2010年4月16日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Volcanic ash grounds flights across much of Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 06:10 PM PDT

Passengers wait in the departure hall at the Vienna airport April 16, 2010. A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spread out across Europe on Friday causing air travel chaos on a scale not seen since the Sept. 11 attacks and costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter BaderReuters - A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spreading out across Europe is causing air travel chaos on a scale unseen since the Sept. 11 attacks and costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mom of US man charged with terrorism speaks out (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 05:45 PM PDT

Amal Khalifa, of Alexandria, Va., is seen during an interview in Washington, on Friday, April 16, 2010. Khalifa's son Ramy Zamzam is one of five Americans arrested in Pakistan and about to go on trial there for planning terrorist acts. She says authorities in Pakistan obtained confessions through torture. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Pakistani authorities beat confessions out of some of the five northern Virginia men accused of planning terrorist acts in that country, the mother of one of the men said Friday.

Special Report: U.S. shifts gears to tackle homespun terrorism (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 05:35 AM PDT

A young Muslim American female student holds the American flag during a 'children of the world' student pageant at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn , Michigan, March 26, 2010. Photo taken March 26, 2010. REUTERS/Rebecca CookReuters - At a recent congressional hearing on homespun terrorism, Indiana Representative Mark Souder tore into a little-known Los Angeles County sheriff named Lee Baca.

Ex-CIA chief approved destroying interrogation tapes: report (AFP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 05:23 AM PDT

Former CIA chief Porter Goss, seen here in 2005, approved a 2005 decision by an aide to destroy hundreds of tapes showing US agents harshly interrogating two terror suspects, The New York Times reported Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Former CIA chief Porter Goss approved a 2005 decision by an aide to destroy hundreds of tapes showing US agents harshly interrogating two terror suspects, The New York Times reported Friday.

Volcanic ash halts much of northern Europe air travel (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:20 AM PDT

Grounded airplanes are pictured in Oslo Airport Gardermoen April 15, 2010. REUTERS/Scanpix/Erlend AasReuters - A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spread out across Europe on Friday causing air travel chaos on a scale not seen since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Destruction of videotapes documented in CIA e-mail (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 03:43 AM PDT

In this Friday, Jan. 26, 2007 photo, White House Counsel Harriet Miers is interviewed by The Associated Press in her office in the White House in Washington. White House counsel Harriet Miers was 'livid' and CIA counsel John Rizzo was 'clearly upset' that the spy agency destroyed interrogation videos showing waterboarding in 2005, newly released CIA documents show. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Internal CIA e-mails show the former agency head, Porter Goss, agreed with a top aide's 2005 decision to destroy videotapes of the harsh interrogation of a terror suspect, a controversial action that remains the focus of an FBI investigation.

Iceland's volcanic ash halts flights across Europe (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 11:43 PM PDT

Smoke billows from an erupting volcano at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier near Reykjavík. A volcanic eruption in Iceland fired ash across northern Europe bringing chaos to air travel and melted a glacier causing severe floods.(ICELANDIC COAST GUARD)AP - An enormous ash cloud from a remote Icelandic volcano caused the biggest flight disruption since the 2001 terrorist attacks as it drifted over northern Europe and stranded travelers on six continents. Officials said it could take days for the skies to become safe again in one of aviation's most congested areas.

Thai army chief takes charge of restoring order (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 11:53 AM PDT

Anti-government leader Arisman Pongruanrong, in red, is helped by others as he flees arrest Friday, April 16, 2010, at a downtown Bangkok, Thailand, hotel. Arisman scaled down the facade of the hotel in downtown Bangkok into a waiting crowd of 'Red Shirt' supporters who then helped him into a car that drove away. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)AP - Thailand's prime minister talked tough and handed more law and order powers to the army Friday after security forces were humiliated when an anti-government protest leader escaped a police raid by clambering down a rope from a hotel balcony in broad daylight as supporters cheered.

No time behind bars for imam in NYC subway plot (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 09:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Ahmad Afzali, speaks to reporters before entering his home in the Fresh Meadows neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, following his release from jail on terrorism charges. The Afghanistan-born imam linked to the suspects in an aborted New York City suicide bomb plot, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and could get up to six months in prison. His sentencing is scheduled Thursday afternoon in New York. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman, File)AP - An Afghanistan-born imam who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against New York City subway stations will not go to prison but must leave the country within 90 days, a judge ruled Thursday.

Holder defends U.S. criminal, military terror trials (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 06:32 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended using both criminal and military courts to prosecute terrorism suspects amid a fierce fight over where to try the five alleged plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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