2009年3月13日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Investigator uses phony documents to get passports (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 06:50 PM PDT

In this June 20, 2007 file photo, people wait in line outside the U.S. Passport Office in downtown Washington. Using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year-old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security. Despite efforts to boost passport security since the 2001 terror attacks, the investigator fooled passport and postal service employees on four separate applications, according to a new report being issued this week by the Government Accountability Office. A draft summary of the findings was obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year-old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security. Despite efforts to boost passport security since the 2001 terror attacks, the investigator fooled passport and postal service employees four out of four times, according to a new report made public Friday.

Ariz. serial shooting suspect guilty of 6 murders (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 06:33 PM PDT

Dale Hausner, center, sits in court Friday afternoon, March 13, 2009 in Phoenix, Ariz. Hausner was convicted Friday of six murders in a series of nearly 30 attacks in 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo/Mark Henle, Pool)AP - A former janitor was convicted Friday of murdering six people and attacking 19 others in dozens of random nighttime shootings of pedestrians, bicyclists and animals that terrorized this desert city over a 14-month period in 2005 and 2006.

Obama admin. to end use of term 'enemy combatant' (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 06:25 PM PDT

In this Sept. 19, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, long abandoned chain link and razor wire fencing is seen overgrown with weeds and vines at Camp X-Ray, which for the first few months of 2002 served as the primary detention center at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Nearby sit the modern, state of the art prison facilities used to house detainees since Camp X-Ray was closed down, and which President Obama and ordered closed by January, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)AP - The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant. But that won't change much for the detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba — Obama still asserts the military's authority to hold them. Human rights attorneys said they were disappointed that Obama didn't take a new stance.

Obama's new detainee policy: Break from Bush, or the same? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 04:33 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday abandoned two key aspects of former President George W. Bush's policies on suspected terrorists, setting off wide debate on whether the move undercut the government's rationale for holding at least some of the men who are now detained at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba or amounted to nothing new.

Obama Outlines New Rationale for Holding Detainees (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:33 PM PDT

CQPolitics.com - The Obama administration Friday outlined a new legal rationale for holding the suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that differs from its predecessor in substance, but not scope.

Dutch police free 7 after probing terror tip (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 01:42 PM PDT

Dutch police give directions to shoppers after sealing off a major shopping street in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday March 12, 2009. Dutch police say they arrested seven people on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in Amsterdam including a relative of one of the attackers who died in the 2004 bombings in Madrid. Earlier Thursday authorities had sealed off a major Amsterdam shopping street as a result of the threat, while police conducted house searches. District Attorney Herman Bolhaar says those arrested include six men and one woman, aged 19-64. All are Dutch nationals of Moroccan ancestry. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)AP - AMSTERDAM — Police released all seven people arrested after an anonymous warning of a plot to plant bombs in an Amsterdam shopping district, prosecutors said Friday, easing fears that the Dutch capital was the target of a terrorist threat by Moroccan immigrants.

U.S. Guantanamo inmates no more "enemy combatants" (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:38 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration stopped calling Guantanamo inmates "enemy combatants" on Friday and incorporated international law as its basis for holding the prisoners while it works to close the facility.

Belfast chooses peace in face of renewed terror (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:52 PM PDT

The funeral of PSNI constable Stephen Carroll makes its way through Banbridge, Northern Ireland, Friday March 13, 2009, to St Therese's Roman Catholic church. Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, was shot while on duty in Craigavon on Monday. Thousands of people lined the streets outside St Therese Church in his hometown of Banbridge, County Down, where funeral mass was held. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - When Irish Republican Army dissidents gunned down their first British security forces in more than a decade, they hoped to provoke a steely security crackdown and tit-for-tat attacks that would drag Belfast back into the bad old days.

Activists accuse Russia of mistreating Muslims (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:37 PM PDT

AP - Two activists accused Russia's government on Friday of encouraging prosecutors to target Muslims on trumped up charges of terrorism and extremism, and said the abuse could lead to anti-government unrest.

India hands Pakistan more Mumbai attack details (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 07:06 AM PDT

AP - India said Friday it has handed over more information to Pakistan about the terror attack in Mumbai and urged its neighbor to take quick action against the plotters.

Iraqi PM says nation is united against terrorism (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:26 AM PDT

AP - Iraq will not be a staging ground or a way station for terrorists after combat troops from the U.S.-led coalition withdraw, the Iraqi prime minister said Friday, insisting the country is united against terrorism.

NYC jury awards $5.46M to 1993 WTC bombing victim (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 06:31 PM PDT

AP - A jury on Thursday awarded $5.46 million to a woman who was trapped underground and injured when terrorists detonated a car bomb beneath the World Trade Center in 1993.

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