2009年6月14日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Man convicted of terrorism free to sue over torture claims (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 01:43 PM PDT

Jose Padilla is seen in this handout court sketch in 2006. Padilla, serving a 17-year prison sentence for terrorist activities has been given the green light to sue a former US government lawyer who wrote memos that allegedly led to his torture, US media reports said Sunday.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - A man serving a 17-year prison sentence for terrorist activities has been given the green light to sue a former US government lawyer who wrote memos that allegedly led to his torture, US media reports said Sunday.


CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attacked (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 01:10 PM PDT

Reuters - CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

CIA head says Cheney almost wishing US be attacked (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 01:01 PM PDT

CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks during a National Italian-American Foundation luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."


US citizen denies terror charges in UAE court (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 07:06 AM PDT

AP - A U.S. citizen of Lebanese origin denied terrorism-related charges against him in the United Arab Emirates supreme court on Sunday and said he confessed under pressure because he wanted the "beatings to stop."

Yemen denies Guantanamo inmates heading to Saudi (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 06:12 AM PDT

AP - Yemen on Sunday denied reports that it has agreed to a U.S. proposal to transfer almost 100 Yemeni inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison to terrorist rehabilitation centers in Saudi Arabia.

Yemen arrests suspected al-Qaida financier (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 12:35 PM PDT

AP - Yemeni security forces have arrested a Saudi man suspected of financing Al-Qaida cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday.

'Lone wolf' terrorists elusive target for police (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:24 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.


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

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:00 PM PDT

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