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

Rabea Dahlan, a descendent of the prophet Mohammed, was deputy governor of the Muslim holy city of Mecca until three years ago, when he was jailed. Dahlan`s crime, according to supporters: He belongs to a Muslim sect that doesn`t conform to Saudi Arabia`s state religion. Full Story

Islamic militants killed 11 people and wounded 10 in a bus attack Wednesday, Algeria`s official news service says. The attack happened in the city of Medea, about 70 kilometres south of the capital, Algiers. Full Story

The United Nations International Court of Justice is scheduled to consider accusations by the government of Democratic Republic of the Congo Thursday that its neighbor Rwanda has committed “large-scale human slaughter” since the outbreak of conflict in the mineral-rich Central African country in 1998. Full Story

The United States Government has announced an “aggressive and targeted” campaign to apprehend the prime suspects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Full Story

Peru has arrested three suspected members of the leftist rebel group Shining Path whom authorities believe could be behind a March car bomb that killed 10 people, a top police official said on Wednesday. Full Story

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday the United States had no evidence that al Qaeda militants were operating in Kashmir, but said he was confident Pakistan would deal with them if any were found. Full Story

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that he had “seen indications” that Al Qaeda was operating in the disputed Kashmir region, but he cautioned that there was no concrete intelligence on the numbers or nationality of the fighters. Full Story

Nepali security forces inflicted heavy losses on about 500 Maoist guerrillas who stormed a remote army post in the country`s western rebel heartland, the defense ministry said on Thursday. Full Story

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he has no doubt Pakistan would take action against al-Qaeda militants if they were found to be operating in Kashmir. Full Story

Several men believed to be American citizens have been taken into custody here during the past few weeks on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda, senior Pakistani officials said today. Full Story

FILIPINOS, whether farmer, street sweeper, police officer on the beat, or factory worker, could all be heroes and do their share in nation building, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Wednesday. Full Story

Muslim rebels in the Philippines were suspected of kidnapping new hostages on Wednesday, six days after a U.S. missionary and a nurse held captive for about a year were killed in a military rescue. Full Story

Senior German officials said today that they did not know the whereabouts of an important figure in the Hamburg plot that led to the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and they speculated that he was being held in a third country at the request of the United States. Full Story

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has ruled out any suggestion of a meeting with Northern Ireland`s new Chief Constable, Hugh Orde. The idea had been put forward by the vice chairman of the Policing Board, Denis Bradley. Full Story

In another sign of heightened sectarian tensions, attackers hurled a petrol bomb at a Roman Catholic primary school in west Belfast early Wednesday, police said. Full Story

Spain said Wednesday it had foiled a bombing campaign by the armed Basque separatist group ETA aimed at sowing chaos before next week`s European Union summit in the southern Spanish city of Seville. Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy said police had found several arms caches with a total of more than 220 pounds of explosives, stashed…

Israel will not ratify its signing of the Rome Constitution in the foreseeable future, and will therefore not become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that will begin functioning on July 1, Attorney-General Elyakim Rubinstein said yesterday. Full Story

Syria, under scrutiny as temporary U.N. Security Council leader, was put on the spot when Israel urged the council to demand it stop supporting militant groups – including one behind a deadly bus bombing this week. Full Story

The federal government is pushing back plans to unveil a national roadmap for securing cyberspace from this summer to mid-September, President Bush`s cybersecurity czar said June 10. Full Story

Reading the Bush Administration`s proposal for the new Department of Homeland Security, you might think the plan is something completely new. But two other, similar proposals are already circulating in Washington. Full Story

Exactly how the proposed Homeland Security Department would work with state and local first responders is yet to be determined, but creating the connection is a priority, experts told the House Government Reform Committee June 11. Full Story

The Transportation Department has completed a test of new technology designed to assist in securing cargo containers at U.S. ports and border crossings, the department announced last week. Full Story

Staff shortages and security problems are hampering attempts to protect nuclear plants from terrorist attack, a new report for the British government reveals. Full Story

The US-led crackdown on terrorist funding is being undermined by a lack of co-operation in the international financial community, secret talks between the world`s top financial investigators have concluded. After making a gloomy assessment of efforts since September 11 to close down the financial resources of groups such as al-Qaeda, investigators believe it is virtually…

It will be years before the first shipment of nuclear waste travels to Yucca Mountain in Nevada if the waste dump gets approved. But an environmental group wants to make it easier for people to find out how close the radioactive waste will come to their neighborhoods. Full Story

