2009年7月22日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Feds: US man gave al-Qaida NYC subway information (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT

AP - An American man charged with giving al-Qaida information on the New York transit system and attacking a U.S. military base in Afghanistan has been a secret witness in the fight against terror both here and overseas, authorities revealed Wednesday.

US Senate urges review of NKorea terrorism blacklist status (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 03:05 PM PDT

This file handout photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on July 6, 2009 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il at the tideland reclamation site on Taegye Islet in North Phyongan Province. The US Senate said that North Korea poses a AFP - The US Senate on Wednesday called North Korea a "threat" to its neighbors and pushed for a formal review to see whether Washington should return the secretive regime to a US terrorism blacklist.


Homeland Security revamps Web site (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 01:30 PM PDT

AP - The Homeland Security Department relaunched its Web site Wednesday and became the first Cabinet-level agency to follow the tech-savvy White House directives on social media.

Guantanamo trial moved away from 9/11 anniversary (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 12:46 PM PDT

Detainees at the maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base, in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. Six months before US President Barack Obama's targeted deadline to close Guantanamo Bay jail, mounting obstacles and the complexity of the task are raising new doubts it will shut by January.(AFP/POOL/File/Marlk Wilson)AP - The 2010 trial for a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa has been moved further from the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.


Panel approves $128 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 12:21 PM PDT

AP - The total cost of the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would top $1 trillion under a Pentagon funding bill approved by a key House panel Wednesday.

Mumbai gunman says he's ready for gallows (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 11:47 AM PDT

FILE -  In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, a gunman identified by police as Ajmal Kasab walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India. Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in the November Mumbai attacks, admitted his role in the shooting Monday, July 20, 2009, in a dramatic confession in an Indian court, reversing months of denials.   (AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza, File) INDIA OUT. MANDATORY CREDITAP - The young Pakistani gunman who confessed to his role in the Mumbai attacks says he would rather be hanged in this world than face "God's punishment" in the next. The Indian court trying Ajmal Kasab has yet to accept his confession and guilty plea for taking part in one of the worst terrorist attacks in Indian history — three days of carnage in November that left 166 people dead.


Acquittal or new trial sought in Miami terror case (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 08:39 AM PDT

AP - Five men convicted of plotting with al-Qaida to destroy a Chicago skyscraper and blow up FBI offices want a federal judge to declare them innocent or order a new trial, claiming that a juror who appeared skeptical of the prosecution's case was improperly removed during deliberations.

Saudi rights abuses increased since 9/11: Amnesty (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 01:40 AM PDT

A Shiite pilgrim walks past Saudi police in the holy city of Mecca in 2008. Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia have soared as a result of counter-terrorism measures introduced since the 2001 attacks in the United States, Amnesty International said.(AFP/File/Hassan Ammar)AFP - Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia have soared as a result of counter-terrorism measures introduced since the 2001 attacks in the United States, Amnesty International said Wednesday.


Amnesty says Saudi terror fight plagued with abuse (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 09:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2005 file photo, a member of the Saudi special forces stands guard outside the hotel where the Counter-terrorism International Conference is being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is holding more than 3,000 people in secret detention and has used torture to extract confessions in its anti-terrorism crackdown since the Sept. 11 attacks, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday, July 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)AP - Saudi Arabia is holding more than 3,000 people in secret detention and has used torture to extract confessions in its anti-terrorism crackdown since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday.


Saudi counter-terrorism effort masks abuse: Amnesty (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:40 PM PDT

Reuters - Major U.S. ally Saudi Arabia is exploiting counter-terrorism efforts to violate human rights with thousands having been detained on security grounds since 2001, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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