2011年8月30日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

AP Interview: Post-9/11 politics of Rudy Giuliani (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:29 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during an interview in New York. He was the living symbol of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a hero to a traumatized nation seeking leadership in a time of crisis. Walking miles through the streets of Manhattan, Giuliani urged New York and the world to be calm, said the city would survive. With empathy and restraint, he said the number of 9/11 dead would be 'more than any of us can bear.' (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - He was the living symbol of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a hero to a traumatized nation seeking leadership in a time of crisis. Walking miles through the streets of Manhattan, Mayor Rudy Giuliani urged New York and the world to be calm, said the city would survive. With empathy and restraint, he said the number of 9/11 dead would be "more than any of us can bear."

Rice: 9/11 showed threats come from failed states (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:05 PM PDT

AP - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a key lesson of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is that the greatest threats to the U.S. can come from "failed states" that cannot control their territory.

Obama to speak at cathedral concert on 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:06 AM PDT

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama will speak at a Washington National Cathedral concert the evening of Sept. 11 to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the terror attacks.

Most US Muslims feel targeted by terror policies (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:47 AM PDT

Chart shows percentage of U.S. Muslims who say Muslims are singled out by U.S. anti-terror policies; HFR 12:01 a.m. 8/30/AP - More than half of Muslim Americans in a new poll say government anti-terrorism policies single them out for increased surveillance and monitoring, and many report increased cases of name-calling, threats and harassment by airport security, law enforcement officers and others.

Obama salutes veterans for 'extraordinary burden' (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:28 AM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses the American Legion Annual Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Recalling "those awful attacks," President Barack Obama saluted the 9/11 generation of veterans Tuesday and publicly relished the prospect of U.S. forces getting out of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Former Gitmo detainee calls Sept. 11 'disgusting' (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:19 AM PDT

AP - The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to plead guilty to a terrorism offense said in a television interview broadcast Tuesday that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States were a "disgusting act."

2 states say they are reviewing 9/11 charities (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:21 PM PDT

This Monday, Aug. 22, 2011 photo shows a section of a 9/11 memorial quilt made by the Jackonville, Fla. Police Dept. at a storage facility in Gilbert, Ariz. Kevin Held formed Stage 1 Productions in 2003 to promote the American Quilt Memorial honoring the lives lost on Sept. 11. He said thousands of individual pieces would be crafted together on white king-sized sheets that, when sewn together, would stretch 1 1/2 miles across an eight-lane highway. That never happened. The $713,000 that Held raised from students, school fundraising campaigns, T-shirt sales and other donations is gone. More than $270,000 of that went to Held and family members, records show. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Officials in Arizona and New York have launched investigations into charities that claim to serve 9/11 causes, probing whether they failed to follow state laws — and may have misspent millions intended to help and honor those affected by the terrorist attacks.

Prosecutors say DHS pilot lied in drowning case (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:20 PM PDT

AP - A Department of Homeland Security pilot lied about using his helicopter in 2005 to force two would-be illegal immigrants back into Mexico as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande on inner tubes, an action that resulted in the drowning of one of the individuals, a federal prosecutor told jurors on Monday.

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