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[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100320/ap_on_re_us/us_colombian_rebel|Colombian narco-terrorist gets 20 years

(AP) ]]

AP - A former leader in the Colombian guerrilla group FARC has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100320/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestarrests|Pakistan police arrest three Taliban militants

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AFP - Pakistan police arrested three Taliban militants planning "big terror attacks" on Saturday amid a wave of violence engulfing the financial hub Karachi, the force said.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100320/ap_on_re_as/as_india_chicago_terror_charges|US official: India to question US terror convict

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AP - Indian investigators will be able to question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, a senior U.S. official said Saturday.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100320/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_subway_gassing_anniversary|Tokyo marks 15th anniversary of subway gas attack

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AP - Tokyo subway workers observed a moment of silence Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of a nerve gas attack by a religious cult, Japan's deadliest act of domestic terrorism.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100320/us_time/08599197313100|Q&A: Shane Harris, on His New Book, 'The Watchers'

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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

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100320/wl_afp/spainfranceattacksbasques|Basque 'terrorists' were firemen on holiday: Spain

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AFP - Spanish authorities admitted Saturday that five men on a surveillance video they had identified as Basque "terrorists" were in fact Spanish firemen on holiday.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100319/ts_csm/288958|Jihad Jane case suggests rising threat from online 'jihobbyists'

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The Christian Science Monitor - Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania terrorism suspect known by the online moniker “Jihad Jane,” certainly defies the stereotypes associated with extremist Islam.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_justice_lawyers_terror|Holder defends lawyers for terror detainees

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AP - Attorney General Eric Holder is defending lawyers who represent unpopular clients like terror suspects. Holder says such attorneys are patriots who deserve respect.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_re_us/us_chicago_terrorism_charges|Attorneys: Chicago man providing info on terrorism

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AP - An American who admitted slipping quietly into the Indian city of Mumbai on scouting missions that led to the November 2008 attack that left 166 people dead already has started spilling terrorists' secrets to U.S. authorities, according to his attorney and federal prosecutors.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_re_us/us_american_terror_plot|Pa. suspect is rare US woman facing terror trial

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AP - If the woman dubbed "Jihad Jane" goes on trial, she would become just the second American woman tried on U.S. soil on terrorism charges — and the first accused of directly working toward a Muslim holy war.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_re_as/as_india_chicago_terrorism_charges|India seeks to question US terror convict

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AP - Indian authorities will ask the United States to let them question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, the government said Friday.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100318/ts_csm/288710|David Headley pleads guilty in 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack

(The Christian Science Monitor) ]]

The Christian Science Monitor - Facing a possible death sentence, a Chicago man agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to performing advance surveillance that helped lay the groundwork for the deadly 2008 terrorist attack on civilians in Mumbai, India.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100318/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_intelligence|UK delays new guidelines for spies, soldiers

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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.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100318/ap_on_re_us/us_ashcroft_lawsuit|Fed appeals court won't rehear Ashcroft lawsuit

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AP - A federal appellate court said Thursday it wouldn't reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witness statute after the Sept. 11 attacks.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100318/ts_alt_afp/attacksindiauspakistandenmarkmediacourt|US suspect in Mumbai siege, Danish plot pleads guilty

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AFP - A Pakistani-American pleaded guilty in a US court Thursday to scouting out sites for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100318/ts_nm/us_usa_security_sweden|"Jihad Jane" pleads not guilty to terrorism

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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.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100318/wl_asia_afp/japancrimereligionsectanniversaryfilm|15 years on, Japan film recalls doomsday cult sarin attacks

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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.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100318/ts_alt_afp/usattackscourtplealead|'JihadJane' pleads not guilty in terrorism case

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AFP - An American woman who called herself "JihadJane" pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Philadelphia court to recruiting terrorists.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100318/ts_alt_afp/usattacksjusticehomegrown|Rise of 'homegrown' threat changes face of terrorism

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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.

[[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100318/wl_asia_afp/usattacksqaedapakistan|Key Al-Qaeda figure believed killed in Pakistan

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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.