2015年6月5日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Tariq Aziz, top aide to Saddam Hussein, dies in hospital

Posted: 05 Jun 2015 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this, Saturday, April 15, 2000, file photo, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz addresses journalists in Baghdad, where he said Iraq does not accept a new U.N. Security Council plan to resume weapons inspections in the country. Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospital in southern Iraq. He was 79. (AP Photo/Jassim Mohammed, File)The debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospital in southern Iraq, officials said. He was 79.


Family names alleged victim of Dennis Hastert sex abuse

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2 friends of Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to prison

Posted: 05 Jun 2015 02:58 PM PDT

This undated photo added on April 18, 2013 to the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows, from left, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after Tsarnaev's capture. They are not suspects, but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston. (AP Photo/VK)BOSTON (AP) — Two college friends of marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were sentenced Friday to prison after one tearfully apologized to the residents of Boston for impeding the investigation and the other had a show of support from former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.


Boston bomber's friends sentenced for hampering investigation

Posted: 05 Jun 2015 02:20 PM PDT

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is pictured in this handout photo presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in BostonBy Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Two college friends of the Boston Marathon bomber were sentenced to prison on Friday for removing a backpack containing empty fireworks shells from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room amid a massive manhunt three days after the deadly 2013 attack. Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov was sentenced to 3-1/2 years for obstructing justice by taking, with his roommate, Tsarnaev's pack and dropping it in a dumpster by the off-campus apartment they shared. Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was sentenced to three years in prison for lying to investigators about the incident, which occurred in the hours after the FBI released images of Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, identifying them as suspects.


Bergdahl lawyers seek dismissal of U.S. general in desertion case

Posted: 05 Jun 2015 04:36 PM PDT

U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Berghdal is pictured in handout photo provided by U.S. ArmyBy Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Lawyers for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan charged with desertion, sought on Friday to have the general overseeing the military legal proceedings disqualified from the case, citing a conflict of interest. The motion filed by Bergdahl's attorney Eugene Fidell with a military appeals court argued that General Mark Milley's nomination to serve as the Army's chief of staff could impact the case, especially with Milley needing Senate confirmation to become the service's top officer. Many Republican lawmakers condemned the deal the Obama administration reached that brought Bergdahl home, calling it irresponsible.


Amtrak train collides with truck in Illinois, no injuries reported

Posted: 05 Jun 2015 04:10 PM PDT

(Reuters) - An Amtrak train traveling from Texas to Chicago with 203 passengers aboard collided with a truck near Wilmington, Illinois, on Friday but there were no immediate reports of injuries, the railroad said. The Texas Eagle, also known as Train No. 22, en route from San Antonio, hit a tractor trailer on the tracks about 50 miles south of Chicago, at about 4 p.m., said Amtrak spokesman Craig Schulz. The 203 passengers aboard were transported to a local high school while the tracks were checked for damages.

Prosecutor: Germanwings pilot contacted dozens of doctors

Posted: 05 Jun 2015 12:52 PM PDT

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A state prosecutor says a co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors ahead of the disaster. The revelation suggests Andreas Lubitz was seeking advice about an undisclosed ailment.

Police try to determine if 3 Colorado shootings are linked

Posted: 05 Jun 2015 01:53 AM PDT

Ciera Rogers, far right, receives condolences from her friend Sam Hinde, on the loss of Rogers' grandfather, who was shot and killed the night before on a sidewalk near his home, in the northern Colorado town of Loveland, Colo., Thursday, June 4, 2015. At left, facing, Emmett Pelissier hugs Ciera Rogers' sister Sadie. The overnight killing in this northern Colorado city has raised alarm that a serial shooter might be trolling the area's roads after a bicyclist was gunned down and a driver was wounded nearby in less than two months. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — Police in northern Colorado are investigating any possible link between the slaying of a man on a neighborhood sidewalk and two previous shootings of a bicyclist and a driver.


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