2010年11月19日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Sick Sept 11 workers agree to $712 million settlement (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 11:06 AM PST

Reuters - More than 10,000 workers suffering health problems stemming from the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center have agreed to a $712 million settlement with New York City, officials said on Friday.

Germany says Namibia terror scare only security test (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 08:22 AM PST

German police officer stands guard in the main hall of Tegel airport in Berlin, November 18, 2010. REUTERS/Tobias SchwarzReuters - A laptop bag containing a detonator and clock found at Namibia's main airport during loading of a flight to Munich was only a security test device, Germany said on Friday, not a bomb as initially feared.


Namibia suspicious package was a security test (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 08:08 AM PST

Police equipped with submachine guns and bullet-proof vests guard the main train station in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, after German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere raised the country's terrorist threat level on Wednesday, saying intelligence services had received a tip from an unspecified country about a suspected attack planned for the end of November. (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop)AP - A suspicious package found in a Namibian airport near bags bound for Munich was a device designed to test security and didn't contain explosives, officials said Friday. One aviation official said the test was conducted by Namibian police.


TSA chief defends much-criticized security measure (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 04:18 AM PST

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, before the the Senate Commerce Committee hearing to examine the TSA. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The head of the Transportation Security Administration says the close-quarter body inspections causing a furor among some passengers and pilots are unavoidable in a time of terrorist threats.


Bail denied in SAfrica for Nigeria terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 04:07 AM PST

AP - A Nigerian terror suspect linked to the deadly bombings in Nigeria last month must be held without bail, a magistrate in South Africa said Friday.

Germany in security crisis till year-end: official (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 01:22 AM PST

Police officer stand guard at the main railway station in the northern German town of Hamburg November 18, 2010. Germany has raised the level of security including at train stations and airports in response to concrete indications of terrorist attacks being planned at the end of this month, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Christian CharisiusReuters - An increased terror threat to Germany will put security forces in a "state of emergency" until at least the end of the year, with the country's traditional Christmas markets at special risk, a senior official said.


Obama plans for civilian terror trials dealt blow (AFP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:44 PM PST

A courtroom drawing shows Tanzanian Ahmed Ghailani (2nd-L) in court with his defense team on November 17 in New York. The Obama administration may now be forced to rely on military tribunals to try AFP - President Barack Obama's hopes of bringing "war on terror" suspects out of the shadows to try them in the full glare of civilian courts may have been dealt a fatal blow by a New York jury, experts said Thursday.


Is Germany Europe's Next Terror Target? (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 07:55 PM PST

Time.com - Germany has so far been spared an al-Qaeda-inspired terror attack. But with a suspicious parcel found on a Munich-bound plane and authorities announcing that an attack is imminent, the nation is nervous

Terror case: Is one conviction and 284 acquittals a success? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 05:48 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Wednesday’s acquittal of alleged Al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani on 284 of 285 charges is reigniting a debate over whether terror suspects should be tried by military commissions at Guantánamo rather than in civilian courts in the US.

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