2010年8月3日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

McCain lifts hold on Clapper to be spy chief (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:43 PM PDT

Reuters - Senator John McCain said on Tuesday he would allow a Senate vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to be intelligence chief, but another Republican senator indicated he may stall the nomination.

Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam Behind the 'Ground Zero Mosque' (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Time.com - They've been attacked by critics as sympathizing with terrorists, but Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy are the right wing's "right" kind of Muslims

Groups challenge terror-related rule on attorneys (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 02:56 PM PDT

FILE- This Oct. 2008 file photo shows American-born al-Qaida-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen; al-Awlaki is accused of helping to plan the failed Christmas Day airline bombing. Two civil liberties groups went to court Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, to challenge a requirement that they get a government license before mounting a legal attack on the decision to put the alleged terrorist on a CIA target list. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File) MANDATORY CREDIT. NO SALES.AP - Two civil liberties groups went to court Tuesday to challenge a requirement that they get a government license before mounting a legal attack on the decision to put alleged terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki on a CIA target list.

US sanctions Iranians said to support terrorism (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 01:59 PM PDT

AP - The United States announced new Iran sanctions Tuesday, targeting senior officials of three organizations for alleged support of terrorist groups, including the Taliban in Afghanistan.

U.S. aims to tighten sanctions grip on Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 11:55 AM PDT

A handout picture released by the official website of Iran's presidency office shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a visit to Natanz uranium enrichment facilities in 2008. The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 21 firms it believes are front companies for the Iranian government, stepping up pressure on the Islamic republic over its nuclear program.(AFP/IPOW-HO/File)Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sought to further tighten curbs against Iran's nuclear ambitions and its support for terror groups by naming Iranian-controlled companies and forbidding dealing with them.

Ground Zero Islamic center project clears major obstacle (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 01:46 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (L) walks off of a stage after holding a press conference on Governor's Island across from the Statue of Liberty to speak about the NYC Landmarks Commission vote to deny 45-47 Park Place landmark status in New York City.(AFP/Getty Images/Michael Nagle)AFP - New York cleared a key obstacle Tuesday for plans to build an Islamic center with a mosque near Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers which were toppled by Al-Qaeda in 2001.

Inquest begins in secret UK bomb experiment death (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 08:24 AM PDT

AP - The parents of a British scientist killed during secret anti-terrorism experiments with homemade bombs told an inquest into his death Tuesday that the expert's work had helped save many lives.

Iraq: Car bomb kills 15 south of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:04 PM PDT

An Iraqi police officer uses a bomb detector at a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Two bombings and a drive-by shooting killed eight people Monday, a reminder of Iraq's ongoing instability on a day when President Barack Obama planned to outline progress toward the impending end of U.S. military operations in the country.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A car bomb ripped through an outdoor market Tuesday in a mainly Shiite city southeast of Baghdad in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 23 people nationwide, officials said.

Nine killed as Qaeda fighters plant flag in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:55 AM PDT

An Iraqi municipality employee cleans a blood stained public garden, where al-Qaeda fighters killed five policemen at a Baghdad checkpoint. A traffic policeman and three soldiers were also killed in the capital, raising concerns that Iraq's security may be deteriorating after the government said more people died in violence in July than in any month since May 2008.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)AFP - Al-Qaeda fighters killed five policemen at a Baghdad checkpoint on Tuesday and planted the black flag of the terror network's front group in Iraq, an interior ministry official said.

NY jury convicts 2 in JFK Airport fuel-tank plot (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 08:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2007 file photo, Guyanese Abdul Kadir, former member of the South American nation's Parliament, arrives at the Magistrates' Court for an extradition hearing in downtown Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Kadir and Russell Defreitas were convicted Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a plan that authorities said was meant to outdo the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and avenge perceived U.S. oppression of Muslims around the world. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)AP - Two men were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a plan that authorities said was meant to outdo the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and avenge perceived U.S. oppression of Muslims around the world.

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