2010年9月24日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


FBI serves terrorism warrants in Minn., Chicago (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:47 PM PDT

AP - The FBI said it searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago as part of a terrorism investigation Friday. Warrants suggest agents were looking for connections between local anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Middle East.

Obama, Ahmadinejad trade barbs over 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 02:23 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens during a press conference in New York, Friday Sept. 24, 2010.  (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - President Barack Obama and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traded heated remarks Friday on the emotional subject of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and hopes for a quick resumption of talks on Iran's suspect nuclear program appeared to fade.


FBI searches Midwest homes (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:22 PM PDT

Reuters - FBI agents searched eight homes in Chicago and Minnesota on Friday as part of an investigation the law enforcement agency said related to "the material support of terrorism."

UK says IRA dissident attack in England likely (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:46 PM PDT

FILE - This Saturday, Aug. 15, 1998 file photo shows Royal Ulster Constabulary Police officers as they stand on Market Street, the scene of a car bombing in the centre of Omagh, Co Tyrone, 72 miles west of Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Britain raised the terror threat level from groups in Northern Ireland on Friday Sept, 24, 2010, the first such change since a wave of new attacks in the territory and fresh threats from groups who say they plan to attack England. The August 1998 car-bomb attack on the town of Omagh that killed 29 people, mostly women and children, was the deadliest attack of the entire Northern Ireland conflict, .(AP Photo / Paul McErlane, File)AP - Britain raised the terror threat level Friday posed by Irish Republican Army dissidents, who have mounted repeated attacks in Northern Ireland and recently threatened to start targeting London bankers.


Yemeni army drives al-Qaida out of besieged town (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 10:48 AM PDT

Yemeni policemen guard the state security court in the capital San'a, Yemen Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, as the trial of four al-Qaida suspects takes place. The four, including a Yemeni-German teenager, have been brought to trial in Yemen to face accusations they plotted attacks on tourists, international institutions and security forces. (AP Photo)AP - Yemeni troops on Friday managed to drive al-Qaida fighters from a southern town after five days of clashes, a senior security official said, ending an operation that was part of the government's escalated campaign to uproot the terror network's local offshoot.


Pakistan angry over terror conviction in US (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 10:04 AM PDT

Pakistani protesters rally near to condemn the arrest of alleged Al-Qaida suspect Aafia Siddiqui on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan. Siddiqui's strange legal odyssey began two summers ago in Afghanistan, where she turned up carrying evidence that — depending on the argument — proved she was either a terrorist or a lunatic.(AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - The country's leaders were quick to show their outrage at the sentence handed down to a Pakistani woman convicted of attacking U.S. agents, as were opposition politicians. By the time weekly prayers rolled round, protesters were battling police and the Pakistani Taliban had offered its support.


Ahmadinejad says Iran may end enrichment (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reacts during a press conference in New York, Friday Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Iran would consider ending higher level uranium enrichment, the most crucial part of its controversial nuclear activities, if world powers send Tehran nuclear fuel for a medical research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters Friday.


Malaysia hands over JI terrorist suspect to Singapore (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:17 AM PDT

Two policemen stand near to a notice alerting the public of the alleged Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant leader Mas Selamat bin Kastari in 2008. Mas Selamat, a top terrorist suspect who was captured in Malaysia last year after escaping from a Singapore detention centre in 2008, has been handed back to the city-state and detained, officials said Friday.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - A top terrorist suspect who was captured in Malaysia last year after escaping from a Singapore detention centre in 2008 has been handed back to the city-state and detained, officials said Friday.


(AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:12 AM PDT

AP - Britain raises threat from Irish terrorism to substantial, meaning attack strong possibility.

Malaysia hands over terrorist suspect to Singapore (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:38 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2003 file photo, terrorist suspect Mas Selamat Kastari is escorted by Indonesian Police officers into the Tanjung Pinang police station in Tanjung Pinang, on the Indonesian resort island of Bintan off the coast of Singapore.  Malaysia deported the Singaporean terrorist suspect Friday, Sept. 24, 2010,  nearly 18 months after he was captured while on the run after staging a dramatic escape from a high-security prison in the city-state. (AP Photo/Ed Wray, File)AP - Malaysia on Friday handed over to Singapore a terrorist suspect who had staged a dramatic escape 2 1/2 years earlier from a high-security prison in the city-state.


Ahmadinejad tells U.N. most blame U.S. gov't for 9/11 (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:07 AM PDT

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 65th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 23, 2010. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations on Thursday most people believe the U.S. government was behind the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, prompting the U.S. and European delegations to leave the hall in protest.


Iran's Ahmadinejad: US used 9/11 to prolong world domination (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced from the United Nations in New York Thursday that Iran will host an international conference on terrorism in the coming year that among other things will discuss who really carried out the 9/11 attacks.
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