2010年8月5日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


14 charged for supporting Somalia terrorist group (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 04:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 16, 2010 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder takes part in news conference in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)AP - The government announced Thursday that it has charged 14 people as participants in "a deadly pipeline" to Somalia that routed money and fighters from the United States to the terrorist group al-Shabab.


Pentagon may change rules for covering Guantanamo trials (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 03:49 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Faced with protests from a number of news organizations, the Pentagon is considering revising the rules it invoked in May to ban four reporters from covering the trials of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

14 indicted on charges of ties to Somali terror group (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 03:21 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced Thursday that it's filed terrorism charges against 14 people accused of supporting the Somali extremist group al Shabaab and said that two of the suspects had been arrested in Minnesota.

Report: Al-Qaida in Pakistan gravest threat to US (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 01:56 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration said Thursday that al-Qaida's core membership in Pakistan, along with affiliates in Africa and Yemen, poses the most dangerous terrorist threat to the United States and its interests abroad.

US declines to put NKorea back on terrorism blacklist (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 10:26 AM PDT

South Korean conservative activists burn North Korean flags during a rally in 2009. The Obama administration declined Thursday to put North Korea back on a blacklist of countries supporting terrorism despite pressure from lawmakers to do so.(AFP/File/Park Ji-Hwan)AFP - The Obama administration declined Thursday to put North Korea back on a blacklist of countries supporting terrorism despite pressure from lawmakers to do so.


Al Qaeda, Taliban resilient terrorist threats: U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 09:31 AM PDT

Reuters - Al Qaeda's core leadership in Pakistan remains the most formidable terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland and al Qaeda's growing presence across Africa challenges many states, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

Cameron meets Pakistani leader amid terrorism row (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 09:29 AM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron, seen here in July 2010, will meet Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday for the first time since a row erupted over Cameron's criticism of Pakistan's approach to security.(AFP/File/Raveendran)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron meets Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday for the first time since a row erupted over Cameron's criticism of Pakistan's approach to security.


14 charged with aiding Al-Qaeda-linked Somali group (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 01:36 PM PDT

US Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, as he announces that fourteen US citizens have been arrested for seeking to join the Al-Qaeda-linked Somalia group Shebab.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AFP - Fourteen people, including several US citizens, were indicted on charges of aiding the Shebab, a Somali-based Islamist group linked to Al-Qaeda, US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday.


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

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 09:05 AM 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 NYC's ground zero (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 07:26 AM 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.


Widow of NYC rabbi killed in Mumbai can stay in US (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 05:09 AM PDT

AP - The Israeli widow of a New York City rabbi killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008 can remain in the United States permanently.

Pakistan floods: Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Islamists linked to India's Mumbai attack, offer aid (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:08 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A militant Islamist group linked to the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai, India, is openly distributing aid to victims of the floods in northwest Pakistan, according to members of the group.
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