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Pa. woman accused of recruiting jihadists online
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 AP - A suburban woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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'JihadJane' recruited for Europe, SAsia terror attacks: US
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 AFP - US authorities charged an American woman known as "JihadJane" with recruiting jihadist fighters via the Internet and conspiring to kill an unnamed individual in Sweden.
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U.S. kept Britain in dark over torture: ex spy chief
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Reuters - The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the former head of Britain's domestic spy agency said on Tuesday.
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Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists
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AP - Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday.
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Ex-spy chief: US misled allies over detainees
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AP - United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday.
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Men seized 'days before planned attack in Britain'
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 AFP - Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday.
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Bali bomb mastermind believed killed by security forces
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 AFP - Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Tuesday killed a man believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, during a raid in the capital Jakarta, police and reports said.
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Officials: Bali bombing mastermind may be dead
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 AP - A top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings may have been killed in a shootout with police at an Internet cafe Tuesday moments after sitting at a terminal, authorities said. DNA tests were under way to confirm his identity.
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Amsterdam airport tightens security at duty free
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AP - Security has been tightened at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a team of investigative journalists smuggled bottles of liquid onto passenger jets bound for London and Washington, D.C., the airport and the Dutch anti-terror agency said Tuesday.
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Suicide attack kills 2 NATO troops in Afghanistan
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 AP - A suicide attack Tuesday at a joint NATO-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan killed two international service members and wounded several others, the military alliance said.
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9/11 Trials: Can Graham Help Forge a White House Deal?
(Time.com)
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Time.com - Caught short on civilian trials for terror suspects and closing GuantÁnamo, the Administration is negotiating with the GOP Senator. But it's not clear he can deliver
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Obama still wants US trial for some Gitmo suspects
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 AP - White House aides are increasingly convinced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to the U.S., where many would faces criminal charges, a senior administration official said Monday.
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CIA director: US efforts disrupting al-Qaida
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AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday the country's counterterrorism operations have placed al-Qaida's top leaders under extreme pressure and many are "on the run" but recent thwarted terror plots in the U.S. indicate the terror network is changing its tactics.
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New poll spells potential trouble for Democrats
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 Reuters - A new poll on Monday found signs of trouble ahead for President Barack Obama and his Democrats on national security issues such as the handling of terrorism suspects.
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Obama taps ex-intel officer for aviation security
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Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Monday he will nominate a retired Army officer with intelligence community experience to lead aviation security efforts amid concerns about passenger planes being bombed or hijacked.
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American al-Qaida suspect is not group's spokesman
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 AP - Pakistani officials reversed course Monday on a recently captured American suspected of being a member of al-Qaida, saying the man is not the terror network's U.S.-born spokesman, as they initially believed.
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Zimbabwe's Bennett wants terrorism charges dropped
(Reuters)
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 Reuters - Lawyers for Zimbabwean opposition politician Roy Bennett asked the High Court Monday to drop terrorism charges against him in a trial which has raised tensions in Harare's fragile unity government.
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US seeks to persuade EU deputies to back terror data deal
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 AFP - A senior US Homeland Security officer was travelling to Strasbourg Monday to urge the European parliament not to scupper an air passenger data deal which Washington says is vital in the fight against terror.
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Terror trial opens for 9 in Belgium
(AP)
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AP - Nine people went on trial Monday on terrorism charges, including a 50-year-old woman accused of using an incendiary Islamic Web site to recruit jihadists for suicide bombing missions.
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Canada lists Somalia's Shebab as a terrorist group
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 AFP - Canada has listed the Somalia-based hardline Shebab militia as a terrorist organization, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Monday.
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