2011年8月17日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

NYC lawyer: Ex-Soviet officer never sold weapons (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:19 PM PDT

AP - The lawyer for a former Soviet military officer charged with trying to sell weapons to a terrorist group told a judge Wednesday that his client will maintain at trial that he was in the air transportation business but never sold arms or brokered arms deals.

AP Interview: US general sees Nigeria terror link (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 09:24 AM PDT

In this Monday Aug. 8, 2011 photo, Nigeria's former Chief security officer, Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha, center, arrives for his trial at the federal high court in Lagos, Nigeria. The trial of Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha's chief security officer has reopened wounds in Africa's most populous nation while highlighting the religious and ethnic schisms still causing bloodshed. Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha faces conspiracy and murder charges over the June 1996 killing of Kudirat Abiola, the wife of a man who many believe won the country's annulled 1993 presidential election. Al-Mustapha has denied taking part in the killing, saying he was tortured into a false confession. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - A radical Muslim sect responsible for assassinations and bombings across northern Nigeria may be trying to link with two al-Qaida-linked groups in other African countries to mount joint attacks in this oil-rich nation, the commander for U.S. military operations in Africa said Wednesday.

Indonesia cuts terrorist's prison sentence (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:48 AM PDT

AP - Indonesia says it has shaved two months off the five-year prison sentence of a convicted terrorist who was added this week to a U.S. blacklist.

Germany extends anti-terrorism measures (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:20 AM PDT

AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet has approved a four-year extension for a package of terrorism-fighting measures enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

China launches terror crackdown in restive west (AP)

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT

AP - Chinese security forces have launched a two-month "strike hard" crackdown against violence, terrorism and radical Islam following renewed ethnic violence in the restive western region of Xinjiang, the regional government said.

Obama: 'Lone wolf' terror attack biggest concern (AP)

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 08:34 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks during a Rural Economic Forum, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011, at Northeast Iowa Community College in Peosta, Iowa, during his three-day economic bus tour. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a "lone wolf" terror attack in the U.S. is more likely than a major coordinated effort like the Sept. 11 attacks nearly a decade ago.

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