2011年5月17日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Potential jurors questioned in Mumbai terror trial (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2008 file photo, smoke billows from the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India during a 60-hour rampage through India's financial capital that killed more than 160 people. On Monday, May 16, 2011, jury selection began in Chicago for businessman Tahawwur Rana, 50, who is accused of helping a former schoolmate serve as a scout for Pakistani militants blamed in the three-day rampage on India's largest city. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)AP - A federal judge has excused more than 20 possible jurors in the trial of a Chicago businessman accused in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Suspect indicted in NYC synagogue plot terror case (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:30 PM PDT

AP - One man charged with participating in a plot to blow up synagogues in New York City has been indicted, while prosecutors are taking more time to present a case against a second suspect to a grand jury.

Judge orders hearing for man in Mich. mosque plot (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 01:56 PM PDT

AP - A judge on Tuesday ordered a competency hearing for a mentally ill Vietnam War veteran accused of planning to attack a prominent Michigan mosque with fireworks.

Rogers to Holder: Leave CIA alone (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:35 PM PDT

AP - House intelligence chairman Mike Rogers says the Justice Department should stop investigating CIA interrogators for alleged abuse of detainees under the Bush administration. Rogers says the interrogators' work helped lead to the killing of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Amtrak chief: Trains more vulnerable than planes (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:12 AM PDT

AP - Amtrak President Joseph Boardman says he wants to step up security patrols of the passenger rail network and explore new technologies able to provide advance warning of track tampering following revelations that al Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains.

Officials: terror groups are joining crime rings (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 07:45 AM PDT

William Brownfield, U.S. Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, looks on during a Trans-Atlantic meeting on international crime Tuesday, April 17, 2011 in Lisbon. (AP Photo/ Francisco Seco)AP - Terror groups are becoming more deeply involved in international criminal networks to obtain financing for their operations, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday.

Alternative Career Options for Burned-Out Lawyers (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 17 May 2011 07:18 AM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - Tonya Fitzpatrick had an impressive law career, by anyone's standards. She'd served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Education. She'd worked as a legal advisor to the Department of Homeland Security. And she had not only a law degree, but a master's from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

INSIDE WASHINGTON: DHS most overseen department (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:06 AM PDT

FILE - This June 19, 2007, file photo, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., left, listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. If congressional oversight is a good thing, then the Homeland Security Department may be suffering from too much of a good thing. The department, cobbled together quickly out of 22 other agencies after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, answers to 108 congressional committees, subcommittees, caucuses and the like, about four times as many as the departments of State and Justice combined. “There’s no good reason,” said King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - If congressional oversight is a good thing, then the Homeland Security Department may be suffering from too much of a good thing.

Dictators and Terrorists Who Love Porn (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 17 May 2011 01:31 AM PDT

The Daily Beast - Osama bin Laden's compound had an extensive porn library—but he's hardly the first tyrant to have a fetish collection. From Hitler and his racy photos to Saddam Hussein and his alleged adult-film role to Kim Jong-il and his prized collection of videos, find out who were the dirtiest despots of all time.

Queen remembers victims during historic Ireland visit (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 01:47 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (2ndL) and Irish President Mary McAleese arrive to lay wreaths in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin. The queen laid a wreath Tuesday to remember the victims of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain in a landmark gesture on the first visit of a British monarch to the Irish Republic.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Queen Elizabeth II laid a wreath Tuesday to remember the victims of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain in a landmark gesture on the first visit of a British monarch to the Irish Republic.

Supreme Court refuses terror suspects' case alleging CIA torture (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 May 2011 09:25 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by five foreign nationals seeking to reinstate a lawsuit claiming they were kidnapped and tortured overseas at the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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