Q&A: Shane Harris, on His New Book, 'The Watchers' (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

Attorneys: Chicago man providing info on terrorism (AP)

This Thursday, March 18, 2010 courtroom sketch shows David Coleman Headley, right, facing U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago. Headley admitted Thursday that he scouted out Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotted an attack on a Danish newspaper over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Under a deal with prosecutors, Headley will not face execution if he continues to cooperate with their terrorism investigation. (AP Photo/via APTN)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.




Pa. suspect is rare US woman facing terror trial (AP)

FILE - In this June 26, 1997 booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose makes her first court appearance Thursday March 18, 2010 since a stunning indictment last week that charged that she plotted with terror suspects abroad to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)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.




India seeks to question US terror convict (AP)
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.

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.

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.

Fed appeals court won't rehear Ashcroft lawsuit (AP)
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.

US suspect in Mumbai siege, Danish plot pleads guilty (AFP)

The Taj Hotel during the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai. A Chicago man pleaded guilty Thursday to using his Western appearance as a cover while scoping out sites for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)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.




"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.

15 years on, Japan film recalls doomsday cult sarin attacks (AFP)

Shizue Takahashi, the widow of a subway station employee who died after removing nerve-gas filled containers from a packed train, speaks before the press in Tokyo in 2004. Time may have diminished the trauma of the worst terrorist attack in modern Japanese history, which struck 15 years ago Saturday, but Takahashi is determined not to let the memory fade.(AFP/File/Yoshikatsu Tsuno)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.




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