Report: Maryland man at Gitmo reaches plea deal (AP)
AP - The U.S. has reportedly reached a plea deal with a former Maryland man held at Guantanamo accused of joining al-Qaida and participating in a series of post-Sept. 11 terror plots.
NC terrorism convict faces new beheading plot case (AP)
AP - A North Carolina man recently convicted in a homegrown terrorism plot faces new charges that he attempted to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses who testified against him.
Thai detention of Iranian bomb suspect extended (AP)

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, an Iranian bomb suspect Mohammad Kharzei, right, listens to a Thai police officer as he is taken to verify the house where he and other Iranian compatriots rented in Bangkok, Thailand. One week after three Iranians were arrested in an apparently botched terror plot allegedly aimed against Israeli diplomats, profound questions remain unanswered about who was behind it. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - A Thai court on Wednesday allowed police to continue to detain one of five Iranian suspects in an alleged terror plot that was exposed by an accidental blast in a residential Bangkok neighborhood.
NYPD monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage (AP)

This combo made from file photos shows Yale President Richard Levin in New Haven Conn. on Sept. 13, 2009, left, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Cambridge, Mass. on Nov. 29, 2011. Bloomberg is facing off with Yale University over efforts by the NYPD to monitor Muslim student groups. Levin on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 said in a statement that monitoring of students based on religion was 'antithetical' to the schools' values. Bloomberg defended the practice, saying there is nothing wrong with officers keeping an eye on websites that are available to the general public. (AP File Photos)AP - The mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Tuesday over an effort by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups for any signs that their members harbored terrorist sympathies.
Azerbaijan says it busts alleged pro-Iran group (AP)
AP - Azerbaijan's security agency said Tuesday it has busted a suspected terrorist group working for Iran's secret services, the second such claim this year as tensions rise between the two neighbors.
Judge in Texas rules terror bomb suspect competent (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2011, file photo Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari is escorted to the Mahon Federal Building in Lubbock, Texas. A federal judge in West Texas Tuesday, 21, 2012, will hear evidence and arguments on the mental competency of Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, accused of trying to make a weapon of mass destruction. (AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Zach Long, File)AP - A Saudi man accused of trying to make a weapon of mass destruction and targeting former President George W. Bush's home in Dallas is mentally competent to stand trial, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
Thailand Must Face, Not Dismiss, the Threat of Terrorism (Time.com)
Time.com - Officials' bungled attempts at damage control are doing more damage to Thailand's reputation than the bombers ever could
Saudi activist acquitted of terrorism chargess (Reuters)
Reuters - A court in Saudi Arabia has acquitted Saeed bin Zuair, a political activist who had been in jail for five years on terrorism charges, his son Abdullah bin Zuair said Monday.
UK terror suspect alleges Kenya prison beating (AP)
AP - A lawyer for a British man held in Kenya over alleged links to Somalia's Islamist insurgency and possession of explosives says his client was beaten in prison to extract a confession.
Lawyers: Bali bombing charges should be dropped (AP)

Indonesian militant Umar Patek , center, waves upon arrival to attend his trial at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - Lawyers for an Indonesian militant who made bombs used in the 2002 Bali nightclub blasts said Monday the charges against him are obscure and should be dropped.
Report: Website helped UK terrorists communicate (AP)
AP - An Islamist website has spent months publishing letters written by Muslim extremists jailed for serious terror offenses, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
AP Exclusive: al-Qaida links with SE Asia fraying (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, Umar Patek, an Indonesian militant charged in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks, arrives to his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia. The top Indonesian terror suspect captured in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed insists he was unaware of the al-Qaida leader's presence there, according to the video of his interrogation obtained by The Associated Press. Patek, whose trial resumes Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, in Jakarta for his alleged role in the Bali bombings that killed more than 200, was one of the last few remaining ranking Jemaah Islamiyah militants still on the run when Pakistani intelligence agents arrested him a year ago in the northwestern town of Abbottabad. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)AP - A top Indonesian terror suspect captured in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed insists he was unaware of the al-Qaida leader's presence there, according to the video of his interrogation obtained by The Associated Press.
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