Citing the continuing threat of potential terrorist attacks that could target civilians, the State Department on Monday advised Americans traveling abroad to be cautious for the remainder of the summer. Full Story

Zacarias Moussaoui contends in new court filings that the government`s conspiracy case against him is based on unproven speculation that Osama bin Laden masterminded the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

Amid growing U.S. criticism of Syria`s support for Palestinian militant groups, Syrian leaders are fighting back, saying they have cooperated with the U.S.-led “war on terrorism” without receiving credit from the Bush administration. Full Story

A bomb was found under an American`s car in Saudi Arabia and a “suspicious object” was attached to a Briton`s vehicle, but both were removed without incident, the US embassy said yesterday. An embassy circular said Saudi authorities were investigating the devices, found yesterday and on Saturday. Full Story

Greek authorities are poised to unmask the leaders of November 17 (17N), one of the West`s deadliest terrorist organisations, after 27 years without an arrest. Greek police, with the help of Scotland Yard, have evidence linking suspects in the assassination of 17N`s first victim, the CIA bureau chief Richard Welch in 1975, to the drive-by…

Philippine Vice President Teofisto Guingona resigned as foreign minister on Tuesday, settling but perhaps not ending a public row with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over U.S. military exercises in the south of the country. Full Story

A bomb damaged a military-owned shopping center in east Jakarta late on Monday injuring at least nine people, two seriously, officials said. “It was a home-made bomb. The components looked like acid and TNT and we found some batteries around the scene,” a military intelligence officer told Reuters. Full Story

Cyberwar is Hell, but never too hellish for feverish salesmanship. Take, for example, McAfee`s recent botched attempt to sell the public on the merits of the fiendish “JPEG virus” said to be hanging over beloved digital stockpiles of family photos and Swedish pornography like the sword of Damocles. Full Story

POLICE have identified a 30-year-old foreign national as the culprit behind the unauthorised transfer of money from 21 DBS and POSB online accounts. It is believed that the Chinese national has skipped town. Police are looking into whether the man hacked into the online accounts from here or abroad. They are also investigating when the…

A new survey finds that the Web is more vulnerable to attack than ever before, due to the chance discovery of several vulnerabilities within days of one another The Web is currently more vulnerable to attack than ever before, as a result of several serious security flaws for different server applications being published within a…

A program designed to infect vulnerable computers running the open-source Apache Web server application apparently hasn`t made it very far, security experts said Monday. As first reported by CNET News.com, the Apache worm infects unpatched servers running the FreeBSD operating system, an open-source variant of Unix, and the Apache Web software. Despite initial reports that…

A bogus street address in Venezuela, a free e-mail account and a wire transfer to a bank in Malaysia were all that was needed to publish a militant Islamic Web site that promotes al-Qaida and asks readers to pray for America`s destruction. Full Story

Three Northwest Louisiana hospitals – including North Caddo Medical Center in Vivian – are among 43 rural health agencies that will receive funding to hook up to a statewide homeland security network. Full Story

This week’s reported fears of an al Qaeda-engineered cyber-attack on American electrical and water utilities are for the most part unfounded, but the long-term security prognosis is not as rosy because China may be behind the whole affair, according to high-level sources with ties to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement. Full Story

Osama bin Laden`s al-Qaeda is making full use of the Internet in its all-out war against the United States, forcing Washington to chase “Islamist” websites thought to serve as a platform for the terror network. Full Story

The mystery hacker whose online infiltration has led to several arrests of suspected child predators — including a California superior court judge — was a 19-year-old loner who penetrated 3,000 computers around the world from his parents` basement in Langley, B.C. Full Story

Singapore`s DBS Bank, the banking unit of DBS Group Holdings, said on Saturday a computer hacker had siphoned money from 21 online bank accounts in amounts ranging from S$200 to S$4,999 ($113.50-$2,837). The bank declined to comment on the total amount pilfered but said that all 21 cases happened on June 19, when one of…

Computer viruses mirror their human equivalents in the way they behave, are structured and even in the threat they pose, according to research published yesterday. After a year-long investigation, medical and technology experts believe they have discovered parallels between the two types of viruses which could help in the fight against them. Full Story

Security experts are rushing to dissect a new Apache worm that`s wriggling into Web servers worldwide. The virus exploits a two-week-old flaw in the popular open-source server application. Full Story

Plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit have asked a federal judge to disconnect the Office of Surface Mining from the Internet — for the second time. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth pulled the plug on the Interior Department`s Web sites in December to protect data maintained under its Trust Asset and Accounting Management System, citing a…

Violent, anti-US extremist group that advocates the overthrow of the Chilean Government. Leadership largely from leftist elements but includes criminals and alienated youths. Became active in late 1980s, but has been seriously weakened by government counterterrorist successes in recent years. Has been linked to assassinations of policemen, bank robberies, and attacks on Mormon churches. Full…

America`s Achilles` Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack examines the potential NBC terrorism threat faced by the united States. The book presents the threat without hype, and provides policy recommendations. U.S. Senator Richarc Lugar said of the book, “I know of no more incisive, detailed assessment of the growing threat of mass…

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American citizens traveling to East Timor should exercise caution, avoid large gatherings, and remain alert with regard to their personal security. On May 20, 2002 East Timor became an independent nation governed by the people of East Timor. East Timor was previously under the authority of the United Nations, and the United Nations continues to…

A leading Spanish newspaper reported on Sunday that Mohamed Atta, suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, held a “summit” with other alleged conspirators in Spain last summer to plan the suicide flights. Full Story

As part of its effort against terrorism, the United States has secured permission to station specially trained American customs officials in three large European ports in the coming weeks. The aim is to learn more about cargo heading for the United States and to screen sea containers for possible weapons of mass destruction, a United…

As terrifying as last fall’s anthrax attacks were, they offered an odd sort of reassurance to the nation’s health community. Improving the public-health system had become a matter of national security. Full Story

He has no realistic hope of stopping the proposed Department of Homeland Security — a reorganization of federal agencies that official Washington suddenly considers vital to the prevention of terrorism — but John J. Duncan Jr. says he is seriously considering voting against it. Full Story

The Lebanon-based Hezbollah organization, one of the world`s most formidable terrorist groups, is increasingly teaming up with al Qaeda on logistics and training for terrorist operations, according to U.S. and European intelligence officials and terrorism experts. Full Story

A recent power shift inside the Indonesian military has raised questions about a U.S. proposal to resume aid to the country`s armed forces and is likely to have an impact on the war on terror in the world`s most populous Muslim country. Full Story

Since Sept. 11, the United States has seen a large increase in the number of people seeking citizenship. Nearly 470,000 people have applied in the seven months after the terrorist attacks, nearly a 61 percent increase during the same period in the previous year, according to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Full Story

FBI Director Robert Mueller told a convention of American Muslims on Friday they have provided “substantive assistance” in investigating terrorism since Sept. 11, including key help translating for suspects who speak Arabic. Full Story

Lawyers for the chief defendant in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl predicted Monday that their client will be acquitted. The defense optimism came after testimony that appeared to support their contention that Saeed was illegally detained and, on that basis, the charges against him should be dismissed. Full Story

Americans should take extra care on the Fourth of July because the national holiday is an attractive symbol to potential terrorists, Bush administration officials said Sunday. The FBI plans to monitor and protect major Independence Day parades and festivities as a precaution against an attack. The bureau also has issued a law enforcement bulletin asking…

The Environmental Protection Agency is to begin within the next few weeks the mammoth task of cleaning and testing thousands of apartments in Lower Manhattan that were caught in harm`s way last September by the ash and dust from the World Trade Center. Full Story

Federal authorities have issued a secret alert to state and local law enforcement agencies warning them of the possibility of a terrorist attack in the United States around the Fourth of July holiday, senior government officials said. Full Story

Mr. Bush`s position that Mr. Arafat must go and that not much else can happen until he does is a significant gamble by the president, one offering the Palestinians the carrot of strong American support for Palestinian statehood. To many, it seems a long shot, though a prominent Palestinian columnist in the London-based (and Saudi…

After months of criticism about its missteps and delays in distributing financial help to New Yorkers affected by the Sept. 11 terror attack, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced yesterday that it was formally changing its eligibility criteria to allow aid to thousands more people who suffered economic hardship as a result of the disaster.…

As U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies try to prevent the next terrorist attack, they have a basic problem to solve: how to spell the enemy`s name. Computerized databases at the FBI, CIA Immigration and Naturalization Service and other agencies bulge with lists of suspected terrorists. Some of the names identify actual terrorists. Others are…

