2011年12月20日星期二

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Mass. man convicted of conspiring to help al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:35 PM PST

FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, file booking photo provided by the Sudbury, Mass., Police Dept. shows Tarek Mehanna, of Sudbury, after he was arrested and charged with conspiring to plot terror attacks. The jury found him guilty, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, on four terror-related charges and three charges of lying to authorities after deliberating for about 10 hours. (AP Photo/Sudbury Police Department, File)AP - A man who grew up in the Boston suburbs was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to help al-Qaida and plotting to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq after a two-month trial in which jurors heard references to Osama bin Laden and saw dramatic images from the Sept. 11 attacks.

Brothers sentenced for roles in NC terror plot (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:07 AM PST

AP - Two brothers who watched as their father transformed their rural North Carolina family home into a base camp to launch violent jihad will spend years in prison, even after cooperating with federal prosecutors.

Jury finds Massachusetts man guilty of aiding al Qaeda (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:27 AM PST

Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, is seen in this image from a video footage taken in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 11, 2009, released to Reuters on October 21, 2009. REUTERS/WHDH-TV/HandoutReuters - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of conspiring to support al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages and traveling to Yemen for terrorism training.

UK police arrest Pakistani on terror suspicions (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 07:43 AM PST

AP - British police are questioning a Pakistani student arrested at Birmingham Airport on suspicion of a terrorism offense, the West Midlands force said Tuesday.

2 days of Syria violence leave 150 dead (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:00 PM PST

A Syrian man gestures under a large poster depicting Syria's President Bashar Assad during a rally in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Syria signed an Arab League initiative Monday that will allow Arab observers into the country as part of peace deal that aims to end the nation's increasingly bloody 9-month-old crisis, Syria's foreign minister said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP - Security forces pursuing anti-government activists and army defectors shot dead at least 47 people in Syria on Tuesday, pushing the toll for two days of violence to nearly 150 even as the regime prepared to allow in foreign monitors under an Arab League plan aimed at stopping the bloodshed.

UK mulls changes to terrorism threat scale (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:41 AM PST

FILE - In this March 31, 2009 file photo, employees are silhouetted by screens showing prominent areas of London under CCTV surveillance at a police control room in London. Britain has announced in advance it will raise its terrorism threat level during the London Olympics next summer, but that could be the last time the five-point scale is used amid mounting evidence such systems are often misunderstood and do little to generate crucial tips about terror plots. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)AP - Britain has announced in advance it will raise its terrorism threat level during the London Olympics next summer, but that could be the last time the five-point scale is used amid mounting evidence such systems are often misunderstood and do little to generate crucial tips about terror plots.

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