2011年11月29日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Senate rejects effort to strip detainee provision (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:31 PM PST

AP - The Senate on Tuesday rejected an effort to strip divisive provisions from a defense bill that deal with the capture and handling of suspected terrorists, setting up a showdown with the White House.

Attempt to derail new detainee rules fails (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 03:21 PM PST

Reuters - The Senate on Tuesday rejected an attempt to derail controversial changes in the way terrorism suspects are handled, but continued debate on whether to allow Americans to be held indefinitely without trial.

GOP first-termer challenges Obama detainee policy (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:45 PM PST

FILE - In this May 11, 2011 file photo, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., right, accompanied by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. gestures during a a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The face of Republican opposition to President Barack Obama’s policy for handling terror suspects is a 43-year-old former prosecutor who has been in the Senate a mere 11 months. Ayotte is at the forefront of the escalating congressional challenge to a White House determined to build on its success against al-Qaida and frustrated by lawmakers’ meddling in its war on terror.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - The face of Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's policy for handling suspected terrorists is a 43-year-old former prosecutor who has been in the Senate a mere 11 months.


Ex-pal: Terrorist training led Mass. man to Yemen (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:27 PM PST

AP - After years of talking about participating in a holy war against the United States, Tarek Mehanna expressed satisfaction that he and two friends were moving closer to that goal, one of those friends testified Tuesday in Mehanna's trial.

German man arrested in neo-Nazi investigation (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:58 AM PST

The 1996 photo shows  late terror suspect Uwe Boehnhardt, center, who died in an apparent murder-suicide as police closed in on him earlier this month following a bank robbery, and Ralf Wohlleben, right, during a demonstration in Erfurt, eastern Germany. German prosecutors say they have arrested the now 36-year-old Wohlleben suspected of helping a neo-Nazi terror ring carry out six suspected murders over the course of a decade. Federal prosecutors said in a statement that police had arrested him early Tuesday on suspicion of abetting six counts of murder and one of attempted murder, in connection with the slayings by the far-right National Socialist Union of several victims with Turkish and Greek roots. (AP Photo/dapd, Mobit)AP - German police arrested a right-wing extremist Tuesday on suspicion he helped arm a small group of neo-Nazis accused of a string of killings of minorities and a policewoman, the federal prosecutors' office said.


Trial in Chile for 6 accused of setting off bombs (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 05:20 PM PST

AP - A trial has begun in Chile for six people accused of setting off small bombs outside various buildings.

In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, residents see experiment with autonomy as 'illusion' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 12:17 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Baba Jan, a 30-something political activist from Gilgit Baltistan in northeast Kashmir, was jailed by Pakistani police in mid-September for inciting unrest, considered terrorism.   
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