Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• UK raises its terror threat level to `severe' (AP)
• Britain ups terror level in line with US measures: official (AFP)
• Terror threat level raised to "severe": minister (AFP)
• Britain raises international terror threat level (Reuters)
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• In Pakistan, high court investigates 'disappearances' in wake of 9/11 (The Christian Science Monitor)
• US warns of risks of identical airport security measures (AFP)
• 120 al-Qaida suspects detained in Turkey (AP)
• India issues terrorism alert over hijack plot (AP)
• Twitter terror? Man arrested for venting about canceled flight. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• U.S. says to send home illegal Haitian immigrants (Reuters)
• U.S. warns against having same airport security systems (Reuters)
• U.S. warns against same airport security systems (Reuters)
• US desire to close Guantanamo 'unabashed': Napolitano (AFP)
• Politics of terrorism emerge anew in election year (AP)

UK raises its terror threat level to `severe' (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 04:22 PM PST AP - Britain raised its terror threat alert to the second-highest level Friday, one of several recent moves the country has made to increase vigilance against international terrorists after a Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Europe-U.S. flight.

Britain ups terror level in line with US measures: official (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 02:23 PM PST AFP - Britain's decision to raise its terror alert level brings it in line with US measures announced "over the last few weeks," the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Friday.

Terror threat level raised to "severe": minister (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:44 PM PST AFP - The terror threat level was raised from substantial to severe on Friday, suggesting that an attack is "highly likely", Home Secretary Alan Johnson said.

Britain raises international terror threat level (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:11 PM PST Reuters - Britain raised its international terrorism threat level to 'severe' -- its second highest level of terror alert -- from 'substantial' on Friday, Home Secretary (interior minister) Alan Johnson said.

(AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST AP - British government raises the nation's terror threat level from substantial to severe

In Pakistan, high court investigates 'disappearances' in wake of 9/11 (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 08:55 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Nearly five years after her husband went missing, Amina Janjua remains hopeful of his recovery along with scores of others who were "disappeared" by Pakistan’s secretive intelligence agencies in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

US warns of risks of identical airport security measures (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 07:55 AM PST AFP - Airports around the world must adopt different security measures or else it will become easier for terrorists to exploit weaknesses to carry out attacks, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.

120 al-Qaida suspects detained in Turkey (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 07:42 AM PST AP - Turkish police launched a nationwide crackdown on suspected militants linked to the al-Qaida terror network on Friday, rounding up 120 people in simultaneous pre-dawn raids, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

India issues terrorism alert over hijack plot (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:24 AM PST AP - Airline passengers across India went through extra security screenings Friday and sky marshals were placed on flights as the government put its airports on high alert amid reports that al-Qaida-linked militants planned to hijack a plane.

Twitter terror? Man arrested for venting about canceled flight. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:22 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempted bombing of a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, full-body scanners have been introduced at many airports worldwide, but the increasingly paranoid world of terror prevention appears to be spreading its tentacles right into homes and workplaces, via the Internet.

U.S. says to send home illegal Haitian immigrants (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:12 AM PST Reuters - Haitian citizens who arrive in the United States illegally after the January 12 earthquake will be sent home, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

U.S. warns against having same airport security systems (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 04:54 AM PST Reuters - The United States does not want countries to use identical airport security systems which could make it easier for potential attackers to elude them, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

U.S. warns against same airport security systems (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 04:37 AM PST Reuters - The United States does not want countries to use identical airport security systems which could make it easier for potential attackers to elude them, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

US desire to close Guantanamo 'unabashed': Napolitano (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:28 AM PST AFP - The United States' desire to close its military prison in Cuba remains "unabashed" even though a deadline set by Washington to do so has passed, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday in Toledo.

Politics of terrorism emerge anew in election year (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 05:42 PM PST AP - Terrorism is creeping back to the forefront of the American mindset, creating an election-year issue for emboldened Republicans and forcing President Barack Obama to reassert himself after a wobbly period of homeland protection.

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