2009年6月3日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism
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Poll: US divided over torture, closing Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 03:01 PM PDT

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, left, welcomes President Barack Obama, right, upon his arrival at Royal Terminal King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, June 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - Just over half of Americans say torture is justified in some cases to thwart terrorist attacks, and the country is evenly divided over whether to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, according to a poll that underscores President Barack Obama's challenges in selling his terror-fighting policies.


4 NY terror plot suspects plead not guilty (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 10:36 AM 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 - Four men accused of crafting a terrorist plot targeting synagogues and military planes in New York have pleaded not guilty to additional charges.


New York synagogue bomb suspects plead not guilty (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 08:54 AM PDT

A van alledgedly carrying three terror suspects makes its way out of a federal court in White Plains, New York, in May 2009. Four New Yorkers arrested in an alleged plot to bomb a synagogue and shoot down military planes pleaded not guilty Wednesday.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Four New Yorkers accused of trying to bomb a synagogue and shoot down military planes pleaded not guilty Wednesday ahead of a trial that will bare the murky world of America's internal anti-terrorism struggle.


Pakistan to appeal release of cleric (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 03:13 AM PDT

Pakistani police escort Hafiz Saeed (C) as he leaves after a hearing in Lahore in May. Pakistani authorities vowed Wednesday to appeal against a court order to release Saeed, the head of a charity blacklisted in the West as a terror group and linked by India to the deadly Mumbai attacks.(AFP/File/Arif Ali)AFP - Pakistani authorities vowed Wednesday to appeal against a court order to release the head of a charity blacklisted in the West as a terror group and linked by India to the deadly Mumbai attacks.


How politics and terrorism poll was conducted (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 12:17 AM PDT

AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on politics and terrorism was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from May 28-June 1, 2009. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,000 adults. Interviews were conducted with 800 respondents on landline telephones and 200 on cellular phones.

China shuts down 7 'terror cells' in Muslim region (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 11:31 PM PDT

File photo shows ethnic Uighurs having their bags searched in the main square in Kashgar in China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region. Chinese police have smashed seven terror cells so far this year in the country's predominantly Muslim far-western region of Xinjiang, state media reported.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese police have smashed seven terror cells so far this year in the country's predominantly Muslim far-western region of Xinjiang, state media reported.


China says it found 7 terrorist cells this year (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 07:53 PM PDT

AP - China uncovered seven terrorist cells in a mostly Muslim city in its western border region in the first four months of this year, though the number of people joining such groups is declining, state media reported Wednesday.
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