2010年3月19日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Jihad Jane case suggests rising threat from online 'jihobbyists' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:27 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania terrorism suspect known by the online moniker “Jihad Jane,” certainly defies the stereotypes associated with extremist Islam.

Q&A: Shane Harris, on His New Book, 'The Watchers' (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:00 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

Holder defends lawyers for terror detainees (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:52 PM PDT

AP - Attorney General Eric Holder is defending lawyers who represent unpopular clients like terror suspects. Holder says such attorneys are patriots who deserve respect.

Attorneys: Chicago man providing info on terrorism (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:55 AM PDT

This Thursday, March 18, 2010 courtroom sketch shows David Coleman Headley, right, facing U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago. Headley admitted Thursday that he scouted out 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. Under a deal with prosecutors, Headley will not face execution if he continues to cooperate with their terrorism investigation. (AP Photo/via APTN)AP - An American who admitted slipping quietly into the Indian city of Mumbai on scouting missions that led to the November 2008 attack that left 166 people dead already has started spilling terrorists' secrets to U.S. authorities, according to his attorney and federal prosecutors.


Pa. suspect is rare US woman facing terror trial (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:20 AM 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 - If the woman dubbed "Jihad Jane" goes on trial, she would become just the second American woman tried on U.S. soil on terrorism charges — and the first accused of directly working toward a Muslim holy war.


India seeks to question US terror convict (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:03 AM PDT

AP - Indian authorities will ask the United States to let them question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, the government said Friday.

David Headley pleads guilty in 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:51 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Facing a possible death sentence, a Chicago man agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to performing advance surveillance that helped lay the groundwork for the deadly 2008 terrorist attack on civilians in Mumbai, India.
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