2009年7月8日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Watchdog: FEMA still lacks housing plan (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 21, 2009, file photo, temporary housing trailers are seen at the FEMA storage facility in Hope, Ark. Richard Skinner, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's inspector general, said at a House Homeland Security hearing Wednesday, July 8, 2009, that the agency still relies far too heavily on temporary mobile homes and it doesn't have a coordinated plan for more quickly getting people into permanent housing. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)AP - The government could end up repeating mistakes seen after Hurricane Katrina without a better plan for housing people after a catastrophe, the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog told lawmakers Wednesday.


UN says financial crisis boosts organized crime (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 01:44 PM PDT

AP - The world financial crisis offers organized crime a unique opportunity to return to the global banking systems from which it had been barred by sanctions imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, the U.N.'s top anti-crime official said Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia convicts 300 al-Qaida suspects (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 10:40 AM PDT

AP - A Saudi criminal court has convicted and sentenced an al-Qaida militant to death and given more than 300 others jail terms, fines and travel bans in the country's first known terrorism trials for suspected members of the terror network, officials said Wednesday.

Britain "outsourced" torture to Pakistan: MP (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 01:43 AM PDT

Reuters - A British opposition politician has accused the government and intelligence agents of colluding in the torture of a British terrorism suspect whose interrogation was "outsourced" to Pakistan.

Britain "outsourced" torture to Pakistan - MP (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 01:37 AM PDT

Reuters - A British opposition politician has accused the government and intelligence agencies of colluding in the torture of a British terrorism suspect whose interrogation was "outsourced" to Pakistan.

Motive tough to determine in SC serial killings (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 12:23 AM PDT

This undated photo released by Cherokee County Law Enforcement officials shows a mug shot of Patrick Tracy Burris. Burris, the serial killer who terrorized a South Carolina community by shooting five people to death before police killed him Monday July 6, 2009 was a career criminal paroled just two months ago, authorities said. Burris, 41, was shot to death by officers investigating a burglary complaint at a home in Gastonia, N.C., 30 miles from where the killing spree started June 27. Burris had a long rap sheet filled with charges such as larceny, forgery and breaking and entering from states across the Southeast, including Florida, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. He had been paroled from a North Carolina prison in April after serving nearly eight years. (AP Photo/Cherokee County)AP - A peach farmer. A woman and her elderly mother. A furniture store owner and his teenage daughter.


Colo. prof in 9/11 flap loses bid to reclaim job (AP)

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 05:38 PM PDT

AP - A judge refused Tuesday to reinstate a University of Colorado professor who was fired on plagiarism charges after he likened some Sept. 11 terrorist attack victims to a Nazi leader.
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