2011年9月29日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Could model airplanes become a terrorist weapon? (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 08:05 PM PDT

This undated photo released Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a large remote controlled aircraft similar to what the department said suspect Rezwan Ferdaus plotted to fill with C-4 plastic explosives to use in an attack of the Pentagon and U.S. Capital. Ferdaus of Ashland, Mass., was arrested in a federal sting operation Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 in Framingham, Mass. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Justice)AP - Model airplanes are suddenly on the public's radar as potential terrorist weapons.

US: Cyber attacks on utilities, industries rise (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:35 PM PDT

A cyber security analyst work in the watch and warning center during the first tour of the government’s secretive cyber defense lab intended to protect the nation’s power, water and chemical plants, electrical grid and other facilities, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - U.S. utilities and industries face a rising number of cyber break-ins by attackers using more sophisticated methods, a senior Homeland Security Department official said during the government's first media tour of secretive defense labs intended to protect the nation's power grid, water systems and other vulnerable infrastructure.

Seven Syrian troops die as armed resistance emerges (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:03 PM PDT

Robert Ford, the U.S. ambassador in Syria, is seen seated (L) with together with the ambassadors of Britain and France at the wake of 25-year-old Ghayath Mater in the Damascus suburb of Daraya September 11, 2011. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Syria said on Friday that seven of its soldiers and police were killed in an operation against terrorists in the central town of Rastan, where armed resistance has emerged after months of mostly peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad.

US general: al-Qaida in Iraq severely weakened (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:02 PM PDT

The Osprey assembly line at Boeing's Ridley Park, Pennsylvania plant is seen in this May 6, 2002 file photograph. Federal agents arrested dozens of current and former Boeing workers on September 29, 2011, on charges of illegally dealing in painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs at a plant that makes military aircraft models used in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As a result of an investigation that began four years ago at the Boeing plant, 23 people were charged with selling the prescription painkiller Oxycontin and other drugs, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger told a news conference in Philadelphia. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW TRANSPORT)AP - Al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq has been severely weakened by a money squeeze, internal squabbling, a shortage of volunteer suicide bombers and more effective Iraqi efforts to snatch the terror group's foreign recruits when they slip across the border from Syria, a senior U.S. general said Thursday.

Al-Qaida rejects Iran's 9/11 conspiracy theories (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:03 PM PDT

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, listens during a press conference on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Al-Qaida has sharply criticized Iran's president over his suggestions that the United States government was behind the Sept. 11 attacks and not al-Qaida, dismissing the comments as "ridiculous."

US adds 5 people to terror sanctions list (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:36 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration designated four Afghans and a Pakistani as terrorists on Thursday for their alleged support for al-Qaida, the Taliban or the Haqqani network. The action blocks any assets the men have in the United States and bans Americans from doing business with them.

U.S. slaps sanctions on Haqqani commander, but not group (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:43 AM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions on individuals it said were linked to militant groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but stopped short of declaring the Haqqani network, blamed for recent attacks on American targets, a terrorist group.

Officials charge 7th man in alleged UK terror plot (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:13 AM PDT

AP - British prosecutors say they've authorized police to charge a seventh man over an alleged suicide bombing plot.

Amnesty urges new Lithuania probe of CIA prisons (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 09:52 AM PDT

Reuters - Lithuania, which has said it hosted a secret detention facility for terror suspects, must re-open a criminal investigation into human rights abuses there, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Lithuania: Rights group calls for new CIA probe (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 06:49 AM PDT

Supporters of Amnesty International human rights group stage a protest in downtown Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, Sept. 29 2011. Amnesty International called on Lithuania on Thursday to reopen its investigation into CIA prisons and the alleged torturing of terrorist suspects based on what they said was new evidence of a rendition flight to the Baltic state. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)AP - A human rights group called on Lithuania on Thursday to reopen its investigation into CIA prisons and the alleged torturing of terrorist suspects based on what they said was new evidence of a rendition flight to the Baltic state.

When is a terrorist not a terrorist? America's Haqqani conundrum. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 01:35 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - At first glance, it might seem like a no-brainer for the United States to add the Pakistan-based Haqqani network to its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

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