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(AP) - Black-clad Indian commandos moved painstakingly, room-by-room, through two massive five-star luxury hotels today in a bid to free dozens of people trapped by suspected Muslim militants who attacked at least 10 targets in India's financial capital of Mumbai, killing 104 people. Hostages and several bodies trickled out of the Taj... More »

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Hostages Taken at Mumbai Jewish Center

Police prepare to raid building; rabbi among those inside

Nov 27, 08 6:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Among the targets of the ongoing terrorist attacks in Mumbai was Chabad House, an important center for Jewish visitors to Mumbai. Conflicting reports suggest that at least four armed men are holding several hostages, including a rabbi. As the Financial Times reports, the targeting of a Jewish location may suggest... More »

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India • Jews • Chabad Lubavitch • terrorist • Mumbai • terrorist attack

UPDATED

 Westerners Hostage 
 in Mumbai Chaos 

Chief of anti-terror squad among the dead; injured toll passes 900

Nov 26, 08 4:05 PM CST
(Newser) - The gunmen who have already killed 80 in Mumbai are holed up with at least 15 hostages, including seven foreigners, inside the Taj Mahal Hotel, the Press Trust of India reports. The latest reports put the count of injured above 900. Among the dead are the chief of a police... More »

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India • death toll • terrorist • Mumbai • terrorist attack • gunmen • grenade

Bin Laden's Driver Leaves Guantanamo

Convict transferred to Yemen to serve remainder of sentence

Nov 25, 08 5:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Salim Hamdan, the former driver of Osama bin Laden and one of only two suspected terrorists convicted at Guantanamo Bay, is being transferred to his homeland of Yemen. Hamdan was sentenced in August to just 5 months' detention on top of the 5 years he served at the prison camp,... More »

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Bush administration • Guantanamo Bay • terrorist • Yemen • Guantanamo prisoners • Salim Ahmed Hamdan • al-Qaeda • Guantanamo tribunals

 US Kills 
 al-Qaeda 
 in Iraq's 
 No. 2 

Insurgent leader specialized in recruiting

Oct 15, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(AP) - American troops acting on a tip killed the No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq—a Moroccan known for his ability to recruit and motivate foreign fighters—in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, the US military said today. The man, known as Abu Qaswarah, was a charismatic... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • terrorism • Pakistan • Morocco • United States • terrorist • Iraq war • Abu Qaswarah

OPINION

Forget Sticks, Stones; Her Words Are Bullets

Palin's Obama rhetoric fans racist flames

Oct 12, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The McCain campaign has crossed the line from negative campaigning to “inciting vigilantism” with racist tactics that should raise alarms about Barack Obama’s safety, writes Frank Rich in the New York Times. Particularly troubling is Sarah Palin’s repeated linking of Obama to “terrorists” and her refusal... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Secret Service • racism • terrorist • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers • the race card

COMMENTARY

We All Have Some Guilty Associations

Gail Collins has been palling around with terrorists, too

Oct 9, 08 12:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - So William Ayers once threw a house party for Barack Obama, and now Obama’s responsible for all Ayers’ misdeeds? By that standard, writes Gail Collins—who might have attended a college party with Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn—"I believe I may now be held partly responsible for all... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • terrorist • Gail Collins • Keating Five • Bill Ayers

Court Voids
2 Terrorism Convictions

Blow to administration as Yemeni defendants get a new trial

Oct 3, 08 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - An appeals court yesterday overturned the verdicts of two men convicted of terrorist offenses in a case once hailed by the Bush administrations as a major triumph, the New York Times reports. The court ruled that inflammatory and irrelevant testimony prejudiced the trial of a Yemeni cleric and his assistant.... More »

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terrorism • US Appeals court • terrorist • Yemen • overturned verdict

 Cops Yank 
 Terror Suspects 
 off KLM Flight 

Two arrested onboard at Cologne airport

Sep 26, 08 4:56 AM CDT
(AP) - German police commandos may have averted a terrorist attack early today when they grabbed two suspects off an Amsterdam-bound flight before the plane took off from Cologne airport, reports AP. The pair had been under observation for months and a suicide note was found in their apartment saying they wanted... More »

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terrorism • Germany • terrorist • Cologne • hijacker • Air France KLM Group • airplane • suspected terrorists • plane hijacking

 'Terrorist Chic' Film 
 Shocks Germany 

Baader-Meinhof Complex glorifies violence, say critics

Sep 25, 08 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - A controversial new film opening this week tackles the darkest chapter in Germany's postwar history: the bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations of a high-profile 1970s leftist group. The team behind The Baader-Meinhof Complex, which stars several of Germany's biggest celebrities, calls it an attempt to debunk myths about the gang. But... More »

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terrorism • film • Germany • terrorist • West Germany • movies • new release • Baader-Meinhof gang • Bettina Roehl • Ulrike Meinhof

