2011年10月26日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Feds not helping Alabama enforce immigration law (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:07 PM PDT

AP - The government hasn't offered to help Alabama put in place a strict immigration law that the Obama administration is challenging in court, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.

NYPD keeps files on Muslims who change their names (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2011, file photo, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly listens during his testimony about NYPD intelligence operations to the New York City Council public safety committee in New York. The Associated Press has learned that the New York Police Department maintains secret intelligence files on Muslims who change their names. That means Muslims who Americanize their names, like generations of immigrants have done, may come under police scrutiny along with Muslim converts who take Arabic names. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)AP - For generations, immigrants have shed their ancestral identities and taken new, Americanized names as they found their place in the melting pot. For Muslims in New York, that rite of assimilation is now seen by police as a possible red flag in the hunt for terrorists.


Witness in NY arms case recalls key Moscow meeting (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:26 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 16, 2010, file photo, provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), shows Russian arms trafficking suspect Viktor Bout, center, led by DEA officers off a flight From Bangkok to New York after his extradition to face terrorism charges. Andrew Smulian, the star government witness against Bout, took center stage at his federal conspiracy trial on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, recounting a key Moscow meeting prosecutors say set up negotiations with informants posing as South American terrorists. (AP Photo/Drug Enforcement Administration, File)AP - The star government witness against a former Soviet military officer dubbed the Merchant of Death took center stage at his federal conspiracy trial on Wednesday, recounting a key Moscow meeting prosecutors say set up negotiations with informants posing as South American terrorists.


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