Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• AK couple pleads guilty to lying about hit list (AP)
• AP IMPACT: A political filter for info requests (AP)
• Alleged JFK plotter denies spying for Iran (AP)
• Video: stronger chief needed to solve intel woes, John Boehner says (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Japan hopes spy sheds light on NKorea abductions (AP)
• Ex-terror suspect slams Malaysia's security law (AFP)
• Muslims must fight US, British terrorism: Khamenei (AFP)
• Officials: Replica shows NY bomb could have killed (AP)

AK couple pleads guilty to lying about hit list (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - An Alaska couple accused in a domestic terrorism plot pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of lying about the existence of a hit list of possible targets.

AP IMPACT: A political filter for info requests (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured hundreds of requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.

Alleged JFK plotter denies spying for Iran (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:32 PM PDT AP - A former government official in Guyana on Wednesday denied allegations that he was a militant Muslim who spied for Iran years before joining a plot to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Video: stronger chief needed to solve intel woes, John Boehner says (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:29 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - House Minority Leader John Boehner said he was not surprised by the contents of the Washington Post’s exhaustive report on the government’s response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Japan hopes spy sheds light on NKorea abductions (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 08:00 AM PDT AP - Hoping to unravel a mystery that has haunted them for decades, the families of two Japanese abducted by North Korea met with a former spy who claims she knew the captives before she committed one of North Korea's most notorious acts of terrorism — the bombing of a South Korean airliner in 1987.

Ex-terror suspect slams Malaysia's security law (AFP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 07:36 AM PDT AFP - A former terror suspect linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant group on Wednesday urged Malaysia to repeal a tough security law, saying detainees were subjected to mental torture.

Muslims must fight US, British terrorism: Khamenei (AFP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:31 AM PDT AFP - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called on Muslims to fight the "blind and savage terrorism" fuelled by the United States and Britain, whom he blamed for deadly bombings of an Iranian mosque.

Officials: Replica shows NY bomb could have killed (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:46 PM PDT AP - Investigators secretly detonated a working replica of the car bomb used in the failed Times Square terror attack, creating a large explosion that destroyed other vehicles and scattered flaming debris, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

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