| Prosecutors mull retrial of transatlantic bombers (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:00 AM CDT  AFP - Prosecutors have been given until the end of the month to consider a retrial of men accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic aircraft with liquid explosives in 2006.
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| Seven years on, Afghanistan again 'war on terror' frontline (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:56 AM CDT  AFP - Seven years after the attacks on the World Trade Centre, Afghanistan is again the frontline of the US-led "war on terror" with extremist unrest intensifying and a new focus on Pakistan's tribal areas.
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| Obama: Kill terrorists, but give prisoners rights (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:19 AM CDT  AP - Barack Obama poked some fun at his Arabic-derived first name to explain the need for the constitutional right of prisoners to appeal their detention.
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| Bush: Pakistan has 'responsibility' to battle extremists (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:17 AM CDT  AFP - US President George W. Bush was to describe Pakistan Tuesday as a major war on terrorism battleground, like Afghanistan or Iraq, and urged Islamabad to shoulder its "responsibility" to fight extremists.
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| Bush challenges country to volunteer (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 06:26 PM CDT  AP - Stirring faded memories of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President Bush on Monday challenged people to help others in a nation where volunteerism has sagged after soaring in the wake of the attacks.
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| UK jury finds 3 men guilty in bombing plot (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 05:16 PM CDT  AP - Three British Muslims with ties to Pakistan were found guilty Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign but jurors failed to reach a verdict on whether they plotted to blow up multiple trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.
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| Civil rights group sues over NYC surveillance plan (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 02:13 PM CDT AP - A civil rights group sued the New York Police Department on Monday seeking to learn more about a plan to use license plate readers and a network of 3,000 surveillance cameras to help protect lower Manhattan from terrorist threats. |
| US finds clues in bakery to foil Iraqi terror plot (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 01:45 PM CDT  AP - Lt. Christopher Hanes knew something was wrong as soon as he stepped into the Friends bakery. The oven was unused, the water tank was empty and a large concrete bin was full of dirt that the two employees claimed was used to cool cakes.
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| Al-Qaida new tape blasts Iran for working with US (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 01:33 PM CDT  AP - Al-Qaida marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with an hour and a half video message Monday summarizing the state of jihad, or holy war, around the world and slamming Iran for collaborating with the United States.
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| Memorial to 9/11 victims set to open at Pentagon (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 12:31 PM CDT  AP - For tourists, the new memorial to 184 people who died at the Pentagon in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is not especially convenient. Nor is it ideal from a security perspective to have 24-hour public access right outside the U.S. military's nerve center.
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| 9/11 health company slow to start treating workers (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 11:32 AM CDT  AP - A company run by an ex-Bush administration official and hired by the government to provide medical care to Sept. 11 recovery workers has been slow to take up the job, workers and advocates say.
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| Guilty verdicts in transatlantic bombing trial (AFP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 11:16 AM CDT  AFP - Three members of an Islamist cell accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic aircraft with liquid explosives in 2006 were found guilty by a court in London on Monday.
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| Three Britons found guilty in liquid bomb plot (Reuters) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 12:43 PM CDT  Reuters - Three Britons were found guilty on Monday of conspiracy to kill using homemade liquid bombs, but a jury failed to agree that they intended to blow up transatlantic airliners in an al Qaeda-style attack.
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