2009年9月26日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Attorney: No evidence of bomb-making by suspect (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 05:10 PM PDT

In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colo., Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Zazi was sent to New York to face charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in a plot law enforcement has said was focused on blowing up commuter trains. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)AP - Claims that an Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks are missing a key element: explosives or the chemicals allegedly used to make them, the man's attorney said.


Ethiopia: Somalia looks like a lost cause (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT

Suspected pirates place their hands above their heads as they are arrested by marines from NATO's Turkish frigate Gediz in the Gulf of Aden September 26, 2009. Seven armed Somali pirates were caught in a high-speed chase by the NATO alliance's Turkish warship Gediz before an attack to a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden. REUTERS/Turkish Chief of Staff/Handout (SOMALIA MILITARY CRIME LAW) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - Somalia is being hijacked by al-Qaida-linked terrorists who are better organized and more highly motivated than the ineffectual government in Mogadishu, and Sudan could be the next nation to fall under their influence, Ethiopia warned Saturday.


Feds: Zazi trips, shopping led to NY terror threat (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 02:56 PM PDT

In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colo., Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Zazi was sent to New York to face charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in a plot law enforcement has said was focused on blowing up commuter trains. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)AP - It was midsummer in suburban Denver when an unassuming, bearded man pushed a red shopping cart between shelves stacked with hair coloring and nail polish remover.


Pakistan attacks suggest Taliban undeterred by leader's death (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 01:17 PM PDT

Pakistani volunteers takes away an injured man from the site of a bomb explosion in a commercial district in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. A bomb detonated outside a bank affiliated with the army in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, killing people and wounding dozens more, police chief Liaquat Ali Khan said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two powerful car bombs in Pakistan's troubled northwest Saturday announced the return of the country's Taliban, following a lull that accompanied the death of the terrorist movement's leader last month.


Three Key Questions About the Zazi Terror Case (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:30 PM PDT

Time.com - The suspect's motives, associates and how he was recruited are issues that investigators must establish in order to gauge how serious the threat is

Bomb plot suspect said to have eyed 9/11 attack (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 07:28 PM PDT

U.S. attorney David Gaouette talks to reporters after leaving a hearing for terror suspect Najibullah Zazi at the U.S. courthouse in Denver September 25, 2009. The Colorado airport shuttle bus driver arrested in a federal anti-terrorism investigation was ordered on Friday to be moved to New York to face a charge of plotting bomb attacks in the United States. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - The Afghan-born man at the center of an anti-terrorism probe was determined to make a bomb and perhaps detonate it in New York City on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, before he was thwarted by authorities, a U.S. prosecutor said on Friday.


Anguilla native to be Gitmo jail deputy commander (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 05:53 PM PDT

AP - A Caribbean native was promoted to brigadier general Friday and named deputy commander of the U.S. joint military task force that runs the prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
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