Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Petraeus wants Taliban in Pakistan on terror list (AP)
• Somalia's al-Shabab Wants to Join Terror's Big League (Time.com)
• NY lawyer in terrorism case faces 30-year sentence (Reuters)
• India, US nat'l security advisers talk terrorism (AP)
• Alleged al-Qaida plotter held in UK on US warrant (AP)
• German extradited from Turkey on terrorism charges (AP)
• FBI: Uganda attacks signal terror group potential (AP)
• Judge clears way for civilian trial of Guantánamo detainee (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Who is al-Shabab? Somali terror army extends reach (AP)

Petraeus wants Taliban in Pakistan on terror list (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - The new military commander in Afghanistan and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee are urging the State Department to add to its terrorist list some Afghan insurgent commanders who operate from hiding places in neighboring Pakistan.

Somalia's al-Shabab Wants to Join Terror's Big League (Time.com) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 10:55 AM PDT Time.com - A U.N. report warned four years ago that the group blamed for Sunday'sterror attack in Uganda had linked up with Hizballah. And the group wants tobe attacked by the U.S. to elevate its status

NY lawyer in terrorism case faces 30-year sentence (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 08:05 AM PDT Reuters - A U.S. judge will decide on Thursday whether a New York lawyer convicted of helping a terrorism suspect smuggle messages to his followers from prison should spend 30 years behind bars instead of 28 months.

India, US nat'l security advisers talk terrorism (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 08:03 AM PDT AP - An official says the Indian and U.S. national security advisers have met to discuss counterterrorism, defense cooperation and regional security.

Alleged al-Qaida plotter held in UK on US warrant (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:52 AM PDT AP - A Pakistani man alleged to have plotted a major al-Qaida attack in Britain and wanted by U.S. authorities over the New York subway bomb plot was ordered held in custody Wednesday.

German extradited from Turkey on terrorism charges (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 03:40 AM PDT AP - Turkey has extradited a 28-year-old man to Germany on terrorism charges linked to a group that plotted to attack U.S. targets.

FBI: Uganda attacks signal terror group potential (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:27 PM PDT AP - If the Somali terror group al-Shabab is responsible for the deadly attacks in Uganda, it could mean the group is capable of carrying out successful attacks in Africa and beyond, according to an intelligence assessment by the FBI and Homeland Security Department.

Judge clears way for civilian trial of Guantánamo detainee (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Jul 2010 05:05 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the US did not violate the speedy-trial rights of a terror suspect. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was interrogated and held for two years by the CIA and detained for another three years at Guantánamo Bay before being brought to New York City to stand trial for the 1998 truck bombing of the US embassy in Tanzania.

Who is al-Shabab? Somali terror army extends reach (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2010 05:05 PM PDT AP - The Somali militants who formed the hardline terror group al-Shabab carried out their first suicide attack in 2006, during the height of violence in Iraq. The world hardly noticed.

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