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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

US, UK close Yemen embassies over al-Qaida threats (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 03:42 PM PST

FILE - Yemeni soldiers on top of a truck patrol the road in front of the main entrance of the US Embassy in the capital San'a, Yemen in this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo. A statement posted on Sunday Jan. 3, 2010 on the embassy Web site said it had closed but provided no further details. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)AP - Western embassies in Yemen locked up Sunday after fresh threats from al-Qaida, and the White House expressed alarm at the terror group's expanded reach in the poor Arab nation where an offshoot apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner.

US tightens security for US-bound air passengers (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 02:52 PM PST

A passenger walks toward a security checkpoint at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, on December 29, 2009. US authorities Sunday tightened security measures for all US-bound airline passengers, including enhanced mandatory screening of travellers from countries deemed to sponsor terrorism.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - US officials tightened security measures for US-bound airline passengers Sunday, including mandatory enhanced screening of all travellers from 14 nations, some on a terrorism blacklist.

Yemen repatriations to continue: White House (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 12:02 PM PST

A mobile guard tower stands over a camp at the US military prison for AFP - The United States will continue to repatriate Guantanamo detainees to Yemen, a country menaced by the Al-Qaeda terror network, despite the Christmas airliner attack, a White House official said Sunday.

Give Homeland Security role in U.S. visas: Senator (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 10:51 AM PST

Reuters - The Homeland Security Department rather than the State Department should handle U.S. visas overseas to meet security threats, the chairman of the Senate homeland security committee said on Sunday.

Some Dems want Gitmo-to-Yemen transfers stopped (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 10:41 AM PST

In this photograph released by 'Meet The Press', John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser, appears on 'Meet the Press' at the NBC studios Sunday January 3, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, William B. Plowman) NO SALESAP - Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation.

Brennan Says U.S. Shut Embassy Due to Al-Qaeda Threat (Bloomberg)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 10:00 AM PST

Bloomberg - Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Closing the U.S. embassy in Yemen was the “prudent thing to do” because of intelligence that al- Qaeda might attack the compound, President Barack Obama’s assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism said.

Obama adviser says Cheney is wrong in criticism (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:31 AM PST

AP - Dick Cheney's withering criticism of the Obama White House's terrorism-fighting policies came under an equally harsh response Sunday, with the former vice president accused of being ignorant or intentionally misleading.

CQ Transcript: Terrorism Preparedness on ABC's 'This Week' (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:25 AM PST

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Britain, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:33 AM PST

Reuters - The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said on Sunday.

No 'smoking gun' in bomb suspect terror bid: US (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:31 AM PST

This image released by the US Marshals Service on December 28, 2009, shows the booking photo of would-be bomber suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. There was no AFP - US agencies are scouring intelligence to learn more about the man suspected of trying to bomb a US airliner, but there was "no smoking gun" that signaled he was a would-be terrorist, a White House official said Sunday.

US, Britain widen anti-terror front in Yemen (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 12:23 AM PST

Men claiming to be Al-Qaeda members arrive to address a crowd in Yemen's southern province of Abyan. The United States and Britain have agreed to finance a special counterterrorism unit in Yemen as US President Barack Obama for the first time blamed an Al-Qaeda branch in that Arab country for attacking a US airliner.(AFP/File)AFP - The United States and Britain have agreed to finance a special counterterrorism unit in Yemen as US President Barack Obama for the first time blamed an Al-Qaeda branch in that Arab country for attacking a US airliner.

UK says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:48 PM PST

A file photo of U.S. President Barack Obama and Britain's PM Gordon Brown in New York, September 24, 2009. The U.S. and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism in Yemen and Somalia after an attack on a U.S.-bound plane, Britain said on Sunday. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism, Britain said on Sunday.

Bomb suspect "reached out" to UK militants: report (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:04 PM PST

Reuters - British security services knew three years ago that the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane had "multiple communications" with Islamic extremists in Britain, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, charged with trying to blow up Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day, studied in London between 2005 and 2008.

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