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McCain backer Lieberman may keep committee chair (AP) Posted: 18 Nov 2008 02:50 AM CST AP - Sen. Joe Lieberman appears likely to hold onto his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite lingering hard feelings over his vocal support for GOP nominee John McCain during this year's presidential campaign.

Closing Guantánamo prison may force new rules for trying terrorists (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - The prospect of closing the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has sparked a broad and intensifying debate over key aspects of America's antiterrorism policy.

France captures top ETA leader (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - The military leader of the Basque terrorist group ETA was removed from the top of Spain's most-wanted list early Monday morning, when French police arrested Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, alias Txeroki, in the Pyrenean town of Cauterets. Spanish police allege that he's directly responsible for several murders. Txeroki, they say, is suspected of ordering the 2006 bombing at Madrid's Barajas airport.

Obama advisers: No charges likely vs interrogators (AP) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 11:21 PM CST AP - Barack Obama's incoming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush presidency. Obama, who has criticized the use of torture, is being urged by some constitutional scholars and human rights groups to investigate possible war crimes by the Bush administration.

Spain's Most Wanted Terrorist Caught (Time.com) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 10:50 PM CST Time.com - The arrest in France of Txeroki, the terror group's chief purveyor of violence, could augur a sea change in tactics for Basque independence

FBI questions American held without charges in Gulf state (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:22 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — An American Muslim subjected to several years of intense FBI scrutiny and questioning about links to terrorism has been held without charges, access to a lawyer or contact with his family for nearly three months by the security services of the United Arab Emirates.

U.S. sets manifest rule for private planes (Reuters) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:31 PM CST Reuters - Operators of international private-plane flights to and from the United States will be required to electronically provide full advance manifests of their passengers and crew an hour before departure, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Monday.

Finance crisis seen affecting terrorism crackdown (Reuters) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:32 PM CST Reuters - The global financial crisis may make it easier to restrict the money supply for terrorism, but there are also risks banks could skimp on monitoring suspicious cash flows, U.S. experts said on Monday.

U.S. Attorney in Manhattan resigns to join law firm (Reuters) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:50 PM CST Reuters - Michael Garcia, a top federal prosecutor of terrorism and white-collar crime cases in New York, resigned on Monday to join a private law firm.

How the Al Qaeda Terrorism Threat is Mutating (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 03:59 PM CST U.S. News & World Report - Terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden is thought to be hiding in one of the world's most remote areas--the tribal territories between Pakistan and Afghanistan--but tracking him down remains a priority for the CIA, seven years after the 9/11 attacks. At the moment, bin Laden "appears to be largely isolated from the day-to-day operations of the organization he leads," CIA Director Michael Hayden told a group in Washington.

France seizes head of ETA military wing (AFP) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 03:53 PM CST AFP - French police arrested ETA's alleged military chief on Monday, the most wanted Basque separatist still at large and a man Spanish officials branded a "bloodthirsty terrorist."

Terror plot: Yemen makes movie to fight jihad (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 03:09 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - SANAA, Yemen — Deep in Yemen's restive desert, terrorists target a family of European tourists. While the country mourns the deadly attack, an elite government force storms the killers' mountain hideout and brings them down in a hail of artillery.

More security for US-bound private planes (AP) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 02:46 PM CST AP - Closing what he called the last major vulnerability for bringing a weapon of mass destruction into the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced new rules for screening passengers and crew members on private aircraft bound for America.

Bush calls Gadhafi to laud claims settlement deal (AP) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 12:07 PM CST AP - President Bush called Libya's Moammar Gadhafi to voice his satisfaction with a $1.5 billion payment that Tripoli made to settle a long-standing dispute over terrorist attacks, including the bombing a Pan Am jet over Scotland, the White House said Monday.

Failed bombing suspect admits he is a 'terrorist' (AFP) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 09:37 AM CST AFP - An Iraqi doctor accused of plotting failed car bombings last year in London and Glasgow admitted Monday to being a terrorist -- but accused the government of terrorism too.

India wonders how deep "Hindu terrorism" goes (Reuters) Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:44 AM CST Reuters - Reports that Hindu militants may be involved in bomb attacks first blamed on Islamists may open a Pandora's Box for India's beleaguered security services and become a key voter issue before general elections next year.

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