Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• CIA attack a blow but won't stop anti-terror hunt (AP)
• Pentagon: More return to fight after leaving Gitmo (AP)
• No immediate firings expected over intel failures (AP)
• Development aid key to terrorism fight: Clinton (AFP)
• Slovak miscue lands traveler in jail as terrorist (AP)
• Lawyer: Only 1 9-11 family likely to go to trial (AP)
• Obama critics push for aid to Yemen military (AFP)
• Three in al Qaeda drug case plead not guilty in NY (Reuters)
• Big price tag for security at NYC terrorism trial (AP)
• Abdulmutallab charged in Christmas Day terror attempt (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Bail request by Chicago terrorism suspect on hold (AP)
• More Ex-Detainees Resort to Terror, Officials Say (Bloomberg)
• Study: US terror suspects mostly young men (AP)
• Nigerian charged in plane plot, faces life term (AFP)
• White House to release watch list review Thursday (AFP)
• Obama Says U.S. Agencies Failed on Airline Plot (Bloomberg)
• More Ex-Guantanamo Detainees Resorting to Terror, Officials Say (Bloomberg)
• China's Xinjiang issues new anti-terror rules: state media (AFP)
• Germany investigating report on CIA hit team (AP)

CIA attack a blow but won't stop anti-terror hunt (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 05:16 PM PST AP - The deaths of seven CIA employees in Afghanistan probably will not be the last. The U.S. isn't pulling back on covert operations to hunt terrorists there and in Pakistan and will go on taking chances on human tipsters to help.

Pentagon: More return to fight after leaving Gitmo (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 05:01 PM PST AP - One in five terror suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce debate over President Barack Obama's plan to close the military prison.

No immediate firings expected over intel failures (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST AP - The White House is not expected to announce the firing of any officials over intelligence failures — for now anyway — as President Barack Obama prepares to tell the nation more about a botched terrorist attack over Detroit and what else he will do to beef up security.

Development aid key to terrorism fight: Clinton (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:31 PM PST AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an impassioned appeal Wednesday for greater US international development aid, saying it was vital to US and global security at a time of growing extremist threats.

Slovak miscue lands traveler in jail as terrorist (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:23 PM PST AP - A 49-year-old electrician emerged Wednesday as an unlikely symbol of what can go wrong in the war on terror after authorities in Slovakia planted an explosive in his backpack to test security — then let it travel all the way to Ireland.

Lawyer: Only 1 9-11 family likely to go to trial (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:23 PM PST AP - Nearly completed settlements of two of the remaining three lawsuits brought by families of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks are likely to include language requiring evidence to be displayed at the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, a lawyer said Wednesday.

Obama critics push for aid to Yemen military (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:11 PM PST AFP - A group of top US lawmakers urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to ramp up aid to Yemen's military, saying they had lost trust in the country's ability to be a strong partner against terrorism.

Three in al Qaeda drug case plead not guilty in NY (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:57 PM PST Reuters - Three West African men accused by U.S. prosecutors of plotting to transport cocaine through Africa with the intent to support al Qaeda pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to drug trafficking and terrorism charges.

Big price tag for security at NYC terrorism trial (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:50 PM PST AP - Stepped-up security measures for the upcoming detention and trial of the suspects in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are now expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars — a far heftier price tag than originally thought.

Abdulmutallab charged in Christmas Day terror attempt (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:29 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A federal grand jury in Michigan returned a six-count indictment on Wednesday charging alleged Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab with attempting to use a “weapon of mass destruction” in a terror attack.

Bail request by Chicago terrorism suspect on hold (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 01:58 PM PST AP - A Chicago businessman accused of taking part in an alleged terrorist plot to attack a Danish newspaper over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad isn't likely to win his release on bond anytime soon.

More Ex-Detainees Resort to Terror, Officials Say (Bloomberg) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 01:36 PM PST Bloomberg - Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- As many as one in five former Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of or confirmed to have engaged in terrorist activity after their release, U.S. officials said, citing the latest government statistics.

Study: US terror suspects mostly young men (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 01:29 PM PST AP - A new study on homegrown terror found that most American Muslims who planned violent attacks in since 2001 were young, male U.S. citizens who became radical as part of a group.

Nigerian charged in plane plot, faces life term (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:19 PM PST AFP - A young Nigerian was Wednesday charged with attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction aboard a US plane, as under-fire security chiefs vowed to revamp intelligence services.

White House to release watch list review Thursday (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:43 AM PST AFP - The White House will on Thursday release an unclassified version of a report into intelligence failures relating to terrorist watch-lists, following the thwarted Christmas Day airliner attack.

Obama Says U.S. Agencies Failed on Airline Plot (Bloomberg) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 10:24 AM PST Bloomberg - Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said U.S. intelligence agencies had enough information to head off the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound jetliner and “failed to connect those dots” that would have kept the would-be terrorist off the plane.

More Ex-Guantanamo Detainees Resorting to Terror, Officials Say (Bloomberg) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 09:17 AM PST Bloomberg - Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- As many as one in five former Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of or are confirmed to have engaged in terrorist activity after their release, U.S. officials said, citing the latest government statistics.

China's Xinjiang issues new anti-terror rules: state media (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 09:09 AM PST AFP - Authorities in China's troubled Xinjiang region will step up identity checks and monitor religious activities in a renewed bid to quash terrorism, separatism and extremism, state media said Wednesday.

Germany investigating report on CIA hit team (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2010 07:19 AM PST AP - German authorities are looking into allegations raised in an American magazine that a CIA hit team targeted an al-Qaida suspect in Hamburg in a post-Sept. 11 operation that was never carried out, officials said Wednesday.

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