2009年6月10日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism
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Ex-Ga. Tech student convicted of video terror plot (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 05:15 PM PDT

An artists rendering of former Georgia Tech student Syed Haris Ahmed in federal court Wednesday June 10, 2009. A federal judge convicted Ahmed Wednesday of plotting to aid a terrorist group by videotaping landmarks around Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Richard Miller)AP - Syed Haris Ahmed's videos of Washington, D.C. landmarks didn't represent an imminent threat to the U.S., but prosecutors said his conviction Wednesday for supporting terrorism exemplifies a strategy of snuffing out potential plots in their earliest stages.


NYC 9/11 memorial to feature audiovisual display (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 03:45 PM PDT

This artist rendering by Thinc Design with Local Projects and provided by The National September 11 Memorial & Museum shows one of that museum's planned exhibitions. The memorial exhibition will allow visitors to the underground museum within the footprint of the World Trade Center's south tower to learn more about each individual who was killed in the September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993 attacks. It will include a room where audio-visual tributes will be shown commemorating each victim. (AP Photo/ The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Thinc Design with Local Projects)AP - Audiovisual tributes to the thousands of Sept. 11 victims — accompanied with stories from their lives — will form the core of the memorial museum, officials announced Wednesday.


Pakistan appeals for public support on Taliban (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 02:53 PM PDT

Pakistani volunteers carry a dead body wrapped in a white sheet out of the debris of the Peshawar Pearl Continental hotel building that collapsed the day before by a suicide blast  in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Investigators searched the wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan for evidence Wednesday after a bold suicide bombing killed people, including aid workers, in what the U.N. condemned as a 'heinous terrorist attack.' (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Pakistani officials moved swiftly Wednesday to use the suicide bombing of a luxury hotel in their campaign to build public support for military offensives against the Taliban, saying the country is at war.


U.S. citizen convicted of support for terrorism (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 09:49 AM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. court on Wednesday convicted a naturalized American citizen who made videos of U.S. landmarks of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

UK court: terror suspects must be told allegations (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 09:36 AM PDT

AP - Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday that prosecutors can no longer refuse to tell terror suspects held under a house arrest-style program why they are deemed a risk to national security.

UK Lords reject secret evidence on terrorism suspects (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 09:33 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain's highest court, the House of Lords, ruled against the government on Wednesday in a sensitive case involving the use of secret evidence to justify imposing home curfews on terrorism suspects.

Judges rule against house arrest for 'extremists' (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 03:45 AM PDT

A protester holds up poster outside the Houses of Parliament in 2005 over anti-terrorism laws being debated inside. Three suspected extremists living under a controversial form of house arrest won a legal victory Wednesday which again threw the spotlight on the government's anti-terrorism policy.(AFP/File/Joshua Roberts)AFP - Three suspected extremists living under a controversial form of house arrest won a legal victory Wednesday which again threw the spotlight on the government's anti-terrorism policy.


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