Seizure of AP phone records on Capitol Hill raises concerns about separation of powers
Source: The Washington Times
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-19 20:36:07 -0700 | disasters-news
News organizations are convinced that the Obama administration trampled on freedom of the press when the Justice Department seized Associated Press phone records in pursuit of a government source who leaked details of a thwarted terrorist plot last year.
Langevin: 'Deep concerns' about AP phone records
Source: Boston.com
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-15 09:48:31 -0700 | disasters-news
R.I. (AP) Rep. Jim Langevin (LAN'-juh-vin) says he has deep concerns'' about the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records. The Rhode Island Democrat, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, says in a written statement on Wednesday...
Answers to key questions about Guantanamo detention center
Source: Sacramento Bee
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-09 22:27:03 -0700 | disasters-news
Candidate Barack Obama pledged that hed close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility...As president, Obama has failed to shut down the facility he calls expensive, and inefficient and a recruitment tool for terrorists. On April 30, Obama promised that hell go...
Al Qaeda suspects kill three Yemen colonels: military
Source: DAWN
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-08 10:09:56 -0700 | disasters-news
Al Qaeda-linked suspects on Wednesday shot dead three air force colonels from the strategic Al-Anad air base in the southern province of Lahij, a military official told AFP. Gunmen shot dead three pilots with the rank of colonel north of...
Major Syrian salafi faction criticizes Jabhat al-Nosra
Source: War In Context
Şīf :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-05 19:22:08 -0700 | disasters-news
The Ahrar al-Sham statement is available in Arabic on Aaron Zelin's Jihadology , always the go-to place for source material on jihadi groups...In early April, Zawahiri issued a statement in support of the revolution in Syria and called for an...
News Analysis: Terrorists Find Online Education for Attacks
Source: Newyork Times
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-05 19:02:49 -0700 | disasters-news
I strongly recommend all of the brothers and sisters coming from the West to consider attacking America in its own backyard, wrote Samir Khan, an American who joined Al Qaeda's Yemen branch and emerged as a fervent advocate of homegrown,...
Indefinite detentions at Guantanamo should not continue - ex-US ambassador to Mexico
Source: Russia Today
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-05 10:47:36 -0700 | disasters-news
President Obama at the very beginning of his presidency signed an executive order to stop torture. But human rights organizations say indefinite detention itself is torture. Is it fair to say that the Obama administration is engaged in torture now?...
Boston bombers originally planned Fourth of July attack
Source: The Washington Times
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-03 05:03:19 -0700 | disasters-news
Federal investigators revealed that the Boston bombers initially wanted to launch their terror attack on Independence Day , but changed to the marathon because they finished building their bombs faster than they thought they could. Officials told NBC that Tamerlan...
Tsarnaevs planned Independence Day attack, Dzhokhar tells investigators
Source: Russia Today
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-03 04:03:14 -0700 | disasters-news
The younger Tsarnaev brother told investigators on April 21, only two days after being captured by police, that the pair's plans were accelerated after they finished building explosive devices at their Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment faster than they anticipated.
Al-Qaeda assassins kill military intelligence official in Yemen
Source: Canadian Free Press
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-04-29 17:50:54 -0700 | disasters-news
According to Mordacai Ashur, two gunmen wearing masks and riding motorbikes fired at Col. Ahmed Abdul-Razzak, the director of the military intelligence unit in the Hadramout province...Abdul-Razzak on a main road near his home in the coastal town of Mukalla,...
Guantanamo Bay hearing delayed after mysterious disappearance of legal files
Source: Russia Today
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-04-11 17:25:36 -0700 | disasters-news
A weeklong hearing was scheduled to start on Monday for Abd al Rahim al Nashiri a Saudi Arabian citizen alleged to be the mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen in 2000. The attack...
Yemenis demand release of Gitmo-held compatriots
Source: Russia Today
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-04-01 10:57:47 -0700 | disasters-news
Neither the embassy nor the demonstrators made its content public. Yemeni officials and human rights activists have persistently demanded the US hand over more than 80 compatriots still held in Guantanamo...A hunger strike involving scores of inmates has been on-going...
Sacked Yemen general finally quits post, says UN envoy
Source: NOW Lebanon
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2012-07-08 16:38:31 -0700 | political-news
Yemen's sacked air force commander, who has refused to quit for weeks, on Tuesday left the post he has held for nearly three decades, the United Nations envoy to Yemen said. "General Mohammed Saleh al-Ahmar has handed his duties over...
Al-Qaida attacks Yemen army post, 64 dead after hours of fighting
Source: Taiwan News
Zinjibār :: Yemen | updated 2012-06-10 13:46:30 -0700 | travel-news
An al-Qaida attack on a Yemeni army post in the lawless south set off clashes that left 64 people dead on Monday. Residents and military officials said 40 militants were killed in the clashes...Six civilians allied with the army were...
Gunmen attack Yemen's main airport
Source: CNN
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-07-15 14:43:54 -0700 | political-news
Gunmen loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh attacked the country's main airport with mortars Saturday, forcing authorities to cancel flights, witnesses and officials said. Two officials at Sanaa International Airport told CNN that the former commander of Yemen's...
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