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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Cheney warns against impulsive action in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 03:25 AM CST

Vice President Dick Cheney pauses during an interview with the Associated Press at the White House in Washington Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Vice President Dick Cheney, warning against impulsive U.S. action in Iraq, says that whether the struggling nation backslides into a cycle of violence partly depends on how President-elect Barack Obama decides to pull out American forces.

Petraeus: Afghan, Pakistan problems are really one (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 01:00 AM CST

Recruiter Sgt. Mario Ashe (L) and Christopher Stevens talk in the tactical operations center area of the U.S. Army Experience center at the Franklin Mills mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 2009. The U.S. Army, struggling to ensure it has enough manpower as it fights wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is wooing young Americans with video games, Google maps and simulated attacks on enemy positions from an Apache helicopter. Departing from the recruiting environment of metal tables and uniformed soldiers in a drab military building, the Army has invested $12 million in a facility that looks like a cross between a hotel lobby and a video arcade. Picture taken January 7, 2009. (Tim Shaffer/Reuters)AP - U.S. policy to win in Afghanistan must recognize the poor nation's limitations and its neighborhood, especially its intertwined relationship with U.S. terrorism-fighting ally Pakistan, the top U.S. military commander in the region said Thursday.

Mumbai attacks could boost US anti-terror efforts: officials (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 12:17 AM CST

Indian soldiers stand guard at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai in November 2008. The bloody attacks in Mumbai last November could provide a model for the United States to improve security at vulnerable targets like hotels or malls, US anti-terrorism officials told Congress.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)AFP - The bloody attacks in Mumbai last November could provide a model for the United States to improve security at vulnerable targets like hotels or malls, US anti-terrorism officials told Congress Thursday.

Qaeda Pakistan leader believed dead: U.S. official (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 09:21 PM CST

Usama al-Kini, Al Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan, is pictured in this undated FBI Most Wanted photograph. Al-Kini, also known as Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam, and a top aide are believed to be dead, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on January 8, 2009, in what appeared to be the latest results of a campaign targeting the militant group's leadership. Operations chief al-Kini was thought responsible for attacks, including the bombing of a Marriott hotel in Islamabad that killed 55 people in September, and an unsuccessful attempt to kill former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was later assassinated in a separate attack, the official said. (FBI/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Al Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan and a top aide are believed to be dead, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Thursday, in what appeared to be the latest results of a campaign targeting the militant group's leadership.

New York expands "SWAT" reserves after Mumbai (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 06:36 PM CST

Reuters - New York police have begun training officers in heavy weapons to help its elite security force fight off a commando-style attack like the Mumbai siege, commissioner Ray Kelly told Congress on Thursday.

Cheney: no need for pre-emptive pardons (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 05:43 PM CST

AP - Vice President Dick Cheney says he sees no reason for President George W. Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone who authorized or was involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists.

Mumbai attacks seen as model for future terrorism (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 04:57 PM CST

AP - The deadly attacks in India may have provided a low-frills but bloody blueprint for other violent groups to follow, U.S. anti-terrorism officials told Congress on Thursday.

Obama plans to overhaul counterterrorism apparatus (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 04:36 PM CST

AP - President-elect Barack Obama is considering dissolving a White House-based homeland security panel created in the wake of 9/11 and will restructure counterterrorism policy under intelligence veteran John Brennan.

Growing Unease in Kashmir over Prospect of War (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 04:09 PM CST

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (OneWorld.net) - People living in the historically conflicted area of Kashmir are concerned that rising tensions between India and Pakistan -- provoked by the Mumbai terrorist attacks -- may culminate in conflict.

Moroccan terror fugitive caught in Algeria (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:55 PM CST

AP - The official Moroccan news agency says an Islamist convicted in the deadly 2003 Casablanca bombings who escaped from prison has been caught in neighboring Algeria and returned home.

Probe of CIA video destruction winding down (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 12:00 PM CST

Reuters - A criminal probe into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects is almost finished, court papers made public this week show.

US ambassador says Britain in Guantanamo talks (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 11:11 AM CST

AP - The outgoing U.S. ambassador to London says talks have been held with British officials about Britain accepting some Guantanamo Bay detainees if the camp for terrorist suspects is closed.

Pakistan fires national security adviser (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 10:18 AM CST

In this Sept, 23, 2006 file photo, Mahmood Ali Durrani, Pakistan's national security adviser, speaks in Washington, D.C. Pakistan fired its national security adviser amid tensions with India over the Mumbai attacks, a sign of strain on the weak civilian administration as it responds to growing pressure to track down the alleged perpetrators. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, FILE)AP - Pakistan's decision to fire its national security adviser has exposed cracks within the shaky, civilian government as it faces growing U.S. and Indian pressure to punish the alleged plotters of the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

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