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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Plane attack prompts debate over terrorism label (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 03:15 PM PST

Investigators stand by the remains of a small air plane, bottom left, on the ground level floor of a destroyed building in Austin, Texas, Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. Authorities said that shortly after taking off from Georgetown Municipal Airport, Thursday, Joseph Stack flew his small airplane into the building where several Internal Revenue Service employees worked. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - When a man fueled by rage against the U.S. government and its tax code crashes his airplane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service, is it a criminal act or an act of terrorism?

Rights watchdog urges terror suspect torture probe (AFP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST

A protestor holds up a sign calling for the release of Shaker Aamer, Britain's last remaining Guantanamo Bay detainee, during a demonstration in central London in January 2010. Britain's human rights watchdog called Saturday for an urgent independent probe into claims that the security services were complicit in the torture of more than 20 terror suspects.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Britain's human rights watchdog called Saturday for an urgent independent probe into claims that the security services were complicit in the torture of more than 20 terror suspects.

Judge sets stage for trials over 9/11 illnesses (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 03:04 AM PST

In this photo provided by attorney Andrew Carboy, Frank Malone, receives his diploma from New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuilani at the New York Fire Department Academy graduation in 2000. Malone, who dug through the debris at the World Trade Center in 2001 with his bare hands and without adequate respiratory protection, is among the first 12 plaintiffs in a civil trial over illnesses potentially caused by ash and dust from the World Trade Center. (AP Photo)AP - A federal judge has picked 12 ground zero responders whose cases will be the first to go to trial over illnesses caused by ash and dust from the World Trade Center following the terrorist attack.

Justice Department clears former Bush lawyers for torture memos (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:38 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Two former high-level Bush administration officials who provided legal justification for harsh interrogations of overseas terror suspects are likely to escape any formal punishment now that the Justice Department has concluded they should not be held legally responsible.

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