2009年8月3日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Australia foils suicide attack on army base (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:08 PM PDT

Police in Sydney in 2008. Australian police have arrested four people who were planning a suicide attack on a military base, senior officers said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Anoek de Groot)AFP - Australian counter-terrorist police Tuesday arrested four people in raids that foiled a Somali-linked plot to launch a suicide attack on a military base, senior officers said.

Lawmakers call for inquiry into torture allegations (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:32 PM PDT

The headquarters of MI6 in London. The government was hiding behind a AFP - The government was hiding behind a "wall of secrecy" over allegations security agents colluded in the torture of terrorism suspects, an influential committee of lawmakers said Tuesday.

Identity of 8th suspect in U.S. terror case revealed (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. authorities on Monday revealed the identity of an eighth suspect in an alleged plot by a North Carolina group to carry out terrorist attacks overseas.

Australia launches major anti-terror operation (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:27 PM PDT

AP - Australian police launched a major anti-terrorism operation on Tuesday, arresting four men they said were part of a terrorist cell that was planning to launch a suicide attack on several Army bases in the country.

British lawmakers seek inquiry into torture claims (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT

AP - The British government has refused to answer questions about whether its spies were complicit in the torture of terrorist suspects, and only an independent inquiry can clear the air and restore public confidence, a committee of lawmakers said Tuesday.

AP NewsBreak: Feds name 8th NC terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:48 PM PDT

These undated images provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County(CCBI), North Carolina shows (Clockwise from top L) Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, Daniel Patrick Boyd, Ziyad Yaghi and Hysen Sherifi. The four are being charged with conspiring to support terrorism and traveling overseas to participate in a 'violent jihad,' according to an indictment unsealed on July 27, 2009.(AFP/CCBI-HO)AP - A 20-year-old U.S. citizen who traveled to Pakistan in 2008 "to engage in violent jihad" has been named as the eighth suspect in a North Carolina terrorism case, according to court documents released Monday.

Australia police: several held on attack suspicion (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:19 PM PDT

Reuters - Australian police have arrested several people in the southern city of Melbourne on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack, police said in a statement on Tuesday.

Jobs trump fears of terrorists in Michigan town (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, the United States Disciplinary Barracks is seen on the north edge of Fort Leavenworth, Kan. 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/U.S. Army, File)AP - To many people struggling in this job-starved part of rural Michigan, unemployment is a bigger threat than terrorists.

Group wants probe of contractor role in renditions (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:02 PM PDT

AP - A United Nations working group on Monday urged Congress to investigate whether the U.S. government used private contractors to secretly transport terror suspects to clandestine prisons.

Past terror cases tried in East Coast districts (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:20 PM PDT

AP - Some notable terror trials held in federal courthouses that the Obama administration is considering for Guantanamo Bay detainees' trials.

Ga. terror suspect to defend self against advice (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 12:49 PM PDT

AP - A 23-year-old Georgia man charged with trying to help overseas terrorists wage "violent jihad" on the U.S. has decided to represent himself.

Loudly, some Kansans reject Guantanamo detainees (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:16 PM PDT

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a guard stands in a cell block at Camp 5 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, May 31, 2009. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool/FilesReuters - Not in my backyard! Not in my state! Not in my country!

'No final decisions' on Guantanamo inmates: WHouse (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 12:08 PM PDT

File photo shows razorwire-topped fences outside AFP - The White House said Monday that it had yet to reach a final decision about where to house the 229 "war on terror" suspects still held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

Different US locations considered for Gitmo trials (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:58 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 - Staring at a January deadline, the Obama administration is debating between two dramatically different schemes for putting Guantanamo Bay detainees on trial: big-city courtrooms in the nation's capital, New York and Virginia — or a one-of-a-kind superjail in the Midwest.

Guantanamo inmates may move to special jail: report (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:06 AM PDT

File photo shows razorwire-topped fences outside AFP - Officials are considering a plan to move Guantanamo Bay "war on terror" detainees to a special US prison camp that would also contain courtrooms and long-term living quarters, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

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