Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Feds address concerns about safety of Ill. prison (AP)
• Terrorist attack feared after Jackson arrest (AP)
• SRA International awarded $50M DHS contract (AP)
• Lithuania may have hosted two US 'war on terror' jails (AFP)
• Panel: Lithuanian security approved CIA prisons (AP)
• US professor among 5 sentenced to die in Ethiopia (AP)

Feds address concerns about safety of Ill. prison (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:25 PM PST AP - Federal officials on Tuesday tried to allay fears that moving terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a rural western Illinois prison could make the state a terrorist target.

Terrorist attack feared after Jackson arrest (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST AP - Police concerns that media-hungry terrorists would attack Michael Jackson's trial as a "soft target" led to a request for federal help, according to FBI files kept on the late pop star. The documents also show that the FBI helped facilitate interviews in the Philippines by California authorities investigating Jackson over allegations that he had sexually abused boys.

SRA International awarded $50M DHS contract (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:48 PM PST AP - SRA International Inc. said Tuesday that it has been awarded a $50 million Department of Homeland Security contract for work on cyber security.

Lithuania may have hosted two US 'war on terror' jails (AFP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 10:01 AM PST AFP - Staunch US ally Lithuania may have hosted two 'war on terror' lock-ups used by American agents to interrogate suspected Al-Qaeda members, the head of an inquiry commission said Tuesday.

Panel: Lithuanian security approved CIA prisons (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:42 AM PST AP - Lithuania's intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, but it's unclear whether they were actually used to interrogate terror suspects, a parliamentary panel said Tuesday.

US professor among 5 sentenced to die in Ethiopia (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:31 AM PST AP - An Ethiopian court sentenced five people to death — including an Ethiopian professor teaching at a U.S. university — and 33 to life in prison Tuesday for being members of a terror group and conspiring to assassinate government officials.

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