Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Obama uneasy over indefinite Gitmo detentions (AP)
• Obama administration delays release of CIA report (AP)
• Treasury seizes assets of extremist organization (AP)
• U.S. declares Iraq-based group foreign terrorist organization (Reuters)
• Obama mulling prolonged terror detentions (AP)
• "War on terror" used to target minorities: report (Reuters)
• Gitmo detainee interview sites won't be dismantled (AP)
• Lawyers for US terror trial ask to visit CIA jails (AFP)
• Arms dealer gets 25 years in NYC terror case (AP)

Obama uneasy over indefinite Gitmo detentions (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2009 05:23 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday he's uneasy about his own proposal to indefinitely imprison some of the most dangerous terror suspects being held now at Guantanamo Bay. He called it "one of the biggest challenges of my administration."

Obama administration delays release of CIA report (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public, drawing criticism from civil libertarians who say it's past time for Americans to know how its government treated terrorism suspects.

Treasury seizes assets of extremist organization (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Thursday authorized the seizure of assets belonging to an extremist organization in Iraq and an Iranian backer of insurgents, saying both are responsible for deadly attacks in Iraq.

U.S. declares Iraq-based group foreign terrorist organization (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jul 2009 01:25 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. government on Thursday said it has declared Kata'ib Hizballah a foreign terrorist organization, saying the group is linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah and has posed a threat to stability in Iraq.

Obama mulling prolonged terror detentions (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2009 11:08 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he's open to the idea of detaining some Guantanamo Bay terror suspects somewhere else for prolonged periods, but it may turn out that he won't be comfortable with any proposals to do that.

"War on terror" used to target minorities: report (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:51 AM PDT Reuters - Countries on the front line in the "war on terror" are using the battle against extremists as a smokescreen to crack down on minority groups, an international human rights group said on Thursday.

Gitmo detainee interview sites won't be dismantled (AP) Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:40 AM PDT AP - A prosecutor agreed Thursday that the government will not dismantle overseas locations where a former Guantanamo detainee claims he was interrogated by the CIA before he was brought to the United States for trial on terrorism charges.

Lawyers for US terror trial ask to visit CIA jails (AFP) Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:31 AM PDT AFP - Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.

Arms dealer gets 25 years in NYC terror case (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 07:39 PM PDT AP - A man extradited from Romania in a plot to sell weapons to Colombian militants has been sentenced in New York City to 25 years in prison.

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