2011年2月11日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Judge order trial for man in Mich. mosque plot (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 04:42 PM PST

AP - A California man accused of plotting to attack a popular Detroit-area mosque was ordered to stand trial Friday after police testified that he had 96 fireworks in his car, including M-80 firecrackers and smoke bombs.

Ore. man dies after hospital tells police call 911 (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 02:56 PM PST

AP - The death of an Oregon man just feet from an emergency room has left his family in grief, upset police and drawn a request for an investigation from a congressman, all asking why an officer was told to call 911 for a heart attack victim just outside the hospital door.

Iraq refugees in US scrutinized for al-Qaida links (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 01:19 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2006 file photo, Iraqis gather at the ruins of the al-Askari mosque in Samarra, Iraq. A car bomb killed eight pilgrims Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, on the road to one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, a highly sensitive site still being rebuilt after a 2006 attack that sheered off its gleaming golden dome and engulfed the country in years of sectarian bloodshed. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Hundreds of refugees who sought shelter in the United States during the early years of the Iraq war are coming under fresh scrutiny from U.S. government security officials for possible links to al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq.


No. 1 priority for US security: domestic terrorism, threat report says (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 02:37 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The heads of America’s intelligence agencies rolled out their annual National Threat Assessment Thursday, warning members of Congress about the increasing danger that homegrown terrorists pose to the country.

Why is Patriot Act under fire if homegrown terror threat is rising? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 01:47 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Even as US antiterror officials warned Thursday of the growing threat of homegrown terrorism, the House leadership scrambled for votes to extend critical provisions of the 10-year-old Patriot Act, including a section that allows the FBI to spy on US-born terror suspects with no known ties to international terror organizations.
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