2011年3月7日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


AP News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:27 PM PST

AP - After 2-year ban, Obama allows new military terror trials at Guantanamo

Obama to lift freeze on new Guantanamo trials (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:24 PM PST

In this photo reviewed by US military officials a set of typical detainee restraints are seen at Camp VI at the US Detention Center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2010. President Barack Obama lifted a ban Monday on new military trials for Guantanamo Bay terror suspects, apparently conceding that the camp he has vowed to close will not be emptied any time soon.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - President Barack Obama lifted a ban on new military trials for Guantanamo Bay terror suspects, apparently conceding that the camp he has vowed to close will not be emptied any time soon.


Video shows NYC police helicopter view on 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:53 PM PST

In this image made from New York Police Department video posted on the Internet of the World Trade Center attack, smoke engulfs the twin towers after being hit by commercial airliners, as videotaped from a NYPD helicopter on Sept. 11, 2001. The video was released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on March 3 under a Freedom of Information Act request, but it wasn't clear who published the footage online. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP - New video has surfaced from the Sept. 11 attacks from a police helicopter hovering near the burning World Trade Center towers in the hope of rescuing survivors from the rooftops, only to find no one there as the buildings topple and smolder.


Obama restarts Guantanamo trials (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:50 PM PST

A view of a control tower building for an abandoned airport at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base July 27, 2008. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen/FilesAP - President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant.


Ohio abandons plans for security camera network (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:25 PM PST

AP - Ohio is shelving plans for a network that would have linked thousands of cameras to monitor roads, schools and businesses in an effort to provide more eyes during emergencies, the state's new Homeland Security director says.

Not Checking that Bag? It's Going to Cost Everyone (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 02:10 PM PST

Time.com - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that the increase in the number of people carrying their luggage on flights is costing taxpayers

Suspect in East Coast rapes held on $1.5M bail (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 01:46 PM PST

Aaron Thomas, dubbed the East Coast Rapist by law enforcement, leaves New Haven Superior Court after his arraignment in New Haven, Conn., Monday, March 7, 2011. Thomas is suspected in the sexual assault of at least 17 women from Virginia to Rhode Island over 12 years.   (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - A man who lived a Jekyll-and-Hyde lifestyle as he sexually assaulted women from Virginia to Rhode Island over 12 years asked, "Why haven't you picked me up sooner?" when he was arrested last week, a prosecutor said Monday in court.


White House promotes Muslim help against terrorism (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 10:16 AM PST

Iman Mohammed Magid, executive director All Dulles Area Muslim Society, left, and Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, cross their hearts as the pledge of allegiance is said during an interfaith forum at the ADAM mosque in Sterling, Va., Sunday, March 6, 2011.  (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - The White House is pushing a message of religious tolerance ahead of this week's congressional hearing on Islamic radicalism, which has sparked protests on grounds it unfairly singles out Muslims as potential terrorists.


Spain indicts 3 for ETA and FARC group links (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 10:04 AM PST

AP - A Spanish judge has indicted three Basque separatists, including a Venezuelan resident, on terrorism charges for suspected roles in organizing collaboration between armed Basque separatist group ETA and Colombia's FARC rebels.

Kenya police: Grenade attackers trained in Somalia (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 08:11 AM PST

AP - A police spokesman says that nine Kenyan suspects who carried out attacks in Kenya trained with a militia group in Somalia with links to al-Qaida.

Security, sabotage, spies at Constitution Center (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 02:55 AM PST

In this Thursday, March 3, 2011 photo, shown is the Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America exhibit during a  press preview at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The exhibit is scheduled to run from March 4, to May 30. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - It was one of the worst acts of terrorism in U.S. history, a deadly deed that filled the New York City sky with smoke and debris, thrust the nation into war, prompted restrictive new laws and intensified hostility toward foreigners.


The Bigotry of Peter King (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 08:24 PM PST

The Daily Beast - The new Homeland Security chairman opens hearings on American Muslim terrorists this week. Peter Beinart on how the GOP’s shameful religious intolerance obscures the real homeland threat.

Crowd in NYC rallies against hearing on US Muslims (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 06:07 PM PST

Entertainment promoter Russell Simmons addresses the 'Today, I Am A Muslim, Too' rally to protest against a planned congressional hearing on the role of Muslims in homegrown terrorism, Sunday, March 6, 2011 in New York. Republican congressman Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says affiliates of al-Qaida are radicalizing some American Muslims and that he plans to hold hearings on the threat they pose to the U.S. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - Some 300 people gathered in Times Square on Sunday to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslim terrorism, criticizing it as xenophobic and saying that singling out Muslims, rather than extremists, is unfair.


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