2009年11月13日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


NYC trial of 9/11 suspects poses legal risks (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 05:42 PM PST

FILE - This July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic language web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified by the site as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The picture was allegedly taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and released only to the detainee's family. An Obama administration official said Friday Nov. 13, 2009 that accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court.   (AP Photo/www.muslm.net)AP - In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center's twin towers they are accused of destroying.


Napolitano pronounces US border more secure now (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivers remarks on the Obama administration's efforts to reform the U.S. immigration system, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, at the Center for American Progress in Washington.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.


New Yorkers worry about trial for 9/11 mastermind (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:49 PM PST

AP - The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center?

Ohio US attorney: shift some attention from terror (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:42 PM PST

Carter M. Stewart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, talks during an interview at his office in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Stewart says it's time to move some crime-fighting resources to areas other than terrorism now that eight years have passed since the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)AP - Eight years after the 9/11 attacks, the time has come to shift crime-fighting resources to other areas while keeping terrorism as a top priority, a new Ohio federal prosecutor said.


New York split over plan to try Sept. 11 plotters (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:12 PM PST

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to supporters in New York, November 3, 2009. Some New Yorkers are angry that accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will be tried in a court near where the World Trade Center once stood, while others are relieved that justice may soon be served. REUTERS/Shaun BestReuters - Some New Yorkers are angry that accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will be tried in a court near where the World Trade Center once stood, while others are relieved that justice may soon be served.


Lawmaker: Hasan had communications with Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:24 PM PST

FILE - This 2000 file picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when was a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Majpr Hasan, accused in the Fort Hood shootings, was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the military's legal system Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, making him eligible for the death penalty if convicted, officials said. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, file)AP - The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood made or accepted wire transfers with Pakistan, a country wracked by Muslim extremist violence, a Republican congressman said Friday.


Sept. 11 suspects to be tried in New York (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:51 PM PST

An undated file photo showing a man listed as one of the Reuters - The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-conspirators will be sent to New York for trial in a court near the site of the World Trade Center, the Obama administration said on Friday, as it took a step toward closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.


Ga. judge rejects terror convict's new trial bid (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:23 PM PST

AP - A federal judge in Georgia has rejected a bid for a new trial by a man convicted of terrorism charges earlier this year.

Brother of terror suspect: 'We are not extremists' (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 11:53 AM PST

AP - A Somali man arrested in the Netherlands and accused of financing Islamic terrorists was not an extremist and was so poor he couldn't afford to bring his new wife from Somalia to the U.S., according to two of his brothers who live in Minnesota.

Mumbai still terror target one year after attacks: police (AFP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 09:20 AM PST

Head of the Maharahstra state police, A.N. Roy speaks at a security conference in Mumbai. Mumbai is still a target for extremists nearly one year on from a deadly strike by Islamist gunmen, Roy said Friday, welcoming improvements in security but calling for more to be done.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - Mumbai is still a target for extremists nearly one year on from a deadly strike by Islamist gunmen, a senior police chief said Friday, welcoming improvements in security but calling for more to be done.


9/11 suspects to be tried in New York (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:28 PM PST

Reuters - The accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four co-conspirators will be sent to New York for trial in a court near the site of the World Trade Center, the Obama administration said on Friday, as it took a step toward closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

(AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 08:07 AM PST

AP - Holder says alleged attacker of USS Cole and four others to be tried by military commission.

Report: Somali terror suspect had US residency (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 05:40 AM PST

AP - A Somali man suspected of recruiting youth in Minneapolis for Islamic terrorism in Somalia has a U.S. green card, Dutch media reported Friday.

Obama: 9/11 suspects to get demands of justice (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:19 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama says he will insist that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks will be subject to "the most exacting demands of justice."

Militants turn on spy agency in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 09:00 AM PST

An ambulance rushes to the spot of a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and striking at the heart of the institution overseeing much of the country's anti-terror campaign. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - A suicide attack on the northwestern headquarters of Pakistan's spy agency Friday showed how militants have turned against an institution that once nurtured them and marked an escalation in their war against the U.S.-backed government.


Cops protest as UMass holds forum with ex-radicals (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 06:28 PM PST

Sarah Lamonaco, center, daughter of slain New Jersey state trooper Philip Lamonaco, protests along with law enforcement personnel on the campus of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Convicted domestic terrorist Ray Luc Levasseur isn't attending a University of Massachusetts forum on his landmark 1989 sedition trial, but police officers were picketing anyway. The former leader of the United Freedom Front served 20 years for his role in a series of 1970s protest bombings. Other members of his group were charged in the 1981 killing of Philip Lamonaco. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - Convicted domestic terrorist Ray Luc Levasseur was prohibited from attending a University of Massachusetts forum on his 1989 sedition trial, but police officers and supporters picketed anyway to protest his ex-wife's appearance.


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