Gaza Camps Offer
Arts and Crafts, Not AK-47s

UN hopes its summer camps can hose down extremism in Palestinian territory

Sep 4, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The UN’s Relief and Works Agency is combating extremism in the Gaza Strip with some unconventional weapons: hula hoops, finger-painting, and sports, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The agency runs summer programs in 350 locations for Gaza’s youth in an attempt to counteract Hamas’ militant equivalent, where young... More »

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Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Islamic extremists • Israel and Palestinians • terrorist • Islamic extremism • United Nations Relief and Works Agency

US Envoy Dodges
Gun Attack in Pakistan

Gunman blocks path, opens fire

Aug 26, 08 4:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - The top official in a US consulate in Pakistan and two others escaped serious injury today when a gunman opened fire on their car, CNN reports. Official Lynne Tracey, her bodyguard and driver were heading to the consulate office in violence-wracked Peshawar when their car was blocked by a shooter... More »

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Pakistan • Peshawar • terrorist • Pakistan militants • US Consulate

Drug Smugglers' Subs Could
Open US to Terrorists

Semi-submersibles are difficult to detect

Aug 17, 08 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Semi-submersible boats used to smuggle drugs into the US could provide a path into the country for terrorists or their weapons, the Boston Globe reports. “If drug cartels can ship up to 10 tons of cocaine in a semi-submersible, they can clearly ship or rent space to a terrorist... More »

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drug trafficking • terrorist • boat • submarine • smuggler • drug trade • weapons of mass destruction • submersibles

 8 Killed in
 China Bombings

New violence from Muslim separatists rocks Xinjiang province

Aug 10, 08 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eight people were killed today in a dozen suicide bomb attacks on government buildings by Muslim separatists in China's restive western Xinjiang province, Reuters reports. The homemade grenade attacks and police shootout rocked the small village of Kuga, some 2,000 miles from Beijing, at dawn. Almost all of the... More »

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China • Muslims • bomb • terrorist • terrorist attack

 Maryland
 Cops Spied
 on Peaceniks 

Activists branded terrorists & drug dealers

Jul 18, 08 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Groups opposing the death penalty and the war in Iraq were infiltrated and spied on by undercover Maryland State Police officers, according to police logs obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. Some activists were placed on terrorist and drug trafficking databases with no evidence they were involved in any... More »

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American Civil Liberties Union • First Amendment • domestic surveillance • surveillance • terrorist • Maryland State Police • infiltration • Homeland Security and Intelligence Division • Baltimore Coalition Against the Death Penalty

 Turkey Nabs Consulate Attacker 

Police find getaway car, then catch fugitive, agency reports

Jul 10, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police have caught a fugitive gunman wanted in connection with yesterday's attack on the US consulate in Istanbul, a Turkish news agency reports. The private Dogan news agency says the man, who fled the scene amid the chaos, has been caught after his getaway car was found earlier today. There... More »

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Turkey • terrorist • arrest • Istanbul • gunman • terrorist attack • US Consulate

Bin Laden's 'Right-Hand Man' Released

Judge grants bail as Brits try to deport Abu Qatada to Jordan

Jun 18, 08 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British government will appeal the release of a terrorism suspect described as Osama bin Laden's "right-hand man in Europe," the Telegraph reports. A judge ruled that Abu Qatada should be released because he has not been convicted of a crime and is not facing deportation. The British... More »

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terrorism • United Kingdom • September 11 • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • Jacqui Smith • 9/11 attacks • Abu Qatada

ANALYSIS

Bush Forced Ruling on Detainees

High court had to act after Bush flouted justice and liberty

Jun 15, 08 7:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush forced the Supreme Court’s hand by overplaying his own over Guantanamo detainees, Stuart Taylor, Jr. writes in Newsweek. Courts usually defer to Washington on national security, but Bush so flouted ordinary "ideas of justice and liberty" that he "put the Supreme Court in an... More »

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Bush administration • national security • War on Terror • Guantanamo Bay • terrorist • US Supreme Court

Bush: Obama Would 'Appease' Terrorists

Obama: Bush 'politics
of fear' haven't made US or Israel safer

May 15, 08 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - He didn't name names, but he didn't need to. President Bush used an appearance before Israel’s Knesset today to accuse Barack Obama of the “foolish delusion” that “we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals.” In comments aimed at Obama’s support among American Jews, CNN notes,... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Israel • Knesset • terrorist • the Jewish vote • George W. Bush • appeasement • Nazis

 WTC Blueprints Found in Trash 

After huge security breach, vagrant spots documents

Apr 18, 08 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A vagrant sifting through a trash can found confidential blueprints for the Freedom Tower, the New York Post reports. Though the documents are not complete, they contain sufficient information, such as the thickness of the building’s concrete core and schematics of the ventilation system, to facilitate a potentially devastating... More »

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terrorism • World Trade Center • Freedom Tower • September 11 • terrorist • confidential information • biological weapons • architectural plans

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