2011年3月8日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Colo. woman admits aiding foreign terrorist cell (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:24 PM PST

AP - A Colorado woman admitted Tuesday she helped a terrorist cell that hoped to incite Islamic holy war, and her lawyer said she was "part of something that was much larger, much more complex than she ever knew."

Republicans push for tougher Guantanamo limits (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:31 PM PST

President Barack Obama talks to student during a visit to Advance Placement History Class with Austrian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at Wakefield High School, Monday March, 7, 2011, in Arlington, Va. Above Obama are portraits of previous U.S. Presidents. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - House Republicans on Tuesday demanded tougher restrictions for terror suspects at Guantanamo even after President Barack Obama reversed course and ordered the resumption of military trials for detainees.


Hornet's nest ahead? Congress examines Islam in US (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:43 PM PST

Zienib Noori, 20, of Albany, NY listens to a speaker at the AP - The wreckage of the World Trade Center still smoldered after the 2001 terrorist attacks when a voice rose above the pain and suspicion to demand that American Muslims not be blamed or mistreated. "Islam is peace," declared George W. Bush, speaking from a mosque and sounding almost like an imam.


Hearing on terrorist status for Islamic charity (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:35 PM PST

AP - A federal appeals court will hear arguments on whether the government violated the constitutional rights of an Islamic charity that it declared a terrorist organization.

Brazilian soccer stars beat Chechnya's team 6-4 (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 11:42 AM PST

Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri, known as Dunga, left, arrives in Grozny, Chechen capital Tuesday, March 8, 2011.  Some of Brazil's biggest soccer stars of the past arrived Tuesday in Chechnya for a friendly game against a team to be led on the pitch by Ramzan Kadyrov, the local strongman of the blood-soaked Russian region. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Brazilian soccer legends took a 6-4 win Tuesday over a team led by Chechnya's strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, who was still the star of the friendly match played in the stadium where his father was killed in a terrorist bombing.


Man held in Scotland over Sweden terror attack (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 06:29 AM PST

AP - Police in Scotland arrested a 30-year-old man Tuesday on suspicion of aiding a suicide bomber who targeted Christmas shoppers in Stockholm in December.

Fla. TV anchor testifies in Cuban militant's trial (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:32 PM PST

AP - A Cuban militant accused of lying to U.S. immigration officials about his past talked during a TV interview shown to jurors Tuesday about a string of bombings in Cuba, saying he felt no remorse and was willing to assume his "historical responsibility" for carrying out attacks.

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

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:35 AM 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

Hearing offers new insights on NYC subway plot (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:29 AM PST

AP - After Adis Medunjanin arrived in Pakistan in 2008, authorities say, he took the code name Mohammad for what would become a failed mission by al-Qaida to attack the city's subway system with homemade bombs.

Secret Egyptian Security Service Files Exposed (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 07:37 PM PST

The Daily Beast - Egyptians can now go online to view hundreds of documents detailing the horrifying activities of the State Security service. But while the agency is on the run, it could still orchestrate terrorist attacks or sectarian violence, writes Ursula Lindsey.

Obama orders Guantánamo tribunals to resume. Is he abandoning his pledge? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:52 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In the 2008 presidential campaign Barack Obama vowed that if elected he’d shut the US prison for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But today President Obama seems as far as ever from being able to fulfill that promise.
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