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  • July 2007

    • Force May Be Used to Free Korean Hostages

      Reuters  |  Jul 28, 07 3:49 PM CDT

      Force May Be Used to Free Korean Hostages

      (Newser) - One of the 22 South Korean hostages held in Afghanistan spoke to a Reuters reporter today, saying she and the other remaining hostages are continually moved to different locations. She appealed to both the Taliban and the Afghan government to free them. A senior Afghan official said force “certainly” will be used if necessary to free the captives, Reuters reports. More »

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      Afghanistan  • terrorism  • Taliban  • insurgents  • South Korea  • Hamid Karzai  • counterterrorism  • Kabul  • Korean hostages  • Islamic extremists  • Christian missionaries

    • Ice Packs Helped Prompt TSA Bulletin

      ABC News  |  Jul 27, 07 9:46 AM CDT

      Ice Packs Helped Prompt TSA Bulletin

      (Newser) - This week's TSA bulletin warning of a possible attempt to penetrate security checkpoints with "peculiar items" was caused in part by an incident involving a 66-year-old woman and the ice packs she uses on her bad back. The clay-filled, tape-wrapped packages ignited hazmat suspicions, though their owner says she's been traveling with them for years, ABC News reports. More »

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      terrorism  • travel  • Osama bin Laden  • security  • airport security  • flight  • TSA

    • Aussies Drop Terror Charge Against Doc

      Reuters  |  Jul 27, 07 4:48 AM CDT

      Aussies Drop Terror Charge Against Doc

      (Newser) - The Australian government today dropped a terrorism charge against an Indian doctor who had been linked to a series of attempted car bomb attacks in Britain. The top prosecutor said the charges against Mohammed Haneef, 27, had been withdrawn because there "was no reasonable prospect of conviction."  More »

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      Great Britain  • terrorism  • Australia  • British terror attacks  • Glasgow  • Mohammed Haneef

    • US Firms Fund Colombian Terror Groups

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 23, 07 1:30 PM CDT

      US Firms Fund Colombian Terror Groups

      (Newser) - Business as usual for US multinationals in Colombia involves paying off paramilitaries and guerrillas, a practice that offers "insurance" against violence—and violates US law. The LA Times looks at the tension between protecting economic investments and essentially if not directly foiling counterterrorism efforts, a conflict that has the attention of US lawmakers who see Colombia as a model. More »

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      terrorism  • Department of Justice  • terrorist  • Colombia  • Alberto Gonzales  • John Ashcroft  • corporations

    • Musharraf Faces Bumpy Road to Re-Election

      Times (UK)  |  Jul 22, 07 5:24 PM CDT

      Musharraf Faces Bumpy Road to Re-Election

      (Newser) - Pervez Musharraf is facing yet another hurdle: Benazir Bhutto says she will return to Pakistan to challenge his plans for another presidential term. The exiled ex-PM tells the Sunday Times she is considering abandoning talks with the increasingly unpopular Musharraf, embarrassed last week after the country's Supreme Court reinstated the chief justice, whom he suspended. More »

    • SEC Shuts Down Online Terror List

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 22, 07 10:42 AM CDT

      SEC Shuts Down Online Terror List

      (Newser) - The SEC is taking down an online list used to expose companies that do business with countries affiliated with terrorism after critics charged that the Web tool made false accusations and wasn't up to date. "It was basically a word-search list," a US official tells the Wall Street Journal. "There was nothing the least bit sophisticated about it." More »

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      list  • Iran  • terrorism  • Sudan  • SEC  • counterterrorism

    • Pearl Sues Al-Qaeda in Husband's Beheading

      Reuters  |  Jul 19, 07 7:45 AM CDT

      Pearl Sues Al-Qaeda in Husband's Beheading

      (Newser) - Mariane Pearl, widow of the Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded in 2002, has filed a suit in New York against Al-Qaeda for Daniel Pearl's "senseless kidnapping, torture and murder." Habib Bank—one of the biggest banks in Pakistan, which is linked to charities supporting terrorist groups—was also named in the lawsuit. More »

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      Pakistan  • terrorism  • lawsuit  • kidnapping  • Wall Street Journal  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed  • beheading  • Daniel Pearl

    • UK Security Chief Warns of Long Haul Against Terror

      BBC  |  Jul 8, 07 11:40 AM CDT

      UK Security Chief Warns of Long Haul Against Terror

      (Newser) - Saying that fighting terrorists is "a daunting task," England's new security minister urged Britons to be "un-British" and "snitch" to the authorities if they suspect something, the BBC reports. Sir Alan West, a former Navy admiral, said "we're talking about such a big change"  that winning the struggle could take as long as 10 to 15 years. More »

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      Great Britain  • terrorism  • War on Terror  • British terror attacks

    • British Terror Suspect Has Long History of Angry Islamism

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 5, 07 11:18 AM CDT

      British Terror Suspect Has Long History of Angry Islamism

      (Newser) - Bilal Abdullah, a young Iraqi doctor who is one of the chief suspects in last week's terror attacks in Britain, was a militant Islamist as far back as medical school in Baghdad and while studying for British exams in Cambridge, friends say. Abdullah would cheer at reports of insurgent attacks on Americans and British troops in Iraq, as well as Shias, the Los Angeles Times reports.   More »

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      Iraq war  • terrorism  • British terror attacks  • Bilal Abdullah

    • UK Tightens Screening of Foreign Docs

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jul 4, 07 3:13 PM CDT

      UK Tightens Screening of Foreign Docs

      (Newser) - The UK is scaling up background checks on foreign doctors and other health workers in response to the revelation that eight suspects in the attempted London and Glasgow car bombings last weekend worked for the National Health Service, the Telegraph reports. PM Gordon Brown, in his first Question Time in the House of Commons, ordered a review of NHS recruitment. More »

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      Great Britain  • al-Qaeda  • terrorism  • United Kingdom  • Gordon Brown  • terrorist  • doctor  • car bomb  • British terror attacks  • Glasgow Airport  • Glasgow

    • US Plays Down New Terror Attack Warning

      Boston Herald  |  Jul 2, 07 2:33 PM CDT

      US Plays Down New Terror Attack Warning

      (Newser) - Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff has minimized reports of an al-Queda terrorism "spectacular" this summer, described in a secret US law enforcement document. There is no "specific, credible evidence" of an impending attack on the US, Chertoff says, according to the Boston Herald. But one senior official notes that the warnings are similar to what was received before 9/11. More »

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      al-Qaeda  • terrorism  • United States  &bull