2010年11月1日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

FBI agent: Guantanamo defendant had detonator (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 04:14 PM PDT

In this image released by the US Defense Press Operations, on October 2010, shows a photo of Canadian Omar Khadr. Canada will soon have to decide on the fate of Canadian national Omar Khadr after years of rejecting his repatriation from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, media reports said Monday.(AFP/AFP/US Defense Department)AP - A detonator was found hidden in the bedroom cabinet of a purported accomplice in the 1998 terrorist bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, a former FBI agent testified Monday at the man's trial.

Israeli security head: Terrorists using technology (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 11:37 AM PDT

Fire and smoke billow during a crash drill at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. Top Israeli airline security official Zohar Gefen said Monday terrorists would be hard pressed to send explosive parcels through the country's international airport. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - The head of Israel's internal security service said Monday that terrorists are making more sophisticated use of technology and acquiring skills on the Internet previously limited to governments, such as how to evade intelligence agencies.

White House weighs response to mail bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan briefs reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010, after President Barack Obama made a statement about the suspicious packages found on U.S. bound planes. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Teams of U.S. anti-terrorism and security experts headed for Yemen to help search for suspects in the mail bomb plot and to train cargo screeners at the San'a airport.

PM warns of 'terrorist cancer' in Yemen (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 10:09 AM PDT

A handout picture released by the Emirates News Agency (WAM) shows the contents of a US-bound parcel displayed by police in the Gulf emirate of Dubai on October 30. The government has suspended all unaccompanied air cargo from Somalia in the wake of a foiled Al-Qaeda bomb plot against US-bound flights, Home Secretary Theresa May said Monday.(AFP/WAM/File)AFP - British Prime Minister David Cameron warned Monday that the threat from violent extremists in Yemen has grown but vowed to "cut out the terrorist cancer" from the region following a foiled bomb plot.

Sentenced: Guantánamo detainee likely to serve eight years maximum (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 09:34 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The youngest detainee at the Guantánamo terror prison camp has been sentenced by a military jury to 40 years in prison, but he is expected to serve no more than eight years under an earlier plea agreement.

High court turns down Patriot Act challenger (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 07:11 AM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court is refusing to take up a constitutional challenge to provisions of the Patriot Act from a lawyer who was once wrongly suspected in deadly terrorist bombings in Spain.

Greece: Suspects carried letter bomb for Sarkozy (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 12:56 PM PDT

A Greek anti-terrorist police officer investigates a private delivery company after an explosion in Athens, Monday, Nov. 1 2010. A woman was wounded after a package exploded at the company, while two other suspected mail bombs were destroyed by controlled blasts in the capital, police officials said. Police in Greece say two terrorism suspects have been arrested carrying letter bombs addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and western embassies in Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - Greek police foiled four attempted parcel bomb attacks Monday, allegedly targeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy and three embassies in Athens, after one of the devices exploded at a delivery service, leaving a worker hospitalized with burns.

(AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 08:20 AM PDT

AP - German official says two Yemen mail bombs contained 300 grams and 400 grams of explosive PETN.

Terrorist bombers may have targeted aircraft (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 03:14 AM PDT

Yemeni security forces stand outside the UPS office in the capital San'a, Yemen Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010. Their first suspect in custody, Yemeni police continued to search for those believed responsible for mailing a pair of bombs to the United States. U.S. and Yemeni officials were increasingly seeing al-Qaida's hand in the failed plot. (AP Photo)AP - Powerful explosives addressed to Chicago synagogues may have been intended to destroy the planes they were sent on, security officials acknowledged as they tried to figure out how to respond to the al-Qaida-linked plot.

Swedish police release Goteborg terrorism suspects (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 03:04 AM PDT

AP - Swedish security police say they have released two men who were arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Sweden's western city of Goteborg.

Chicago synagogue refuses to be cowed by terror threat (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 01:46 AM PDT

A Yemeni man walks past a branch of the US package delivery firm UPS in Sanaa on October 30. An alleged Saudi bombmaker has emerged as the main suspect behind the two parcel bombs sent from Yemen, a US official said, as a Gulf airline source said one of the parcels traveled on a passenger plane.(AFP/File/Mohammad Huwais)AFP - The halls of this Jewish center on Chicago's lakeshore rang with the chatter of children a day after congregants learned it was the target of a botched attempt to ship a bomb here from Yemen.

The Parcel Bombers' Direct Hit (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:43 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - The Yemeni cargo plane terror plot may have been foiled, but by using a detonator linked to a cellphone, it struck a blow against those lobbying for voice and text messaging services on trans-oceanic flights.

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