2009年6月21日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


US sends dogs to search for bomb victims in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 01:11 PM PDT

People sit in the rubble of destroyed homes after a truck bombing near Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 21, 2009. The truck bombing struck on Saturday near a Shiite mosque following prayers, police said, making it the deadliest blast in nearly two months. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)AP - The U.S. military sent search dogs Sunday to help find more than a dozen people still missing and feared dead after the country's worst bombing this year devastated a northern Iraqi town just over a week before U.S. troops are due to leave Iraq's cities.


Struggle among Iran's clerics bursts into the open (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 04:44 PM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.   Iranian security personnel form up on a street in Tehran in this undated photo uploaded onto Twitter June 21, 2009.  Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi urged his supporters on Sunday to continue their protests over a disputed presidential election, in a direct challenge to the leadership of the Islamic Republic.   REUTERS/Twitter  (IRAN POLITICS ELECTIONS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - A backstage struggle among Iran's ruling clerics burst into the open Sunday when the government said it had arrested the daughter and other relatives of an ayatollah who is one of the country's most powerful men.


Taliban gains money, al-Qaida finances recovering (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 09:01 PM PDT

Wreckage of NATO and the U.S. forces vehicles allegedly destroyed by Taliban militants piled up at terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Truck driver of NATO vehicles said the choice is easy: Pay the Taliban in money or fuel for safe passage, or die. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - PESHAWAR, Pakistan — He moved his finger slowly across his throat, to show that the Taliban kills truckers who don't pay for safe passage through large swaths of territory near Afghanistan.


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