2009年10月6日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


CIA records: Cuban exile informed on colleagues (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 05:45 PM PDT

AP - Recently released CIA files from the mid-1960s show Cuban exile and accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles informed on violent Miami-based efforts to attack Fidel Castro's fledgling Cuban government even as he was deeply involved in helping them.

Holder worried about lawmakers' Gitmo objections (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 05:21 PM PDT

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addresses the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Denver on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he is worried that lawmakers' opposition to bringing terrorist suspects held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to U.S. prisons could hurt the effort to close the detention center.


Holder: NY plot was one of most serious since 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 05:03 PM PDT

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addresses the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Denver on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday the alleged terror plot disrupted in New York was "one of the most serious in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001" — but he gave no indication when more arrests might be made.


Obama: US 'making real progress' fighting terror (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 04:09 PM PDT

President Barack Obama shakes hands with National Counterterrorism Director Michael Leiter after making remarks to employees at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday thanked counterterrorism employees who work to prevent attacks on the United States and its allies, crediting them with "making real progress" in disrupting al-Qaida and other extremist networks.


Detained immigrants could be categorized by risk (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:15 PM PDT

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised immigration enforcement would continue even though her agency is considering new ways to house nonviolent immigrants who have not committed crimes.

AP sources: NY suspect had senior al-Qaida contact (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:01 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 17, 2009 file photo shows Najibullah Zazi arriving at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning.  Zazi, an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior al-Qaida operative, intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - President Barack Obama is touting the case of an al-Qaida-linked Afghan immigrant who allegedly plotted an attack in New York as proof the U.S. intelligence community is making progress in the struggle to defeat the terror group.


3 UK men accused of providing aid to aircraft plot (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:56 PM PDT

AP - A British prosecutor accused three men Tuesday of conspiring with the mastermind of a plot to kill thousands of airline passengers by blowing up their trans-Atlantic flights using liquid explosives.

Tough to meet Guantanamo closing deadline: Holder (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:35 PM PDT

US Attorney General Eric Holder, pictured in August 2009, acknowledged Tuesday it will be Reuters - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that it would be tough to meet the fast-approaching January deadline to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that houses terrorism suspects.


Three more in British court over transatlantic bomb plot (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:46 PM PDT

Police vans carrying alleged Islamist extremists Nabeel Hussain and Mohammed Shamin Uddin at the City of Westminster Magistrate's Court in l London in 2006. Hussain, Uddin and fellow suspect Adam Khatib appeared in court Tuesday accused of conspiring with the jailed ringleader of a plot to blow up transatlantic jets in 2006.(AFP/File/John D Mchugh)AFP - Three alleged Islamist extremists went on trial Tuesday accused of conspiring with the jailed ringleader of a plot to blow up transatlantic jets in 2006.


McCain: Al-Qaida, Taliban must be seen as partners (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 10:12 AM PDT

In this image taken on Oct. 4, 2009, Pakistan's new Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, center, stands pose with his deputy Waliur Rehman, left, and spokesman Azam Tariq in Sararogha in Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along Afghanistan border. Pakistan blamed Taliban militants Tuesday for the deadly suicide bombing at the U.N. food agency's heavily fortified compound in the capital as authorities detained some of the guards posted outside to try to determine how the attacker gained entry.(AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)AP - Sen. John McCain says Obama administration policy decisions in Afghanistan shouldn't be based on viewing the insurgent Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network as separate and distinct issues.


48% Say American Muslims Should Speak Out Against Terrorist Attacks (Rasmussen Reports)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 06:09 AM PDT

Rasmussen Reports - Forty-eight percent (48%) of Americans nationwide believe that it is the responsibility of American Muslims to speak out against terrorist attacks on the United States.

President meets with lawmakers on Afghan policy (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:21 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama keeps his attention on global terror and security matters on Tuesday, as he continues a series of meetings with advisers and others on Afghanistan.

Geithner: Be vigiliant of terror financing risk from Iran banks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

New York to fight terrorism with more street-corner cameras (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - On the heels of breaking up an alleged bomb terror plot, New York is planning to place high-tech security cameras, license plate readers, and "weapons sensors" in midtown Manhattan.

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