2010年7月9日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


U.S., EU eye new anti-terrorism data-protection pact (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 03:30 PM PDT

The charge d'affaires of the US mission to the EU Michael Dodman (L) and Spanish minister of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba (R) speak during the signing ceremony at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Europe and the United States signed a new deal allowing Washington to access bank data to track terrorist finance transactions after easing European concerns over privacy rights.(AFP/Georges Gobet)Reuters - The European Commission hopes to begin talks with the United States this year on an agreement to protect personal data transferred across the Atlantic to track down terrorists and other criminals, Commission Vice President Viviane Reding said on Friday.


Norwegian terror trial could face problems (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 11:29 AM PDT

Norway`s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, right, and Minister of Justice Knut Storberget, attend a press conference in Oslo Thursday July 8, 2010, after three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested  in what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans in New York and England. The three men, whose names were not released, had been under surveillance for more than a year. Two of the men were arrested in Norway and one in Germany, although oficials declined to give further details of the locations. Officials believe they were planning attacks with portable but powerful bombs like the ones at the heart of last year's thwarted suicide attack in the New York City subway.(AP Photo/Gorm Kallestad, Scanpix) --NORWAY OUT--AP - The arrest of three suspected al-Qaida members planning bomb attacks and operating in Norway went smoothly, but a conviction might be harder to get.


Yemen Steps Up War Against al-Qaeda Militants, Terrorism (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 05:55 AM PDT

Time.com - At the behest of the U.S., the Yemeni government is ratcheting up its war with the terrorist group

Govt curbs stop-and-search terrorism powers (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:48 AM PDT

Police search a protestor in London in 2003. The government said it was suspending anti-terror legislation allowing people to be searched by police without good reason after European judges ruled it was unlawful.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - The government has said it is to suspend anti-terror legislation allowing people to be searched by police without good reason after European judges ruled it was unlawful.


Norway bomb arrests linked to US, British plots (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:49 PM PDT

Norway`s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, right, and Minister of Justice Knut Storberget, attend a press conference in Oslo Thursday July 8, 2010, after three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested  in what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans in New York and England. The three men, whose names were not released, had been under surveillance for more than a year. Two of the men were arrested in Norway and one in Germany, although oficials declined to give further details of the locations. Officials believe they were planning attacks with portable but powerful bombs like the ones at the heart of last year's thwarted suicide attack in the New York City subway.(AP Photo/Gorm Kallestad, Scanpix) --NORWAY OUT--AP - Three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested Thursday in a Norwegian bomb plot linked to the same terrorist planners behind thwarted schemes to blow up New York's subway and a British shopping mall.


New temporary memorial opens in Pa. for Flight 93 (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:56 PM PDT

AP - A new temporary memorial has opened in western Pennsylvania at the site where Flight 93 crashed during the 2001 terror attacks.

Officials: 3 arrested in Norway al-Qaida bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 01:02 AM PDT

AP - Three suspected al-Qaida members are under arrest in what Norwegian and U.S. officials say was a bombing plot linked to similar plans in New York and England.
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