Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• U.S. attacked by opponents at U.N. human rights body (Reuters)
• Adviser: Obama committed to civilian terror trials (AP)
• US agrees to improve human rights record (AP)
• Japan Nuclear Threat Level Raised, and Exodus Continues (Time.com)
• Respect rule of law in Al-Qaeda 'war': US official (AFP)
• Latest bomb blast puts Indonesia capital on alert (AFP)
• US condemns Yemen crackdown (AFP)
• BA worker jailed for 30 years for plane bomb plot (AP)

U.S. attacked by opponents at U.N. human rights body (Reuters) Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:22 PM PDT Reuters - The United States was attacked for its human rights record on Friday as opponents including Cuba and Iran slammed its failure to close Guantanamo Bay and its decision to maintain military trials for terror suspects.

Adviser: Obama committed to civilian terror trials (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:32 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser said Friday that the administration is committed to trying detainees in federal court, even as it has reinstated military trials.

US agrees to improve human rights record (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:13 PM PDT AP - The United States on Friday disavowed torture and pledged to treat terror suspects humanely, but set aside calls to drop the death penalty, as the United Nations carried out its first review of Washington's human rights record.

Japan Nuclear Threat Level Raised, and Exodus Continues (Time.com) Posted: 18 Mar 2011 10:50 AM PDT Time.com - As officials raise the severity rating of Japan's nuclear crisis to Level 5, people continue to evacuate their homes -- and worry for those they have left behind

Respect rule of law in Al-Qaeda 'war': US official (AFP) Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:15 PM PDT AFP - As the United States pursues its nearly decade-old war against a weakened Al-Qaeda, it must protect Muslim Americans from being scapegoated, a senior White House official said Friday.

Latest bomb blast puts Indonesia capital on alert (AFP) Posted: 18 Mar 2011 09:56 AM PDT AFP - A small bomb exploded on the outskirts of Jakarta Friday as police rolled out bomb squads in the capital following a series of blasts aimed at moderate Muslim figures and an anti-terror official.

US condemns Yemen crackdown (AFP) Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:34 PM PDT AFP - The United States Friday strongly condemned a bloody crackdown on protesters in Yemen, as a second key Middle Eastern ally in a week rebuffed calls to safeguard peaceful protesters.

BA worker jailed for 30 years for plane bomb plot (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:19 AM PDT AP - A British judge sentenced a former British Airways computer specialist to 30 years in jail Friday for plotting with U.S.-born extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to kill hundreds of people by blowing up a U.S.-bound plane.

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