U.S. kept Britain in dark over torture: ex spy chief (Reuters)
Reuters - The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the former head of Britain's domestic spy agency said on Tuesday.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:57:13 GMT]
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Pa. woman accused of recruiting jihadists online (AP)
AP - A suburban woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:02:04 GMT]
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Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists (AP)
AP - Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:53:09 GMT]
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Ex-spy chief: US misled allies over detainees (AP)
AP - United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:28:16 GMT]
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Men seized 'days before planned attack in Britain' (AFP)

A policeman is pictured outside the Houses of Parliament in London, in Februray 2010. Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday.



[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:14:58 GMT]
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Bali bomb mastermind believed killed by security forces (AFP)

An undated picture of the militant leader Dulmatin who is believed to have been killed by counter-terror forces in Jakarta. Dulmatin is thought to be one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Tuesday killed a man believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, during a raid in the capital Jakarta, police and reports said.



[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:46:02 GMT]
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Officials: Bali bombing mastermind may be dead (AP)

Paramedics carry the body of a suspected militant killed in a police raid in Pamulang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Anti-terror police hunting a mastermind of Indonesia's worst terror attack killed three suspects on Tuesday, police said. Police were trying to determine whether one of those killed was the alleged terrorist Dulmatin. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - A top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings may have been killed in a shootout with police at an Internet cafe Tuesday moments after sitting at a terminal, authorities said. DNA tests were under way to confirm his identity.



[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:58:44 GMT]
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Amsterdam airport tightens security at duty free (AP)
AP - Security has been tightened at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a team of investigative journalists smuggled bottles of liquid onto passenger jets bound for London and Washington, D.C., the airport and the Dutch anti-terror agency said Tuesday.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:42:29 GMT]
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Suicide attack kills 2 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP)

An Afghan man sits outside his house in the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday said a new strategy in the Afghan war showed promise after he visited a former ghost town where American forces recently cleared out Taliban militants.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)AP - A suicide attack Tuesday at a joint NATO-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan killed two international service members and wounded several others, the military alliance said.



[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:57:24 GMT]
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9/11 Trials: Can Graham Help Forge a White House Deal? (Time.com)
Time.com - Caught short on civilian trials for terror suspects and closing GuantÁnamo, the Administration is negotiating with the GOP Senator. But it's not clear he can deliver
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:35:00 GMT]
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Obama still wants US trial for some Gitmo suspects (AP)

FILE - This March 1, 2003 file picture shows Khalid Sheik Mohammed, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. White House aides are increasingly convinced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to the U.S., where many would faces charges, a senior administration official said Monday.  (AP Photo, File)AP - White House aides are increasingly convinced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to the U.S., where many would faces criminal charges, a senior administration official said Monday.



[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:41:51 GMT]
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CIA director: US efforts disrupting al-Qaida (AP)
AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday the country's counterterrorism operations have placed al-Qaida's top leaders under extreme pressure and many are "on the run" but recent thwarted terror plots in the U.S. indicate the terror network is changing its tactics.
[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:39:38 GMT]
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New poll spells potential trouble for Democrats (Reuters)

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)Reuters - A new poll on Monday found signs of trouble ahead for President Barack Obama and his Democrats on national security issues such as the handling of terrorism suspects.



[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:23:04 GMT]
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Obama taps ex-intel officer for aviation security (Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Monday he will nominate a retired Army officer with intelligence community experience to lead aviation security efforts amid concerns about passenger planes being bombed or hijacked.
[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:05:22 GMT]
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American al-Qaida suspect is not group's spokesman (AP)

This image from video released by IntelCenter Sunday, March 7, 2010, shows Adam Gadahn, featured in a video posted Sunday, coincidentally the day that his arrest by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi was announced.  In the video the 31-year-old American al-Qaida spokesman called for Muslim violence, praising the U.S. Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas, as a role model for other Muslims. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)AP - Pakistani officials reversed course Monday on a recently captured American suspected of being a member of al-Qaida, saying the man is not the terror network's U.S.-born spokesman, as they initially believed.



[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:35:41 GMT]
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Zimbabwe's Bennett wants terrorism charges dropped (Reuters)

Zimbabwe opposition party Movement for Democratic Change's (MDC) treasurer Roy Bennett arrives at the high court in Harare, January 12, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Philimon BulawayoReuters - Lawyers for Zimbabwean opposition politician Roy Bennett asked the High Court Monday to drop terrorism charges against him in a trial which has raised tensions in Harare's fragile unity government.



[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:32:12 GMT]
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US seeks to persuade EU deputies to back terror data deal (AFP)

Passengers are frisked by security personnel before boarding as part of increased security measures at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, North of Paris, in 2009. A senior US Homeland Security officer was travelling to Strasbourg Monday to urge the European parliament not to scupper an air passenger data deal which Washington says is vital in the fight against terror.(AFP/File/Pierre Verdy)AFP - A senior US Homeland Security officer was travelling to Strasbourg Monday to urge the European parliament not to scupper an air passenger data deal which Washington says is vital in the fight against terror.



[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:44:37 GMT]
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Terror trial opens for 9 in Belgium (AP)
AP - Nine people went on trial Monday on terrorism charges, including a 50-year-old woman accused of using an incendiary Islamic Web site to recruit jihadists for suicide bombing missions.
[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:45:42 GMT]
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Canada lists Somalia's Shebab as a terrorist group (AFP)

Shabab gunmen, seen in October last year, patrol Bakara Market in northern Mogadishu where gunmen have shot dead a Somali Islamist military leader critical of his group's recent merger with the Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab movement, officials and witnesses say.(AFP/File/Abdurashid Abikar)AFP - Canada has listed the Somalia-based hardline Shebab militia as a terrorist organization, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Monday.



[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:31:29 GMT]
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Indonesia says raids will not affect Obama visit (AFP)

File photo of Indonesia's national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri (R) greeting a police officer. Indonesia said Monday that raids against militants in Aceh province would not affect US President Barack Obama's planned visit to the country this month as police rounded up more terror suspects.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AFP - Indonesia said Monday that raids against militants in Aceh province would not affect US President Barack Obama's planned visit to the country this month as police rounded up more terror suspects.



[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:48:36 GMT]
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