2009年9月7日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


UK court convicts 3 of plot to blow up airliners (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 01:21 PM PDT

This is a 3-pic combo made from undated London Metropolitan Police photos, showing Abdulla Ahmed Ali, left; Assad Sarwar, centre, and Tanvir Hussain, right, who were convicted Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, of conspiring to kill thousands of civilians by blowing up trans-Atlantic flights in mid-air with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.  A jury at a London courthouse found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, guilty of conspiracy to murder by detonating explosives on aircraft.  The trial started in February. The jury found that they were the ringleaders of a conspiracy to carry out the biggest terrorist attack since 9/11. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police/PA)AP - Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing at least seven airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada in what was intended as the largest terrorist attack since Sept. 11.


Three guilty of transatlantic jet bombing plot (AFP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 11:31 AM PDT

(L-R)Uundated handout photos from Britain's Metropolitan Police show Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain. The three men have been found guilty in connection with a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives in 2006.(AFP/MP-HO/File)AFP - A court found three men guilty Monday of plotting to blow up at least seven transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives, in what would have been a "terrorist event of global proportions".


Attack of 'global proportions' averted: prosecutors (AFP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 10:57 AM PDT

(L-R)Uundated handout photos from Britain's Metropolitan Police show Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain. The three men have been found guilty in connection with a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives in 2006.(AFP/MP-HO/File)AFP - The three men convicted of plotting to bring down transatlantic airliners in 2006 planned a "terrorist event of global proportions," Crown prosecutors said Monday.


Britain releases terror suspect from house arrest (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 10:41 AM PDT

AP - Britain's government released a man from a house arrest program only weeks before it would have been forced to disclose intelligence to justify his detention, his lawyer said Monday.

(AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 06:58 AM PDT

AP - UK jury finds ringleader of transatlantic airline plot case guilty of conspiring to kill.

U.S. offers Yemen help in "fight against terrorism" (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 06:50 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States has offered to help Yemen in its "fight against terrorism" and assist the country with its reforms, the Yemeni state news agency Saba said late on Sunday.

Top 'terrorist suspect' freed: report (AFP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2009 06:15 AM PDT

The Houses of Parliament in London. The government has released a man it considers a top dangerous terrorist suspect from virtual house arrest, possibly to avoid disclosing secret evidence against him, a report in The Times said.(AFP/File/John D Mchugh)AFP - The government has released a man it considers a top terrorist suspect from virtual house arrest, possibly to avoid disclosing secret evidence against him, a report said Monday.


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