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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Obama begins new year reviewing US intel system (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 01:43 PM PST

Transportation Security Administration staffers secure the entrance to the American Airlines terminal during an investigation by the Los Angeles Airport Police bomb squad at the Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - President Barack Obama is reviewing reports from homeland security officials as his administration tries to determine what U.S. policy and personnel failures preceded the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing.


Obama consults top aides on terror probes (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 12:21 PM PST

US President Barack Obama waves to a crowd on December 31. Obama on Friday opened 2010 with a secure telephone call with top national security advisors to discuss two reviews of the thwarted bid to bomb a Northwest Airlines jet.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - US President Barack Obama on Friday opened 2010 with a secure telephone call with top national security advisors to discuss two reviews of the thwarted bid to bomb a Northwest Airlines jet.


Delta CEO: Flight 253 threat despite all security (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 12:12 PM PST

AP - Delta Air Lines' chief is upset the 278 passengers and 11 crew members aboard Flight 253 were put at risk by a suspected terrorist despite the carrier's compliance with government security measures.

U.S. to double security assistance to Yemen (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 09:26 AM PST

Reuters - A U.S. military commander said on Friday the United States will more than double its nearly $70 million security assistance program for Yemen, where a crackdown is underway on al Qaeda militants believed to be behind a failed plot to blow up a U.S. airliner.

Times Square revelers mark end of difficult decade (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 09:14 AM PST

Emme Zheng, of Greensboro, N.C., foreground left, and others take part in the New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - For all those reflecting glumly on the last 10 years of terror attacks, war and recession, Gail Guay has some advice: "Don't look back."


CIA Workers Killed in Afghanistan as U.S. Steps Up Spying Role (Bloomberg)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 09:01 PM PST

Bloomberg - Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Seven CIA employees were killed and six others injured in a terrorist attack on a base in eastern Afghanistan as the agency steps up its presence in the country alongside thousands more U.S. military forces.

U.S., foreign officials to discuss airport security (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 05:37 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano  in Washington, December 7, 2009. Napolitano will dispatch senior agency officials to meet with airport executives around the world to review security and technology used to screen passengers on U.S.-bound flights, the department said. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/FilesReuters - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will dispatch senior agency officials to meet with airport executives around the world to review security and technology used to screen passengers on U.S.-bound flights, the department said.


Airline attack could delay release of Yemenis at Guantánamo (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:26 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The emergence of Yemen as a base for international terror attacks by Al Qaeda is complicating efforts to close the US terror detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Is Janet Napolitano to blame for Flight 253 security failure? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 01:55 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In the rush to fix blame for a failure to prevent last week’s attack on Northwest Flight 253, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano quickly emerged as the Obama administration’s designated lightning rod.

Seven CIA Workers Killed in Afghanistan, Six Injured (Bloomberg)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 11:10 AM PST

Bloomberg - Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Seven CIA employees were killed and six others injured in yesterday’s terrorist attack at a base in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, the agency said in a statement today.

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