2010年3月18日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


US rep: Pa. Jihad Jane terror suspect cooperated (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 26, 1997 booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose makes her first court appearance Thursday March 18, 2010 since a stunning indictment last week that charged that she plotted with terror suspects abroad to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)AP - A woman accused of trolling the Internet as Jihad Jane and agreeing to marry a suspected terrorist and kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims cooperated with authorities, a congressman said.


UK delays new guidelines for spies, soldiers (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:54 PM PDT

AP - New British guidelines on handling terrorism suspects held overseas have been delayed over a dispute about how to deal with potentially life-saving information from detainees who may be at risk of torture by allies.

Terror suspect admits scouting for Mumbai massacre (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:33 PM PDT

FILE- In this Dec. 9, 2009 file courtroom drawing shows David Coleman Headley, left, pleads not guilty before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago to charges that accuse him of conspiring in the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and of planning to launch an armed assault on a Danish newspaper. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A Chicago man admitted Thursday that he scouted out the Indian city of Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotted an attack on a Danish newspaper over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.


Fed appeals court won't rehear Ashcroft lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:33 PM PDT

AP - A federal appellate court said Thursday it wouldn't reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witness statute after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Q&A: How America Became a Surveillance State (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 01:30 PM PDT

Time.com - It reads like a spy novel, but in The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, author Shane Harris lays out the U.S. government's real-life efforts to see and hear more in the face of growing terrorist threats.

US suspect in Mumbai siege, Danish plot pleads guilty (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 01:00 PM PDT

The Taj Hotel during the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai. A Chicago man pleaded guilty Thursday to using his Western appearance as a cover while scoping out sites for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - A Pakistani-American pleaded guilty in a US court Thursday to scouting out sites for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist.


"Jihad Jane" pleads not guilty to terrorism (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 11:54 AM PDT

Reuters - A Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill in a foreign country.

15 years on, Japan film recalls doomsday cult sarin attacks (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 09:01 AM PDT

Shizue Takahashi, the widow of a subway station employee who died after removing nerve-gas filled containers from a packed train, speaks before the press in Tokyo in 2004. Time may have diminished the trauma of the worst terrorist attack in modern Japanese history, which struck 15 years ago Saturday, but Takahashi is determined not to let the memory fade.(AFP/File/Yoshikatsu Tsuno)AFP - Time may have diminished the trauma of the worst terrorist attack in modern Japanese history, which struck 15 years ago Saturday, but widow Shizue Takahashi is determined not to let the memory fade.


'JihadJane' pleads not guilty in terrorism case (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 08:11 AM PDT

This undated image obtained on March 9 courtesy of WPVI-TV in Philadelpha, Pennsylvania shows terror suspect Colleen LaRose. The American woman who called herself AFP - An American woman who called herself "JihadJane" pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Philadelphia court to recruiting terrorists.


Rise of 'homegrown' threat changes face of terrorism (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:13 AM PDT

This undated image obtained on March 9 from the SITE Intelligence Group shows terror suspect Colleen R. LaRose. The face of terrorism is changing in the United States as the country comes to terms with the rising threat of AFP - The face of terrorism is changing in the United States as the country comes to terms with the rising threat of "homegrown" terrorists who look and sound nothing like Hollywood typecasts.


Key Al-Qaeda figure believed killed in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:54 AM PDT

Pakistani soldiers patrol a street in the northwestern town of Miransha. An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official has told AFP.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counter-terrorism official has told AFP.


U.S.-funded Detachment 88, elite of Indonesia security (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 01:25 AM PDT

Policemen from Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism unit Detachment 88 Reuters - Indonesia has won praise for cracking down on Islamist militants behind a string of deadly attacks and at the core of the fight have been the heavily armed black-clad officers of its anti-terrorism unit -- Detachment 88.


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