2009年11月16日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Ill. town would rather get Gitmo prisoners (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 04:15 PM PST

This is an aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 in Thomson , Ill. Federal officials are at the prison in northwest Illinois that the government might buy to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs.

Five arrested in anti-terror raids (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 08:33 AM PST

Police maintain a security presence near Heathrow Airport in 2007. Anti-terror police arrested five people in pre-dawn raids in Manchester and near London's Heathrow airport.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Anti-terror police arrested five people on Monday in pre-dawn raids in Manchester and near London's Heathrow airport, officials said.

Illinois lobbies to land Guantanamo detainees (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 07:08 AM PST

Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois (L) and US Sen. Richard Durbin speak to the media at a press conference about the Thomson Correctional Center in Chicago, Illinois. President Obama's administration has decided to consider purchasing by the Federal Government the eight year old correctional facility in Carroll County in part to house detainees from the Guantanamo Bay.(AFP/Getty Images/David Banks)AFP - The state of Illinois is lobbying hard to land relocated Guantanamo detainees despite strenuous opposition to bringing the terrorism suspects to the United States, top lawmakers said Sunday.

Dozens of Gitmo detainees finally get day in court (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 12:35 AM PST

FILE - In this May 1, 2008, file photo, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler is pictured before the start of a ceremony at the federal courthouse in Washington. In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Obama: Terrorist networks largest threat to US (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 10:09 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama is telling Chinese students that the greatest threat to the United States' security is terrorist networks such as al-Qaeda.

Obama foes lash out at 9/11 trial plans (AFP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 05:49 PM PST

Crowds of people walk by Ground Zero on November 14, in New York City. Prominent Republicans on Sunday lashed out at the administration's decision to try five alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a New York civilian court, saying it would harm efforts to fight terrorism.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - Prominent Republicans on Sunday lashed out at the administration's decision to try five alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a New York civilian court, saying it would harm efforts to fight terrorism.

US camp in Iraq was Qaeda breeding ground, say ex-inmates (AFP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 05:00 PM PST

US soldiers guard Camp Bucca prison on the outskirts of the southern city of Basra, 550 kms from Baghdad, in September 2009. Iraq's Camp Bucca, the US-run jail where around 100,000 prisoners were kept over six years, was a breeding ground for the Al-Qaeda terror network, according to police and former inmates.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - Iraq's Camp Bucca, the US-run jail where around 100,000 prisoners were kept over six years, was a breeding ground for the Al-Qaeda terror network, according to police and former inmates.

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