Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Awlaqi's father mounts legal challenge to CIA 'kill list' (AFP)
• Closings start at Guantanamo detainee's NY trial (AP)
• US issues new security rules for air cargo (AP)
• US intel didn't connect American to Mumbai attacks (AP)
• Key Republican vows to challenge Obama on security (Reuters)
• U.S. expands cargo security ban in wake of bomb plot (Reuters)
• Obama boosts India for 'rightful place in world' (AP)
• Obama, Singh, commit to cooperation on terrorism (AP)
• Pakistan says India rejected peace talks (AP)

Awlaqi's father mounts legal challenge to CIA 'kill list' (AFP) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:12 PM PST AFP - A US judge opened a hearing on CIA targeting of key terrorist suspects as a lawyer for the father of radical US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi argued a "kill list" was unconstitutional.

Closings start at Guantanamo detainee's NY trial (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:05 PM PST AP - The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial is a cold-blooded killer and terrorist who slipped away the day before his cohorts carried out a plot to attack two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, a prosecutor said Monday in closing arguments.

US issues new security rules for air cargo (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 01:51 PM PST AP - New U.S. security rules are in place banning all cargo from Yemen and Somalia and prohibiting toner and ink cartridges weighing more than one pound from passenger flights, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday.

US intel didn't connect American to Mumbai attacks (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:42 AM PST AP - The U.S. intelligence community didn't know that an American whom it had used as an informant was plotting the terrorist attack on Mumbai, according to an Obama administration review of the case.

Key Republican vows to challenge Obama on security (Reuters) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:32 AM PST Reuters - The congressman in line to chair the homeland security committee in the new Republican-led House of Representatives said on Monday that he plans to challenge President Barack Obama on the issue of terrorism.

U.S. expands cargo security ban in wake of bomb plot (Reuters) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:14 PM PST Reuters - The Obama administration on Monday banned all cargo shipments to the United States from Somalia, expanding a ban imposed initially on shipments from Yemen in the wake of a recent foiled bomb plot.

Obama boosts India for 'rightful place in world' (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 12:15 PM PST AP - Deepening America's stake in Asian power politics, President Barack Obama on Monday endorsed India's bid to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, hoping to elevate the nation of a billion people to "its rightful place in the world" alongside an assertive China.

Obama, Singh, commit to cooperation on terrorism (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 12:16 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Manmoham Singh say the two countries will step up mutual efforts to combat the menace of global terrorism.

Pakistan says India rejected peace talks (AP) Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:36 PM PST AP - Pakistan's president has accused India of rejecting what he termed peace overtures made earlier this year, a sign of how far apart the neighboring countries remain two years after relations crumbled in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.

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