Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• McCain lifts hold on Clapper to be spy chief (Reuters)
• Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam Behind the 'Ground Zero Mosque' (Time.com)
• Groups challenge terror-related rule on attorneys (AP)
• US sanctions Iranians said to support terrorism (AP)
• U.S. aims to tighten sanctions grip on Iran (Reuters)
• Ground Zero Islamic center project clears major obstacle (AFP)
• Inquest begins in secret UK bomb experiment death (AP)
• Iraq: Car bomb kills 15 south of Baghdad (AP)
• Nine killed as Qaeda fighters plant flag in Baghdad (AFP)
• NY jury convicts 2 in JFK Airport fuel-tank plot (AP)

McCain lifts hold on Clapper to be spy chief (Reuters) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:43 PM PDT Reuters - Senator John McCain said on Tuesday he would allow a Senate vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to be intelligence chief, but another Republican senator indicated he may stall the nomination.

Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam Behind the 'Ground Zero Mosque' (Time.com) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:00 PM PDT Time.com - They've been attacked by critics as sympathizing with terrorists, but Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy are the right wing's "right" kind of Muslims

Groups challenge terror-related rule on attorneys (AP) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 02:56 PM PDT AP - Two civil liberties groups went to court Tuesday to challenge a requirement that they get a government license before mounting a legal attack on the decision to put alleged terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki on a CIA target list.

US sanctions Iranians said to support terrorism (AP) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 01:59 PM PDT AP - The United States announced new Iran sanctions Tuesday, targeting senior officials of three organizations for alleged support of terrorist groups, including the Taliban in Afghanistan.

U.S. aims to tighten sanctions grip on Iran (Reuters) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 11:55 AM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sought to further tighten curbs against Iran's nuclear ambitions and its support for terror groups by naming Iranian-controlled companies and forbidding dealing with them.

Ground Zero Islamic center project clears major obstacle (AFP) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 01:46 PM PDT AFP - New York cleared a key obstacle Tuesday for plans to build an Islamic center with a mosque near Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers which were toppled by Al-Qaeda in 2001.

Inquest begins in secret UK bomb experiment death (AP) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 08:24 AM PDT AP - The parents of a British scientist killed during secret anti-terrorism experiments with homemade bombs told an inquest into his death Tuesday that the expert's work had helped save many lives.

Iraq: Car bomb kills 15 south of Baghdad (AP) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:04 PM PDT AP - A car bomb ripped through an outdoor market Tuesday in a mainly Shiite city southeast of Baghdad in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 23 people nationwide, officials said.

Nine killed as Qaeda fighters plant flag in Baghdad (AFP) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:55 AM PDT AFP - Al-Qaeda fighters killed five policemen at a Baghdad checkpoint on Tuesday and planted the black flag of the terror network's front group in Iraq, an interior ministry official said.

NY jury convicts 2 in JFK Airport fuel-tank plot (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2010 08:19 PM PDT AP - Two men were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a plan that authorities said was meant to outdo the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and avenge perceived U.S. oppression of Muslims around the world.

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