2011年8月24日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:07 PM PDT

In this photo made Aug. 18, 2011, people pass below a New York Police security camera, upper left, situated above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the New York Police Department has dispatched teams of undercover officers into minority neighborhoods and used informants to monitor sermons at mosques, even when there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department has become one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government, an Associated Press investigation has found.


NY judge suppresses statement by ex-Soviet officer (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:33 PM PDT

AP - A judge agreed Wednesday to suppress statements an ex-Soviet officer dubbed the Merchant of Death made to U.S. investigators before he was transferred from Thailand to New York last year to face charges he sold arms to terrorists.

Karzai denounces use of child suicide bombers (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:44 AM PDT

An Afghan police officer holds a national flag during a graduation ceremony in Herat, Afghanistan Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011. Over 200 Afghan police men graduated after getting 8 weeks of training by NATO and Afghan trainers in Herat. (AP Photo/Hoshan Hashimi)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday denounced the use of child suicide bombers, saying that militants who recruit them to wage terror are "oppressors of Islam" and "oppressors of children."


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