2009年10月4日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Obama aide hopes Gitmo closing deadline can be met (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 07:03 AM PDT

AP - The White House's national security adviser says the Obama administration is hard at work on fulfilling President Barack Obama's deadline to shut down the Guantanamo detention center for suspected terrorists.

US Supreme Court to examine terrorism, gun rights (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 01:25 AM PDT

Hot-button issues including gun rights and counter-terrorism will be on the docket when the US Supreme Court, including newest member Sonia Sotomayor, seen here in September 2009, begins a new term(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - Hot-button issues including gun rights and counter-terrorism will be on the docket when the US Supreme Court, including newest member Sonia Sotomayor, begins a new term on Monday.


Questions Linger Over the Zazi Terror Probe (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 10:10 PM PDT

Time.com - With the accused behind bars, intel and security agencies are assessing the issues raised by the investigation

Radical influences all around NYC terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 09:04 PM PDT

J. Michael Dowling, lawyer for suspected al-Qaida terrorist Najibullah Zazi, speaks during a a press briefing after his client's appearance in Brooklyn Federal Court, New York, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009.  (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - If he chose to listen, Najibullah Zazi could hear the calls for violence all around him. The Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terror attack on New York City spent his earliest years in his wartorn homeland, a center of strife and fighting against a Soviet invasion and, after the occupiers left, clashing warlords.


Police chiefs endorse anti-terror community watch (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 06:15 PM PDT

Los Angeles Police chief William Bratton talks to the media during a news conference introducing iWatch, a community component of the national terrorism-prevention program, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)AP - A store clerk's curiosity about why Najibullah Zazi was buying large quantities of beauty supply products indicated that something about the transaction wasn't quite right — and it's an example of the kind of citizen vigilance that can combat terror, a police commander said Saturday.


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