Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Feds sign up locals to help enforce immigration (AP)
• Correction: Terror suspect stories (AP)
• UK court order: release torture allegation details (AP)
• Pakistan sets its sights on Taliban sanctuary (AP)
• Five convicted for Australia terror attack plot (AFP)
• Ask AP: Miranda rights, artificial growth hormone (AP)
• Five men found guilty in Australia of terror plot (Reuters)
• Obama signs huge Pakistan aid package into law (AFP)
• Five guilty of plotting Australian jihad (AFP)
• Obama's Guantánamo, counterterror policies similar to Bush's? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Feds sign up locals to help enforce immigration (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 05:00 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration has signed up 55 state and local law enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration laws, including an Arizona county sheriff under investigation for racial profiling, the Homeland Security Department announced Friday.

Correction: Terror suspect stories (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 02:15 PM PDT AP - In stories Oct. 14 and Oct. 15 about New York City terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, The Associated Press erroneously reported that U.S. intelligence officials knew of indirect contact between Zazi and a man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Afghanistan — Mustafa Abu al-Yazid.

UK court order: release torture allegation details (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 02:10 PM PDT AP - Seven secret paragraphs detailing the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo detainee should be disclosed, a British High Court has ruled — a decision that could ignite fresh criticism of U.S. interrogation practices and raise prickly questions for the British government.

Pakistan sets its sights on Taliban sanctuary (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - The Pakistani military is setting its sights on the Taliban's remote sanctuary after nearly two weeks of big bombings across the country, as hundreds flee the Afghan border region each day before what promises to be the army's riskiest offensive yet.

Five convicted for Australia terror attack plot (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 04:07 AM PDT AFP - Five Muslim men were Friday found guilty of plotting a jihadist attack using guns and explosives to protest Australia's involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Ask AP: Miranda rights, artificial growth hormone (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 03:06 AM PDT AP - Any cop in the U.S. who makes an arrest must also read the suspect his Miranda rights, those famous few lines beginning: "You have the right to remain silent." How about overseas? When U.S. authorities arrest a terror suspect, must that person also be read his rights?

Five men found guilty in Australia of terror plot (Reuters) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:23 AM PDT Reuters - An Australian court on Friday found five men guilty of conspiring to commit a terror attack, by stockpiling weapons and chemicals to make bombs, in retaliation at Australia's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama signs huge Pakistan aid package into law (AFP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:10 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama has signed a 7.5 billion dollar aid package for Pakistan, as the key US anti-terror ally reeled from a new wave of militant attacks which killed 40 people.

Five guilty of plotting Australian jihad (AFP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:31 PM PDT AFP - Five Muslim men were Friday found guilty of plotting a jihadist attack using guns and explosives to protest Australia's involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Obama's Guantánamo, counterterror policies similar to Bush's? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The debate over America's counterterrorism policies is sounding a lot like the debate over the Bush administration's aggressive "war on terror."

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