Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Al-Qaida eyed oil tankers as bombing targets (AP)
• Strauss-Kahn Conspiracy Theories and French Democracy (Time.com)
• Farrakhan aide released in Guyana, demands apology (AP)
• Lawyers ask NYC judge to find Iran liable for 9/11 (AP)
• More than 30 cities out of gov't grant program (AP)
• Top lawmakers agree to Patriot Act extension (AP)
• With Al Qaeda weakened, US warns about other Pakistani terror groups (The Christian Science Monitor)

Al-Qaida eyed oil tankers as bombing targets (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 05:02 PM PDT AP - Osama bin Laden's personal files revealed a brazen idea to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea last summer, creating explosions he hoped would rattle the world's economy and send oil prices skyrocketing, the U.S. said Friday.

Strauss-Kahn Conspiracy Theories and French Democracy (Time.com) Posted: 20 May 2011 04:35 PM PDT Time.com - Editorial: Just as with the Sept. 11 attacks, a surprisingly large chunk of French society is prone to turn to conspiracy theories to explain Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex scandal. It's a bad sign for the health of public debate in France

Farrakhan aide released in Guyana, demands apology (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 02:02 PM PDT AP - A longtime aide to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who was accused of having ties to drugs and terrorism was released by Guyanese authorities Friday and demanded an official apology from the government.

Lawyers ask NYC judge to find Iran liable for 9/11 (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 01:18 PM PDT AP - Lawyers representing 9/11 families are asking a federal judge to find Iran culpable in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, saying new evidence shows Iranian officials had advanced word of the attacks and helped train the hijackers.

More than 30 cities out of gov't grant program (AP) Posted: 19 May 2011 10:46 PM PDT AP - More than 30 smaller and mid-sized U.S. cities are losing about $170 million in federal anti-terrorism funding that began after the Sept. 11 attacks, perplexing some local officials at a time when information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's hideout suggests al-Qaida is being encouraged to attack smaller targets.

Top lawmakers agree to Patriot Act extension (AP) Posted: 19 May 2011 10:06 PM PDT AP - Top congressional leaders agreed Thursday to a four-year extension of the anti-terrorist Patriot Act, the controversial law passed after the Sept. 11 attacks that governs the search for terrorists on American soil.

With Al Qaeda weakened, US warns about other Pakistani terror groups (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 May 2011 06:40 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - With Osama bin Laden dead, and only small numbers of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, some US leaders are talking up the threat of other militant outfits in the region. Such talk appears aimed at convincing critics why significant US forces must remain in the region at a time of war fatigue.

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