2010年8月4日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Chicago man accused of plotting to aid al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 04:55 PM PDT

AP - A 26-year-old Chicago man who claimed to be inspired by a radical Muslim cleric was charged after the FBI uncovered his plot to go to Somalia to become a suicide bomber for al-Qaida and another terror group, federal prosecutors alleged in court documents unsealed Wednesday.

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

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:35 PM PDT

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses a gathering as groups planning a proposed mosque and cultural center near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan to be named Cordoba House showed and spoke about their plans for the center at a community board meeting in New York Tuesday, May 25, 2010. Community members both for and against the plan spoke during the meeting. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)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


Group sues to stop mosque near NY's ground zero (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:53 PM PDT

Linda Rivera holds up a sign in opposition to the proposed mosque at 45-47 Park Place during a meeting of the Landmarks Preservation Commission to vote on giving the building landmark status in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010.  The commission voted unanimously not to landmark the building, making way for the construction of the mosque.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The debate over a planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero became a court fight Wednesday, as a conservative advocacy group sued to try to stop a project that has become a fulcrum for balancing religious freedom and the legacy of the Sept. 11 attacks.


Pakistan president attacked over Europe trip after floods (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 07:48 AM PDT

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari delivers a speech after a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on August 2. Zardari was in Britain Wednesday amid rows over London's claim that Islamabad promoted the AFP - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was in Britain Wednesday amid rows over London's claim that Islamabad promoted the "export of terror" and his failure to return home after devasting floods.


Al-Qaida-linked group claims tanker attack in Gulf (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:48 AM PDT

This framegrab image provided by the SITE Intelligence group shows Ayyub al-Taishan who the Brigades of Abdullah Azzam claimed was the suicide bomber who attacked the oil tanker M. Star in the Straits of Hormuz on July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/SITE) MANDATORY CREDIT: SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP; ON-SCREEN LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED; NO SALESAP - An obscure al-Qaida-linked group said Wednesday one of its suicide bombers attacked a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf last week — a claim that, if true, would be the first time the terror network has attacked the Japanese.


Groups challenge terror-related rule on attorneys (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 05:56 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.


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