2009年8月27日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Basque Terror Group Weaker But Still a Threat (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - In a series of recent raids, French police have struck a blow against Basque separatist group ETA, capturing caches of weapons and arresting three suspected members. But authorities caution that even a weakened ETA poses a serious threat

Napolitano: Politics didn't push stimulus projects (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT

FILE - This March 30, 2007, file photo provided by the Daniels County Leader shows the Whitetail, Mont., border checkpoint at left.  At right is the Canadian border crossing station. The small checkpoint along Montana's border with Canada, which serves about three travelers every day, will receive $15 million for repairs under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. Until recently, the project was not considered a high priority for the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Daniels County Leader, Mike Stebleton, File)AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that politics did not influence the decision to spend millions of dollars in stimulus money on little-used border checkpoints while passing over higher-priority projects.


US will pay for lawyer in Italian kidnapping trial (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:42 PM PDT

AP - The Justice Department has agreed to pay for a lawyer to help a former State Department official fight Italian charges that she participated in the alleged CIA kidnapping of a suspected terrorist in 2003.

9/11 aims to become single largest day of service (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 12:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 18, 2009 file photo, singer Gavin DeGraw attends the 40th annual Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in New York.  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)AP - President Barack Obama is asking Americans to volunteer on Sept. 11, making this year's anniversary of the terror attacks the first National Day of Service and Remembrance, organizers announced Thursday.


US fears Yemen next staging ground for al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 10:51 AM PDT

AP - American authorities are pressuring Yemen to counter a rising internal al-Qaida threat more aggressively and improve intelligence-sharing amid growing worries that the country could become the next significant terrorist staging ground.

Pakistan police get new anti-terror training (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:23 AM PDT

In this picture taken on August 8, Pakistani police officer Bazgha Salim Raza stands during a class at the Sihala police academy in Islamabad. Sleep for Raza ends at 5:00 am when the whistle blows at Pakistan's biggest police academy, and she begins a day of martial arts, punishing drills and counter-terrorism training.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)AFP - Blissful sleep for Bazgha Salim Raza ends at 5:00 am when the whistle blows at Pakistan's biggest police academy, and she begins a day of martial arts, punishing drills and counter-terrorism training.


Iraq says Syria must give up terror suspects (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 08:18 AM PDT

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (right) meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Damascus on August 18. Iraq said relations with Syria will not improve until its neighbour gives up terrorists it says plotted a devastating bombing in Baghdad and are being harboured by Damascus.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Iraq said on Thursday relations with Syria will not improve until its neighbour gives up terrorists it says plotted a devastating bombing in Baghdad and are being harboured by Damascus.


SKorea seeks to curb missionary travel to Mideast (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 07:31 AM PDT

AP - South Korea is considering restricting Christian missionaries' travel to the Middle East, where their evangelical work makes them vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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