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

The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council plan to publish a list of recommendations on how the Bush administration can best use the nation`s scientific and technical resources to counter terrorist threats. Full Story

Three workers at a major Japanese aerospace company have been arrested for allegedly hacking into the computer network of Japan`s space agency to spy on a rival company. Full Story

One of the most famous hacker simulations occurred in 1997, when the National Security Agency launched a simulation using 35 hired hackers. Full Story

New Justice Department guidelines to be unveiled today will give FBI agents latitude to monitor Internet sites, libraries and religious institutions without first having to offer evidence of potential criminal activity, officials said yesterday. Full Story

The first hacking case to be filed under Philippine laws went to trial today, starting a groundbreaking legal process that is being viewed as a test case for Internet-related crimes in the country. Full Story

Congress` Joint Economic Committee on Wednesday issued a compilation of essays titled “Security in the Information Age” heavily focusing on cyber security and critical infrastructure protection. Full Story

The Office of Management and Budget does not plan to provide detailed information to Congress on agencies` current plans to improve computer security, which could delay budget deliberations on security efforts for another year, according to the General Accounting Office. Full Story

Because warfighting is one of the most rapidly changing learning environments in the military, keeping track of who knows what can mean the difference between life and death. Full Story

The Army is conducting a University of IT pilot project in an attempt to get information technology experts out of the classroom and into the field faster. Full Story

Colleges and universities battle hackers and viruses every day as a matter of course, not unlike the way hospitals try to eradicate health-threatening germs and killer viruses to save lives. Neither colleges or hospitals can live apart from the pests and parasites. Full Story

The ASG is the smallest and most radical of the Islamic separatist groups operating in the southern Philippines. Some ASG members have studied or worked in the Middle East and developed ties to mjuahidin while fighting and training in Afghanistan. Full Story and More Profiles

The New Jackals chronicles the activities of terrorists Ramzi Yousef and Osama bin Laden and the U.S. efforts to apprehend them. The book also details current terrorist activities and future trends. The book reads well and provides useful insights for those interested in the future of terrorism. More Reviews

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The FBI`s embattled director acknowledged for the first time yesterday that investigators might have been able to uncover part of the Sept. 11 plot if the FBI had properly put together all the clues in the possession of the bureau and other agencies. Full Story

In the new age of terrorism, Congress is quietly developing emergency plans to deal with a doomsday scenario in which many lawmakers are killed or injured during an attack. Full Story

In the next two months, Greenpeace plans to post on the Internet a color map showing how a terrorist attack on the Kuehne Chemical Co. bleach plant here could unleash a lethal cloud of chlorine vapor over New York City. Full Story

The Customs Service`s chief wants U.S. inspections done on American-bound cargo containers while they are in foreign seaports, addressing the threat that terrorists might try to smuggle deadly weapons, nuclear included, into the United States. Full Story

A federal judge in New Jersey ruled Wednesday that the government`s policy of closing deportation hearings for individuals targeted in its massive terrorism probe is unconstitutional. Full Story

A Pakistani high court suspended on Thursday a trial court order granting defense lawyers access to a gruesome video about the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, a state lawyer said. Full Story

Libya on Wednesday denied it had offered $2.7 billion to compensate the families of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing but U.S.-based lawyers who announced the deal said they believed agreement can still be reached. Full Story

What began on Sept. 11 with the scream of crashing jetliners, the roar of falling steel and the deaths of thousands ended on Thursday in a silence broken by the solemn tolling of bells, the wail of bagpipes and the sobs of those mourning the loved ones they lost. Full Story

The cramped factory has shut down and its 40-odd workers have been thrown out of work, victims of the economic slump that struck Chinatown`s garment industry because of the Sept. 11 attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center. For weeks after the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania,…

Spain has rejected a U.S. request to search suspect vessels in Spanish waters to avert possible terrorist attacks on its warships, the daily El Pais reported Thursday. Full Story

Representatives from governments and international organizations are expected to meet in Beirut this year to draw up a strategic plan for the reconstruction of the devastated Palestinian territories, a senior U.N. official said Thursday. Full Story

President Bush on Thursday urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to “live up to his word” and stop cross-border terrorism in Kashmir. He dispatched Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to help ease tensions between India and Pakistan. Full Story

By WILLIAM SAFIRE The conflict between India and Pakistan is the most worrisome issue in the world today. Full Story

By SALMAN RUSHDIE The risk of a nuclear battle between India and Pakistan, however improbable, makes Kashmir everybody`s problem. Full Story

Some of the gay men and lesbians who were partners of Sept. 11 victims are poised to collect substantial awards from the federal fund set up to compensate bereaved families, according to Kenneth R. Feinberg, special master of the fund, and lawyers familiar with the process. Full Story

The security situation in Argentina continues to improve. However, the effects of the ongoing Argentine economic crisis subject residents and, occasionally, visitors alike to financial restrictions, delays and other inconveniences. This Public Announcement supersedes the Public Announcement of February 28, 2002, and it expires on September 28, 2002. Public demonstrations are common, but usually non-violent,…

The main rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, left out of a peace accord last month, looks increasingly isolated and divided after its suppression of a mutiny in the eastern town of Kisangani. Full Story

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has accused Rwanda of committing “genocide against more than 3,5-million people” in the DRC, including the victims of “the recent massacres” in Kisangani, by engaging in “killing, slaughter, rape, throat-slitting and crucifying”. Full Story

International relief agencies and opposition groups in the Republic of Congo are voicing concern over the safety of civilians in the country`s Pool region, as fighting intensifies between government troops and militias known as “Ninjas.” Full Story

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the shooting of Zafar Iqbal, a journalist for the Srinigar, Kashmir-based English-language daily Kashmir Images. Iqbal, who was shot by three unidentified assailants this afternoon, was seriously injured and is currently in the hospital in stable condition, according to journalists in Kashmir and Indian news reports. Full Story

Attackers believed to be Islamic separatist militants have stormed a police base in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing at least three officers. A gun battle broke out as two of the attackers took cover in the camp in the mountainous area of Doda, about 180 kilometres (110 miles) north-east of Jammu. Others fired rockets from a nearby…

As border tensions heighten between nuclear powers Pakistan and India, a U.S. government team is in India to plan the possible evacuation of 1,100 U.S. troops and up to 63,000 U.S. citizens from both countries. Full Story

Hizbollah guerrillas fired at Israeli jets near the Israel-Lebanon border on Thursday, showering fragments of anti-aircraft rounds on a northern Israeli village, security sources said. Full Story