Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Report: Airport watchers miss 16 linked to terror (AP)
• Pentagon won't say ship sinking is an act of war (AP)
• National intelligence director resigning (AP)
• Feds not pursuing after girl says mom lacks papers (AP)
• US travelers to terror havens a growing worry (AP)
• Suspected ETA military chief arrested in France (AFP)
• 'Modifying' Miranda modifies the political debate (AP)
• Senators press for National Guard troops on border (AP)
• Iraq foreign ministry reopens as symbol of defying terrorists (The Christian Science Monitor)

Report: Airport watchers miss 16 linked to terror (AP) Posted: 20 May 2010 04:00 PM PDT AP - At least 16 people later linked to terror plots passed through U.S. airports undetected by federal officials who were on duty to spot suspicious behavior, according to a government report.

Pentagon won't say ship sinking is an act of war (AP) Posted: 20 May 2010 03:33 PM PDT AP - U.S. officials refused on Thursday to call North Korea's torpedoing of a South Korean warship an act of war or state-sponsored terror, warning that an overreaction could cause the Korean peninsula to "explode."

National intelligence director resigning (AP) Posted: 20 May 2010 04:29 PM PDT AP - National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said Thursday he is resigning, ending a tumultuous 16-month tenure marked by intelligence failures and turf wars among the country's spy agencies.

Feds not pursuing after girl says mom lacks papers (AP) Posted: 20 May 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - A Department of Homeland Security official says federal immigration authorities are not pursuing the family of a Maryland girl who told first lady Michelle Obama that her mother "doesn't have papers."

US travelers to terror havens a growing worry (AP) Posted: 20 May 2010 01:12 PM PDT AP - The failed Times Square bombing exposed the unsolved threat hidden among the massive flow of Americans going abroad: Homegrown jihadists who travel undetected to terrorist havens, link up with insurgents and carry back plots aimed at the homeland.

Suspected ETA military chief arrested in France (AFP) Posted: 20 May 2010 08:13 AM PDT AFP - French anti-terrorist police on Thursday arrested Mikel Karrera Sarobe, alleged to be the most senior commander of the armed Basque separatist group ETA still at large.

'Modifying' Miranda modifies the political debate (AP) Posted: 20 May 2010 06:16 AM PDT AP - Hammered for months by Republicans as soft on terrorism, Attorney General Eric Holder and the rest of the Obama administration are suddenly playing offense, offering to work with Congress on a law that would let law enforcement delay constitutional Miranda warnings to terror suspects.

Senators press for National Guard troops on border (AP) Posted: 20 May 2010 04:10 AM PDT AP - Homeland Security and Pentagon officials are at loggerheads over a plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Barack Obama is pledging to bolster security there.

Iraq foreign ministry reopens as symbol of defying terrorists (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 May 2010 11:36 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki officially reopened Iraq’s bombed foreign ministry on Wednesday in what foreign and Iraqi diplomats said was proof that the country would not be defeated by truck bombs or terrorists.

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