2010年7月27日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


France declares war against al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:57 PM PDT

A photo released Monday July 26, 2010 by the City of Marcoussis, south of Paris, showing French aid group Enimilal member, Michel Germaneau, in 2007. The leader of al-Qaida's North African branch (AQIM) said in a message broadcast Sunday that the 78-year-old French engineer was killed in retaliation for the killing of six al-Qaida members in a raid. Humanitarian worker Michel Germaneau was abducted April 22 in Niger. (AP Photo/Mairie de Marcoussis/Enmilal)AP - France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.


Mayor: NYC to fight ruling on 9/11 memorial names (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 12:01 PM PDT

AP - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city will contest a court order to list a retired fire captain alongside active-duty colleagues on the Sept. 11 memorial.

Kampala attacks were 'wake-up call' for East Africa: US (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:04 AM PDT

Police officers display an explosive device which was found in a black laptop bag at a club in Kampala's Makindye district on July 13. Suicide bombings this month in Kampala by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab militants served as a AFP - Suicide bombings this month in Kampala by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab militants served as a "wake-up call" about the wider terrorism threat in the region, a US official said Tuesday.


Greek terror group claims journalist killing (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 07:56 AM PDT

AP - Police in Greece say a terrorist group which calls itself the Sect of Revolutionaries has claimed responsibility for gunning down a journalist outside his home in a pre-dawn killing last week.

Al Shabab terror attacks dominate African Union summit (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:38 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Just over three weeks after a pair of suspected suicide blasts killed 76 people watching the World Cup final in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, around 35 African leaders are meeting in the city for a scheduled African Union (AU) summit.
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