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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


U.K. says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:20 PM PST

Reuters - The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism in Yemen and Somalia after an attack on a U.S.-bound plane, Britain said on Sunday.

Britain, US to fund Yemen anti-terror police unit (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:19 PM PST

A yemeni Girl passes the Sana'a Institute for Arabic Language in San'a, Yemen Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.  Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect in the Christmas Day airline attack, was an Arabic student at the institute in August. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - The British government said Sunday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama had agreed to fund a counterterrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising terrorist threat from the country.


Top US anti-terror boss vows focus after airliner attack (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:24 PM PST

The recent failed bid to blow up a US airliner is a reminder of AFP - The recent failed bid to blow up a US airliner is a reminder of "insidious terrorist threats" faced by the United States according to a top US counterterrorism official, who vowed Saturday to redouble efforts to prevent further attacks.


Bomb suspect "reached out" to UK militants: report (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST

Reuters - British security services knew three years ago that the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane had "multiple communications" with Islamic extremists in Britain, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, charged with trying to blow up Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day, studied in London between 2005 and 2008.

Yemen steps up Qaeda fight as top US general pledges support (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:42 AM PST

An undated handout picture from the Yemeni army shows a soldier manning a machinegun in Saada province, around 250 kms north of the capital Sanaa. Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, sent reinforcements to hunt Al-Qaeda militants in its east, security sources said Saturday as a top US general affirmed support for Sanaa's terrorism fight.(AFP/Yemeni Army/File)AFP - Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, sent reinforcements to hunt Al-Qaeda militants in its east, security sources said Saturday as a top US general affirmed support for Sanaa's terrorism fight.


Muslim cleric deported from UK arrested in Kenya (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 07:54 AM PST

AP - A human rights official says a Jamaica-born Islamic cleric once deported from the UK has been arrested by Kenyan anti-terror police.

Obama Pledges Renewed Fight Against Terrorism (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 06:56 AM PST

CQPolitics.com - In his weekly address, President Obama detailed the administration's fight against terrorism and talked about investigations into the country's terrorist watch list and ways security personnel conduct screening for air travel.

Calling it ‘war’, Obama pegs Christmas Day attack to Al Qaeda (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 06:10 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In his first Saturday morning address of the New Year, President Obama acknowledged an international terror syndicate â€Â" Al Qaeda â€Â" has struck the US on his watch.

Obama cites apparent al-Qaida link in bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:31 PM PST

Yemeni Information Minister Hassan al-Louzi talks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in San'a, Yemen, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops for two mountainous eastern provinces that are considered al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday.


Italy aims to introduce body scanners: minister (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:08 AM PST

An Alitalia plane approaches to land as an Italian flag is seen at Fiumicino international airport in Rome September 26, 2008. REUTERS/Max RossiReuters - Italy aims to install full-body scanners at the main airports of Rome and Milan for flights considered at high risk of terrorist attacks, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said in an interview published on Saturday.


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