2009年8月18日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


911 calls released in Milwaukee mayor attack (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT

This artist rendering provided by Brew City Brand Apparel on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009 shows the design for a T-Shirt Brew City Brand Apparel started selling in honor of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett who is recovering from a beating over the weekend. Tom Barrett's niece called 911 after a man beat him severely while he intervened in a domestic dispute, saying her uncle was bleeding a lot. A man shattered his hand and knocked two of his front teeth out as the mayor tried to defend a grandmother who was screaming for someone to call 911. Profits will go to the Milwaukee Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. (AP Photo/Brew City Brand Apparel)AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's niece told a 911 operator after seeing a man beat him up while he was answering a grandmother's cries for help that her uncle was "bleeding all over the place."


Clinton says Colombian deal will not create bases (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:06 PM PDT

Reuters - A new U.S.-Colombia security pact that has angered some South American nations is aimed at fighting drug trafficking and terrorism and will not create U.S. bases in the Andean nation, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday.

Feds seize guns, $14k cash from NC terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 03:32 PM PDT

AP - Federal agents seized several rifles and other guns, $14,000 cash and newspaper clippings of the Sept. 11 attacks from a man accused of plotting international terrorism, according to a warrant unsealed Tuesday.

Videos, pins and 9/11 memories at WTC center (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 11:15 AM PDT

This undated image provided by National September 11 Memorial and Museum the shows a pin that will be sold to raise funds for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York.  (AP Photo/ National September 11 Memorial and Museum)AP - Tourists coming to ground zero to see the Sept. 11 memorial often peer through a fenced-off construction site for a glimpse and ask street vendors when it will be built.


US warns Americans in Kuwait to be vigilant (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:08 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. Embassy is warning Americans in Kuwait to be vigilant against possible terror attacks after the arrest of people suspected of planning to attack a U.S. military camp there.

Police look for al-Qaida link to Jakarta bombs (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:31 AM PDT

AP - Indonesian police questioned two alleged Islamist militants Tuesday about possible al-Qaida links to twin suicide bombings in the capital last month that killed seven people, officials said.

Americans in Kuwait at risk from attacks, U.S. says (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 01:41 AM PDT

Burnt catering equipment is seen at the location where a fire broke out during a wedding, in Kuwait August 16, 2009. A Kuwaiti wedding tent, where 41 women and children died in a fire on Saturday, had only one exit, an official said, causing a stampede that compounded the death toll.     REUTERS/Stringer    (KUWAIT SOCIETY)Reuters - U.S. authorities warned on Tuesday that American citizens in Kuwait remained at risk from terrorist attacks, following the arrest of an al Qaeda-linked network in the Gulf Arab state last week.


Putin opens air show, pays tribute to crash victim (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 07:57 AM PDT

A man look at Mig-29 jet fighters of Russian aerobatic team  Strizhi (Swifts) performing during MAKS (the International Aviation and Space Show) in Zhukovsky, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin opened Russia's largest and most important air show Tuesday, two days after a collision of two air force jets that killed the leader of the elite aerobatic squadron. (AP Photo/Victor Korotayev)AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged billions more in government funding to support Russia's aging aerospace industries at the opening of the country's largest air show Tuesday, two days after a fatal air force crash.


Last defendant sentenced in Calif. terrorist plot (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 11:59 PM PDT

AP - A man who helped a prison-based Islamic militant group to plot against the U.S. government was sentenced Monday to 70 months in federal prison, prosecutors said.

India should share any attack information - Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 11:17 PM PDT

Photographers run past burning Taj Mahal Hotel during a gun battle in Mumbai November 29, 2008, file photo. REUTERS/Arko DattaReuters - Pakistan has summoned a senior Indian diplomat and called for India to share information about any terrorist plots after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned of plans for attacks against his country being hatched in Pakistan.


Protesters want UC Berkeley law professor fired (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 08:44 PM PDT

A police officer leads protester Cynthia Papermaster from a University of California, Berkeley classroom while Professor John Yoo, left, prepares to teach on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, in Berkeley, Calif. Anti-war activists protested on the University of California, Berkeley campus Monday to call for the firing of a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists.  (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists.


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