Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Officials think bin Laden involved in Europe plot (AP)
• Case tossed against man linked to bin Laden guard (AP)
• Official at center of Pa. terror-alert flap quits (AP)
• Bin Laden role eyed in latest European terror plot (Reuters)
• Conn. attorney: 2 home-invasion suspects at fault (AP)
• "Anti-terrorist" operation took place in Iraq: Iran MP (Reuters)
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• German man confesses in court to terrorism charges (AP)
• Report: US, EU must join to stop homegrown terror (AP)
• Sweden ups terror threat alert to 'elevated' (AP)
• Newt Gingrich critical on counterterror (AP)
• Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot (AP)
• Was a Mumbai-style terror attack really 'foiled'? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Officials think bin Laden involved in Europe plot (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - Osama bin Laden emerged Friday as possibly a key figure in a European terror plot, raising speculation he may be flexing his muscles in a move to show a besieged al-Qaida remains strong and able to launch major attacks on Western targets.

Case tossed against man linked to bin Laden guard (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT AP - A federal judge in California has dismissed a case against the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard who was accused of lying about terrorism ties.

Official at center of Pa. terror-alert flap quits (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:10 PM PDT AP - The director of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has quit, telling the governor that he made the decision after reflecting on the uproar over anti-terrorism bulletins that tracked the actions of peaceful citizens' groups.

Bin Laden role eyed in latest European terror plot (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:51 PM PDT Reuters - Osama bin Laden and top al Qaeda leadership are likely behind the latest European terror plot, U.S. officials said on Friday.

Conn. attorney: 2 home-invasion suspects at fault (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:32 PM PDT AP - Two Connecticut men charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 house invasion inflicted unimaginable terror on a model family that had enjoyed their final pleasant summer day together, prosecutors told a jury during closing arguments Friday.

"Anti-terrorist" operation took place in Iraq: Iran MP (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:26 PM PDT Reuters - An Iranian lawmaker said an operation that killed some 30 "terrorists" the Islamic state says were behind a deadly bomb attack, had taken place in neighboring Iraq, according to a news report on Friday.

(AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 09:52 AM PDT AP - AP sources: US officials believe bin Laden involved in Europe terror plot.

German man confesses in court to terrorism charges (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:23 AM PDT AP - A man who was allegedly a member of a group that plotted to attack U.S. targets in Germany has confessed in court to several of the charges against him.

Report: US, EU must join to stop homegrown terror (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 06:04 AM PDT AP - The U.S. and its European allies must work together to stop radicalized Westerners who travel to terrorist training camps and return home to wage attacks, counterterrorism experts said in a new study.

Sweden ups terror threat alert to 'elevated' (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:23 AM PDT AP - Sweden has raised its terror threat alert from low to elevated because of "a shift in activities" among Swedish-based groups that could be plotting attacks against the Scandinavian country, security officials said Friday.

Newt Gingrich critical on counterterror (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:03 PM PDT AP - Republican Newt Gingrich took aim at the Obama administration's counterterror efforts Thursday, saying government officials aren't keeping America secure.

Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:02 PM PDT AP - Eight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaida-linked terror plot against European cities, but the plan is still in its early stages, with the suspects calling acquaintances in Europe to plan logistics, a Pakistani intelligence official said Thursday. One of the Britons died in a recent CIA missile strike, he said.

Was a Mumbai-style terror attack really 'foiled'? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:16 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Breathless coverage in the past few days has written at length about a potential "Mumbai-style" terror attack planned for Britain â€" or perhaps Germany, or France â€" that was thwarted by the Obama administration's expanding aerial campaign against militant targets in Pakistan's lawless border provinces.

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