2010年10月1日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Officials think bin Laden involved in Europe plot (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden speaks at a news conference in Afghanistan in this May 26, 1998 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesAP - Osama bin Laden emerged Friday as possibly a key figure in a European terror plot, raising speculation he may be flexing his muscles in a move to show a besieged al-Qaida remains strong and able to launch major attacks on Western targets.


Case tossed against man linked to bin Laden guard (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge in California has dismissed a case against the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard who was accused of lying about terrorism ties.

Official at center of Pa. terror-alert flap quits (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:10 PM PDT

AP - The director of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has quit, telling the governor that he made the decision after reflecting on the uproar over anti-terrorism bulletins that tracked the actions of peaceful citizens' groups.

Bin Laden role eyed in latest European terror plot (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:51 PM PDT

Reuters - Osama bin Laden and top al Qaeda leadership are likely behind the latest European terror plot, U.S. officials said on Friday.

Conn. attorney: 2 home-invasion suspects at fault (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:32 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided in February 2010 by the Connecticut Department of Correction shows Steven Hayes, accused of severely beating Dr. William Petit, Jr., and killing his wife and two daughters during a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., July 23, 2007. Defense and prosecution lawyers were scheduled to make closing arguments in Hayes' murder trial Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 in New Haven, Conn., Superior Court.   (AP Photo/Connecticut Department of Correction, File)AP - Two Connecticut men charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 house invasion inflicted unimaginable terror on a model family that had enjoyed their final pleasant summer day together, prosecutors told a jury during closing arguments Friday.


"Anti-terrorist" operation took place in Iraq: Iran MP (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:26 PM PDT

Reuters - An Iranian lawmaker said an operation that killed some 30 "terrorists" the Islamic state says were behind a deadly bomb attack, had taken place in neighboring Iraq, according to a news report on Friday.

(AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 09:52 AM PDT

AP - AP sources: US officials believe bin Laden involved in Europe terror plot.

German man confesses in court to terrorism charges (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:23 AM PDT

AP - A man who was allegedly a member of a group that plotted to attack U.S. targets in Germany has confessed in court to several of the charges against him.

Report: US, EU must join to stop homegrown terror (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 06:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2008 file photo, an Indian soldier takes cover as the Taj Mahal hotel burns during gun battle between Indian military and militants inside the hotel in Mumbai, India.  European security officials said Wednesday Sept. 29, 2010, a terror plot to wage Mumbai-style shooting sprees or other low-budget attacks in Britain, France and Germany is still active and that sites in Pakistan — where the threat was intercepted — are being targeted for al-Qaida operatives. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)AP - The U.S. and its European allies must work together to stop radicalized Westerners who travel to terrorist training camps and return home to wage attacks, counterterrorism experts said in a new study.


Sweden ups terror threat alert to 'elevated' (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:23 AM PDT

AP - Sweden has raised its terror threat alert from low to elevated because of "a shift in activities" among Swedish-based groups that could be plotting attacks against the Scandinavian country, security officials said Friday.

Newt Gingrich critical on counterterror (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 18, 2005, file photo, former House Speaker  Newt Gingrich shakes hands after signing his new book, 'Winning the Future,' at a bookstore in Manchester, N.H. Gingrich may be running for the Republican presidential nomination. Or maybe he is just running all the way to the bank.  (AP Photo/Lee Marriner, File)AP - Republican Newt Gingrich took aim at the Obama administration's counterterror efforts Thursday, saying government officials aren't keeping America secure.


Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2008 file photo, an Indian soldier takes cover as the Taj Mahal hotel burns during gun battle between Indian military and militants inside the hotel in Mumbai, India.  European security officials said Wednesday Sept. 29, 2010, a terror plot to wage Mumbai-style shooting sprees or other low-budget attacks in Britain, France and Germany is still active and that sites in Pakistan — where the threat was intercepted — are being targeted for al-Qaida operatives. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)AP - Eight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaida-linked terror plot against European cities, but the plan is still in its early stages, with the suspects calling acquaintances in Europe to plan logistics, a Pakistani intelligence official said Thursday. One of the Britons died in a recent CIA missile strike, he said.


Was a Mumbai-style terror attack really 'foiled'? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:16 PM PDT

A French Army soldier is on patrol as part of France's national security alert system Vigipirate at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, on September 20. Western intelligence agencies have uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to launch attacks in Britain, France and Germany by extremists based in Pakistan, security sources and media reports have said.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)The Christian Science Monitor - Breathless coverage in the past few days has written at length about a potential "Mumbai-style" terror attack planned for Britain â€" or perhaps Germany, or France â€" that was thwarted by the Obama administration's expanding aerial campaign against militant targets in Pakistan's lawless border provinces.


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