Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• CIA chief pulled from Pakistan; drones kill 54 (AP)
• Think tank plans study of how US treats detainees (AP)
• Stockholm bomber denounced by father-in-law (AP)
• Former Guantanamo detainee urges judge to clear him (Reuters)
• Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield (AP)
• White House reports frustrations in Yemeni relations (Reuters)
• US prepared on Christmas holiday security: Obama aide (AFP)
• UK, German officials: No new holiday terror plot (AP)
• Leak: India says Pakistan must do more on Mumbai (AP)
• WikiLeaks: US fears bioweapons from India labs (AP)
• Iraq offers Iran anti-terror help (AFP)
• Filipino kidnapper gets 23 years for '95 abduction (AP)
• US drone missiles kill 25 in Pakistan (AFP)

CIA chief pulled from Pakistan; drones kill 54 (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:54 PM PST AP - The CIA yanked its top spy out of Pakistan after his cover was blown and his life threatened, and 54 suspected militants were killed in a U.S. drone missile attack Friday in stark new signs of the troubled relationship between mistrustful allies locked in a war on terror groups.

Think tank plans study of how US treats detainees (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 03:40 PM PST AP - A nonpartisan legal think tank plans to study U.S. treatment of terrorism detainees, partly out of concern that the country's policies lack clarity and can be manipulated to permit abuse or torture in dangerous times, members of a task force appointed to conduct the study said Friday.

Stockholm bomber denounced by father-in-law (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:06 PM PST AP - The father-in-law of the Stockholm suicide bomber on Friday denounced the 28-year-old attacker as a brainwashed terrorist who rejected "all the good" that Sweden gave him.

Former Guantanamo detainee urges judge to clear him (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST Reuters - Lawyers for the first Guantanamo detainee to have faced a U.S. civilian trial have asked the judge either to clear the Tanzanian terrorism suspect or grant him another trial.

Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 10:52 AM PST AP - When the CIA decided to waterboard suspected terror detainees in overseas prisons, the agency turned to a pair of contractors. The men designed the CIA's interrogation program and also personally took part in the waterboarding sessions.

White House reports frustrations in Yemeni relations (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 10:49 AM PST Reuters - U.S. security relations with Yemen have been strained by frustrations on both sides and will require patience as the two countries work to counter the al Qaeda threat there, a top White House security official said on Friday.

US prepared on Christmas holiday security: Obama aide (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 09:42 AM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor said Friday he was confident that "appropriate resources" were in place to deal with the risk of holiday season terror attacks.

UK, German officials: No new holiday terror plot (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 06:33 AM PST AP - No new, specific terror plots against Europe have emerged for the holiday season, British and German officials said Friday, contradicting earlier reports from U.S. security experts.

Leak: India says Pakistan must do more on Mumbai (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:33 AM PST AP - Pakistan is "hypnotically obsessed" with India's military and has done next to nothing to prosecute suspects in the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, top Indian diplomats have told U.S. officials.

WikiLeaks: US fears bioweapons from India labs (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:40 AM PST AP - U.S. officials fear lax security at Indian laboratories could make the facilities targets for terrorists seeking biological weapons, according to comments in a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable made public Friday.

Iraq offers Iran anti-terror help (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST AFP - Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani offered Tehran his ministry's support and experience in fighting terror Friday, just days after a suicide bomber killed 34 people in southeastern Iran.

Filipino kidnapper gets 23 years for '95 abduction (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:08 PM PST AP - Fifteen years after leading a kidnapping that turned a family vacation into a hostage crisis, the former second-in-command of the Filipino terrorist group Abu Sayyaf was sentenced Friday to 23 years in an American prison.

US drone missiles kill 25 in Pakistan (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2010 05:02 AM PST AFP - A barrage of US missiles targeted Pakistan's Khyber district on Friday for a second consecutive day, killing 25 militants as Barack Obama urged Islamabad to do more to root out terror havens.

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