A federal judge ruled yesterday that Zacarias Moussaoui is mentally competent to fire his court-appointed attorneys and defend himself in the only trial in the United States related to the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

Prosecutors asked a federal appeals court yesterday to stay a lower court order that would allow a lawyer to visit a detainee captured in Afghanistan and now being held in a Norfolk naval brig. Full Story

U.S. officials violated John Walker Lindh`s Fifth Amendment rights by improperly interrogating him in custody, his attorneys said on Friday in arguing that the American Taliban`s incriminating statements should be thrown out. Full Story

List of U.S. military personnel killed in Operation Enduring Freedom (as of June 13). Full Story

The United States and Pakistan are checking the nationality of some half a dozen men claiming U.S. citizenship who have been arrested in Pakistan near the Afghan border because of their association with al Qaida terrorists and Taliban extremists, Pakistani security officials told United Press International Thursday. Full Story

It is time to look at the lessons, learned and unlearned, from uneasy military alliance between the United States and the Philippines with six weeks left to go before their six-month joint military agreement expires. Full Story

The government will hold suspected American terrorist Jose Padilla indefinitely and will not bring him before a military tribunal, according to congressional and U.S. officials. Full Story

The windows and doors are sealed. Gas-making machines and large pipes sprawl in the parking lot. Workers in protective “moon suits” install equipment. The time is getting near to clean up anthrax from Washington`s massive Brentwood postal facility. Full Story

The FBI is investigating whether the anthrax used in last fall`s attacks could have been grown secretly inside an Army lab and taken elsewhere to be converted into a weapon, according to three sources familiar with the investigation. Full Story

More than six months into the government`s effort to protect air travelers from terrorist attacks, there is growing concern among experts and lawmakers that the job cannot be done by the end of the year as required by law. Full Story

Five people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda and of plotting attacks on American and British warships, have appeared for questioning before a prosecutor in Casablanca, a senior Moroccan security official said today. Full Story

The new Palestinian security chief said Friday he wants to “put an end” to militias involved in shooting and bombing attacks on Israelis, and the Israeli military said it would begin building a fence along parts of the West Bank to keep out attackers. Full Story

U.S. warplanes on Friday attacked a military air defense radar facility in a “no-fly” zone in southern Iraq in response to threats against western aircraft patrolling the zone, the U.S. military said. Full Story

The state of the Northern Ireland peace process and reports about alleged IRA activities in Colombia are set to dominate a meeting of the British-Irish Council (BIC) on Friday. Full Story

Firebomb blasts damaged three vehicles belonging to the Greek public works ministry and a bank branch in two separate attacks Friday, police said. No injuries were reported. Full Story

Talks to reunify Cyprus` Greek and Turkish parts are deadlocked and Turkey is threatening to annex the Turkish area, the head of a legislative delegation said Thursday. Full Story

An attacker crashed a bomb-laden vehicle into a guard post outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi on Friday, killing himself and at least 10 others and injuring 45. Full Story

The White House has condemned a suicide attack on the US consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi, describing it as a “vivid reminder” of the dangers Americans face in the war on terror. Full Story

Since 1995, at least 27 Americans have attended four Pakistani religious schools, called madrassas, that preach a radical form of Islam calling for the destruction of the United States, say U.S. and Pakistani officials and clerics at the schools. Full Story

At least 50 Maoist guerrillas and four Nepali soldiers were killed in a fierce battle after the militants ambushed a remote army post in the country`s western rebel stronghold, officials said on Friday. Full Story

At least three people were killed as Pakistani and Indian troops traded heavy fire in disputed Kashmir on Friday, hours after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ended a peace mission to the region, Pakistani officials said. Full Story

Peru`s Cabinet has approved a request seeking the extradition of former President Alberto Fujimori from Japan to face trial for two state-sponsored massacres in the early 1990s, the justice minister said. Japan is unlikely to hand him over. Full Story

