2010年4月7日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Guantanamo judge says detainee's trial won't begin for a year (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:24 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — A Navy judge said Wednesday that it will take her nearly a year to sift through classified evidence before she can begin the military trial of a Sudanese man who's been held at the U.S. prison camp for terrorist suspects since 2002.

Obama talks less of terror in outreach to Muslims (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 4, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama addresses an audience at the Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, June 4, 2009. Since Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last year, the White House has changed not just how it talks to Muslim nations but also what it talks about, shifting away from terrorism and focusing instead on health care, science and education. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Less talk about "Islamic radicalism" and a lot more about doing business. In the year since President Barack Obama pledged a new beginning in the relationship with the Muslim world, the White House has begun to change the U.S. focus.


US woman silently pleads not guilty in terror case (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:19 PM PDT

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams is seen outside the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Paulin-Ramirez, charged in a global terrorism plot, has pleaded not guilty to aiding terrorists at a hearing in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - With a shake of the head, a pregnant Colorado woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge of helping foreign terrorists who authorities say were plotting to kill a Swedish artist.


Anwar al-Awlaki: Is it legal to kill an American in war on terror? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:58 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In today’s wars against "nonstate actors" such as Al Qaeda, individuals may be targeted for what amounts to assassination. But when those targets are American citizens, the US confronts difficult legal questions.

Haitian orphans' quick entry to US to end (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:56 PM PDT

AP - The Homeland Security Department says it is ending a program that allowed orphaned Haitian children not yet adopted to come to the U.S.

'JihadJane' friend pleads not guilty to terrorism (AFP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:49 PM PDT

The seal of the Department of Justice. A US woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges she conspired with another American dubbed AFP - A US woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges she conspired with another American dubbed "JihadJane" to supporting terrorists abroad.


'Jihad Jamie' and the 'black widows': Why women turn to terrorism (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:52 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Two recent incidents in the United States and Russia are suggesting that, when it comes to terrorism, men and women are perhaps not as different as society might believe.

'Black Widows' Recruited for Terrorism in Russia (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 09:50 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by Newsteam shows 17 year-old suicide bomber Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova posing with her husband Umalat Magomedov who was killed in 2009. Russia said it has identified the second Moscow metro suicide bomber as a woman in her late 20s from the province of Dagestan in the volatile North Caucasus.(AFP/Newsteam/File/Ho)Time.com - Do women like the Black Widows of Russia perpetrate terrorism for revenge? Or are have they been carefully cultivated to carry out acts of carnage?


Kenya seeks return of citizen held at Gitmo (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 08:49 AM PDT

AP - The Kenyan government is seeking the return of one of its citizens held at Guantanamo Bay for questioning over his alleged involvement in attacks on a hotel and an Israeli airliner in 2002, the foreign ministry said Wednesday in a letter to the man's family.

China, Indian leaders to set up hotline (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 07:32 AM PDT

China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (R) shakes hands with S.M. Krishna at Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing April 7, 2010. China and India have agreed to set up a top level hotline during a Beijing visit by Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, who also discussed terrorism and regional security with his Chinese counterpart. REUTERS/China DailyReuters - China and India agreed to set up a top level hotline on Wednesday, sealing a "cordial" Beijing visit by Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna that consolidated an improvement in ties between the sometimes fractious neighbours.


Obama calls nuke terrorism the top threat to US (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:21 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton brief reporters about nuclear arms at the Pentagon, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Rewriting America's nuclear strategy, the White House on Tuesday announced a fundamental shift that calls the spread of atomic weapons to rogue states or terrorists a worse threat than the nuclear Armageddon feared during the Cold War.


Guantanamo war court resumes hearings amid uncertainty (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:02 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Still operating under Bush-era policies that President Barack Obama last year called "a mess," the Pentagon will resume military commission hearings for accused terrorists Wednesday in a top secret compound originally designed for the trial of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
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