Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• World honors 9/11 heroes, but divided over war (AP)
• Obama marks 9/11 with memorial, call to service (AP)
• River drill shakes up DC on 9/11 anniversary (AP)
• Riot police quell clashes at 9/11 demo in London (AFP)
• RESOURCE: Comparing the House and Senate Homeland Security Spending Bills (CQPolitics.com)
• UK prosecutors want 3 bombing suspects retried (AP)
• Eight years on, 9/11 reaps heavy toll (AFP)
• Al-Qaida Web sites down ahead of 9/11 anniversary (AP)
• Nation marks 9/11 with acts of volunteerism (AP)
• Swede held in Pakistan over possible terror links (AP)
• This 9-11, Obama has the bullhorn on terrorism (AP)
• Biden Honors NYC 9/11 Victims as Obama Hosts Memorial (Bloomberg)
• Obama lays wreath at Pentagon to observe 9/11 (AP)
• New York's Sept 11 museum to display hijacker perspective (Reuters)
• White House defends Sept 11 training exercise (AP)
• Obama leads US in tribute to victims of 9/11 (AFP)
• Sept. 11 galvanizes US troops in Afghanistan (AP)
• Biden Honors 9/11 Victims as Obama Hosts Memorial (Bloomberg)
• Kyrgyzstan commits to continued Afghan role (AP)
• 49% Say Impact of 9/11 Attacks Forgotten By Most Americans (Rasmussen Reports)

World honors 9/11 heroes, but divided over war (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 05:11 PM PDT AP - On the day to remember the terror of 9/11, the war it spawned in Afghanistan sowed fresh divisions. President Barack Obama, speaking under rainy skies after placing a wreath at the site of the attack on the Pentagon, called on the world to "renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and who plot against us still."

Obama marks 9/11 with memorial, call to service (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 05:07 PM PDT AP - On his first 9/11 anniversary as president, Barack Obama urged Americans to come together in service just as they united after the terrorist attacks eight years ago.

River drill shakes up DC on 9/11 anniversary (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:27 PM PDT AP - A morning of remembrance turned into one of flashbacks, fear and media missteps Friday when a Coast Guard exercise — unfolding near Pentagon ceremonies marking the Sept. 11, 2001, anniversary — was mistaken as an attack. The false reports of gunfire on the river briefly spooked the capital, sending FBI agents to the scene and grounding flights.

Riot police quell clashes at 9/11 demo in London (AFP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT AFP - Eight people were arrested Friday as riot police intervened to quell clashes between Muslims and anti-Islamic protestors outside a London mosque on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

RESOURCE: Comparing the House and Senate Homeland Security Spending Bills (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:17 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - The House and Senate have both passed their versions of the Homeland Security spending bill (HR 2892). While the top line figures in the measures are not that far apart, there are some significant differences in funding for specific programs. See this comparison chart, and read the full story for more information.

UK prosecutors want 3 bombing suspects retried (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:10 PM PDT AP - British prosecutors said Friday night they would seek a retrial in the case of three British Muslims suspected of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners.

Eight years on, 9/11 reaps heavy toll (AFP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:00 PM PDT AFP - Eight years after Al-Qaeda brought carnage to the United States killing nearly 3,000 people, the "war on terror" unleashed after the attacks has claimed tens of thousands of lives far from US shores.

Al-Qaida Web sites down ahead of 9/11 anniversary (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 01:36 PM PDT AP - A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums have been experiencing technical problems on the eve of Sept. 11, finally going offline a day before the 8th anniversary of the al-Qaida attack on the U.S.

Nation marks 9/11 with acts of volunteerism (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - The selfless spirit that helped mend a stricken nation eight years ago was renewed. Volunteers marked 9/11 Friday by tilling gardens, writing letters to soldiers, setting out flags — and, at ground zero, by joining the somber ritual of reading the names of the lost.

Swede held in Pakistan over possible terror links (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 12:16 PM PDT AP - A Swedish citizen with the same name as a Swede who was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and held for two years at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp was detained in Pakistan last month on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, police said Friday.

This 9-11, Obama has the bullhorn on terrorism (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:58 AM PDT AP - On Sept. 11, 2001, Barack Obama was driving to a state legislative hearing in Chicago when he heard the first sketchy reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center on his car radio. The 40-year-old state senator spent the afternoon in his law office watching "nightmare images" of destruction and grief unfold on TV.

Biden Honors NYC 9/11 Victims as Obama Hosts Memorial (Bloomberg) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:00 AM PDT Bloomberg - Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Joe Biden led past and present area governors and mayors of New York City as well as relatives and friends honoring 2,752 people who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Obama lays wreath at Pentagon to observe 9/11 (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 10:48 AM PDT AP - Echoing the words of his predecessor, President Barack Obama vowed the United States "will never falter" in the pursuit of al-Qaida as he marked the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by placing a wreath at the site of the attack on the Pentagon.

New York's Sept 11 museum to display hijacker perspective (Reuters) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 10:25 AM PDT Reuters - A museum dedicated to the September 11 attacks will display written quotations drawn from "martyrdom" videos made by the hijackers, along with witness testimonials that will be screened to prevent sympathizers from praising the perpetrators, museum officials said on Thursday.

White House defends Sept 11 training exercise (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 09:14 AM PDT AP - The White House is defending the Coast Guard's decision to hold a training exercise in the Potomac River on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Obama leads US in tribute to victims of 9/11 (AFP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:50 AM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama on Friday led a moment of silence at the start of eighth anniversary commemorations of the September 11 attacks in 2001 when 3,000 people died in the world's deadliest terror strike.

Sept. 11 galvanizes US troops in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:06 PM PDT AP - Many of the troops at this sprawling U.S. air base were in their mid-teens when they watched the planes hit the World Trade Center's twin towers on television and vowed to join the military.

Biden Honors 9/11 Victims as Obama Hosts Memorial (Bloomberg) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 06:53 AM PDT Bloomberg - Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Joe Biden led past and present area governors and mayors of New York City as well as relatives and friends honoring 2,752 people who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Kyrgyzstan commits to continued Afghan role (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 06:22 AM PDT AP - Kyrgyzstan's president visited a U.S. air base in this ex-Soviet nation Friday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and pledged to bolster diplomatic ties with Washington to help fight international terrorism.

49% Say Impact of 9/11 Attacks Forgotten By Most Americans (Rasmussen Reports) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 06:19 AM PDT Rasmussen Reports - Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans believe that most of their fellow countrymen have already forgotten the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in which 3,000 died.

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