2009年2月19日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

UK withdraws controversial terrorism lesson plan (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 09:45 PM CST

AP - Britain's government apologized Thursday for endorsing a lesson plan which asked students to think like suicide bombers.

Terrorist in 1973 NYC bomb plot to be deported (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 06:45 PM CST

This file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary in 2007. The Black September terrorist who served only about half his 30-year sentence for planting three car bombs in New York City in 1973 was released Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 into the custody of immigration officials to be deported. Al-Jawary, 63, was released from the Supermax maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo. after a federal immigration judge had signed a deportation order, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo)AP - A Black September terrorist who served only about half his 30-year sentence for planting three car bombs in New York City in 1973 was released Thursday into the custody of immigration officials to be deported.

Yemen sends terrorism suspect to Saudi Arabia (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 03:18 PM CST

AP - Yemen says it has handed over another alleged al-Qaida operative to authorities in Saudi Arabia.

US Senator John Kerry in rare Gaza visit (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 02:41 PM CST

US Senator John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz (L) speak with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (R) on a hilltop overlooking the Gaza Strip. Kerry on Thursday made a rare visit to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, but stressed this did not reflect a change of policy towards the territory's Islamist rulers listed by Washington as a terror group.(AFP/Menahem Kahana)AFP - US Senator John Kerry made a rare visit to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip on Thursday, but stressed this did not reflect a change of policy towards the territory's Islamist rulers listed by Washington as a terror group.

Court awards euro2,800 to radical preacher held in UK (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:56 AM CST

Jordanian Abu Qatada is seen during a televised appeal to to release a British hostage in this December 7, 2005 file photo. Qatada, a cleric described by Britain's government as a AP - Europe's highest human rights court has awarded an extremist Muslim preacher euro2,800 ($3,550) for being held unlawfully by British authorities during an anti-terrorist probe.

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Analysis: New brand of domestic terror in Greece (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:51 AM CST

AP - A new and possibly more dangerous generation of Greek extremists is escalating attacks against police and symbols of capitalism, years after authorities believed they had stamped out domestic terrorism.

Guantanamo Uighurs denied release in US (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 08:32 PM CST

In this photo reviewed by the US Military, a guard works at Guantanamo's Camp 6 detention center at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in January 2009. A US federal appeals court ruled Wednesday against releasing 17 Chinese ethnic Uighurs into the United States from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba despite their having been cleared of AFP - A US court refused to release 17 China's ethnic Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay into the United States, spelling more legal limbo for the men cleared by Washington of "war on terror" allegations.

Third trial begins for US 'terror cell' (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 05:31 PM CST

This photo released by the US Department of Justice shows Narseal Batiste, one of six people accused of being members of a terror cell that plotted to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago and bomb FBI offices. The six went on trial for a third time on Wednesday, this time in Florida.(AFP/DOJ-HO/Ho)AFP - Six people accused of being members of a terror cell that plotted to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago and bomb FBI offices went on trial for a third time on Wednesday, this time in Florida.

3rd trial starts for 6 men accused of terror plot (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 05:17 PM CST

In a Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007 artists rendering, U.S. Attorney Jacqueline Arango, center, makes her closing arguments before Judge Joan Lenard during the so-called 'Liberty City Seven' trial in Miami. Lyglenson Lemorin, left front, was acquitted on four terrorism conspiracy charges involving an alleged plot to topple Chicago's Sears tower.The remaining six will be tried a third time on terrorism charges. Prosecutors claim the six of being an Al-Qaida cell bent on destroying Chicago's Sears Tower and help inginte a war against the United States. Third trial starts in Miami Tuesday Jan. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Shirley Henderson, File)AP - A group of Miami men accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and other targets were alternately portrayed Wednesday as militants who sold out their country for money or poor construction workers duped by federal agents.

UK judge dismisses jury in airline plot case (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 05:00 PM CST

These images made available by the Metropolitan Police in London, Tuesday Feb 17, 2009, show: top row, from left, Waheed Zaman, Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan, Umar Islam, and, bottom row, from left, Tanvir Hussain, Donald Stewart-Whyte, Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Assad Sarwar, who plotted to use 'home made bombs' disguised as soft drinks to blow up transatlantic aircraft in mid-flight, according to the prosecution in their trial at Woolwich Crown Court in London, Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009. The eight men, aged between 22 and 30, deny conspiracy to murder, but the prosecutor, Peter Wright, said the defendants were close to carrying out their plan when they were arrested in August 2006. Seven of the men are undergoing a retrial. One is facing charges for the first time. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)AP - A judge dismissed the jury Wednesday in the trial of a group of British Muslims accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic passenger jets, citing legal reasons.

Owner now says she never gave slain chimp Xanax (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 05:20 PM CST

FILE MANDATORY CREDIT, ONLINE OK **AP - As authorities considered criminal charges, the woman whose 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee went berserk and mauled a friend backtracked Wednesday on whether she gave the animal the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. Sandra Herold told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she never gave the drug to her 14-year-old chimp, Travis, who was shot dead by Stamford police Monday after he grievously wounded Herold's friend Charla Nash.

Sweden grants asylum to former Guantanamo detainee (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 10:57 AM CST

AP - A Swedish immigration court granted asylum Wednesday to a Chinese Muslim who was released from Guantanamo Bay after the U.S. acknowledged he was not a terrorist.

Analysis: IAEA candidates a study in contrasts (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 08:48 AM CST

Japan's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano speaks during an interview with TheAssociated Press at his office in Vienna, Austria, Feb. 5, 2009. Key member states plan in the coming weeks to elect a new leader of the U.N. agency. Whether the winner is Japan's Yukiya Amano or South Africa's Abdul Samad Minty there is consensus that he will have large shoes to fill. Mohamed ElBaradei's 12-year tenure as IAEA chief will be remembered as a time when the agency rose from relative obscurity to playing pivotal roles in investigating first Iraq, then Iran for possible nuclear weapons programs. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - Key member states plan in the coming weeks to elect a new leader of the U.N. agency charged with probing Iran's nuclear program, pressing Syria to reveal its atomic secrets and thwarting terrorists from getting the bomb.

Radical cleric can be deported to Jordan: British court (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 03:28 PM CST

A photo from Jordan's al-Dustour newspaper of Abu Qatada in 2000. The radical Muslim cleric once described as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, can be deported to Jordan despite his fears of torture, the top appeal court said Wednesday.(AFP/OFF/File)AFP - Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric once labelled Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, can be deported to Jordan despite his fears of being tortured there, Britain's top court said Wednesday.

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