2009年4月17日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Contractor sentenced to over 5 years in 9/11 fraud (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:37 PM PDT

AP - A former contractor was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for defrauding the federal government during reconstruction of the Pentagon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Spain: No torture probe of US officials (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 09:33 AM PDT

A file photo of Camp Delta at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. Spain's attorney general on Thursday recommended against an investigating magistrate going ahead with a probe of six former US officials over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - Spain should not investigate allegations that six senior Bush administration officials gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Spanish prosecutors formally recommended Friday.

Pak 'terror culture' cited in Mumbai attacks trial (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 02:34 AM PDT

Indian policemen escort lawyer Abbas Kazmi (L) as he leaves for the special bomb-proof court at Arthur Road jail in Mumbai. The suspected Pakistani gunman on trial in India for last year's Mumbai attacks will plead not guilty and has accused police of extracting a confession through torture, his lawyer said Friday.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - The Islamist militant attacks on Mumbai were the product of Pakistan's "strategic terror culture," an Indian court was told Friday as the prosecution opened its case against one of the alleged gunmen.

Donors pledge $5 billion to stabilize Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 03:24 AM PDT

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari attends the Pakistan donors conference at a Tokyo hotel, Japan, Friday, April 17, 2009.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - International donors, led by the United States and Japan, pledged more than $5 billion Friday to stabilize Pakistan's troubled economy and fight the spread of terrorism in the Islamic nation and neighboring Afghanistan.

Obama Says U.S. Terror Memos Expose ‘Dark and Painful Chapter’ (Bloomberg)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 09:00 PM PDT

Bloomberg - April 17 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he wants to move past “a dark and painful chapter” by exposing Bush administration legal memos that authorized harsh tactics in the interrogation of suspected terrorists.

Terror memos authorized harsh interrogation techniques (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Obama administration will not prosecute US intelligence officials involved in harsh interrogations of terror suspects, the president pledged on Thursday.

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