2010年7月15日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Lawyer: Some CIA interrogation tactics not OK'd (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 05:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2002 file photo, Jay Bybee testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - One of the key Bush administration lawyers in the evolution of the CIA's interrogation program cast doubt on whether the Justice Department approved some of the harsh steps the agency took to get terrorist suspects to talk.


NY lawyer in terrorism case gets 10 year sentence (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 03:34 PM PDT

Reuters - A New York lawyer who helped a terrorism suspect smuggle messages to his followers from prison was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday.

NY lawyer gets 10-year term in terrorism case (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 02:41 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 16, 2006 file photo shows Lynne Stewart speaking to the media and her supporters outside Manhattan federal court following her sentencing in New York. A judge was poised to decide whether the government and some fellow judges were right when they said the 70-year-old former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case received too much leniency when she was sentenced to just over two years in prison. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)AP - A 70-year-old civil rights lawyer was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison in a terrorism case by a judge who boosted her original sentence by nearly eight years after concluding she lied to a jury and lacked remorse.


India, Pakistan find common ground on terrorism (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 02:01 PM PDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (R) shakes hands with Indian's Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna in Islamabad. India and Pakistan agreed after key talks Thursday to further a tentative rapprochement process between the nuclear-armed rivals and bring perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan agreed Thursday to further a tentative rapprochement process and to bring to justice the perpetrators of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.


US teen at SAfrica hospital after Uganda bombing (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 06:47 AM PDT

AP - A hospital official says an American teenager wounded in the Uganda terror bombings is in stable condition after being flown to South Africa.

Somalia's al-Shabab Wants to Join Terror's Big League (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 03:40 AM PDT

Time.com - A U.N. report warned four years ago that the group blamed for Sunday'sterror attack in Uganda had linked up with Hizballah. And the group wants tobe attacked by the U.S. to elevate its status

No breakthroughs: Pakistan, India to keep talking (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 10:26 AM PDT

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, right, extends his hand to visiting Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna for a shake hand prior to formal talks at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, July 15, 2010. Pakistan and India sought to improve their strained relationship with high-level talks aimed at rebuilding trust that was fractured by the terrorist attacks that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai nearly two years ago. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - India said it was hopeful Pakistan would pursue new leads in the deadly Mumbai attacks, even as it was clear following high-level talks Thursday that the two countries are nowhere near resolving key issues that have sparked three wars between them over the past six decades.


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