The cargo that airlines carry on passenger jets doesn`t get the same close scrutiny as travelers or luggage, a security problem that government officials say they`re working to correct. Full Story

U.S. troops had been conducting surveillance for five months in the area where Afghan civilians were accidentally killed a week ago and were pursuing al-Qaeda fighters in the area, the Pentagon said Monday. Officials wouldn`t say whom they were pursuing, but the lengthy surveillance indicated they might have been tracking senior al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders,…

One by one, barriers erected in the post-Watergate era to prevent abuses and excesses by U.S. intelligence agencies are yielding to pressure to protect the nation from another terrorist attack. Full Story

Congress begins a frantic push this week to pass legislation creating a homeland security department before the anniversary of last fall`s attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Full Story

With the jab of a needle, volunteers are being injected with a smallpox vaccine as part of government-sponsored experiments that come amid heightened fear of biological terrorism. About 330 volunteers will be inoculated with diluted doses of the vaccine over the next two weeks at four sites across the nation. On Monday, the Oakland Medical…

The Health Ministry confirmed today that it is stockpiling smallpox vaccine for possible use in a future biological weapons attack on Israel. But ministry spokesman Ido Hadari declined to say whether the ministry has any concrete plans to immunize the public – which the US is beginning to do now on its own population –…

The al Qaeda network will strike U.S. targets in America and around the world soon, an al Qaeda spokesman said in an interview published Tuesday. “Our military and intelligence networks are assessing and monitoring new U.S. targets that we will strike in a period of time which is not long,” spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith told…

A U.S-trained Philippine soldier and an undetermined number of Muslim rebels were killed on Tuesday in fierce fighting on southern Jolo island, the military said. Full Story

Foreign troops joined the hunt for the killers of Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir on Monday. Qadir, also the country`s minister of Public Works and governor of the eastern province of Nangarhar, was gunned down Saturday here in Afghanistan`s capital as he drove away from his office. His driver, a son-in-law, was also killed. Full…

Police in Pakistan arrested a military officer Tuesday for allegedly plotting to assassinate President Gen. Pervez Musharraf with the help of a previously unknown religious group. The man was implicated in the plot by two of three men detained for allegedly bombing the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and a bus carrying French navy engineers. Full…

The Israel government Tuesday closed the offices of the Palestinian Liberation Organization`s political commissioner in Jerusalem, saying the office worked to undermine the sovereignty of Jerusalem. Full Story

The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says one of its leading members has been killed in a dawn raid by Israeli special forces. The organisation said Moammar Darghne, 30, died in an ambush as he was driving in his car near the West Bank town of Jenin. Full Story

Terrorist training camps in Lebanon and Syria pose a more urgent threat to the US than Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, US Senator Bob Graham (D-Florida), chairman of the Senate`s Select Committee on Intelligence, said yesterday. Full Story

The Philippines said Tuesday it had arrested a Filipino suspected of helping procure a ton of explosives for use by Islamic radicals in a plot to bomb U.S. targets in Singapore. Full Story

An Indian soldier was killed when Pakistani troops fired artillery shells across a military control line that divides the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, police said Tuesday. Full Story

Mr. Qadir`s assassination Saturday casts fresh doubt on the viability of the Western-backed Afghan government, and its ability to maintain security in the capital and in the remote provinces where political rivalries still threaten to explode into civil war. Full Story

Authorities frustrated the kidnapping of two family members of the president-elect`s wife Monday, but the future first lady`s aunt was seriously injured in the rescue. Full Story

Liberia`s rebels joined civil and political leaders for the first time Monday in talks on their troubled West African nation`s future. Full Story

The two countries originate the largest number of corporate Internet attacks per online user, says a new study. On average, companies are hit 32 times a week Which part of the world has the dubious distinction of being the most active hotbed of computer hacking? Among the most highly wired economies, more cyber attacks originate…

Advertisements for suicide bombers, promotion of violence and shoot-em-up games have proliferated on the Internet since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Extremist groups are undoubtedly spending more of their efforts online,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper told a news conference convened for the release of the center`s annual report on the spread…

