2010年2月12日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Administration may abandon civilian 9/11 trial (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 03:24 PM PST

Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina speaks during a news conference Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 in Houston. Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina is continuing to backpedal from remarks that she has questions whether the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - The Obama administration, after weeks of controversy over its proposal to hold a civilian terror trial in New York, gave ground Friday and revived the possibility of using a military tribunal to try professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Lawyers for 9/11 responders defend firm's conduct (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 11:28 AM PST

This photo taken Sept. 11, 2001 by the New York City Police Department and obtained by ABC News, which claims to have obtained it under the Freedom of Information Act, shows one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York as it begins to collapse. (AP Photo/NYPD via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger) MANDATORY CREDITAP - The lead lawyer for thousands of Sept. 11 rescue and recovery workers has acknowledged that in preparing some claims, his firm made mistakes — including assertions that people had cancer when they didn't.

Five killed as U.S., Iraqi troops raid border village (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 07:05 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers patrol near the Iraqi-Iranian border, August 3, 2008. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. troops killed at least five people Friday in a raid on suspected members of what Washington calls an Iranian-backed terrorist group, the U.S. military said.

Evolving US strategy widens assault on terrorists (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 06:36 AM PST

In this image released by the U.S. Air Force, a fully armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan Nov. 4, 2007, on its way to another wartime mission. In the early months of his presidency, President Barack Obama's national security team singled out one man from its list of most-wanted terrorists, Baitullah Mehsud, the ruthless leader of the Pakistani Taliban. He was to be eliminated. 'The decision was made to find him, to get him and to kill him,' a senior U.S. intelligence official said, recalling weeks and months of 'very tedious, painstaking focus' before an unmanned CIA aircraft killed Mehsud in August at his father-in-law's house near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)AP - In the early months of his presidency, President Barack Obama's national security team singled out one man from its list of most-wanted terrorists, Baitullah Mehsud, the ruthless leader of the Pakistani Taliban. He was to be eliminated.

British security chief denies collusion in torture (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:38 AM PST

Reuters - The head of Britain's MI5 security service denied on Friday that his agency colluded in torture after a court ruling showed it knew that a detained British resident had been abused by U.S. intelligence officers.

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