The United States is to propose a joint U.S.-British force to monitor the Line of Control that divides the dispute Kashmir valley between India and Pakistan, a British newspaper reported Thursday. Full Story

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told Congress on Thursday his agency needs to devote additional agents, money and time as it works to meet its “paramount mission of prevention” in an age of terrorism. Full Story

H. Carl McCall said yesterday that upstate and suburban New Yorkers should have a direct say in planning the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan, and that the state agency overseeing the rebuilding effort should be enlarged to include members from outside New York City. Full Story

Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis-based F.B.I. agent who accused senior bureau officials of fumbling any opportunity to prevent the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, met privately today with investigators from the House and Senate intelligence committees in advance of her public debut before Congress on Thursday. Full Story

NATO defense ministers opened talks Thursday on a radical overhaul of allied military forces to make them better prepared to fight terrorism. Full Story

Exiling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would not help bring peace to the Middle East, a White House spokesman said Thursday, hours after Israeli troops shelled Arafat`s headquarters and blew a hole in his bedroom wall. Full Story

The Justice Department announced plans yesterday to fingerprint and photograph more than 100,000 visa holders who pose “national security concerns,” taking another major step in its efforts to keep track of foreign visitors to the United States. Full Story

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said yesterday that investigators believe the idea of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon came from al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan, the actual plotting was done in Germany, and the financing came through the United Arab Emirates from sources in Afghanistan. Full Story

Congressional investigators have started the first stage of a sweeping investigation to determine whether the National Guard is up to the task of helping defend the USA against terrorism. Full Story

It is unlikely anyone will be prosecuted for perpetrating the anthrax hoax that closed part of downtown Hartford last year because someone destroyed the evidence, and the credibility of a key witness was ruined when he was hurriedly arrested, officials said. Full Story

The FBI has placed a “substantial” number of people suspected of ties to terror under constant surveillance, sending out special teams of agents to various parts of the United States roughly every two weeks in a mission that is seriously taxing the agency`s resources, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said yesterday. Full Story

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a 21-year-old college student accused of placing pipe bombs in five states, injuring six people. Full Story

American troops dispatched to Basilan for training and to assist Filipino soldiers in combating the Abu Sayyaf are ready to be deployed “anytime” to areas closer to the bandits` camps, a US military official said yesterday. Full Story

Police in Colombia say suspected left-wing rebels have killed the mayor of the south-western town of Solita in the province of Caqueta. His death comes after 10 mayors in the neighbouring province of Huila were declared military targets by the country`s largest group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Full Story

Egyptian intelligence warned United States officials about a week before September 11 that Osama bin Laden`s network was in the advance stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, according to Egypt`s President Hosni Mubarak. Egyptian intelligence chiefs used an agent close to al-Qaeda in a vain bid to halt the operation. But…

Firebombs damaged the offices of an ultra-nationalist group in Greece Thursday, but there were no injuries, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the local headquarters of the Golden Dawn, which has denounced foreigners and urged for uncompromising policies against traditional rivals such as Turkey. Full Story

Government forces in Liberia have launched a new offensive against a 3-year-old insurgency, attempting to dislodge rebels from their northern stronghold on the border with Guinea, military officials said Wednesday. Full Story

Forces loyal to Madagascar`s elected President, Marc Ravalomanana, have repelled an attack on an airstrip in the north-eastern town of Sambava. Fighting erupted there between Mr Ravalomanana`s forces and troops loyal to former leader Didier Ratsiraka on Monday and left 15 people dead. Full Story

Authorities have captured a man believed to be one of the country`s most violent and dangerous kidnappers, the Mexican Justice Department said. Pedro Barragan Gonzalez and five alleged members of his gang were captured by federal and state agents on Friday in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Barragan is…

A west Belfast police station has been hit by an estimated 50 petrol bombs. Police say 30 people, all masked, appeared outside the fortified base in the nationalist Springfield Road just before midnight. They hurled the bombs in the space of two minutes and disappeared. Damage was restricted to minor scorching to the main gate.…

