Essam Al Ridi, an Egyptian-American pilot, has seen Osama bin Laden and his world of militant Islam up close, and he is one of the few people who helped prosecutors penetrate it long before Sept. 11. Full Story

President Bush told nearly 1,000 graduates at the United States Military Academy here today that the cold war doctrines of containment and deterrence were irrelevant in a world where the only strategy for defeating America`s new enemies was to strike them first. Full Story

The Pentagon`s second-in-command sought to rally support in Asia today for moderate Muslim nations and their people who find themselves “on the front lines of the struggle against terrorism.” Full Story

When the director of the F.B.I., Robert S. Mueller III, acknowledged on Wednesday that the agency had missed warning signals on terrorism, he stunned many Americans. But his statement was not news to some veterans of the agency – or lawmakers who now say they treated the F.B.I. with too much deference for too many…

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz warned America`s allies in Asia today to keep their guard up against terrorist activities within their borders, cautioning that even nations with large Muslim populations remain targets for attack by Islamic extremists. Full Story

A top secret report warned top officials of the F.B.I. in the months before Sept. 11 that the bureau faced significant terrorist threats from Middle Eastern groups like Al Qaeda but lacked enough resources to meet the threat, senior government officials said. Full Story

U.S. Customs officials plan to show off their bomb-detection abilities today because they are worried that the Hollywood film The Sum of all Fears will cause people to panic about the possibility of a terrorist nuclear attack. Full Story

The Pentagon`s second-in-command has arrived in the Philippines on a visit to American troops who are training the local army to combat Islamic rebels. Full Story

Madagascar`s long-standing leader Didier Ratsiraka has dispatched his elite troops to fight off an attack from new President Marc Ravalomanana in the vanilla-producing north-eastern region. Full Story

The people of Nepal have marked the first anniversary of the massacre of the royal family with prayer ceremonies across the kingdom. There was no official ceremony to mark the occasion – the royal family is to hold formal ceremonies later this month in line with the Nepali calendar. Full Story

Sri Lanka`s Minister for Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Refugees, Jayalath Jayawardane, will visit India later this month for discussions with Tamil Nadu leaders on the repatriation of Tamil refugees, the local media said on Sunday. Full Story

Yasser Arafat has offered Cabinet posts to Hamas and other militant groups involved in suicide attacks against Israelis as part of a government reshuffle he plans to announce in coming days, Palestinians said Sunday. Full Story

The Bush administration is turning aside a call by airport officials to reconsider a Dec. 31 deadline for mandatory screening of all checked baggage. Full Story

The top officials of 39 airports, which handle most of the nation`s air travelers, have warned the secretary of transportation that air travel will be seriously disrupted in January unless Congress delays the Dec. 31 deadline for screening all checked bags, a major defense against terrorism. Full Story

Passengers on charter flights get no security screening at most U.S. airports, bypassing the security crackdown imposed on commercial air travel after the Sept. 11 hijackings. Full Story

Eleven passengers on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam eluded federal passport and background checks Wednesday night at Metro Airport`s midfield terminal by walking through a broken door, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service said Thursday. Full Story

The Sept. 11 hijackings have left pilots wanting more knowledge about activity in the passenger cabin, without stepping through their newly fortified doors. Now the Transportation Department, with encouragement from Congress, is considering requiring video cameras that will provide images of passengers to the cockpit. Full Story

An experimental anthrax antidote has protected rats injected with the bacterium`s deadly toxin, researchers found. Full Story

The Financial Supervisory Service said yesterday that it was planning to set up the “Information Sharing and Analysis Center” to provide enhanced protection for the financial sector from hacking and other forms of cyber terrorism. Full Story

Konya: The official Internet site of the Religious Affairs Directorate has been hacked by satanists. According to information received by an AA Anatolia correspondent from Hakan Topuzoglu, a founder of the Turkish Internet Union, those who tried to access the site of the Religious Affairs Directorate at diyanet.gov.tr, encountered the character of “Gambit” from the…

Pakistan is not restricting itself to pushing terrorists across the border to India. It is active in other manners, both overtly and covertly, to cause disturbances in India. Full Story

The governments of Arabian Gulf States are under immediate and constant threat of Internet terrorism, said an executive with information technology (IT) security solutions provider, ComGuard, speaking at a recent gathering of e-government officials from across the region. Full Story

The white paper, Opening the Open Source Debate, from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (ADTI) will suggest that open source opens the gates to hackers and terrorists. “Terrorists trying to hack or disrupt U.S. computer networks might find it easier if the federal government attempts to switch to `open source` as some groups propose,” ADTI…

The Indian government said Friday that it has decided to restore Internet services in Kashmir cut off in December for security reasons. Full Story

The US Secret Service plans to launch task forces in eight cities to prevent and prosecute cyber crimes including identity theft and hacking. Full Story

Countering the New Terrorism is a compilation of articles from some of the best and brightest analysts at RAND. Bruce Hoffman, one of the foremost authorities on terrorism, describes his views on terrorism trends and prospects, while the authors of “netwar,” Arquilla, Ronfeldt, and Zanini discuss networks, netwar, and information-age terrorism. The editor, Ian Lesser,…

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The FBI is to be given greater freedom to spy on public gatherings and religious or political organisations deemed suspicious, in the latest move of the agency`s sweeping reorganisation. Full Story

The FBI has warned law enforcement agencies that al Qaeda may possess shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, but it has no information that the organization has any plans to use the weapons against U.S. aircraft, an FBI official said on Thursday. Full Story

A former security guard was sentenced yesterday to weekends in prison for 6 months for falsely claiming he found an air-to-ground radio in a locked safe in an Egyptian graduate student`s hotel room soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

