2009年8月6日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Clinton vows new US support for Somalia (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:23 PM PDT

The United States of America Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, carries a wreath with the help of 1998 bomb survivors to lay the Wreath at Memorial Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, commemorating victims of the August 7, 1998 Embassy Bombings. On Friday, Aug. 7, 1998, at 10:35 hours local time, a massive bomb blast rocked the American Embassy and its surroundings, in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 213 people and injuring more than 4,000 civilians. Clinton is in Kenya on the first leg of a seven-nation tour of Africa. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday pledged to expand American support for Somalia's weak interim government and threatened sanctions against neighboring Eritrea for aiding an extremist group she says is trying to launch worldwide terrorist attacks from Somalia.

Senators urge trials at Guantanamo, not in US (AFP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:14 PM PDT

A US Army guard opens the gate at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. Four US senators, including two Republicans, in a letter Thursday urged Barack Obama to ensure that September 11 terror suspects are tried in a special military court and not in civilian courts on US soil.(AFP/POOL/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - Four US senators have urged President Barack Obama to ensure September 11 terror suspects are tried in a special military courts and not in civilian courts on US soil.

A calmer Iraq takes on another killer — smoking (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:14 PM PDT

An Iraqi boy smokes a cigarette in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug 6, 2009. The Iraqi government is considering a law to ban smoking in public places. If approved, the legislation would make smoking illegal in public places, such as government buildings, schools, movie theaters and airports. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - After six years of war and terrorist bombings, Iraq is moving against a different killer in its midst — smoking.

White House has dual strategy to defeat terrorism (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 12:43 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration has mapped out a dual approach to defeating terrorism, fusing military strikes against insurgents with a commitment to pump economic development, political aid and training into countries that are considered safe havens for militant groups.

6 suspects in NC terror case moved to Va. jail (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 11:21 AM PDT

In an undated photo provided by the Department of Justice, Daniel Patrick Boyd is shown. Boyd and five other men who federal prosecutors accuse of plotting holy war overseas from their North Carolina homes will remain jailed until trial because they are dangerous and may flee, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. An eighth man is being sought. (AP Photo/Department of Justice)AP - Six of the seven North Carolina terrorism suspects have been transferred to a jail in Virginia.

Somali extremists deny link to alleged terror plot (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 08:48 AM PDT

Children watch as Somali government soldiers conduct a seach for the body of a hardline Islamist fighter who was shot dead near checkpoint leading to Afgoye in Mogadishu, Somalia. The United States plans to double the amount of arms and ammunition it is providing Somalia's transitional government, a US State Department official said Thursday, signalling deeper US involvement in the conflict there.(AFP/Mohamed Dahir)AP - A powerful insurgent group in Somalia on Thursday denied having any links to an alleged plot to shoot up an Australian military base.

Indian court sentences 3 to death for 2003 bombing (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 06:40 AM PDT

Syed Mohammed Haneef Abdul Rahim, left, and Ashrat Shafiq Mohammed Ansari, both found guilty in the 2003 Mumbai bombings, are seen inside a police van outside the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. An Indian court on Thursday ordered death sentences for the two Muslim men, Rahim and Ansari, and a woman guilty in twin bombings that killed 52 people and wounded 100 in the country's financial capital, Mumbai, six years ago. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)AP - An Indian court sentenced two men and a woman to death Thursday for their roles in a 2003 terrorist attack in the city of Mumbai that killed 52 people. Investigators said they belonged to the same banned militant group blamed for attacks in the city last year in which 166 people died.

Feds begin immigration detention makeover (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 11:19 AM PDT

AP - Immigration officials are immediately ending the housing of families at a former prison in central Texas as a first step in transforming immigration detention from a criminal to a civil system.

Taliban 'brainwashed' Pakistan teen suicide bombers (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 07:42 PM PDT

Pakistani internally displaced children walk back to their tents in the Jalozai refugee camp in Noshawara in June. Seemingly never-ending tales of terror abound in Swat, where the military has fought against Taliban suicide bombers and where parents speak of being forced to surrender young boys.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)AFP - Seemingly never-ending tales of terror abound in Swat, where the military has fought against the Taliban for years and where parents speak of being forced to surrender young boys to the militants who train them to become suicide bombers.

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