2012年1月25日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Prosecutors ordered to identify NYC terror witness (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:04 PM PST

FILE- In this Jan. 9, 2010, courtroom sketch, defense attorney Robert Gottlieb, left, is seated next to his client, defendant Adis Madunjanin, at the federal courthouse in New York City. On Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, Madunjanin’s attorneys have successfully persuaded U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie to compel prosecutors to identify a witness known only as 'John Doe.” Prosecutors claim that Madunjanin recruited him for a plot to attack the New York City subways with explosives made from beauty supplies. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)AP - A judge gave federal prosecutors until a week from Wednesday to give up the name of a witness they say was recruited for a chilling, al-Qaida-sanctioned plot for suicide bombers to attack the New York City subways with explosives made from beauty supplies.


NC man who ran tortuous Afghan jail dies (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 01:04 PM PST

AP - Jonathan "Jack" Idema, a former Green Beret from North Carolina convicted of running a private jail in Afghanistan where he tortured terrorism suspects, has died. He was 55.

Muslim guard gets $465K in Calif. harassment suit (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 11:24 AM PST

AP - A jury awarded $465,000 to a Muslim security guard who says his co-workers and supervisors called him a terrorist and an al-Qaida member.

APNewsBreak: Obama to protect US goods globally (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:47 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama has adopted a new strategy declaring for the first time that the United States has a national security interest to protect the nation's economic goods against terrorists, criminals and natural disasters in all corners of the globe.
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