2011年3月31日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Over a million new US green card holders in 2010: study (AFP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:49 PM PDT

A group of immigrants take the Oath of Allegiance as they are sworn in as US citizens in Washington, DC, in 2010. Over a million foreigners were granted legal permanent residency in the United States in fiscal year 2010 that ended in September, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - Over a million foreigners were granted legal permanent residency in the United States in fiscal year 2010 that ended in September, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.


Republicans grill DHS officials on FOIA delays (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 11:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2011 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano addresses the National Fusion Center Conference in Denver.   The Homeland Security Department demoted a senior career employee who confidentially complained to the inspector general that political appointees were improperly interfering with requests for federal records by journalists and watchdog groups.  (AP Photo)AP - Republicans in Congress objected Thursday to the Homeland Security Department's now-rescinded practice of requiring secretive reviews by political advisers of hundreds of requests for government files under the Freedom of Information Act. The chairman of a House oversight committee said the process "reeks of a Nixonian enemies list" and was unacceptable.


Kerik's 4-year prison sentence upheld in NYC (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:25 AM PDT

AP - A federal appeals court upheld the conviction and four-year prison sentence given to a former New York police commissioner who nearly became head of the Department of Homeland Security.

German arrested over possible stadium attack plan (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:59 AM PDT

AP - German police on Thursday found possibly explosive devices near a football stadium after arresting a man, but later said the incident was not terror related.

Syria's Assad takes steps towards reforms (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:54 AM PDT

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad addresses the parliament in Damascus in this still image taken from a video footage March 30, 2011. REUTERS/Syrian state TV via Reuters TVReuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, facing a wave of protests demanding greater freedoms, took steps on Thursday toward addressing grievances including lifting emergency law and granting disenfranchised Kurds rights.


Indonesian terror suspect shot, hurt during arrest (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:28 AM PDT

In this undated poster released by Philippine National Police and the US Rewards For Justice Program, shows Umar Patek.  Intelligence sources say top Indonesian terror suspect Umar Patek has been arrested in Pakistan. Patek is one of the main suspects in the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead. (AP Photo/ Philippine National Police and the US Rewards For Justice Program)AP - The main Indonesian suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people was shot and wounded by security forces who arrested him in Pakistan, an Indonesian official said Thursday.


America's Libyan Revenge (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:46 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - In all the discussion of where, if anywhere, American strategic interests lie in regard to Libya, one very obvious motivation for U.S. action seems to be being ignored: Vengeance. Yet the certain knowledge that the West will eventually take revenge for terrorist crimes committed even as long ago as the 1970s and 1980s is itself a vital strategic interest. Rogue states must always know that there is no such thing as a statute of limitations on murder, and that even after four decades, the slate has not been wiped clean. The demand for vengeance is not a high-sounding principle of the kind that President Obama might like to intone in his recent speech to the nation, but it has always been an invaluable weapon in the realm of international relations, and its visceral righteousness demands far more respect than windy resolutions of the U.N. Security Council.

The Bikers Suing Their Local Police (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:38 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - The cops call them Harley-riding "terrorists," but a group of bikers in California say they're misunderstood—and to prove it, they're using the whitest-collar of legal tactics: They're suing.

Fukushima warning: US has 'utterly failed' to address risk of spent fuel (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:29 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The travails of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan are highlighting a key question for the US: Why are America's nuclear power plants allowed to store tons of used but still highly radioactive fuel in pools for as many as 100 years â€" despite the fact that those pools are far more vulnerable to terrorist attack than the reactors themselves?
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