The Philippine Internet Service Organization (PISO) is forming an online private information exchange that will consolidate efforts of members against hackers, virus attacks and other abusive practices on the Internet. PISO is an organization of around 40 local Internet service providers or ISPs. Full Story

The Kazaa file-swapping network has been hit by another worm, just months after the first such attack, according to antivirus vendors. Antivirus company Sophos said it had received several reports of the KWBot worm in the wild. KWBot appears to be the second worm to hit the Kazaa network, which fell prey to the Benjamin…

Internet managed security firm Riptech, Inc., has released volume II of its Internet Security Threat Report, showing that Internet attacks grew at an annualized rate of 64 percent in the period in the first six months of this year and provides what the Alexandria, Va.-based company calls the “first insight into U.S. designated terrorist states`…

Many security experts fear that the next big terrorist strike against the United States might be on – and through – the Internet and other vital interconnected computer networks. And the suspected attacks won`t just deny Net surfers access to their favorite Web site or increase the risk of damaging computer viruses through e-mail. Rather,…

The report, “Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism,” released on June 25, offers a detailed plan for the research, development and deployment of IT systems to enhance homeland security. It also recommends the establishment of a private sector Homeland Security Institute to research and test future technology proposals…

Collier County sheriff`s deputies seized several computer hard drives from the Lely campus of Edison Community College on Wednesday to examine them for possible terrorist activity. Someone had reported that three men who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent had been whispering in the library while using the computer terminals to access Islamic materials,…

POLICE are hunting suspected computer hackers who have attacked an airport car parking business four times and cost it thousands of pounds in lost income. Full Story

The first piece of an automated foreign student tracking system went online July 1 and generated surprisingly brisk traffic from dozens of schools, the Immigration and Naturalization Service said. Full Story

An Internet site for computer hackers that published a program to decode DVD`s said yesterday that it would not ask the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that banned publication. Full Story

An unnamed temporary agency worker, believed to have been employed in Aberdeen City Council`s housing department, was fired earlier this week for allegedly allowing a destructive virus to infect the council`s computer systems, the Aberdeen Press and Journal reports. The Council had to shut down its “entire computer and email system” on Monday after the…

Having trouble accessing The Register lately? It may not be your crap porn filter, or the ebone shutdown spilling over into DNS error reports at several ISPs. You may need deworming. The Gunsan is a mass-mailing worm which infects local drives and network shares. On infected machines, it opens a backdoor that allows a cracker…

A marketing consultant is pitching a card reader that validates online account holders through their physical bank cards. IT LOOKS like an ordinary palm-sized calculator, but this device can offer protection against hackers siphoning cash from your Internet bank account. Full Story

The military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the NPA is a Maoist group formed in December 1969 with the aim of overthrowing the government through protracted guerrilla warfare. Although primarily a rural-based guerrilla group, the NPA has an active urban infrastructure to conduct terrorism and uses city-based assassination squads called sparrow…

Walter Laqueur`s latest book, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction fits the mold of his past works-detailed and descriptive. Laqueur is one of the best known names in counter terrorism analysis, and The New Terrorism continues along his strong tradition of well-written books. If you are looking for a comprehensive book…

07/09/1986Germany – The Red Army Faction (RAF) killed Dr. Karl-Heinz Beckurts of Siemans Corporation. Full Story and More Dates

This Travel Warning notes the growing number of attacks against humanitarian workers in Northern Afghanistan and continued security concerns. The security threat to all American citizens in Afghanistan remains high. Full Story

August 12-13, 2002 — Boston, MAParticipants will examine: * Terrorist Attack Profiles * Terrorist Training * Terrorist Tactics * Terrorist Targeting * Emerging Technologies * Threat of Cyberterrorism * Newest Aviation Security Threat Information This class led by nationally recognized terrorism experts. Participants will learn first hand about the current threats from both domestic and…

The New York Stock Exchange plans to open secret communications centers around the country. Public health officials are adding hundreds of doctors to emergency-response teams. Nuclear safety officials plan to buy more radiation-detection devices. Faced with the prospect of new terrorist attacks, virtually every segment of American society — from Washington to Wall Street —…

The fatal shooting attack at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport on the Fourth of July has sharpened the debate over what kinds of violent crimes should be considered acts of terrorism. Federal authorities refused yesterday to classify the attack as a case of terrorism, even though they said the gunman…

