2011年2月4日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Michigan mosque plot suspect fires lawyer in court (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:11 PM PST

Roger Stockham, left, a California man accused of threatening to blow up a popular mosque in Dearborn, Mich., stands during a hearing with his court appointed attorney Matthew Evans in 19th District Court in Dearborn, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - The California man accused of plotting to blow up a Detroit-area mosque rejected his court-appointed counsel Friday, upset that the attorney is a Shiite Muslim and a "patron" of the Islamic center where he was arrested.


Suspect in Detroit serial rapes heading to trials (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 01:59 PM PST

AP - A man on parole for attempted murder was ordered to trial Friday in five rapes in Detroit that were part of a string of attacks that began on New Year's Day and terrorized the city.

NY court upholds Fla. doc's terrorism conviction (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 01:57 PM PST

AP - The conviction of a doctor who prosecutors said assisted terrorists by offering to treat injured al-Qaida fighters was upheld Friday by a federal appeals court, although one of three judges who decided the case said he believes one charge should have been tossed out.

Suspect in Detroit serial rapes heading to trial (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:36 PM PST

AP - A man on parole for attempted murder has been ordered to trial in a series of Detroit rapes that began on New Year's Day and terrorized parts of the city.

US lawmakers clash on Patriot Act measures (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:34 AM PST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell answers reporters' questions after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon in the US Capitol January 2010 in Washington, DC. US lawmakers clashed Friday over how long to extend key provisions of a controversial surveillance law, designed to help authorities thwart terrorist plots, before they expire at month's end.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - US lawmakers clashed Friday over how long to extend key provisions of a controversial surveillance law, designed to help authorities thwart terrorist plots, before they expire at month's end.


Egypt in focus as Clinton heads to security meeting (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 06:58 AM PST

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed for a global security conference in Germany on Friday as U.S. planners struggle to assess how Egypt's political crisis may rewrite both the future of the Middle East and the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

German sues Macedonia over alleged CIA kidnapping (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 07:33 AM PST

Darian Pavli, left and Filip Medarski, lawyers of the German citizen Khaled el-Masri, attend the first court session of a lawsuit filed by Khaled el-Masri against Macedonia, in Macedonia's capital Skopje on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. El-Masri, a German man who says he was snatched by the CIA in Macedonia and tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan, after being mistaken for a terrorism suspect, begun a legal battle against Macedonia Friday to demand official recognition of his ordeal. El-Masri was not present in the court. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)AP - A German man allegedly snatched by the CIA in Macedonia and tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan launched a claim in court Friday to demand official recognition and compensation for his ordeal. But a key supporter of his case was only allowed to give limited testimony on the opening day of the trial.


Somali ax man gets 9 years for cartoonist attack (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:06 AM PST

File - In this June 6, 2010 file photo, Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is seen at his home near Aarhus, Denmark. A Danish court on Thursday Feb. 3, 2011, declared a Somali man guilty of terrorism for using an ax to break into the home of a Danish cartoonist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. The 29-year-old defendant entered Kurt Westergaard's home in the northwestern town of Aarhus on New Year's Day in 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Hove Olsen, POLFOTO, file)  DENMARK OUTAP - A Somali man convicted of terrorism for breaking into the home of a Danish cartoonist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison.


Danish cartoonist's attacker jailed for nine years (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:46 AM PST

The Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who caricatured the Prophet Mohammed in 2005. A Danish court has jailed a Somali for nine years after finding him guilty of attempting to murder Westergaard.(AFP/Scanpix/File/Jens NØrgaard Larsen)AFP - A Danish court jailed a Somali for nine years on Friday after finding him guilty of attempted terrorism and attempted murder for an axe attack on a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Mohammed.


Iraqi premier says he'll cut his salary by half (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:17 PM PST

FILE - In this March 26, 2010 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's prime minister says he will return half of his annual salary to the government's treasury in a symbolic effort to balance the standard of living between the nation's rich and poor. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - Iraq's prime minister said Friday he'll return half of his annual salary to the public treasury in a symbolic gesture that appeared calculated to insulate himself from the anti-government unrest spreading across the Middle East.


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