2010年11月15日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 06:51 PM PST

Airline passengers put their personal belongings in trays as they check-in at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010.  U.S. officials are defending new anti-terrorism security procedures at the nation's airports that some travelers complain are overly invasive and intimate.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving travel crush, federal air security officials were struggling to reassure rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful.


Afghanistan wants more Taliban off blacklist (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 05:38 PM PST

AP - Afghanistan urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to remove additional members of the Taliban from its sanctions blacklist, a move it has sought to promote a political solution to the nine-year Afghan war.

California woman charged with terrorist aid (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 05:35 PM PST

AP - A California woman has been charged with conspiring to provide money and people to a Somali terrorist group to help carry out killings in the African nation, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.

Jury ends day without verdict in NY terror case (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 03:03 PM PST

Demonstrators dressed as prisoners, protest against the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, outside the Ministry of Defence in London, February 6, 2010. REUTERS/Luke MacgregorAP - Deliberations at the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee hit a snag Monday when a juror told the judge she felt threatened by other jurors and asked him to be removed from the panel.


U.S. officials defend new airport screening procedures (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 11:41 AM PST

Reuters - Homeland security officials on Monday defended heightened airport security screening measures but said they would consider adjustments to new rigorous patdowns after complaints from travelers.

UK Parliament warns staff over Mumbai-style attack (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:26 AM PST

AP - Britain's Houses of Parliament says it is developing plans to respond to a Mumbai-style gun attack by terrorists.

Somalia tops terrorism risk list, India danger down (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 08:33 PM PST

A hard-line Somali Islamist prays near a roadblock in southern Mogadishu September 18, 2009. REUTERS/Ismail Taxta/FilesReuters - Somalia has replaced Iraq as the state most at risk from terrorist attack, according to a ranking by global analysts Maplecroft, which sees threats also rising in Russia, Greece and Yemen but falling in India and Algeria.


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