2010年3月5日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


WH may switch to military trials for 9/11 suspects (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:24 PM PST

FILE - This March 1, 2003 file picture shows Khalid Sheik Mohammed, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. White House advisers are nearing a recommendation for President Barack Obama to choose a military trial for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior administration officials said Thursday March 4, 2010. (AP Photo, File)AP - Looking to breathe life into President Barack Obama's stalled pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, White House advisers are inching toward recommending military trials for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused henchmen.


McCain, Lieberman push military to handle terror cases (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:18 AM PST

Senators John McCain (R) and Joe Lieberman talk during a news conference in Sarajevo in this February 5, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Danilo KrstanovicReuters - Two senior senators unveiled legislation on Thursday to require the military to hold, interrogate and prosecute certain terrorism suspects and also bar them from receiving legal rights afforded most criminals in the United States.


Philippines warns terror threat remains despite arrests (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:12 AM PST

Policemen escort one of three Islamic militants to a vehicle to be transported to a detention cell in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon city suburban Manila. Islamist militants continue to pose a serious terrorist threat in the Philippines despite a series of high-profile arrests of alleged bomb-makers, the military said Friday.(AFP/Jay Directo)AFP - Islamist militants continue to pose a serious terrorist threat in the Philippines despite a series of high-profile arrests of alleged bomb-makers, the military said Friday.


Singapore bolsters security over terrorist threat (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 07:52 AM PST

FILE - This May 27, 2004  file photo shows a Singaporean sailor manning a machine gun during a patrol of the waters off Singapore. Singapore's Navy is warning that a terrorist group is planning attacks on oil tankers in the Malacca Straits. According to an advisory issued Wednesday, March 3, 2010, by the Navy's Information Fusion Center seen by The Associated Press, terrorists may also be targeting other vessels in the shipping lane off Malaysia's east coast. (AP Photo/Ed Wray, File)AP - Singapore raised its security alert and bolstered its defenses Friday after receiving information of a terrorist plot to attack vessels off the coast of the city-state in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, a Cabinet minister said.


Arrests in Indonesia not tied to Malacca threat (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 07:47 AM PST

Police officers carry a colleague wounded in a raid on a suspected terrorist hideout as a part of Indonesian National Police crack down on a potential cell of the Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah in Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Thursday, March 4, 2010.  Indonesian police have charged 14 suspected Islamist militants arrested in restive Aceh province with planning terrorist attacks and shot dead another, an official said Thursday. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda)AP - Indonesian authorities have not found a link between several suspected militants arrested recently in Aceh and a threat to tankers in the nearby Malacca Strait, a government minister and police said Friday.


Pentagon shooting probe focuses on gunman's motives (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:21 PM PST

Law enforcement officers gather near the Pentagon station metro stop in Arlington, Virginia on March 4. US investigators Friday sought to uncover why a California man opened fire outside the Pentagon before being fatally shot by police, as Internet posts suggested he feared a vast government conspiracy.(AFP/Getty Images/Win Mcnamee)AFP - US investigators Friday sought to uncover why a California man opened fire outside the Pentagon before being fatally shot by police, as Internet posts suggested he feared a vast government conspiracy.


Singapore ups security measures after terror warning (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 06:40 AM PST

An aerial photo shows a vessel (bottom) sailing past ships anchored along the coastal line off Singapore in 2008. Singapore has raised security alert levels following threats of possible terrorist attacks on ships in the busy Malacca Strait waterway, the country's interior minister said Friday.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - Singapore has raised security alert levels following threats of possible terrorist attacks on ships in the busy Malacca Strait waterway, the country's interior minister said Friday.


No terrorism link to Pentagon shooting: police (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 04:01 AM PST

Aerial view of the United States military headquarters, the Pentagon in this September 28, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - A California man who was fatally shot after opening fire on security officers outside the Pentagon appears to have been acting alone, with no links to domestic or international terrorism, police said on Friday.


ETA suspects charged with terrorism in France (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:41 AM PST

Ibon Gogeascoechea Arronategui -- the suspected military chief of the Basque separatist group ETA -- was arrested in the French town of Cahan on February 28. French prosecutors have brought terrorism charges against Arronategui and two other suspected members of ETA.(AFP/Spanish Police/File/HO)AFP - French prosecutors have brought terrorism charges against three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA, including the man considered its top leader, a court official said on Friday.


Cyber-terrorism a real and growing threat: FBI (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:50 AM PST

Terrorists, crooks and nation states are ramping up cyberassaults that are eating away at data, cash and security in the US, according to the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller (pictured in February).(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Terrorists, crooks and nation states are ramping up cyber-assaults that are eating away at data, cash and security in the United States, the head of the FBI warned.


Patrols aim to deter Malacca Strait terror attacks (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:33 AM PST

An aerial photo shows a vessel (bottom) sailing past ships anchored along the coastal line off Singapore in 2008. Singapore has raised security alert levels following threats of possible terrorist attacks on ships in the busy Malacca Strait waterway, the country's interior minister said Friday.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - Heightened patrols in the Malacca Strait, launched after a warning that terrorists are plotting attacks, will thwart efforts to seize ships, a maritime watchdog said Friday.


More anti-gov't writing linked to Pentagon shooter (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 06:51 AM PST

Police officers stand at a roadblock around the Pentagon in Washington March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri GripasAP - Internet postings linked to the suspected gunman in a Pentagon subway shooting suggest long-held frustration with the government's reach into the private life of Americans.


Obama aides mull September 11 suspect military trial (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:21 PM PST

Reuters - Advisers to President Barack Obama are close to recommending that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, be tried in a military tribunal instead of a civilian court, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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