2009年6月13日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


'Lone wolf' terrorists harder to stop (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

Some of the first people enter the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington Friday, June 12, 2009. The museum was closed Thursday, for a day, after a shooting on Wednesday left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a military recruiting office. Another man opens fire in a Kansas church.


Judge rules terrorist can sue over torture memos (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 12:56 PM PDT

AP - A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture, ruled a federal judge has ruled who said he was trying to balance a clash between war and the defense of personal freedoms.

Nuclear terror would strain day-after bomb sleuths (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:26 AM PDT

AP - If the unthinkable happened, would we be left on the day after, as radioactive dust settled, with the unknowable?

Fighting the war on terror with outsourcing (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:06 AM PDT

Computer programmer Muhammad Husshan, 20, works at the Hubport call center at the Mindanao State University campus in Iligan, in the southern Philippines in May 2009. Husshan is among the lucky few Muslim youths employed by the Nevada-based company, in a joint project with the US government to teach American English to Muslim youths as part of a campaign to wean them away from Islamic militancy.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)AFP - When American consumers dial a toll-free hotline for customer service support, they may not be aware they are helping bring an end to a long-running insurgency half way across the world.


Feds ask court to reconsider CIA renditions suit (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 07:49 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow a Boeing Co. subsidiary to be sued for allegedly flying terrorism suspects to secret prisons overseas to be tortured.

Communities at risk, but coal ash sites secret (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 06:26 PM PDT

AP - Dozens of communities nationwide are at risk from a coal ash spill like the one that blanketed a Tennessee neighborhood last year, but the Obama administration has decided not to tell the public about it because of the danger of a terrorist attack.
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