2011年5月16日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Oprah tickets a concern in terror trial jury selection (AFP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:23 PM PDT

Flames gush out of The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, one of the sites attacked in 2008. Tickets to see talk show queen Oprah Winfrey in the flesh were at issue Monday during jury selection in the case against a Chicago businessman accused of assisting a key figure in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - Tickets to see talk show queen Oprah Winfrey in the flesh were at issue Monday during jury selection in the case against a Chicago businessman accused of assisting a key figure in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Jury selection begins in Mumbai terror attack case (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2009 file courtroom sketch, Tahawwur Hussain Rana appears before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in Chicago. Rana, 50, is accused in the 2008 Mumbai rampage that left more than 160 people dead and planning an attack that was never carried out on a Danish newspaper. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, including material support to terrorism. Jury selection in his trial begins Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - Nearly 100 potential jurors filed one-by-one into a federal courtroom on Monday for the first day of a terrorism trial involving a Chicago businessman at the center of a case that could reveal troubling links between a terrorist group blamed for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and Pakistan's largest intelligence agency.

Supreme Court won't revive torture lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 09:29 AM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons.

Irish militants warn of bomb in central London (Reuters)

Posted: 16 May 2011 09:18 AM PDT

A police officer mans a cordon as the Metropolitan Police underwater and confined space search team investigate a manhole on the Mall in central London, May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew WinningReuters - Irish militants opposed to the peace process with Britain warned of a bomb in central London on Monday, a day before Queen Elizabeth makes a historic visit to Ireland, security sources said.

Queen Elizabeth II ready for historic Irish trip (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 16, 2008 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, is welcomed by children waving Britain's flag, upon her arrival at the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Encouraged by the largely successful peace process in Northern Ireland, which has made her sensitive visit feasible, the queen will become the first British monarch to set foot in the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. When a British sovereign last came, a full century ago, all of Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom. (AP Photo/Firat Yurdakul, Pool)AP - Much of central Dublin has been closed off by police to prepare for the landmark visit of Queen Elizabeth II, who is set to become the first British monarch to set foot in the Republic of Ireland despite rising security concerns.

Boxer pleads innocent in Danish terror trial (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 06:33 AM PDT

AP - A Chechen-born amateur boxer accused of preparing a letter bomb for a Danish newspaper that printed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad pleaded innocent to terrorism Monday at the start of his trial in Copenhagen.

Pakistan's bin Laden Suspects (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 15 May 2011 10:14 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - A new terrorism trial will spotlight the shadowy wing of Pakistan's spy agency—and could help determine who was harboring bin Laden. Philip Shenon reports.

Our Pakistan Problem Manages to Get Worse (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 15 May 2011 08:17 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - The fallout from Pakistan's failure to capture Osama bin Laden 45 miles from the capital seemed like rock bottom. But a terrorism trial that begins Monday will include allegations that the ISI runs terrorist camps and helped plan the Mumbai attacks, while bin Laden’s archives could reveal Pakistan complicity. John Barry on the issues Washington confronts as tensions with Pakistan heighten.

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