2009年12月8日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


FBI takes US terror probe to India and Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:42 PM PST

AP - The FBI is sending a team to Pakistan and India as part of an inquiry into a Chicago man accused of plotting against a Danish newspaper and sizing up targets ahead of last year's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India's financial capital.

Accused terrorist bridged two different worlds (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:31 PM PST

AP - Part American and part Pakistani, the Chicago man accused of conspiring in the bloody terrorist attacks in Mumbai has followed a twisted trail through two different worlds.

Is FBI reward to Moussaoui tipster too little, too late? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:24 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The FBI has belatedly awarded $100,000 to a former Minnesota flight school manager whose phone tip eight years ago led to the arrest of al Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, but the bureau gave nothing to a man widely credited as a second tipster.

Pakistani army intelligence is target of massive truck bomb (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 02:07 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan_ An insurgent driving a truck laden with up to a ton of explosives targeted an office of Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency Tuesday, the latest assault in a terrorist rampage that's left 500 people dead since early October.

Suspect Headley: Pakistani Terrorist Group Going Global? (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:50 PM PST

Pedestrians walk past the Leopold cafe, the site of one of the terror attacks, in Mumbai, in 2008. US justice officials on charged Chicago native David Headley with helping to plot the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 170 people, including six Americans.(AFP/File/Pal Pillai)Time.com - Allegations tying a Chicago man to Lashkar-e-Taiba raise concerns that the Pakistan-based terrorist group responsible for the Mumbai massacre may be broadening its horizons


Suspected planner of Mumbai attack to be arraigned (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:04 AM PST

The apartment of David Coleman Headley, 49, is seen in Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Headley was charged in a 12-count criminal information with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, to murder and maim people in India and Denmark, and to provide material support to foreign terrorist plots and another offenses. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - A Chicago man charged with helping to plan the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that left 166 dead will appear in court on Wednesday to respond to the charges, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.


Victim's wife grateful for charges in India attack (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 06:04 AM PST

AP - A woman whose husband and daughter were killed in the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai says she is grateful U.S. authorities brought charges against a Chicago man accused of conducting extensive surveillance on potential targets.

China's rise named decade's most read news story (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 07:18 PM PST

A dragon-shaped lantern is lit up in a lake at a temple fair in Kunming, Yunnan province January 26, 2009. The rise of China as an economic superpower was the most read news story of the past decade, surpassing the Iraq War and the attacks of Sept. 11, according to an analysis by a U.S.-based media tracking group. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - The rise of China as an economic superpower was the most read news story of the past decade, surpassing the Iraq War and the attacks of Sept. 11, according to an analysis by a U.S.-based media tracking group.


Chicago Terrorism Suspect Charged by U.S. Over Mumbai Attacks (Bloomberg)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 06:33 PM PST

Bloomberg - Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors charged a Chicago man with helping plan last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai by carrying out surveillance of potential targets in India’s financial hub.
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