2009年8月24日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 06:27 PM PDT

Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton conducts the daily press briefing of media at a makeshift filing center in the gym at the Oak Bluffs School in Oak Bluffs, Mass., Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted.


'Last Column' returned to New York 9/11 site (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 06:20 PM PDT

The historic 'Last Column', (covered in white) the final steel beam to be removed from the World Trade Center (WTC) site is returned for permanent installation in the 9/11 Memorial Museum at the WTC site in New York. The 36-foot high 'Last Column' was covered in tributes from workers, rescue personnel and family members(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - The symbolic final steel beam removed from the rubble of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 was returned to Ground Zero, site of a monument for victims of the worst terror attack on US soil.


US resumes flying illegal immigrants to Mexico (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:58 PM PDT

AP - Immigration authorities are flying illegal immigrants deep into their native Mexico from Southern Arizona to discourage dangerous crossings in triple-digit desert heat.

Highlights of the newly declassified CIA documents (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT

AP - On Monday, the Obama administration released newly declassified 2004 CIA documents detailing the Bush administration's policy of capturing suspected terrorists and interrogating them in overseas prisons. Some highlights:

Analysis: Obama in crosswinds on detention policy (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:55 PM PDT

President Barack Obama has set up a new team of elite interrogators to grill terror suspects under White House supervision, in a fresh repudiation of Bush-era anti-terror tactics.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AP - After declaring he would rather look forward, President Barack Obama is delving instead into the past to deal with lingering assertions of CIA mistreatment of terror suspects during the Bush administration. It's another headache for an administration struggling to juggle two wars, a painful recession and a crowded agenda bogged down in Congress.


US prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuses (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:29 PM PDT

A view of the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. US Attorney General Eric Holder Monday named a prosecutor to probe claims CIA interrogators abused terror suspects, a move certain to unleash new recriminations over Bush-era war on terror tactics.(AFP/File/Joyce Naltchayan)AFP - US Attorney General Eric Holder Monday named a prosecutor to probe claims CIA interrogators abused terror suspects, unleashing a new wave of political fury over Bush-era war on terror tactics.


AP News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:12 PM PDT

AP - Newly classified CIA documents say spies used 'inhumane' tactics in war on terrorism

Rape, child murder: US probes CIA threats (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:52 PM PDT

US President George W. Bush (L) speaks alongside then CIA Director General Michael Hayden (R) after meetings at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in 2008. US Attorney General Eric Holder Monday named a prosecutor to probe claims CIA interrogators abused terror suspects, a move certain to unleash new recriminations over Bush-era war on terror tactics.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - CIA interrogators threatened to rape family members of terror suspects, execute their kids, even torture them with an electric drill, official documents showed Monday, as the attorney general announced a probe.


White House repeats position on CIA prosecutions (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 01:05 PM PDT

AP - The White House is repeating its long-held view on CIA interrogators of terror suspects, saying that they should not be prosecuted if they acted within legal guidelines laid out at the time.

AP Source: prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuse (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 11:51 AM PDT

AP - A Justice Department official says Attorney General Eric Holder has picked prosecutor John Durham to investigate CIA mistreatment of terror suspects.

White House Announces New Interrogation Team (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Time.com - The White House chose to announce new procedures for the interrogation and transfer of suspected terrorists on Monday morning, just hours before embarrassing new revelations about what the CIA did to detainees during the Bush years

Young Guantanamo detainee returns to family in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:50 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — A young Afghan held for six years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rejoined his family in southern Kabul late Monday, ending an odyssey that came to symbolize many of the problems of the Bush administration's war on terror detention policies.

Steel beam returns to NYC's ground zero (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:35 AM PDT

A steel beam, center, shrouded in a white cover, is lifted by crane to the World Trade Center site Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 in New York. Dubbed the 'Last Column,' it became the final standing steel column removed from ground zero following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Column No. 1,0001 B of 2 World Trade Center, as it's officially known, will become part of the planned National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum. In the background is the steel frame of One World Trade Center, previously called the Freedom Tower. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - It became a makeshift memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now a massive steel column has been returned to ground zero as a symbol of rebirth.


Obama creates new agency to handle terrorist interrogations (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:28 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, moving to break with Bush-era interrogation policies, announced Monday that it would create a new interagency group to manage the questioning and transfers of terrorist detainees.

Ex-Guantanamo detainee Jawad sent to Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:23 AM PDT

An Afghan man Gul Nak, the uncle of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Jawad poses with pictures of Jawad in Kabulin June 2009. Jawad, 19, one of the youngest detainees held at the US AFP - Mohammed Jawad, 19, one of the youngest detainees held at the US "war on terror" prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was released Monday and sent back to his native Afghanistan, his lawyer said.


Officials warned about fake DHS intel e-mails (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 09:38 AM PDT

AP - Some e-mails purporting to be from the Homeland Security Department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software.

Scottish govt defends Lockerbie bomber's release (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:51 PM PDT

This photograph released by the Scottish Parliament shows Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill making a statement to the Scottish Parliament on the decision to release Lockerbie bomber Libyan  Abdel Baset al-Megrahi Monday Aug. 24, 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland's government has defended itself against unrelenting criticism from the United States over the decision to free the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber on compassionate grounds.  Monday Aug. 24, 2009.   (AP Photo/ Adam Elder/Scottish Parliament/PA Wire)AP - Scotland's justice minister on Monday defended his much-criticized decision to free the Lockerbie bomber, as the U.S. State Department said that though it disagreed "passionately" the move would not affect relations between America and Britain.


Series of raids by Pakistan police foil attacks (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 06:37 AM PDT

Pakistani police officers escort detained militants, faces covered with a cloth, to produce them into Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. Police arrested seven members of an al-Qaida-linked group and seized suicide vests, explosives and heroin during a raid in Pakistan's southern commercial center that thwarted planned terrorist attacks, officials said. (AP Photo)AP - Pakistani authorities arrested 13 Islamist militants in separate raids that police said Monday foiled major terrorist attacks and provided clues to how drug sales to Asia and the Persian Gulf help fund the Taliban.


Justice Dept advises pursuing CIA abuses: report (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:14 AM PDT

The logo of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is shown in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, file photo. REUTERS/Jason Reed  JIRReuters - The U.S. Justice Department has recommended reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, which could expose CIA employees and contractors to prosecution for their treatment of terrorism suspects, The New York Times reported on Monday.


Pakistan police arrest 13 men over terror plots (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:42 AM PDT

Pakistani policemen stand guard in Karachi in January 2009. Pakistani police have arrested 13 men accused of plotting attacks across the country, with one cell planning to disrupt Ramadan and the other targeting economic hub Karachi, police said Monday.(AFP/File/Rizwan Tabassum)AFP - Pakistani police have arrested 13 men accused of plotting attacks across the country, with one cell planning to disrupt Ramadan and the other targeting economic hub Karachi, police said Monday.


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