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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Airline plot 'buck stops with me': Obama (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 04:37 PM PST

Interactive graphic on airport security as checks are tightened worldwide after a Nigerian was accused of trying to blow up an airliner over Detroit in a failed Christmas Day attack.(AFP iactiv)AFP - President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" over major intelligence flaws exposed by an Al-Qaeda attack on a US passenger jet and ordered a sweeping homeland security overhaul.

Obama says anti-terror 'buck' stops with him (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 05:10 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, about an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures that led to the near-disastrous Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound airliner and vowing the problems would be corrected. He said the lapses were widespread but suggested no officials would be fired.

AP Source: More names going on terror watch list (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:06 PM PST

President Barack Obama leaves the podium in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, after speaking about the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - A government official says President Barack Obama will order U.S. agencies to move faster and more accurately in adding suspects to the watch lists designed to stop terrorists before they strike.

Obama aide to meet allies on airport security (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:34 PM PST

Reuters - Janet Napolitano, the U.S. secretary for homeland security, said on Thursday she will travel to Spain this month to meet with her international counterparts to seek tougher international aviation security measures.

(AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:47 PM PST

AP - Obama: US will never bow to `siege mentality' while stiffening defenses against al-Qaida.

Top US officials to face lawmakers on terror lapses (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:17 PM PST

National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter testifies before the Senate in September 2009. A key US Senate committee announced Thursday it had set a January 20 hearing to question top counter-terrorism officials on lapses that led to a deadly November attack and the foiled Christmas bombing.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - A key US Senate committee announced Thursday it had set a January 20 hearing to question top counter-terrorism officials on lapses that led to a deadly November attack and the foiled Christmas bombing.

NYC identifies 2 more victims of 9/11 attacks (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 12:09 PM PST

Smoke pours from the World Trade Center after being hit by two planes September 11, 2001 in New York City. A US appeals court upheld the conviction and life sentence of Zacarias Moussaoui for complicity in the attacks on the United States.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Craig Allen)AP - New York City has identified two more victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

White House defends counter-terror chief (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 11:35 AM PST

National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter testifies before the Senate in September 2009. A key US Senate committee announced Thursday it had set a January 20 hearing to question top counter-terrorism officials on lapses that led to a deadly November attack and the foiled Christmas bombing.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - The White House on Thursday defended the head of a key anti-terrorism agency, following reports he did not cut short a ski vacation in the aftermath of a Christmas attack on a US airliner.

How the US terrorist watchlists do (and don't) work (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 10:45 AM PST

A TSA officer screens an airline passenger at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas, Texas. Afghanistan and Iraq joined a chorus of protest over a new US watchlist targeting visitors from 14 countries, describing the measure as ineffective and The Christian Science Monitor - The US government maintains a multi-level system of watch lists to try and identify possible terrorists before they enter the country.

US lawmaker seeks boost in aviation security funds (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 10:21 AM PST

Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee, head of the House Homeland Security subcommittee charged with transportation, security and infrastructure has called for the US Department of Homeland Security to get more funding to upgrade its aviation security screening efforts after the thwarted Christmas Day plane bombing.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - A key US lawmaker has called for the US Department of Homeland Security to get more funding to upgrade its aviation security screening efforts after the thwarted Christmas Day plane bombing.

Fla. police: Man threatening Jews taken off flight (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 07:44 AM PST

This image provided by the Miami Dade Police Department shows a booking photo of Mansor Mohammad Asad after he was arrested Thursday Jan. 7, 2010. Police say Asad proclaimed 'I want to kill all the Jews' before officers forced him off a Detroit-bound plane. (AP Photo/Miami Dade Police Department)AP - An airline passenger who yelled "I want to kill all the Jews" on a Detroit-bound plane was arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges, but authorities said Thursday the incident didn't appear terrorism-related.

US spy agencies face information overload: experts (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 07:42 AM PST

Outside CIA Headquarters. US intelligence officials, under pressure to better track terrorist threats, are hampered by their own vast bureaucracy and an overwhelming flow of information, analysts say.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Charles Ommanney)AFP - US intelligence officials, under pressure to better track terrorist threats, are hampered by their own vast bureaucracy and an overwhelming flow of information, analysts say.

White House to release first terror probe (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 07:09 AM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 6. The White House later Thursday releases a first probe into intelligence failures surrounding an Al-Qaeda attack on a US jet, and warns Americans will find the unclassified findings shocking reading.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - The White House later Thursday releases a first probe into intelligence failures surrounding an Al-Qaeda attack on a US jet, and warns Americans will find the unclassified findings shocking reading.

Anti-terror chief among seven killed in Iraq blasts (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 05:13 AM PST

File picture shows an Iraqi soldier in the western town of Ramadi. Coordinated bombings have shattered the homes of four police officers in the western Iraqi town of Heet, killing seven people including the town's anti-terror chief.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Coordinated bombings early on Thursday shattered the homes of four police officers in the western Iraqi town of Heet, killing seven people including the town's anti-terror chief, an official said.

Kenyan minister: Deported cleric a security threat (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 04:22 AM PST

AP - A radical Muslim cleric who once led a London mosque attended by convicted terrorists was deported to Gambia on Thursday because he posed a serious threat to Kenya's security, the immigration minister said.

Yemen says Nigerian may have met radical cleric (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:03 PM PST

File - This Oct. 2008 file photo by Muhammad ud-Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Yemen's deputy prime minister Rashad al-Alimi says Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas, may have met in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-Yemeni cleric linked to al-Qaida and the alleged Fort Hood shooter U.S. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)AP - Yemen on Thursday provided the most comprehensive account yet of contacts between al-Qaida and the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner, saying he may have met with a radical U.S.-born cleric who previously had contact with the alleged Fort Hood shooter.

Bombings target Iraqi army commander, kill 7 (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 12:37 AM PST

File photo shows members of the Iraqi Special Force Police on parade in the northern city of Kirkuk. Three policemen were killed and eight people were wounded on Monday by two explosions in Iraq's northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, police said.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)Reuters - Three bombs exploded in a residential area near Ramadi in Iraq's western Anbar province on Thursday, killing seven people including relatives of an Iraqi Army anti-terrorist special forces commander, police said.

Anti-terror chief among 7 killed in Iraq blasts: police (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:51 PM PST

File picture shows an Iraqi soldier in the western town of Ramadi. Coordinated bombings targeting a local anti-terror chief and his family have shattered four homes in the western Iraqi town of Heet, killing seven people.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Co-ordinated early-morning bombings on Thursday at the homes of four police officers in the western Iraqi town of Heet killed seven people, including the town's anti-terror chief, police said.

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