2011年7月9日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Fort Hood suspect's defense has few options (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 12:08 PM PDT

FILE - This 2007 file photo provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) shows Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan when he undertook the Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship program.  More than two dozen soldiers have testified in a senate investigation announced Saturday, July 9, 2011,  about the day they were shot in a crowded Fort Hood building in November 2009 by Hasan. (AP Photo/USUHS, File)AP - More than two dozen soldiers have testified about the day they were shot in a crowded Fort Hood building in November 2009. Some told of looking the gunman in the eye as he fired. A Senate investigation has announced its findings about the suspect: before the rampage, the Army psychiatrist had become an Islamic extremist and a "ticking time bomb."


HRW: Syrian troops describe shooting protesters (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 05:35 AM PDT

Pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters, hold up Assad portraits with Arabic words read:'We love you,' as they protest against the visit of the US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford to the Syrian city of Hama, in front the US Embassy in Damascus, Syria, Friday July 8, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets of Hama on Friday, bolstered by a gesture of support from the American and French ambassadors who visited the city where a massacre nearly 30 years ago came to symbolize the ruthlessness of the Assad dynasty. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP - Syrian commanders told security forces they were fighting terrorists and ordered them to open fire on anti-regime demonstrations even after they found unarmed protesters instead, Human Rights Watch said Saturday in a report citing defectors from President Bashar Assad's regime.


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