2009年3月11日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Argentina bombing whistleblower allegedly tortured (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 05:25 PM PDT

Claudio Lifschitz, a former legal investigator of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association, attends an interview with The Associated Press in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Lifschitz appeared in court Wednesday to testify about his alleged kidnapping and torture last week by men who claimed they were members of the government's SIDE intelligence agency and carved the initials on his back and used a blowtorch to burn some numbers onto his left forearm. (AP Photo Natacha Pisarenko)AP - A criminal attorney who accused former President Carlos Menem of covering up the nation's worst terrorist attack testified Wednesday that he was kidnapped and tortured last week by masked gunmen seeking information about the case.

Italian court says state secrets breached in CIA kidnap case (AFP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 03:27 PM PDT

Abu Omar attends a trial in Milan in 2007. Italy's constitutional court Wednesday backed the government in the case of a 2003 kidnapping of Omar, an Egyptian terror suspect, saying state secrets were violated in the probe, ANSA news agency reported.(AFP/File/Giuseppe Cacace)AFP - Italy's constitutional court Wednesday dealt a heavy blow to a case against US and Italian intelligence agents accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect, saying the probe violated state secrets.

Italy's high court sinks CIA rendition case (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 02:57 PM PDT

AP - Italy's highest court on Wednesday dealt a potentially fatal blow to the trial against 26 Americans accused of involvement in the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect in Milan in 2003.

Italy's high court deals blow to CIA kidnap trial (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 01:37 PM PDT

Reuters - Italy's highest court ruled on Wednesday that prosecutors broke state secrecy laws when building their case against U.S. and Italian intelligence agents accused of kidnapping a terrorism suspect.

Somali-Americans recruited as "cannon fodder": U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 01:29 PM PDT

Reuters - The FBI is investigating how young Somali-Americans were drawn to fight with an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, but there is no sign they are being trained as domestic U.S. terrorists, authorities told Congress on Wednesday.

Somali youths in US recruited for terror: FBI (AFP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 12:06 PM PDT

Children offer fresh fish on a street near the harbour of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Somali youths in the United States are being recruited by Islamic terror groups, leading US security authorities told lawmakers Wednesday, saying that the trend is a growing concern.(AFP/File)AFP - Somali youths in the United States are being recruited by Islamic terror groups, leading US security authorities told lawmakers Wednesday, saying that the trend is a growing concern.

Greek terror group claims Athens Citibank bombs (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 11:25 AM PDT

AP - A Greek far-left militant group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a powerful fertilizer bomb planted at Citibank's offices in Athens, and for this week's bombing of one of the bank's branches.

'20 miles of terror' in small-town Alabama rampage (AFP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 11:19 AM PDT

The scene in Samson after a gunman went on a shooting rampage. The gunman killed at least ten people in a shooting rampage before turning the gun fatally on himself.(AFP/CNN)AFP - In 60 minutes of terror, a former Alabama police officer who once played on a local baseball team went on a deadly rampage that tore this rural community apart, then locked it together in grief.

U.S. diplomat may get key role in closing Guantanamo (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 09:18 AM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration is expected to give the top U.S. diplomat for Europe the task of convincing other nations to accept some detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorism suspects, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.

Spain commemorates Madrid train bombings (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 08:18 AM PDT

A commuter train is seen from the window of another train as it passes the exact spot where a train exploded 5 years ago just outside Atocha train station in a terrorist attack. Parliamentarians observed a minute's silence on Wednesday and survivors and relatives laid memorial flowers as Spain marked the fifth anniversary of the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people and injured 1,800 in Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. The anniversary Wednesday was the first in which the government has not staged any official ceremony for the victims, although other wreath-laying events were to be held in Atocha station and two others hit in the attacks.(AP Photo/Paul White)AP - The families of victims of the Madrid train bombings laid flowers Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of Europe's worst Islamic terror attack, which killed 191 people and injured 1,800.

Brown rejects judge-led inquiry into UK spies (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 07:01 AM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves 10 Downing Street for the Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Common in London, Wednesday, March 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday declined a request by opposition parties to authorize a judge-led inquiry into the conduct of U.K. intelligence agencies in supporting the U.S. government's pursuit of terror suspects since 2001.

Explosion at Casablanca video game arcade kills 1 (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 06:39 AM PDT

Rescuers, foreground, inspect the wreckage of a car after an explosion rocked the Salmia suburb of Casablanca, Morocco, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, killing at least one person and injuring six. The explosion on the Boulevard el Joulane occurred around 8:45 GMT in or near a video game arcade, said Hassan Sajeed, a witness. An Interior Ministry official said the blast was an accident and not linked to terrorism. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)AP - An explosion rocked a suburb of Casablanca early Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring six, residents and government officials said. An Interior Ministry official said the blast was accidental and not linked to terrorism.

U.S. intelligence candidate pulls out after objections (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 08:12 PM PDT

A veteran US diplomat and vocal Israel critic, Charles Freeman, has withdrawn from contention to become the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, US intelligence director Dennis Blair announced Tuesday.(NIC)Reuters - The Obama administration's candidate for a top U.S. intelligence post withdrew on Tuesday amid congressional objections over his past criticism of Israel and ties to China and Saudi Arabia.

Guantanamo cases proceed despite Obama freeze (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 08:11 PM PDT

A view of Camp Delta at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007. Suspected Al-Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri on Tuesday had his first day in a US federal court after spending nearly six years without charge in a military prison, a court official said.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)Reuters - The Guantanamo war crimes trials remain officially frozen while U.S. President Barack Obama weighs how to proceed with the terrorism prosecutions, but several of the cases are still very much in motion.

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