2011年5月28日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


For ground zero workers, another 9/11 anniversary (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 02:15 PM PDT

This Sept. 24, 2001 file photo shows the tangle of debris in the pit that once was home to the World Trade Center before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Just 8½ months after the attacks, an estimated 1.8 million tons of tangled steel and pulverized cement were painstakingly removed, transforming a mountainous pile into a 16-acre hole. Fires at the site hadn't stopped burning until mid-December, yet the project was still finished months ahead of schedule and under budget. By Memorial Day 2002, it was all but over.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File)AP - The men and women who build New York City's skyscrapers aren't a soft bunch, but even the toughest were unprepared for the job that took over their lives in September of 2001.


Suicide bomber kills 8 tribesmen in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 07:31 AM PDT

Supporters of the Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami attend an anti-American rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, May 27, 2011. Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that relations between the United States and Pakistan had reached a turning point after the killing of Osama bin Laden and Islamabad must take 'decisive steps' in the days ahead to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - A suicide bomber targeted pro-government tribal elders in Pakistan's northwestern frontier Saturday, killing eight men, officials said, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a visit here implored Pakistanis to take decisive steps to fight terrorism.


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