2010年2月10日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


UK govt forced to publish U.S. torture allegations (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

Reuters - The British government lost a legal battle Wednesday to prevent the disclosure of secret U.S. intelligence material relating to allegations of "cruel and inhuman" treatment involving the CIA.

Britain discloses secret data on detainee abuse (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:34 PM PST

In this file photo dated 2000 and released by the human rights and legal defense organization Reprieve, Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed is pictured in London. The British government on Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010 disclosed once-secret information on the treatment of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed. The information, contained in seven paragraphs, summarizes an American account of Mohamed's treatment by U.S. authorities before he was interviewed by an MI5 agent in May 2002. Judges rejected the government's claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation.  (AP Photo/Reprieve, File)AP - Britain was forced by an appeals court Wednesday to reveal a long-secret description of how a former terrorism suspect was beaten, shackled and deprived of sleep during interrogations by U.S. agents.


Chilling aerial photos of 9/11 attack released (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:58 PM PST

This photo taken Sept. 11, 2001 by the New York City Police Department and obtained by ABC News, which claims to have obtained it under the Freedom of Information Act, shows smoke and ash engulfing the area around the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/NYPD via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city.


US: British disclosure may affect intelligence sharing (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:25 PM PST

Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, seen here in 2009. The White House warned Wednesday that a British court's order releasing once-secret details of the harsh interrogation of a terrorism suspect could affect US-British intelligence sharing.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The White House warned Wednesday that a British court's order releasing once-secret details of the harsh interrogation of a terrorism suspect could affect US-British intelligence sharing.


Suspect on trial in Indonesia hotel bombings (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 08:18 AM PST

Alleged Islamic militant Amir Abdillah, center, is escorted by plain-clothed police officers after his first trial at South Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Abdillah went on trial Wednesday on charges of harboring terrorists behind twin suicide hotel bombings in the Indonesian capital that killed seven and wounded more than 50 last year. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - An alleged Islamist militant being tried on charges of harboring terrorists behind deadly twin hotel bombings in the Indonesian capital claimed Wednesday that he had helped craft a plot to assassinate the president.


Indonesia hotel bombing suspect goes on trial (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:44 AM PST

Amir Abdillah, a suspected member of the network of late terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top has gone on trial in Jakarta charged with twin suicide attacks on luxury hotels in the capital last year.(AFP/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - A suspected member of late terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top's network went on trial in Indonesia on Wednesday charged over twin suicide attacks on luxury hotels in Jakarta last year.


DHS: The number of illegal immigrants in US fell (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 05:47 PM PST

AP - The Homeland Security Department estimates the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. fell about 7 percent to 10.8 million in January 2009.
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