Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Spy chief-nominee warns of more North Korean attacks (Reuters)
• Did BP get Lockerbie terrorist released? Britain's Cameron rejects it (McClatchy Newspapers)
• US lawmaker wants Eritrea added to terror blacklist (AFP)
• Accused Mass. terror suspect pleads not guilty (AP)
• Officials: Replica shows NY bomb could have killed (AP)
• Key Pakistani counterterrorism official resigns (AP)
• Iraq war raised UK terror threat: ex-MI5 spy chief (AFP/Metropolitan Police)
• Ex-MI5 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 (AP)
• UK "swamped" with threats after wars: ex-spy chief (Reuters)
• Rights group: Remove UK torture inquiry judge (AP)

Spy chief-nominee warns of more North Korean attacks (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:20 PM PDT Reuters - North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship earlier this year may herald a "dangerous new period" of direct attacks by Pyongyang on the South, the retired general nominated to be U.S. President Barack Obama's intelligence chief said on Tuesday.

Did BP get Lockerbie terrorist released? Britain's Cameron rejects it (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday rejected calls for an investigation of the British government's release last year of an American-killing terrorist, dismissing charges that oil giant BP engineered the release to win oil business in Libya.

US lawmaker wants Eritrea added to terror blacklist (AFP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:24 PM PDT AFP - The United States should add Eritrea to a terrorism blacklist over its support for an Al-Qaeda-linked group tied to last week's deadly bombings in Uganda, a senior US lawmaker urged Tuesday.

Accused Mass. terror suspect pleads not guilty (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:21 PM PDT AP - A Massachusetts man accused in a terror plot to kill Americans pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges that he conspired to help al-Qaida.

Officials: Replica shows NY bomb could have killed (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 01:00 PM PDT AP - Investigators secretly detonated a working replica of the car bomb used in the failed Times Square terror attack, creating a large explosion that destroyed other vehicles and scattered flaming debris, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Key Pakistani counterterrorism official resigns (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 10:04 AM PDT AP - The head of a federal group meant to coordinate Pakistan's fight against terrorism resigned Tuesday amid a bureaucratic turf battle waged as the country continues to suffer militant attacks, officials said.

Iraq war raised UK terror threat: ex-MI5 spy chief (AFP/Metropolitan Police) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 08:52 AM PDT AFP/Metropolitan Police - Iraq posed little threat to Britain just before the 2003 war -- but the danger of extremist attacks surged following the conflict, the ex-head of domestic security service MI5 told an inquiry Tuesday.

Ex-MI5 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 11:21 AM PDT AP - The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from al-Qaida, emboldened the group's leader Osama bin Laden, and helped to breed a generation of homegrown terrorists, Britain's former domestic spy chief told an inquiry Tuesday.

UK "swamped" with threats after wars: ex-spy chief (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:53 AM PDT Reuters - Britain's support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan radicalized many Muslims and triggered a big rise in terrorism plots that nearly overwhelmed the British security services, the former head of the domestic intelligence agency said on Tuesday.

Rights group: Remove UK torture inquiry judge (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 01:27 AM PDT AP - The judge leading the British inquiry into charges that his country's intelligence services colluded with the torture of suspected terrorists abroad has had his impartiality compromised and must be removed, a leading human rights group said Tuesday.

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