2009年2月20日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Afghan arrested for alleged lies about terror ties (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 10:00 PM CST

This courtroom artist's sketch shows Ahmadullah Sais Niazi, 34, during his arraignment in federal court Friday Feb. 20, 2009 in Santa Ana, Calif. Niazi, the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard was arrested Friday on charges that he lied about ties to terrorist groups on citizenship and passport papers, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mona Shafer Edwards)AP - The brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard was arrested Friday on charges that he lied about ties to terrorist groups on citizenship and passport papers, authorities said.

Official: Pentagon report says Gitmo is humane (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 08:32 PM CST

In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee peers through his hands from inside his cell at the Camp Echo detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A U.S. appeals court has overturned a ruling, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States. The men have been cleared for release from Guantanamo, but the United States will not send them home to China for fear they will be tortured. So they remain in prison while the U.S. figures out what to do with them. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)AP - The Pentagon says the Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions, according to a report for President Barack Obama, who has ordered the terrorist detention center closed within a year.

Obama task force determine fate of terror detainees (AFP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 05:46 PM CST

US President Barack Obama, seen here on January 22, 2009, puts his pen away after signing an executive order to close the AFP - President Barack Obama's administration stepped up efforts Friday to shut the Guantanamo prison, appointing a former federal prosecutor to determine the fate of the controversial camp's remaining prisoners.

Guantanamo Review to Be Headed by Bush Official (Bloomberg)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 05:30 PM CST

Bloomberg - Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A Bush administration Justice Department official will lead a task force created by President Barack Obama to review the status of suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

US to prod Syrian envoy on terrorism, nukes (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 04:43 PM CST

AP - The State Department is reaching out to Syria to discuss U.S. allegations that the Arab country supports terrorist groups and is pursuing nuclear weapons, a department official said Friday.

Guantanamo Review to Be Headed by Bush Administration Official (Bloomberg)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 04:18 PM CST

Bloomberg - Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A Bush administration Justice Department official will lead a task force created by President Barack Obama to review the status of suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Flight 93 memorial planners: 2011 deadline makable (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 02:41 PM CST

Bill Ackley an emergency medical worker poses for a photograph at his home Thursday Feb. 19, 2009 in Monroe, Conn. As an emergency medical worker, Bill Ackley captain of Stamford EMS responded to airplane crashes and the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. But he and his partner couldn't believe the carnage of a woman who was mauled this week by a chimpanzee in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)AP - Government officials and representatives of the passengers and crew killed when United Flight 93 crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001, have pledged to dedicate a memorial there by the attacks' 10th anniversary.

Sources: War tours strain US military readiness (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 08:19 AM CST

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm, Mike Mullen shakes hands with soldiers and passes out traditional military coins as he makes his first visit to the Fort Campbell Army Base in Fort Campbell, Ky. on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. Mullen told about 680 soldiers at Fort Campbell during a town hall style meeting that soldiers are getting too little time at home after spending as much as 15 months in combat. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)AP - Strained by repeated war tours, persistent terrorist threats and instability around the globe, there is a significant risk the U.S. military may not be able to respond quickly and fully to new crises, a classified Pentagon assessment has concluded.

Guantánamo detention: How harsh is it? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST

In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee peers through his hands from inside his cell at the Camp Echo detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A U.S. appeals court has overturned a ruling, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States. The men have been cleared for release from Guantanamo, but the United States will not send them home to China for fear they will be tortured. So they remain in prison while the U.S. figures out what to do with them. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)The Christian Science Monitor - Military officials are vigorously defending their treatment of detainees at the controversial terror prison camp here, rejecting charges by the prisoners and their lawyers that conditions are harsh, illegal, and inhumane.

Chinese Muslims stay stranded at Guantánamo (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - Seventeen Chinese Muslims being held at the Guantánamo prison camp for suspected terrorists have lost a bid to live temporarily in the United States pending their resettlement in a third country.

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