The suspects were arrested in May 2007 and are accused of attempted murder, conspiracy to murder uniformed military personnel and weapons offenses. U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler is seen top center. (AP Photo/Shirley Shepard)AP - Computer hard drives hold some important evidence in the trial of five men accused of planning an attack on a New Jersey Army base.


Pakistan parliament seen united against militancy (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 04:43 AM CDT

Paramilitary soldiers guard the President House during Asif Ali Zardari's oath-taking ceremony in Islamabad September 9, 2008. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)Reuters - Pakistan's parliament has for the first time united to condemn terrorism, which members said posed a grave danger to stability, and has begun to "take ownership" of policy to tackle it, analysts said on Thursday.


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