2010年6月22日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Latest search for NYC 9/11 remains finds over 70 (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:45 PM PDT

President Bush addresses the nation Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, about the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Bush said 'Freedom itself has been attacked this morning by a faceless coward.'  (AP Photo/Doug Mills)AP - New York City officials say a renewed search this year of debris in and around the World Trade Center site has recovered 72 human remains from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.


US lawmakers: Add Pakistani Taliban to terror blacklist (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 11:39 AM PDT

Surrendered Taliban militants from Pakistan's northwestern Bajaur tribal district stand beside seized weapons at a military compound on June 9. US lawmakers pushed Tuesday for adding the Pakistani Taliban, accused of training unrepentant Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad, to Washington's blacklist of terrorist groups.(AFP/File/Anwar Ullah)AFP - US lawmakers pushed Tuesday for adding the Pakistani Taliban, accused of training unrepentant Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad, to Washington's blacklist of terrorist groups.


Times Square bomber pleads guilty (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:36 AM PDT

Surrendered Taliban militants from Pakistan's northwestern Bajaur tribal district stand beside seized weapons at a military compound on June 9. US lawmakers pushed Tuesday for adding the Pakistani Taliban, accused of training unrepentant Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad, to Washington's blacklist of terrorist groups.(AFP/File/Anwar Ullah)Reuters - A Pakistani-born American citizen defiantly pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, saying that Islamist extremists would continue to attack the United States.


Times Square car bomber details his chilling plot (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:09 AM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, a U.S. Marshall removes Faisal Shahzad's handcuffs in the courtroom Monday, June 21, 2010, in New York. Shahzad pleaded guilty to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan just days after a federal grand jury indicted him on 10 terrorism and weapons counts, some of which carry mandatory life prison sentences. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)AP - Admitted terrorist Faisal Shahzad was so eager to tell how he plotted to kill Americans in Times Square, he went to court with a prepared statement.


Karzai asks UN to remove Taliban names from terror list (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:45 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai -- seen here in Tokyo on June 18 -- has asked a visiting UN security council delegation to remove the names of some Taliban members from a terror blacklist, the government said.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked a visiting UN security council delegation on Tuesday to remove the names of some Taliban members from a terror blacklist, the government said.


China says it has cracked 'major' terrorist ring (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:29 AM PDT

AP - China said Tuesday that it had uncovered an unspecified "major terrorist organization," a claim that came just ahead of the anniversary of bloody ethnic rioting in the far western region of Xinjiang.

Supreme Court upholds 'material support' law (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 03:07 AM PDT

A view of the US Supreme Court building in 2009 in Washington, DC. The US Supreme Court upheld Monday a law criminalizing AFP - The US Supreme Court upheld Monday a law criminalizing "material support" to terrorism, even in cases of training in peacemaking, despite criticism that the law targets legitimate free speech.


Istanbul bomb kills five as Kurdish violence flares (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 05:32 AM PDT

Policemen and officials inspect the wreckage of a military bus that following a roadside bomb blast in Istanbul. Kurdish rebels bombed a bus carrying army personnel in Istanbul, killing four soldiers and a teenage girl, in the latest episode of escalating violence across Turkey.(AFP/Bulent Kilic)AFP - A roadside bomb blew up a bus carrying military families in Istanbul on Tuesday, killing four soldiers and a girl, as Kurdish rebels stepped up their separatist attacks.


China says has broken up terrorist group (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:11 AM PDT

Reuters - Chinese security forces have broken up a terrorist group and will give details later this week, the Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday.

High court upholds anti-terror law prized by Obama (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 09:43 PM PDT

The U.S. Supreme Court building seen in March 2010 in Washington, DC. The US Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal brought by a Canadian-Syrian who was wrongly arrested in the US in 2002 and expelled to Syria where he was held and tortured for a year.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - The Supreme Court upheld the government's authority Monday to ban aid to designated terrorist groups, even when that support is intended to steer the groups toward peaceful and legal activities.


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