2010年1月21日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


PROMISES, PROMISES: Gitmo closing deadline missed (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:28 PM PST

FILE - In this July 16, 2009 file  photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, flags hang above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, . (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)AP - As President Barack Obama neared his self-imposed deadline to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, the Justice Department offices of the terrorist detention task force were bustling — not with lawyers but construction workers tearing apart the walls, ripping out any trace of the secretive work, though Obama's goal is still far off.


Senators: Intel head should be told before arrests (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:38 PM PST

AP - The chairwoman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee say the Justice Department should confer with intelligence officials before placing suspected terrorists under arrest and putting them in the civilian justice system.

Politics of terrorism emerge anew in election year (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:02 PM PST

President Barack Obama acknowledges mayors in the audience as he addresses the U.S. Conference of Mayors at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Terrorism is creeping back to the forefront of the American mindset, creating an election-year issue for emboldened Republicans and forcing President Barack Obama to reassert himself after a wobbly period of homeland protection.


US security chief: Airport scanners not intrusive (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:19 AM PST

The U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks during a news conference at an informal meeting of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs in Toledo, Spain Thursday Jan. 21, 2010.  Airport security was discussed during the meeting after a failed plot to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas day. (AP Photo/Paul White)AP - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sought Thursday to allay concerns in some European Union countries over the use of body scanners in airports to thwart terrorists, saying that as the technology develops the devices will be less intrusive.


Kenya flies radical cleric back to Jamaica (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:51 PM PST

AP - Kenyan government officials made contradictory statements Thursday about radical Muslim cleric had been flown out of the country after a court ordered them to say why he was being held.

Haiti quake poses key test for American Red Cross (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 06:55 AM PST

In this Jan. 19, 2010 photo provided by the American Red Cross, Eleanore Rose of the Canadian Red Cross holds six-month-old Sebastian Joseph at Hospital General in Haiti.  Sebastian's mother was killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake. For the American Red Cross, a surge of donations to help its relief efforts in Haiti provides a dramatic chance to prove it learned from its flawed responses to Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 terror attacks.   (AP Photo/American Red Cross, Talia Frenkel)  NO SALESAP - For the American Red Cross, a surge of donations to help its relief efforts in Haiti provides a dramatic chance to prove it learned from its flawed responses to Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 terror attacks.


Study: Terrorists can be turned away from violence (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:19 AM PST

AP - Since 2001, al-Qaida is believed to have dispatched three men to blow up American airliners. Two of them tried but failed to set off explosions, and the third backed out of his assignment.

Muslim police blast official anti-terror strategy (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:08 AM PST

A Police officer and Community Support officer walking past two Muslim men in Birmingham. Muslim police have attacked the government's anti-terrorism strategy for triggering an upsurge in Islamophobia and deepening divisions in communities.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Muslim police have attacked the government's anti-terrorism strategy for triggering an upsurge in Islamophobia and deepening divisions in communities.


Yemen stops giving entry visas at airports over Qaeda threat (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 01:00 PM PST

Men stand outside Sanaa airport in Yemen in July 2009. Yemen stopped granting entry visas on arrival at airports on Thursday to prevent militants from entering the country, widening its dragnet against an Al-Qaeda cell believed behind a spate of global attacks.(AFP/File/Khaled Fazaa)AFP - Yemen stopped granting entry visas on arrival at airports on Thursday to prevent militants from entering the country, widening its dragnet against an Al-Qaeda cell believed behind a spate of global attacks.


Terrorism? Fort Hood report doesn’t mention Islamic extremism. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 03:58 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - House Republicans were keen Wednesday to find out why a report titled “Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood” fails to discuss Islamic extremism as a possible motive for Maj. Nidal Hasan’s attack in November, which killed 13 and wounded 43.

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