2011年8月4日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Military money on chopping block in austere time (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:02 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, gestures during a news conference  at the Pentagon, Thursday, Aug. 4,  2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - The Pentagon got nearly everything it asked for during a decade of two wars shadowed by the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the rise of al-Qaida. No more.


Judge refers Army soldier to grand jury (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:30 PM PDT

U.S. Army soldier Naser Jason Abdo, 21, is pictured in this police booking photograph released on July 28, 2011. REUTERS/Killeen Police Department/HandoutReuters - A judge weighing the case against an Army soldier accused of a terror plot to bomb soldiers from a Texas military base on Thursday said there was sufficient evidence to refer the charges to a grand jury.


Gov't: Indian group likely behind Mumbai blasts (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 08:28 AM PDT

AP - India's home minister says indications point to domestic terrorism behind the attack last month in Mumbai that killed 26 people.

Analysis: Far west attacks expose violence's homegrown roots (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:58 AM PDT

Reuters - The biggest threat to China's grip on its ethnically divided far western frontier comes from homegrown anger exploding in violence, not from Pakistan-based terrorists officials have blamed for the latest bloodshed.

Rights groups pull out of UK torture inquiry (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:47 AM PDT

Former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohammed is driven out of RAF Northolt, west of London, February 23, 2009. REUTERS/Eddie KeoghReuters - Human rights groups and campaigning lawyers will not take part in an inquiry into what British security services knew about the alleged torture of terrorism suspects on foreign soil because it risks becoming a "whitewash," they said Thursday.


Rights groups boycott torture inquiry (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:04 AM PDT

A detainee sits wearing restraints inside Camp VI at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2010. British rights groups and lawyers have withdrawn from an inquiry into alleged secret service involvement in the torture of terror suspects, criticising its lack of AFP - Rights groups and lawyers said Thursday they would boycott an inquiry into alleged secret service involvement in the torture of terror suspects, accusing it of lacking credibility.


Lawyers: Britain's torture inquiry deeply flawed (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT

AP - Former Guantanamo Bay detainees and their lawyers said Thursday they won't cooperate with an inquiry into Britain's conduct as it pursued terrorism suspects in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, unless they are able to question spies and other witnesses.

Indonesia's youth groups try to counter militant recruitment (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A concerted effort to get Indonesian Muslim conservatives to eschew violence through education, and a sweeping police dragnet that killed or captured many of Indonesia’s leading militants, has weakened large terrorist organizations, such as the once powerful Jemaah Islamiyah.
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