2012年1月12日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


FBI agent admits deleting emails amid terror probe (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:49 PM PST

AP - An FBI agent testified Thursday that she deleted potentially sensitive emails covering several months when she was helping spearhead an investigation of a terror suspect.

New trial rejected for Egyptian in 1990 NY killing (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:35 PM PST

AP - An Egyptian man who introduced terrorism inspired by Islamic extremism to U.S. shores when he assassinated an anti-Arab rabbi in 1990 has lost his latest bid for a new trial.

Iran asks UN to condemn nuclear scientist killing (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:54 AM PST

AP - The Iranian government has called on the United Nations to condemn the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist, calling it a "terrorist attack," and blaming foreign powers.

UK spies will face criminal inquiry over Libya (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:09 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2002 file photo, released by the U.S. Department of Defense, detainees wearing orange jump suits sit in a holding area as military police patrol during in-processing at the temporary detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. British spies escaped immediate criminal charges over torture complicity Thursday, but the country's top prosecutor ordered a new investigation into claims that intelligence shared with Moammar Gadhafi's regime led to the torture or rendition of Libyans. Prosecutors have been investigating claims of mistreatment by detainees who were eventually sent to the United States prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. Most of the torture allegations come from terror suspects who were either initially held in Pakistan and Afghanistan, or sent to other countries such as Morocco for interrogation. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Shane T.McCoy, File)AP - Britain's spy agencies will face a criminal investigation into claims that intelligence shared with Moammar Gadhafi's regime led to the torture or rendition of two Libyan men and their families, authorities announced Thursday.


Ex-congressman gets year over links to defunct Islamic charity (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:11 PM PST

Reuters - A former U.S. congressman from Michigan was sentenced to a year in prison on Wednesday for accepting secret payments to try to help an Islamic charity get removed from a congressional watch list of relief agencies suspected of supporting terrorism.

Judge drops Saudi Binladin in Sept 11 damages suits (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:58 PM PST

Reuters - A Saudi construction firm founded in the 1930s by the father of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden cannot be sued for damages over the September 11, 2001, attacks, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
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