2011年8月31日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Court case lifts lid on secret post 9/11 flights (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 1, 2003 file picture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. A hidden network of American companies headed by a prominent defense contractor played a central role in the CIA’s secret post-9/11 airlift that whisked captured terror suspects and their American minders to overseas prisons, according to testimony and documents filed in an upstate New York court case. (AP Photo/File)AP - A hidden network of U.S. companies, coordinated by a prominent defense contractor, played a key role in the covert airlift that transported terrorism suspects and their American minders, according to newly disclosed documents in a New York business dispute between two aviation companies.

US security intensifying as Sept. 11 date nears (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:10 PM PDT

One World Trade Center rises above the lower Manhattan skyline in this aerial photo, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011 in New York. Behind the tower are the Hudson River and New Jersey. Sept. 11, 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - As the nation prepares for the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — a date al-Qaida has cited as a potential opportunity to strike again — security is intensifying at airports, train stations, nuclear plants and major sporting arenas around the country.

Expert to help Ind. fair with stage collapse funds (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:50 PM PDT

AP - Indiana officials turned Wednesday to the man who oversaw victims compensation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the BP oil spill for help deciding who will receive money donated to help victims of a deadly stage collapse at the state fair.

Jury deliberates pilot's fate in drowning case (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:50 PM PDT

AP - A federal jury on Wednesday began deliberating the fate of a Department of Homeland Security pilot who is accused by prosecutors of lying about whether he flew his helicopter low over two would-be illegal immigrants in the Rio Grande in South Texas before one of the men drowned.

A decade, and counting, of publicly mourning 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:29 PM PDT

In this June 22, 2011 photo, Victor, left, and Ben Ortega, brothers from El Paso, Texas, walk along the September 11 memorial outside the New York, New York Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas. Across the country, an extravagant ritual of public grief for 'our losses' has not abated in a decade, from public memorials of steel and photos to the palpable sadness of strangers. Experts say Americans are still processing the most tragic public event of their lifetimes, before they can begin to let go. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Carla Gilkerson, a 54-year-old school bus driver, sits at a table with friends at Abner's diner on Main Street in this small Ohio town. She's never been to New York City and doesn't know a soul who died on Sept. 11 — but talk of the terror attacks a decade ago immediately moves her to tears.

Suspicious parcel found at Illinois Air Force base (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:05 PM PDT

Traffic leaves through the main gate at Scott Air Force Base in Mascoutah, Ill., Wednesday Aug. 31, 2011, after a suspicious package was found on the base. Three people from the base in southwestern Illinois were hospitalized with rashes and parts of the facility were evacuated after the package arrived at the base's mail center. The air base is about 25 miles east of St. Louis, and serves as a global mobility and transportation hub for the Defense Department. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Tim Vizer)AP - Three people fell sick and were treated at a hospital Wednesday after a suspicious package was found at the mail center of an Air Force base in southern Illinois, prompting the evacuation of parts of the facility.

NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:22 PM PDT

In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, people pass below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which is above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of “ancestries of interest” and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn't exist. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - From an office on the Brooklyn waterfront in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York Police Department officials and a veteran CIA officer built an intelligence-gathering program with an ambitious goal: to map the region's ethnic communities and dispatch teams of undercover officers to keep tabs on where Muslims shopped, ate and prayed.

Nigeria hunts al-Qaida-linked man in UN HQ bombing (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 10:42 AM PDT

AP - A member of a radical Muslim sect with "al-Qaida links" helped mastermind the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria's capital, the nation's secret police said Wednesday, a worrying sign international terror groups may be seeking a foothold in the oil-rich country.

President Obama offers disaster aid to New Jersey (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT

Flood waters remain several feet deep in Wayne, New Jersey August 30, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonReuters - New Jersey residents struggled with flooded homes, blocked roads and power outages on Wednesday as rivers and creeks overflowed in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.

China says attacks thwarted as Pakistan president visits Xinjiang (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:52 AM PDT

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is pictured in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington January 14, 2011. Zardari has promised to work closely with China in the fight against terrorism, state media said. REUTERS/Jason Reed/FilesReuters - China has thwarted attacks by suspected Uighur militants in its restive far western Xinjiang region, state media said on Wednesday, as Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari visited for a trade fair where he promised to work with Beijing to fight terrorism.

Sri Lanka to introduce new anti-terrorism rules - report (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:04 AM PDT

Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa (front) inspects troops from an army vehicle in a parade during a war victory ceremony in Colombo May 27, 2011. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/FilesReuters - Sri Lanka plans to bring new anti-terrorism rules into force effective on Wednesday, local media reported, replacing tough wartime emergency powers lifted this month under heavy international pressure.

Napolitano: FEMA cash crunch shouldn't stop Irene relief efforts (VIDEO) (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 12:17 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is downplaying the danger that hurricane Irene recovery funds will be caught in a congressional budget battle.

Homeland Security chief slams critics of hurricane Irene preparations (VIDEO) (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:06 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that those who criticize preparations for hurricane Irene for being excessive are engaging in “what I like to call the blinding clarity of hindsight.”

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