Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Holder: I made decision to charge terror suspect (AP)
• Obama keeps North Korea off US terror list (AFP)
• 3 American troops killed in Pakistani terrorist attack (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Spy agencies can target Americans: official (Reuters)
• Democrats Vulnerable on Terrorism, Republicans Say (Bloomberg)
• US doing 'scientific research' to boost interrogations (AFP)
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• 9/11 Terror-Suspect Trial: Dispute Grows on Court Venue (Time.com)
• U.S. pledges early review of air security "blacklist" (Reuters)
• Court: Sentence for millennium plotter too lenient (AP)

Holder: I made decision to charge terror suspect (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:38 PM PST AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he made the decision to charge the Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian court rather than the military system, with no objection from all the other relevant departments of the government.

Obama keeps North Korea off US terror list (AFP) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST AFP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday certified that North Korea would remain off the US list of terrorist states, despite some calls from Congress for the Stalinist state to be put back on.

3 American troops killed in Pakistani terrorist attack (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:35 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - Three American soldiers were killed and two were wounded Wednesday in a roadside bombing in troubled northwestern Pakistan that killed 10 people, including a Pakistani soldier and three children.

Spy agencies can target Americans: official (Reuters) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:00 PM PST Reuters - In unusually frank comments, the top U.S. intelligence official acknowledged on Wednesday that spy agencies can target for killing Americans who are involved in terrorism.

Democrats Vulnerable on Terrorism, Republicans Say (Bloomberg) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 11:51 AM PST Bloomberg - Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Republicans say they see weakness in President Barack Obama’s approach to fighting terrorism -- and a winning issue for themselves in the November congressional elections.

US doing 'scientific research' to boost interrogations (AFP) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 10:13 AM PST AFP - An elite US interrogation unit will conduct "scientific research" to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.

(AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 10:05 AM PST AP - AG Holder: I made decision to charge Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian system.

9/11 Terror-Suspect Trial: Dispute Grows on Court Venue (Time.com) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 09:45 AM PST Time.com - As Democrats count the political cost of an unpopular decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to try 9/11 terrorist suspects in a New York federal court, the Obama Administration is scrambling for alternatives

U.S. pledges early review of air security "blacklist" (Reuters) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 07:50 AM PST Reuters - The United States will review soon a list of countries whose air travelers are subject to tighter screening and could remove nations like Nigeria if they are no longer deemed to be security threats, a U.S. official said.

Court: Sentence for millennium plotter too lenient (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:57 AM PST AP - The long legal battle of an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted in an attempted bombing on the millennium has taken another turn after an appeals court threw out his sentence and removed the trial judge from the case.

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