Business groups and port officials are raising new objections to transferring the Customs Service to a new Homeland Security Department. Putting the emphasis on stopping terrorism, they complain, could disrupt the efficient movement of goods and people across U.S. borders, cutting into profits and damaging local economies. Full Story

Sometime after moving from Tunisia to Europe to play professional soccer, Nizar Trabelsi got hooked on cocaine, messed up in petty crime and eventually made his way to al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan. By the time Belgian police arrested him, two days after Sept. 11, in connection with a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy…

Cargo haulers, bail bondsmen and a host of other corporate interests are hard at work trying to shape a new Homeland Security Department that could regulate them or give them business — or both. At issue is what the new department will do, who will run it and how it will spend its $37 billion…

The government told owners and operators of private planes Friday to strengthen security because terrorists may try to use general aviation aircraft to attack in the United States. “Terrorists who are no longer able to hijack commercial airliners because of increased security at commercial airports may turn to GA airports and aircraft to conduct operations,”…

The government had started deportation proceedings in 1996 against the Egyptian immigrant who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport. But the following year, the man gained U.S. residency because his wife received a valid visa, officials said Saturday. Full Story

The new government agency responsible for airline security said Saturday it will place armed law enforcement officers — uniformed and plainclothes — throughout the public areas of airports. Full Story

Muslim refugees torn from their homelands by war and other violence face a daunting task trying to forge new lives in the United States, advocates said at a weekend conference. Full Story

New York fire chief Joe Callan remembers one aspect of Sept. 11 with crystal clarity — the moment he gave the order for his team to withdraw from the doomed World Trade Center towers and they failed to hear him. Now the veteran firefighter, who narrowly escaped with his life when the towers collapsed and…

The assassination of the Afghanistan`s vice president prompted U.S. senators on Sunday to call for more military involvement, and possibly more troops, to shore up security there. Full Story

Inoculations May Surpass 500,000 Under U.S. Plan. Federal health officials say they are finalizing a plan that would vaccinate hundreds of thousands of emergency medical personnel against smallpox this fall and expand to include other health care and rescue workers most at risk if the deadly virus is unleashed in the United States. Full Story

The government should consider abandoning plans to vaccinate a limited number of people after a smallpox bioterrorism attack and instead adopt mass public vaccinations, say researchers who have analyzed the number of deaths that would follow both plans. Full Story

Lebanon`s militant Hezbollah rejected Monday fresh U.S. calls for military action against the group and alleged terrorist training camps in Lebanon and Syria even before overthrowing the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Full Story

Washington is pushing for the return of U.N. arms inspectors to Iraq to ensure there are no weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein`s army could use in the event of a U.S. strike, a leading daily said Sunday. Full Story

A senior al Qaeda figure believed to control European operatives is being held in a safe house by British intelligence, Time magazine reported on Sunday, quoting unnamed European intelligence officials. Full Story

After 16 days without an Israeli death in the Mideast conflict, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday that Israel had made progress combatting Palestinian terror attacks. Full Story

As the United States considers ways of accomplishing President Bush`s call for an end to Saddam Hussein`s rule in Iraq, Washington`s goal of a “regime change” in Baghdad is running into strong reservations from Iraqi Kurdish leaders who would be crucial allies in any military campaign. Full Story

New evidence of Arabs fleeing the US-led bombing in Afghanistan to open a new front in the Arab world has emerged in Jordan. The authorities in Amman say they have arrested 10 Jordanians accused of planning to carry out attacks on American and Israeli targets in the kingdom. Full Story

Israeli officials praised the swift work of an El Al security guard and suggested Friday that the shooting he stopped at Los Angeles International Airport was motivated by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Full Story

About 50 El Al passengers who survived a shooting attack in the Los Angeles airport arrived in Israel early Saturday to the hugs and tears of relatives. Full Story

Lawyers representing relatives of Pan Am 103 victims were so enthusiastic they issued a press release in late May to announce that Libya had offered to pay an extraordinary $2.7 billion for its role in the 1988 bombing. A more recent negotiating session, however, suggested that some money might be paid, but not soon. Full…