2010年4月9日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

US: al-Qaida exemplifies new-age nuclear threat (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:24 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 9, 2010, to make a statement on the West Virginia mine accident and the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The White House on Friday warned that al-Qaida is quietly hunting for an atomic bomb, adding urgency to a historic summit next week where President Barack Obama will try to persuade world leaders to step up efforts to keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands.

Obama pick for Justice post withdraws (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:48 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel has withdrawn her bid for confirmation, after several Republicans objected to her criticism of the Bush administration's terrorist interrogation policies.

Al-Qaida in Iraq says it's behind embassy hits (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 10:57 AM PDT

Iraqi security forces inspect the damage outside a destroyed house near the Egyptian consulate in central Baghdad last week. The Islamic State of Iraq, the Al-Qaeda front in the country, Thursday claimed the triple suicide bombings that struck foreign embassies and killed 30 people in Baghdad last week, a monitoring group said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - An al-Qaida front group claimed Friday that it carried out triple suicide bombings outside foreign embassies, underscoring U.S. and Iraqi fears the terror group is attempting to make a comeback.

Failed EU-U.S. data deal to be revived, U.S. says (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:36 AM PDT

Reuters - A failed deal to share European Union and U.S. bank data to help track down terrorism suspects is likely to be revived, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.

US embassy in Kenya begins anti-terror drill (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:34 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. embassy in Kenya has begun a drill to practice coordinating its response to a terrorist attack in conjunction with Kenyan security forces.

Obama says Karzai must remain 'critical partner' (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:05 AM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 31, 2009 file photo provided by the US Air Force shows a CV-22 Osprey aircraft from the 8th Special Operations Squadron over the Emerald Coast outside Hurlburt Field, Fla. A U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft crashed in southeastern Afghanistan Friday, April 9, 2010, killing three service members and one government contractor, NATO said. It was the first crash of the costly, tilt-rotor aircraft in a combat zone. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Julianne Showalter)AP - President Barack Obama says Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai remains "a critical partner" with the United States in the fight against terrorism despite Karzai's harsh recent criticism of the West.

Bush 'knew Guantanamo prisoners were innocent': document (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:39 PM PDT

A US military guard walks past an inmate at the maximum security prison of Camp 5 at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba in 2006. Former US president George W. Bush knew that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent but refused to release them for political reasons, a senior aide to Colin Powell said in a document that AFP obtained Friday.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Former US president George W. Bush knew that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent but refused to release them for political reasons, a senior aide to Colin Powell said in a document that AFP obtained Friday.

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