2010年6月27日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


CIA chief warns of long road ahead in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:10 PM PDT

A US soldier of the 97th MP Battalion stands in the mobile gun position of a Mine Resistant Armoured Vehicle (M-ATV) in Kandahar City on June 14. Al-Qaeda's leadership is weaker than ever and as few as 50 members of the terror group are in Afghanistan as US forces work to AFP - The war in Afghanistan will be tougher and longer than expected despite a string of successes against Al-Qaeda that has weakened Osama bin Laden's terror network, the CIA chief warned Sunday.


CIA chief Panetta: US has driven back al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta speaks with reporters at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. Senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - The U.S. has driven al-Qaida into hiding and undermined its leadership, but is struggling to oust its primary sympathizer, the Taliban, from Afghanistan, the nation's spymaster said Sunday.


Indonesia's struggling deradicalisation policy (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 11:54 PM PDT

An armed Indonesian policeman stands guard outside the re-opened Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta following the July 17 2009 twin suicide bombings which targeted the plush hotel. Indonesia's vaunted AFP - Indonesia's vaunted "deradicalisation programme" aimed at bringing terrorists back into mainstream Islam has been exposed as a myth by recent arrests of re-offenders, analysts and police said.


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