2008年12月18日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Indian lawmakers to meet on anti-terror measures (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:02 AM CST

Workers clean the exteriors of Trident hotel in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. The new wing of the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi's Trident hotel have beefed up security and are accepting reservations for Sunday and onwards, managers said. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)AP - India's upper house of Parliament met Thursday to consider anti-terror legislation drafted after the Mumbai attacks that would give police sweeping new powers and create an FBI-style national investigation agency.

White powder mailed to 16 U.S. embassies in Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 04:32 PM CST

Reuters - Envelopes containing white powder that later tested negative for toxins were mailed to 16 U.S. embassies in Europe this month, the State Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday.

'War on terror' a generational conflict, Bush says (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:32 PM CST

US President George W. Bush makes remarks on national security at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennslyvania. The United States' AFP - The United States' "war on terror" will continue for many years to come, President George W. Bush said Wednesday in a speech on his national security legacy.

Some 11,000 US troops to work during inauguration (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:21 PM CST

AP - More than 11,000 U.S. troops will provide air defenses and medical and other support in case of a terrorist attack during the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, the U.S. commander in charge of domestic defense said Wednesday.

Russian treason bill could target Kremlin critics (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 02:18 PM CST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at a meeting in Moscow, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)AP - Under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, people who fraternized with foreigners or criticized the Kremlin were "enemies of the people" and sent to the gulag. Now there's new legislation backed by Vladimir Putin's government that human rights activists say could throw Russia back to the days of the Great Terror.

Bush touts relations with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 01:52 PM CST

President George W. Bush listens to his introduction as he prepares to make remarks on national security, homeland security, and the freedom agenda at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, December 17, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he is leaving to his successor a stronger anti-terrorism partnership with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia forged in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

Germany's Islamic Terrorists: Echoes of Baader-Meinhoff (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 01:50 PM CST

Time.com - Today's extremists share common cause with the former left-wing Baader-Meinhoff group, and operate in strikingly similar ways

Bahrain arrests group suspected of planning attack (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 01:36 PM CST

A general view shows the Bahraini capital, Manama, in 2006. A group planning a terrorist attack in the Gulf state of Bahrain has been arrested, the state security authority said in a statement on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Several members of a group planning a terrorist attack in the Gulf state of Bahrain have been arrested, the state security authority said in a statement on Wednesday.

Pakistan demands India provide Mumbai evidence (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 12:59 PM CST

Pakistani students rally in favor of a religious charity organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. More than 100 children on Wednesday rallied against the United Nations for branding the Pakistani charity that runs their schools a terrorist front. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Pakistan sought to put some of the pressure over the Mumbai bloodshed on India, demanding Wednesday that its neighbor hand over "concrete evidence" against Pakistani citizens and groups allegedly involved in the terror attack.

Indian parliament agrees tough new anti-terror laws (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 11:33 AM CST

An Indian police officer stands guard at India Gate in New Delhi. The Indian parliament on Wednesday agreed tougher anti-terrorism laws in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, including the setting up of an FBI-style agency to plug gaping holes exposed by the atrocity.(AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)AFP - The Indian parliament on Wednesday agreed tougher anti-terrorism laws in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, including the setting up of an FBI-style agency to plug gaping holes exposed by the atrocity.

US military mobilizes troops for inauguration (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 11:31 AM CST

A worker applies a coat of primer on a stand at the construction site of the inaugural stand on the west side of the US Capitol on December 4, 2008 in Washington, DC. The US military plans to mobilize thousands of troops to protect Washington against potential terrorist attack during the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama, a senior US military commander said Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - The US military plans to mobilize thousands of troops to protect Washington against potential terrorist attack during the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama, a senior US military commander said Wednesday.

Doctor gets 2 life sentences in UK bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 08:34 AM CST

This image made available in London Tuesday Dec. 16, 2008, by the Metropolitan Police, shows Bilal Abdulla who was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of conspiring to murder hundreds of people with car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow. Abdulla, 29 an Iraqi doctor, claimed that he intended only to frighten Britons. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police, ho)AP - A doctor who led failed car bomb attacks in Britain in revenge for U.S.-led military action in his family's native Iraq was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

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