2011年5月20日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Al-Qaida eyed oil tankers as bombing targets (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 05:02 PM PDT

The Greek-owned oil tanker Equator is docked at Marsa el Hariga oil terminal in Tobruk, in this April 6, 2011 file photo. Bypassing the naval blockade and braving NATO bombs, the Liberian-flagged Equator sailed into the eastern port of Marsa el Hariga in the first week of April. There, it loaded up to one million barrels of the light, sweet crude so prized by refiners before setting sail through the Suez Canal for east Asia, but what seems likely, more than a dozen shipping and sanctions experts have told Reuters, is that the tanker's expensive cargo has been caught in a legal and political limbo created by international sanctions on Libya. To match SPECIAL REPORT LIBYA/REBELS-SHIP REUTERS/Andrew Winning/Files (LIBYA - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS POLITICS CONFLICT)AP - Osama bin Laden's personal files revealed a brazen idea to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea last summer, creating explosions he hoped would rattle the world's economy and send oil prices skyrocketing, the U.S. said Friday.

Strauss-Kahn Conspiracy Theories and French Democracy (Time.com)

Posted: 20 May 2011 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - Editorial: Just as with the Sept. 11 attacks, a surprisingly large chunk of French society is prone to turn to conspiracy theories to explain Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex scandal. It's a bad sign for the health of public debate in France

Farrakhan aide released in Guyana, demands apology (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 02:02 PM PDT

AP - A longtime aide to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who was accused of having ties to drugs and terrorism was released by Guyanese authorities Friday and demanded an official apology from the government.

Lawyers ask NYC judge to find Iran liable for 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 01:18 PM PDT

AP - Lawyers representing 9/11 families are asking a federal judge to find Iran culpable in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, saying new evidence shows Iranian officials had advanced word of the attacks and helped train the hijackers.

More than 30 cities out of gov't grant program (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2011 10:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 2007 file photo, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. King, whose national profile has climbed as head of the U.S. House Homeland Security panel, is leaving the door open for a possible presidential bid, The Associated Press reports Wednesday, May 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)AP - More than 30 smaller and mid-sized U.S. cities are losing about $170 million in federal anti-terrorism funding that began after the Sept. 11 attacks, perplexing some local officials at a time when information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's hideout suggests al-Qaida is being encouraged to attack smaller targets.

Top lawmakers agree to Patriot Act extension (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2011 10:06 PM PDT

AP - Top congressional leaders agreed Thursday to a four-year extension of the anti-terrorist Patriot Act, the controversial law passed after the Sept. 11 attacks that governs the search for terrorists on American soil.

With Al Qaeda weakened, US warns about other Pakistani terror groups (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 May 2011 06:40 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - With Osama bin Laden dead, and only small numbers of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, some US leaders are talking up the threat of other militant outfits in the region. Such talk appears aimed at convincing critics why significant US forces must remain in the region at a time of war fatigue.

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