2009年5月8日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

White House aide resigns over NYC flyover (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:22 PM PDT

In this photograph released by the White House, Air Force One flies over the Statue of Liberty in New York in this undated photograph.   (AP Photo/The White House)AP - The White House official who authorized a $328,835 photo-op of Air Force One soaring above New York City resigned under fire Friday as the administration tried to move past the embarrassing incident that sent panicked workers rushing into the streets amid flashbacks of Sept. 11.


Terror suspect who fled Singapore held in Malaysia (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 11:43 AM PDT

Posters put up by local newspaper companies with headlines of Mas Selamat Kastari being captured is hung at local newspaper stands, Friday May 8, 2009 in Singapore.  The top Islamic terror suspect accused in a plot to crash a hijacked plane into Singapore has been arrested in neighboring Malaysia after escaping a high-security Singaporean jail last year, an official said Friday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)AP - An Islamic militant who escaped from a Singapore jail a year ago has been arrested in Malaysia, where his ability to remain in hiding for so long showed that terror networks in the region remain strong, officials said Friday.


Liberty's crown, closed since 9/11, to open July 4 (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:25 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo shows a close up of the Statue of Liberty. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday, May 8, 2009 that the statue's crown will reopen on July 4 for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/File)AP - The Statue of Liberty's crown, with its exhilarating view of New York's skyscrapers, bridges and seaport, is reopening on Independence Day for the first time since terrorists leveled the World Trade Center just across the harbor.


Pakistani army vows to oust Taliban militants (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:10 PM PDT

A local resident of Buner in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley walks past the destruction caused by fights between Taliban militants and government security forces on Friday, May 8, 2009. Pakistani jets screamed over a Taliban-controlled town Friday and bombed suspected militant positions as hundreds of thousands fled in terror and other trapped residents appealed for a pause in the fighting so they could escape. (AP Photo)AP - Pakistan's army vowed Friday to eliminate militants from a northwestern valley but warned that its under-equipped troops face thousands of Taliban extremists who have seized towns, planted bombs made from pressure cookers, and dragooned children to be suicide bombers.


Pakistani forces bomb Taliban in Swat (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:27 AM PDT

Internally displaced families gather at a bus station as they flee military operations in Mingora, on the outskirts of Swat valley May 7, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Pakistani planes bombed the Taliban in their Swat bastion on Friday, after the prime minister ordered elimination of "militants and terrorists" and on the heels of a commitment to Washington to fight extremists.


CIA docs unclear on Pelosi interrogation briefings (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 08:32 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - CIA records show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on harsh interrogation techniques being used on terrorist suspects, but the records do little to settle a dispute over whether she knew waterboarding had already been used against one prisoner by then.


Holder says terrorists won't be freed into US (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 05:28 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 7, 2009, before the Senate Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - The Obama administration will not release terrorists from Guantanamo Bay into neighborhoods in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday as he sought to reassure worried lawmakers.


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