2010年10月19日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Suspect in NYC Muslim cabbie stabbing out on bond (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 04:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2010 file photo, Michael Enright, right, confers with his attorney Jason Martin, during his arraignment in a New York City courtroom on charges of assaulting a New York City taxi driver. The college student charged with stabbing the taxi driver in an anti-Muslim attack has been freed Tuesday, Cot. 19, 2010 on $500,000 bail. A judge Tuesday approved the combination of cash and property that Enright's family put up to free him.(AP Photo/Steve Hirsch, Pool, File)AP - A college student charged with a hate-fueled attack on a Muslim taxi driver was freed on bail Tuesday, staying silent about a stabbing that helped heighten concerns about tolerance in the weeks before the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.


Pilot's licenses still short on security measures (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 04:44 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., ranking Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, shows the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) new pilots licence featuring Orville, left, and Wilbur Wright. In an attempt to increase security, Congress told the FAA six years ago to come up with new pilot licenses that include pilots' photos and biometric information. Today, the only pilots pictured on FAA licenses are Wilbur and Orville Wright. Nor do the licenses include biometric information.  (AP Photo/Rep. John Mica)AP - In an attempt to improve security, Congress told the Federal Aviation Administration in 2004 to come up with a pilot's license that included the pilot's photo and could contain biometric information like fingerprints or iris scans. Today, the only pilots pictured on FAA licenses are flight pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and the licenses lack biometric data.


Fort Hood shooting: Al Qaeda now portrays Nidal Hasan as terrorism star (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 10:35 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Whether someone other than Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had a guiding hand in an attack that killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas last year remains an open question, as military proceedings against Hasan get under way in Texas.

Will Fort Hood shooting trial find motive – or link to terrorism? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 07:33 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A gaunt, hollow-eyed defendant, staring straight ahead from under a woolen cap. A soldier ordered to erase videos of a crime. A military trial system that favors just the facts, and a prosecutor not keen to muddy the case with speculation.

Indian gov't: Pakistan spies tied to Mumbai siege (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 11:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 courtroom drawing, David Coleman Headley, left, pleads not guilty before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber, in Chicago to charges that accuse him of conspiring in the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and of planning to launch an armed assault on a Danish newspaper. Headley, who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to laying the groundwork for the attack, told Indian interrogators in June that officers from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency were deeply intertwined with Lashkar-e-Taiba. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - An American convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks said Pakistan's main spy agency was deeply involved in planning that strike, monitoring the preparations and providing funding and advice to the attackers, according to an Indian government summary of his interrogation.


Saudi says it warned of al-Qaida threat from Yemen (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 04:17 AM PDT

Soldiers patrol at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said Sunday that France has received new warnings of a terror threat in Europe, 'notably France,' from Saudi intelligence services. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Saudi Arabia warned other countries of a new terror threat by an al-Qaida offshoot based in neighboring Yemen, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.


Jury rejects entrapment defense in NYC bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 21, 2009 file photo, James Cromitie, center, is led by police officers from a federal building in New York after being arrested for plotting to bomb New York synagogues and shoot down military aircraft. Four men snared in an FBI terrorism sting were convicted Monday in a plot to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes. A jury reached the verdict Monday Oct. 18, 2010 in federal court in Manhattan after deliberating for more than a week. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea, File)AP - For weeks, a jury listened to tapes of James Cromitie ranting against Jews and U.S. military aggression in the Middle East and talking to an informant — paid by the FBI and wearing a wire — about how to get revenge by blowing up New York City synagogues and shooting down military planes.


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