2009年5月6日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Gitmo Politics: Kansas Senate Candidate Seeks to Block Transfer to U.S. (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 06 May 2009 06:47 PM PDT

CQPolitics.com - The politics of Guantanamo Bay are simple for most Kansans: They don't want prisoners of the war on terrorism transferred to the stockade at Fort Leavenworth.

Bush attorneys who wrote terror memo face backlash (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 06:21 PM PDT

File - In this June 26, 2008 file photo John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Justice Department officials have stopped short of recommending criminal charges against Bush administration lawyers who wrote secret memos approving harsh interrogation techniques of terror suspects. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Pressure is mounting against two former Bush administration attorneys who wrote the legal memos used to support harsh interrogation techniques that critics say constituted torture. John Yoo, a constitutional law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is fighting calls for disbarment and dismissal, while Judge Jay Bybee of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals faces calls for impeachment.

Report: FBI slow to update terror watchlist (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 06:18 PM PDT

AP - The FBI has been slow to update the national terror suspect watchlist — and the lapses pose real risks to U.S. security, a Justice Department audit has found.

US Republicans seek to block Guantanamo releases into US (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 03:59 PM PDT

A view is shown over the fence into the minimum security section of Camp Delta in 2007 on the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A US lawmaker vowed Wednesday to introduce legislation aimed at barring the release into the United States of Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay and denying them public assistance money.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Top House Republicans announced Wednesday they would unveil a bill aimed at blocking the transfer or release of detainees from the Guantanamo Bay facility for terrorism suspects into the United States.

US hopeful on Yemeni detainee deal (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 02:37 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration says it is inching closer to a deal that would send an estimated 100 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay to Saudi terrorist rehabilitation centers and speed the closing of the Navy prison.

Obama: Pakistan, Afghanistan fighting terrorists (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 01:27 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan are cooperating in the effort to defeat al-Qaida and its terrorist allies.

Napolitano: Mexico border violence reduced (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2009 11:12 AM PDT

Soldiers inspect vehicles at a military checkpoint in a neighbourhood of the border city of Ciudad Juarez April 20, 2009. REUTERS/Alejandro BringasReuters - The drug violence on the Mexico border has been reduced as a result of the thousands of troops that President Felipe Calderon sent to Ciudad Juarez, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Wednesday.

US raises pressure on Pakistan, Afghan leaders to halt extremism (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 10:56 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama Wednesday said the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan had forged a new front against extremists, but Afghan deaths in US raids cast a pall over a high-stakes summit here.(AFP/Jim Watson)AFP - The Obama administration raised the pressure Wednesday on the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to crack down on resurgent extremism seen as threatening the stability of key US anti-terror allies.

Pakistan's Zardari promises to share terrorism fight (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2009 10:17 AM PDT

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari (R) delivers a speech at the Pakistan Donors Conference in Tokyo in this April 17, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari promised on Wednesday to aid Afghanistan and the United States in battling the threat of terrorism posed by al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Audit Finds Flaws in Handling of Terrorist Watch List; 'Unacceptable,' Leahy Responds (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 06 May 2009 10:02 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - An audit of the government's terrorist watch list found that the FBI sometimes failed to add investigation targets to the list and frequently failed to add suspects swiftly, then often did not remove suspects when investigations were closed.

US raises pressure on Pakistan, Afghan leaders (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 09:56 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks after registering as a candidate for August presidential elections at the office of the Independent Election Commission in Kabul on May 4, 2009. The Obama administration raised the pressure Wednesday on the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to crack down on resurgent extremism seen as threatening the stability of key US anti-terror allies.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - The Obama administration raised the pressure Wednesday on the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to crack down on resurgent extremism seen as threatening the stability of key US anti-terror allies.

Mumbai attack suspect pleads not guilty (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 07:22 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, a gunman, who was later identified as Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, walks at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India. The only surviving suspected gunman in last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai pleaded not guilty Wednesday, May 6, 2009 to all charges against him, including waging war against India and murder. Prosecutors told the court that Kasab was one of 10 attackers responsible for killing 166 people and wounding 234 more during the three-day siege of India's financial capital last November. Nine other suspected gunmen were killed during the attacks. (AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza, File)AP - The only surviving suspected gunman in last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai pleaded not guilty Wednesday to all charges against him, including waging war against India and murder.

Obama to host three-way Pakistan-Afghan summit (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 03:12 AM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses a prime time press conference at the White House in Washington, DC in April 2009. Obama will try to cajole leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan into a crackdown on resurgent extremism, in summits aimed at lancing mistrust hampering anti-terror efforts.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - President Barack Obama will Wednesday try to cajole leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan into a crackdown on resurgent extremism, in summits aimed at lancing mistrust hampering anti-terror efforts.

U.S. Report Said to Urge Discipline for Bush Lawyers Be Weighed (Bloomberg)

Posted: 05 May 2009 09:01 PM PDT

Bloomberg - May 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Justice Department investigators say disciplinary action, not criminal prosecution, should be considered for two of three Bush administration lawyers who wrote memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects, a person familiar with the matter said.

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