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Republicans criticize report on right-wing groups (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 05:21 PM PDT AP - Republicans on Wednesday said a Homeland Security Department intelligence assessment unfairly characterizes military veterans as right-wing extremists. House Republican leader John Boehner described the report as offensive and called on the agency to apologize to veterans.

Ex-Bush official says waterboarding is torture (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 05:16 PM PDT AP - A former No. 2 State Department official in the Bush administration says he hopes he would have had the courage to resign if he had known the CIA was subjecting terrorism suspects to waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.

Holder: Law not always followed in terror fight (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:57 PM PDT AP - Attorney General Eric Holder told a military academy audience Wednesday that some people who were engaged in the battle against terrorism did not remain faithful to the law.

Mistrial in 9-11 fund fraud case (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:13 PM PDT AP - A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of a retired naval officer accused of defrauding a fund for the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, after a jury could not agree on whether he was guilty of the central charge against him.

Sudan court sentences 10 alleged rebels to death (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:09 PM PDT AP - A Sudanese anti-terrorism court on Wednesday convicted 10 alleged Darfur rebels of waging war and sentenced them to death for their role in last year's deadly attack on the country's capital, court officials said.

Police get more time to question terror suspects (AFP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:09 PM PDT AFP - Police said Wednesday they had been granted extra time to question 11 people arrested in an anti-terror swoop in northwest England two weeks ago.

US govt faces veteran anger at extremism report (AFP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 11:43 AM PDT AFP - The US Homeland Security Department, under fire for saying US forces returning from the Iraq and Afghan wars were potential right-wing extremist recruits, said Wednesday it honors US veterans.

US name 'border czar' to watch Mexican border (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 10:54 AM PDT AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano named a former federal prosecutor Wednesday to the new post of "border czar" to oversee efforts to end drug-cartel violence along the U.S.-Mexico border and slow the tide of people crossing illegally into the United States.

UK police get more time to quiz terrorism suspects (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 10:44 AM PDT Reuters - British police investigating a suspected al Qaeda plot have been given more time to question 11 men arrested in raids last week across northwest England.

Lawyer for Mumbai attack suspect dismissed (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 09:16 AM PDT AP - The first trial in the Mumbai terrorist attacks was abruptly adjourned Wednesday, only an hour after police pulled a large cloth off the head of the defendant to reveal the blinking, scruffy-bearded Pakistani police say is the lone surviving gunman.

Ex-prosecutor picked for new US 'border czar' (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:19 PM PDT AP - The job title — "border czar" — is familiar to Alan Bersin, who more than a decade ago led an effort to fight drug and human smuggling that had mixed results at best.

Will Washington Help the U.K. with its Investigation into Torture Claims? (Time.com) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 09:15 PM PDT Time.com - Scotland Yard may ask the U.S. for help with an unprecedented investigation into whether Britain's domestic spy service knew a former terror suspect was being tortured

Pakistan grants bail to radical Red Mosque cleric (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 09:13 AM PDT AP - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the release on bail Wednesday of a hard-line cleric who was detained as soldiers stormed his radical Red Mosque in 2007, killing scores of people and energizing the country's Islamist insurgency.

Canada appeals jail sentence of terrorist (AFP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 07:03 PM PDT AFP - The Canadian Public Prosecution Service said it was appealing the 10.5 year prison sentence handed out last month to Momin Khawaja, the first Canadian found guilty under Ottawa's post-September-11 anti-terror law.

Recession fueling right-wing extremism, U.S. says (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 12:56 PM PDT Reuters - Right-wing extremists in the United States are gaining new recruits by exploiting fears about the economy and the election of the first black U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a report to law enforcement officials.

Michelle Obama thanks Homeland Security employees (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 10:25 AM PDT AP - First lady Michelle Obama thanked an enthusiastic crowd of Homeland Security Department employees on Tuesday for their work in keeping the country safe.

Decision likely in US torture case in Spain (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 07:12 AM PDT AP - Spanish prosecutors will likely decide this week whether to recommend a full investigation into allegations that six Bush Administration officials sanctioned torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, an official in the prosecutor's office said Tuesday.

What terrorist threat? In Indian elections, local issues dominate. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - All politics may be local, but India is taking the notion to an extreme: Voters this week head into national elections with no national issues dominating campaigns. In the world's largest democracy, many will choose members of parliament more for their attention to potholes down the street than to Pakistan.

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