2011年11月14日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Mass. man accused in terror plot seeks bail (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:06 PM PST

AP - A man accused of plotting to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol is a "ticking time bomb" who is committed to attacking the United States, a prosecutor said Monday while urging a judge to keep him locked up while he awaits trial.

Texas man convicted of trying to help al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 02:01 PM PST

AP - A Texas man accused of attempting to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida was convicted Monday of trying to help the terrorist organization.

A decade on, U.S. terrorism tribunals are bogged down (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:34 PM PST

Reuters - The beige-carpeted room where an al Qaeda chief appeared last week charged with blowing a hole in the side of an American warship looks like any modern U.S. court, with pop-up computer screens at lawyers' tables and a judge in black robes presiding from the bench.

Angry over spying, Muslims say: 'Don't call NYPD' (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 07:53 AM PST

In this Oct. 26, 2011, photo, Joseph Ramagli, left and Robin Gordon-Leavitt, law students at the City University of New York, teach a group of Muslims in the Brooklyn borough of New York how to identify a police informant. They were acting out an actual  transcript of a recorded conversation between a police informant and his target. in the Brooklyn borough of New York, teach them about their rights in regard to an NYPD surveillance program targeting Muslims.  Fed up with a decade of the police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to police with concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups. Muslim community leaders are openly teaching people how to identify police informants, encouraging them to always talk to an attorney before speaking with authorities and reminding people already working with law enforcement that they have the right to change their minds.  (AP Photo/Chris Hawley)AP - Fed up with a decade of police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups.


Norway gunman Breivik makes first public appearance since twin terror attacks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 07:11 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Several hundred people packed Oslo District Court to hear Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian gunman charged in twin terror attacks on July 22, speak before press and victims for the first time since the attacks, which killed 77 people.

In Nigeria's northeast, some sympathy for Islamists (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:15 AM PST

Reuters - Wiping grease onto his t-shirt outside his bicycle repair shack, Baba Gana points to a bomb blast site across the street and explains why this northeastern Nigerian town has sympathy for radical Islamists who terrorize its inhabitants.

Kenya PM asks Israel for help fighting terrorists (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:11 AM PST

AP - Kenya's prime minister is seeking Israel's support in stopping reprisal terror attacks by an al-Qaida-linked militant group Kenyan troops are pursuing in Somalia.

German intel agencies puzzled by far right terror (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 09:39 AM PST

Aerial view of a house in Zwickau, eastern germany,  that was set on fire and exploded  a week ago photographed Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. German police on Sunday arrested a suspected accomplice of a group of far-right extremists who are believed to be responsible for killing 10 people, prosecutors said. Two of the other group members are dead while the third turned herself in to police after setting this house on fire. The suspect, identified only as Holger G. in line with German privacy laws, is believed to have helped the group's other three known members by providing them with documents and vehicles The group is suspected of having murdered eight people of Turkish origin and one Greek in several German cities between September 2000 and April 2006, as well as killing the police officer in the southwestern city of Heilbronn in April 2007.   (AP Photo/dapd/ Uwe Meinhold)AP - Germany's domestic intelligence agency was put on the defensive Monday, amid questions of how a neo-Nazi group that it had been aware of in 1998 could have slipped from its radar and carried out a series bank robberies and at least 10 murders.


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