Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• NYC trial of 9/11 suspects poses legal risks (AP)
• Napolitano pronounces US border more secure now (AP)
• New Yorkers worry about trial for 9/11 mastermind (AP)
• Ohio US attorney: shift some attention from terror (AP)
• New York split over plan to try Sept. 11 plotters (Reuters)
• Lawmaker: Hasan had communications with Pakistan (AP)
• Sept. 11 suspects to be tried in New York (Reuters)
• Ga. judge rejects terror convict's new trial bid (AP)
• Brother of terror suspect: 'We are not extremists' (AP)
• Mumbai still terror target one year after attacks: police (AFP)
• 9/11 suspects to be tried in New York (Reuters)
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• Report: Somali terror suspect had US residency (AP)
• Obama: 9/11 suspects to get demands of justice (AP)
• Militants turn on spy agency in Pakistan (AP)
• Cops protest as UMass holds forum with ex-radicals (AP)

NYC trial of 9/11 suspects poses legal risks (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 05:42 PM PST AP - In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center's twin towers they are accused of destroying.

Napolitano pronounces US border more secure now (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST AP - The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.

New Yorkers worry about trial for 9/11 mastermind (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:49 PM PST AP - The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center?

Ohio US attorney: shift some attention from terror (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:42 PM PST AP - Eight years after the 9/11 attacks, the time has come to shift crime-fighting resources to other areas while keeping terrorism as a top priority, a new Ohio federal prosecutor said.

New York split over plan to try Sept. 11 plotters (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:12 PM PST Reuters - Some New Yorkers are angry that accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will be tried in a court near where the World Trade Center once stood, while others are relieved that justice may soon be served.

Lawmaker: Hasan had communications with Pakistan (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:24 PM PST AP - The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood made or accepted wire transfers with Pakistan, a country wracked by Muslim extremist violence, a Republican congressman said Friday.

Sept. 11 suspects to be tried in New York (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:51 PM PST Reuters - The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-conspirators will be sent to New York for trial in a court near the site of the World Trade Center, the Obama administration said on Friday, as it took a step toward closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Ga. judge rejects terror convict's new trial bid (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:23 PM PST AP - A federal judge in Georgia has rejected a bid for a new trial by a man convicted of terrorism charges earlier this year.

Brother of terror suspect: 'We are not extremists' (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 11:53 AM PST AP - A Somali man arrested in the Netherlands and accused of financing Islamic terrorists was not an extremist and was so poor he couldn't afford to bring his new wife from Somalia to the U.S., according to two of his brothers who live in Minnesota.

Mumbai still terror target one year after attacks: police (AFP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 09:20 AM PST AFP - Mumbai is still a target for extremists nearly one year on from a deadly strike by Islamist gunmen, a senior police chief said Friday, welcoming improvements in security but calling for more to be done.

9/11 suspects to be tried in New York (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:28 PM PST Reuters - The accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four co-conspirators will be sent to New York for trial in a court near the site of the World Trade Center, the Obama administration said on Friday, as it took a step toward closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

(AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 08:07 AM PST AP - Holder says alleged attacker of USS Cole and four others to be tried by military commission.

Report: Somali terror suspect had US residency (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 05:40 AM PST AP - A Somali man suspected of recruiting youth in Minneapolis for Islamic terrorism in Somalia has a U.S. green card, Dutch media reported Friday.

Obama: 9/11 suspects to get demands of justice (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:19 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama says he will insist that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks will be subject to "the most exacting demands of justice."

Militants turn on spy agency in Pakistan (AP) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 09:00 AM PST AP - A suicide attack on the northwestern headquarters of Pakistan's spy agency Friday showed how militants have turned against an institution that once nurtured them and marked an escalation in their war against the U.S.-backed government.

Cops protest as UMass holds forum with ex-radicals (AP) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 06:28 PM PST AP - Convicted domestic terrorist Ray Luc Levasseur was prohibited from attending a University of Massachusetts forum on his 1989 sedition trial, but police officers and supporters picketed anyway to protest his ex-wife's appearance.

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