2010年10月29日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


New prison term for LA terror plot cooperator (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:32 PM PDT

AP - After helping prosecutors convict two co-conspirators in a terrorist plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport, Abdel Ghani Meskini got a short sentence and a new start as a manager of a rundown Atlanta-area apartment complex.

Explosives in U.S.-bound parcels from Yemen - Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT

The sun sets behind the air traffic control tower at East Midlands Airport, central England April 17, 2010.   REUTERS/Darren Staples/FilesReuters - Security officials in Britain and Dubai intercepted two parcel bombs being sent from Yemen to the United States in a "credible terrorist threat," U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday.


Explosive packages reflect new Yemen terror threat (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

In this image taken from video, showing the international airport at Sana, Yemen, on Friday Oct. 29, 2010, after news was released of a credible terror plot from a Yemeni based group.  A foreign intelligence service is thought to have alerted authorities to a possible terrorist threat in the U.S., prompting investigators to search air-cargo containers which unearthed explosive devices aboard aeroplanes in Dubai and Britain, in a terror threat believed to originate in Yemen. (AP Photo/APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - The discovery of two explosive-laden packages sent from Yemen and aimed at U.S. and Western interests represents a new escalation in the terror threat emanating from this violence-wracked, poverty-stricken Mideast country.


Terror plot thwarted as US-bound explosives seized (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

In this frame grab taken from WABC-TV video, passengers disembark an Emirates airliner into an awaiting bus at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Friday Oct. 29, 2010, after having been escorted from the Canadian border to New York City by two military fighter jets. U.S. officials said there is no known threat associated with the plane, but it was being escorted to JFK as a precautionary move. Authorities on Friday were investigating whether suspicious packages shipped aboard cargo planes from Yemen to the U.S. were part of a terrorist plot. (AP Photo/WABC-TV) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States from Yemen on Friday, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets. The plot triggered worldwide fears that al-Qaida was launching a major new terror campaign.


Explosives in U.S.-bound parcels from Yemen: Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Security officials in Britain and Dubai intercepted two parcel bombs being sent from Yemen to the United States in a "credible terrorist threat," President Barack Obama said on Friday.

FBI asks how subway bomb defendant was radicalized (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:26 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 - FBI agents who ensnared a suburban father in a terrorism sting involving a fictional subway bomb plot have turned their attention to figuring out what may have made the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen turn against his adopted country.


Explosive packages show growing Yemen threat (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:01 PM PDT

In this image taken from video, showing the international airport at Sana, Yemen, on Friday Oct. 29, 2010, after news was released of a credible terror plot from a Yemeni based group.  A foreign intelligence service is thought to have alerted authorities to a possible terrorist threat in the U.S., prompting investigators to search air-cargo containers which unearthed explosive devices aboard aeroplanes in Dubai and Britain, in a terror threat believed to originate in Yemen. (AP Photo/APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - The discovery of two explosive-laden packages from Yemen bound for U.S. destinations appears to represent a new twist in the terror threat emanating from the violence-wracked Mideast country.


Text of Obama statement on terrorism (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:47 PM PDT

President Barack Obama pauses while makeing a statement to reporters about the suspicious packages found on U.S. bound planes, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Text of statement by President Obama on the overseas discovery of U.S.-bound packages containing explosives aboard cargo jets:


Obama calls Yemeni packages 'credible terrorist threat' (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:44 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama makes a statement on the suspicious packages found on two planes in transit to the United States in the White House Briefing Room, at the White House in Washington, DC.(AFP/Tim Sloan)AFP - US President Barack Obama said Friday that two packages from Yemen addressed to Jewish synagogues in Chicago contained explosive material and were a "credible terrorist threat."


UPS suspends shipments from Yemen (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:09 PM PDT

AP - UPS says it is immediately suspending shipments out of Yemen after authorities thwarted a terrorist attack against U.S. synagogues.

White House: System worked in response to attack (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:01 PM PDT

AP - White House Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan says the national security system worked well in response to the discovery of two explosive packages bound for the United States.

(AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:57 PM PDT

AP - White House homeland security adviser: System worked well in response to explosive packages.

Packages from Yemen 'credible terrorist threat': Obama (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:46 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama makes a statement on the suspicious packages found on two planes in transit to the United States in the White House Briefing Room, at the White House in Washington, DC.(AFP/Tim Sloan)AFP - President Barack Obama said Friday that suspect packages from Yemen bound for the US contained explosive material and were a "credible terrorist threat."


White House: Explosives intended as US attack (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:43 PM PDT

AP - White House Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan says the two explosive packages bound for the United States were intended to carry out an attack and could have done harm.

Obama: US commits to destroying al-Qaida in Yemen (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:37 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says the U.S. is committed to destroying the Yemeni-based terror group officials believe is connected to a terror plot on three continents.

Obama: 'Credible' terrorist threat being probed (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:26 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says the terror probe into suspicious packages believed to be linked to a plot by Yemen's al-Qaida branch is a "credible terrorist threat."

US warned of mail bomb terror tactic last month (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:54 PM PDT

AP - U.S. intelligence officials warned last month that terrorists want to mail chemical and biological materials as part of an attack against the country.

Canadian tells Guantanamo jury of rape threat (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:28 AM PDT

A courtroom sketch shows defendant Omar Khadr (L), a native of Toronto, Canada, holding his head in his hands in front of military commission Judge Colonel Patrick Parrish at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba in this October 26, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Janet Hamlin/PoolReuters - A young Canadian on Friday asked the U.S. military tribunal due to sentence him on terrorism and murder charges to keep in mind that U.S. interrogators tried to scare him with threats of gang rape and death.


Iraq frees five linked to Qaeda in Kirkuk kidnap swap (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:23 AM PDT

Major General Jamal Taher Baker, Iraqi police chief in the province of Kirkuk, announces on Thursday the arrest arrest of several people linked to the Ansar al-Sunna group. Iraqi police have released five jailed women linked to Al-Qaeda, including two wives of imprisoned members of Ansar al-Sunna, in exchange for two kidnapped Kurdish sisters.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Iraqi police released five jailed women linked to Al-Qaeda in exchange for two kidnapped Kurdish sisters to curb violence in the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, an anti-terrorism official told AFP on Friday.


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