2011年2月7日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Activist: Palestinian trips had no link to terror (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 04:53 PM PST

In this photo taken Jan. 27, 2011, Hatem Abudayyeh poses outside the office of the Arab American Action Network on Chicago's South Side. In his first in-depth interview since agents hauled bank statements, computers and even family photos from his Chicago condominium last year, Abudayyeh tells The Associated Press he believes investigators singled him out because he organized trips for Americans to Palestinian areas. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Four months after the FBI raided homes of anti-war activists in the Midwest, a Palestinian-American named in the probe is calling it a "witch hunt" and insisting in a series of interviews with The Associated Press that he has never given money to terrorist groups.


Jury convicts NY TV executive of beheading wife (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 02:48 PM PST

AP - The founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station was convicted Monday of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Obama says U.S. to recognize South Sudan as sovereign (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 01:06 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Monday the United States intends to recognize South Sudan as a sovereign country in July, as Washington began the process of removing Sudan from a terrorism blacklist.

Chechen terrorist issues stark video warning to Russians (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 10:30 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A new video posted over the weekend by Russia's most wanted terrorist, self-described Chechen "Emir" Doku Umarov, has warned already jittery Muscovites to brace for a "year of blood and tears." His threat: a wave of assaults by up to 60 suicide bombers trained at a secret base in the North Caucasus.

Lebanon tribunal debates terrorism at first hearing (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 10:00 AM PST

Canadian prosecutor Daniel A. Bellemare looks on at the start of a hearing at the special international tribunal for Lebanon in Leidschendam February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Valerie Kuypers/ANP POOLReuters - The U.N.-backed Lebanon tribunal opened its first session on Monday trying to settle legal points before it can issue arrest warrants in the assassination of former premier Rafik al-Hariri.


Milan judge frees former Guantanamo inmate (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 09:54 AM PST

AP - A judge on Monday ordered that a Tunisian convicted of criminal association with the aim of terrorism must be freed from jail, citing time served at Guantanamo.

Hariri court holds hearing to discuss law issues (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 03:32 AM PST

A Lebanese woman holds a drawing during a rally against Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and in support of the Egyptian people, in Beirut February 7, 2011. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday Egyptian protesters demanding the resignation of Mubarak were changing the Middle East with their battle for AP - Lawyers and judges at a U.N.-backed tribunal tried Monday to thrash out the question of what constitutes an act of terrorism, and other legal issues, as they prepare to prosecute suspects for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.


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