2011年6月7日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Jury to begin deliberating in Mumbai attacks trial (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:33 PM PDT

AP - Attorneys in the high-profile terrorism trial of a Chicago businessman accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks offered the same final advice Tuesday to jurors: Use your common sense.

Terror suspect enters guilty plea in NC case (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 02:51 PM PDT

AP - A North Carolina man who was accused of supporting jihad along with his father and brother pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiring to aid a terrorist conspiracy abroad.

Mumbai attacks trial wraps up in Chicago (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 01:22 PM PDT

Sketch drawing of Tahawwur Hussain Rana (R) and Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in Chicago. Rana, a Pakistan-born Chicago businessman, was part of the AFP - A Pakistan-born Chicago businessman was part of the "inner circle" of men who plotted the 2008 Mumbai attacks and therefore must have been involved, US prosecutors said Tuesday in closing arguments.


UK outlines fresh anti-extremism tactics (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 12:13 PM PDT

AP - Britain's Conservative-led government outlined a revised strategy Tuesday to tackle homegrown terrorism, saying that tens of millions of pounds (dollars) spent on anti-extremism projects have failed to steer young Muslims away from violence.

NATO-Russia drill aims to prevent September 11 attack (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 10:08 AM PDT

Policemen stand guard as a Russian Air Force aerobatic team performs at the Moscow International Air Show in Zhukovsky, August 23, 2009. REUTERS/Denis SinyakovReuters - Russian and NATO forces conducted joint counter-terrorism exercises Tuesday aimed at preparing for the type of hijacked aircraft attack that destroyed New York's World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.


NATO, Russia team up in anti-terror exercise (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:01 AM PDT

Russian Event Director, National Counter Terrorism Committee head Maj.Gen. Yevgeny Potapov seen during in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 7, 2011. NATO and Russia are conducting an unprecedented anti-terrorism exercise involving a military transport plane and Potapov oversees exercise on behalf of the Russian Defense Ministry.  (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - NATO and Russia teamed up Tuesday to test their ability to fight terrorism, using a military transport plane to simulate a hijacking over Poland and sending in fighter planes to save it, an official said.


Kenya gov't: Blast was not a terror attack (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 07:23 AM PDT

AP - Kenya's security minister says investigators think a recent explosion that killed two and injured 45 was not the work of terrorists.

Turkey: 10 suspected al-Qaida affiliates detained (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:10 AM PDT

AP - Police on Tuesday arrested 10 people suspected of links to an al-Qaida terrorist network in southern Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

Interpol urges airlines to create passport database (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:53 PM PDT

The Interpol headquarters in Lyon, eastern France. Interpol urged the world's airlines on Tuesday to establish a passport database to help prevent terror attacks similar to the September 11, 2001 airline hijackings that targeted the United States.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)AFP - Interpol urged the world's airlines on Tuesday to establish a passport database to help prevent terror attacks similar to the September 11, 2001 airline hijackings that targeted the United States.


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