2012年2月15日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


US says it's monitoring Hezbollah activities (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:51 PM PST

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (neh-pahl-ih-TAN'-oh) says the U.S. is closely monitoring the activities of Iran-linked militant group Hezbollah (hez-BUH'-lah).

In Thailand, Evidence Suggests Bombings Tied to Larger Plot (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:45 AM PST

Time.com - A day after a series of blasts rocked Thailand's capital, the country's leaders feverishly sought to dispel any notion the incident was part of a terrorist plot

Napolitano says bio, agro-defense facility needed (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:11 AM PST

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says a national biological and agricultural defense laboratory in the U.S. remains necessary despite the Obama administration's decision not to include construction funding in its budget request.

War crimes charges for ex-Maryland man at Gitmo (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:10 AM PST

Afghanistan's Deputy Foreign Minister Jawed Ludin, right, gestures as he speaks during a joint press conference with Marc Grossman the special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Ludin says the Afghan government supports having a Taliban political office opened in Qatar and would back an American decision to transfer some Taliban detainees from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Qatar. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Pentagon prosecutors have filed war crimes charges against a Pakistani detainee at Guantanamo who graduated from a U.S. high school, accusing him joining al-Qaida and taking part in a series of post-Sept. 11 terror plots.


Iraqi-born Islamist cleric in Norway terror trial (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:53 AM PST

Mullah Krekar, center, seated between his lawyers Brynjar Meling, left, and Arvid Sjoedin, right, in an Oslo District court, Oslo, Norway Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Iraqi-born cleric Mullah Krekar has pleaded not guilty in Norway to charges of making death threats against politicians and encouraging suicide bombings. The 55-year-old Islamist cleric rejected the charges at the start of a terror trial on Wednesday at the Oslo District Court. A local court declared Krekar a national security threat and ordered him deported in 2005, but later postponed the move because of concerns he could face execution or torture in Iraq. (AP Photo/Berit Roald/Scanpix)   NORWAY OUTAP - An Iraqi-born cleric pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of making death threats against politicians and encouraging suicide bombings.


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