2011年5月5日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Pakistan threatens U.S. on cooperation if more raids (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 05:35 PM PDT

Osama bin Laden sits during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf/Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)Reuters - Pakistan's army threatened on Thursday to reconsider its anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States if Washington carried out another unilateral attack like the killing of Osama bin Laden.


Info from Osama raid shows interest in US trains (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 05:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 1998 file photo, Muslim militant and al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The Americans who raided bin Laden's lair met far less resistance than the Obama administration described in the aftermath, according to its latest account. The commandos encountered gunshots from only one man, whom they quickly killed, before sweeping the house and shooting others, who were unarmed, a senior defense official said. (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai, File)AP - Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. But counterterrorism officials say they believe the planning never got beyond the initial phase and have no recent intelligence pointing to an active plot for such an attack.


Obama in NY: We never forget, we mean what we say (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 05:32 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama bows his head after laying a wreath at the 9/11 Memorial in New York.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AP - Solemnly honoring victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, President Barack Obama hugged survivors, thanked the heroes of one of the nation's darkest days and declared Thursday that the killing of Osama bin Laden after all these years was an American message to the world: "When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say."


Bush skips 9/11 event, keeps low public profile (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 03:54 PM PDT

File - In this April 12, 2011 file photo, former president George W. Bush makes opening remarks at the The 4% Project, Driving Economic Growth conference at SMU, in Dallas. Bush's decision not to appear at ground zero with President Barack Obama after the death of Osama bin Laden is consistent with his desire keep a low public profile, former first lady Laura Bush said Thursday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)AP - In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush famously grabbed a bullhorn while speaking to those gathered at ground zero, telling them: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."


Al-Qaeda weighed train attack to mark Sept 11 (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 03:51 PM PDT

An Amtrak train pulls into Newark Penn Station in February 2011 in New Jersey. Intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan showed his Al-Qaeda network pondered strikes on US trains on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, US officials said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - Intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan showed his Al-Qaeda network pondered strikes on US trains on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, US officials said Thursday.


Al Qaeda plotted 9/11 anniversary rail attack: government (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 04:37 PM PDT

Reuters - Al Qaeda considered attacking the U.S. rail sector on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, U.S. government officials said on Thursday in describing intelligence from Osama bin Laden's hide-out in Pakistan.

Soldiers React to bin Laden's Death: 'I'd Have Rather Killed Him Myself' (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 05 May 2011 03:20 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - Osama bin Laden may have been killed, but soldiers in Afghanistan are still fighting the war on terror. John McHugh takes portraits and gets reactions from those on the ground.

After Osama bin Laden death, Obama visits Ground Zero (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:41 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes the hand of a New York City police officer after placing a wreath at the World Trade Center site in New York, May 5, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - Days after the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. President Barack Obama met New York firefighters and police on Thursday and visited Ground Zero to offer comfort to a city still scarred by the Sept. 11 attacks.


Prosecutor: Ex-Taliban fighter recruited in UK (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:36 PM PDT

British Muslim convert Matthew Newton, 29, arrives at Manchester Crown Court, England, Thursday May 5, 2011. A British prosecutor alleged Thursday that Newton was one of several extremists who manned an Islamic bookstall in the northern English city of Manchester in the hope of enrolling holy warriors for jihad in Afghanistan. The men were eventually arrested in a counterterrorism operation. All four deny the charges being leveled against them. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - A former Taliban fighter manned an Islamic bookstall while trying to drum up recruits for jihad in Afghanistan, a British prosecutor alleged Thursday.


German confesses to being al Qaeda member (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Reuters - A German man believed to have given information to the country's intelligence services about possible terror attacks in Germany confessed in court on Thursday to being a member of al Qaeda, his lawyer said.

Obama on 9/11 trip : We will never forget (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:10 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama addresses firefighters at the Midtown Firehouse (Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9) in New York ahead of a wreath laying ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - President Barack Obama took a defiant message to the New York epicenter of the 9/11 attacks Thursday, warning that Osama bin Laden's death proved America will never fail to bring terrorists to "justice."


Bin Laden death shows US 'never' forgets: Obama (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 09:55 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama addresses firefighters at the Midtown Firehouse (Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9) in New York ahead of a wreath laying ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - US President Barack Obama on Thursday hailed the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as a message to terrorists everywhere that America will never forget the September 11, 2001 attacks.


Al-Qaida suspect confesses as German trial opens (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 08:06 AM PDT

Rami Makanesi, foreground left, awaits the beginning of his trial at a court in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, May 5, 2011. The 25-year-old German-Syrian who authorities believe trained in an al-Qaida paramilitary camp in Pakistan faces charges of membership in a terror organization. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - A German-Syrian man admitted Thursday to belonging to a terrorist group and training in an al-Qaida paramilitary camp in Pakistan, and now faces up to five years in prison under a plea deal, German officials said.


Pakistan's army warns US not to stage more raids (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 01:23 PM PDT

Pakistani army troops guard the perimeter of the walled compound of a house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Thursday,  May 5, 2011. The residents of Abbottabad, Pakistan, seem to be confused and suspicious about the killing of Osama bin Laden by a U.S. military force, which took place in their midst before dawn on Monday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Pakistan's army broke its silence Thursday over the U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, acknowledging its own "shortcomings" in efforts to find the al-Qaida leader but threatening to review cooperation with Washington if there is another similar violation of Pakistani sovereignty.


Terror suspects arrested at nuclear plant released (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:45 AM PDT

The Sellafield nuclear plant is pictured in 2002. The five men arrested under anti-terrorism legislation near a nuclear plant earlier this week have been released without charge, police said.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - The five men arrested under anti-terrorism legislation near a nuclear plant earlier this week have been released without charge, police said.


Questions, confusion in classrooms over bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 01:05 PM PDT

Ivy Preparatory Academy sixth graders Simin Savani, left, and Hannah Baker,  right, watch a news reel of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in school Wednesday, May 4, 2011, in Norcross, Ga. Jacob Cole, a teacher at the charter school just outside Atlanta, designed the lesson to help the students who were toddlers when the terrorist attacks changed the United States forever understand why so many celebrations sprang up the night Bin Laden's death was announced. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - It was a day of infamy they don't remember.


Colombian FARC narco-terrorists convicted in Seattle (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:03 PM PDT

Reuters - A federal jury convicted three Colombian men of drug trafficking and money laundering as affiliates of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, a paramilitary group that controls South American cocaine trade.

When a terrorist dies, is it OK to gloat? (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 06:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 2, 2011 file photo, with the new One World Trade Center building in the background, second left, a large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to ground zero, during the early morning hours in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)AP - When Hyojin Jenny Hwang wrote on Facebook that she was saddened by the sight of young Americans like herself jubilantly cheering Osama bin Laden's death, the angry response was swift, even from friends.


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