Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Tears, shouts as terror hearing becomes political (AP)
• US warns of imminent terror attack in Mali (AP)
• Senate bill would preserve anti-terror prison (Reuters)
• Senate panel approves Patriot Act extensions (AP)
• Egypt apologizes for security police "violations": report (Reuters)
• Senators push tough law on Guantanamo detainees (AP)
• House panel delves into Muslims radicalization (Reuters)
• Congressman says terror hearing may inspire terror (AP)
• Who's testifying at controversial House hearing on radical Islam in US? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• How Peter King's Muslim Hearings Help the Terrorists (The Daily Beast)
• Saudi accused of Bush home attack plot indicted (AP)
• Mexico lawmakers livid over US 'Operation Fast and Furious' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Tears, shouts as terror hearing becomes political (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PST AP - Congress pushed deep into a raw and emotional debate Thursday over American Muslims who have committed terrorist attacks in the name of religion, in a hearing punctuated by tearful testimony, angry recriminations and political theater.

US warns of imminent terror attack in Mali (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:13 PM PST AP - The State Department is warning of a possible imminent terrorist attack against U.S. interests, including the American embassy and American school, in the West African nation of Mali.

Senate bill would preserve anti-terror prison (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:25 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama's already stalled bid to close the U.S. prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be blocked under legislation introduced on Thursday in the Senate.

Senate panel approves Patriot Act extensions (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:00 PM PST AP - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to extend until the end of 2013 three post-Sept. 11 terror-fighting practices that have raised concerns among civil liberties groups.

Egypt apologizes for security police "violations": report (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:58 PM PST Reuters - Egypt's interior minister said the state security apparatus will be restricted to combating terrorism and espionage and he apologized for past 'violations'. the official state news agency MENA reported Thursday.

Senators push tough law on Guantanamo detainees (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:24 PM PST AP - Senate Republicans said Thursday a tougher, more comprehensive military detention policy for terror suspects is necessary to fill the void created by two years of what they call the Obama administration's inconsistent approach.

House panel delves into Muslims radicalization (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 11:00 AM PST Reuters - Muslim Americans must do more to combat Islamic radicalization as al Qaeda targets them to help carry out terrorism plots, a lawmaker said on Thursday as he convened hearings critics said unfairly singled out Muslims.

Congressman says terror hearing may inspire terror (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:36 AM PST AP - The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee says Thursday's hearing on Islamic radicalism could be used by terrorists to inspire a new generation of suicide bombers.

Who's testifying at controversial House hearing on radical Islam in US? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:09 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Amid heightened security and expected protests, the House Committee on Homeland Security on Thursday launches the first in a series of hearings on the threat of radicalization in the American Muslim community.

How Peter King's Muslim Hearings Help the Terrorists (The Daily Beast) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 10:04 PM PST The Daily Beast - Rep. Peter King’s hearings today on homegrown Muslim terrorists may not make him a McCarthy or a bigot, but the anxiety he’s creating within the Muslim-American community will reduce future cooperation with law enforcement—and could help al Qaeda’s recruitment.

Saudi accused of Bush home attack plot indicted (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:39 PM PST AP - A federal grand jury has indicted a 20-year-old Texas college student from Saudi Arabia on a single count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.

Mexico lawmakers livid over US 'Operation Fast and Furious' (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:41 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Mexico has long complained that drug gangs are terrorizing cities with high-powered weapons smuggled from the United States. But Mexican lawmakers are now up in arms over the recent revelation that the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) purposefully allows some of these weapons to be smuggled south of the border so it can track them as part of "Operation Fast and Furious."

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