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US may keep terror suspects at Bagram base report
AFP
(22 March 11:27) |
| AFP - White House staff are considering whether to hold international terrorism suspects at Bagram military base in Afghanistan, The Los Angeles Times reported. |
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Holders future uncertain amid terror trial disputes
AFP
(22 March 05:00) |
| AFP - US Attorney General Eric Holder took office pledging a sharp shift away from the last administration's policies, but an apparent change of heart in the White House could see the top la... |
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164 people face charges over massacres in Nigeria
AP
(22 March 01:28) |
| AP - A Nigerian police spokesman says 164 people will be charged with a variety of offenses, including terrorism, for their suspected roles in the slaughter of more than 200 people in centra... |
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Basque terrorists were firemen on holiday Spain
AFP
(21 March 12:37) |
| AFP - Spanish authorities admitted Saturday that five men on a surveillance video they had identified as Basque "terrorists" were in fact Spanish firemen on holiday. |
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Colombian narco-terrorist gets 20 years
AP
(20 March 11:44) |
| AP - A former leader in the Colombian guerrilla group FARC has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. |
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Pakistan police arrest three Taliban militants
AFP
(20 March 05:38) |
| AFP - Pakistan police arrested three Taliban militants planning "big terror attacks" on Saturday amid a wave of violence engulfing the financial hub Karachi, the force said. |
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US official India to question US terror convict
AP
(20 March 05:01) |
| AP - Indian investigators will be able to question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, a senior U.S. official said Saturday. |
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Tokyo marks 15th anniversary of subway gas attack
AP
(20 March 03:52) |
| AP - Tokyo subway workers observed a moment of silence Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of a nerve gas attack by a religious cult, Japan's deadliest act of domestic terrorism. |
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Supposed ETA terrorists are just holidaymakersreport
AFP
(20 March 08:59) |
| AFP - Five people identified as ETA suspects in a surveillance video released in France and Spain are in fact firemen from Spain's Catalonia region who were on holiday, Spanish media said Sa... |
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Jihad Jane case suggests rising threat from online jihobbyists
The Christian Science Monitor
(20 March 03:57) |
| The Christian Science Monitor - Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania terrorism suspect known by the online moniker âJihad Jane,â certainly defies the stereotypes associated with extrem... |
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QA Shane Harris on His New Book The Watchers
Timecom
(19 March 11:50) |
| Time.com - It reads like a spy novel, but in The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, author Shane Harris lays out the U.S. government's real-life efforts to see and hear more... |
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Holder defends lawyers for terror detainees
AP
(19 March 11:30) |
| AP - Attorney General Eric Holder is defending lawyers who represent unpopular clients like terror suspects. Holder says such attorneys are patriots who deserve respect. |
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India seeks to question US terror convict
AP
(19 March 03:33) |
| AP - Indian authorities will ask the United States to let them question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, the government said Friday... |
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Pa suspect is rare US woman facing terror trial
AP
(19 March 01:30) |
| AP - If the woman dubbed "Jihad Jane" goes on trial, she would become just the second American woman tried on U.S. soil on terrorism charges — and the first accused of directly working... |
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Attorneys Chicago man providing info on terrorism
AP
(19 March 01:26) |
| AP - An American who admitted slipping quietly into the Indian city of Mumbai on scouting missions that led to the November 2008 attack that killed 166 people has already started spilling te... |
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David Headley pleads guilty in 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack
The Christian Science Monitor
(19 March 05:21) |
| The Christian Science Monitor - Facing a possible death sentence, a Chicago man agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to performing advance surveillance that helped lay the groundwork for the d... |
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Terror suspect admits scouting for Mumbai massacre
AP
(19 March 04:03) |
| AP - A Chicago man admitted Thursday that he scouted out the Indian city of Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotted an attack on a Danish newspaper over cart... |
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US rep Pa Jihad Jane terror suspect cooperated
AP
(19 March 03:42) |
| AP - A woman accused of trolling the Internet as Jihad Jane and agreeing to marry a terrorist suspect and kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims cooperated with authorities, a con... |
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Fed appeals court wont rehear Ashcroft lawsuit
AP
(19 March 03:03) |
| AP - A federal appellate court said Thursday it wouldn't reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witnes... |
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Terror suspect Beheadings part of attack on paper
AP
(19 March 01:35) |
| AP - A Chicago man who pleaded guilty to helping plan an attack on a Danish newspaper says a coconspirator wanted newspaper employees beheaded to make a statement. |
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US suspect in Mumbai siege Danish plot pleads guilty
AFP
(19 March 01:30) |
| AFP - A Pakistani-American pleaded guilty in a US court Thursday to scouting out sites for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist. |
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9th Circuit wont rehear lawsuit against Ashcroft
AP
(18 March 11:54) |
| AP - A federal appellate court says it won't reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witness statute af... |
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Jihad Jane pleads not guilty to terrorism
Reuters
(18 March 10:05) |
| Reuters - A Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill in a foreign count... |
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UK delays new guidelines for spies soldiers
AP
(18 March 10:03) |
| AP - New British guidelines on handling terrorism suspects held overseas have been delayed over a dispute about how to deal with potentially life-saving information from detainees who may be... |
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15 years on Japan film recalls doomsday cult sarin attacks
AFP
(18 March 09:31) |
| AFP - Time may have diminished the trauma of the worst terrorist attack in modern Japanese history, which struck 15 years ago Saturday, but widow Shizue Takahashi is determined not to let th... |
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Accused Jihad Jane denies terror plot in court
AP
(18 March 09:03) |
