Read more War on Terror stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/70/war-on-terror.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:37:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70587/on-terror-case-rare-silence-from-obama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe absence of a statement from the Obama administration on the arrest of terror suspect Najibullah Zazi is quite a contrast from a president Americans have gotten used to seeing just about every time they turn on the TV—and from the treatment such incidents received during the Bush administration,...http://www.newser.com/story/70587/on-terror-case-rare-silence-from-obama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 19:30:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70512/2-us-soldiers-killed-in-philippines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwo American soldiers and a Filipino marine were killed when their vehicle rolled over a land mine in the southern Philippines today. The men were fetching supplies for a school when their vehicle was hit, officials say. The American soldiers, part of a 300-strong force helping the Filipino army fight...http://www.newser.com/story/70512/2-us-soldiers-killed-in-philippines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 3:49:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70149/closing-spruced-up-gitmo-would-be-a-waste.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMoney is being poured into improving the quality of life for Guantanamo detainees just as the government works toward closing the detention center, writes a puzzled Judith Miller after a tour. Recreation facilities and classrooms are being expanded, and inmates have access to satellite TV. Prisoners are given a choice...http://www.newser.com/story/70149/closing-spruced-up-gitmo-would-be-a-waste.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 1:23:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68233/us-still-lacks-translators-in-vital-languages.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNearly eight years have passed since 9/11, but national security agencies remain disturbingly low on translators for crucial dialects, the Washington Times reports. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives email and text-message each other freely in languages the CIA largely ignored before 2001. "I can't explain it," says...http://www.newser.com/story/68233/us-still-lacks-translators-in-vital-languages.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 31 Aug 2009 14:03:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66778/cheney-turns-on-soft-bush-as-memoir-takes-shape.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDick Cheney has decided the "statute of limitations" has expired on some secrets from the Bush era, associates tell the Washington Post . Discussing his memoir-in-progress, the former vice president has made it plain that he felt President Bush was getting soft in his second term, and moved away from Cheney...http://www.newser.com/story/66778/cheney-turns-on-soft-bush-as-memoir-takes-shape.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Aug 2009 1:44:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65651/holder-warns-of-homegrown-terror-risk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe chilling big picture suggests that “the radicalization of Americans” who leave the country and return wanting to do “harm to the American people” is a growing threat, Eric Holder tells ABC News. It’s “something that didn’t loom as large a few months ago as it does now," says the...http://www.newser.com/story/65651/holder-warns-of-homegrown-terror-risk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Jul 2009 9:28:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65273/bush-considered-deploying-military-for-us-terror-arrests.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Bush seriously considered deploying the military to arrest terror suspects in a Buffalo suburb in 2002, former Bush administration officials tell the New York Times . Dick Cheney was in favor of the almost unprecedented deployment of troops on American soil, the officials say, while Condoleezza Rice and others were...http://www.newser.com/story/65273/bush-considered-deploying-military-for-us-terror-arrests.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Jul 2009 5:02:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64882/report-on-closing-gitmo-delayed-6-months.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama's task forces on the detention and interrogation of terror suspects will miss today's deadline for reporting their findings, the Washington Post reports. The review on detention policy has been given a 6-month extension, raising fears that the Guantanamo Bay prison may not be closed in January next year...http://www.newser.com/story/64882/report-on-closing-gitmo-delayed-6-months.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 5:50:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64671/strategic-patience-will-neuter-al-qaeda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAl Qaeda is weak militarily and “has been rejected by a great majority of Muslims,” Steve Coll writes in the New Yorker , but the terrorist organization and its affiliates can still create a “shock” like today's bombings in Jakarta. Despite the group's apparent inability to pull off a major attack...http://www.newser.com/story/64671/strategic-patience-will-neuter-al-qaeda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Jul 2009 14:52:00 CDT