2009年6月23日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Interior Secretary optimistic about Flight 93 land (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:29 PM PDT

AP - The government has made "substantial progress" in negotiating with the seven landowners whose property is needed so the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday.

Official: Detainee trials could limit other cases (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:53 PM PDT

AP - A top New York anti-terror official said Tuesday that trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees could weaken the ability of the FBI and other agencies to chase new cases.

NJ man sentenced to 17 months for aiding Hezbollah (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:02 PM PDT

Reuters - A New Jersey-based man was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 months in prison for helping the broadcasting of Hezbollah television channel Al Manar, which the United States deems a terrorist organization.

Man who aired Hezbollah TV shows sentenced in NYC (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 02:35 PM PDT

AP - A man who helped the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah by broadcasting its television programs in New York City has been sentenced to more than a year in prison.

Homeland security kills domestic satellite program (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 01:42 PM PDT

US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, pictured in May 2009. The US is to crackdown on employers that hire illegal immigrants, shifting the focus away from controversial raids that target migrants directly, Napolitano said on Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano killed a program begun by the Bush administration that would use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law enforcement.


India issues warrants for 22 more Mumbai suspects (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 07:44 AM PDT

AP - An Indian court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for 22 Pakistani nationals accused of masterminding last year's deadly Mumbai terrorist attacks, including the founder of an Islamist militant group recently freed by a Pakistani court.

Guantanamo Bay Is Not the Way - Rights Expert (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 07:17 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 23 (OneWorld.net) - The long-term detention of suspected terrorists at prisons like Guantanamo Bay is counterproductive to preventing terrorist attacks, testified the head of a human rights monitor, urging the United States to instead adhere to existing criminal laws and international standards.

DC visitors pioneer Spy Museum's gaming strategy (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:19 AM PDT

Luke Metzger, 8, left, and Brooke Sturgeon, 11, play a game from the Spy Museum using GPS computers in Washington, on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) *AP - An Ohio family of five recently went undercover in the nation's capital to help foil a cyber "terrorist attack." Their attire wasn't very suspicious: Shorts, T-shirts and jackets tied around their waists.


Spain detains two suspected ETA members: reports (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 11:18 PM PDT

Police investigate the wreckage of a car blown up on June 19 in the northern Spanish Basque city of Arrigorriaga, near Bilbao. The bomb blast was blamed by officials on the Basque separatist group ETA. Spanish police have arrested two suspected members of the separatist ETA movement in the Basque country, media reports said quoting anti-terror officials.(AFP/File/Rafa Rivas)AFP - Spanish police arrested two suspected members of the separatist ETA movement in the Basque country, media reports said quoting anti-terror officials.


Easy for suspected terrorists to buy guns in the US, report says (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Nearly 900 people on the FBI's terror watch list applied for and received a certificate to buy a gun in the United States between 2004 and 2009, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today.
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