2011年7月18日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


9/11 families want info on phone hacking probe (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:32 PM PDT

AP - Relatives of Sept. 11 victims are asking the FBI to brief them on its probe into allegations that News Corp. journalists sought to hack into terror victims' phones.

Jews: Argentina and Iran both failed in bomb probe (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:03 PM PDT

AP - Seventeen years after 85 people died in Argentina's worst terrorist attack, their relatives criticized both Iran and their own government Monday for failing to solve the case.

Cousin admits role in NYC subway terror plot (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:32 PM PDT

FILE -- A Dec. 9, 2010 file photo showsMohammed Wali Zazi leaveing a federal courthouse in New York. Mohammed Wali Zazi, the father of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi, has pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice and other charges. Zazi is set to go on trial Monday July 18, 2011, in federal court in Brooklyn on charges he obstructed justice by lying to investigators and by tampering with and destroying evidence to cover up his son's foiled scheme to attack New York City subways.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig/file)AP - A cousin of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi publicly revealed for the first time Monday that he was in on Zazi's chilling 2009 plot to attack New York City subways with suicide bombers.


Post-9/11, biggest terror threat is underground (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:59 PM PDT

In this Friday, July 1, 2011 photo, a heavily armed New York City police officer stands guard at a Times Square subway station in New York. Since terrorists brought down the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, subways have been bombed across the world, including Madrid, London and this spring in Minsk. The possibility that New York’s sprawling, porous and famously gritty subway system could be next has become a constant worry. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - It's the morning rush in the Times Square subway station, a routine convergence of humanity and mass transit that makes New York City hum. Mixing seamlessly with subway riders are New York Police Department officers with heavy body armor and high-powered rifles, commanders in blue NYPD polo shirts carrying smart phone-size radiation detectors and a panting police dog named Sabu.


Hacking "feeding frenzy" claims second top UK cop (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:12 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer quit on Monday over his role in the telephone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, plunging London police into chaos a year before the city hosts the Olympic Games.

Russia says militant attack foiled in Moscow (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:09 AM PDT

Reuters - Russia's top security official said on Monday that authorities had averted a "large terrorist attack" in the Moscow area by militants armed with homemade bombs and other weapons.

Cameron to fly home as corruption storm builds (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:26 PM PDT

John Yates appears before a parliamentary hearing into phone hacking in London July 12, 2011. REUTERS/Parbul TV via Reuters TVReuters - David Cameron cut short a trip to Africa and will fly home on Tuesday to defend himself from a scandal that has battered Rupert Murdoch's media empire, forced British police chiefs to resign and raised doubts about the prime minister's judgment.


Indonesian Muslim group forms anti-terror squad (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 11:47 PM PDT

Members of the Nadlatul Ulama organisation salute as they parade during a ceremony in Jakarta. The Indonesian Islamic youth group has set up a unit to counter radicalism in Muslim communities and even help police defuse homemade bombs, its chairman said Monday.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)AFP - An Indonesian Islamic youth group has set up a unit to counter radicalism in Muslim communities and even help police defuse homemade bombs, its chairman said Monday.


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