2010年3月9日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Pa. woman charged with recruiting jihadists online (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 04:20 PM PST

AP - A suburban Philadelphia woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill someone, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 02:53 PM PST

AP - Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday.

Ex-spy chief: US misled allies over detainees (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PST

AP - United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday.

Men seized 'days before planned attack in Britain' (AFP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 01:14 PM PST

A policeman is pictured outside the Houses of Parliament in London, in Februray 2010. Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday.


Bali bomb mastermind believed killed by security forces (AFP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:46 AM PST

An undated picture of the militant leader Dulmatin who is believed to have been killed by counter-terror forces in Jakarta. Dulmatin is thought to be one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Tuesday killed a man believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, during a raid in the capital Jakarta, police and reports said.


Officials: Bali bombing mastermind may be dead (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 08:58 AM PST

Paramedics carry the body of a suspected militant killed in a police raid in Pamulang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Anti-terror police hunting a mastermind of Indonesia's worst terror attack killed three suspects on Tuesday, police said. Police were trying to determine whether one of those killed was the alleged terrorist Dulmatin. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - A top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings may have been killed in a shootout with police at an Internet cafe Tuesday moments after sitting at a terminal, authorities said. DNA tests were under way to confirm his identity.


Amsterdam airport tightens security at duty free (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 04:42 AM PST

AP - Security has been tightened at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a team of investigative journalists smuggled bottles of liquid onto passenger jets bound for London and Washington, D.C., the airport and the Dutch anti-terror agency said Tuesday.

Suicide attack kills 2 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:57 AM PST

An Afghan man sits outside his house in the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday said a new strategy in the Afghan war showed promise after he visited a former ghost town where American forces recently cleared out Taliban militants.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)AP - A suicide attack Tuesday at a joint NATO-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan killed two international service members and wounded several others, the military alliance said.


9/11 Trials: Can Graham Help Forge a White House Deal? (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:35 AM PST

Time.com - Caught short on civilian trials for terror suspects and closing GuantÁnamo, the Administration is negotiating with the GOP Senator. But it's not clear he can deliver

Obama still wants US trial for some Gitmo suspects (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 08:41 PM PST

FILE - This March 1, 2003 file picture shows Khalid Sheik Mohammed, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. White House aides are increasingly convinced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to the U.S., where many would faces charges, a senior administration official said Monday.  (AP Photo, File)AP - White House aides are increasingly convinced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to the U.S., where many would faces criminal charges, a senior administration official said Monday.


Canada lists Somalia's Shebab as a terrorist group (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 08:31 AM PST

Shabab gunmen, seen in October last year, patrol Bakara Market in northern Mogadishu where gunmen have shot dead a Somali Islamist military leader critical of his group's recent merger with the Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab movement, officials and witnesses say.(AFP/File/Abdurashid Abikar)AFP - Canada has listed the Somalia-based hardline Shebab militia as a terrorist organization, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Monday.


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