2009年5月28日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Media groups seek access to terrorism evidence (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 05:30 PM PDT

AP - News organizations asked a federal judge on Thursday to grant the media access to copies of audio and video court records key to the upcoming trial against a terrorism suspect.

Army chief: US able to fight NKorea if necessary (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 05:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 12, 2009, file photo, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Army's budget. On May 26, 2009, during a invitation-only briefing to a dozen journalists and policy analysts from Washington based think-tanks, Casey said the Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The United States could fight an old-fashioned war against North Korea if necessary, even while newer forms of conflict against terrorists and extremists continue, the Army's top officer said Thursday.


Explosion in mosque kills 15 in southeast Iran (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 01:46 PM PDT

Blood is seen on the ceiling inside a mosque after a bomb explosion in Zahedan, 1076 km (668 miles) south east of Tehran, May 28, 2009. An explosion at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed 30 people and wounded 60, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported. REUTERS/IRNA (IRAN CONFLICT RELIGION)AP - An explosion in a mosque killed 15 people near Iran's volatile border with Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday and a local official said it was a terrorist attack.


Pakistan extremists attack again, threaten wider war (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 28 May 2009 07:50 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Islamic extremists attacked two marketplaces and two police posts Thursday in northwest Pakistan, killing at least six civilians and five soldiers, and they also took credit for a deadly vehicle bombing Wednesday in Lahore and threatened more attacks in major cities throughout the Punjab heartland, police said.

Abu Hamza's sons jailed for fraud (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 04:45 AM PDT

Three sons of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza, who is currently serving time for incitement to murder,have been jailed over their involvement in a luxury car scam in London. Mohamed Mustafa, seen here outside the Finsbury Park mosque in 2004, was jailed for two years.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - Three sons of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza, who is currently serving time for incitement to murder, were on Thursday jailed over their involvement in a luxury car scam in London.


Amnesty calls Obama's anti-terror record 'mixed' (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2009 09:45 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama makes his case for closing Guantanamo Bay earlier this month in Washington, DC. Obama's record on changing the counter-terror policies of his predecessor has been AFP - US President Barack Obama's record on changing the counter-terror policies of his predecessor has been "mixed," said a report by international human rights watchdog Amnesty International.


In Pakistan's terrorist attacks, who gets the blame? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 May 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A suicide bomb in Lahore Wednesday killed 30 people and wounded more than 250, an attack that some government officials and analysts saw as retaliation for military operations against the Taliban in the northwest.
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