2010年1月17日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


AP ENTERPRISE: 2009 — year of terror charges in US (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 09:53 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2009, file photo FBI Director Robert Mueller, center, flanked by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, and Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Michael Leiter, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on terrorist threats to the United States.  A review of major national security cases by The Associated Press found federal prosecutors filed or unsealed federal terrorism-related charges against 54 defendents in 2009, more suspects than in any year since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - Federal prosecutors charged more suspects with terrorism in 2009 than in any year since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, providing evidence of what experts call a rise in plots spurred by Internet recruitment, the spread of al-Qaida overseas and ever-shifting tactics of terror chiefs.


Eco-activist arrested in India on terror charges (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 05:48 AM PST

AP - A London-based environmental campaigner traveling around the world in a biofuel-driven bus has been arrested in India on terrorism-related charges, his family and Italian officials said Sunday.
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