2009年4月10日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Police make 'Al-Qaeda plot' searches (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 02:26 PM PDT

Police officers patrol the area around a house in Liverpool following arrests and raids in Liverpool, Manchester and Clitheroe. British police searched houses and properties and questioned 11 Pakistanis Friday in a probe into an alleged planned Al-Qaeda attack, as London and Islamabad traded accusations over fighting terrorism.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Police searched houses and properties and questioned 11 Pakistanis Friday in a probe into an alleged planned Al-Qaeda attack, as London and Islamabad traded accusations over fighting terrorism.


British police make 'Al-Qaeda plot' searches (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 11:12 AM PDT

Police officers patrol the area around a house in Liverpool following arrests and raids in Liverpool, Manchester and Clitheroe. British police searched houses and properties and questioned 11 Pakistanis Friday in a probe into an alleged planned Al-Qaeda attack, as London and Islamabad traded accusations over fighting terrorism.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Police searched houses and properties and questioned 11 Pakistanis Friday in a probe into an alleged planned Al-Qaeda attack, as London and Islamabad traded accusations over fighting terrorism.


Pakistan, UK discuss anti-terror raid (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 09:19 AM PDT

Police officers gather evidence outside a house in Abercarn Close in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. Anti-terror police were scouring homes and interrogating 11 Pakistanis over what Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a AFP - Foreign secretary Friday telephoned his Pakistani counterpart to discuss the arrests in Britain of Pakistanis allegedly linked to a terror plot, Pakistan's foreign ministry said.


Algerian Bouteflika wins 3rd presidential term (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 02:41 PM PDT

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika arrives at his campaign headquarters in the Hydra district of Algiers, Thursday April 9, 2009, on the day of the Algerian presidential election. Bouteflika faced five relatively unknown challengers and appeared almost certain to win a third term without a runoff when results were announced Friday. (AP Photo)AP - President Abdelaziz Bouteflika hailed his landslide re-election for a third term as a "lesson in democracy" on Friday, but opposition politicians and independent media alleged fraud at the polls, and the U.S. government expressed concern.


Searches expanded in British terror case (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 07:46 AM PDT

AP - Police in northern England expanded their search of sites with ties to suspected terrorists Friday, two days after arresting a dozen people in connection with an alleged plot.

Top US officials to visit Mexico border (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 07:33 AM PDT

A Mexican Army soldier in Mexico City during a counter-drugs operation. US Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and White House Homeland Security Council director John Brennan are set to travel to the southern border with Mexico on Wednesday, the White House has said.(AFP/File/Susana Gonzalez)AFP - US Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and White House Homeland Security Council director John Brennan will travel to the southern border with Mexico on Wednesday, the White House has said.


Officials: Pirates, terrorists not linked directly (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 01:03 AM PDT

Army Gen. William E. (Kip) Ward, Commander, United States Africa Command, speaks with The Associated Press during an interview, Monday, March 23, 2009, at the Pentagon in Washington.  'I don't see direct connections,' Ward later said about Somali pirates and Islamic extremists.  'But, again, if you look at the clan structure or the tribes - to think that there may not be linkages probably is a bit naive.'   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Even before Somali pirates took over a U.S.-flagged ship this week, U.S. military and counterterrorism officials had been scrutinizing the brazen hijackings for any connection to terrorist groups operating in East Africa.


UK's top anti-terror officer resigns after blunder (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 08:58 PM PDT

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Peter Fahey speaks during a press conference on Wednesday's anti-terrorist raids, Manchester, England, Thursday, April 9, 2009. Twelve men were reportedly arrested in raids in northwest England on Wednesday, which were prompted by a security blunder by Britain's top anti-terrorism police officer. Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick, who has since resigned, was photographed clutching sensitive documents as he arrived in Downing Street for a meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (AP Photo/Paul Thomas)AP - Britain's top counter-terrorist police officer resigned Thursday after he was photographed carrying clearly visible secret documents about an operation against an alleged al-Qaida plot by Pakistani nationals to launch an attack in Britain.


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