Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Court convicts 5 Tamils of fundraising for Tigers (AP)
• US demands Pakistan action on Afghan insurgents (AP)
• Father of NYC plotter pleads guilty to visa charge (AP)
• Irish dissident convicted in MI5 weapons sting (AP)
• Senate rejects GOP effort on terrorist trials (AP)
• Anti-terror laws in Kashmir to be relaxed as violence wanes (Reuters)
• 2 Minn. women guilty of aiding Somali terror group (AP)
• ACLU in NY accuses FBI of racial profiling (AP)

Court convicts 5 Tamils of fundraising for Tigers (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 09:54 AM PDT AP - A Dutch court convicted five ethnic Tamils on Friday for raising illegal funds for the Sri Lankan rebel group Tamil Tigers, but in a ruling that ran counter to European and U.S. policy it refused to brand the Tigers a terrorist organization.

US demands Pakistan action on Afghan insurgents (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:12 PM PDT AP - The United States pressed a hard case with a difficult ally during an extraordinary two-day diplomatic offensive in Pakistan, arguing on one hand that Pakistan should send its army after militants the U.S. says get special protection from the Pakistani government and on the other that Pakistan should use its influence with Taliban militants to encourage peace in Afghanistan.

Father of NYC plotter pleads guilty to visa charge (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:45 AM PDT AP - The father of a man who admitted plotting to bomb New York City subways pleaded guilty Friday to charges he forged immigration forms on behalf of a nephew who ended up testifying against him at a trial earlier this year.

Irish dissident convicted in MI5 weapons sting (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT AP - A Lithuanian judge found an Irish man guilty Friday of trying to buy weapons and explosives in a six-year sting orchestrated by Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 — a case that drew attention to a hardcore Irish Republican Army splinter group's plans to spread terror to London.

Senate rejects GOP effort on terrorist trials (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:22 AM PDT AP - The Senate voted early Friday to reject a Republican effort to prohibit the United States from prosecuting foreign terrorist suspects in civilian courts, handing a victory to President Barack Obama.

Anti-terror laws in Kashmir to be relaxed as violence wanes (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:03 AM PDT Reuters - Widely hated security laws that give Indian forces sweeping powers to search, arrest or shoot in Kashmir are to be withdrawn in parts as rebel violence declines sharply in the strife-torn Himalayan region, chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Friday.

2 Minn. women guilty of aiding Somali terror group (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:57 PM PDT AP - Two Minnesota women who claimed they were helping the poor in Somalia were convicted Thursday of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group as part of what prosecutors called a "deadly pipeline" sending funds and fighters to al-Shabab.

ACLU in NY accuses FBI of racial profiling (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:01 PM PDT AP - The American Civil Liberties Union accused the FBI on Thursday of abusing increased powers it was given after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by collecting and analyzing racial and ethnic demographic information across the country based on widespread stereotypes.

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