2009年8月31日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Doctors had 'central role' in CIA abuse: rights group (AFP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:46 PM PDT

A man walks across the the lobby of the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a AFP - A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a "central role" in advising and implementing the CIA's abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects.


Flight 93 Memorial construction to start in Nov. (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:44 PM PDT

AP - The federal government will pay about $9.5 million to acquire land so the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday.

Ohio teen convert's attorney claims safety at risk (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - An attorney for a teenager who says she ran away from home because she feared for her safety after she converted to Christianity from Islam claimed in court documents Monday that her family's mosque in Ohio has terrorist ties — a charge disputed by the Islamic center's leader.

Frantic Ga. 911 caller: 'My whole family is dead!' (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:27 PM PDT

In this photo released on Sunday Aug. 30, 2009 by the Glynn County Police Department, Guy Heinze Jr. is shown. Heinze Jr., 22, who called 911 to report finding seven people slain in a dingy mobile home on a historic Georgia plantation, was arrested late Saturday and charged with illegal possession of prescription drugs and marijuana, tampering with evidence and making false statements to police, Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said.  (AP Photo/Glynn County Police Department)AP - Guy Heinze Jr. arrived home from a night out to find a gruesome scene — seven people dead, a cousin with Down syndrome clinging to life and another critically injured.


White House: Cheney wrong on interrogations policy (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 11:12 AM PDT

AP - The White House says former Vice President Dick Cheney has his facts wrong on the Obama administration's policies for terror detainee interrogations.

Sri Lankan journalist given 20 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 10:53 AM PDT

Sri Lankan prison guards escort ethnic Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam out of the High Court premises in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. The court Monday sentenced Tissainayagam to 20 years in prison under the island's harsh anti-terrorism law for publishing articles critical of the government's war on the Tamil Tiger rebels. (AP Photo)AP - A Sri Lankan reporter singled out by President Barack Obama as an example of persecuted journalists around the globe was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison on charges of violating the country's strict anti-terror law.


Ridge: Talk of terror-alert politics exaggerated (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 08:18 AM PDT

Former US homeland security chief Tom Ridge, seen here in February, charges in a new book that top aides to then-president George W. Bush pressured him to raise the AP - Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people "are hyperventilating" about his assertion that politics played a role in talk of raising the terror alert before the 2004 elections.


'Test of Our Times': Tom Ridge on Terror Alert Level (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 08:10 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Sept. 4, 2008 file photo, Tom Ridge, former secretary of Homeland Security and former Pennsylvania governor speaks to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)Time.com - In an interview with TIME, Tom Ridge expresses regrets about his stint as Secretary of Homeland Security, but he stops short of blaming his former colleagues


Indonesian police: Terrorist infiltrated airline (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 07:35 AM PDT

AP - A suspect wanted in connection with hotel suicide bombings in the Indonesian capital infiltrated the national airline in a plot to carry out a "bigger attack," the police chief said Monday.

Blackwater tapped foreigners on secret CIA program (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:47 AM PDT

FILE -  In this Oct. 2, 2007, file photo,  Blackwater USA founder, Erik Prince, testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. The private contractor had won the government's confidence by handling security and training operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the decision, revived by CIA in 2004, to use the private contractor as part ofits now-abandoned secret program to kill or capture terrorists in sensitive overseas operations, struck some former agency officials as highly unusual.  (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)AP - When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.


McCain Denies Giving O.K. to a CIA Torture Tactic (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:35 AM PDT

In this photo provided by CBS, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., appears on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)Time.com - Senator McCain's spokesperson disputes a report that McCain raised no objection when told of the CIA's use of sleep deprivation in questioning suspected terrorists


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