2009年6月2日星期二

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Yemeni prisoner in Guantanamo found dead: U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT

Detainees talk together inside the open-air yard at the Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, May 31, 2009. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/PoolReuters - A Yemeni captive died in an apparent suicide at the detention center for foreign terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.


4 NY terror plot suspects indicted on more charges (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 04:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this file courtroom sketch made Thursday, May 21, 2009, terror suspects James Cromitie, right, David Williams, second from left, and Onta Williams, left, and Cromitie's lawyer, Vincent Briccetti, second from right, are seen in a courthouse in White Plains, New York.  (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, file)AP - Prosecutors boosted charges Tuesday against four men accused after an elaborate FBI sting operation of plotting to bomb New York City synagogues and shoot down military airplanes.


Suicides at Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:52 PM PDT

AP - The military says five Guantanamo prisoners have died in apparent suicides since January 2002, when the United States began using its base in Cuba to detain suspected terrorists and others with alleged links to al-Qaida and the Taliban:

Pakistan frees head of militant group accused of Mumbai attack (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:25 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Tuesday freed the leader of an Islamic militant group that's been blamed for the devastating terrorist assault last year on Mumbai, India, a move that's likely to damage the prospects of peace between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.

Somali Islamist claims he's uniting insurgents (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 11:50 AM PDT

Islamist fighters, seen, during clashes between Islamic fighters and government soldiers, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday June 2, 2009. An international aid agency says the situation in conflict-ridden Somalia is going to become more catastrophic because of a combination of war, drought and malnutrition. Oxfam's Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Hassan Noor says the recent fighting in the capital, Mogadishu, has made an already bad humanitarian situation worse. In a statement Monday, Noor says thousands sleep in the open and are exposed to rain or searing heat. He describes seeing sick children lying on floors with diarrhea and disease.   The U.N. says 62,000 people have recently fled Mogadishu. They join hundreds of thousands others who had already fled the capital. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)AP - A hardline Somali leader on a U.N. list of terror suspects claimed Tuesday to be making progress in uniting two Islamist insurgent factions as a single front against the Western-backed government.


Pakistan orders release of cleric linked to Mumbai attacks (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 11:47 AM PDT

Photographers take pictures of Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi in May. The Indian government said Tuesday it was AFP - A Pakistan court Tuesday ordered the release of the head of a charity blacklisted in the West as a terror group and linked by India to the deadly Mumbai attacks, hiking tensions in the region.


Most Americans against closing Guantanamo: poll (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 08:07 AM PDT

In this photo reviewed by the US Military, a guard works at Guantanamo's Camp 6 detention center at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in January 2009. Two of every three Americans are opposed to closing Guantanamo, with an even higher percentage against moving some of the detainees from the AFP - Two of every three Americans are opposed to closing Guantanamo, with an even higher percentage against moving some of the detainees from the "war on terror" prison to their own US states, poll results showed Tuesday.


India 'unhappy' over Pakistan terror suspect order (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 01:20 AM PDT

Photographers take pictures of Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi in May. The Indian government said Tuesday it was AFP - The Indian government said Tuesday it was "unhappy" over a Pakistani court decision to release the head of an Islamic charity it says was linked to last year's Mumbai attacks.


Pakistani court orders Mumbai-linked cleric freed (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 03:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday May 5, 2009 file photo, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, chief of an Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, leaves after appearing before the judicial review board of High Court in Lahore, Pakistan. A Pakistani court on Tuesday ordered the release of the hardline Islamist cleric allegedly linked to the attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, his lawyer said, setting the stage for a new round of tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)AP - The founder of the group India blames for last year's Mumbai siege was ordered freed in a court ruling Tuesday that raised new tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors and drew criticism of Pakistan's commitment to fighting terrorism.


Cheney Says There Was No Iraq Link to 9/11 Attacks (Bloomberg)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:22 PM PDT

Bloomberg - June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney disavowed intelligence he once cited to suggest that then-Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein collaborated with al-Qaeda to stage the Sept. 11 attacks.
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