2010年4月2日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

New security checks set for travelers to US (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT

In this Sept. 11, 2008 photo, Transportation Security Administration officer Liz Brown works at Albany International Airport in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - The U.S. government is refining its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travelers' nationalities.

2nd American woman charged in 'Jihad Jane' case (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 03:31 PM PDT

In this June 26, 1997 photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown a 1997 booking mug of Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose, the self-described 'Jihad Jane' who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden, is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say. The new reality that there is a threat from violent Islamic extremism from within the U.S. It is difficult to say whether the uptick in cases is because law enforcement has gotten better at catching suspects or if there are simply more to catch. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)AP - Federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges Friday against a pregnant American woman in the so-called Jihad Jane case. The two American women are accused of plotting online to attend a terror training camp.

Napolitano tours RI floods as state pleads for aid (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 03:28 PM PDT

Theresa Arena rests against the door as she surveys the flood damage in her grandmother-in-laws home in Cranston, R.I., Friday, April 2, 2010. Floodwater from the Pawtuxet River was 4 feet high on the first floor. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano took a helicopter tour over still-flooded Rhode Island on Friday, witnessing waterlogged shopping malls and homes with people's possessions laid out to dry in their yards, as residents and officials in the already economically troubled state pleaded for her to secure more federal aid.

New airline security measures announced (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States announced new security measures on Friday to replace the mandatory screening of air travelers from 14 mostly Muslim countries that had angered some allies when it was imposed after a failed bombing on Christmas Day.

'JihadJane' friend held in US on terror charges (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 02:51 PM PDT

This undated image obtained by Fox News shows a photo from a website authorities say was maintained by terror suspect Colleen R. LaRose. The American woman known as AFP - A second woman was charged Friday in the case of the terror suspect dubbed "JihadJane" after she flew back to the United States and surrendered to authorities, the US Justice Department said.

US steps up air travel security measures (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 02:49 PM PDT

A Transportation Security Administration(TSA) volunteer demonstrates a full-body scanner at O'Hare International Airport in March 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday unveiled new security measures subjecting all US-bound plane passengers to screening methods that use real-time intelligence to target potential threats.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AFP - US officials Friday unveiled new security measures subjecting all US-bound plane passengers to screening methods that use real-time intelligence to target potential threats.

One of Moscow subway bombers was 17-year-old widow (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:03 PM PDT

This undated picture provided Friday, April 2, 2010 by the Russian news agency NewsTeam, is claimed by the Russian Kommersant newspaper to show Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, left, and her husband Islamist rebel Umalat Magomedov. Russian newspaper Kommersant said Friday that one of the Moscow subway suicide bombers was Abdurakhmanova, the 17-year-old widow of Magomedov, an Islamist rebel from the North Caucasus killed by Russian government forces in December, 2009. The March 29 subway bombings in Moscow killed 39 people. (AP Photo/NewsTeam)AP - The image is striking: a sultry teenager, partly veiled, in the embrace of a bearded man — both grasping handguns.

US 'to begin profiling air passengers' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 03:51 AM PDT

A security officer looks at a screen showing images from full-body scanners at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday unveiled new measures to beef up air travel security and boost profiling in a move which applies to all US-bound plane passengers.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AFP - The United States will announce Friday it plans to begin profiling US-bound passengers in a major shake up of air travel security measures, US media said.

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