2010年9月9日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Afghans protest Quran burning plan, torch US flag (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:28 PM PDT

Pakistani lawyers burn a U.S. flag while rallying in reaction to a small American church's plan to burn copies of the Quran in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - Hundreds of angry Afghans burned a U.S. flag and chanted "Death to the Christians" to protest plans — canceled Thursday — by a small American church to torch copies of the Muslim holy book on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.


Obama admonishes pastor to call off Quran 'stunt' (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:18 PM PDT

Dove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones announces the burning of the Korans will continue as planned during a news conference in Gainesville, Florida September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Scott AudetteAP - President Barack Obama sternly admonished a Florida pastor Thursday and appealed to him to call off plans to torch the Quran, saying Saturday's planned protest on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks was a dangerous "stunt" that could imperil U.S. troops abroad and incite suicide bombers on American soil.


Laura Bush to speak at 9/11 memorial fundraiser (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 11:20 AM PDT

FILE - A Sept. 11, 2009 file photo shows a wooden cross with other mementos at the temporary memorial for United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa.  Just $40 million of the $58 million needed for the memorial has been raised, and the first phase of the project is scheduled to be dedicated in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks next year.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/file)AP - Former first lady Laura Bush will speak at a National Park Foundation fundraiser in Pittsburgh on Friday, a day before joining Michelle Obama in rural Pennsylvania to remember the victims of Flight 93, which crashed there in the Sept. 11 attacks.


Suicide squad kills five in raid on Mogadishu airport (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 10:21 AM PDT

Airport workers carry the body of a commercial airline worker killed during a suicide attack at Mogadishu airport. A suicide squad of Al Qaeda-linked militants killed at least five people as they tried to blast their way into Mogadishu airport on Thursday, moments after top foreign envoys met the Somali president.(AFP/Mustafa Abdi)AFP - A suicide squad of Al Qaeda-linked militants killed at least five people as they tried to blast their way into Mogadishu airport on Thursday, moments after top foreign envoys met the Somali president.


Koran burning could be 'pretext' for violence: Iraq PM (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:49 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pictured in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on August 8. Plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks could be used by extremists as a AFP - Plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks could be used by extremists as a "pretext" for acts of violence, Iraq's prime minister said on Thursday.


India leads calls for action to stop Koran burning (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:33 AM PDT

Indonesian pluralist campaigners hold placards in their call to stop planned burning of Muslim's Holy Koran in Florida, Jakarta September 8, 2010.  India led calls on Thursday for the U.S to intervene to halt plan to burn copies of the Koran in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks and urged media blackout to calm tensions. REUTERS/Crack PalinggiReuters - India led calls on Thursday for the United States to intervene to halt a small church's plan to burn copies of the Koran in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks and urged a media blackout to calm tensions.


Suicide car bombing in southern Russia kills 17 (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:59 PM PDT

In this image made from television, cars destroyed in a suicide car attack are seen in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. A suicide car bomber hit the central market of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, killing more than a dozen and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst terror attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said. (AP Photo/NTV Russian Channel) ** IMAGE FROM TV**  TV OUT **AP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed extremists "without souls, without hearts" for a suicide car bombing that killed 17 people Thursday in the crowded central market of a city in the North Caucasus.


US court dismisses lawsuit against Boeing unit (AFP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 08:09 PM PDT

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) logo is displayed in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. A US court dismissed a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary for allegedly flying terror suspects to secret CIA sites for interrogation, saying the case could have exposed state secrets(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - A US court dismissed a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary for allegedly flying terror suspects to secret CIA sites for interrogation, saying the case could have exposed state secrets.


CIA rendition: US court throws out torture case, citing state secrets (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit seeking to hold a government contractor partly responsible for a secret CIA program to whisk terror suspects to undisclosed prisons overseas for brutal interrogations.
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