2009年9月24日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Source: NYPD commander in terror probe transferred (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:15 PM PDT

AP - A senior NYPD commander has been transferred amid questions about the handling of a police source accused of tipping off terror suspect Najibullah Zazi that he was under surveillance, an official confirmed Thursday.

Feds: Suspect hit beauty stores for bomb supplies (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:02 PM PDT

File - Terrorism suspect  Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning in this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo. Zazi plotted for more than a year to detonate homemade bombs in the United States, an indictment charged Thursday Sept. 24, 2009.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - An Afghan immigrant who received explosives training from al-Qaida went from one beauty supply store to another, buying up large quantities of hydrogen peroxide and nail-polish remover, in a chilling plot to build bombs for attacks on U.S. soil, authorities charged Thursday.


Feds: NC terror suspects targeted US military (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:27 PM PDT

FILE - In an undated file photo provided by the Department of Justice, Daniel Patrick Boyd is shown. Daniel patrick Boyd, the North Carolina man named as the ringleader of an aspiring terrorism group sold most of the weapons he purchased and wanted to make sure his children were familiar with guns, one of the sons told federal agents in a report released Tuesday Aug. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Department of Justice, File)AP - Two North Carolina terrorism suspects plotted to kill U.S. military personnel and one of them obtained maps of a Marine Corps base in Virginia to plan an attack, prosecutors said Thursday.


New charges against US 'homegrown' terror suspects (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:59 PM PDT

US Marines attack a ''town of insurgents'' during their ''The Making of a Marine - Urban Warfare Training'' at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, in June 2009. A US court on Thursday charged three men already accused of plotting AFP - A US court on Thursday charged three men already accused of plotting "homegrown" terror attacks against the United States with planning to kill US military personnel at a marine corps base.


U.S. terror suspects accused of targeting Marine base (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:48 PM PDT

Reuters - Two men charged in North Carolina last month with plotting terrorist attacks overseas also planned to attack the U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, authorities said on Thursday.

Illinois man charged in plot to bomb federal offices (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:45 PM PDT

Reuters - An Illinois man was ordered held on Thursday on charges he tried to blow up a federal building in the state capital, a case unrelated to the New York terrorism plot.

U.S. charges Afghan-born man with bombing plot (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:42 PM PDT

Reuters - A Colorado airport shuttle bus driver was charged under federal anti-terrorism laws with plotting to set off explosives in the United States, accused of acquiring the same bomb-making chemicals used in the 2005 London transit attacks.

US charges man in bomb plot, releases imam (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 01:51 PM PDT

Najibullah Zazi, 24, arrives at the Byron G. Rogers Federal Building in downtown Denver, Colorado, on September 17. An Zazi was indicted Thursday in New York with masterminding one of the biggest US terrorism plots since 9/11.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Marc Piscotty)AFP - A Colorado airport bus driver trained to build homemade bombs in Pakistan, then scoured US beauty stores for deadly chemicals in one of the biggest US terror plots since 9/11, officials said Thursday.


Obama won't overhaul system to hold terror suspects: report (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 01:51 PM PDT

A US military guard walks past an inmate at the maximum security prison of Camp 5 at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba in 2006. The Obama administration will not seek legislation creating a new preventive detention system for terror suspects, relying instead on the post-9/11 law used under his predecessor, The Washington Post said Thursday.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - The Obama administration will not seek legislation creating a new preventive detention system for terror suspects, relying instead on the post-9/11 law used under his predecessor, The Washington Post said Thursday.


US diplomat: post-9/11 embassies too fortress-like (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:53 AM PDT

A car passes the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Thursday Sept.  24, 2009. The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Poland, Victor Ashe, on Thursday criticized the 'fortress-like' feel of American embassies built since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, saying that some are excessively expensive and send an unfriendly message to non-Americans. He wants new buildings to also be attractive, and the current embassy in Warsaw is an example of the kind of architecture he hopes will be avoided in the future. The American government in the 1960s tore down what Ashe called a 'beautiful historic residence' — one of the few to survive World War II — to make room for this functional-looking glass and steel structure.( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Poland criticized the "fortress-like" feel of American embassies built since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, saying Thursday that some are excessively expensive and send an unfriendly message to non-Americans.


Obama won't seek new law for terror detentions (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:28 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama leaves the Security Council meeting on nuclear weapons,  Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 at the United Nations headquarters. the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution Thursday committing all nations to work for a nuclear weapons-free world.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The Obama administration will not seek a new law spelling out how it can hold terror suspects indefinitely without bringing charges.


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Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:46 AM PDT

AP - House votes to head off scheduled $8-$23 monthly Medicare premium increase.

Obama won't change terror detention system: report (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 08:04 PM PDT

Flags wave above the sign posted at the entrance to Camp Justice, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal compound, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba May 31, 2009. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/PoolReuters - The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new detention system to hold foreign terrorism suspects, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.


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