2010年12月15日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


New charges in attempted attack on Detroit flight (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 05:11 PM PST

FILE - This December 2009 file photo, released by the U.S. Marshal's Service, shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich. A federal grand jury in Detroit on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, issued a superseding indictment against Abdulmutallab adding additional charges for a botched attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit last Christmas Day. The new charges against Abdulmutallab are conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries and an additional count of possession of a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)AP - A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb concealed in his underwear was hit Wednesday with additional charges, including conspiracy to commit terrorism.


US Senate to consider blocking Guantanamo closure (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 02:38 PM PST

A member of the US military mans one of the guard posts at sunrise at Camp Delta, part of the US Detention Center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in March 2010. The US Senate begins consideration Thursday of a bill that if adopted will block civilian trials of AFP - The US Senate begins consideration Thursday of a bill that if adopted will block civilian trials of "war on terror" suspects and closure of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a congressional source said Wednesday.


Italy appeals court ups US sentences in CIA trial (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 12:53 PM PST

Nicola Madia, one of the defense lawyers, gestures prior to the sentence of the appeal trial on a CIA-led kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, at the Milan's court, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. The court has increased the sentences of 23 Americans convicted in the kidnapping, adding one year to the eight-year sentence given to former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady, as twenty-two other Americans convicted along with Lady had two years added onto their five-year sentences. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP - An Italian appeals court on Wednesday increased the sentences against 23 Americans convicted in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program.


Man sentenced in JFK Airport fuel-tank plot (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 12:49 PM PST

AP - A former member of Guyana's parliament was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for plotting to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport after insisting he was wrongly convicted.

Obama condemns suicide bombing in Iran (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 10:52 AM PST

Wreckage of an attack claimed by militant Jundallah (Soldiers of God) in 2006. US President Barack Obama on Wednesday strongly condemned an AFP - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday strongly condemned an "outrageous terrorist attack" by a suicide bomber at a Shiite religious procession in Chabahar, Iran, which killed at least 39 people.


About 200 violence-prone Islamic extremists in Sweden: intel (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:46 AM PST

From L: The chief analyst at the Swedish intelligence agency Saepo, Malena Rembe, Saepo Director-General Anders Danielsson and European Affairs Minister Birgitta Ohlsson give a press conference to present a report on Islamic extremist activities in Sweden. Some 200 possibly violent Islamic extremists live in Sweden, according to an intelligence report released Wednesday.(AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)AFP - Some 200 possibly violent Islamic extremists live in Sweden, according to an intelligence report released Wednesday after the country's first-ever suicide bombing narrowly missed Christmas shoppers.


US: UK suspect part of international terror plot (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:03 AM PST

AP - U.S. authorities say an alleged al-Qaida operative arrested in Britain was part of an international conspiracy to attack targets in England, the United States and Norway.

Suicide bomber in Sweden not on security list (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 06:54 AM PST

This undated image provided by SITE Intelligence Group and taken from a jihadist web site purports to show Taimour Abdulwahab, a 28 year-old an Iraqi-born Swede who spent much of the past decade in Britain, and the man whom Swedish authorities say blew himself up in a botched suicide bombing in Stockholm Saturday Dec. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALESAP - The suicide bomber who blew himself up on a busy pedestrian street in Sweden was not on a list of 200 radical Islamists that the country's security service had compiled, officials said Wednesday.


About 200 Islamic extremists in Sweden: intel (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 06:20 AM PST

From L: The chief analyst at the Swedish intelligence agency Saepo, Malena Rembe, Saepo Director-General Anders Danielsson and European Affairs Minister Birgitta Ohlsson give a press conference to present a report on Islamic extremist activities in Sweden. Some 200 possibly violent Islamic extremists live in Sweden, according to an intelligence report released Wednesday.(AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)AFP - Swedish intelligence agency Saepo said Wednesday there were around 200 violence-promoting Islamic extremists in Sweden, days after the country's first ever suicide bombing missed wreaking havoc among Christmas shoppers.


Britain must do more on extremism, says Cameron (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 05:45 AM PST

Swedish policemen patrol near the Drottninggatan shopping street in central Stockholm where the country's first ever suicide bomber attacked on Saturday. Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted that Britain has not done enough to counter domestic Islamic extremism and has vowed to do more, after it emerged that the bomber studied here.(AFP/File/Jonathan Nackstrand)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron admitted on Wednesday that Britain had not done enough to counter domestic Islamic extremism and vowed to do more, after it emerged that a Swedish suicide bomber studied here.


Hong Kong acid thrower jailed for 13 years (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 04:23 AM PST

A bottle is held outside an opening from an apartment block as the police try to recreate the scene of an acid attack in Hong Kong on January 14, 2010. A Hong Kong man was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in jail for throwing acid on pedestrians in a busy shopping district, one of a string of attacks that have terrorised the city.(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - A Hong Kong man was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in jail for throwing acid on pedestrians in a busy shopping district, one of a string of attacks that have terrorised the city.


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