2011年5月11日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


NRC wants nuke plants to detail anti-terror plans (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 01:25 PM PDT

AP - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is demanding that operators of the 104 U.S. nuclear reactors submit detailed information about plans to respond to a possible terrorist attack.

U.S. terrorism trial may raise tensions with Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2011 12:25 PM PDT

A reporter talks on her phone as smoke is seen coming from Taj Hotel in Mumbai November 27, 2008. REUTERS/Arko DattaReuters - A Pakistani-born man accused of aiding militants in the 2008 Mumbai attacks is set to go on trial in Chicago next week in a legal battle that may worsen strained relations between the United States and Pakistan.


India seeks 50 fugitives in Pakistan: reports (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 10:39 AM PDT

Activists from the All India Muslim Youth Anti-Terrorist Front shout anti-Pakistan slogans during a protest in New Delhi in 2006. India has handed to Pakistan a list of 50 AFP - India has handed to Pakistan a list of 50 "most-wanted" fugitives, including top terror suspects, who are believed to be sheltering in the country, reports said Wednesday.


US names Haqqani commander to terrorist list (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Afghan locals stand at the site of a bomb attack in Khost province in 2009. The United States on Wednesday designated a leader of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network to a list of people sanctioned for involvement or support of terrorist organizations.(AFP/File/Mohammad Rasool)AFP - The United States on Wednesday designated a leader of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network to a list of people sanctioned for involvement or support of terrorist organizations.


Al-Qaeda groups threaten to avenge bin Laden (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 01:34 PM PDT

A Saudi consulate official (2nd L) speaks as Pakistani police officers look on outside the Saudi consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, following a grenade attack.(AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)AFP - Al-Qaeda-inspired insurgents in Yemen and Somalia have threatened to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos and are chillingly warning the West of a bloodier jihad to come.


Kenya deports British human rights defender (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 07:17 AM PDT

AP - A Kenyan official says a British human rights investigator looking into the illegal deportations and detentions of terror suspects from Kenya to Uganda has herself been deported.

Medvedev: bin Laden death affects Russia (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 07:05 AM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev heads a meeting on judicial system issues at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - Russia's president on Wednesday told the country's top security officials to beef up the security at Russia's foreign missions in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden.


German police raid homes of suspected extremists (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 06:47 AM PDT

AP - German police raided the homes of two alleged Islamic extremists suspected of raising funds to support terror attacks and recruiting militants for paramilitary training in Pakistan's border region, officials said Wednesday.

UK police, military in Olympic terror attack drill (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 02:12 AM PDT

AP - British authorities say the country's police and military carried out a three-day drill to simulate a terrorist attack on next summer's Olympic Games in London.

US terror trial to open amid tense Pakistan relations (AFP)

Posted: 10 May 2011 09:05 PM PDT

An Indian soldier aims his weapon towards The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in November 2008, after Islamist militants took over the hotel. An upcoming Chicago trial could lend credence to suspicions that Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was involved in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people died.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)AFP - The Chicago trial of a Pakistani man accused of helping to plot the deadly Mumbai attacks opens next week amid a diplomatic crisis which could worsen if evidence of Pakistan's involvement is revealed.


Is Anwar al-Awlaki's importance to Al Qaeda overstated? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 May 2011 09:57 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Following the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, some Western analysts see Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen as next in line to lead Al Qaeda because of the preacher's inspirational role in past attacks on America from a nation considered increasingly important for the global terrorism brand.
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