2009年8月5日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Cohort testifies against Georgia terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 03:51 PM PDT

AP - A few weeks ago, Syed Haris Ahmed sought to convince a federal judge his talk of terror attacks was just boastful online chatter. He apparently failed and was convicted of plotting to support terrorist groups.

Somali Connection: A Terrorism Crackdown in Australia (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 02:10 PM PDT

Time.com - A huge operation leads to the arrest of four suspects with connections to combatants in east Africa and perhaps sympathizers in Minnesota

Former Gitmo detainees work on Bermuda golf course (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:37 PM PDT

AP - Four Chinese Muslims once confined to small prison cells as suspected terrorists at Guantanamo are now helping prepare the wide-open spaces of an oceanside golf course for the PGA Grand Slam of Golf.

Russian subs patrol off U.S. East Coast: officials (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:33 PM PDT

Russian seamen line up on an unidentified submarine believed to be an Akula-class submarine during a military parade training in Vladivostok in this July 25, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Yuri MaltsevReuters - Two nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines have been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the United States in the first mission of its kind so close to shore in nearly a decade, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.


Judge raises questions in NC terror prosecution (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 03:04 PM PDT

RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP   Sabrina Boyd, right, the wife of terror suspect Daniel Boyd, is shielded by her son Noah Boyd outside the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse following a hearing in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. A federal judge has ordered six terrorism suspects detained until trial, saying each is a flight risk and a danger. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - A federal judge ordered six North Carolina men accused of plotting holy war to remain in custody Wednesday but raised scathing questions about the strength of the case federal prosecutors are pushing.


Court denies bail to US 'homegrown terrorists' (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 11:00 AM PDT

These undated images provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County, North Carolina shows (Clockwise from upper-L) Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, Daniel Patrick Boyd, Ziyad Yaghi and Hysen Sherifi. A federal magistrate on Wednesday denied bail for six of the eight terrorist suspects accused of a wide-ranging conspiracy to attack targets in multiple countries, including Israel.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - A federal magistrate denied bail Wednesday for six of eight terror suspects accused of a wide-ranging conspiracy to attack targets in multiple countries, including Israel.


North Carolina terrorism suspects denied bail (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 10:37 AM PDT

The mother of Ziyad Yaghi (2nd L) is consoled as she leaves the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina during a lunchtime recess from a detention hearing for seven alleged terrorist suspects August 4, 2009. REUTERS/Ellen OzierReuters - A U.S. judge denied bail on Wednesday to six North Carolina men accused of plotting terrorist attacks overseas.


Midwest has been home to foreign detainees before (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 05:36 AM PDT

In this 1943 photo released by the Kansas State Historical Society, a prisoner of war convoy is seen at Fort Hays Agricultural Experiment Station in Hays, Kan. More than 60 years after German and Italian POWs were held in Kansas, foreign detainees may again find a home in the midwest with speculation that suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay may be housed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.  (AP Photo/ Kansas Historical Society )AP - If suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay end up being held in Kansas, it wouldn't be the first time foreign detainees were imprisoned in the Midwest.


More charged with terrorism offences in Australia (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 05:20 AM PDT

Reuters - Australian police charged four more men on Wednesday with planning to attack an army base and shoot soldiers as the government considered whether to ban a Somalia militant group linked to the plot.

Australia charges four more over alleged terror plot (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 01:55 AM PDT

File photo shows Australian SAS commandos at the Holsworthy army base near Sydney. Australia has charged four more men with planning a suicide assault on a Sydney army barracks, prompting an angry outburst from one of them, as details emerged of the alleged plot.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australia on Wednesday charged four more men with planning a suicide assault on a Sydney army barracks, prompting an angry outburst from one of them, as details emerged of the alleged plot.


1 in alleged Australian terror plot denies charge (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:42 PM 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 - One of five men charged in an alleged plot to shoot up an Australian military base angrily denied he was a terrorist in court Wednesday and accused the country's troops of killing innocent people overseas.


Australia charges three men on terrorism offences (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:47 PM PDT

Australian police officers stand outside a Melbourne Court where four men were charged with planning an attack on a military base August 4, 2009.  REUTERS/Mick TsikasReuters - Australian police charged three men on Wednesday with planning to attack an army base as the government considered whether to ban a Somali militant group linked to the plot.


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