2010年1月11日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Obama's Guantanamo policy puts Yemenis in limbo (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:50 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Nine days before Christmas, a federal judge ordered Saeed Hatim to be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison after U.S. government lawyers failed to prove that the 33-year-old Yemeni man was linked to terrorism.

Bomber urged more attacks before striking CIA (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:41 PM PST

Reuters - A double agent who killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan sent a plea to Islamist writers a few weeks earlier urging them to launch suicide attacks, the SITE Intelligence monitoring group said, citing a militant forum.

Jordan PM defends overseas engagement in war on terror (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:32 PM PST

Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Rifai, pictured in 2009, on Monday defended his country's engagement overseas in the war against terror, saying deadly 2005 attacks in the capital had left the government with no alternative.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)AFP - Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Rifai on Monday defended his country's engagement overseas in the war against terror, saying deadly 2005 attacks in the capital had left the government with no alternative.

Pakistan terrorist violence spiked 45 percent in 2009 (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 11:54 AM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Pakistan suffered its worst year of terrorist violence last year, with more than 3,000 people killed, as Islamic insurgents, some of them allied with al Qaida, targeted civilians and destabilized the country, according to a new report.

Radical Yemen cleric warns against US 'occupation' (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 11:06 AM PST

Yemeni outspoken Islamist cleric Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Zendani smiles during a news conference at his residence in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. The prominent cleric denied having links with US-Yemeni imam Anwar al-Awlaqi who is suspected of being behind the botched Christmas Day US plane bombing.(AFP/Khaled Fazaa)AFP - A radical Yemeni cleric accused by Washington of supporting terrorism warned on Monday against any US troop deployment to Yemen to fight Al-Qaeda, saying it would be considered an occupation.

Somali faces terror charge for cartoonist attack (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 06:06 AM PST

A man charged with the attempted murder of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is carried into court on a stretcher in Aarhus, Denmark, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. Police shot a Somali man wielding an ax and a knife after he broke into the home of an artist whose cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban outraged the Muslim world, the head of Denmark's intelligence agency said Saturday. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Ernst van Norde) DENMARK OUTAP - Prosecutors filed a preliminary charge of terrorism Monday against a Somali man accused of trying to kill a Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

Denmark adds terrorism charge to cartoonist attack (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:33 AM PST

Reuters - Danish prosecutors have added a terrorism charge to two charges of attempted murder against a Somali man who broke into the home of a cartoonist whose 2005 drawing of the Prophet Mohammad sparked global Muslim outrage.

Lawyer: Feds chose torture over trial for detainee (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:13 PM PST

FILE - An undated file photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney's office shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said Ghailani has no right to keep a pair of Marine and Air Force lawyers who represented him at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when their superior officers have decided they are needed elsewhere. A judge will hear arguments Monday Jan. 11, 2010, to decide if a Guantanamo Bay detainee's rights were violated when he was held for five years without charges. (AP Photo/File)AP - A lawyer asked a judge Monday to toss out charges against the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to civilian courts, saying he was tortured for 14 hours over five days and denied trial for nearly five years.

How Can Pakistan Fight the Threat of Taliban Terrorism? (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:20 AM PST

Time.com - A steady stream of bombings demonstrates that the government is able to do little to stop the Taliban from answering the military's offensive with terror strikes

Mullen, Petraeus Rule Out U.S. Ground Troops in Yemen (Bloomberg)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 02:24 PM PST

Bloomberg - Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Two top U.S. military officials today ruled out sending U.S. ground troops into Yemen to attack al-Qaeda terrorist cells there.

Lieberman, McCain Seek “Accountability’ in Bomber Case (Bloomberg)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 09:18 AM PST

Bloomberg - Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Intelligence and State Department officials should be disciplined for their roles in a chain of failures that allowed a would-be terrorist bomber aboard an airliner on Christmas Day, two U.S. Senators said today.

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