Tamil Tiger rebels have accused Sri Lanka`s Government of foot-dragging over a key demand that it lift a ban on the movement. Chief rebel negotiator Anton Balasingham said the destiny of the country`s fledgling peace process now lay in the hands of the authorities. Full Story

Ugandan troops killed 67 rebels in a battle inside southern Sudan, an army spokesman said Thursday, part of a continuing offensive to wipe out the 15-year old rebel group. Full Story

A secret list of hundreds of potential terrorist targets including key government buildings and installations vital for Britain?s economy has been drawn up by MI5, The Times can disclose. The key buildings and installations, including oil refineries, nuclear power stations and vital communications centres, have had their security profiles urgently reassessed because of the threat…

If there is one thing that the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad does not fear, one of its leaders said today, it is the repressive force of Yasir Arafat and his Palestinian Authority. Full Story

The man in charge of archiving and maintaining electronic copies of Norway`s most important historical documents is dead and so is access to those archives. So the director of the Norwegian cultural center is pleading for hackers to help him crack the center`s password-protected database. Full Story

Security experts have warned that a security flaw in a long abandoned protocol may still pose a threat today. Vulnerabilities associated with the Gopher protocol could allow an attacker to take control of a remote machine. Gopher was used between 1990 and 1992. Gopher servers offered hierarchically organised directories and files accessible through a hypertext…

Sophisticated online “mentors” are helping unsuspecting young people cause serious damage to personal computers, says an RCMP report. Hackers: a Canadian Police Perspective, says hacking gurus are taking advantage of curious young people, swaying them to try their hand at hacking and virus-writing. Mentors are distributing virus-writing and hacking software on more than 30,000 Web…

A reporter at MSNBC has been ordered to hand over information about a hacker who broke into the New York Times` Web site Cable news channel MSNBC said on Wednesday that US prosecutors had issued a subpoena for one of its reporters to turn over information about a hacker who broke into The New York…

As network managers prepare to tackle the onslaught of World Cup-related emails in between catching a few games, users are warned to be on the lookout for viral emails. A Visual Basic Script worm that uses the World Cup as bait has kicked off against unsuspecting fans. Full Story

Despite evidence of al-Qaeda`s research into American utility companies gleaned from laptops seized after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, don`t expect the National Security Agency, CIA and FBI to warn businesses when a cyberattack might take place. Full Story

A bill mandating that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies share homeland security information with their state and local counterparts has the support of top officials within the Bush administration, House members said at a hearing June 4. Full Story

The controversy over who knew what when about the 9/11 terrorist attacks has the country buzzing. It`s likely to make for an entertaining summer as the committees and subcommittees play the Beltway parlor whodunit game, partly for the political gain and partly to find remedies for systemic problems plaguing various government agencies tasked with protecting…

The initiative would not have been launched were it not for last September`s terrorist attacks on the Unites States. It involves improving and streamlining individual countries` ability to cope with chemical incidents, whatever their cause. Full Story

Behold the glory of the “Web site defacement,” a truly modern act of juvenile delinquency. Ludicrous (replacing a Baptist Church Web page with an invocation to Satan, for example) and yet troubling in their signal of arcane technological mastery, Web site defacements are apparently all the rage among angry young computer users. Full Story

A new virus called Simile.D may not be much of a threat to computer systems, but some of its technical tricks could lead to a rethinking of the principles underlying antivirus software. Full Story

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in version 9 of the Internet Software Consortium`s (ISC) Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) server. ISC BIND versions 8 and 4 are not affected. Exploiting this vulnerability will cause the BIND server to shut down. Full Story

By the time the Vietnam War was over, the Regiment had racked up an impressive combat record and established itself as a significant player in the special operations arena. Peacetime led to a reduction from three Sabre Squadrons to two, not including a new Training Squadron and an Operations Research Unit. During this time, special…

Adams book is a comprehensive overview of information warfare and its many faces. The National Review notes: ” [Adams] has done a commendable job of sketching the changes that the information age might bring to U.S. defense planning. This eminently readable volume should take its place alongside George and Meredith Friedman`s The Future of War…

