2011年9月6日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


NY gov unveils official 9/11 memorial flag (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 05:37 PM PDT

AP - New York's governor says the state's official Sept. 11 Memorial Flag will be raised at the Capitol in Albany and at the World Trade Center site in New York City for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

In financial crisis, Post office turns to Congress (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:04 PM PDT

During a hearing on the troubles of the U.S. Postal Service, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., left, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, confers with Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., who chairs the Senate subcommittee that oversees the Postal Service, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe warned that the Postal Service is on "the brink of default" as he battles to keep his agency solvent. Without legislation by Sept. 30, the agency "will default on a mandated $5.5 billion payment to the Treasury," Donahoe told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday.


Pentagon chief says threat of another 9/11 is real (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks to reporters after touring the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, POOL)AP - After a decade of war with al-Qaida the potential for another devastating terrorist assault "remains very real," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday following a somber visit to ground zero of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.


DHS chief: Better passenger screening in future (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:33 PM PDT

AP - Homeland Security Department Secretary Janet Napolitano predicted Tuesday that airline passengers in the future will no longer be instructed to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints, but she said the technology to scan shoe-wearing passengers for bombs does not yet exist and may not be available soon.

Why Pentagon's New Complex Is a Soft Terrorist Target (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Workers are already trickling into the Defense Department's new Mark Center offices just south of the Pentagon, despite worrying evidence that the facility is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack

US derides Syria for blaming terrorists (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, meets with International Committe of the Red Cross President Jakob Kellenberger, right, in Damascus, Syria, Monday Sept. 5, 2011. Syrian soldiers raided homes and made arrests Monday in a manhunt for an attorney general who appeared on video last week saying he had defected from President Bashar Assad's regime to protest a violent government crackdown on dissent, activists said. (AP Photo/SANA) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - The U.S. Embassy in Syria said Tuesday that President Bashar Assad is not fooling anyone by blaming terrorists and thugs for the unrest in his country as security forces try to crush the uprising by unleashing a brutal crackdown that has killed more than 2,200 people in nearly six months.


Lockerbie bomber is 'very ill', his son says (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:31 PM PDT

AP - The son of the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie terrorist attack has allowed British media access to his home to show people in the U.K. the extent of his father's illness.

Poll: OK to trade some freedoms to fight terrorism (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:43 AM PDT

Poll shows how respondents feel about civil liberties and securitiesAP - Surveillance cameras in public places? Sure. Body scans at airports? Maybe. Snooping in personal email? Not so fast.


Cable: Nigeria released known terror suspects (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:13 AM PDT

AP - Nigeria released known terror suspects, including some affiliated with al-Qaida's north Africa branch, as part of a program known as "Perception Management" to placate elders in the country's Muslim north, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by the antisecrecy website WikiLeaks.

Elected in 9/11 shadow, NYC mayor deepens the link (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 08:12 AM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses the Association for a Better New York about the rebirth of lower Manhattan ten years after the attacks of 9/11, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in New York. Bloomberg's mayoralty has been entwined with the economic and physical rebuilding that followed, and 9/11 will form a key part of his legacy.  (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - It didn't take long after his election for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to alienate some of those most closely affected by the Sept. 11 attacks. In unemotional terms, he advocated for a "less is more" approach to a memorial, explaining that rental agents wouldn't like the area to seem like a "cemetery."


Pakistan Army says it has Al Qaeda's global operations chief in custody (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:11 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Pakistan’s Army says it has captured Sheikh Younis al-Mauritani, a senior Al Qaeda leader also known as the group’s “foreign minister,” who was linked to last year’s foiled terror plot in Europe.

Giuliani and Bloomberg: NY mayors linked by Sept 11 (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:27 PM PDT

Reuters - Had it not been for the September 11 attacks, neither Rudy Giuliani nor Michael Bloomberg would have such high profiles on the American political stage.

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