2010年4月14日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Powerful CIA deputy to step down: spy agency (AFP)

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:07 PM PDT

A man walks across the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the lobby of the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. The powerful deputy director of the CIA, alleged to have played a role in allowing brutal interrogations of terror suspect, plans to step down in May, the spy agency's chief said Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - The powerful deputy director of the CIA, alleged to have played a role in allowing brutal interrogations of terror suspect, plans to step down in May, the spy agency's chief said Wednesday.


NYC, contractors appeal 9/11 settlement ruling (AP)

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2001 file photo, workers wearing protective garb clean debris off a roof of a buiilding adjacent to ground zero, where the World Trade Center Towers once stood. On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, the city of New York and contractors who handled the cleanup of the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks have appealed a judge's decision to block a $575 million settlement of claims by thousands of people who fell ill.  (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)AP - The city and contractors who handled the cleanup of the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks on Wednesday notified a court they are appealing a judge's decision to block a $575 million settlement of claims by thousands of workers who fell ill.


Al-Qaeda plotted to attack Shiite mosques in Iraq: US official (AFP)

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 01:37 PM PDT

Iraqi women walk enter an archway leading to the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Kadhimiyah in 2008. Iraqi authorities have uncovered plans by Al-Qaeda to fly hijacked planes into the country's Shiite mosques in Iraq, a US counter-terrorism official said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraqi authorities have uncovered plans by Al-Qaeda to fly hijacked planes into the country's Shiite mosques in Iraq, a US counter-terrorism official said on Wednesday.


Bombs and shootings kill six in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 09:49 AM PDT

Iraqi firefighters stand on the rubble of a building following a bomb blast on Al-Rasheed Street in Baghdad. Six people were killed, including an Iraqi counter-terrorism officer and two soldiers, and 13 wounded in a number of bombings and shootings in Iraq on Wednesday, officials said.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Six people were killed, including an Iraqi counter-terrorism officer and two soldiers, and 13 wounded in a number of bombings and shootings in Iraq on Wednesday, officials said.


Lawyer: Free Kenyan from 'black hole' Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 08:15 AM PDT

AP - A Kenyan man detained for three years without charge at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo should face trial in Kenya instead of being held indefinitely at the U.S. facility, his government-appointed attorney said.

Obama's nuclear summit: Good plan, action needed (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:53 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the end of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington April 13, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama's nuclear security summit took a step toward lowering the risk of a terrorist group getting an atomic weapon, but real progress depends on countries keeping the promises they made.


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