2010年1月12日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


UK Gov't to appeal European ruling on terror laws (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST

AP - The British government said Tuesday it will appeal a European Court of Human Rights ruling that prevents police from using anti-terror laws to stop and search members of the public.

British police anti-terror searches condemned (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 01:51 PM PST

Police stand outside a house in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, in April 2009, where counter-terrorism officers raided the house. The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday condemned British anti-terror legislation allowing people to be searched by police without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday condemned British anti-terror legislation allowing people to be searched by police without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.


New evidence of Qaeda tie to Madrid blast: expert (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:46 AM PST

Reuters - The 2004 Madrid bombings, Europe's deadliest Islamist militant attack, probably were instigated by al Qaeda and were not the work of autonomous cells, a top terrorism expert says.

Terrorist attack averted in Iraq, says Iraqi general (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:05 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi forces arrested suspected insurgents and seized a huge cache of explosives Tuesday, in a crackdown across the capital that brought parts of the city to a standstill.

Bomb plot against ministries in Baghdad thwarted (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 03:29 PM PST

An Iraqi police officer uses a scanner device to inspect a car at checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Iraqi security forces locked down parts of Baghdad Tuesday and were searching neighborhoods in what appeared to be a wide-ranging operation across the city. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraqi forces seized a large cache of explosives and arrested suspected insurgents allegedly planning to target government ministries Tuesday, in a crackdown across the capital that brought parts of the city to a standstill.


GOP Leader Says Detention Policies Create 'Operational Confusion' (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:08 AM PST

CQPolitics.com - The Obama administration's treatment of terrorist suspects is creating confusion about detention procedures on the ground in Afghanistan, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Retrial begins for IRA vet linked to Omagh bomb (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 06:32 AM PST

AP - The retrial began Tuesday of an Irish Republican Army veteran who was the only person convicted of involvement in the 1998 car-bomb attack on Omagh, the deadliest terror strike throughout the four-decade conflict in Northern Ireland.

Israel will no longer pay for burial of 'terrorists' (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 03:29 AM PST

Police experts search for evidence at the train station in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya after an Arab Israeli blew himself up killing three people and wounding dozens in September 2001. Israel's parliament has adopted legislation that bans the state from paying for the funeral of any citizen who commits terror attacks against the Jewish state, state radio has said.(AFP/File/Elad Gershgorn)AFP - Israel's parliament has adopted legislation that bans the state from paying for the funeral of any citizen who commits terror attacks against the Jewish state, state radio said on Tuesday.


Pakistan terrorists target more civilians in 2009 (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:04 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - 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 Qaeda, targeted civilians and destabilized the country, according to a new report.
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