2011年9月2日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Pakistani man arrested on U.S. terrorism charges (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT

Reuters - A Pakistani-born man living in northern Virginia was charged with trying to help a militant group in his home country, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and making false statements to authorities, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.

How Libya Seems to Have Helped the CIA with Rendition of Terrorism Suspects (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 02:05 PM PDT

Time.com - A trove of documents out of Gaddafi's Tripoli appears to record how Libyan intelligence cooperated with its U.S. and British counterparts in the war on terror

Clergy prayer ban at 9/11 event faulted (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 12:32 PM PDT

AP - Christian conservatives are condemning Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to bar clergy-led prayer at the 10th anniversary commemoration of the terrorist attacks, calling the program an insult. Others wonder whether the mayor is trying to dodge the potentially thorny issue of including a Muslim representative.

Va. man charged with producing terrorist video (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 11:33 AM PDT

AP - A 24-year-old Virginia resident has been arrested and accused of helping produce a video for a terrorist group in Pakistan.

AP Interview: NYPD boss expands counterterror role (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2011 file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, right, speaks with members of the media prior to a tour of the Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center, in New York. Kelly is credited with shaping the NYPDís counterterrorism effort, assigning 1,000 officers to counterterrorism duties daily and pioneering a program to send officers overseas to report on how other cities deal with terrorism. At center is NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism Richard Daddario, and NYPD Director of Counterterrorism policy and Planning Jessica Tisch is at left.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sits at the head of a conference table in a top-floor office that looks like a cross between a Fortune 500 boardroom and a Best Buy sales floor. He's calling up security-camera feeds that appear on wall-to-wall flat screens.


Pilot not guilty on 1 count of lying over drowning (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:21 AM PDT

AP - A federal jury found a Department of Homeland Security pilot not guilty Friday of lying about his alleged role in the drowning of a would-be illegal immigrant swimming across the Rio Grande toward Texas, but couldn't reach a verdict on three other similar counts.

Napolitano: no 9/11 anniversary Qaeda plot seen (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:49 AM PDT

A woman touches a twisted piece of steel, from the attacks on the World Trade Center, at a memorial site across the Hudson River from the under-construction One World Trade Center (C) in Jersey City, New Jersey August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Gary HershornReuters - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday there was no credible intelligence that al Qaeda was plotting an attack for the September 11 anniversary, but the United States remained at a heightened state of vigilance.


Americans abroad warned ahead of 9/11 anniversary (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:41 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. has issued a worldwide travel alert ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The alert cautions Americans about the continued threat posed by al-Qaida and other groups.

Libya rebel commander plays down Islamist past (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 04:05 PM PDT

Libyan rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj, center, uses his cell phone after an interview with the Associated Press inTripoli, Libya, in this Wednesday Aug. 31, 2011 file photo. Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a former leader of an Islamic militant group that sent fighters to Iraq and Afghanistan, insisted Friday that the new Libya will shun extremism and won't become a breeding ground for terrorism. Belhaj, said he was detained in 2004 in Malaysia and sent to a secret prison in Thailand where he claimed he was tortured by CIA agents. Then he was sent to Libya and jailed for seven years by Moammar Gadhafi's regime. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - Abdel-Hakim Belhaj is an emerging hero of the Libyan uprising, the man who led the Tripoli Brigade that swept into the capital and captured the fortified compound that was Moammar Gadhafi's seat of power. He's also the former leader of an Islamic militant group who says he was tortured by CIA agents at a secret prison.


Calif. college student accused of Facebook threat (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 11:17 AM PDT

AP - A Southern California student was arrested hours after investigators discovered threats on his Facebook page claiming he was planning Virginia Tech-style violence at a small San Bernardino County community college, authorities said.

Sense of fear lingers in Okla. on 9/11 anniversary (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 04:17 AM PDT

FILE - In an April 19, 1995 file photo, rescue workers stand in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building following an explosion in downtown Oklahoma City. One hundred sixty-eight people died as a result of the explosion. Timothy McVeigh was convicted Monday June 2, 1997, of blowing up the building.  (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)AP - Before Sept. 11, there was April 19 — when a truck bomb sheared away one side of a federal building in middle America and proved that anyone, anywhere, can be attacked.


Smithsonian acquires TSA items for 9/11 collection (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 01:13 AM PDT

AP - One of the least popular pieces of security equipment since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is now part of the Smithsonian's collection at the National Museum of American History — a metal detector from the Transportation Security Administration.
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