2010年5月14日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Chile terror lawyer predicts case will be dropped (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 05:14 PM PDT

Gabriel Carrion, defense lawyer of Pakistan's Mohammed Saif-ur-Rehman Khan, 28, unseen, speaks to reporters in Santiago, Friday, May 14, 2010. Carrion and Khan, attended a hearing after a court was to decide Friday whether to present formal charges or free Khan who was arrested Monday after traces of explosives were detected on his phone and papers while he was at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago because his US visa had been revoked. (AP Photo/ Roberto Candia)AP - Chilean prosecutors will have to show a judge on Saturday what evidence they have against a Pakistani detained after the U.S. Embassy said it found traces of an explosives substance on his documents and cell phone.


Parking attendants trained to watch for terrorists (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 12:24 PM PDT

In this May 12, 2010 photo, a parking attendant looks over the block from the entrance of a garage in New York. Parking attendants and meter maids could be the nation's latest line of defense against terrorist attacks. A new government program aims to train thousands of parking industry employees nationwide to watch for and report anything suspicious - abandoned cars, for example, or people hanging around garages, taking photographs or asking unusual questions. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Parking attendants and meter maids could be the nation's latest line of defense against terrorist attacks.


Business events scheduled for the coming week (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 12:23 PM PDT

AP - WASHINGTON — Treasury releases international money flows data for March, 9 a.m.; National Association of Home Builders releases housing market index for May, 1 p.m.; Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Scheduled witnesses include Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and BP's chairman, Lamar McKay.

Italy expels 2 Moroccans, citing security (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 10:47 AM PDT

AP - Officials say Italy has expelled two Moroccans because they represented a threat to national security.

Cruise Industry Security Will Tighten (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 14 May 2010 08:27 AM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - Seeing Times Square cleared out twice in recent weeks provides unpleasant evidence of our vulnerability to a terrorist attack. But people did come back into Times Square, and it's tough to imagine that area without wall-to-wall crowds. But what if the area's near-miss with an SUV had instead been a small craft with a home-made bomb drifting near a huge cruise ship in a major U.S. port?

Police uncover plot to kill Indonesia's president (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 05:52 AM PDT

FILE - Indonesian presidential candidate and current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gestures during a news conference at his residence in Cibubur, on the outskirt of Jakarta, Indonesia, in this July 8, 2009 file photo.  Indonesian police said Friday May 14, 2010 they have uncovered a plot by Islamic militants to assassinate the president and other officials and declare an Islamic state.   (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)AP - Indonesian police foiled a plot to assassinate the president and other top officials, massacre foreigners in Mumbai-style terrorist attacks and declare an Islamic state, an official said Friday.


Yemen: Never mind Anwar al-Awlaki, the economy is a bigger threat (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 13 May 2010 02:55 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Times Square bombing was a reminder of the potential cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and others in Yemen have to inspire terrorist attacks. But academics and financial analysts who have spent time in the country lately say that a faltering economy, not militants, poses a greater threat to Yemen's stability.
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