Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Indonesian police kill 2 suspected militants (AP)
• Indonesia police believe militant chief killed (Reuters)
• Indonesian police in shootout with terror suspects (AFP)
• Terror suspects lose extradition case in Britain (AFP)
• Yemeni cleric pleads guilty to aiding terrorists (AP)
• Myanmar: Terrorists tried to disrupt Suu Kyi trial (AP)
• AP Source: Congress told ex-FBI agent will run TSA (AP)
• Challenges to prosecuting Guantanamo detainees not insurmountable (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Terror suspects lose case against US extradition (AP)
• Drone probably killed Taliban leader. Is Pakistan safer? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Indonesian police kill 2 suspected militants (AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:59 PM PDT AP - Indonesian police hunting the mastermind of last month's attacks on hotels in the capital raided two houses Saturday, killing two suspected militants, arresting five others and seizing explosives and a car bomb, a senior officer said.

Indonesia police believe militant chief killed (Reuters) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - Indonesian police have shot dead a man suspected to be fugitive Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top during raids in Central Java and were trying to identify his body, a police source said on Saturday.

Indonesian police in shootout with terror suspects (AFP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 02:30 PM PDT AFP - Indonesian police were engaged in an armed standoff with gunmen Saturday in a suspected hideout of alleged Asian terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top, a spokesman said.

Terror suspects lose extradition case in Britain (AFP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:54 PM PDT AFP - Two alleged leading conspirators of Osama bin Laden on Friday lost their latest battle to escape extradition from Britain over the 1998 US embassy bombings in east Africa.

Yemeni cleric pleads guilty to aiding terrorists (AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:48 PM PDT AP - An ailing Yemeni cleric once sentenced to 75 years in prison in a high-profile U.S. terrorism prosecution quietly won his freedom Friday in a plea deal in federal court.

Myanmar: Terrorists tried to disrupt Suu Kyi trial (AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:47 PM PDT AP - Myanmar's military government on Friday accused overseas opposition groups and terrorists of planning to set off explosions during a visit last month by the U.N. chief and trying to disrupt the ongoing trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

AP Source: Congress told ex-FBI agent will run TSA (AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:28 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration has told some members of Congress that it plans to pick a former FBI special agent to head the federal agency charged with keeping terrorists off airplanes.

Challenges to prosecuting Guantanamo detainees not insurmountable (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 11:19 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Trying Guantanamo detainees in U.S. courts could prove to be a prosecutor's nightmare, haunted by allegations of torture, tainted evidence and compromised witnesses. Nevertheless, as U.S. attorneys in New York, Virginia and Washington consider whether to charge some terrorism suspects in U.S. courts, they may find comfort in their own past success.

Terror suspects lose case against US extradition (AP) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 05:14 AM PDT AP - A British court has dismissed motions by two terror suspects asking not to be extradited to the United States.

Drone probably killed Taliban leader. Is Pakistan safer? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A US drone strike Wednesday probably killed Baitullah Mehsud, a senior Pakistan-based Taliban leader who organized dozens of terror attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His death may substantially weaken the Taliban insurgency within Pakistan, a country that some US leaders feared was careening toward collapse just a few months ago.

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