Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• US lawmakers urge terrorist label for Mexican cartels (AFP)
• Morocco counts cost of bombing at tourist hotspot (Reuters)
• German police arrest three al Qaeda suspects (Reuters)
• Germans arrest 3 al-Qaida suspects (AP)
• Morocco bomb investigators looking at Al-Qaeda (AFP)
• White House chief usher heads to Homeland Security (AP)
• Tajik leader calls global terrorism a myth (AP)
• Syrian protesters defy Assad government; 42 killed (AP)
• Syria says gunmen kill four soldiers in Deraa (Reuters)
• Will Morocco Retrench on Reform After a Terror Attack? (Time.com)
• Somali sentenced for lying about terrorism links (AP)

US lawmakers urge terrorist label for Mexican cartels (AFP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:57 PM PDT AFP - Key US lawmakers urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a letter released Friday to support labeling Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups and craft a strategy to help Mexico defeat them.

Morocco counts cost of bombing at tourist hotspot (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:54 PM PDT Reuters - Morocco was counting the cost to its vital tourism industry on Friday from an explosion at a busy Marrakesh cafe that killed 15 people in an attack described by the government as a terrorist act.

German police arrest three al Qaeda suspects (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:04 AM PDT Reuters - German police arrested three suspected members of al Qaeda on Friday, averting "a concrete and imminent danger" of a terrorist operation, authorities said.

Germans arrest 3 al-Qaida suspects (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 10:47 AM PDT AP - German police on Friday arrested three suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist organization who officials say posed a "concrete and imminent danger" to the nation.

Morocco bomb investigators looking at Al-Qaeda (AFP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:48 PM PDT AFP - A bomb in Marrakesh that killed 16 people was set off by a remote-control device and bore the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda, a Moroccan minister said Friday.

White House chief usher heads to Homeland Security (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:29 AM PDT AP - The retired Coast Guard admiral who has served as chief White House usher for the past four years is taking a senior post at one of the Department of Homeland Security's largest agencies.

Tajik leader calls global terrorism a myth (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 07:01 AM PDT AP - The president of Tajikistan, which has been waging battle with a domestic insurgency for the past few years, says international terrorism is a myth invented by global superpowers.

Syrian protesters defy Assad government; 42 killed (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT AP - Thousands of defiant Syrians chanting "We are not afraid!" were met by security forces firing bullets and tear gas Friday in a crackdown on nationwide protests that left 42 people dead — many of them villagers trying to break an army blockade of the southern city where the six-week uprising began.

Syria says gunmen kill four soldiers in Deraa (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:04 AM PDT Reuters - Syria's official state news agency said Friday an "armed terrorist group" attacked a checkpoint in the southern city of Deraa, killing four soldiers and kidnapping two.

Will Morocco Retrench on Reform After a Terror Attack? (Time.com) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:45 AM PDT Time.com - Eight years after home-grown suicide bombers killed 45 people in Casablanca, Morocco mourns 14 deaths from an apparently similar attack in Marrakesh

Somali sentenced for lying about terrorism links (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2011 06:41 PM PDT AP - A federal judge sentenced a Somali man to 10 years in prison for failing to acknowledge ties to two global terrorist groups after he was arrested near the Texas-Mexico border in 2008, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday night.

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