2010年12月17日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

CIA chief pulled from Pakistan; drones kill 54 (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:54 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2010 file photo, people hold signs at a rally against U.S. drone attacks on Pakistani tribal areas in Islamabad, Pakistan. Three American missile attacks killed 54 alleged militants Friday Dec. 17, 2010 close to the Afghan border, an unusually high number of victims that included commanders of a Taliban-allied group that were holding a meeting, Pakistani officials said. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)AP - The CIA yanked its top spy out of Pakistan after his cover was blown and his life threatened, and 54 suspected militants were killed in a U.S. drone missile attack Friday in stark new signs of the troubled relationship between mistrustful allies locked in a war on terror groups.

Think tank plans study of how US treats detainees (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 03:40 PM PST

AP - A nonpartisan legal think tank plans to study U.S. treatment of terrorism detainees, partly out of concern that the country's policies lack clarity and can be manipulated to permit abuse or torture in dangerous times, members of a task force appointed to conduct the study said Friday.

Stockholm bomber denounced by father-in-law (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:06 PM 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 father-in-law of the Stockholm suicide bomber on Friday denounced the 28-year-old attacker as a brainwashed terrorist who rejected "all the good" that Sweden gave him.

Former Guantanamo detainee urges judge to clear him (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST

Reuters - Lawyers for the first Guantanamo detainee to have faced a U.S. civilian trial have asked the judge either to clear the Tanzanian terrorism suspect or grant him another trial.

Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 10:52 AM PST

AP - When the CIA decided to waterboard suspected terror detainees in overseas prisons, the agency turned to a pair of contractors. The men designed the CIA's interrogation program and also personally took part in the waterboarding sessions.

White House reports frustrations in Yemeni relations (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 10:49 AM PST

Firearms and ammunition are seen on display at an arms market in Maarib city, around 190 km (118 miles) east of the Yemeni capital Sanaa October 14, 2010. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - U.S. security relations with Yemen have been strained by frustrations on both sides and will require patience as the two countries work to counter the al Qaeda threat there, a top White House security official said on Friday.

US prepared on Christmas holiday security: Obama aide (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 09:42 AM PST

A Transportation Security Administration official (2nd R) checks the identification of passengers prior to entering a security checkpoint at an airport in Virginia 2009. US President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor said Friday he was confident that AFP - US President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor said Friday he was confident that "appropriate resources" were in place to deal with the risk of holiday season terror attacks.

UK, German officials: No new holiday terror plot (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 06:33 AM PST

AP - No new, specific terror plots against Europe have emerged for the holiday season, British and German officials said Friday, contradicting earlier reports from U.S. security experts.

Leak: India says Pakistan must do more on Mumbai (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:33 AM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, left, shakes hand with her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir before the start of a delegation level meeting, in New Delhi. Pakistani officials are 'hypnotically obsessed' with India's military, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told U.S. officials in comments made public in a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable released Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)AP - Pakistan is "hypnotically obsessed" with India's military and has done next to nothing to prosecute suspects in the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, top Indian diplomats have told U.S. officials.

WikiLeaks: US fears bioweapons from India labs (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:40 AM PST

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up a court document for the media after he was released on bail, outside the High Court, London, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released on bail following a week of legal drama over his extradition. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - U.S. officials fear lax security at Indian laboratories could make the facilities targets for terrorists seeking biological weapons, according to comments in a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable made public Friday.

Iraq offers Iran anti-terror help (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST

Iranians survey the carnage outside Jameh mosque in Zahedan, July 2010. Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani offered Tehran his ministry's support and experience in fighting terror, just days after a suicide bomber killed 34 people in southeastern Iran.(AFP/File/Amir Rasheki)AFP - Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani offered Tehran his ministry's support and experience in fighting terror Friday, just days after a suicide bomber killed 34 people in southeastern Iran.

Filipino kidnapper gets 23 years for '95 abduction (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:08 PM PST

AP - Fifteen years after leading a kidnapping that turned a family vacation into a hostage crisis, the former second-in-command of the Filipino terrorist group Abu Sayyaf was sentenced Friday to 23 years in an American prison.

US drone missiles kill 25 in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 05:02 AM PST

A US 'Predator' drone passing overhead at a forward operating base near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in January 2009. A barrage of US missiles targeted Pakistan's Khyber district on Friday for a second consecutive day, killing 25 militants as Barack Obama urged Islamabad to do more to root out terror havens.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - A barrage of US missiles targeted Pakistan's Khyber district on Friday for a second consecutive day, killing 25 militants as Barack Obama urged Islamabad to do more to root out terror havens.

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