2009年3月19日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Criticized for alleged detainee torture, Britain orders review (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 02:57 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - LONDON — Under mounting pressure to reveal Britain's role in the alleged torture of terrorism suspects abroad during Prime Minister Tony Blair's administration, his successor, Gordon Brown, ordered Thursday that new rules be drafted and made public to guide intelligence officers in interrogations.

Somali-American Terrorist Threat Overblown? (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 02:08 PM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali-American from Minneapolis, earned the dubious distinction of being the first known U.S. citizen to become a suicide bomber. "It appears he was radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota," FBI chief Robert Mueller said recently, adding that the FBI was on the lookout for a handful of other young, male Somali-Americans who had gone missing. Ahmed blew himself up last fall, killing about 30 other people in a suicide truck bombing outside Mogadishu, Somalia.

US lawmaker: Allies should help with Guantanamo (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 01:19 PM PDT

The United States should keep the prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay open and pressure its European allies into jointly running the facility, Representative Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote in an opinion column.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AFP - The United States should keep the prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay open and pressure its European allies into jointly running the facility, a key US lawmaker said Thursday.

Defense lawyer kept in dark about terror suspect (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 11:44 AM PDT

This picture provided by Andrew Savage, the lawyer of Ali al-Marri, shows the dual Saudi-Qatari national in January 2009 at the US Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal authorities have refused to disclose to defense lawyers where they are holding al-Marri, a suspected Al-Qaeda sleeper agent who was charged with terrorism offenses last month, his lawyer said Thursday.(AFP/ICRC)AFP - Federal authorities have refused to disclose to defense lawyers where they are holding Ali al-Marri, a suspected Al-Qaeda sleeper agent who was charged with terrorism offenses last month, his lawyer said Thursday.

US ports fear security deadline could hit trade (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 08:24 AM PDT

Containers are stacked on a ship at the Port Newark Container Terminal, the third-largest cargo terminal in New York. Some of America's largest ports have warned they may not meet an April 15 government deadline to screen key workers for terrorist links, imperiling the flow of US trade.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Brown)AFP - Some of America's largest ports have warned they may not meet an April 15 government deadline to screen key workers for terrorist links, imperiling the flow of US trade.

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