2010年3月30日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Moscow Bombings: A New Cycle of Chechen Retaliation? (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:50 PM PDT

Special operations  police, officers look at a man laying flowers near one of the entrances to the Park Kultury (Park of Culture) subway station, background, hit by an explosion, Moscow, Monday, March 29, 2010. Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow's subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing tens of  people and wounding many more, officials said and blamed the carnage on terrorists from the restive Caucasus region that includes Chechnya.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)Time.com - Russian President Medvedev has pledged to "liquidate" the terrorists behind the subway bombings, which could mean a return of violence to the long-troubled Caucasus region


Insecurity cams? About half in NYC don't work (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:42 PM PDT

Two ceiling-mounted video surveillance cameras are seen as a No. 1 subway train arrives at the 34th Street station, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in New York. On a subway train in the middle of Manhattan, two men were stabbed to death after a night out clubbing. But three days after the slaying, police were still piecing together a description of the killer because there were no surveillance cameras in the station. About half of the 4,313 cameras installed along the city's public transportation system aren't operable, and transit police have been cut at some of the city's major bridges and tunnels, which some say could make the city more vulnerable to crime or a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - NEW YORK — About half the 4,313 security cameras installed along New York City's subways aren't seeing a thing — a blind spot in the crime and terrorism safety net for the nation's largest city.


Iraqi artist who opposed Saddam now fights 'terrorist' label (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:27 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A federal judge is forcing the Department of Homeland Security to process the permanent-residency request of an Iraqi artist despite the U.S. government's claims that he could be considered a terrorist under post-Sept. 11 laws.

Putin talks tough after Moscow subway bombings (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 01:16 PM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, seen during a meeting on security at transport in Moscow, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.  Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday to 'drag out of the sewer' the masterminds of the twin suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system that killed 39 people and left scores wounded. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikkolsky, Pool)AP - The old Vladimir Putin is back, confronting a terrorist attack in Moscow by using the same kind of coarse and colorful language that helped him win the presidency a decade ago.


Iran nuclear drive in focus at G8 talks (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:20 AM PDT

Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon attends a press conference after the G8 foreign ministers meeting at the Chateau Cartier in Gatineau. Group of Eight leaders on Tuesday called for stepped up pressure on Iran to abandon its suspect nuclear program and urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to rein in militants.(AFP/Rogerio Barbosa)AFP - Group of Eight foreign ministers stepped up pressure on Iran Tuesday to abandon its suspect nuclear enrichment program or face new sanctions as they held key talks here.


Putin orders Russia to hunt down bombing militants (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:53 PM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow. Putin on Tuesday ordered security forces to snare the masterminds of the metro bombings that killed 39, saying they should be AFP - Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered security forces to snare the masterminds of the metro bombings that killed 39, saying they should be "scraped out" from the bottom of sewers.


US appeals court returns terror case to RI judge (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 06:51 PM PDT

AP - A federal appeals court has ordered a Rhode Island judge to hear more arguments on whether to vacate a $116 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority over a 1996 terror attack that killed a U.S. citizen and his wife.
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