2009年9月27日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Study: Fewer terrorism suspects going to trial (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:48 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 - The government is prosecuting only about one out of four of those charged in connection with terrorism, according to a study that suggests federal agencies don't agree on who is a terrorist.

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

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:38 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.

Bloomberg, others press for federal security funds (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:43 AM PDT

AP - The arrest last week of former coffee vendor Najibullah Zazi on charges of plotting to attack New York City gives added urgency to the city's pleas for federal funding to deter nuclear attacks, Mayor Bloomberg and area lawmakers said Sunday.

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

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 09:20 AM 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

2 Uzbeks from Guantanamo prison arrive in Ireland (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 08:31 AM PDT

Camp Delta area at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. Three more Guantanamo detainees have been transferred from the remote US prison camp in Cuba to Ireland and Yemen, the US Department of Justice said Saturday, in the latest step toward closing the controversial camp.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - Two Uzbeks freed from the Guantanamo Bay prison arrived Sunday in Ireland, and Amnesty International appealed to other European Union nations to deliver on pledges to give new homes to U.S. terror detainees.

Conservative Merkel captures 2nd term in Germany (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Party, CDU, reacts after the German general elections in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday won the center-right majority that eluded her four years ago — nudging Europe's biggest economic power to the right as it claws its way out of a deep recession.

Jordan contacts US over Dallas plot (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 05:46 AM PDT

AP - Jordan's government spokesman says Amman has asked the United States for information of a Texas terror plot involving a Jordanian citizen.

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

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 04:27 AM PDT

This image made Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 from security video made available by CNN shows a man believed to be Najibullah Zazi shopping at Beauty Supply Warehouse in suburban Denver. Court papers say that during the summer, Zazi and three unidentified associates bought 'unusually large quantities' of hydrogen peroxide and acetone, a flammable solvent found in nail-polish remover, from beauty supply stores in the Denver area. (AP Photo/CNN) --NO SALES, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY--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.

President praises NYPD during terror briefing (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 07:41 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama waves after addressing the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Phoenix Awards ceremony in Washington, DC. Obama will make his first official to Spain in May to attend a US-EU summit, Spanish public television said Sunday.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)AP - President Barack Obama praised the police department on Saturday for its work in disrupting a possible terrorist bombing plot aimed at commuter trains.

What's behind string of terror plots (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In less than a week, six men in five states have been charged with terrorist plots to blow up federal buildings, attack Americans, and bring about the sort of mass destruction not seen here since 9/11.

Terrorist plots uncovered in the US since 9/11 (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The three terrorism plots uncovered in the past week join a long list of thwarted attacks on US soil – of varying degrees of sophistication – since the terrible events of 9/11. Some plots were being hatched abroad, but most were being conceived by people living in the United States.

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