Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Congress passes aid package for 9/11 responders (AP)
• 3 convicted in terror plot on Australian army base (AP)
• US lawmakers move to help stricken 9/11 workers (AFP)
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• White House defends intel chief after terror gaffe (AP)
• Border Patrol remembers slain agent as warrior (AP)
• US 'vigilant' for holiday terror attack: official (AFP)
• Bloomberg replants tree damaged on 9/11 at WTC (AP)
• White House backs top US spy after interview slip (AFP)
• Cuba convicts Salvadoran on terror charges (AP)
• US suits against Pakistani spy chief face hurdles (AP)
• Somali Militants Suspected in Kenya Blast (Time.com)

Congress passes aid package for 9/11 responders (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 05:06 PM PST AP - After a last-minute compromise, Congress passed legislation Wednesday to provide up to $4.2 billion in new aid to survivors of the September 2001 terrorism attack on the World Trade Center and responders who became ill working in its ruins.

3 convicted in terror plot on Australian army base (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 05:03 PM PST AP - Three men who believed Islam was under threat from western nations were found guilty in an Australian court on Thursday of plotting a suicide attack against a Sydney army base.

US lawmakers move to help stricken 9/11 workers (AFP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 03:07 PM PST AFP - The US Congress voted Wednesday to create a 10-year, four-billion-dollar program to help September 11 emergency workers sickened in the ruins of the worst terrorist attack on US soil.

(AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 01:51 PM PST AP - Obama's looking at options for detainees who can't be tried but too dangerous for release.

White House defends intel chief after terror gaffe (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 01:26 PM PST AP - After the nation's top intelligence official fumbled a simple question about terrorism on national television, the White House on Wednesday acknowledged that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had been in the dark about a terrorist plot disrupted in England.

Border Patrol remembers slain agent as warrior (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 02:32 PM PST AP - Brian Terry once wrote to a friend that he trained, drilled and prepared himself to have the best chance of defeating his country's enemies.

US 'vigilant' for holiday terror attack: official (AFP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 09:54 AM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama sent out his top White House anti-terror advisor Wednesday to assure Americans that everything possible was being done to keep them safe from attack over Christmas.

Bloomberg replants tree damaged on 9/11 at WTC (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 09:14 AM PST AP - A tree at the World Trade Center site that was badly damaged nine years ago in the Sept. 11 attacks has been nursed back to health and replanted.

White House backs top US spy after interview slip (AFP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 09:06 AM PST AFP - The White House mounted a firm defense of America's top spy on Wednesday after he admitted on television he did not know about a purported terrorism plot foiled by Britain.

Cuba convicts Salvadoran on terror charges (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:21 AM PST AP - An El Salvador man has been convicted on terrorism charges for helping plan and carry out a string of bombings against Cuban tourist sites and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, Cuban state media said Wednesday.

US suits against Pakistani spy chief face hurdles (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:03 AM PST AP - The plaintiffs in two U.S. lawsuits accusing Pakistan's spy chief of nurturing terrorists involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks are hoping for a historic outcome recalling the Lockerbie settlement, but they would have to overcome serious legal obstacles first, lawyers and experts say.

Somali Militants Suspected in Kenya Blast (Time.com) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:15 PM PST Time.com - A grenade detonated at a bus station, possibly by accident, is viewed as part of a campaign of Christmas terror

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