2010年5月11日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Napolitano's oil-leak optimism based on bad info? (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 06:52 PM PDT

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says there's cause for hope that the Gulf oil spill is slowing down, but she might be basing that on bad information.

U.S. airlines called as Times Square suspect sought (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2010 06:00 PM PDT

This undated image, obtained from orkut.com on May 4, 2010, shows Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who is suspected as the driver of a bomb-laden SUV into New York's Time Square on May 1. REUTERS/Courtesy of Orkut.com/HandoutReuters - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security telephoned a handful of airlines to notify them that the suspected Times Square bomber had been added to the "no fly" list, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.


Chile holds Pakistani over explosive at US embassy (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:52 PM PDT

Pakistani citizen Mohammed Saif Ur Rehman (C) arrives at a hospital for a medical check after being arrested at the U.S embassy on Monday, in Santiago May 11, 2010. REUTERS/Ivan AlvaradoReuters - A Chilean judge ordered a Pakistani man to be held under an anti-terrorism law on Tuesday after he was arrested in the U.S. embassy in Chile with traces of explosive on him.


Al-Qaida group claims April attack in Yemen (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:36 PM PDT

AP - An al-Qaida affiliate claimed responsibility for an April 26 suicide bombing in Yemen that targeted the British ambassador, a U.S.-based terrorist tracking organization said Tuesday.

Chilean police detain Pakistani in US Embassy (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT

Police leave the residence of Mohammed Saif Ur Rehman in downtown Santiago, late Monday, May 10, 2010.  Rehman was detained Monday by US embassy security and handed over to police after embassy detectors were set off by traces of bomb-making substances on Rehman's belongings as he entered the embassy.  Rehman is in preventive detention pending a decision on whether to press charges. (AP Photo/Felipe Fredes, La Tercera) CHILE OUT - NO USAR EN CHILEAP - Traces of explosives were found on a Pakistani man who was summoned to the U.S. Embassy because his U.S. visa had been revoked, authorities said Tuesday, and a Chilean judge ordered him held in a high-security prison under anti-terrorism laws.


Chile holds Pakistani over explosive at U.S. embassy (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2010 04:29 PM PDT

Chilean policemen leave from a hostel where a Pakistani citizen, Mohammed Saif Ur Rehman, was living at Santiago downtown, May 10, 2010. REUTERS/Felipe Fredes/La Tercera NewspaperReuters - A Chilean judge ordered a Pakistani man to be held under an anti-terrorism law Tuesday after he was arrested in the U.S. embassy in Chile with traces of explosive on him.


Senators: Better terror screening needed (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo from the social networking site Orkut.com, a man who was identified by neighbors in Connecticut as Faisal Shahzad, is shown. Shahzad was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said. The Pakistani-American who police say admitted to trying to blow up a car bomb in busy Times Square has made no court appearance since his arrest almost a week ago and, although he is cooperating with authorities, there's been no consensus he was acting alone and no word on why he planned the terror attack that has left many New Yorkers on edge for days. (AP Photo/Orkut.com, File) NO SALESAP - Top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee called Tuesday for "new defenses" in the wake of the Times Square bombing attempt that would tighten the screening and tracking of travelers and money flowing between the U.S. and Pakistan.


Canada spies say tracking over 200 terror suspects (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2010 03:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada is tracking more than 200 people linked to al Qaeda and other organizations considered to be terrorist, the head of the nation's spy service said in a rare public appearance on Tuesday.

NYPD commissioner: NYC bomb suspect 'homegrown' (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Pedestrians wait for a New York Police Department Bomb Squad officer to finish checking a suspicious package at Times Square in New York May 7, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonAP - The suspected driver in a failed car bombing of Times Square fits the profile of a recent wave of "homegrown" terrorists threatening America, New York police officials warned Tuesday.


US says Pakistani Taliban may go on terror list (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:55 PM PDT

Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C. at a news conference to urge the State Department to cite the Pakistani Taliban as a terrorist group on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The government may add the Pakistani Taliban to a terrorism blacklist that would impose travel and financial sanctions on members of the group, which officials believe is linked to the failed Times Square car bombing.


Government mulls putting Pakistan Taliban on terrorism list (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:44 PM PDT

A boy looks through the main gate of the ancestral home of the family of Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American held in New York on suspicion of driving a bomb-laden car into Times Square, in Mohib Banda, in Pakistan's north western Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province, May 5, 2010. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodReuters - The State Department said on Tuesday it was looking into putting the Pakistani Taliban, the group tied to the failed car bombing in New York's Times Square, on the U.S. list of "foreign terrorist" groups.


US mulls adding Pakistan Taliban to terror list (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 11:50 AM PDT

A group of US senators, including Chuck Schumer seen here in 2009, on Tuesday called for Pakistan's Taliban to be banned as a foreign terrorist organization after officials said it was involved in the failed Times Square bombing.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)AFP - The United States said Tuesday it was mulling whether to blacklist Pakistan's Taliban as a foreign terrorist organization after it was implicated in the failed Times Square bombing.


US slaps sanctions on al-Qaida leaders in Yemen (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 11:44 AM PDT

AP - The State Department on Tuesday slapped financial sanctions on leaders of the Yemen-based al-Qaida group that claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.

Outlaws and terrorists line up for Cannes film frenzy (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:43 AM PDT

A poster of AFP - Carlos the Jackal will square up to Robin Hood when Cannes gets under way Wednesday but volcanic ash could keep megastars and movie directors away from the glitzy French Riviera resort.


Axelrod: Obama is open to reviewing Miranda issue (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 07:26 PM PDT

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (L) and Senior Adviser David Axelrod confer on the sidelines of U.S. President Barack Obama's post-summit news conference at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington April 13, 2010.    REUTERS/Jim Young   (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY)AP - President Barack Obama is open to the idea of reviewing Miranda warnings for terrorist suspects, senior White House adviser David Axelrod said Monday.


Ohio judge: Review US government's terror probe (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 05:31 PM PDT

AP - A judge says the U.S. government must show it had probable cause in 2006 to freeze the assets of an Ohio-based charity it suspects of having ties to the militant Islamic group Hamas (hah-MAHS').
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