2011年11月8日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Holder insists on flexibility in terror war (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 02:02 PM PST

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the arms trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the United States must have the flexibility to prosecute terror suspects in criminal courts, underscoring the Obama administration's opposition to congressional efforts to require military custody of terrorist suspects and limit the government's authority to transfer detainees.


USS Cole bomb suspect finally gets his day in court (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PST

Reuters - Nine years after his capture and a decade after the United States first authorized military tribunals for terrorist suspects, the alleged mastermind of the deadly bombing of the USS Cole will face a judge in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.

Overseer of 9/11 fund donates papers to UMass (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:15 AM PST

AP - The man who oversaw the government's multibillion dollar compensation fund for victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks as well as the BP oil spill compensation fund is donating his personal papers to the University of Massachusetts.

In Georgia town, mixed reaction to alleged militia plot (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 07:33 PM PST

Reuters - The Waffle House booth often used by three local men arrested in a domestic terror plot was empty on a recent morning but the case that has unnerved this former textile town was on the minds of the breakfast crowd.

Texan tells court he didn't want to help al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:05 PM PST

FILE - In this June 8 2010 file photo, Barry Walter Bujol walks into the federal courthouse in Houston. Bujol, accused of trying to sneak out of the country to go on “jihad” and provide al-Qaida with money, GPS receivers and restricted U.S. military documents, will be tried Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 on terrorism charges. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)AP - A Texas man accused of trying to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida told a judge Monday that he wanted to leave because he disagrees with American foreign policy and that he never intended to hurt anyone.


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