2009年12月29日星期二

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Yemen investigates Nigerian's al-Qaida contacts (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:43 PM PST

The San'a Institute for the Arabic Language in San'a, Yemen is seen Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009, where Nigerian suspect in the Christmas Day airline attack Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was an Arabic student. The San'a Institute for the Arabic Language told The Associated Press that Abdulmutallab was an Arabic student at the school in August. Administrators at the school said Monday that the director of the school, Muhammad al-Anisi, has spent two days being questioned by Yemeni security officials. He remained in custody Tuesday. (AP photo)AP - Officials in Yemen were investigating Tuesday whether the Nigerian suspected in the attempted Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner spent time with al-Qaida militants in the country in the months leading up to the botched bombing.

US appeals court nixes Vatican Bank Holocaust suit (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:38 PM PST

AP - An American appeals court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by Holocaust survivors who alleged the Vatican bank accepted millions of dollars of their valuables stolen by Nazi sympathizers.

Haqqani network challenges US-Pakistan relations (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 12:16 PM PST

In this photo taken on Dec. 13, 2008, Pakistanis surround the body of an Afghan national who was allegedly killed by the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network for spying in Pakistan's tribal area of Waziristan in Miran Shah, Pakistan. The highly autonomous Afghan Taliban faction, whose leader was once a U.S. ally, is a serious threat to American and NATO troops in Afghanistan's east and operates on both sides of the border with Pakistan. (AP Photo/Hasnbanulla Khan)AP - The bodies kept surfacing — hanged, shot, beheaded — and always with a note alleging the victims were anti-Taliban spies. "Learn a lesson from the fate of this man," warned one message found on a corpse in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region.

Web posts suggest lonely, depressed terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:19 PM PST

In this 2001 image made available on Monday Dec. 28, 2009 by teacher Mike Rimmer, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab poses with a group of fellow pupils from Lome's International School, Togo, while on a school trip to London. On Dec. 25, 2009 Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up an airliner over Detroit, an attack claimed to have been coordinated by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. (AP Photo)AP - Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior.

Iranian security forces intensify crackdown (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:43 PM PST

This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows Iranian protestors beating police officers, during anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - Iranian security forces intensified their crackdown on anti-government supporters Tuesday, arresting relatives of the country's Nobel laureate and the main opposition leader, and limiting the movement of another top opposition leader.

Hugo Chavez's Domestic Crisis: A Plague of Kidnappings (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 01:45 AM PST

Time.com - An atmosphere of dread comes over the Venezuelan capital as the country tries to deal with an epidemic of abductions

Intel report: Iran seeking to smuggle raw uranium (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:43 PM PST

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi (C) receives condolences for the death of his nephew Seyed Ali Habibi-Mousavi, on December 28 in Tehran. The 35-year-old nephew of Mousavi was shot dead in Tehran during protests on December 27 which turned into the bloodiest showdown between opposition protesters and security forces in months.(AFP/Arash Ashourinia)AP - Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, according to an intelligence report obtained by The Associated Press. Diplomats said the assessment was heightening international concern about Tehran's nuclear activities.

Court lets Palestinians use major Israeli highway (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 02:26 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 4, 2008 file photo, Palestinian, Israeli and foreign protesters run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops, bottom, during a demonstration on Highway 443 near the West Bank village of Beit Horon outside Jerusalem. Israel's Supreme Court ordered the military on Tuesday Dec. 29, 2009 to allow Palestinians to travel on the part of Highway 443 that runs through the West Bank, handing Palestinians their biggest victory yet against Israel's practice of reserving some roads for Jews. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israel's Supreme Court ordered the military on Tuesday to allow Palestinians to travel on the part of a major highway that runs through the West Bank, handing Palestinians their biggest victory yet against Israel's practice of reserving some roads for Jews.

Yemeni link to airline plot complicates Gitmo plan (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:49 PM PST

AP - The alleged Yemeni roots of the attack on a Detroit-bound airliner threaten to complicate U.S. efforts to empty Guantanamo, where nearly half the remaining detainees are from Yemen.

US welcomes Sudan-Chad bid to normalize ties (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 02:52 PM PST

Sudanese presidential adviser Ghaze Salaheddin (R) meets with Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki in Khartoum on December 25. The United States on Tuesday welcomed efforts by Sudan and Chad to normalize ties, underlining how such moves would also help bring peace to Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region.(AFP/Ibrahim Hamid)AFP - The United States on Tuesday welcomed efforts by Sudan and Chad to normalize ties, underlining how such moves would also help bring peace to Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region.

Secret files show British PM hostile to Vietnam boat people (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:16 PM PST

A portrait dated April 1979 of British Conservative party leader Margaret Thatcher in London. Thatcher was unsympathetic to the fate of Vietnamese boat people in 1979, saying it would be AFP - Margaret Thatcher was unsympathetic to the fate of Vietnamese boat people in 1979, saying it would be "quite wrong" for them to get social housing here ahead of white Britons, secret files showed Wednesday.

Australian residents urged to flee 'house-high' wildfires (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 12:58 PM PST

File photo shows a firefighter near a forest fire. Australian officials have urged residents to evacuate a wheat farming district in the west of the country as towering wildfires with flames higher than rooftops threatened homes.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australian officials urged residents to evacuate a wheat farming district in the west of the country Tuesday as towering wildfires with flames higher than rooftops threatened homes.

Reid to force vote on airline security nominee (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 01:35 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will force a vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration when the Senate reconvenes in three weeks.

American missionary allegedly held by North Korea. A 'gift' to Pyongyang? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:11 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A 28-year-old Korean-American crossed a frozen river border into North Korea on Christmas Eve with a message of “love and forgiveness” for leader Kim Jong-il but now appears to be in need of Mr. Kim’s mercy to be able to leave.

Party While You Pedal: Beer Biking in Amsterdam (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 01:45 AM PST

Time.com - Tour operators in the Dutch capital have built a profitable -- anddivisive -- business around drunk biking. Grab a Heineken and hitch a rideon the beer bike

Obama Quietly Changes U.S. Immigration Policy (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 12:10 PM PST

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 28 (New America Media) - The Obama administration quietly announced last week that it would overturn one of the harsh immigration enforcement measures enacted by the Bush administration following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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