2010年8月20日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Scientists simulate terror attack on Boston subway (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:58 PM PDT

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit Police officers and passengers look on as a machine releases gases and fluorescent particles, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, during an exercise in Boston's Park Street Subway station. Scientists released the gases and fluorescent particles to study how toxic chemicals and lethal biological agents could spread through the nation's oldest subway system in a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - Scientists are releasing gases and fluorescent particles into Boston's subway tunnels on Friday to study how toxic chemicals and lethal biological agents could spread through the nation's oldest subway system in a terrorist attack.

Harry Potter and the Prisoners of GuantÁnamo: What Gitmo Detainees Are Reading (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:35 PM PDT

Harry Potter actor Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) and Seattle children celebrate Harry Potter: The Exhibition coming to Seattle's Pacific Science Center opening October 23, 2010. (Photo: Business Wire)Time.com - The exploits of the boy wizard of Hogwarts are among the favorite reads of America's 'war on terror' detainees

NY mosque imam: Extremism is global threat (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:40 PM PDT

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, left, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, greets an unidentified worshiper inside a Muharraq, Bahrain, mosque after leading midday prayers Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Rauf, the imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York, is on a U.S.-funded outreach tour to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to talk about religious tolerance in America. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks said Friday he hopes to draw attention during his trip in the Middle East to the common challenges to battle radical religious beliefs.

Thailand to extradite suspected Russian arms dealer (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout stands in a holding cell after arriving at a Bangkok criminal court August 20, 2010. A Thai appeals court ruled on Friday that Bout be extradited to the United States to face charges of supplying weapons to Colombian rebels. Bout, dubbed the Reuters - A Thai appeals court ruled on Friday that suspected Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout can be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges following two years of diplomatic pressure from Washington.

Pakistan: Lack of terror convictions hurts fight (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:30 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 20, 2008 a destruction caused by suicide attack on Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistani courts have yet to convict a single person in any of the country's biggest terrorist attacks of the past three years, a symptom of a dysfunctional legal system that's hurting the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida at a critical time. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - Pakistani courts have yet to convict a single person in any of the country's biggest terrorist attacks of the past three years, a symptom of a dysfunctional legal system that's hurting the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida at a critical time.

Kennedy favors civilian courts in terrorism cases (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:11 AM PDT

In this photo taken March 8, 2007, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government regarding the Supreme Court's 2008 fiscal budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kennedy said Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 that most terrorism cases should be tried in civilian courts. Kennedy addressed participants in the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference on Maui, where a panel discussion earlier this week reached a consensus in favor of using civilian courts instead of military commissions in most terrorism cases. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Thursday that most terrorism cases should be tried in civilian courts.

UK warns Libya over Lockerbie bomber anniversary (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, leaves a police van at Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow, Scotland bound for Tripoli, after he was released on compassionate grounds. A year after Scotland's release of the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber from prison caused an uproar, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is still stirring outrage simply by surviving. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson, File)AP - Britain's government says it has warned Libya that any celebration of Friday's anniversary of the release from jail of the Lockerbie bomber would be deeply offensive to the families of the mainly U.S. victims of the attack.

Giuliani supports move of mosque near WTC site (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 08:01 PM PDT

Julia Lundy, right, and Matt Sky demonstrate in front of a proposed Islamic center, including a mosque, two blocks from the World Trade Center site, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Thursday joined a growing number of politicians supporting a move of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero to state-owned land farther from the Sept. 11 attack site.

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