Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• NY gov unveils official 9/11 memorial flag (AP)
• In financial crisis, Post office turns to Congress (AP)
• Pentagon chief says threat of another 9/11 is real (AP)
• DHS chief: Better passenger screening in future (AP)
• Why Pentagon's New Complex Is a Soft Terrorist Target (Time.com)
• US derides Syria for blaming terrorists (AP)
• Lockerbie bomber is 'very ill', his son says (AP)
• Poll: OK to trade some freedoms to fight terrorism (AP)
• Cable: Nigeria released known terror suspects (AP)
• Elected in 9/11 shadow, NYC mayor deepens the link (AP)
• Pakistan Army says it has Al Qaeda's global operations chief in custody (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Giuliani and Bloomberg: NY mayors linked by Sept 11 (Reuters)

NY gov unveils official 9/11 memorial flag (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 05:37 PM PDT AP - New York's governor says the state's official Sept. 11 Memorial Flag will be raised at the Capitol in Albany and at the World Trade Center site in New York City for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

In financial crisis, Post office turns to Congress (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:04 PM PDT AP - Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe warned that the Postal Service is on "the brink of default" as he battles to keep his agency solvent. Without legislation by Sept. 30, the agency "will default on a mandated $5.5 billion payment to the Treasury," Donahoe told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

Pentagon chief says threat of another 9/11 is real (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:04 PM PDT AP - After a decade of war with al-Qaida the potential for another devastating terrorist assault "remains very real," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday following a somber visit to ground zero of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

DHS chief: Better passenger screening in future (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:33 PM PDT AP - Homeland Security Department Secretary Janet Napolitano predicted Tuesday that airline passengers in the future will no longer be instructed to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints, but she said the technology to scan shoe-wearing passengers for bombs does not yet exist and may not be available soon.

Why Pentagon's New Complex Is a Soft Terrorist Target (Time.com) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:00 PM PDT Time.com - Workers are already trickling into the Defense Department's new Mark Center offices just south of the Pentagon, despite worrying evidence that the facility is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack

US derides Syria for blaming terrorists (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT AP - The U.S. Embassy in Syria said Tuesday that President Bashar Assad is not fooling anyone by blaming terrorists and thugs for the unrest in his country as security forces try to crush the uprising by unleashing a brutal crackdown that has killed more than 2,200 people in nearly six months.

Lockerbie bomber is 'very ill', his son says (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:31 PM PDT AP - The son of the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie terrorist attack has allowed British media access to his home to show people in the U.K. the extent of his father's illness.

Poll: OK to trade some freedoms to fight terrorism (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:43 AM PDT AP - Surveillance cameras in public places? Sure. Body scans at airports? Maybe. Snooping in personal email? Not so fast.

Cable: Nigeria released known terror suspects (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:13 AM PDT AP - Nigeria released known terror suspects, including some affiliated with al-Qaida's north Africa branch, as part of a program known as "Perception Management" to placate elders in the country's Muslim north, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by the antisecrecy website WikiLeaks.

Elected in 9/11 shadow, NYC mayor deepens the link (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 08:12 AM PDT AP - It didn't take long after his election for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to alienate some of those most closely affected by the Sept. 11 attacks. In unemotional terms, he advocated for a "less is more" approach to a memorial, explaining that rental agents wouldn't like the area to seem like a "cemetery."

Pakistan Army says it has Al Qaeda's global operations chief in custody (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:11 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Pakistan’s Army says it has captured Sheikh Younis al-Mauritani, a senior Al Qaeda leader also known as the group’s “foreign minister,” who was linked to last year’s foiled terror plot in Europe.

Giuliani and Bloomberg: NY mayors linked by Sept 11 (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:27 PM PDT Reuters - Had it not been for the September 11 attacks, neither Rudy Giuliani nor Michael Bloomberg would have such high profiles on the American political stage.

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