The National Rural Water Association (NRWA) is continuing to ask for federal dollars to help small communities deal with drinking water security issues. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the process of distributing grants to water systems serving more than 100,000 people to help them assess their vulnerability to terrorist activities. Full Story

A consortium of leading IT companies has released a video to show police organisations how technology can be used to fight crime and terrorism more effectively. Full Story

The Bush administration and leaders of both parties in the House are working with the Judiciary Committee to rush through a bill that would require the CIA, the FBI and other federal intelligence agencies to share information with state and local police. Full Story

An unidentified hoaxer got the Internet Wire online press-release service to publish a bogus news release about a tiny drug company this week, in what may have been an attempt to manipulate the stock. Full Story

The cross-platform Windows/Linux virus, which made headlines last week, has prompted a “zeitgeist of new interest” in Unix and Linux viruses. Antivirus experts say that the cross-platform skills of the Simile or Etap virus, which cropped up last week, “seem to have led to a renewed interest in *nix malware”. Full Story

Police are launching a new online weapon in their fight against street crime. The computer based “Street Robbery Policing Knowledge Map” will provide visual guides for officers on the most efficient tactics to tackle crime. Full Story

Employees continue to be overlooked as an IT security threat, despite the significant destruction they can cause, according to one white paper. A white paper released in the United States by Web filtering vendor SurfControl found that more than 80 percent of security compromises faced by companies came from within. Full Story

Businesses fear that hackers and private investigators will abuse sweeping new government powers to access e-mail, telephone and Web browsing records unless strict controls are put in place. Full Story

Patriot Act of 2001, a sweeping law which, among other things, said those who break into other peoples` computers could be considered terrorists, and prosecuted as such. Full Story

Originated among militant Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s. Committed to the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state and the destruction of Israel through holy war. Because of its strong support for Israel, the United States has been identified as an enemy of the PIJ, but the group has not specifically conducted attacks…

Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy Denning provides one of the most comprehensive overviews on information warfare ever written. Denning`s strength is in her expertise and comfort with the subject (she teaches a class on Information Warfare at Georgetown University) which she conveys to the reader chapter after chapter. A review in Dr. Dobbs Journal…

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The American citizen suspected of plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb on U.S. soil met in late March with senior al Qaeda officials, who sent him to scout possible U.S. sites for attacks with “dirty bombs” or conventional explosives, senior intelligence officials and investigators said yesterday. Full Story

Senior members of Congress questioned today how the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. would cooperate with the new homeland security department proposed by President Bush and whether the proposal would adequately address the lack of communication and missed signals before the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

A former Boston cab driver once identified by authorities as a major terrorism suspect was kept in solitary confinement for more than eight months here without seeing a judge or being assigned a lawyer, according to court records, lawyers and advocates familiar with the case. Full Story

Leaders of both parties in Congress yesterday supported the idea of creating a Department of Homeland Security by Sept. 11, even as they hinted they might seek substantial changes to President Bush`s proposal for the biggest reorganization of the federal government in more than 50 years. Full Story

Now that President Bush has proposed creating a sprawling Department of Homeland Security, he will surely name as its head Tom Ridge. Right? Not necessarily. Full Story

If a so-called “dirty bomb” were detonated in the heart of an American city, it could cause casualties on the magnitude of the 1995 Oklahoma City bomb , which killed 168 people , but only in the immediate blast area, experts say. Full Story

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday that al Qaeda remains a serious international threat and stressed the importance of exchanging information on the network blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

President Bush signed bioterrorism legislation Wednesday that devotes $4.6 billion to stockpiling vaccines, improving food inspections and boosting security for water systems, calling it his “urgent duty” to prevent germ warfare. Full Story

A federal judge has denied accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui access to any sensitive aviation security information during his trial. Full Story

The widows marched through the halls of Congress today, brandishing photos of their dead and a potent brew of patriotism, grief and indignation. The four women, New Jersey homemakers whose husbands vanished in the rubble of the World Trade Center, head a group demanding an independent inquiry into the events surrounding Sept. 11. Full Story

Attorney General John Ashcroft on Monday overstated the potential threat posed by “dirty bomb” suspect Abdullah Al Muhajir, Bush administration and law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Full Story

The announcement Monday that U.S. officials had nabbed an alleged al-Qaeda terrorist who had planned to explode a radioactive “dirty bomb” in the USA meshed neatly with President Bush`s agenda. Full Story

Germany and the United States will soon reach an agreement on how Berlin can supply evidence in the American trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said today. Full Story

A senior leader of Nepal`s ruling Nepali Congress Party said today that China had promised to help fight Maoist rebels seeking to topple the constitutional monarchy. Full Story