2009年6月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

US lawmakers vote to restrict Guantanamo transfers (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 01:58 PM PDT

A US Army soldier walks through a cell block at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004.The US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday to restrict the transfer to the United States of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility for suspected terrorists.(AFP/POOL/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - The US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday to restrict the transfer to the United States of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility for suspected terrorists.

AG Holder: 50 or more Gitmo trials possible (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 03:34 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday there may be 50 or more trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees as the Obama administration works to shut the detention center by early next year.

US asks Spain to take 4 inmates from Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 11:51 AM PDT

AP - The United States has asked Spain to accept four prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorism suspects, the foreign minister said Wednesday.

9/11 search dog cloned for former Canadian cop (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 10:28 AM PDT

James Symington poses with five puppies cloned from a German shepard that reportedly took part in the search-and-rescue effort after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Tuesday June 16, 2009 in Los Angeles. Symington won an essay contest last year to clone his dog Trakr for free. Symington said he drove to New York City with Trakr after the World Trade Center collapsed and helped doing search and rescue. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Scientists in California say they have cloned a dog that helped with search-and-rescue after the New York terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

India says its ready to talk peace with Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 10:18 AM PDT

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, left, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, pose for a photo during a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Russia, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Russian news agencies are reporting that the leaders of India and Pakistan have met on the sidelines of a summit in Russia. State-run RIA-Novosti and Interfax say Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari held a bilateral meeting Tuesday. It is the first interaction between the two leaders since the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai last November. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - India's prime minister said Wednesday that his country is again ready to talk peace with Pakistan following a six-month freeze between the nuclear-armed rivals in the wake of last year's terror attack in Mumbai.

US asks Spain to accept four Guantanamo inmates: minister (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 08:58 AM PDT

A US Army soldier walks through a cell block at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004.The US asked Spain to accept four detainees from its AFP - The United States on Wednesday asked Spain to accept four detainees from its "war on terror" prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said.

Gunmen kill Greek anti-terror police officer (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 08:49 AM PDT

A police officer gathers evidence at the scene of a suspected terrorist attack where a policeman was shot dead, in Athens on Wednesday, June 17, 2009. The murdered officer was guarding a witness in a terrorism trial. The murdered officer is seen in the background, in the car covered with a white sheet. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - Gunmen killed an anti-terrorist policeman guarding a witness in central Athens on Wednesday in a brazen escalation of domestic militant attacks prompted by massive riots in December.

Greek witness-protection officer killed in Athens (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 08:11 AM PDT

Police officers stand in front of a cordon as an anti-terrorist policeman checks for evidence next to a car containing the body. A plain-clothes policeman protecting the home of a witness in a terrorism trial has been shot dead in an Athens suburb, police have said.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)AFP - Greece's anti-terrorist police launched a major manhunt on Wednesday after an officer guarding a witness whose testimony led to the jailing of left-wing extremists was gunned down on duty.

House GOP Tries to Keep Pelosi-CIA Controversy Alive (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 07:33 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - For the second time in three weeks, House Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican attempt to open an investigation into Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charge that the CIA misled her in 2002 about its use of harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding on terrorism suspects.

Gunmen kill Greek anti-terrorist policeman (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:44 AM PDT

A policeman stands guard in front of the car in which an anti-terrorist policeman was shot dead in Athens, June 17, 2009. Two gunmen shot dead a Greek anti-terrorist policeman guarding a witness in Athens on Wednesday then fled on a motorcycle, police said. REUTERS/John KolesidisReuters - Leftist urban guerrillas shot dead a Greek anti-terrorism policeman in Athens on Wednesday in the worst attack since riots in December launched a wave of bombings and shootings in Greece.

Pakistan to invite Taliban's victims to fight back (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:19 AM PDT

In this picture taken on May 28, 2009, Malik Naveed Khan, inspector general of police for the Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, talk to media in Peshawar, Pakistan. Civilians who lived under the Taliban's harsh rule in Pakistan's Swat Valley may soon be recruited to police the region — with preference given to those whose lives and properties were directly threatened by militants, Khan said. (AP Photo)AP - Civilians who lived under the Taliban's harsh rule in Pakistan's Swat Valley may soon be recruited to police the region — with preference going to those hit hardest during the militants' two-year campaign of terror, a top official says.

War-funding bill may face difficulty in the Senate (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:12 PM PDT

US soldiers evacuate a wounded comrade from the site of a suicide attack in front of the German embassy in Kabul in January 2009. Bogged down over the release of detainee abuse photos, a bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was on track Friday for passage in Congress after a late-night intervention by President Barack Obama.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that this is the last time Congress will go through the ordeal of passing an off-the-books, expensive bill to fund two wars. It may also be one of the more difficult.

Are terror groups finding a haven in Bangladesh? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

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Greek policeman gunned down (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 11:20 PM PDT

Gunmen shot and killed a plain-clothes policeman protecting the Athens home of a witness in a terrorism trial against Angeletos Kanas, pictured in 2004, a member of the People's Revolutionary Struggle (ELA) Greece's oldest radical group(AFP/File/Aris Messinis)AFP - A plain-clothes policeman protecting the home of a witness in a terrorism trial was shot dead in an Athens suburb early Wednesday, police said.

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