Ten months into his reform-minded administration, President Alejandro Toledo has encountered a crisis of sinking morale in the Peruvian military that has made the army reluctant to deal with new signs of life from the long-dormant Shining Path guerrilla movement. Full Story

Twenty years after Britain routed Argentina in the Falklands War, islanders and British veterans were uniting again Friday to commemorate a victory that kept this remote South Atlantic archipelago British. Full Story

Ugandan soldiers rescued 43 women and 47 children abducted then abandoned by a rebel group, an army spokesman said Thursday. Full Story

At Washington`s request, Sudan this week captured a suspected member of the al Qaeda terrorist network who last month attempted to shoot down a U.S. aircraft and whisked him out of the country for interrogation, a senior U.S. administration official confirmed yesterday. Full Story

The veteran rebel Dr John Garang was in jubilant mood. His troops had just captured Kapoeta, a heavily guarded garrison town inside Sudan`s southern border with Kenya. Seated under a tree, he flipped an identity card on to the table. It belonged to another man in uniform – the government commander whose bloated remains lay…

Showing a willingness to use the stick along with the carrot, President Bush Wednesday amended previous pledges to cooperate with Congress on fashioning the new Homeland Security Department with a warning that he will take his vision for the agency to the voters. Full Story

When a Phoenix FBI agent became suspicious of Middle Eastern men training at an Arizona flight school last summer, he wrote a now well-known memo suggesting a canvass of all U.S. aviation schools. FBI headquarters staff rejected the idea; the bureau didn`t have the personnel to do it. Full Story

A House-passed bill to reauthorize Defense Department programs contains various technology provisions, including a proposal to create a center for the transfer of military technology to emergency “first responders.” Full Story

By now, we all know how the FBI and other government agencies failed to connect the dots. The FBI, CIA, NSA and other intelligence gathering agencies have been encouraged to play together nicely. The FBI acknowledges that it needs significant changes–especially on the technology front–to be more effective in the 21st century. And to top…

Authorities plan to start teaching Hong Kong children “cyber ethics” at school, as new police statistics reveal more than half of those arrested for computer hacking last year were under 18. Full Story

Antivirus companies warned on Thursday of a new virus that communicates through digital images, but security experts aren`t sure how much of a threat this latest evolutionary branch of malicious code poses. Dubbed the first “JPEG infector” by security company Network Associates, the W32/Perrun virus has two parts: infected JPEG images that contain the virus`s…

Anti-virus firms have discovered a Windows virus that infects JPEG image files, though the chances of it causing a major security risk any time soon are close to zero. W32/Perrun, as Networks Associates Inc named the virus, was assessed as low risk, and has not been found in the wild. Full Story

A sneaky worm is making its way across the globe, hijacking mailboxes as it goes. The Frethem worm, which reportedly started in Africa, has been spotted in the wild in Europe today. Antivirus firms were aware of the worm a number of days ago, so users with updated virus protection should be safe. Full Story

IF A friend forwards an e-mail which warns that someone has unleashed yet another virus that will knock out your computer, what should you do? Nothing, says an expert, because the original e-mail on the virus was probably created by a hoaxer, and the message is being circulated around by well-meaning people. Full Story

Marxist-Leninist group founded in 1967 by George Habash as a member of the PLO. Joined the Alliance of Palestinian Forces (APF) to oppose the Declaration of Principles signed in 1993 and suspended participation in the PLO. Broke away from the APF, along with the DFLP, in 1996 over ideological differences. Took part in meetings with…

Preparing for Terrorism: An Emergency Services Guide, by George Buck, provides first responders an excellent resource in gaining an understanding of the phenomenon of terrorism and how best to respond. The book lays out a brief, but adequate, framework of terrorism, and then sketches out how to prepare and respond to a terrorist attack. Buck…

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F.B.I. officials seized Jose Padilla, the man accused of plotting to explode a radioactive bomb in the United States, only after discussing whether it was better to pick him up as he arrived in this country or to follow him in the hope that he might lead the authorities to possible accomplices, officials said today.…

