Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Philippines 'surprised' by updated Hong Kong travel warning (AFP)
• Stockholm bomber seen as radical by UK Muslims (AP)
• New anti-terror rules thwart US Cuban cigar trade (AP)
• Sweden Terror Attacks Raise Security vs. Liberty Issue (Time.com)
• Germany lays out goals for Security Council tenure (AP)
• Guantanamo detainees take fight to Supreme Court (AFP)
• US pastor 'would fight ban' on UK visit (AFP)
• Sweden bomber sought big targets; new threat made (Reuters)
• Police probe Stockholm blasts as act of terrorism (Reuters)

Philippines 'surprised' by updated Hong Kong travel warning (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:52 PM PST AFP - The Philippines expressed surprise on Monday after Hong Kong mentioned the threat of terrorist attacks in an update to a travel advisory urging its residents against visiting the country.

Stockholm bomber seen as radical by UK Muslims (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:32 PM PST AP - At his local mosque in England, Taimour Abdulwahab alarmed elders with his extreme views on Islam. On the Internet, he posted videos of Chechen fighters and abused Iraqi prisoners.

New anti-terror rules thwart US Cuban cigar trade (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 02:56 PM PST AP - It's an unintended consequence of the fight against terrorism that's left some cigar aficionados fuming: Terrorists in Yemen try to send bomb-laden packages to the U.S. aboard cargo planes, and now a connoisseur in Iowa can't get his Cubans from Switzerland.

Sweden Terror Attacks Raise Security vs. Liberty Issue (Time.com) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 02:05 PM PST Time.com - In Sweden, a society accustomed to seeing wars and political violence as problems that affect others wakes up to a new menace at home: terrorism attacks

Germany lays out goals for Security Council tenure (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 08:03 AM PST AP - Germany's ambassador to the United Nations said Monday his country hopes to use its two-year tenure on the influential Security Council to focus on fighting terrorism, peace-building and bringing climate-related threats to the forefront.

Guantanamo detainees take fight to Supreme Court (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 07:13 AM PST AFP - Condemned by the lower house of the US Congress to remain in Guantanamo Bay indefinitely, "War on Terror" detainees are taking their cases to the Supreme Court, hoping it can break them out.

US pastor 'would fight ban' on UK visit (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:28 AM PST AFP - Firebrand US pastor Terry Jones said Monday he would fight an attempt to stop him visiting Britain to speak to far-right activists, after authorities here said they were "actively" considering a ban.

Sweden bomber sought big targets; new threat made (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 01:24 PM PST Reuters - A Middle Eastern man killed in a blast in Stockholm was wearing a bomb belt and ready to attack a train station or department store when the device went off prematurely, Sweden's chief prosecutor said on Monday.

Police probe Stockholm blasts as act of terrorism (Reuters) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 10:10 AM PST Reuters - Police said on Sunday they were treating bomb blasts in Stockholm as an act of terrorism by a lone attacker that followed an emailed threat referring to Sweden's troops in Afghanistan and to cartoons of Mohammad.

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