2009年6月11日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Deal provides $534M in stop-loss bonuses (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 05:06 PM PDT

AP - The House and Senate reached a compromise Thursday to give a $500 retroactive bonus to soldiers for every month they were forced to stay in the military beyond their enlistment term since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

McCain urges Obama to classify detainee photos (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Senator John McCain speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo April 10, 2009. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Republican Senator John McCain and three allies urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to classify photographs said to depict the abuse of terrorism suspects to ensure they do not become public.

ACLU sues to show White House interrogation link (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 02:15 PM PDT

AP - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government Thursday to try to prove there is a close link between the White House under President George W. Bush and a program of rough interrogation techniques used against suspected terrorists.

‘Special Master’ Feinberg Takes on Bankers After 9/11 (Bloomberg)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 12:36 PM PDT

Bloomberg - June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Kenneth R. Feinberg, who mediated disputes over compensation for damages from the Sept. 11 attacks and Agent Orange, must now separate bankers from their paychecks.

U.S. sends four Uighur detainees to Bermuda (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 11:58 AM PDT

Reuters - Four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Bermuda on Thursday after being freed by U.S. authorities in the Obama administration's latest move to close the controversial prison camp for terror suspects.

China objects to Palau resettling Guantanamo men (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 11:33 AM PDT

FILE - This July 2005 file photo originally provided by the Army Corps of Engineers shows an aerial view of two causeways built on the northeast coast of the island of Babeldoab, the largest of Palau's more than 300 islands. The U.S. had built a 53-mile road on the largest of Palau's islands in 2005,, fulfilling a promise Washington made when the Pacific nation gained independence in 1994. It was announced Wednesday, June 10, 2009, that Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the major obstacles to closing the U.S. prison camp.(AP Photo/ Army Corps of Engineers,file)AP - Palau's president said Thursday that his tiny Pacific nation's tradition of hospitality prompted the decision to take in 13 Chinese Muslims in limbo at Guantanamo Bay, but China called them "terrorist suspects" and demanded they be sent home.

Younus reveals impact of terror attacks on Pakistan team (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 10:57 AM PDT

Pakistan captain Younus Khan, pictured in May 2009, has admitted life beyond the boundary in his troubled homeland was having an effect on his side.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Pakistan captain Younus Khan has admitted life beyond the boundary in his troubled homeland was having an effect on his side.

Holocaust Museum Shooting, Other Recent Attacks Prove Domestic Extremism a Threat (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 09:56 AM PDT

Sarah Langston, from Takoma Park, Md., left, prays as another woman lights a candle near a makeshift memorial after members of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington held their interfaith solidarity gathering at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2009, a day after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)U.S. News & World Report - A month before a suspected white supremacist walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington and opened fire, the Department of Homeland Security warned that domestic right-wing extremism was the most pressing domestic terrorist threat that the country faced. [See photos of the scene at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum]

Gadhafi faces tough questions from Italy students (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 01:18 PM PDT

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi smiles prior to the start of a joint press conference with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi at Rome's Villa Madama, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Gadhafi is on a three-day official visit to Italy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi faced angry protests and tough questions on human rights Thursday as he gave a speech at a Rome university during his first visit to Italy.

Italian police arrest 6 in anti-terror raids (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 08:39 AM PDT

AP - Italian police arrested six people Thursday in raids on a group of suspected radical leftists who were allegedly planning a terror attack, authorities said.

Philippine troops capture Manila bombing suspect (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:31 AM PDT

AP - Philippine troops have captured a Muslim explosives expert suspected in several terrorist attacks, including five nearly simultaneous bombings that killed 22 people in Manila in 2000, officials said Thursday.

EU court voids asset freeze of UK terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:10 AM PDT

AP - An EU court on Thursday voided a 2001 European Union decision to freeze the assets of a suspected Jordanian terrorist held in Britain, saying the case lacked a proper judicial review.

Four Guantánamo detainees to reside in Bermuda (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Four of 17 Chinese Muslims long held at the US terror detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have been released for resettlement in Bermuda.

China rejects move to send detainees to Palau (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 01:12 AM PDT

Chinese Uighur detainees talk to reporters at Camp Iguana in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States has sent to Bermuda four Uighur men who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba despite having been declared no threat to US national security, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.(AFP/File/Brennan Linsley)AP - Beijing said Thursday that the 17 Chinese Muslims the United States is sending to Pacific island nation of Palau are terrorists and should be handed back to China instead.

Militants show sophisticated tactics in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 12:37 AM PDT

A Pakistani police officer stands next to U.N. car damaged by Tuesday's suicide blast at the Peshawar Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Investigators searched a wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan for evidence Wednesday after a brazen suicide bombing killed 11 people, including aid workers, in what the U.N. condemned as a 'heinous terrorist attack.' (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Two commando-style assaults in Pakistan in the past two weeks show militants can now pierce the iron-fortified gates, concrete barricades and cordons of armed guards that are meant to secure hotels, housing compounds and even police stations across the country.

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