2011年6月29日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Woman: I saw body in serial killing suspect's home (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:54 PM PDT

Anthony Sowell listens to testimony during his trial Wednesday, June 29, 2011 in Cleveland. Sowell is charged with killing 11 women and hiding their bodies around his property. Prosecutors say Sowell lured women from his inner-city Cleveland neighborhood into his home with the promise of alcohol or drugs, then killed them. He has pleaded not guilty to killing the women and faces the death penalty if convicted. (AP Photo/Chuck Crow, Pool)AP - A woman recounted a night of terror Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with killing 11 women, telling jurors that she was brutally raped for several hours and that she saw a decapitated body in his home.


US synagogue bomb plotters get 25 years prison (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:23 PM PDT

(L-R) James Cromite, Onta Williams and David Williams were sentenced to 25 years in prison for planting what they thought were bombs outside New York City synagogues in 2009.(AFP/Shirley Shepard)AFP - A US federal judge Wednesday sentenced three men to 25 years each in prison on terrorism charges, but rebuked both prosecutors and the FBI for "questionable" behavior stemming from a sting operation.


AP IMPACT: Questions arise over FBI terror profile (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:01 PM PDT

In this undated image provided by the FBI, an wanted poster for Saif Al-Adel on the FBI's most wanted list is seen. The FBI's most-wanted list features a dated black-and-white photograph for the man wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. Saif al-Adel, reads the glaring red banner, alias Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi. There's only one problem: Intelligence officials and people who say they know al-Adel and Makkawi tell The Associated Press that they are two different men. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation)AP - The FBI's most-wanted list features a dated black-and-white photograph for the man wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. Saif al-Adel, reads the glaring red banner, alias Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi.


US refocuses on home-grown terror threat (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism aide, John Brennan, pictured in May 2011, vowed to pursue the AFP - The United States vowed Wednesday to pursue the "utter destruction" of Al-Qaeda, while refocusing its counter-terrorism strategy to combat the threat of home-grown terror.


White House unveils retooled plan to hunt al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo, White House counterterrorism chief  John Brennan speaks at the White House in Washington. The US will push ahead with more targeted drone strikes and special operations raids and fewer costly land battles like Iraq and Afghanistan in the continuing war against al-Qaida, according to a new national counterterrorism strategy unveiled Wednesday.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP - The United States will push ahead with more targeted drone strikes and special operations raids and fewer costly land battles like Iraq and Afghanistan in the continuing war against al-Qaida, according to a new national counterterrorism strategy unveiled Wednesday.


3 men convicted in NYC temple plot get 25 years (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:13 PM PDT

AP - Three down-and-out drug offenders caught in an elaborate FBI sting involving a phony plot to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes were sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison by a judge who singled out one as a hateful buffoon who never could have pulled off a terrorist attack on his own.

Ethiopia arrests 9 on terrorism charges (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:15 AM PDT

AP - An Ethiopian official says nine people were arrested last week on suspicions of organizing a terrorist network and planning attacks.

How will the Kabul raid affect a peace deal? [VIDEO] (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:25 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - For all the talk about peace negotiations with the Taliban, one word rarely comes up: cease-fire. Instead, the US and the Taliban talk while shooting, a fact brought home again with the major terrorist attack overnight on a landmark hotel in Kabul.

2 charged in Seattle plot detained pending trial (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:34 PM PDT

This is a 2004 photo provided by the Washington State Department of Corrections showing Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, of Seattle. Davis, and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Domingue Jr., of Los Angeles, were arrested Wednesday night, June 22, 2011. They men were arrested at a warehouse garage when they arrived to pick up machine guns to use in an alleged terror plot. (AP Photo/Department of Corrections)AP - Two men accused of plotting to attack a Seattle military recruiting station have been ordered to remain in custody pending their trials, after neither contested their detentions during hearings Wednesday.


Pakistan indicts seven suspects over park killing (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:16 AM PDT

Pakistani police escort hand-cuffed paramilitary soldiers and a civilian to an anti-terrorism court in Karachi. The court has indicted the suspects on murder and terrorism charges after an unarmed man was shot dead on camera in a public park, lawyers said.(AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)AFP - A Pakistani court on Wednesday indicted six paramilitary soldiers and a civilian on murder and terrorism charges after an unarmed man was shot dead on camera in a public park, lawyers said.


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