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War on Terror

"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." -George W. Bush

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June 2009
- Gitmo Prisoners: We Lied to CIA to Stop Torture
  
  CNN | Jun 16, 09 1:44 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Guantanamo prisoners fabricated information to give CIA interrogators after being physically and mentally abused, they told a 2007 military tribunal in transcripts released yesterday under the Freedom of Information act. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and one of the prisoners who was repeatedly waterboarded, said he made up stories about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts after being tortured, CNN reports. More »
- Cheney Hopes 'Old Friend' Panetta Was Misquoted
  
  CNN | Jun 15, 09 6:06 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As the CIA scrambled to do damage control today in the wake of director Leon Panetta's New Yorker interview, Dick Cheney fired back. The former VP's office released a statement that reads in full: "I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted. The important thing is whether the Obama administration will continue the policies that have kept us safe for the past eight years." More »
- 9 Missing Foreigners Found Dead in Yemen
  
  Associated Press | Jun 15, 09 9:27 AM CDT
  
  (AP) - Nine missing foreigners, including three children, have been found dead in Yemen today, their bodies mutilated, a security official said. The foreigners, including seven Germans, a Briton, and a South Korean, disappeared Friday while on a picnic in the turbulent northern Saada region. Shepherds roaming the area found some remains near a town known as a hideout for al-Qaeda militants. More »
- Cheney Almost Wants Attack on US Soil: CIA Head
  
  Associated Press | Jun 14, 09 5:41 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point." Panetta told The New Yorker that Cheney "smells some blood in the water" on the issue of national security. More »
- Economic Crisis Hits Al Qaeda, Too
  
  New York Post | Jun 12, 09 2:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Al Qaeda operations are struggling due to a lack of capital brought on in part by the global economic downturn, the New York Post reports. “In Afghanistan, we have a severe supply deficit,” the group said in a plea for donations. “Mujahideen sit and wait and cannot fight for lack of supplies.” The cash crunch is so bad that terror leaders are saying donations are an acceptable alternative to actual fighting. More »
- Obama Gives Up On Resettling Detainees in US
  
  Washington Post | Jun 12, 09 6:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The administration has largely abandoned plans to allow Guantanano detainees cleared for release to settle in the US, the Washington Post reports. Plans to allow Uighur detainees who said their only enemy was the Chinese government to live in the US met firm opposition from Congress. Four Uighurs were sent to Bermuda yesterday, and Palau has agreed to take the 13 who remain. More »
- Youngest Gitmo Detainee, Captured at 14, Goes Free
  
  Reuters | Jun 11, 09 4:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay has been freed to his native Chad, Reuters reports. Mohammed El Gharani was seized in Pakistan in 2001 at 14, and accused variously of being an al-Qaeda operative, messenger, and combatant. Five months ago a judge found the evidence against him insufficient. “That it took 7 years and a federal judge to sort this out demonstrates just how failed an experiment Guantanamo Bay is,” Gharani’s lawyer said. More »
- Bin Laden in Pakistan: CIA Head
  
  Reuters | Jun 11, 09 1:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan and his arrest remains a top priority for the US, CIA Director Leon Panetta said today, adding that joint operations with Pakistani forces could finally net al-Qaeda’s top leader. The CIA has Pakistani informants that keep it abreast of terrorist targets there, and continues to monitor safe havens in Somalia and Yemen, Reuters reports. More »
- Two on Flight 447 Labeled Terror Threats
  
  Evening Standard (UK) | Jun 10, 09 1:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two people on board crashed Air France Flight 447 were on a French list of radical Muslims seen as terror threats, London’s Evening Standard reports. French security officials sent to Brazil discovered the passengers’ status; a security insider called the terror link “highly significant,” though it could be a “macabre coincidence.” Computer problems were involved in the crash, but officials haven’t ruled out terror. More »
- 'Shoe-Bomber' on Hunger Strike in Colo. Prison
  
  Times (UK) | Jun 10, 09 1:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Convicted terrorist Richard Reid has been on hunger strike inside Colorado's Supermax prison since March, reports the Times of London. The British Muslim, sentenced to life after attempting to blow up a transatlantic jet with bombs hidden in his shoes, has refused 59 meals in recent month. Reid has been force-fed after authorities decided medical intervention was necessary, court filings show. More »
- First Gitmo Detainee to Face Trial Pleads Not Guilty
  
  Associated Press | Jun 9, 09 3:41 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to the US for trial has pleaded not guilty in two embassy bombings. Ahmed Ghailani entered the plea today in federal court in Manhattan. Ghailani is charged with participating in the bombing of embassies in Africa in August 1998, attacks that killed more than 224 people, including 12 Americans. More »
- US Offers $200M to Send Gitmo Inmates to South Pacific
  
