Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Obama vows to use power to thwart terrorists (AP)
• Anti-terror officials let terror suspect keep visa (AP)
• UK says plane bomb suspect on routine watchlist (AP)
• MSNBC criticized for response to terrorism story (AP)
• Air travel hassles worse after scare; shares dip (Reuters)
• Christmas Day terrorist attack: have 9/11 reforms failed? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama: 'We will not rest' until air terror plotters caught (AFP)
• Airline in-flight security rules eased: source (Reuters)
• Obama: Security team to keep pressure on enemies (AP)
• Security after Christmas Day attack: knee-jerk or necessary? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Attempted bombing puts focus on terrorist lists (AP)
• Attempted Airline Attack Raises New Security Concerns (Bloomberg)
• 79% Say Another Terror Attack Likely Within Year (Rasmussen Reports)
• Nigerian broke family contact before bomb attempt (AP)
• System to keep air travel safe failed: Napolitano (Reuters)
• Nigerian terror attack suspect: a life of privilege and elite schools (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Questions abound as Obama to break silence on jet bomb bid (AFP)
• Attempted Airline Bombing Raises New Concerns About Security (Bloomberg)
• U.S. probing if al Qaeda linked to airplane incident (Reuters)

Obama vows to use power to thwart terrorists (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 06:24 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to use "every element of our national power" to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner was "a serious reminder" of the need to continually adapt security measures against changing terrorist threats.

Anti-terror officials let terror suspect keep visa (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 05:52 PM PST AP - The State Department says counterterrorism agencies were warned that the Nigerian man who allegedly tried to blow up an airliner Christmas Day may be under extremists' influence.

UK says plane bomb suspect on routine watchlist (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST AP - The man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner was not flagged in Britain as a potential terror suspect — he was merely put on a standard watch list of people whose visa applications were rejected, British officials said Monday.

MSNBC criticized for response to terrorism story (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 02:26 PM PST AP - MSNBC spent considerable time Monday reporting on the aftermath of an attempted Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, but its executives didn't want to talk about why the story received little attention as it was breaking.

Air travel hassles worse after scare; shares dip (Reuters) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 02:20 PM PST Reuters - Frequent flyers grudgingly remove their shoes and keep liquids in tiny bottles to appease airport security, but measures imposed after a foiled Christmas Day terror plot could tempt frustrated travelers to find alternatives to commercial airlines, experts say.

Christmas Day terrorist attack: have 9/11 reforms failed? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 01:49 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano aimed to reassure the traveling public when she said Sunday that “the system worked" in an aborted Christmas Day terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253. Instead, she set off alarms on Capitol Hill.

Obama: 'We will not rest' until air terror plotters caught (AFP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 12:50 PM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama on Monday vowed an all-out pursuit of plotters of a failed Christmas Day bombing of a US-bound airliner, vowing "we will not rest" until they are captured and tried.

Airline in-flight security rules eased: source (Reuters) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 12:33 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has eased airline security rules that were put in place in the wake a foiled Christmas day terror plot, a source with knowledge of the rules said.

Obama: Security team to keep pressure on enemies (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 12:30 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says he has ordered a review of the nation's watchlist system and of its air safety regulations, and has asked his national security team to keep up the pressure on terrorists aiming to attack the U.S.

Security after Christmas Day attack: knee-jerk or necessary? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 12:01 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The thwarted Christmas Day terrorist attack aboard a US-bound flight triggered heightened security measures that severely restrict airline passenger mobility, resulting in flight delays and setting off a heated debate over airport security.

Attempted bombing puts focus on terrorist lists (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 11:16 AM PST AP - What does it take to be banned from air travel? And how do you get on that list?

Attempted Airline Attack Raises New Security Concerns (Bloomberg) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 09:09 AM PST Bloomberg - Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The ability of a suspected terrorist to bring explosives on board a U.S. plane exposes vulnerabilities in an aviation security system that had been overhauled and strengthened since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

79% Say Another Terror Attack Likely Within Year (Rasmussen Reports) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 08:28 AM PST Rasmussen Reports - A Nigerian Muslim's attempt to blow up an airliner landing in Detroit on Christmas Day has Americans much more concerned about the dangers of another terrorist attack.

Nigerian broke family contact before bomb attempt (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 02:00 PM PST AP - A young Nigerian man who allegedly tried to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight broke off contact with his worried parents only a few months before the attack, apparently trading a world of wealth for the calling of a jihadist.

System to keep air travel safe failed: Napolitano (Reuters) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 05:45 AM PST Reuters - The system aimed at keeping air travel secure failed when a Nigerian man who was suspected of ties to militants managed to smuggle explosives aboard a flight, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday.

Nigerian terror attack suspect: a life of privilege and elite schools (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 05:42 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As a member of an upper-crust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London.

Questions abound as Obama to break silence on jet bomb bid (AFP) Posted: 28 Dec 2009 11:21 AM PST AFP - US investigators searched desperately for answers Monday in the aftermath of a failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner, as millions of edgy travelers faced holiday chaos.

Attempted Airline Bombing Raises New Concerns About Security (Bloomberg) Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:01 PM PST Bloomberg - Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The ability of a suspected terrorist to bring explosives on board a U.S. plane exposes vulnerabilities in an aviation security system that had been overhauled and strengthened since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

U.S. probing if al Qaeda linked to airplane incident (Reuters) Posted: 27 Dec 2009 08:13 PM PST Reuters - The Obama administration said on Sunday it was investigating whether al Qaeda was involved in a Christmas Day attempt to blow up a passenger jet and sought to head off Republican attacks over its anti-terrorism measures.

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