2010年10月12日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


How to Deal With Terrorist Hostages: Rescue or Ransom? (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - African and Arab governments are proposing an international ban on ransom payments -- and putting E.U. nations in a bind

Alleged Qaeda bomber just innocent dupe, US court hears (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Former Guantanamo prisoner Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (L), seen here in a courtroom sketch on October 6. US prosecutors on Tuesday painted a man accused in the bombings of two US embassies in Africa as an Al-Qaeda killer, but defense lawyers said he was an innocent man, wrongly swept into the war on terror.(AFP/File/Shirley Shepard)AFP - US prosecutors on Tuesday painted a man accused in the bombings of two US embassies in Africa as an Al-Qaeda killer, but defense lawyers said he was an innocent man, wrongly swept into the war on terror.


First Guantanamo detainee criminal trial begins in NY (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:38 PM PDT

Reuters - The first criminal trial of a terrorism suspect from Guantanamo Bay began on Tuesday with prosecutors calling him a militant while the defense said he was a naive associate of extremists who bombed U.S. embassies.

Guantanamo detainee goes on trial in NY court (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 02:33 PM PDT

FILE - An undated file photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney's office  shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Opening statements are likely to begin Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, with experts divided over whether Ghani's terrorism trial should open the door to a civilian trial for Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others held at Guantanamo Bay or slam it shut. (AP File Photo)AP - A man accused of helping to build a truck bomb used in a 1998 terror attack on a U.S. embassy was a member of an al-Qaida cell that was determined to kill Americans, a federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, but a defense lawyer said the Tanzanian man was duped.


Italy appeals trial of CIA kidnapping case begins (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:09 AM PDT

AP - The appeals trial in the CIA-led kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect from the streets of Milan opened Tuesday with the prosecution seeking to incriminate Italian secret service agents acquitted in the initial trial.

Germany's Terrorism Alert: How Credible Is the Threat? (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 09:50 AM PDT

Time.com - A Hamburg-based man likely set off a Europe-wide terrorism alert. But how credible is the threat in Germany?

Court: Does terrorism law apply to wife attack? (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 09:03 AM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court will decide whether an anti-terrorism law should have been used to prosecute a jealous woman who tried to harm her husband's mistress with deadly chemicals.

Juror removed at NYC synagogue bomb plot trial (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 08:19 AM PDT

AP - A juror has been removed at the trial of four men caught in an FBI terror sting, but deliberations will go on.

Maine GOP hopeful takes Dem to task for Bush photo (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 07:20 AM PDT

AP - Maine Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage is attacking Democratic candidate Libby Mitchell for posing with a photo in which former President George Bush is labeled an "international terrorist."

Plea deal pledge unfulfilled for Gitmo detainee (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 09:06 PM PDT

AP - The attorney for a former al-Qaida cook said Monday that the government did not deliver on a promise included in a plea bargain deal that led him to plead guilty to supporting terrorism, and she said that could discourage other inmates at Guantanamo from reaching deals with prosecutors.
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