WH may switch to military trials for 9/11 suspects (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:24 PM PST AP - Looking to breathe life into President Barack Obama's stalled pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, White House advisers are inching toward recommending military trials for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused henchmen. |
McCain, Lieberman push military to handle terror cases (Reuters) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:18 AM PST Reuters - Two senior senators unveiled legislation on Thursday to require the military to hold, interrogate and prosecute certain terrorism suspects and also bar them from receiving legal rights afforded most criminals in the United States. |
Philippines warns terror threat remains despite arrests (AFP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:12 AM PST AFP - Islamist militants continue to pose a serious terrorist threat in the Philippines despite a series of high-profile arrests of alleged bomb-makers, the military said Friday. |
Singapore bolsters security over terrorist threat (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 07:52 AM PST AP - Singapore raised its security alert and bolstered its defenses Friday after receiving information of a terrorist plot to attack vessels off the coast of the city-state in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, a Cabinet minister said. |
Arrests in Indonesia not tied to Malacca threat (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 07:47 AM PST AP - Indonesian authorities have not found a link between several suspected militants arrested recently in Aceh and a threat to tankers in the nearby Malacca Strait, a government minister and police said Friday. |
Pentagon shooting probe focuses on gunman's motives (AFP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:21 PM PST AFP - US investigators Friday sought to uncover why a California man opened fire outside the Pentagon before being fatally shot by police, as Internet posts suggested he feared a vast government conspiracy. |
Singapore ups security measures after terror warning (AFP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 06:40 AM PST AFP - Singapore has raised security alert levels following threats of possible terrorist attacks on ships in the busy Malacca Strait waterway, the country's interior minister said Friday. |
No terrorism link to Pentagon shooting: police (Reuters) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 04:01 AM PST Reuters - A California man who was fatally shot after opening fire on security officers outside the Pentagon appears to have been acting alone, with no links to domestic or international terrorism, police said on Friday. |
ETA suspects charged with terrorism in France (AFP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:41 AM PST AFP - French prosecutors have brought terrorism charges against three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA, including the man considered its top leader, a court official said on Friday. |
Cyber-terrorism a real and growing threat: FBI (AFP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:50 AM PST AFP - Terrorists, crooks and nation states are ramping up cyber-assaults that are eating away at data, cash and security in the United States, the head of the FBI warned. |
Patrols aim to deter Malacca Strait terror attacks (AFP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:33 AM PST AFP - Heightened patrols in the Malacca Strait, launched after a warning that terrorists are plotting attacks, will thwart efforts to seize ships, a maritime watchdog said Friday. |
More anti-gov't writing linked to Pentagon shooter (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 06:51 AM PST AP - Internet postings linked to the suspected gunman in a Pentagon subway shooting suggest long-held frustration with the government's reach into the private life of Americans. |
Obama aides mull September 11 suspect military trial (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:21 PM PST Reuters - Advisers to President Barack Obama are close to recommending that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, be tried in a military tribunal instead of a civilian court, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. |