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday became the first leading research university to recommend post-Sept. 11 policies on handling classified research, and the first to challenge new federal laws and initiatives designed to limit access, disclosure, and dissemination of federally funded basic research during the war on terrorism. Full Story

Congressional leaders Thursday took aggressive steps toward creating the new Homeland Security Department proposed by President Bush, with the Senate`s top Democrat predicting passage of legislation by the end of July. Full Story

Congressional leaders are strongly considering granting to a new Department of Homeland Security authority over parts of the CIA and the FBI, a complex and controversial restructuring of the nation`s intelligence apparatus that President Bush opposes. Full Story

After meeting today with more than 200 members of the House, Tom Ridge, the homeland security adviser, said he found broad support for the administration`s goal of a single new security agency. Full Story

State inspectors have found a growing number of security problems with radioactive materials used in Massachusetts hospitals, universities, and other facilities, raising new concerns about what terrorists might be able to steal and fashion into a weapon. Full Story

American Jose Padilla, accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive “dirty” bomb in the United States, traveled to a central Asian country in April looking to buy radioactive materials, Pakistani intelligence and government officials said Thursday. Full Story

Officials from the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency are moving on separate tracks to address concerns about risks to chemicals plants from terrorist attacks, with Justice officials arguing for secrecy and the EPA trying to win support for a broader plan to require such plants to consider safer technologies. Full Story

Employees were evacuated yesterday from the governor`s office and from the Boston Herald newsroom after they received letters that contained a white powdery substance that the writer claimed was anthrax, authorities said. Full Story

The American Airlines dispatcher who was monitoring a trans-Atlantic flight when the captain reported that a passenger had a shoe bomb said today that her supervisor tried to prevent her from notifying the authorities. Full Story

The Justice Department, in a move to dramatically tighten regulations that provided an opening for the Sept. 11 hijackers, proposed yesterday that all beginning aviation students from overseas be fingerprinted and provide extensive personal information before being allowed to learn to fly large airplanes in the United States. Full Story

Citing security concerns, the Bush administration has delayed indefinitely plans to allow private planes to resume service at Washington`s Ronald Reagan National Airport, officials said on Thursday. Full Story

Authorities in Sudan have arrested a suspected al Qaeda militant who claims to have fired a shoulder-launched missile at a U.S. military aircraft in Saudi Arabia, U.S. and defense officials said on Thursday. Full Story

A federal judge has ruled that Zacarias Moussaoui, the sole person charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, may not have access to classified prosecution evidence about the aviation security system because it might end up in the hands of terrorists “intent on attacking civil aviation.” Full Story

Drugs used to sedate Richard Reid after he allegedly tried to explode a shoe bomb on an international flight may have limited his ability to remember a warning that he did not have to talk to interrogators, a doctor testified Wednesday in federal court. Full Story

The nation`s mayors are pessimistic about their ability to respond to terrorist attacks and say they lack the money to prepare cities for large-scale disasters. A survey of 122 mayors shows a high level of concern about their ability to protect citizens against biological, chemical or radiation attacks. Full Story

World military spending grew two percent last year, according to official figures, but the increase is much bigger when outlays prompted by the September 11 attacks are included, a security policy think-tank said on Thursday. Full Story

Police agencies and intelligence services in North America and Europe are investigating whether Al Qaeda militants based in Canada plotted the April 11 bombing of an ancient synagogue in Tunisia, which killed 19 people in the worst terrorist strike attributed to followers of Osama bin Laden since Sept. 11. Full Story

A 6,000-strong reaction force is planned in case of 11 September-style attacks on the UK, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced. The proposed force would be drawn from volunteers among the existing 50,000 or so armed forces reservists. Full Story

Iraq alleged Thursday that the United States has a secret plan to use nuclear weapons against it and five other countries and asked the United Nations for protection. Full Story

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat convened his new slimmed-down Cabinet which was appointed in response to demands that he reform the unwieldy and corruption-ridden Palestinian administration. Full Story