2010年9月11日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Denmark raises terror preparedness after hotel blast (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 03:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Denmark raised its terror attack preparedness Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, after a man set off a small explosion in a Copenhagen hotel Friday.

Durant leads emotional USA into final against Turkey (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT

American Kevin Durant goes for a basket during a World Cup Championship semi final basketball match US versus Lithuania in Istanbul. Durant scored 38 points as the United States defeated Lithuania 89-74 on Saturday to reach the world basketball championships final.(AFP/Aris Messinis)AFP - Led by Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant and inspired by the emotional ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, the US stormed into the world basketball championships final on Saturday.


Unsettled nation marks 9/11 with rituals of sorrow (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 02:28 PM PDT

Visitors to the temporary Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pa., participate in a sunset memorial service on Friday, Sept 10, 2010.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - Rites of remembrance and loss marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, familiar in their sorrow but observed for the first time Saturday in a nation torn over the prospect of a mosque near ground zero and the role of Islam in society.


On 9/11 anniversary, Obama pleads for tolerance toward Muslims (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:45 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, President Barack Obama Saturday urged Americans to remember that it was al Qaida - not the Muslim faith - that hijacked and crashed four jetliners New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a grassy field near Shanksville, Pa.

Top defense officials honor 9/11 Pentagon victims (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates applauds after President Barack Obama speech during a ceremony of remembrance at the Pentagon to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The nation's top defense officials remembered victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, also honoring sacrifices the military has made in the war that followed that day's carnage.


Karzai marks 9/11 with appeal over civilian deaths (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 11:15 AM PDT

Smoke rises after NATO aircrafts conducted an air strike near the Arghandab river, south of Senjeray village, Kandahar province, where U.S. commanders had identified as insurgent positions Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)AP - President Hamid Karzai marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the U.S. on Saturday by insisting the origins of the continued Taliban insurgency are not in Afghanistan.


Obama commemorates 9/11 with appeal for tolerance (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 11:13 AM PDT

President Barack Obama hugs an unidentified woman as he greets family members of victims after speaking at the Pentagon Memorial, marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama appealed to an unsettled nation Saturday to honor the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks by hewing to the values of diversity and tolerance. "We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust," the president declared.


9/11 memorial ceremony at ground zero simple, poignant (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 11:01 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of victim’s family members, friends, and onlookers gathered on a cold, windy morning to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.

Danes say minor hotel blast could be terror attack (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 10:27 AM PDT

Police guard a cordon in central Copenhagen, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010, after it was suspected that the man  tried to detonate a small bomb in Hotel Joergensen in central Copenhagen. The man received minor injuries in his face and on his arms. The hotel was evacuated and there were no reports of other injuries. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Kenneth Meyer)  **  DENMARK OUT  **AP - Danish officials said this week's small explosion at a Copenhagen hotel could be terror related, as the French-speaking suspect proclaimed his innocence in court Saturday while being ordered held in custody.


Michelle Obama: Flight 93 crash site shows healing (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 03:04 PM PDT

** CORRECTS DIRECTION IN PHOTO OF MICHELLE OBAMA AND LAURA BUSH, TO SECOND FROM RIGHT, AND RIGHT, RESPECTIVELY ** First Lady Michelle Obama, second from right, and former First Lady Laura Bush, right, tour the construction site at the Flight 93 memorial with Gordon W. Felt, president of the Families of Flight 93, left, who lost his brother Edward Felt on the flight, and Joanne M. Hanley, superintendent of the Flight 93 National Memorial  before a commemorative service at the temporary Flight 93 temporary memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - The victims of Flight 93 are an inspiration and all who visit the rural field where they died on Sept. 11, 2001, will now "see how a scar in the earth has healed," first lady Michelle Obama said Saturday at a memorial service at the crash site honoring the 40 passengers and crew.


Nine years after the attacks of 9/11, how safe is America? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 06:12 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In the nine years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, America has been fighting two deadly wars aimed at destroying Al Qaeda. The cost has been very high, especially for the US military personnel and their families who have endured multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan

(AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 05:48 AM PDT

AP - Mourners observe moment of silence in NYC in observance of 9th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks.

Spy chief: Terror risk high in France (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 05:02 AM PDT

AP - The risk of a terrorist attack on French soil has never been higher, the head of the country's counterespionage agency said in an interview released Saturday.

Religious tension marks Sept 11 anniversary (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 04:46 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama holds a nationally televised news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, September 10, 2010. Religious tensions are overshadowing the anniversay of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States where Obama urged a Christian preacher to abandon a plan to burn copies of the Koran. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - Religious tension overshadowed Saturday's anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States where President Barack Obama urged a Christian preacher to abandon a plan to burn copies of the Koran.


Obama emphasizes unity on 9/11 anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 03:18 AM PDT

Protestors stand across the street from Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. The tiny Florida church sought to quell a storm of protest saying its threatened Koran burning was cancelled, as President Barack Obama pleaded for religious tolerance.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AFP - US President Barack Obama marked the 9th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks Saturday by emphasizing national unity and promising that America will be defined by hope rather than fear.


President to mark 9th anniversary of 9/11 attacks (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:37 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is marking the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a speech at the Pentagon, one of the targets of the terrorists.

US 'ill-prepared' to face homegrown terror threat (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:18 PM PDT

A New York police bomb squad officer checks a suspect cooler May 7, 2010 in New York's Times Square. US domestic security agencies are ill-prepared to tackle the emerging threat from homegrown terrorists, a report said, warning the country faced a new form of terrorism from American residents and citizens who have been drawn to radical Islam(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AFP - US domestic security agencies are ill-prepared to tackle the emerging threat from homegrown terrorists, a report said, warning the country faced a new form of terrorism from American residents and citizens who have been drawn to radical Islam.


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