2011年9月30日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


With al-Awlaki dead, al-Qaida lacks Western voice (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official says U.S. intelligence indicates that U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File) NO SALESAP - The killings of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and another American al-Qaida propagandist in a U.S. airstrike Friday wipe out the decisive factor that made the terrorist group's Yemen branch the most dangerous threat to the United States: its reach into the West.


Top Republican praises Obama for strike on cleric (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:14 AM PDT

AP - The Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says the killing of an American-born cleric in Yemen is a "tremendous tribute" to President Barack Obama and the U.S. intelligence community.

Mass. terror suspect was asked to leave mosque (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:43 AM PDT

This undated Massachusetts driver license photo obtained by WBZ-TV in Boston shows Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland, Mass., arrested Wednesday, September 28, 2011 in Framingham, Mass. He was charged Wednesday in federal court in Worcester, Mass., with plotting to blow up the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol using remote-controlled airplanes filled with explosives.  (AP Photo/Courtesy WBZ-TV, Boston)  MANDATORY CREDIT.  TV OUT. TV WEBSITES OUT.AP - A Massachusetts man accused of plotting to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol was asked to leave a Boston mosque because of his radical views.


Greek terror suspect surrenders to authorities (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:21 AM PDT

AP - A man wanted for possible ties to a domestic Greek terror group handed himself in Friday to Athens prosecutors and will go on trial next week, police said.

Model plane bomb plot tests US antiterrorism strategy at home (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:37 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The arrest this week of a man the FBI says is a would-be Islamic terrorist is now Exhibit A in the US fight against home-grown violent extremism â€" a textbook case in what to look for and how to respond to “lone-wolf” jihadis intent on doing their fellow Americans harm.
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