2010年12月2日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Cuba mulls Salvadoran's death sentence for terror (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:54 PM PST

AP - Cuba's Supreme Court has begun reviewing the death sentence of a Salvadoran man convicted of terrorism for a series of hotel bombs in 1997.

Napolitano urges Congress to pass DREAM Act (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is seen at the Blair House across from the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, before President Barack Obama spoke with newly elected governors. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urged Congress Thursday to pass legislation allowing some foreign-born young people who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children to become legal residents.


US blacklists Pakistan militant leaders (AFP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:52 PM PST

Pakistani policemen escort suspected members belonging to al Qaeda-linked banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group to a court in Karachi in 2009. The United States on Thursday put three Pakistani militants on its terrorist blacklist, including leaders of the Sunni extremist movement Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.(AFP/File/Asif Hassan)AFP - The United States on Thursday put three Pakistani militants on its terrorist blacklist, including leaders of the Sunni extremist movement Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.


U.S. names three Pakistanis for supporting attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:17 PM PST

Reuters - The Treasury Department on Thursday named three Pakistanis that it said were acting on behalf of terrorist organizations and banned Americans from any dealings with them.

Thai police link forgery arrests to huge terror cell (AFP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 09:15 AM PST

Pakistani national Muhammad Athar Butt (C) is escorted out of the Department of Special Investigations building by Thai policemen in Bangkok. Two Pakistanis, including Butt, and a Thai woman arrested on suspicion of making fake passports for Al-Qaeda linked groups were part of criminal networks tied to AFP - Two Pakistanis and a Thai woman arrested on suspicion of making fake passports for Al-Qaeda linked groups were part of criminal networks tied to "many terrorist attacks", Thai police said Thursday.


Iraq calls for swift execution of terror suspects (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 05:11 AM PST

Handcuffed al-Qaida-linked suspects sit in the terrorist combat and organized crime department in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Iraq's interior minister called Thursday for the death penalty for a group of 39 al-Qaida-linked suspects even before they have been put on trial for allegedly plotting to bomb targets in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraq's interior minister called Thursday for the death penalty for a group of 39 detained al-Qaida-linked suspects, even before they have been put on trial for allegedly plotting to bomb targets in Baghdad.


EU must spend more to fight terrorism: EU official (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:09 AM PST

German police officers patrol in Berlin's main railway station (Berlin Hauptbahnhof), November 23, 2010. REUTERS/Pawel KopczynskiReuters - The European Union is spending too little on fighting terrorism at a time when its transport network is insufficiently protected, the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator said Thursday.


Thai police announce crackdown on passport fakes (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:02 AM PST

Muhammad Athar Butt, right, and Zeeshan Ehsan Butt, background, both Pakistani nationals, are escorted by Thai police at the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Police arrested three people, two Pakistani men and a Thai woman, in Thailand and seven in Spain in an international operation against a group suspected of forging passports for an al-Qaida-linked Islamic terrorist group, Thai police and the Spanish Interior Ministry said. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - Suspects arrested in Spain and Thailand in connection with an international ring that provided forged passports to terrorists may have passed fake documents to the perpetrators of the 2004 Madrid bombings, Thai authorities said Thursday.


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