| AP - The Philadelphia-area woman authorities say dubbed herself "Jihad Jane" online pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in an overseas terror... |
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JihadJane pleads not guilty in terrorism case
AFP
(18 March 08:41) |
| AFP - An American woman who called herself "JihadJane" pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Philadelphia court to recruiting terrorists. |
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Rise of homegrown threat changes face of terrorism
AFP
(18 March 06:43) |
| AFP - The face of terrorism is changing in the United States as the country comes to terms with the rising threat of "homegrown" terrorists who look and sound nothing like Hollywood typecast... |
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Key Al-Qaeda figure believed killed in Pakistan
AFP
(18 March 03:24) |
| AFP - An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counter-terrorism official has told ... |
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US-funded Detachment 88 elite of Indonesia security
Reuters
(18 March 01:55) |
| Reuters - Indonesia has won praise for cracking down on Islamist militants behind a string of deadly attacks and at the core of the fight have been the heavily armed black-clad officers of i... |
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Chicago terror suspected expected to plead guilty
AP
(18 March 01:39) |
| AP - A Chicago man accused of helping scout out the Indian city of Mumbai before the 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead is expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal charges. |
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Jihad Jane due in federal court in Philadelphia
AP
(18 March 01:32) |
| AP - Whether she was seeking love or vengeance, or just an escape from her dreary, small-town existence, Colleen LaRose searched the Internet and found Muslim extremists eager to engage the ... |
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QA How America Became a Surveillance State
Timecom
(18 March 01:00) |
| Time.com - It reads like a spy novel, but in The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, author Shane Harris lays out the U.S. government's real-life efforts to see and hear more... |
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FBI cautious on rules for terrorism questioning
Reuters
(18 March 03:50) |
| Reuters - FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday urged Congress to be cautious about imposing strict rules on how and whether law enforcement officials can interrogate terrorism suspects t... |
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FBI Director defends handling of Christmas case
AP
(18 March 01:57) |
| AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday defended his bureau's handling of the Christmas airline bombing attempt, insisting agents in Detroit moved quickly to protect lives. The suspect... |
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Five American students arrested in Pakistan charged allege abuse
McClatchy Newspapers
(18 March 01:48) |
| McClatchy Newspapers - SARGODHA, Pakistan — Five American students caught in Pakistan last year were charged Wednesday with terrorism-related offenses, and they'll face a full trial an... |
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Five Americans arrested in Pakistan plead not-guilty to terrorism charges
The Christian Science Monitor
(17 March 11:07) |
| The Christian Science Monitor - Five US jihadis pleaded "not guilty" before a Pakistani court Wednesday to charges of plotting terrorist attacks inside the country and neighboring Afghanista... |
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Millennium plotter appealing sentence decision
AP
(17 March 09:52) |
| AP - An al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted in an attempted bombing on the millennium is appealing a federal court's ruling that his 22-year sentence was too lenient. |
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Pakistan court indicts five Americans with terrorism
AFP
(17 March 06:18) |
| AFP - A Pakistani court on Wednesday charged five Americans with funnelling money to outlaws and plotting a terror attack that could see them jailed for life if found guilty, lawyers said. |
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Spain blames ETA for death of French policeman
AP
(17 March 06:03) |
| AP - Spain's prime minister blamed the Basque separatist group ETA on Wednesday for the shooting death of a French policeman, while France's anti-terrorism police interrogated one suspect an... |
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Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism
AP
(17 March 05:50) |
| AP - A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has charged five young Americans with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country. |
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Pakistan court charges US terror suspects lawyers
AFP
(17 March 05:16) |
| AFP - A Pakistani court on Wednesday indicted five Americans on terror charges that could see them jailed for life if found guilty of plotting attacks with Al-Qaeda-linked groups, lawyers sa... |
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Five Americans charged with terrorism in Pakistan
Reuters
(17 March 05:16) |
| Reuters - A Pakistani court formally charged on Wednesday five young Americans of plotting terrorism in the country, their lawyer said. |
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Spanish PM blames ETA for death of French policeman
AFP
(17 March 03:46) |
| AFP - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Wednesday that the fatal shooting of a French policeman near Paris was "a criminal action" carried out by Basque separatist gro... |
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Indonesia seeks 10 years for terror suspect
AFP
(17 March 03:34) |
| AFP - Indonesian prosecutors sought 10 years' jail Wednesday for a man accused of sheltering late terror mastermind Noordin Mohammad Top. |
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Americans suspected of terror-related activities
AP
(17 March 12:56) |
| AP - Americans who have been charged or suspected of terror-related activities over the past year include: |
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Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists
AP
(17 March 12:53) |
| AP - One was a drywall contractor and father, another a petite woman who cared for the elderly, another a U.S. military officer. The most alarming thing about a string of recently arrested t... |
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US puts brakes on virtual border fence
Reuters
(17 March 05:09) |
| Reuters - The U.S. government is pulling $50 million in funding from a problematic "virtual fence" meant to secure stretches of the Mexico border and is freezing additional funding for the p... |
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Holder defends criminal trials for 911 suspects
Reuters
(17 March 04:13) |
| Reuters - Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended plans to prosecute some terrorism suspects in traditional criminal courts, urging lawmakers to avoid politicizing the decision and ... |
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Court Chicago man in terror case to change plea
AP
(17 March 03:58) |
| AP - A federal court in Chicago says a man accused of scouting the Indian city of Mumbai before a 2008 terrorist rampage plans to change his not guilty plea. |
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