Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• North Korea wants better ties with US: security adviser (Reuters)
• Were NC terror suspect's stories an exaggeration? (AP)
• National security adviser: US believes Mehsud dead (AP)
• England withdraws badminton team due to attack fears (Reuters)
• Govt does not rule out torture risk: ministers (AFP)
• Indonesia awaits DNA test to confirm terror leader's death (AFP)
• Doubts raised that dead terrorist was top leader (AP)
• Holder to name prosecutor to probe CIA abuses: report (AFP)

North Korea wants better ties with US: security adviser (Reuters) Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:12 PM PDT Reuters - North Korea has signaled it wants to improve relations with the United States and has been told it must return to nuclear disarmament talks, U.S. national security adviser Jim Jones said on Sunday.

Were NC terror suspect's stories an exaggeration? (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:12 PM PDT AP - Daniel Patrick Boyd used tales of fighting the Soviets alongside the mujahedeen to recruit followers into a North Carolina terrorism ring, authorities believe, and U.S. officials who were in Pakistan at the time doubt his stories.

National security adviser: US believes Mehsud dead (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2009 09:51 AM PDT AP - The United States is nearly certain the Pakistani Taliban's leader is dead, and there now is a leadership struggle within the terrorist group, White House national security adviser James Jones said Sunday.

England withdraws badminton team due to attack fears (Reuters) Posted: 09 Aug 2009 09:12 AM PDT Reuters - England pulled out of the badminton world championships in Hyderabad on Sunday, citing a "specific terrorist threat".

Govt does not rule out torture risk: ministers (AFP) Posted: 09 Aug 2009 08:34 AM PDT AFP - Senior ministers said Sunday they could not rule out that vital anti-terror information had been obtained through the torture of suspects abroad.

Indonesia awaits DNA test to confirm terror leader's death (AFP) Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:51 AM PDT AFP - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take two weeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoff with police special forces.

Doubts raised that dead terrorist was top leader (AP) Posted: 09 Aug 2009 03:43 AM PDT AP - Police scrambled Sunday to identify the body of a suspected terrorist killed in a farmhouse gunbattle after discovering a plot to kill Indonesia's president in a suicide car bombing.

Holder to name prosecutor to probe CIA abuses: report (AFP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 10:43 PM PDT AFP - US Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, The Los Angeles Times reported.

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