2011年1月16日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

House panel wants Homeland Security documents (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 05:45 PM PST

AP - A House committee has asked the Homeland Security Department to provide documents about an agency policy that required political appointees to review many Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a letter obtained Sunday by The Associated Press.

Gang's terror felt far from drug war on US border (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 12:35 PM PST

In this photo taken Jan. 9, 2011, migrants from Central America headed northwards towards the U.S. rest at a temporary shelter in Chahuites, in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca. Just as they have done in the north, groups claiming to be Zetas have set up criminal networks to control transit routes for drugs, migrants, illegal DVDS and other consumer goods, intimidating the populace and committing gruesome murders as an example to the uncooperative. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - A priest who shelters stranded migrants needs police protection. A chopped-up body turns up with a threatening message. Beheadings are on the rise. The local press is too frightened to write about any of it.

Gunbattles, food shortages temper Tunisians' joy (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 02:26 PM PST

A torn banner of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is seen in the center of Tunis, Sunday, Jan. 16.2011. Tunisia sped toward a new future after its iron-fisted leader fled, with an interim president sworn in and ordering the country's first multiparty government to be formed. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Major gunbattles erupted outside the palace of Tunisia's deposed president, in the center of the capital, in front of the main opposition party headquarters and elsewhere on Sunday as authorities struggled to restore order and the world waited to see if the North African nation would continue its first steps away from autocratic rule.

Attacks down almost 20 percent in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 06:16 AM PST

A Pakistani cameraman films burning oil tankers after gunmen attacked a terminal in Dera Murad Jamali southwest Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. A government official says gunmen in Pakistan's southwest have set ablaze 14 tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. A driver also was wounded during the Saturday attack. (AP Photo/Fida Hussain)AP - The number of suicide bombings and other attacks in Pakistan declined nearly 20 percent last year as a result of Pakistani military operations, better surveillance by law enforcement agencies and the death of key militants in U.S. drone strikes, a think tank said Sunday.

Haunted by violence, Iraqi Christians flee to Turkey (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 09:51 PM PST

Christians, mostly Chaldean Iraqi immigrants, are seen here during a Sunday mass in the Catholic Chaldean church in Istanbul. Terrorised by mounting extremist attacks, more and more Iraqi Christians are fleeing in panic to neighbouring Muslim-majority Turkey, among them lone minors sent away by desperate parents.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - Terrorised by mounting extremist attacks, more and more Iraqi Christians are fleeing in panic to neighbouring Muslim-majority Turkey, among them lone minors sent away by desperate parents.

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