2010年5月5日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Times Square Bomb Suspect Shahzad: The Pakistan Link (Time.com)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

A photo provided by CBS News shows suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad (R) with his wife, Huma Mian, and several unidentified people in Times Square, in a photo believed to have been taken a year and a half to two years ago. REUTERS/CBS News/HandoutTime.com - Pakistani officials claim that Faisal Shahzad, arrested for the failed New York bomb plot, attended a training camp in Pakistan. But authorities have not yet revealed whether he acted as part of a terrorism network


US yet to verify suspect's claimed terror training (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:55 PM PDT

A Pakistani man reads a morning newspaper carrying the headline story on the arrest of a suspect in the Times Square bomb attempt, at a newspaper stall in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Pakistan's army does not believe the Pakistani Taliban were behind the Times Square bomb attempt as the insurgent group has claimed, a spokesman said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - U.S. counterterrorism officials fanned out across two continents to unravel the failed Times Square bombing Wednesday, but they have been unable so far to link the suspect to any terrorist group or training camp, law enforcement officials said.


Faisal Shahzad Times Square Bomb Arrest Raises Questions (Time.com)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Pakistani-American man Faisal Shahzad, who was charged with the failed Times Square bomb attack, appears to have flown under the U.S. intel radar, underscoring the legal and security challenges of terrorism today

New York mayor highlights 'terror gap' on FBI watch list (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:17 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attends a hearing on AFP - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appealed to US lawmakers Wednesday to ban the sale of weapons to people on an FBI terror watch list, saying the failed Times Square car bomb underscored a "terror gap."


NY bomb suspect seen as good recruit for militants (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:18 PM PDT

Pakistanis look at morning newspapers carrying the headline story on the arrest of a suspect in New York's Times Square bomb attempt, at a newspaper stall in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Pakistan's army does not believe the Pakistani Taliban were behind the Times Square bomb attempt as the insurgent group has claimed, a spokesman said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - The Pakistani-American accused of trying to explode a bomb in Times Square was able to move easily between the two countries and came from a family of wealth and privilege — a near-perfect background for an international terrorist group wanting to steal into the United States and launch an attack.


Feds didn't call all airlines to warn of suspect (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT

From left,  Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 5, 2010, before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Law enforcement officials decided not to call all airlines directly on Monday to tell them an important name had been added to the government's "no-fly" list, even as investigators pursued the man they suspected was the Times Square bomber.


Top US Senator opposes stripping extremists of citizenship (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 11:58 AM PDT

A key US Senator who indicated tentative, early support for stripping US nationals tied to overseas terrorist groups of their citizenship now firmly opposes the plan, his office said Wednesday. Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, pictured in March 2010, had said Tuesday that he had not reviewed the controversial proposal from Senator Joe Lieberman but AFP - A key US Senator who indicated tentative, early support for stripping US nationals tied to overseas terrorist groups of their citizenship now firmly opposes the plan, his office said Wednesday.


N.Y. Bomb Case Prompts New Burst of Proposals To Counter Terrorism (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:55 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - In the wake of the foiled New York City car bombing, several senators floated proposals Wednesday on procedures for handling domestic terror cases, terror watch lists, reports of suspicious activities and more.

NY bomb suspect: 'modern Pakistan boy who never prayed' (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:14 AM PDT

An image of terror suspect Faisal Shahzad is seen on a screen during a press conference at the US Justice Department in Washington. Outside his locked family homes, shocked Pakistanis remember Shahzad as a modern father of two from a good family who showed no hatred of America or sympathy with radical Islam.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - Outside his locked family homes, shocked Pakistanis remember Faisal Shahzad as a modern boy from a good family, who was uninterested in Islam and showed no sympathy with terror groups.


Pakistan court acquits four over Marriott attack: lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 09:50 AM PDT

Pakistani police assist Saifullah (face covered) out of a Rawalpindi courthouse in 2009. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has acquitted the four men put on trial over the 2008 suicide bombing of the five-star Marriott hotel in Islamabad, their lawyer told AFP.(AFP/File/Asim Khan)AFP - A Pakistani anti-terror court on Wednesday acquitted four men put on trial over the 2008 bombing of the five-star Marriott hotel in Islamabad that killed at least 60 people, their lawyer told AFP.


US ratchets up security after car bomb plot (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:04 PM PDT

An image of terror suspect Faisal Shahzad is seen on a TV screen in Washington. US officials Wednesday ratcheted up security in the wake of the botched Times Square bomb plot amid a growing global investigation into a Pakistani-American suspect's links to terror groups.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - US officials Wednesday ratcheted up security in the wake of the botched Times Square bomb plot, amid a growing global investigation into a Pakistani-American suspect's possible links to foreign militant groups.


Questions mount after attack as US luck holds again (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 06:31 AM PDT

Police in New York's Times Square after people were evacuated after a car bomb was discovered on May 1. Law enforcement officials and political leaders expressed relief that Saturday's planned car bombing in crowded Times Square fizzled -- amid divergent assessments on the likely level of carnage had the device blown up.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - It was the dread-laden question for many in Washington and New York after another failed terror attack: will America's luck soon run out?


NYPD bomb squad: Car device could have killed (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:07 PM PDT

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, shakes hands with members of the New York City Police Bomb Squad, in New York,  Wednesday, May 5, 2010, to thank them for their participation in disarming a car bomb in Times Square last Saturday night. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - To the police department's bomb squad, it didn't matter if the device inside a parked sport utility vehicle in Times Square was simple or sophisticated — it still had the potential to kill.


Mich. rep says lone terrorists new threat to US (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:12 AM PDT

AP - The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that lone terrorists behind plots like the Times Square bombing attempt and the Fort Hood attack are part of a growing, more serious threat to U.S. security.

Accused bomber believed to have acted alone in US (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:29 PM PDT

A New York City police officer patrols Times Square in New York Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - The Pakistani-American accused of a failed car bombing in Times Square is believed to have worked alone in the United States on the plot almost immediately after returning from a five-month visit to his native land, authorities said Wednesday. They said they have yet to find a wider link to extremist groups.


Kelly's War (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 04 May 2010 09:54 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - Hours after the New York City police commissioner’s detectives helped arrest the suspected Times Square plotter, Ray Kelly talked to Lloyd Grove about how the attack was foiled—and what he’s doing to prevent future terrorists. PLUS, read about four other terror plots that were defused before they could wreak domestic havoc.

53 hours, 20 minutes: From terror plot to arrest (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:29 PM PDT

FBI agents remove evidence from a house in Bridgeport, Conn., Tuesday, May 4, 2010.  Faisal Shahzad, a U.S. citizen who had recently returned from a five-month trip to his native Pakistan, was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - The license plate had been switched and the vehicle identification number stripped from the dashboard of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder holding a crude bomb in Times Square. Smoke from the faulty firecracker detonators might have ruined evidence.


Times Square bomber joins the growing list of inept terrorists (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 May 2010 03:27 PM PDT

This undated image, obtained from orkut.com on May 4, 2010, shows Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who is suspected as the driver of a bomb-laden SUV into New York's Time Square on May 1. Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, was arrested late on May 3 at John F. Kennedy International Airport by FBI agents in New York as he tried to take a flight to Dubai, local and federal officials said.   REUTERS/Courtesy of Orkut.com/Handout (CRIME LAW DISASTER IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSThe Christian Science Monitor - Have Al Qaeda and associated Islamist terror groups become incompetent?


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