- Accused 'Jihad Jane' denies terror plot in court
(AP)
AP - A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" while she cared for her boyfriend's father denied in court Thursday that she sought to kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims or agreed to marry a terrorism suspect to help him get travel documents.
- "Jihad Jane" pleads not guilty to terrorism
(Reuters)
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 country.
- Q&A: How America Became a Surveillance State
(Time.com)
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 in the face of growing terrorist threats.
- UK delays new guidelines for spies, soldiers
(AP)
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 at risk of torture by allies.
- 15 years on, Japan film recalls doomsday cult sarin attacks
(AFP)
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 the memory fade.
- 'JihadJane' pleads not guilty in terrorism case
(AFP)
AFP - An American woman who called herself "JihadJane" pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Philadelphia court to recruiting terrorists.
- Rise of 'homegrown' threat changes face of terrorism
(AFP)
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 typecasts.
- Key Al-Qaeda figure believed killed in Pakistan
(AFP)
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 AFP.
- U.S.-funded Detachment 88, elite of Indonesia security
(Reuters)
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 its anti-terrorism unit -- Detachment 88.
- Chicago terror suspected expected to plead guilty
(AP)
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.
- Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists
(AP)
AP - The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.
- Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism
(AP)
AP - A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.
- FBI cautious on rules for terrorism questioning
(Reuters)
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 they detain.
- FBI Director defends handling of Christmas case
(AP)
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, he added, has been cooperating after his arrest.
- Five American students arrested in Pakistan charged, allege abuse
(McClatchy Newspapers)
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 and the prospect of a jail sentence. The men alleged that Pakistani police had tortured them.
- Five Americans arrested in Pakistan plead 'not-guilty' to terrorism charges
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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 Afghanistan, in a case that's been overshadowed by the so-called "Jihad Jane" and "Jihad Jamie" stories.
- Millennium plotter appealing sentence decision
(AP)
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.
- Pakistan court indicts five Americans with terrorism
(AFP)
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.
- Five Americans charged with terrorism in Pakistan
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Pakistani court formally charged Wednesday five young Americans of plotting terrorism in the country, their lawyer said, in a case that has raised alarm over the danger posed by militants using the Internet.
- Spain blames ETA for death of French policeman
(AP)
AP - The Basque separatist group ETA was blamed Wednesday for the shooting death of a French policeman outside Paris, as authorities interrogated one suspect and hunted for at least five other assailants who fled the scene.