2009年8月4日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Feds: NC terror suspect promoted jihad in home (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 04:42 PM PDT

Daniel Patrick Boyd is escorted by U.S. Marshals to the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. Federal prosecutors say a North Carolina terrorism case may involve classified material that will raise national security issues. Authorities have charged seven North Carolina men with plotting terrorism abroad. An indictment pegs the ringleader as 39-year-old Daniel Patrick Boyd, who was arrested last week along with two sons. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy) TV OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDITAP - A North Carolina terrorism suspect who preached the virtues of jihad and fighting for Allah had access to more than two dozen guns and more than 27,000 rounds of ammunition, federal authorities said Tuesday.

Three more charged over Australia terror plot: police (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 04:25 PM PDT

Police patrol in Sydney in June 2009. Australian police on Wednesday charged three more men with plotting a Somali-linked suicide attack on a Sydney army base, taking the total to four.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australian police on Wednesday charged three more men with plotting a Somali-linked suicide attack on a Sydney army base, taking the total to four.

Australia charges three men on terrorism offences (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 03:57 PM PDT

Reuters - Three men have been charged with terrorism offences, Australia's Victoria state police said on Wednesday, following raids the previous day which police said related to a plot to carry out suicide attacks on an army base.

U.S. terror suspects spoke of "jihad": FBI wiretaps (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:44 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors played FBI recordings in court on Tuesday as evidence that seven North Carolina terrorism suspects discussed waging "jihad," which can mean "holy war," as part of a conspiracy to conduct attacks overseas.

Post-trauma stress lingers in NYC 9/11 survivors (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:32 PM PDT

AP - People who were heavily exposed to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center had elevated risks of developing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms even five years later, about four times that of the general public, according to a study released Tuesday.

Nigeria survivors describe night of terror by sect (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:18 PM PDT

Teacher and owner of the Goodness Mercy school Julliana Aunie, left, seen with her pupils sitting in front of their school, that was destroyed during a wave of violence, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. Police in northern Nigeria are investigating how a homegrown Islamist sect managed to unleash a wave of violence that left more than 700 people dead last week, a police spokesman said Monday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - They came in the night, screaming as they attacked policemen and soldiers in a series of assaults that escalated into a bloodbath that left more than 700 people dead.

Georgia man says alleged terror support "just talk" (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 01:30 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors told an Atlanta jury on Tuesday that an American supplied videos of Washington landmarks to terrorists, but the accused said his alleged backing for Islamist militancy was "just talk."

Ga. terror suspect: Jihad chatter was 'empty talk' (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 12:34 PM PDT

In this file image made from a video by convicted terrorist Syed Haris Ahmed during a 2005 trip to Washington, provided by the U.S. Attorney's office, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee poses in front of the U.S. Capitol. Choppy homemade videos, a mysterious trek to Bangladesh and ties to a convicted Balkan terrorist are at the center of a federal case against a 23-year-old accused supporting terrorism. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee could face up to 60 years in prison on four charges that he conspired to help overseas terrorists wage 'violent jihad' on America. Jury selection is to begin Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 and the trial is expected to last at least a week. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office)AP - A 23-year-old man representing himself in court on charges of aiding overseas terror groups said in his opening statement Tuesday that his online remarks about joining a jihad were "empty talk."

Police: Militants planned raid on Australian base (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 09:55 AM PDT

Police search a car at a Melbourne suburb after a pre-dawn raid at one of 19 locations Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, in Australia. Some 400 officers from state and national security services took part in 19 pre-dawn raids on properties in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city following a seven-month surveillance operation of a group of people allegedly linked to al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida-linked Somali extremist organization that has been fighting to overthrow Somalia's transitional government. (AP Photo/David Crosling)AP - A handful of extremists with ties to an al-Qaida-linked group in Somalia planned to storm one of Australia's largest military bases and launch a fight to the death with troops, police said Tuesday.

Calls for inquiry over torture allegations (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:03 AM PDT

An undated handout image of Binyam Mohamed. Calls for an inquiry grew after MPs said the government was hiding behind a AFP - Calls for an inquiry grew Tuesday after MPs said the government was hiding behind a "wall of secrecy" over allegations that agents colluded in the torture of terror suspects abroad.

Top US general in Iraq calls American role crucial (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:05 PM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) walks to his plane with US commander in Iraq General Ray Odierno (R) as he prepares to depart Baghdad. Gates on Wednesday dangled the prospect of a faster withdrawal of US troops as he urged Iraq's Arab and Kurdish leaders to settle their feuds.(AFP/Pool/Jim Watson)AP - The top U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday an American role over the next 2 1/2 years is crucial to ensuring legitimate national elections and helping Iraq become a long-term U.S. partner in the Middle East.

Obama's New Gitmo Proposal Draws Wide Range of Critics (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 04:05 AM PDT

Flags fly above the sign for Camp Justice, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal compound, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba July 15, 2009, in this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/PoolTime.com - Republican politicians and human-rights activists rarely agree on how to treat terrorist suspects, but they are unwitting allies in opposition to the Obama Administration's latest proposal

Australian police arrest four accused of plotting terrorist attack (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

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Australia police foil suicide attack on army base (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:10 AM PDT

Police tape is seen at the perimeter near a house in the suburb of Glenroy in Melbourne, which was raided in connection to planned terror attacks August 4, 2009. REUTERS/Mick TsikasReuters - Australian police arrested four men they said were linked to a Somali militant group on Tuesday, accusing them of planning a suicide attack on an army base and raising fears the al Qaeda-linked rebels were seeking targets outside Africa.

Jobs trump fears of terrorists in Michigan town (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 06:37 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.

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