2012年1月9日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Md. man charged with trying to aid terrorist group (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 03:13 PM PST

AP - A Maryland man who converted to Islam shortly before leaving the U.S. Army and who found living an Islamic way of life in the United States oppressive has been charged with attempting to join a foreign terrorist organization in Somalia, authorities said Monday.

Lawsuit seeks release of Guantanamo detainee video (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 01:27 PM PST

AP - A lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the U.S. government to make public the videotapes of harsh interrogation carried out on a Saudi citizen who authorities once said was supposed to have been the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks.

UK security forces tracked car of alleged IRA man (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 12:01 PM PST

AP - British anti-terror agents tracked an alleged Irish Republican Army dissident by planting an electronic surveillance device on his car, a prosecutor said Monday at the start of the trial of two men charged with murdering a policeman.

Plea talks afoot in NYC pipe-bomb terror case (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 09:03 AM PST

AP - Prosecutors and defense lawyers are in plea negotiations in a rare state-level terror case against a man charged with building a homemade bomb to try to attack soldiers, police and other government targets, both sides said Monday.

Muslim man from Kosovo charged in Fla. bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 03:23 PM PST

This photo provided by the Hillsborough County, Fla., Sheriff's Office shows Sami Osmakac. Osmakac, 25, from the former Yugoslavia, has been charged, federal authorities said Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 with an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in the Tampa area including a night club, with a bomb, assault rifle and other explosives. Osmakac made a video of himself explaining his motives for carrying out the planned violent attack. (AP Photo/Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)AP - A Kosovo-born man was charged with plotting to attack Tampa-area nightclubs and a sheriff's office with bombs and an assault rifle to avenge wrongs done to Muslims, federal authorities said Monday.


Millions of Filipino devotees defy terror warning (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:41 AM PST

Barefoot Catholic devotees jostle to kiss the cross being borne by the wooden statue of the Black Nazarene, center, as they gather at the Rizal Park Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 during it's annual festival in Manila, Philippines. More than 3 million devotees paraded the charred Christ statue, believed to have healing powers, through the Philippine capital despite a warning from President Benigno Aquino III that terrorists might target the gathering. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - Millions of Roman Catholic devotees paraded with a statue of Christ through the Philippine capital under a massive police cordon Monday after the president warned that terrorists might target the raucous annual procession.


Pope remembers victims of religious terrorism (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 03:38 AM PST

A Swiss Guard stands as Pope Benedict XVI speaks during an audience with the diplomatic corps at the Vatican January 9, 2012. REUTERS/Pier Paolo Cito/Pool (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has remembered the "numerous victims" of religiously motivated terrorism during an annual reception for diplomats.


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