Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Terror suspect arrested near Capitol in FBI sting (AP)
• New bid to avert death in Sept. 11 Gitmo trial (AP)
• U.S. arrests suspect in Capitol suicide attack plot (Reuters)
• Tensions with Iran raise US safety concerns (AP)
• UK, France to hold Olympics security exercise (AP)
• Thai cops: Iran suspects cavorted with prostitutes (AP)
• Israel says Iran, Hezbollah plotting attacks (AP)
• 'Loopholes' leave America with weak cybersecurity plan, experts say (The Christian Science Monitor)

Terror suspect arrested near Capitol in FBI sting (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:35 PM PST AP - A 29-year-old Moroccan man, who believed he was working with al-Qaida, was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by undercover operatives, officials said.

New bid to avert death in Sept. 11 Gitmo trial (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:14 PM PST AP - The nephew of a self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind who is facing a war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay does not deserve capital charges that carry a potential death sentence, his lawyers argued in a motion filed Friday.

U.S. arrests suspect in Capitol suicide attack plot (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:09 PM PST Reuters - A Moroccan man was arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Friday wearing a vest he believed was full of al Qaeda-supplied explosives and charged in an attempted suicide bombing of Congress, the Justice Department said.

Tensions with Iran raise US safety concerns (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:00 AM PST AP - The government is worried that Iran will consider a terror attack on American soil, but it has no specific or credible threat about such a plot. Police from Los Angeles to New York City said they were anxious about the risks, even as a senior U.S. intelligence official reassured Congress that it was unlikely Iran would attack.

UK, France to hold Olympics security exercise (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:26 AM PST AP - Britain and France will hold a joint exercise to test their abilities to respond to a terror incident at the 2012 London Olympics.

Thai cops: Iran suspects cavorted with prostitutes (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST AP - The three Iranian men detained for allegedly plotting bomb attacks in Bangkok on Israeli diplomats had more than terror on their minds in Thailand. Police said Friday that they had also cavorted with prostitutes at a beach resort.

Israel says Iran, Hezbollah plotting attacks (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:36 AM PST AP - A senior Israeli counterterrorism official claimed Friday that Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah are plotting attacks on Israelis overseas and urged travelers to be vigilant.

'Loopholes' leave America with weak cybersecurity plan, experts say (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:11 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A bid to make new cybersecurity legislation more palatable to private industry runs the risk of opening large loopholes that hackers, terrorists, and enemy nations could exploit, computer-security experts told Congress Thursday.

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