2009年10月28日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Obama revives military trials at Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:22 PM PDT

Barack Obama, right, reaches across to shakes hands with Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, left, after signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, Mullen, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. and the president.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday by signing new rules into law that will give detainees stronger legal rights in court.


Taliban attack kills U.N. workers at Afghan guesthouse (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:14 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents Wednesday attacked a guesthouse used by the United Nations, killing five U.N. employees -- including an American -- and raising new concerns about terrorism and sabotage ahead of the Nov. 7 runoff election.

Secretive DOD research agency breaks ground in Va. (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:09 PM PDT

AP - The secretive Pentagon agency that brought us the Internet and tried to bring us bomb-sniffing bees, warrior exoskeletons and terrorism futures trading took a small step out into the spotlight Wednesday to break ground on a new headquarters.

Clinton offers Pakistan help, sympathy after blast (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:10 PM PDT

Pakistani workers set about cleaning part of the Data Darbar shrine, ahead of a planned visit on Thursday by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - Offering sympathy for victims of Wednesday's terrorist bombing, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised Pakistan's offensive against extremists and pledged U.S. support at a critical point in the country's history.


Atty: Chicago terror suspect could have been duped (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:53 PM PDT

In this Oct. 19, 2009 photo, officials are seen during a search of a farm in Kinsman, Ill., which federal authorities say was owned by Tahawwur Hussain Rana, of Chicago. Chicago prosecutors announced Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, that Rana, 48, and David Coleman Headley, 49, are charged with plotting terrorist attacks against overseas targets. The farm was used to provide halal meat for Muslim customers. (AP Photo/The Herald News, Liz Wilkinson Allen)AP - Prosecutors urged a federal judge Wednesday to deny bond to one of two Chicago men charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper, while the man's lawyer argued that his client could have been the innocent dupe of an alleged coconspirator.


US homeland security chief to visit Europe, Middle East (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:26 AM PDT

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, pictured on October 5, will travel next week to Europe and the Middle East for talks with her counterparts on fighting terrorism and other global security concerns.(AFP/Getty Images/File/John Moore)AFP - US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel next week to Europe and the Middle East for talks with her counterparts on fighting terrorism and other global security concerns.


Files reveal IRA targeted Buckingham Palace (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:48 AM PDT

AP - Irish Republican Army terrorists identified Buckingham Palace and other London landmarks as possible targets in a 1970s bombing campaign, newly disclosed documents revealed Wednesday.

IRA terror cell targeted Buckingham Palace: files (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:32 AM PDT

Police motorcyclsits line up in front of Buckingham Palace in London. An IRA terror cell behind a string of 1970s bombings compiled lists of targets including Buckingham Palace and other top London attractions, secret files showed.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - An IRA terror cell behind a string of 1970s bombings compiled lists of targets including Buckingham Palace and other top London attractions, secret files released Wednesday showed.


Pakistan Market Bombing Kills 60 as Clinton Arrives for Talks (Bloomberg)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:06 AM PDT

Bloomberg - Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- At least 60 people were killed and 100 injured by a bombing in a crowded Pakistani market as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began her first official visit to the country to support the fight against terrorism.

Pakistan Market Bombing Kills 44 as Clinton Arrives for Talks (Bloomberg)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:34 AM PDT

Bloomberg - Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- At least 44 people were killed and 100 injured by a bombing in a crowded Pakistani market as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began her first official visit to the country to support the fight against terrorism.

Afghan police in stand-off with 'terrorists': police (AFP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 08:29 PM PDT

File photo shows a soldier keeping watch at a check point in Kabul. Six foreigners have been killed and another five wounded in an attack on a Kabul guesthouse used by staff of the United Nations, an Afghan official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - Afghan police were locked in a stand-off with a "group of terrorists" holed up in an apartment building in central Kabul on Wednesday, a police officer at the scene said.


US drone strikes may break international law: UN (AFP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 08:07 PM PDT

File photo shows Pakistani tribal people standing among the debris of houses after a suspected US air-strike in Northwestern Bannu district. US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Karim Khan)AFP - US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said.


FBI arrests two Chicago men for Danish terror plot (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they had broken up a Chicago-based plot to help attack the offices of a Danish newspaper that once published cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammed.
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