  Associated Press | Jun 9, 09 2:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The US wants to resettle Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay on the Pacific island nation of Palau, the AP reports. Palau, whose eight main islands lie 500 miles east of the Philippines, has strong ties to the US and depends on it for aid and protection. Daniel Fried, the envoy appointed by the Obama administration to administer the closing of Guantanamo, visited the country recently. More »
- Chinese Muslims at Gitmo Press Supreme Court to Act
  
  Miami Herald | Jun 5, 09 2:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo issued a challenge to the Supreme Court today in petitioning for their release, the Miami Herald reports. "The historic role of the Judicial Branch is to demand the release of prisoners precisely when the political branches find release inconvenient," their petition reads. A district court judge ordered the men—Chinese Muslims deemed terrorists by their own country and apprehended in Afghanistan in 2001—released 8 months ago. More »
- US Fears al-Qaeda Bioattack From Mexico
  
  Washington Times | Jun 3, 09 1:52 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - US counterterrorism officials are worried that al-Qaeda may mount a biological attack from Mexico and could even seek to collaborate with domestic terrorists, the Washington Times reports. The fears are bolstered by a February video from Kuwait al-Qaeda recruiter Abdullah al-Nafisi. In the video, Nafisi boasted that anthrax “carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the US” would “kill 330,000 Americans.” More »
- New Osama Tape Blasts Obama
  
  CBS News | Jun 3, 09 8:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new tape believed to be a recording of Osama bin Laden attacking President Obama for his actions in Pakistan surfaced today, CBS reports. In the audio message, which aired on al-Jazeera, bin Laden says that by encouraging Pakistan’s raids in the Swat valley, Obama has forced a million Muslims to flee their homes and “planted new seeds of hatred and vengeance towards America.” More »
- US, Pakistani Attacks Have Rattled Al-Qaeda: Analysts
  
  Washington Post | Jun 1, 09 3:27 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Recent US and Pakistani efforts have rattled al-Qaeda, intelligence officials tell the Washington Post , with unmanned drones having killed about half of the US’ 20 “high-value” al-Qaeda targets since last fall. Combined with Pakistan’s offensive against its Taliban allies in the Swat region, the terror group’s position in Pakistan’s mountains looks much more vulnerable. But the strikes have also killed civilians, stoking anti-American sentiment. More »
- Judge: US Must Reveal Charges Vs. Gitmo Prisoners
  
  Associated Press | Jun 1, 09 2:15 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - A federal judge today ordered the US to publicly reveal unclassified versions of its allegations and evidence justifying the continued imprisonment of more than 100 detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay. The Justice Department had been filing unclassified versions of its legal documents under seal, so that they could only be seen by judges, attorneys and government officials. More »
May 2009
- You Broke Promises, Obama: Now Quit
  
  Springfield Journal-Register | May 30, 09 3:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - That jarring thud you just heard was Obamania crashing back to earth. For reneging on promises and making "Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity," President Obama must quit his post, Ted Rall writes in the Springfield Journal-Register . “Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous,” Rall writes, eviscerating Obama's stance on the indefinite detention of Gitmo terror suspects. More »
- Iran Hangs 3 for Mosque Blast
  
  Reuters | May 30, 09 5:37 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Iran publicly hanged three men today in connection with the bombing of a Shi’ite mosque last week that killed at least 30, Reuters reports. Responsibility for the blast has reportedly been claimed by the Sunni militant group Jundollah, which Iran says is part of the al Qaeda network and is backed by the US. Washington denies the claim. More »
- Infamous Terrorist Flees to Lebanon
  
  Associated Press | May 29, 09 6:25 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - A master bomb maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraq insurgency has fled to Lebanon, an FBI official has confirmed. There is information that 73-year-old Abu Ibrahim was reportedly in Tripoli, a city in northwest Lebanon, the official said earlier this week. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation continues. More »

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Forensic police officers, search a street at the steps of a water fountain in Piccadilly Circus, central London, after a suspected car bomb was defused Friday June 29, 2007. Police thwarted an apparent terror attack Friday in central London, defusing an explosive car loaded with gasoline, gas canisters, nails and...

Forensic police officers, search a street at the steps of a water fountain in Piccadilly Circus, central London, after a suspected car bomb was defused Friday June 29, 2007. Police thwarted an apparent... (Associated Press)

South Korean Government Carry Out Chemical And Biological Terror Exercise

South Korean Government Carry Out Chemical And Biological Terror Exercise (Getty Images)

A member of the police forensic team takes away a gas canister from behind of the back of the burnt out Cherokee Jeep is seen at Glasgow International Airport Glasgow Scotland Sunday July 1, 2007 . The vehicle rammed and burst into flames in a terror attack Saturday that police linked...

A member of the police forensic team takes away a gas canister from behind of the back of the burnt out Cherokee Jeep is seen at Glasgow International Airport Glasgow Scotland Sunday July 1, 2007 . The... (Associated Press)

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Background

War on Terrorism
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The War on Terrorism (also known as the War on Terror) is an umbrella term coined by the Bush administration to refer to the various military, political, and legal actions taken to "curb the spread of terrorism" following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

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