2009年8月2日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


AP sources: Military-civilian terror prison eyed (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 04:44 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Nov. 19, 2008 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee glances up while resting on a foam pad inside a fenced-in outdoor exercise area at the Camp 6 high-security detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.


Pakistan books Swat cleric for treason: police (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 08:07 AM PDT

A Pakistani boy points out to the house where authorities arrested radical Islamic cleric Sufi Mohammad in Peshawar on July 26. Pakistan police have laid charges of treason, terrorism and rebellion against Sufi Mohammad who brokered a peace deal with Taliban in the Swat valley, officials said.(AFP/File/Hasham Ahmed)AFP - Pakistan police have laid charges of treason, terrorism and rebellion against a radical Islamic cleric who brokered a peace deal with Taliban in the Swat valley, officials said Sunday.


Pakistan police lodge charges against cleric (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 10:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 19, 2009 file photo, Pakistan's pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad, leaves after addressing to his supporters in Mingora, capital of Pakistan's troubled valley of Swat. Pakistani police lodged criminal charges against Muhammad who helped negotiate a peace deal with the Swat Valley Taliban, accusing him of aiding terrorism, sedition and conspiring against the government, a police said on Sunday, Aug 2, 2009. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash,File)AP - Pakistani authorities lodged a criminal case Sunday against a cleric who helped negotiate a failed peace deal with the Swat Valley Taliban, suggesting the government is determined not to negotiate again with the militants.


Russia Moves to Boost its Role in Central Asia (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 09:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's meeting with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan signals Moscow's desire to play a bigger role in fighting the war on terror. But is its goodwill enough?
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