2011年6月11日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Brennan says Somali action setback for al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 01:03 PM PDT

AP - President Obama's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism says the death of an al-Qaida operative behind the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania is a huge setback for the terrorist organization and its allies.

NSA case unlikely to deter Obama's take on leakers (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 10:57 AM PDT

Former senior executive with the National Security Agency Thomas Drake leaves the US Courthouse in Baltimore on Friday, June 10, 2011 with one of his attorneys, Jesslyn Radack, director of National Security and Human Rights with the Government Accountablity Project. A federal judge dismissed Espionage Act charges against Drake, accused of leaking classified documents. Drake pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and the government dropped 10 felony counts against him.  (AP Photo/Timothy Jacobsen)AP - Criminal defendants of all stripes in national security cases, including Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North in the Iran-Contra affair and al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, have long sought to work government secrets into their defense.


Man behind failed Moscow terror attacks killed in Russia (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 02:51 AM PDT

Police block Manezhnaya Square near the Kremlin in Moscow in December. Russian forces say they have killed three men including an organiser of failed New Year's terror attacks in Moscow when they put up resistance during a routine security check in the unrest-infested Caucasus.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)AFP - Russian forces have killed three men including an organiser of failed New Year terror attacks in Moscow when they put up resistance during a routine security check in the unrest-infested Caucasus, police said on Saturday.


Eight held in Indonesia over poison plot (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 11:56 PM PDT

This file photo shows Indonesian 'green berets' anti-terror squad evacuating hostages during a counter-terrorism drill in Jakarta. Indonesia has arrested eight terror suspects who were plotting a mass poisoning of police personnel, according to an anti-terror officer, as one report saying they had planned to use cyanide.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - Indonesia has arrested eight terror suspects who were plotting a mass poisoning of police personnel, according to an anti-terror officer, as one report saying they had planned to use cyanide.


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