2008年11月1日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Police detain 3 in attacks in India that killed 77 (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 03:22 AM CDT

A Central Reserve Police Force personnel stands amidst the wreckage at the site of a bomb blast near a court in Gauhati, India, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Investigators searched through rubble Friday for clues on the kinds of explosives used in more than a dozen coordinated blasts that killed at least 76 people in crowded streets and markets of northeastern India. More than 300 people were wounded. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)AP - Police detained three people for questioning and are investigating whether local militants received help from other terrorist groups in carrying out coordinated attacks that killed at least 77 people in India's troubled northeast, officials said Saturday.


Libya completes payments for US terror victims (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 03:09 AM CDT

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, top, arrives in Moscow, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Gadhafi arrived in Russia on Friday for three days of talks expected to focus on boosting energy ties and arms trade between the two Cold War allies.  (AP Photo/Yuri Kochetkov, Pool)AP - Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, clearing the last hurdle in full normalization of ties between Washington and Tripoli.


Egyptian Al-Qaeda militant killed in Pakistan strike: official (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 02:53 AM CDT

A Pakistani police commando in Mamoon Khataki Shabqader on the border of the tribal district of Mohmand Agency in early October. A wanted Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative has been killed in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan, a security official has said.(AFP/File/Tariq Mahmood)AFP - A wanted Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative who has appeared in some of the terror network's videos was killed in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan, a security official said Saturday.


Bali bombers await firing squads as Indonesia stands guard (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 02:42 AM CDT

Muhammed Chozin, the eldest brother of Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas. The three Islamist militants convicted over the Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people are awaiting execution as Indonesia stands guard against a feared extremist backlash.(AFP/Adek Berry)AFP - Three Islamist militants convicted over the Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people awaited execution Saturday as Indonesia stood guard against a feared extremist backlash.


US receives 1.5 billion dollars in compensation from Libya (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:44 PM CDT

Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdel Rahman Shalgham (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a meeting in Tripoli in September 2008. The United States said Friday it has received 1.5 billion dollars from Libya, the entire sum required to compensate the families of victims of terrorist attacks.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - The United States said Friday that Libya has paid the full 1.5 billion dollars to compensate victims of terrorism, clearing the last hurdle to a full normalization of ties with Washington.


Libya paid $1.5 billion to fund for terrorism victims (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:26 PM CDT

Reuters - Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund for victims of terrorism, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, a step that will remove a major obstacle to improving U.S.-Libyan ties.

Security tight ahead of Bali bombing executions (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 10:02 AM CDT

AP - Police tightened security across Indonesia on Friday as authorities braced for potential terrorist attacks ahead of the executions of three Islamic militants convicted in the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead.
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