As Washington gears up for months of investigation on what went wrong on 9/11, Congress is beginning to face its own share of blame for missed warnings and intelligence lapses. Full Story

Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person arrested so far in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, has met with a court-appointed psychiatrist who is helping a federal judge determine if he is mentally competent to defend himself at trial, according to court papers made public today. Full Story

Faced with two federal court decisions ruling unconstitutional the secret immigration-court proceedings used extensively by the government after Sept. 11, the Justice Department has issued a new regulation that could circumvent those decisions. Full Story

Indonesia`s stability is crucial to East Asia`s strategic balance, and to resolve the problem of terrorism the United States and others must support moderate Muslims so that they will prevail, Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said Friday. Full Story

Benny Yaakoby says the 12-foot-high, 1-mile-long wall between his town and the West Bank city of Tulkarem is protection from Palestinian bullets and suicide bombers. Full Story

In the end, a fire bell rang 20 times. Bugles played taps and bagpipes played America the Beautiful. In the end, an honor guard escorted an empty, flag-draped stretcher out of a 7-story pit that had been carved, with almost miraculous speed, from a 10-story pile of wreckage. Full Story

The Department of State warns American citizens to defer travel to India. 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 be ruled out. As a result of these concerns,…

As Central Asian governments continue their crackdown on unsanctioned Islamic groups they say pose a threat to regional security, the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, which advocates a return to “pure” Islam and the creation of a region-wide Islamic state, is an elusive and mysterious target. Full Story

Colombia`s right-wing paramilitaries said Thursday they support President-elect Alvaro Uribe`s proposal to hold peace negotiations with leftist guerrillas. Full Story

Reflecting a growing focus of the international war on terrorism, the Bush administration is asking Congress to allow military aid to Colombia to be used not just against drug trafficking, but against Colombia`s guerrilla groups as well. Full Story

An envelope containing some white powder and a threatening letter addressed to the editor of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad weekly, Sanskritik Vartapatra, Milind Shete, created an “Anthrax scare” at Bharat Bhavan in the Shukrawar Peth area on Thursday afternoon. Full Story

Police in the Indian state of West Bengal have charged 25 people in connection with the abduction of a leading shoe manufacturer nearly 10 months ago. Full Story

Militants threw a grenade at a group of police in India`s northern state of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, wounding five officers, police said. Full Story

Plans for the possible evacuation of more than 60,000 US citizens in India and Pakistan in the event of hostilities between the two countries are being undertaken by US military personnel and embassies. Full Story

Liberia`s rebels have killed more than 20 military officers in an ambush in the northwest of the country, according to reports reaching Lagos on Thursday from Monrovia, capital of Liberia. Full Story

The force commander of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), Lt-Gen Daniel Opande, has asked the Liberian government to monitor its side of the border to prevent cross-border attacks against Sierra Leonean villages, the UN said in a statement on Wednesday. Full Story

Peru`s Shining Path, the Maoist rebel group that waged one of Latin America`s bloodiest insurgencies in the 1980s and 1990s and is still on an official U.S. terror list, has a new strategy but its political aims remain the same, an intelligence chief said on Thursday. Full Story

Tipsters swamped the US embassy switchboard in the Philippines on Friday after Washington offered a five-million-dollar bounty on the heads of the top five leaders of the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group, a Filipino official said. Full Story

THE first specific lead that the Internal Security Department (ISD) received, which led to the operation against the clandestine organisation known as Jemaah Islamiah (JI) or Islamic Group, came from a Singaporean. Full Story

The Sri Lankan Government says it will only consider lifting the ban on Tamil Tiger rebels once a firm date for peace talks is fixed. Full Story

For elderly Sri Lankan refugee Ayiam Pillai, hearing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe`s promise last year to end an ethnic war that has killed more than 64,000 people was enough to bring him home from exile in India. Full Story

The Sudanese army says it has recaptured the eastern town of Qeissan from the rebel Sudan People`s Liberation Army (SPLA), after fierce fighting. Full Story

Yemen, once seen as haven for Islamic militants, is holding 85 people suspected of links to Osama bin Laden`s al Qaeda network and another militant group, the official Saba news agency reported Thursday. Full Story

A draft plan by the consultants advising the government on how to take over airport security calls for more thorough screening of selected travelers farther away from the airplanes, and a special card for prescreened frequent travelers that would allow them to pass more easily through security. Full Story

American Airlines chief executive Donald Carty said Friday another terrorist attack against commercial airlines was unlikely and urged some security measures added at airports be dropped. Full Story

Much of the Pentagon`s supply of anthrax vaccine, originally intended exclusively for military personnel, is likely to be reserved for civilian use, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. Full Story

The “Klez” worm and its variants, including Klez.E and Klez.H, continue to spread at a dizzying rate, according to anti-virus experts. The Klez rampage has gotten so serious, recent media reports dubbed it the No. 1 virus of all time. Full Story

Hole could tie up mail servers indefinitely Microsoft has admitted that its Exchange 2000 email server software has a “critical” flaw that could enable a denial of service attack to bring down any servers running the application. The warning came as the company posted a patch for system administrators to fix the flaw on Exchange…

The FBI — whose recent bungles, from McVeigh to Moussaoui, have cast it in the unenviable role of national klutz — is “reorganizing” itself, and much of the refashioning will focus on improving the bureau`s antiquated computer systems. Full Story

A drab tent under the Afghan sun hides a high-tech war room that soon will become the nerve center of the campaign: Inside, tables are lined with soldiers bent over laptops. They look up at computer maps of Afghanistan projected on large screens illuminating the dim interior. Full Story