2011年8月2日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Research aims to improve firefighter tracking (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:09 PM PDT

Worcester firefighter Lt. Jeffery Dubeau, front, enters a building with other firefighters, right, on the campus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Mass., during a test exercise for safety tracking devices, in Worcester, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. As the ten year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, researchers, fire fighters, and government officials are working to perfect technology that tracks the location and vital signs of first responders. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - When New York City firefighters and police officers rushed into the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, their commanding officers on the street had little knowledge of where they were, the condition they were in, or the best way for them to escape.

Obama to attend 9/11 anniversary events (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:32 PM PDT

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend events in New York City, Pennsylvania and Washington in September to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Regulators to keep closer tabs on chemical used in bombings (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 02:36 PM PDT

Reuters - The Department of Homeland Security proposed new security measures on Tuesday to monitor sales of ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound widely used in fertilizer but also the key ingredient in some bombs.

AP: W.Pa. man to plead to Islamic terror posts (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:48 PM PDT

AP - A man accused of using the Internet to promote violence against Americans through posts he made as moderator of a popular, internationally known Islamic extremist Web forum has agreed to plead guilty.

Obama to visit three attack sites on 9/11 anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:35 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama makes a statement to the press in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama will attend anniversary ceremonies on September 11 at the three sites where terrorists launched their deadly US attacks a decade ago, the White House said Tuesday.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - President Barack Obama will attend anniversary ceremonies on September 11 at the three sites where terrorists launched their deadly US attacks a decade ago, the White House said Tuesday.

US relaxes terror rules to speed aid to Somalia (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:22 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration sought to assure aid groups Tuesday that they can deliver desperately needed food to famine-stricken parts of Somalia without fear of prosecution, even if some assistance is diverted to al-Qaida linked extremists blamed for helping deliver hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of starvation.

Lawyer: Norwegian attacker makes demands (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 25, 2011 file photo, Norway's twin terror attacks suspect Anders Behring Breivik, left, sits in an armored police vehicle after leaving the courthouse following a hearing in Oslo, Norway where he pleaded not guilty to one of the deadliest modern mass killings in peacetime. It's unlikely that Breivik will be declared legally insane because he appears to have been in control of his actions, the head of the panel that will review his psychiatric evaluation told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Aftenposten/Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen) NORWAY OUTAP - The confessed killer in Norway's twin terror attacks that claimed 77 lives has presented a long list of "unrealistic" demands, including the resignation of the government and that his mental condition be investigated by Japanese specialists, his defense lawyer said Tuesday.

Rights group urges Saudi monarch to scrap terror law (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:55 AM PDT

Human Rights Watch has urged the Saudi King Abdullah, seen ehre in 2008, to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.(AFP/File/Marwan Naamani)AFP - Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi monarch on Tuesday to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.

Camp helps teens cope with terror attack losses (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:56 AM PDT

Project Common Bond brings together teens and young adults who have lost a close relative in a terror attack, and helps them to heal through workshops, classes and by being with others who have suffered similar losses.(AFP/File/Karin Zeitvogel)AFP - Even though they've only just met, the ties that bind teenagers Julie Griffin and Angel Serrano go back years.

US to propose ammonium nitrate regulations (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 5, 1995, file photo, a worker at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, places flowers and memorial items at the scene of the April 19 deadly car-bombing. More than 15 years after a fertilizer bomb was used to blow up the building, killing 168 people, the federal government is proposing to regulate the sale and transfer of the chemical ammonium nitrate. The proposal comes nearly four years after Congress gave the Homeland Security Department the authority to develop a program to regulate the compound. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)AP - More than 15 years after a fertilizer bomb was used to blow up a government building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, the federal government is proposing to regulate the sale and transfer of the chemical ammonium nitrate.

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