2011年1月20日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


US deports first Haitians since earthquake (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:19 PM PST

AP - Immigration authorities repatriated 26 Haitians previously convicted of crimes on Thursday, plus another man who was acquitted in a 2007 terror plot, the first such deportations since the Obama administration halted them following the devastating 2010 earthquake.

WikiLeaks cited in French Guantanamo trial (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 01:14 PM PST

AP - Lawyers for ex-inmates of the Guantanamo prison camp used documents released by WikiLeaks to argue for their acquittal in a French terrorism trial Thursday.

U.S. adds Pakistani Taliban member to terrorism list (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 12:02 PM PST

Reuters - The United States on Thursday added a senior member of the Pakistani Taliban to a terror blacklist, the State Department said.

US blacklists Pakistani Taliban leader (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:39 AM PST

AP - The Obama administration on Thursday widened the scope of its crackdown on alleged extremist leaders in Pakistan by placing on its terrorist blacklist a top lieutenant in the Pakistani Taliban believed responsible for training the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents at an Afghan base in late 2009.

UK drops 28-day custody limit for terror suspects (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:19 AM PST

AP - Britain will scrap rules that allow police to hold terror suspects for up to 28 days before they must be charged with a crime or released, officials said Thursday.

Terror suspect gets victim status in Polish probe (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:23 AM PST

AP - Lawyers for a Palestinian terrorism suspect being held at Guantanamo Bay have won the right to review evidence and call witnesses in a criminal investigation about a secret CIA prison in Poland where terrorist suspects allegedly were abused.

Govt scraps 28-day terror detention (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 06:21 AM PST

Conservative MP Damian is pictured in Westminster, London, in April 2009. The government has said it will give up a controversial power that allows terror suspects to be held for 28 days without charge, after a major review of counter-terror measures.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The government said Thursday it will give up a controversial power that allows terror suspects to be held for 28 days without charge, after a major review of counter-terror measures.


German radical reported killed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:51 AM PST

AP - A German al-Qaida member whose online threats of attacks in Germany prompted heightened terrorism warnings ahead of 2009 national elections was killed while leading an offense on the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, according to an Islamic extremist group.

NY subway bomb plotter waiting in wings as witness (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 03:43 AM PST

AP - Nearly a year after pleading guilty in a foiled terror plot targeting the New York City subways, al-Qaida associate Najibullah Zazi hasn't been back in court and probably won't be until he's called as a witness — possibly against his own father.

US pastor Jones barred from UK (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 12:06 AM PST

The government has barred firebrand US pastor Terry Jones, pictured here in 2010, from the country, saying his presence would not be AFP - The government has barred firebrand US pastor Terry Jones from the country, saying the controversial preacher who had threatened to burn the Koran was guilty of "unacceptable behaviour."


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