2010年11月10日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Court: NY terror law misapplied in noted gang case (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:06 PM PST

AP - An appeals court says a groundbreaking case misapplied a New York state anti-terrorism law to a killing that reflected "ordinary street crime, not terrorism."

Iraq's Christians terrorized by wave of bombings (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:52 PM PST

Iraqi Christian Siba Nadhir, who survived last week's church carnage in Baghdad, lies on her hospital bed surrounded by a nurse and mourning family members in black, in the Iraqi capital on November 7, one day before being transferred along with 40 people wounded in the deadly October 31 Al-Qaeda hostage assault on the Sayedat al-Nejat Catholic catherdral to France for further hospital treatment.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AP - Suspected Sunni militants took aim again at Baghdad's dwindling Christian community, setting off a dozen roadside bombs Wednesday and sending terrified families into hiding behind a church where walls are still stained from blood from an attack nearly two weeks ago.


France says terror suspects were planning attack (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:41 AM PST

Reuters - Five terror suspects arrested in Paris this week are suspected of conspiring to launch an attack in France and one of them was prepared to die, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said on Wednesday.

Trial of U.S. citizen in Yemen delayed (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:29 AM PST

A police trooper sits guard on a police patrol during the trial of American suspect Sharif Mobley outside a court in Sanaa November 10, 2010. Mobley, who was arrested for suspected involvement with al Qaeda, was charged on Wednesday with the murder of a Yemeni soldier during an escape attempt in March. The defendant was originally scheduled to be tried on October 27, 2010 but translation problems forced the court to postpone the trial. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Yemen delayed the trial on Wednesday of a U.S. citizen accused of killing a guard while trying to escape from a hospital where he was being held after being arrested as a terrorism suspect.


US eyes action on climate, terrorism, trade at EU summit (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:54 AM PST

US President Barack Obama, seen here speaking in Indonesia on Wednesday, will have his first encounter next week with European Union President Herman Van Rompuy. Washington hopes the summit will deliever concrete decisions as well as cement view from climate to terrorism.(AFP/POOL/Barbara Walton)AFP - Washington hopes President Barack Obama's first summit next week with Europe's new leadership will deliver concrete decisions as well as cement views on issues from climate to terrorism, a top US official said Wednesday.


FBI: al-Qaida's Yemen group not behind Dubai crash (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:31 AM PST

AP - Al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen was not behind the Sept. 3 crash of a UPS cargo plane in Dubai and falsely took responsibility for the incident, according to the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.

UN condemns attack on Iraqi Christians (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:05 AM PST

Pat Lingner, of North St. Paul, Minn., left, and Kay Mitzner visit the graves of two young servicemen that were killed in Iraq at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010.  Lingner was there for her nephew, U.S. Army Cpl. Conor Masterson, who died April 8, 2007, and Mitzner was there visiting family friend Marine Cpl. Johnathan Lee Benson, who died Sept. 9, 2006. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jerry Holt)  MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUTAP - The U.N. Security Council said Wednesday that it's appalled by the latest terrorist attacks on Iraqi Christians, calling them a blow against religious diversity and democracy.


Bush under fire over waterboarding claims (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:30 AM PST

Former US President George W. Bush signs copies of his new memoir AFP - Former US president George W. Bush has faced a barrage over criticism over his defence of simulated drowning or "waterboarding" to interrogate terrorist suspects.


'No charges' for destroying CIA interrogation tapes (AFP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 09:02 PM PST

No criminal charges will be filed against US intelligence officials accused of destroying videotapes showing CIA interrogations of terror suspects, the US Justice Department announced(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - No criminal charges will be filed against US intelligence officials accused of destroying videotapes showing CIA interrogations of terror suspects, the US Justice Department announced.


Why Yemen Hasn't Arrested Terrorist Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:20 PM PST

Time.com - Most people seem to know where he is likely to be. But tribal and political factors make it difficult for the government to arrest him

AP Interview: Berenson dreams of a 're-do' (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:21 PM PST

US political activist Lori Berenson watches her eighteen-month-old son Salvador Apari play in their home after an interview with The Associated Press in Lima, Peru, Tuesday Nov. 9, 2010. Berenson, 40, who served three-quarters of a 20-year sentence for collaborating with leftist rebels in Peru, walked free for the second time after a judge reinstated her parole initially ruled in May. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)AP - If 15 years in prison have done anything to Lori Berenson, they have made the once strident revolutionary guarded and wary, reluctant to utter anything that could get her sent back behind bars.


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