2009年5月1日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Al-Qaida used Hotmail, simple codes in planning (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 05:05 PM PDT

FILE - This March 1, 2003 file picture shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack, according to a guilty plea agreement filed on Thursday, April 30, 2009 by Al Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in federal court. (AP Photo)AP - In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack, according to a guilty plea agreement filed by Al Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in federal court.


New jury problem surfaces in Fla. terror trial (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:40 PM PDT

AP - A new jury problem surfaced Friday in the terrorism conspiracy trial of six men when panel members asked a federal judge to remove a juror because she supposedly refused to deliberate.

Couple accused of cheating 9-11 fund get new trial (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 01:23 PM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors are going to try again to convict a former naval officer and his wife of defrauding a fund for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Sri Lanka army website hacked: defence ministry (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 11:39 PM PDT

A camp for internally displaced people near the northern town of Vavuniya. The Sri Lankan army's website has been targeted in a AFP - The Sri Lankan army's website has been targeted in a "cyber terrorism" attack by Tamil rebels, the defence ministry said, and replaced with gruesome photos of apparent victims of the civil war.


U.S. says terrorist violence soared in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:30 PM PDT

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers carry the coffin of one of the paramilitary soldiers who was killed by Taliban militants, during a funeral in Peshawar July 13, 2008. REUTERS/Ali ImamReuters - The U.S. State Department said on Thursday the number of people killed in terrorist attacks in Pakistan last year rose by more than 70 percent, despite an overall drop in such violence worldwide.


L.A. police arrest man linked to 30 rape-murders (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 06:25 PM PDT

John Floyd Thomas Jr. is seen in this 2009 police handout. Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide Detectives announced at a news conference in Los Angeles April 30, 2009, the arrest of the 72-year-old man, who has been positively linked to two LAPD Cold Case homicides. The suspect, John Floyd Thomas Jr., is also linked by DNA evidence to murders being investigated by the Inglewood Police Department and Los County Sheriff's Department. Additionally, he is suspected in as many as thirty murders and scores of rapes occurring in the Los Angeles area during the 1970's and 1980's. REUTERS/Los Angeles Police Department/HandoutReuters - Police said on Thursday they arrested a man suspected of killing up to 30 older women in two waves of unsolved strangulation-rapes that terrorized Los Angeles and other communities in the 1970s and '80s.


Swine flu: Why such a huge response to so few cases? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In recent days, the world has taken far-reaching steps to brace itself against the swine flu: The World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert level to 5 on a six-point scale, the United States secretary of Homeland Security has declared a public-health emergency, and federal officials have released a stockpile of vaccines to state and local public-health providers.
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