Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• 'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe (AP)
• 'Last Column' returned to New York 9/11 site (AFP)
• US resumes flying illegal immigrants to Mexico (AP)
• Highlights of the newly declassified CIA documents (AP)
• Analysis: Obama in crosswinds on detention policy (AP)
• US prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuses (AFP)
• AP News in Brief (AP)
• Rape, child murder: US probes CIA threats (AFP)
• White House repeats position on CIA prosecutions (AP)
• AP Source: prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuse (AP)
• White House Announces New Interrogation Team (Time.com)
• Young Guantanamo detainee returns to family in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Steel beam returns to NYC's ground zero (AP)
• Obama creates new agency to handle terrorist interrogations (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Ex-Guantanamo detainee Jawad sent to Afghanistan (AFP)
• Officials warned about fake DHS intel e-mails (AP)
• Scottish govt defends Lockerbie bomber's release (AP)
• Series of raids by Pakistan police foil attacks (AP)
• Justice Dept advises pursuing CIA abuses: report (Reuters)
• Pakistan police arrest 13 men over terror plots (AFP)

'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 06:27 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted.

'Last Column' returned to New York 9/11 site (AFP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 06:20 PM PDT AFP - The symbolic final steel beam removed from the rubble of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 was returned to Ground Zero, site of a monument for victims of the worst terror attack on US soil.

US resumes flying illegal immigrants to Mexico (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:58 PM PDT AP - Immigration authorities are flying illegal immigrants deep into their native Mexico from Southern Arizona to discourage dangerous crossings in triple-digit desert heat.

Highlights of the newly declassified CIA documents (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT AP - On Monday, the Obama administration released newly declassified 2004 CIA documents detailing the Bush administration's policy of capturing suspected terrorists and interrogating them in overseas prisons. Some highlights:

Analysis: Obama in crosswinds on detention policy (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:55 PM PDT AP - After declaring he would rather look forward, President Barack Obama is delving instead into the past to deal with lingering assertions of CIA mistreatment of terror suspects during the Bush administration. It's another headache for an administration struggling to juggle two wars, a painful recession and a crowded agenda bogged down in Congress.

US prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuses (AFP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:29 PM PDT AFP - US Attorney General Eric Holder Monday named a prosecutor to probe claims CIA interrogators abused terror suspects, unleashing a new wave of political fury over Bush-era war on terror tactics.

AP News in Brief (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:12 PM PDT AP - Newly classified CIA documents say spies used 'inhumane' tactics in war on terrorism

Rape, child murder: US probes CIA threats (AFP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:52 PM PDT AFP - CIA interrogators threatened to rape family members of terror suspects, execute their kids, even torture them with an electric drill, official documents showed Monday, as the attorney general announced a probe.

White House repeats position on CIA prosecutions (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 01:05 PM PDT AP - The White House is repeating its long-held view on CIA interrogators of terror suspects, saying that they should not be prosecuted if they acted within legal guidelines laid out at the time.

AP Source: prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuse (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 11:51 AM PDT AP - A Justice Department official says Attorney General Eric Holder has picked prosecutor John Durham to investigate CIA mistreatment of terror suspects.

White House Announces New Interrogation Team (Time.com) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 11:00 AM PDT Time.com - The White House chose to announce new procedures for the interrogation and transfer of suspected terrorists on Monday morning, just hours before embarrassing new revelations about what the CIA did to detainees during the Bush years

Young Guantanamo detainee returns to family in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:50 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — A young Afghan held for six years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rejoined his family in southern Kabul late Monday, ending an odyssey that came to symbolize many of the problems of the Bush administration's war on terror detention policies.

Steel beam returns to NYC's ground zero (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:35 AM PDT AP - It became a makeshift memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now a massive steel column has been returned to ground zero as a symbol of rebirth.

Obama creates new agency to handle terrorist interrogations (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:28 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, moving to break with Bush-era interrogation policies, announced Monday that it would create a new interagency group to manage the questioning and transfers of terrorist detainees.

Ex-Guantanamo detainee Jawad sent to Afghanistan (AFP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:23 AM PDT AFP - Mohammed Jawad, 19, one of the youngest detainees held at the US "war on terror" prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was released Monday and sent back to his native Afghanistan, his lawyer said.

Officials warned about fake DHS intel e-mails (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 09:38 AM PDT AP - Some e-mails purporting to be from the Homeland Security Department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software.

Scottish govt defends Lockerbie bomber's release (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - Scotland's justice minister on Monday defended his much-criticized decision to free the Lockerbie bomber, as the U.S. State Department said that though it disagreed "passionately" the move would not affect relations between America and Britain.

Series of raids by Pakistan police foil attacks (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 06:37 AM PDT AP - Pakistani authorities arrested 13 Islamist militants in separate raids that police said Monday foiled major terrorist attacks and provided clues to how drug sales to Asia and the Persian Gulf help fund the Taliban.

Justice Dept advises pursuing CIA abuses: report (Reuters) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:14 AM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Justice Department has recommended reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, which could expose CIA employees and contractors to prosecution for their treatment of terrorism suspects, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Pakistan police arrest 13 men over terror plots (AFP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:42 AM PDT AFP - Pakistani police have arrested 13 men accused of plotting attacks across the country, with one cell planning to disrupt Ramadan and the other targeting economic hub Karachi, police said Monday.

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