2011年8月23日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Quake calls to mind terrorism as 9/11 approaches (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:25 PM PDT

Cars are grid locked on L Street NW in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, after an earthquake was felt in the Washington area. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia forced evacuations of all the monuments on the National Mall in Washington and rattled nerves from Georgia to Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island where President Barack Obama is vacationing. No injuries were immediately reported.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Shaking ground and swaying buildings sent panicked people rushing for exits, pouring into streets or diving under desks. For some in Washington and New York and elsewhere along the East Coast, their first thoughts turned to terrorism — not nature.

NY's namesake ship to visit for 9/11 anniversary (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:40 PM PDT

AP - A Navy ship built with steel from the World Trade Center will anchor near ground zero for ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

9/11 brought changes to skyscrapers and high-rises (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:55 PM PDT

David Milberg, an attorney with the Schiff Hardin law firm located in the Willis Tower in Chicago, stands by a window at the firm's 66th floor offices. At Willis Tower, like other skyscrapers around the country, much has changed since two hijacked jets slammed into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center a decade ago. Many high rises are tougher to get into. At Willis Tower, for example, in the immediate aftermath of the attack, airport style security was installed, complete with metal detectors and security officers going through bags. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - What if it happens again?

Jersey Girls who emerged after 9/11 stay activists (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:48 AM PDT

In this Aug. 11, 2011, photograph, Lorie Van Auken poses for The Associated Press at her home in East New Brunswick, N.J. Van Auken, who lost her husband Kenneth Warren Van Auken during the Sept. 11 attacks, became an activist as a result of the tragedy. She is one of four New Jersey widows, known as the Jersey Girls, who pressed the government to do deeper digging into the causes of the attacks. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)AP - The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 turned them into widows and the four Jersey Girls, as they became known, turned themselves into activists.

NY senators ask Libya to imprison Lockerbie bomber (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, gestures on his arrival in Tripoli, Libya. Al-Megrahi, convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up a passenger jet could live for several more years, a leading cancer specialist said - two years after the terminally ill bomber was freed on compassionate grounds because he was close to death. (AP Photo, File)AP - The state's U.S. senators have asked the Libyan transitional government to hold the convicted Lockerbie, Scotland, plane bomber fully accountable for his terrorist actions.

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