Three terror suspects arrested in US

October 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The toll in Pakistan's Swat region bombing has gone up to 45, a media report said Tuesday, as security agencies arrested 28 people for the attack on the army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. The Shangla suicide attack toll went up to 45 when two more people succumbed to their injuries in district headquarter hospital, Geo TV reported Tuesday.

September 24th, 2009 Obama won't seek new law for terror detentionsWASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek a new law spelling out how it can hold terror suspects indefinitely without bringing charges. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd says the administration has informed Congress it does not believe new laws are necessary to hold the remaining inmates at Guantanamo Bay or future detainees.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - Six persons including one Pakistani were apprehended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during raids against suspects in Queens area here. Though the investigators have released the other five suspects after initial interrogation, the one Pakistani named Abdul Mannan, who hails from Quetta and has been living in the US for the last 15 years, was still in FBI's custody, The News reports.

September 16th, 2009 Britain to reconsider house arrest-style programLONDON — Civil liberties campaigners have criticized Britain's government after it said it will review — not scrap — a house-arrest style program used against some terrorism suspects. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said Wednesday that the viability of the system is being reconsidered.

September 4th, 2009 MONROVIA - One of the six Pakistanis, who was trying to enter Liberia on 'fake' US passports but was arrested, swallowed his mobile phone sim- card while being apprehended. Liberian Defense Minister Brownie Samukai said the men were nabbed at the international airport earlier this week while trying to sneak into the country.

August 24th, 2009 AP Source: prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuseWASHINGTON — A Justice Department official says Attorney General Eric Holder has picked prosecutor John Durham to investigate CIA mistreatment of terror suspects. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to disclose the decision.

August 21st, 2009 RAWALPINDI - An Anti Terrorism Court here has awarded 14 day judicial custody to a Mumbai terror suspect and sent him to the Adiala Jail, where all the other alleged 26/11 suspects are locked. The suspect, Jamil Ahmed of Battgram, was produced before the court by the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Special Investigation Unit (SIU) after which the court adjourned the hearing till September 3.

August 10th, 2009 7th NC terror suspect to remain in custodyRALEIGH, N.C. —A seventh suspect from North Carolina who is accused of plotting terrorism overseas is being held until trial after a judge said he was a flight risk and a danger to the community.

August 6th, 2009 RAWALPINDI - Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Special Investigation Unit (SIU) has arrested another important suspect who is said to be behind the Mumbai terror attacks and is allegedly linked with the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT). FIA sources said on Wednesday that the SIU was already questioning five suspects, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, and Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu Al-Qama, of Islamabad, Abdul Wajid alias Zarar Shah of Sheikupura, Shahid Jamil Riaz of Bahawalpur and Hammad Amin Sadiq of Rahim Yar Khan to probe their links with the Mumbai attacks.

July 27th, 2009 Anti-terror agents arrest 6 in NCWASHINGTON — Officials have charged a North Carolina man with supporting terrorism by recruiting people to fight overseas. Daniel Boyd and six others are charged with providing material support to terrorism.

July 14th, 2009 Sotomayor questioned about terror suspectsWASHINGTON — A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee appears to be trying to determine how Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor might rule in cases involving U.S. treatment of terror suspects.

June 11th, 2009 Italian police arrest 6 in anti-terror raidsROME — Italian police arrested six people Thursday in raids on a group of suspected radical leftists who were allegedly planning a terror attack, authorities said. The Interior Ministry said the group was preparing an attack in La Maddalena, an island off Sardinia that had originally been selected to host the Group of Eight summit next month.

June 11th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's nine Law Lords have passed a ruling that has left the ruling Labour Party's anti-terrorist control orders in disarray. The Law Lords blasted the use of "secret" evidence to slap tough restrictions on terror suspects, and said three suspects can appeal against their control orders because they do not know what evidence is being used against them.

May 13th, 2009 LONDON - Less than one in ten of those people arrested for terrorism offences every year in Brtiain are ever convicted, according to new Government figures. lmost 230 people are arrested for terrorism offences every year, The Telegraph quotes the newly released statistics, as saying.

April 22nd, 2009 4 go on trial in foiled German terror plotDUESSELDORF, Germany — Four men are going on trial Wednesday for allegedly plotting to attack U.S. and German targets in central Germany in 2007.