2010年12月31日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

1 million to watch NYC ball drop to ring in 2011 (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 11:25 AM PST

Employees of Landmark Sign and Electric hold a cable attached to the New Year's Eve ball during a test on top of One Times Square, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 in New York. The ball is powered by 32,256 Philips Luxeon LEDs and covered in 2,688 Waterford Crystals. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Still digging out from a debilitating blizzard, New York was poised to welcome nearly a million visitors to Times Square on Friday for the country's largest annual New Year's Eve celebration. Nationwide, revelers set aside concerns about the winter weather and even potential terrorist threats to ring in 2011 at large and small gatherings.

Danish plot suspect linked to Islamic extremists (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 08:51 AM PST

The building which houses the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen on December 29. A Swedish court has remanded in custody a fourth suspect in a plot to kill staff at the Danish newspaper after three others were earlier detained by a Danish court.(AFP/Scanpix/File/Martin Sylvest Andersen)AFP - One of five men arrested this week over a foiled plot to massacre staff at a Danish newspaper had twice been detained abroad suspected of terror links, the foreign ministry and media said Friday.

US homeland security chief visits Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 06:10 AM PST

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano talks to reporters on December 16 at the National Press Club in Washington DC. Napolitano arrived in Afghanistan for talks with Afghan officials and to spend the New Year's holiday with American troops, her office said.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano arrived in Afghanistan for talks with Afghan officials and to spend the New Year's holiday with American troops, her office said.

Iraqi suspect says unaware of Danish terror plot (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:18 AM PST

Danish police officers stand guard as one of four suspect arrested on suspicion of planning a shooting attack on the office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad arrives at a court in Glostup, south of Copenhagen, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The Wednesday arrests rattled Danes and brought renewed attention to simmering anger at the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which has been the target of several attacks and threats since publishing cartoons of Muhammad in 2005, in what it called a challenge to perceived self-censorship. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Peter Hove Olesen) DENMARK OUTAP - An Iraqi immigrant accused of helping plot an attack against a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad said in an interview published Friday that he was an innocent man arrested while providing three other suspects with an apartment.

Europe Learns No Nation is Immune to Terror (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 09:55 PM PST

Time.com - The recent spate of foiled terrorist plots in Europe shows that even those nations who thought they were safe now realize everyone is a potential target

US Homeland Security chief arrives in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:49 PM PST

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (neh-pahl-ih-TAN'-oh) has arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, to spend New Year's Eve with U.S. troops and the Homeland Security officers who have been working with the Afghan government to try to secure that country's porous borders from militants, as well as weapons and drug smugglers.

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