2009年7月28日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


April date set for first of Sept. 11 trials in NYC (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 05:15 PM PDT

AP - The first wrongful death lawsuit resulting from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will go to trial April 12, a judge said Tuesday.

Conflicting portrait of NC terror suspect emerges (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:35 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County shows Ziyad Yaghi. Yaghi is being charged with conspiring to support terrorism and traveling overseas to participate in 'violent jihad,' according to an indictment unsealed Monday, July 27, 2009. (AP Photo/City County Bureau of Identification)AP - Daniel Boyd may have spent the past three years traveling to the Middle East, secretly buying guns and training for jihad with a group of aspiring terrorists as federal authorities claim, but people on his cul-de-sac said Tuesday he also made plenty of time to be a good neighbor.


Minn. Somali pleads guilty to terrorism charge (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:19 PM PDT

In a July 13, 2009 booking photo provided by the Anoka Couty Sheriff, Salah Osman Ahmed is shown. Ahmed is one of two men accused of supporting terrorism in a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Anoka County Sheriff,ho)AP - A Minnesota man who helped build a training camp for a group of Islamic militants in his homeland of Somalia told a federal judge Tuesday that he had attended secret meetings in Minneapolis before he went back to East Africa.


US agrees to diversion deal with ex-terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:55 PM PDT

AP - A North African immigrant once put on trial in Detroit for terror-related charges made a deal Tuesday to close a case of alleged insurance fraud.

Moroccan terror leader gets life in jail (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 08:11 AM PDT

AP - A man accused of leading a terrorist network was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for plotting terror attacks in Morocco, holdups in Europe, large-scale money laundering projects and arms trafficking.

U.S. charges seven with plotting attacks overseas (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 07:41 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. authorities on Monday arrested seven people from North Carolina who have been charged with plotting to carry out terrorist attacks overseas, including in Kosovo, Jordan and the Gaza Strip.

Rights group sues UK government over "rendition" (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 05:42 AM PDT

Reuters - Human rights lawyers began legal action against the British government on Tuesday, accusing it of involvement in the illegal transfer of a terrorism suspect from Indonesia to Egypt where they say he was tortured.

Indonesian identifies husband as terror suspect (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:57 AM PDT

This file photo released by Jakarta police in 2002 shows Malaysian-born terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top. A woman detained by Indonesian police in connection with the July 17 hotel bombings in Jakarta has identified her husband as terror suspect Noordin, her lawyer said.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - A woman detained by Indonesian police in connection with the July 17 hotel bombings in Jakarta has identified her husband as terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top, her lawyer said Tuesday.


China's army gives rare show of military maneuvers (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 02:29 AM PDT

People's Liberation Army soldiers take part in a military exercise in Beijing, China, Tuesday, July 28, 2009. China took foreign journalists on a tour of the People's Liberation Army division north of the capital Tuesday, calling it a sign the world's largest army is improving its openness and transparency. The visit comes ahead of Aug. 1, which marks the 82nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, which now has 2.3 million members.  (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - Chinese troops battled mock terrorists who hijacked a bus and blasted automatic weapons at moving targets in a drill for foreign journalists Tuesday, calling it a sign the world's largest army is opening up to the outside world.


Australian admits plotting to kill thousands (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 02:05 AM PDT

File photo shows police standing guard outside the Supreme Court in Melbourne. An Australian man has admitted being part of a terror cell which plotted to kill thousands of people by bombing major sports events, just moments before his retrial.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - An Australian convert to Islam on Tuesday admitted being part of a terror cell that plotted to kill thousands of people by bombing major sports events, just moments before his retrial.


7 NC men charged with plotting 'violent jihad' (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 08:01 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County shows Daniel Patrick Boyd. Boyd and the six other men were arrested, Monday, July 27, 2009, and made their first appearances in Raleigh, charged with providing material support to terrorism. (AP Photo/City County Bureau of Identification)AP - A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities said Monday.


Napolitano tours new Olympics center in Washington (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 05:55 PM PDT

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, right, looks over Boundary Bay with Gov. Chris Gregoire at the Peace Arch border crossing into Canada Monday, July 27, 2009, in Blaine, Wash. Napolitano says a new $4 million communications center in nearby Bellingham is key to security efforts surrounding the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano got a tour Monday of a $4 million Olympics Coordination center that in six months should be a bustling hub of counterterrorism and security operations for the 2010 Winter Games in nearby British Columbia.


American father, sons accused of plotting 'jihad' (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 05:13 AM PDT

An American man and his two sons have been charged along with four others with plotting attacks on other countries from their base in the southern United States, US officials have said.(AFP/File)AFP - An American father, his sons and four others have been arrested in the southern United States and charged with plotting "jihad" against other countries including Israel, US officials said.


Seven North Carolinians charged in terror plot (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Seven North Carolina men were arrested and charged on Monday with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists overseas.
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