2009年12月10日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


A parent's dilemma: a child with ties to terrorism (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 04:09 PM PST

An unidentified man places a hand-written 'no trespassing' sign in front of the home of Umar Farooq in Alexandria, Va., Dec. 10, 2009. Farooq is one of five Americans detained in Pakistan. It was the Washington-area parents, who helped authorities find the young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan this week. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - It's a dilemma no parent wants to face — fearing a son or daughter may be mixed up in terrorism, wondering whether to turn in a loved one.


FBI questions Americans accused of terror plot in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST

A Pakistani man walks in front of the house where security personnel arrested foreign nationals in the eastern town of Sargodha. The FBI and other US security officials on Thursday questioned several Americans held in Pakistan for alleged links to Al-Qaeda as they probe the reasons for their travel, senior US officials said.(AFP/Farooq Naeem)AFP - The FBI and US security officials questioned Thursday a group of young Americans held in Pakistan for alleged Al-Qaeda links after the Pakistani authorities accused them of plotting a terror strike.


Court rules against Patriot Act challenger (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 02:39 PM PST

AP - A federal appeals court overturned a lower court Thursday and ruled against an Oregon lawyer once wrongly suspected in a terrorist bombing.

Paraguay leader withdraws anti-terrorism bill (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 02:00 PM PST

AP - President Fernando Lugo withdrew a vaguely written anti-terrorism bill Thursday after critics complained it would give judges too much discretion to limit individual freedoms.

GOP questions plans to try terror suspects in US (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 09:06 AM PST

Detainees at the maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base, in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. A grand jury in New York is considering whether or not the US government can proceed to trial for the alleged mastermind of 9/11 and four co-defendants, NBC television reported Wednesday.(AFP/POOL/File/Marlk Wilson)AP - A group of lawmakers is questioning plans to try terror suspects in the United States and move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil.


Islamists jailed over transatlantic bomb plot (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 08:09 AM PST

Adam Khatib, Nabeel Hussain and Mohammed Shamin Uddin. Three Islamic extremists have been jailed over a foiled plot to blow up passenger airliners flying between Britain and North America.(AFP/Ho)AFP - Three Islamic extremists were jailed on Thursday over a foiled plot to blow up passenger airliners flying between Britain and North America.


UK: 3 men sentenced in trans-Atlantic terror plot (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 06:21 AM PST

AP - A judge has sentenced a London man to a minimum of 18 years in prison for his role in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic passenger jets using liquid explosives.

FBI probes terror suspects arrested in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 03:46 AM PST

A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. The FBI on Tuesday returned 150 smuggled pre-Columbian artifacts, some more than 3,000 years old, to the governments of Peru and Ecuador, the agency said.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - The FBI said it was probing the case of five terror suspects arrested in Pakistan, one of whom made an extremist-style "farewell" video before leaving his home in the United States.


India seeks Chicago man for Mumbai questioning (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 02:32 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 - India plans to seek access and eventual extradition of a Chicago man arraigned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for his alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, a top Indian official said Thursday.


Pakistan questions six terror suspects (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 12:00 AM PST

A Pakistani man walks in front of the house where security personnel arrested foreign nationals in the eastern town of Sargodha. The FBI and other US security officials on Thursday questioned several Americans held in Pakistan for alleged links to Al-Qaeda as they probe the reasons for their travel, senior US officials said.(AFP/Farooq Naeem)AFP - Pakistani intelligence officials were Thursday questioning six men, at least three of them US citizens, arrested over alleged links to Al-Qaeda, security officials said.


David Headley case: What's behind spate of US-based terrorist plots? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 01:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A scene in a Chicago courtroom Wednesday served as one of many recent reminders that even as President Obama dispatches 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan to disrupt, dismantle, and destroy Al Qaeda, he faces a growing radicalization of Islamic extremists here on American soil.
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