2009年11月11日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


AP source: Probers didn't pass on early Hasan info (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:54 PM PST

AP - A law enforcement official says a terrorism task force did not refer early information about the Fort Hood shooting suspect to superiors because they concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism.

Afghan future threatened by ex-warlords in gov't (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:10 PM PST

FILE- In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 file photo, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, listens to questions as First Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim, left, and Second Vice President Abdul Karim Khalili look on during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP - Warlords helped drive the Russians from Afghanistan, then shelled Kabul into ruins in a bloody civil war after the Soviets left. Now they are back in positions of power, in part because the U.S. relied on them in 2001 to help oust the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks.


Silent DC sniper mastermind Muhammad executed (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 10:06 AM PST

A vehicle carrying the body of executed sniper John Allen Muhammad departs the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, November 10, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstAP - Sniper John Allen Muhammad refused to utter any last words as he was executed, taking to the grave answers about why and how he plotted the killings of 10 people that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks in October 2002.


Britons question reasons for Afghan conflict: poll (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 08:29 AM PST

British soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on patrol in Helmand province in July. Nearly half of Britons think the military campaign in Afghanistan is actually increasing the threat of a terrorist attack on home soil, a poll said, amid rising public criticism of the war.(AFP/File/Abdul Malik)AFP - Nearly half of Britons think the military campaign in Afghanistan is actually increasing the threat of a terrorist attack on home soil, a poll said Wednesday, amid rising public criticism of the war.


Sniper who terrorized Washington area is executed (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 03:26 AM PST

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad stands as the judge enters the court after a break in his trial in the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in this November 12, 2003 file photograph. John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C., region a year after the 9/ll and the deadly anthrax attacks. The 48-year-old Muhammad was put to death by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, said Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor. REUTERS/Lawrence Jackson/Pool/FilesReuters - John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C., region a year after the September 11 and the deadly anthrax attacks.


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