2009年10月20日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


December trial date for dad of terror suspect Zazi (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:37 PM PDT

AP - A Colorado man whose son is accused of plotting a terror attack in New York City is scheduled to go to trial in December on a charge of lying to investigators.

UN condemns Iranian terrorist attack (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:38 PM PDT

AP - The U.N. Security Council is strongly condemning the terrorist attack in an Iranian border city that killed top Revolutionary Guard commanders and dozens of others.

Ashcroft: Judges should rehear 9/11 witness case (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:38 PM PDT

AP - Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that he can be held personally responsible for wrongfully detaining people as material witnesses after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

NY indictment charges Muslim religious leader (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - A Queens imam has been indicted on charges that he lied to federal agents about an Afghan immigrant who was later charged with plotting a bomb attack in New York City.

Conditions agreed on moving Guantanamo prisoners (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:02 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration could bring foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United States but only if they are to face prosecution, under a measure that cleared Congress on Tuesday.

Obama visits Joint Terrorism Task Force in NYC (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 01:48 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is paying tribute to the men and women of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, whose job it is to prevent future terrorist attacks on the U.S.

Energized Byrd, 91, returns to manage Senate bill (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:18 PM PDT

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., arrives at his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd reappeared on the Senate floor Tuesday with some of his old bluster back after a season of frailty, this time to manage a $44.1 billion homeland security spending bill.


Lithuanian leader suspects her country hosted CIA jail (AFP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:16 AM PDT

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, pictured on October 7, said Tuesday she had AFP - Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said Tuesday she had "indirect suspicions" that the Baltic state hosted a secret CIA prison for terror suspects, as a senior European official called for a beefed-up probe.


Iran honors Guards killed in attack, blames U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:12 AM PDT

Reuters - Iran's military accused the United States and Israel of terrorism as it held a funeral on Tuesday for high-ranking commanders killed in the deadliest attack in the Islamic Republic since the 1980s.

Supreme Court to rule on release of Guantanamo detainees into U.S. (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:37 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether a federal judge can order the release of Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States, setting up a key conflict over judicial authority amid the war on terrorism.

Court won't get involved in Hamas financier suit (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 07:46 AM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court won't let parents of an American teenager killed in a terrorist attack in Israel collect damages from a man accused of funding Hamas.
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