2010年1月13日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Detroit bomber: No coat, no luggage, no notice (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:56 PM PST

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in an undated booking photo. REUTERS/US Marshals Service/HandoutAP - The would-be Christmas Day bomber boarded his flight in Amsterdam to frigid Detroit with no coat — perhaps the final warning sign that went unnoticed leading up to what could have been a catastrophic terrorist attack, lawmakers were told.


US halts deportations to Haiti (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:32 PM PST

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano temporarily halted deportations Wednesday of some Haitians illegally in the U.S. in response to the Caribbean nation's devastating earthquake.

US lawmakers quiz top officials on Christmas bomb plot (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:48 PM PST

National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair testifies during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, in 2009. Senior US counter-terrorism officials briefed lawmakers Wednesday on the Christmas bomb plot, amid congressional efforts to toughen aviation security in response to the thwarted attack.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Senior US counter-terrorism officials briefed lawmakers Wednesday on the Christmas bomb plot, amid congressional efforts to toughen aviation security in response to the thwarted attack.


Ex-Qaeda man links motive to alleged U.S. abuse: report (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:19 PM PST

Reuters - A former Guantanamo inmate who fled to Yemen to help lead an al Qaeda branch after his release says he was motivated by the memory of abuse he says he suffered in U.S. custody, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

Ex-Iran leaders: Professor killing 'terrorism' (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:45 AM PST

This undated file photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency shows nuclear physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, who was killed after a bomb blast in front of his house, in northern Tehran's Qeytariyeh neighborhood, Iran, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A nuclear physics professor at Tehran University was killed Tuesday by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran's capital, state media reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency)AP - Two former Iranian presidents on Wednesday condemned a bomb attack that killed a physics professor who had backed the nation's opposition leader, calling the remote-controlled blast an act of terrorism that could deepen unrest and violence.


Iran speaker accuses Obama of state terrorism (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:25 AM PST

Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, pictured in 2009, Iran's former chief nuclear negotiator, accused US President Barack Obama of state terrorism on Wednesday over the killing in Tehran of a leading atomic scientist.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, Iran's former chief nuclear negotiator, on Wednesday accused US President Barack Obama of state terrorism over the killing in Tehran of a leading atomic scientist.


Al Qaeda linked to rogue aviation network (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:53 AM PST

Reuters - In early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called "the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11."

India, Pakistan ministers discuss terrorism on phone (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:42 AM PST

Indian External Affairs Minister Hon S M Krishna speaks during an economic forum at the Commonwealth Summit in Port-of-Spain November 26, 2009. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva/FilesReuters - Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna told his Pakistani counterpart in talks over the telephone on Wednesday that Pakistan should "unravel the full conspiracy" behind the Mumbai attacks and crack down on militancy.


Obama promises all-out relief effort in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:40 PM PST

President Barack Obama makes a statement about the earthquake in Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - U.S. officials are laying out a massive military response to the Haiti earthquake, saying that ships, helicopters, transport planes and a 2,000-member Marine unit are either on the way or likely to begin moving soon.


Iran knew Israel, U.S. planned "terrorist acts": speaker (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 06:59 AM PST

Reuters - Iran received information days ago that Israeli and U.S. intelligence intended to carry out "terrorist acts" in Tehran, its parliament speaker said on Wednesday, after the killing of a university scientist.

Police to ignore EU ban on 'stop-and-search' (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 02:48 AM PST

Police search a protestor outside the French embassy in London in 2003. Police in London are ignorinf an EU ban on its 'stop and search' policy as the Tories said they would curb the 'indiscriminate' use of anti-terror laws.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - The Metropolitan police were on Wednesday to ignore an EU ban on its 'stop and search' policy as the Tories said they would curb the 'indiscriminate' use of anti-terror laws.


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