2009年5月27日星期三

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Castro criticizes Cheney's defense of US methods (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2009 05:36 PM PDT

AP - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro is criticizing ex-U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for defending American interrogation methods against terror suspects. Castro says torture should never be used to extract information.

Obama has made US safer : top security advisor (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2009 05:28 PM PDT

President Barack Obama's national security advisor James Jones, seen here, rejected ex-vice president Dick Cheney's claim that dismantling Bush-era anti-terror policies had made Americans less safe(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - President Barack Obama's national security advisor James Jones rejected ex-vice president Dick Cheney's claim that dismantling Bush-era anti-terror policies had made Americans less safe.


Deadly bombing in Pakistan may be payback for military offensive (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 27 May 2009 04:33 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suspected Islamic terrorists killed about 30 people and injured more than 250 Wednesday in a gun and vehicle-bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore that may be the first major reprisal for Pakistan's military offensive against extremists, analysts and officials said.

Napolitano: 9/11 terrorists did not enter US from Canada (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2009 09:44 AM PDT

US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, pictured on May 13, 2009, said Wednesday she now knows 9/11 terrorists did not enter the United States from Canada, seeking to bury controversy over a diplomatic gaffe.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she now knows 9/11 terrorists did not enter the United States from Canada, seeking to bury controversy over a diplomatic gaffe.


Ex-spy chief in Italy denies role in CIA kidnap (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2009 08:26 AM PDT

Judge Oscar Magi listens to a defendant at the Milan court, Italy, Wednesday, May 27, 2009, at the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians accused of orchestrating a CIA-led kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect. Last week Judge Oscar Magi decided the politically sensitive trial could continue despite a Supreme Court ruling throwing out key evidence on grounds it was classified. The trial continued Wednesday with the hearing of the former head of SISMI Italian Military intelligence Nicolo' Pollari and his former deputy, Marco Mancini, often refusing to answer prosecutor Armando Spataro on the ground the information were classified. The two-year-old trial is the first by any government over the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar)AP - The former head of Italy's military intelligence told a court Wednesday he had no role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect — allegedly as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program — but claimed he cannot prove his innocence because the evidence is classified.


Brazil detains Arab moderating anti-American site (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 06:40 PM PDT

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a news conference in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazilian authorities detained an Arab who ran a Web site forum that authorities initially suspected could be linked to terrorists and included anti-American statements in Arabic, a prosecutor said Tuesday night.


Ex-NYC police boss accused of lying to White House (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 05:42 PM PDT

FILE- In this May 18, 2004 file photo, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik testifies before the Sept. 11 commission hearings in New York. A New York grand jury indicted Kerik, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 on charges of making false statements to White House Officials vetting him for the position of Homeland Security secretary. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)AP - Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik (KEHR'-ihk) has been indicted on charges of making false statements to White House officials vetting him for the position of Department of Homeland Security secretary.


Did 'returning' terrorists become extremists in Guantanamo? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 May 2009 04:37 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — One of the detainees whom a newly released Pentagon report says returned to the battlefield after he was released from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp told McClatchy that he was a local security leader in Afghanistan when he was arrested and became a radical Islamist only during his detention.

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