2012年2月17日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Terror suspect arrested near Capitol in FBI sting (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:35 PM PST

Capitol Police officer Angel Morales, stands on guard on the West side of the Capitol in Washington Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. A 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday in an FBI sting operation near the U.S. Capitol while planning to detonate what police say he thought were live explosives. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A 29-year-old Moroccan man, who believed he was working with al-Qaida, was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by undercover operatives, officials said.

New bid to avert death in Sept. 11 Gitmo trial (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:14 PM PST

A load of steel crushed a truck, lower left, when a crane cable snapped, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 in New York. Four World Trade Center is at left. Preliminary reports indicate that the crane was removing the beams from the truck when a cable snapped. It's not clear how high the load had been lifted before it dropped. The National September 11 Memorial is in the background. No one was seriously injured in the accident. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - The nephew of a self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind who is facing a war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay does not deserve capital charges that carry a potential death sentence, his lawyers argued in a motion filed Friday.

U.S. arrests suspect in Capitol suicide attack plot (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:09 PM PST

Reuters - A Moroccan man was arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Friday wearing a vest he believed was full of al Qaeda-supplied explosives and charged in an attempted suicide bombing of Congress, the Justice Department said.

Tensions with Iran raise US safety concerns (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:00 AM PST

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, accompanied by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., lead a bi-partisan group of senators in supporting President Obama's sanctions against Iran for pursuing nuclear weapons, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The government is worried that Iran will consider a terror attack on American soil, but it has no specific or credible threat about such a plot. Police from Los Angeles to New York City said they were anxious about the risks, even as a senior U.S. intelligence official reassured Congress that it was unlikely Iran would attack.

UK, France to hold Olympics security exercise (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:26 AM PST

AP - Britain and France will hold a joint exercise to test their abilities to respond to a terror incident at the 2012 London Olympics.

Thai cops: Iran suspects cavorted with prostitutes (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST

Thai immigration officers escort detained Iranian Mohammad Kharzei, center, at the immigration headquarters in Bangkok on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Kharzei and two fellow Iranians arrested after accidentally setting off an explosives cache in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats, Thailand's police chief said Thursday, the first confirmation by local officials that the group was plotting terror attacks in the Southeast Asian country.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - The three Iranian men detained for allegedly plotting bomb attacks in Bangkok on Israeli diplomats had more than terror on their minds in Thailand. Police said Friday that they had also cavorted with prostitutes at a beach resort.

Israel says Iran, Hezbollah plotting attacks (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:36 AM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media during a press conference after meeting with Cyprus president Dimitris Christofias, at the presidential palace in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Netanyahu paid a historic visit to Cyprus, declaring the two countries' warming ties a 'natural relationship' in a reflection of the rapidly shifting alliances in this turbulent part of the world. Netanyahu said Thursday that the Iranian president's guided tour of centrifuges at Tehran research reactor on Wednesday was proof that sanctions have not properly crippled Iran's efforts to develop nuclear capabilities. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - A senior Israeli counterterrorism official claimed Friday that Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah are plotting attacks on Israelis overseas and urged travelers to be vigilant.

'Loopholes' leave America with weak cybersecurity plan, experts say (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:11 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A bid to make new cybersecurity legislation more palatable to private industry runs the risk of opening large loopholes that hackers, terrorists, and enemy nations could exploit, computer-security experts told Congress Thursday.

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