2011年7月23日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


World Trade Center cross moved to permanent home (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:46 PM PDT

The September 11 cross is lowered by crane into a subterranean section of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Saturday, July 23, 2011 in New York. The cross was discovered upright in the ruins of ground zero following the attacks of September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool)AP - A cross-shaped steel beam found amid the wreckage in the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack was a symbol of hope for many working on rescue and recovery there, so much so that the construction worker who discovered it believes he stumbled on to a miracle.


Norway's island survivors on 2-hour fight for life (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:43 PM PDT

Teenagers who were attending a Labour Party youth wing summer camp on the Utoya island comfort one another outside the Sunvold Hotel, Sundvollen, Norway Saturday July 23, 2011. A Norwegian gunman disguised as a police officer beckoned his victims closer before shooting them one by one, claiming at least 84 lives, in a horrific killing spree on an idyllic island teeming with youths that has left this peaceful Nordic nation in mourning. The island tragedy Friday unfolded hours after a massive explosion ripped through a high-rise building housing the prime minister's office, killing seven people. (AP Photo/Scanpix/Bjern Larsson Rosvall)AP - When the blond man in the police uniform started firing his assault rifle, many of the youths couldn't believe it was real. It had to be a sick prank. Something this crazy could never happen in quiet, sensible Norway.


UN Security Council condemns Norway attack (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:20 PM PDT

AP - The U.N. Security Council has "condemned in the strongest terms" the deadly twin terrorist attacks in Norway and offered condolences to the victims of what it called "these heinous acts."

India, Pakistan meet in Bhutan: report (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 12:56 PM PDT

India's Home Minister P. Chidambaram, pictured in February 2011, met on Saturday for talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Rehman Malik, warning terrorism posed the most significant AFP - India's Home Minister P. Chidambaram met on Saturday for talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Rehman Malik, warning terrorism posed the most significant "challenge" to security in South Asia.


APNewsBreak: Europol plans task force for Norway (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:55 AM PDT

AP - In the wake of Norway's terrorist attack, the European police agency is setting up a task force of more than 50 experts to help investigate non-Islamist threats in Scandinavian countries, its spokesman told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Norway PM says terror threat level not raised (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:41 AM PDT

Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg speaks to the media after meeting with survivors of the Utoeya shooting and their families at Sundvolden Hotel in Oslo July 23, 2011. REUTERS/Aleksander Andersen/ScanpixReuters - Norwegian police have not recommended raising the terrorism threat level despite a lack of clarity after shootings and a bomb attack that killed at least 92 people, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday.


(AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:48 AM PDT

AP - APNewsBreak: Police official says Oslo explosion caused by `Oklahoma City-type' bomb

New Pakistan foreign min says no need for cajoling on militancy (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 05:03 AM PDT

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar arrives at the venue of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali July 23, 2011. REUTERS/Murdani UsmanReuters - Pakistan's new foreign minister, who held talks on Saturday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said the two countries shared the strategic objective of combating terror groups and Islamabad did not need any cajoling on the issue.


Pakistan foreign minister says no need for cajoling on militancy (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:43 AM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan's new foreign minister, who held talks on Saturday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said the two countries shared the strategic objective of combating terror groups and Islamabad did not need any cajoling on the issue.

Clinton condemns terrorism regardless of source (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 02:10 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she arrives at the 18th ASEAN Regional Forum in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, July 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States strongly condemns terrorism no matter who perpetuates it or where it comes from.


Norway police arrive 90 minutes after firing began (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:38 PM PDT

EDS NOTE: IMAGE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED BY THE ORIGINAL SOURCE TO REMOVE THE BACKGROUND - This image shows Anders Behring Breivik from a manifesto attributed to him that was discovered Saturday, July 23, 2011. Breivik is a suspect in a bombing in Oslo and a shooting on a nearby island which occurred on Friday, July 22, 2011. The Norwegian news agency NTB said Breivik wrote a 1,500-page manifesto before the attack in which he attacked multiculturalism and Muslim immigration. The document, which contained this and other photos, also described how to acquire explosives. (AP Photo/via Scanpix)AP - Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.


Witnesses describe scene of terror at Norway camp (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 11:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken by Vergard M. Aas, a Norwegian crime reporter who responded to the scene of a mass shooting on Utoya Island, Norway, victims lie near the shoreline approximately one hour after police say a man dressed as a police officer gunned down youths as they ran and even swam for their lives at a camp which was organized by the youth wing of the ruling Labor Party, Friday July 22, 2011. Police say the suspect in this shooting set off a fatal explosion hours earlier in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. (AP Photo/Presse 3.0, Vegard M. Aas)AP - The man in the police uniform shouted for the campers to come closer. When they did, he killed them.


Obama condemns 'senseless' Norway attacks (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:31 PM PDT

People gather outside the Oslo Cathedral to mourn. President Barack Obama condemned the AFP - President Barack Obama condemned the "senseless" massacre of 92 people in twin attacks on Norway as he presented his condolences to Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, the White House said Saturday.


Obama extends condolences to Norway over bombing (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 07:01 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama said Friday that a lethal bomb blast in Norway's capital of Oslo is a reminder that the world has a stake in stopping acts of terrorism.
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