Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Castro criticizes Cheney's defense of US methods (AP)
• Obama has made US safer : top security advisor (AFP)
• Deadly bombing in Pakistan may be payback for military offensive (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Napolitano: 9/11 terrorists did not enter US from Canada (AFP)
• Ex-spy chief in Italy denies role in CIA kidnap (AP)
• Brazil detains Arab moderating anti-American site (AP)
• Ex-NYC police boss accused of lying to White House (AP)
• Did 'returning' terrorists become extremists in Guantanamo? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Castro criticizes Cheney's defense of US methods (AP) Posted: 27 May 2009 05:36 PM PDT AP - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro is criticizing ex-U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for defending American interrogation methods against terror suspects. Castro says torture should never be used to extract information.

Obama has made US safer : top security advisor (AFP) Posted: 27 May 2009 05:28 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama's national security advisor James Jones rejected ex-vice president Dick Cheney's claim that dismantling Bush-era anti-terror policies had made Americans less safe.

Deadly bombing in Pakistan may be payback for military offensive (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 27 May 2009 04:33 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suspected Islamic terrorists killed about 30 people and injured more than 250 Wednesday in a gun and vehicle-bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore that may be the first major reprisal for Pakistan's military offensive against extremists, analysts and officials said.

Napolitano: 9/11 terrorists did not enter US from Canada (AFP) Posted: 27 May 2009 09:44 AM PDT AFP - US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she now knows 9/11 terrorists did not enter the United States from Canada, seeking to bury controversy over a diplomatic gaffe.

Ex-spy chief in Italy denies role in CIA kidnap (AP) Posted: 27 May 2009 08:26 AM PDT AP - The former head of Italy's military intelligence told a court Wednesday he had no role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect — allegedly as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program — but claimed he cannot prove his innocence because the evidence is classified.

Brazil detains Arab moderating anti-American site (AP) Posted: 26 May 2009 06:40 PM PDT AP - Brazilian authorities detained an Arab who ran a Web site forum that authorities initially suspected could be linked to terrorists and included anti-American statements in Arabic, a prosecutor said Tuesday night.

Ex-NYC police boss accused of lying to White House (AP) Posted: 26 May 2009 05:42 PM PDT AP - Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik (KEHR'-ihk) has been indicted on charges of making false statements to White House officials vetting him for the position of Department of Homeland Security secretary.

Did 'returning' terrorists become extremists in Guantanamo? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 26 May 2009 04:37 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — One of the detainees whom a newly released Pentagon report says returned to the battlefield after he was released from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp told McClatchy that he was a local security leader in Afghanistan when he was arrested and became a radical Islamist only during his detention.

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