2012年2月2日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

U.S. no-fly list doubles in year: source (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 03:25 PM PST

Reuters - The number of people banned from flying under the U.S. government's terrorism watch list has more than doubled over the last year, a counterterrorism source said on Thursday.

Sept. 11 trial at Guantanamo may face new delay (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 02:25 PM PST

Talat Hamdani, center, whose son Mohammad Salman Hamdani died attempting to save lives in the World Trade Center attacks, hands off protest sign as members of the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC) and supporters gather on the steps of City Hall for a news conference, calling for the resignation of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and his public affairs commissioner Paul Browne on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 in New York. Kelly and Browne are being criticized for the production of an anti-Muslim movie used for police training. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Lawyers for at least two Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning the Sept. 11 attack asked the Pentagon on Thursday to extend a deadline for pretrial motions, which could again delay a case that has been stalled by political and legal disputes for years.

AP Exclusive: US No-Fly list doubles in 1 year (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 01:53 PM PST

FILE - Jayashri Srikantiah, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, holds up copies of records showing passengers checked on no fly lists from San Francisco International Airport, as plaintiffs Jan Adams, right, and Rebecca Gordon, center, look on during a news conference in San Francisco, in this April 22, 2003 file photo. The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the government on behalf of Americans who believe they're on the no-fly list and have not been able to travel by air for work or to see family. The no-fly list has swelled to 20,000 people before, such as in 2004. At the time, people like the late Sen. Ted Kennedy were getting stopped before flying — causing constant angst and aggravation for innocent travelers. But much has changed since then. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)AP - The Obama administration has more than doubled, to about 21,000 names, its secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States, including about 500 Americans, the Associated Press has learned. The government lowered the bar for being added to the list, even as it says it's closer than ever to defeating al-Qaida.

Document shows NYPD eyed Shiites based on religion (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 01:49 PM PST

Imam Malik Sakhawat Hussain, left, leads prayers at the Al-Mahdi Foundation in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. As it canvassed the Northeast looking for Iranian terrorists, the New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques based solely on their religion, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document. The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how it drove the department’s aggressive spying operations. The Associated Press has reported for months that the NYPD infiltrated mosques, eavesdropped in cafes and monitored entire Muslim neighborhoods with plainclothes officers. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document.

2 German men plead guilty to terror charges in UK (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:03 AM PST

AP - Two German men have pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in a London court.

Philippines: 3 most-wanted terror leaders killed (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 12:33 PM PST

Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Col. Marcelo Burgos shows a picture of Malaysian Zulkipli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, a top leader of the regional, al Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network, during a press conference Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. The military said it killed Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants Thursday in a U.S.-backed airstrike that would mark one of the region's biggest anti-terror successes in recent years. The dead included Zulkipli bin Hir, leader of the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf militants, Umbra Jumdail, and a Singaporean leader in Jemaah Islamiyah, Abdullah Ali. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - The Philippine military said it killed three of Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist leaders in a U.S.-backed airstrike that significantly weakens an al-Qaida-linked network that had used islands in the southern Philippines as a hideout and training base.

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