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JUNE 06, 2002. INDIA. Anniversary of storming of Amritsar Temple by military troops in 1984. JUNE 06, 2002. UNITED STATES. North American Anarchist Gathering opens in Lawrence, KS. The event will last three days. More Dates

The Department of State warns American citizens to defer travel to India and strongly urges that American citizens in India depart. Conditions along India`s border with Pakistan and in the state of Jammu & Kashmir have deteriorated. Tensions have risen to serious levels, and the risk of intensified military hostilities between India and Pakistan cannot…

Tensions between India and Pakistan remain at serious levels, and the risk of intensified military hostilities cannot be ruled out. Virtually all land and air links with India are closed. Military movements continue along both the Line of Control in Kashmir and the border between India and Pakistan. The possibility of threats to Americans and…

The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the potential danger of travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The situation has largely stabilized since the Dayton Peace Accords halted the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995; nevertheless, there are still risks from occasional localized political violence, land mines, and unexploded ordnance. There were outbreaks of…

The likely mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks is a Kuwaiti-born lieutenant of Osama bin Laden who had previously plotted to attack the World Trade Center and to bomb several airliners simultaneously, a top U.S. counterterrorism official says. Full Story

Kuwait said on Wednesday a man Washington identified as the probable mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the United States was not a Kuwaiti citizen but a former resident of the northern Gulf state. Full Story

More commando units needed in war on terror. The Marine Corps, which has resisted creating a permanent unit of commandos throughout its 227-year history, has been spurred by the war on terrorism to move in that direction. Full Story

The government will create a database of foreigners applying to U.S. flight schools and compare it with lists of known terrorists under a plan to be unveiled this week, officials said. Full Story

An American-born man captured with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has a constitutional right to see a lawyer while he is being held in a Navy brig in Norfolk, the prisoner`s court-appointed attorney told a federal appeals court today. Full Story

A substantial number of al Qaeda fighters remain in Afghanistan despite the eight-month war waged against them by allied forces, a top U.S. army intelligence official said on Wednesday. Full Story

Fighter jets escorted an international charter flight to an unscheduled landing in Boston on Wednesday after an apparently drunk passenger caused a ruckus on board, officials said. Such intercepts have become standard since the Sept. 11 airline attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Full Story

A fugitive anti-abortionist suspected of murdering a U.S. doctor has left France for the United States to try to clear his name in court, his lawyer said Wednesday. Full Story

The political wing of the Irish Republican Army on Wednesday won Belfast`s mayoral race for the first-time ever, sparking sharp criticism from opposition parties. Full Story

Eight professors of Islamic studies who refused to label human bomb attacks as suicide operations have been fired from public universities following orders from security authorities, Muslim Brotherhood sources said Wednesday. Full Story

Faced with tens of thousands of documents and more coming in every day, plus interviews with a key FBI whistleblower, leaders of a congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks say they are dealing with more information than they anticipated. Full Story

Driven by anger and concern over the performance of the American National Red Cross in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, federal and state officials are demanding fuller disclosure of the relief agency`s finances and are moving to enforce more stringent monitoring of its disaster aid operations. Full Story

The Justice Department will propose new regulations this week requiring tens of thousands of Muslim and Middle Eastern visa holders to register with the government and be fingerprinted, administration officials said today. Full Story

The House and Senate intelligence committees announced today that they would investigate the government`s overall response to international terrorism dating back to 1986, adopting an extremely broad charter for the review of the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

As congressional hearings into pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures began Tuesday with a moment of silence, President Bush admitted that the FBI and CIA failed to communicate with each other over terrorist threats. But he said his administration had nothing it could have seized upon to thwart the attacks. Full Story

Terrorism suspect Zaccarias Moussaoui`s refusal to meet with a psychiatrist has left a federal judge with difficult options for breaking the logjam, and could delay the trial of the only person charged in the USA in the attacks of Sept. 11. Full Story

Thousands of people fled northern neighborhoods in Burundi`s capital Tuesday after rebels attacked military positions a few miles away, witnesses said. National Liberation Forces rebels attacked two military positions about nine miles north of the capital`s center. Full Story