2010年12月29日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Denmark: Attack over prophet cartoons thwarted (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2009 file photo, the exterior of a building housing the Jyllands-Posten Copenhagen office is seen. Denmark's intelligence service on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 arrested four people suspected of planning an 'imminent' terror attack against a newspaper that printed the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Niels Hougaard, File) DENMARK OUTAP - Police in Denmark and Sweden said they thwarted a terrorist attack possibly hours before it was to begin Wednesday, arresting five men they say planned to shoot as many people as possible in a Copenhagen building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.


3 suicide bombers used to kill tenacious Iraqi cop (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST

An Iraqi policeman stands guard while hundreds of vehicles are in queue, waiting to be searched, at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Security officials are investigating the possibility of removing some of the hundreds of checkpoints across the city, in a sign of the improving security situation. The checkpoints are designed to catch insurgents, but they also slow down traffic in the already congested city. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Police commander Lt. Col. Shamil al-Jabouri knew al-Qaida wanted him dead. He was renowned in the tense northern city of Mosul for his relentless pursuit of the terror group, and insurgents had tried at least five times to kill him for it. On the sixth attempt, al-Qaida left little to chance.


'Mumbai-style' massacre plot foiled in Denmark (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 12:09 PM PST

The building which houses the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen. Scandinavian intelligence agencies said they had foiled a plot Wednesday to kill staff at a Danish newspaper which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and had arrested five suspects.(AFP/Scanpix/Martin Sylvest Andersen)AFP - Scandinavian intelligence agencies on Wednesday said they had foiled a "Mumbai-style" plot by Islamic extremists to massacre staff at a Danish newspaper which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.


(AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 06:12 AM PST

AP - Police say bomb squad rushes to US Embassy to Holy See after report of suspicious package.

Indonesian extremist in court on terror charges (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:40 AM PST

Islamic militant Abdullah Sunata -- linked to a militant cell known as Al-Qaeda in Aceh which plotted to kill Westerners in Indonesia -- has gone on trial on multiple terror-related charges.(AFP/BAY ISMOYO)AFP - An Islamic extremist linked to a militant cell known as Al-Qaeda in Aceh which plotted to kill Westerners in Indonesia went on trial Wednesday on multiple terror-related charges.


Top Indonesian terror suspect goes on trial (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:28 AM PST

Suspected militant Abdullah Sunata sits in the defendant's chair during his trial at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010. The trial has opened for Sunata, one of Indonesia's most wanted terror suspects. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - One of Indonesia's top terrorism suspects went on trial Wednesday on charges of helping set up a militant network that was plotting Mumbai-style attacks on foreigners at luxury hotels and embassies in the capital.


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