2009年12月22日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Feds address concerns about safety of Ill. prison (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:25 PM PST

Protesters gather outside a Illinois legislative hearing Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 in Sterling, Ill. regarding an Obama administration decision to buy the underused Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill.  to house up to 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Federal officials on Tuesday tried to allay fears that moving terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a rural western Illinois prison could make the state a terrorist target.


Terrorist attack feared after Jackson arrest (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST

File-In this Feb.,2005 file photo showing Michael Jackson arriving for the first day of his child molestation trial at the Santa Barbara County Superior Court  in Santa Maria, Calif. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant,File)AP - Police concerns that media-hungry terrorists would attack Michael Jackson's trial as a "soft target" led to a request for federal help, according to FBI files kept on the late pop star. The documents also show that the FBI helped facilitate interviews in the Philippines by California authorities investigating Jackson over allegations that he had sexually abused boys.


SRA International awarded $50M DHS contract (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:48 PM PST

AP - SRA International Inc. said Tuesday that it has been awarded a $50 million Department of Homeland Security contract for work on cyber security.

Lithuania may have hosted two US 'war on terror' jails (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 10:01 AM PST

A training centre of the Lithuanian State Security Department in Antavilia near Vilnius. Staunch US ally Lithuania may have hosted two 'war on terror' lock-ups used by American agents to interrogate suspected Al-Qaeda members, the head of an inquiry commission said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Petras Malukas)AFP - Staunch US ally Lithuania may have hosted two 'war on terror' lock-ups used by American agents to interrogate suspected Al-Qaeda members, the head of an inquiry commission said Tuesday.


Panel: Lithuanian security approved CIA prisons (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:42 AM PST

AP - Lithuania's intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, but it's unclear whether they were actually used to interrogate terror suspects, a parliamentary panel said Tuesday.

US professor among 5 sentenced to die in Ethiopia (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:31 AM PST

FILE - In this April 25, 2009 file photo, Dr. Berhanu Nega poses for a photo in his house in Lewisburg, Pa. An Ethiopian court sentenced five people to death Tuesday Dec. 22, 2009  including Nega, an Ethiopian professor teaching at a U.S. university, and 33 to life in prison for being members of a terror group and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Nega, an exiled opposition leader who was elected mayor of Addis Ababa in 2005, is currently an associate professor of economics at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/John Zeedick, File)AP - An Ethiopian court sentenced five people to death — including an Ethiopian professor teaching at a U.S. university — and 33 to life in prison Tuesday for being members of a terror group and conspiring to assassinate government officials.


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