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Man behind SoCal terrorism plot gets 16 years (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 06:32 PM PST AP - One of four men accused of founding a terrorist group that plotted attacks on Jewish and military targets in California was sentenced Friday to 16 years in federal prison.

CIA destroyed 12 harsh interrogation tapes (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 06:24 PM PST AP - The CIA destroyed a dozen videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects, according to documents filed Friday in a lawsuit over the government's treatment of detainees. The 12 tapes were part of a larger collection of 92 videotapes of terror suspects that the CIA destroyed. The extent of the tape destruction was disclosed through a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the government.

Ringleader of California terror plot jailed for 16 years (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 04:30 PM PST AFP - The ringleader of a radical Islamic group that planned to bomb Israeli assets and US military facilities in California was on Friday jailed for 16 years, justice officials said.

Court ends terror suspect's detention challenge (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 02:51 PM PST AP - The Supreme Court bowed out Friday of deciding whether the president has the power to imprison people in the U.S. indefinitely without a trial — avoiding a showdown the Obama administration did not want.

US top court dismisses Al-Qaeda case (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 02:20 PM PST AFP - The US Supreme Court refused to weigh in Friday on whether US presidents have the authority to indefinitely detain a terrorist suspect in the United States without charges.

Homeland Security chief readies first trips abroad (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 01:36 PM PST AFP - US Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano will visit Germany next week in her first foreign trip, followed by visits to neighboring Canada and Mexico in April, her spokeswoman said Friday.

Napolitano takes helicopter tour of Miss. coast (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 12:29 PM PST AP - A helicopter tour Friday of Mississippi's coast convinced Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that the area appears to be on a faster track to recovery from Hurricane Katrina than New Orleans is 3 1/2 years after the storm.

Alleged arms smuggler says US framed him (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 08:08 AM PST AP - A Russian businessman who allegedly armed dictators around the world angrily accused the United States on Friday of framing him and pressuring Thailand to extradite him to face terrorism-related charges.

Obama's mixed signals on terror policy (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Lawyers with the Obama administration are working to prevent full judicial review of one of the most controversial aspects of President Bush's war on terror – his claim of authority to hold US citizens and legal residents in indefinite military detention without charge as enemy combatants.

How US 'war on terror' emboldened Sri Lanka's (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - In 1992, Lt. Col. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa retired from the Army after two decades in uniform. A year later, he moved to Los Angeles and began working in IT. In 2001, he heard President Bush declare that "you're either with us or against us" in the global war on terror.

Somali-Americans’ Disappearances Raise Alarm of Terrorism Ties (Bloomberg) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 09:01 PM PST Bloomberg - March 6 (Bloomberg) -- Seven months ago, Mustafa Salat told his father he was taking his clothes to the laundromat near their apartment in St. Paul, Minnesota. He never returned.

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