2010年10月28日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Terror suspect described as quiet, suburban father (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:37 PM PDT

This photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Farooque Ahmed, the Pakistani-born Virginia man accused of plotting to bomb Washington-area subway stations. (AP Photo/Department of Justice)AP - Farooque Ahmed, the Pakistani-born Virginia man accused of plotting to bomb Washington-area subway stations, lived in middle-class suburban comfort with his wife and their infant son. They held steady jobs in northern Virginia's technology industry and mostly kept to themselves.


Judge: LA terror plot cooperator broke probation (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:06 PM PDT

AP - A terrorist convicted in a plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport violated his prison release rules by possessing a gun, according to a judge who also faulted the government for letting him live in a crime-infested housing complex where prostitutes and drugs flourished.

Saudi prince backs moving planned NYC mosque (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:49 PM PDT

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, pictured in February 2010, has forecast that Dubai's depressed property prices will take several more years to hit bottom and start a recovery because the market is still oversupplied.(AFP/File)AP - A Saudi prince who has aided the imam spearheading a proposed Islamic center near New York's ground zero is appealing for another site not associated with the "wound" of the Sept. 11 attacks, a report said Thursday.


Top US lawmakers vow cuts in US spy budget (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:31 PM PDT

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, seen here in September 2010, said that US intelligence spending has ballooned to AFP - Two key lawmakers vowed Thursday to make cuts in US intelligence spending, saying they would target waste in a budget that has swollen to unaccceptably high levels since the September 11th attacks.


UK figures show fall in terrorism arrests (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:38 AM PDT

AP - Britain's Home Office says no one searched by police using anti-terrorism powers in the last year went on to be arrested over terrorism offenses.

UK spy boss defends secrecy, nukes key threat (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:02 AM PDT

Former British Ambassador to the U.N. and present SIS chief John Sawers speaks at United Nations headquarters, in New York, April 13, 2009. REUTERS/Chip EastReuters - Britain's top spy, in the first public speech by a serving UK espionage chief, said on Thursday terrorists might hit the West again "at huge human cost" but nuclear proliferation by states was a more far-reaching danger.


Mysteries abound in shootings of D.C.-area military buildings (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT

Undated file photo released by the US Department of Defense showing an aerial view of The Pentagon. Gunshots struck the Pentagon early on Tuesday but failed to penetrate the building, officials said, as police investigated the source of the gunfire.(AFP/DoD-HO/File)The Christian Science Monitor - It is a mystery that is vexing â€" and troubling â€" security officials at the Pentagon, local law enforcement, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force: What is motivating someone to shoot at US military buildings?


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