2012年2月8日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Sen. Wyden seeks opinion used in al-Awlaki killing (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:40 PM PST

FILE - In this April 14, 2011, file photo, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks to reporters after leaving the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee says that he, like the public, is being kept in the dark about Justice Department legal advice on when the U.S. may kill American citizens abroad who are suspected terrorists. Wyden says he's been trying for more than a year to get the legal analysis from the intelligence community without success. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that he, like the public, is being kept in the dark about Justice Department legal advice on when the U.S. may kill American citizens abroad who are suspected terrorists.


Judge: Secret evidence OK in Iraqi in terror case (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:27 PM PST

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 23, an Iraqi living as a refugee in Bowling Green, Ky., is shown.  U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell set a July 30 trial date during a conference call with prosecutors and an attorney for 24-year-old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, who faces charges of attempting to provide material support to terrorists and terrorist organizations and conspiracy to transfer surface-to-air missile launcher systems.  (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service via The Courier-Journal)AP - Secret documents suggest an Iraqi man facing charges of trying to funnel weapons and cash to al-Qaida operatives in his home country was "an agent of a foreign power," and his lawyers may not see or suppress those documents, a judge ruled Wednesday.


Home-grown terror threat receding, but post-9/11 America remains on edge (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:05 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A New York man allegedly plotting to blow up police cars, a Pennsylvania man inciting Muslim extremists to attack synagogues, and a Muslim convert allegedly threatening the creators of the “South Park” TV show counted as some of the biggest domestic terror threats in 2011.
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