2011年6月19日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Weak Al-Qaeda could splinter: Gates (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:45 AM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) speaks with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen (R) at his final press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, June 16. Gates said that Al-Qaeda had been seriously degraded and could split into a set of regional terror groups now that Osama bin Laden was gone.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that Al-Qaeda had been seriously degraded and could split into a set of regional terror groups now that Osama bin Laden was gone.

AP sources: Pakistanis tip off militants again (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 09:44 AM PDT

Pro-Taliban supporters chant anti-US slogans during a religious gathering in 2007 in Killi Nalai, a village near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that US officials were involved in preliminary discussions with the Taliban to seek a political solution to the war in Afghanistan but said he didn't expect significant progress for months.(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)AP - In another blow to Washington's relationship with Pakistan, U.S. officials say Pakistan failed another test to prove it could be trusted to go after American enemies on its soil by intentionally or inadvertently tipping off militants at two more bomb-building factories in its tribal areas, giving the suspected terrorists time to flee.

Gates: Iran supplying arms to Iraqi Shiite groups (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 06:23 AM PDT

Anti-war protestor Brian Haw poses near the Houses of Parliament in London in an October 25, 2004 file photo. British peace campaigner Brian Haw, who lived and slept outside the Houses of Parliament in London for a decade to protest about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has died of cancer, his family said on June 19, 2011. He was 62. REUTERS/Toby Melville/files (BRITAIN - Tags: POLITICS OBITUARY MILITARY CIVIL UNREST)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Shiite extremists, not al-Qaida terrorists, are to blame for most of the recent U.S. military deaths in Iraq, and they're "clearly getting some fairly sophisticated and powerful weapons" from Iran.

Blast wounds 5 in Philippine bar amid terror fears (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 09:50 PM PDT

AP - Police say an explosion wounded five women and slightly damaged a karaoke bar in a southern Philippine city amid fresh concerns about possible terrorist attacks in the country.

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