2009年11月18日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Tiny survivor doesn't remember Mumbai attack (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 02:56 PM PST

Moshe Holtzberg, center, an Israeli child whose parents were killed at the Mumbai attack a year ago, receives a gift for his third birthday in Kfar Chabad, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do — he got his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a year ago, when his parents were killed in a terror attack in Mumbai, India.


2 Fla. men sentenced in Sears Tower plot (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:44 PM PST

AP - Two Miami men cast as role players in a plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices have been sentenced to prison.

Homeland Security Panel Plans to Investigate Fort Hood Shooting (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 10:41 AM PST

CQPolitics.com - Leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said Wednesday they would investigate potential intelligence failures in the Fort Hood shooting and the overall threat of homegrown terrorism.

Main 9/11 plotter will be convicted, executed: Obama (AFP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:09 PM PST

A picture posted on www.muslm.net shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. President Barack Obama predicted Wednesday that alleged September 11 mastermind Mohammed will be convicted and put to death, as a top aide urged Americans to trust their courts and not AFP - US President Barack Obama, defending plans to try accused September 11 author Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court, predicted Wednesday that he would be convicted and executed.


Holder: US will not 'cower' from terror suspects (AFP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 07:15 AM PST

US Attorney General Eric Holder arrives for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Holder vowed Wednesday that the United States will not AFP - US Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Wednesday that the United States will not "cower" in the face of extremism as he defended his decision to try top terror suspects in civilian court.


Holder: Don't fear trial of 'coward' 9/11 plotter (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 05:26 AM PST

FILE - In this March 1, 2003 file picture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. 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/File)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial in New York — and urging critics of the plan not to cower in the face of terrorists.


Obama concedes delay in closing Guantanamo (AFP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 05:21 AM PST

Razor wire inside the US military prison for AFP - US President Barack Obama admitted for the first time on Wednesday that the United States would miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the US war on terror prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


Obama confident in conviction of Sept. 11 suspect (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:03 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama exits from Air Force One upon his arrival at the Osan U.S. Air Force Base in Osan, 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Obama arrived in South Korea for the last leg of his four-country Asian tour. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that those offended by the legal privileges being given to the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ultimately won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."


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