Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Doctors had 'central role' in CIA abuse: rights group (AFP)
• Flight 93 Memorial construction to start in Nov. (AP)
• Ohio teen convert's attorney claims safety at risk (AP)
• Frantic Ga. 911 caller: 'My whole family is dead!' (AP)
• White House: Cheney wrong on interrogations policy (AP)
• Sri Lankan journalist given 20 years in prison (AP)
• Ridge: Talk of terror-alert politics exaggerated (AP)
• 'Test of Our Times': Tom Ridge on Terror Alert Level (Time.com)
• Indonesian police: Terrorist infiltrated airline (AP)
• Blackwater tapped foreigners on secret CIA program (AP)
• McCain Denies Giving O.K. to a CIA Torture Tactic (Time.com)

Doctors had 'central role' in CIA abuse: rights group (AFP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:46 PM PDT AFP - A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a "central role" in advising and implementing the CIA's abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects.

Flight 93 Memorial construction to start in Nov. (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:44 PM PDT AP - The federal government will pay about $9.5 million to acquire land so the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday.

Ohio teen convert's attorney claims safety at risk (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:05 PM PDT AP - An attorney for a teenager who says she ran away from home because she feared for her safety after she converted to Christianity from Islam claimed in court documents Monday that her family's mosque in Ohio has terrorist ties — a charge disputed by the Islamic center's leader.

Frantic Ga. 911 caller: 'My whole family is dead!' (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:27 PM PDT AP - Guy Heinze Jr. arrived home from a night out to find a gruesome scene — seven people dead, a cousin with Down syndrome clinging to life and another critically injured.

White House: Cheney wrong on interrogations policy (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 11:12 AM PDT AP - The White House says former Vice President Dick Cheney has his facts wrong on the Obama administration's policies for terror detainee interrogations.

Sri Lankan journalist given 20 years in prison (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 10:53 AM PDT AP - A Sri Lankan reporter singled out by President Barack Obama as an example of persecuted journalists around the globe was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison on charges of violating the country's strict anti-terror law.

Ridge: Talk of terror-alert politics exaggerated (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 08:18 AM PDT AP - Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people "are hyperventilating" about his assertion that politics played a role in talk of raising the terror alert before the 2004 elections.

'Test of Our Times': Tom Ridge on Terror Alert Level (Time.com) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 08:10 AM PDT Time.com - In an interview with TIME, Tom Ridge expresses regrets about his stint as Secretary of Homeland Security, but he stops short of blaming his former colleagues

Indonesian police: Terrorist infiltrated airline (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 07:35 AM PDT AP - A suspect wanted in connection with hotel suicide bombings in the Indonesian capital infiltrated the national airline in a plot to carry out a "bigger attack," the police chief said Monday.

Blackwater tapped foreigners on secret CIA program (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:47 AM PDT AP - When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.

McCain Denies Giving O.K. to a CIA Torture Tactic (Time.com) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:35 AM PDT Time.com - Senator McCain's spokesperson disputes a report that McCain raised no objection when told of the CIA's use of sleep deprivation in questioning suspected terrorists

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