2008年12月20日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Former German terrorist released after 26 years (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 01:54 PM CST

Leading member of the German terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) Christian Klar is led by a police officer to a Stuttgart court on March 23, 1983. Klar and Brigitte Mohnhaupt, another leading member of the RAF, were sentenced to five terms of life in prison plus 15 years by a court in Stuttgart for the 1977 killings of Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback, banker Juergen Ponto and industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. The lawyer of former leftist terrorist says on Friday Dec. 19, 2008 Christian Klar has been released from prison. (AP Photo)AP - Throughout the 1970s, the Red Army Faction was the scourge of capitalist West Germany and Christian Klar one of its most notorious leaders — the force behind a murder spree that included the slayings of a federal prosecutor, an industrialist and the chief of a major bank.


Iran urges Pakistani clampdown on terrorism (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 09:45 AM CST

Iran's deputy foreign minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh, seen here in 2005, urged Pakistan on Friday to boost its counter-terror efforts, three weeks after the Mumbai attacks that India has blamed on a Pakistan-based militant group.(AFP/LEHTIKUVA/File/Jussi Nukari)AFP - Iran's deputy foreign minister urged Pakistan on Friday to boost its counter-terror efforts, three weeks after the Mumbai attacks that India has blamed on a Pakistan-based militant group.


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