2011年9月5日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


UK: Inquiry to examine intelligence ties to Libya (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:39 PM PDT

Libyan rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in Tripoli, 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 - A British inquiry into the country's pursuit of terrorism suspects will examine new allegations about cozy ties between U.K. intelligence officials and Moammar Gadhafi's regime, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday.


Britain to probe Libya torture reports (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:51 AM PDT

Reuters - An independent inquiry will investigate allegations that British security services were involved in illegally sending terror suspects to Libya where they risked being tortured by Muammar Gaddafi's government, officials said Monday.

Judges refuse to dismiss Nigerian terror case (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:27 AM PDT

Sunny Ofehe, second right, a Netherlands-based Nigerian activist, is interviewed after appearing in a Rotterdam court for a preliminary hearing Monday Sept. 5, 2011. A Nigerian activist urged judges Monday to dismiss a terrorism case in which prosecutors have charged him with conspiring to attack oil pipelines in Nigeria as well as people smuggling and fraud. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - Judges refused on Monday to dismiss a terrorist case against a Nigerian activist charged with conspiring to attack oil pipelines in his homeland as well as people smuggling and fraud.


Rights chief urges probe of CIA detention centers (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:41 AM PDT

AP - Europe's human rights chief urged Lithuania, Poland and Romania on Monday to investigate the roles their governments allegedly played in the CIA's program of "secret detention and torture" of terrorism suspects.

Ethiopia officials detain 29 terrorism suspects (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:36 AM PDT

AP - An Ethiopian official says the government is holding 29 people in the capital and other parts of the country on suspicion of terrorism.

How US, British intelligence worked to bring Qaddafi's Libya in from the cold (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:51 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The toppling of Col. Muammar Qaddafi is yielding a trove of Libyan intelligence documents that provide rare insight into American and British spy agencies â€" and the rendition of terror suspects to a regime known for human rights abuses.
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