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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Released detainee now Yemen al-Qaida commander (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 12:04 AM CST

This image taken from an undated video posted on a militant-leaning Web site Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, and provided by the SITE Intelligence Group shows Said Ali al-Shihri. A U.S. counterterror official confirmed Friday that Said Ali al-Shihri, who was jailed in Guantanamo for six years after his capture in Pakistan, and released by the U.S. in 2007 to the Saudi government for rehabilitation, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaida. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group)AP - A released Guantanamo Bay terror detainee's re-emergence as an al-Qaida commander in Yemen highlights the difficulty President Barack Obama faces in his efforts to close the detention facility and decide the fates of U.S. captives.

Malaysia seeks return of 2 citizens in Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 12:03 AM CST

In this Dec. 7, 2006 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a U.S. soldier keeps watch from a guard tower overlooking Camp Delta detention center on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects, signing orders on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)AP - Malaysia offered Saturday to take back two citizens who are prominent terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison after President Barack Obama ordered the closure of the facility.

If Not Gitmo, Then Where Should Detainees Be Held? (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 11:10 PM CST

Time.com - The hunt is on for a new facility to detain terrorism suspects. And many Americans don't want it in their backyards

Judge keeps NY prison conditions in terror case (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 10:57 PM CST

AP - An American student must stay in solitary confinement, under conditions reserved for the most dangerous inmates, while awaiting trial on terrorism charges, a judge ruled Friday.

U.S. terrorism suspect's prison conditions OK: judge (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 04:20 PM CST

Reuters - A U.S. federal judge on Friday refused to lift strict prison conditions placed upon an American student who was the first person extradited to the United States from Britain on terrorism charges.

UN exec picked for No. 2 at Homeland Security (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 03:57 PM CST

AP - A top United Nations official who once served on the White House National Security Council has been picked for deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, a move that would place two women at the top of the department for the first time.

Former Guantanamo detainee elevated to senior Qaeda rank (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 03:10 PM CST

Yemeni soldiers, seen here on September 18, 2008, stand guard outside the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa the day after the embassy was attacked with carbombs. A former Saudi detainee at the US AFP - A former Saudi detainee at the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official said Friday.

Report: Ex-Gitmo detainee joins al-Qaida in Yemen (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 09:56 AM CST

Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba. The number of inmates on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has risen sharply to 42 -- eight more than last week, officials said Monday at the US-run AP - A Saudi man released from Guantanamo after spending nearly six years inside the U.S. prison camp is now the No. 2 of Yemen's al-Qaida branch, according to a purported Internet statement from the terror network.

Karzai welcomes US decision to close Guantanamo (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 05:29 AM CST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday welcomed US President Barack Obama's pledge to close Guantanamo Bay as a good decision that will help build international support for the fight against terror.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday welcomed US President Barack Obama's pledge to close Guantanamo Bay as a good decision that will help build international support for the fight against terror.

Afghan president welcomes order to shut Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 03:47 AM CST

In this June 30, 2004 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a U.S. Military Police gives clean clothes and linens to a detainee before prayer in Camp Delta on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects, signing orders on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)AP - Afghanistan's president applauded the decision to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay — where an undisclosed number of Afghans have been incarcerated — as a move that will boost global support for the fight against terrorism.

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