Checkpoint screeners at 32 of the nation`s largest airports failed to detect fake weapons — guns, dynamite or bombs — in almost a quarter of undercover tests by the Transportation Security Administration last month, documents obtained by USA TODAY show. Full Story

Air Force jets scrambled twice over the weekend to intercept small airplanes making what turned out to be at least three harmless intrusions into the airspace over Camp David while President Bush was at the Maryland mountain retreat. Full Story

Beginning this week, coffee cups or any other opened beverages are java non grata at security checkpoints at the nation`s airports. It`s the same with food containers that are not sealed properly. Full Story

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has been weakened and demoralized by tensions with Bush administration officials in Washington, according to a number of current and former officials at the nation`s top public health agency. Full Story

The United States has announced plans to stockpile about 50% of supplies of the anthrax vaccine for civilian use in an emergency. Announcing the move, assistant secretary of defence for health affairs William Winkenwerder also said the US was resuming mandatory anthrax vaccinations of military personnel in high-risk areas. Full Story

The Defense Department announced yesterday it will resume vaccinating military personnel against anthrax, but will limit the vaccine`s use to service members deployed to “high-threat” areas for more than 15 days. Full Story

A Saudi Arabian delegation is on its way to see about 100 of its national being held at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to Saudi sources. Full Story

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was alive as of late December, which means he survived a U.S. assault on caves in Tora Bora in Afghanistan, Time magazine reported in its editions out on Monday. Full Story

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Monday he thought al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was probably not alive, but if he was he could not be in Pakistan. “If he was alive, he obviously would be moving with a large entourage of local people and therefore they would like to have a safe haven,…

Israeli military forces today killed a Palestinian fugitive identified as one of the top bombmakers for the military wing of the Islamic group Hamas. Israeli officials allege he helped equip and direct suicide bombers responsible for the attacks that killed 29 people at a Passover Seder in March and 19 Israelis on a bus in…

Israeli leaders hailed the killing of a top Hamas bomb-maker as a resounding military success on Monday and said such attacks would continue, but the Palestinians condemned it as state-sponsored assassination. Full Story

Hamas extremists promised Monday to avenge Israel`s assassination of a senior West Bank bombmaker for the Islamic militant group who Israel said was responsible for the deaths of nearly 120 people. Full Story

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shrugged off U.S. pressure to cut ties with Lebanon`s Hizbollah and expel radical Palestinian groups Washington regards as “terrorists.” In an interview published in the Al-Liwaa daily on Monday, he said: “Syria supports the Lebanese national resistance, including Hizbollah…in resisting Israeli occupation and liberating land, politically and in the media because…

A major Iraqi opposition organization said in remarks published on Saturday that Washington should seek to oust President Saddam Hussein through U.N. resolutions and not by military force. Speculation has been mounting that Washington might be preparing an invasion of Iraq to oust President Saddam Hussein, whom it accuses of developing chemical, biological and nuclear…

THE HEAD OF Israel’s intelligence service has warned Nato that Iran is not only pressing ahead with a nuclear weapon programme but is developing missiles capable of hitting Europe and North America. Full Story

Pope John Paul II met Friday with Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Khamenei, a brother of Iran`s supreme leader. Khamenei, who heads the Islamic Philosophy of Mollah Sadra Foundation, and an entourage had an audience with the pontiff in his Vatican offices. Full Story

Two Soviet-era nuclear generators which sparked a huge international hunt in Georgia may not exist, authorities admitted on Monday. The Strontium 90 generators were believed to be hangovers from the Soviet military presence in Georgia. Full Story

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said on Friday the military had seized four camps of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group, linked by Washington to the al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden. “We are now having a major battle in Patikul, right in the camp where the Abu Sayyaf was born way back in 1995,” Arroyo…

A bus conductor was injured when a bomb exploded in the baggage compartment of a bus in this southern Philippine city, police said. The bomb, made of a mortar shell with a triggering device and hidden inside a box, went off as the Weena Bus was being parked in the company`s garage in Davao City…

A fisherman who was held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf Muslim kidnapping group without public knowledge, was freed by his abductors in the face of a military assault, news reports and military officials said. The Filipino fisherman, Lydio Castro, who was seized from the southern island group of Tawi-tawi in November, was released in Jolo…

Abu Sayyaf gunmen fleeing a major Philippine military offensive have sent word that they had nothing to do with the abduction of three Indonesian seamen, an official of another Muslim rebel group said Monday. Full Story