EVEN as it adds to a timeless historical record, “In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01” is very much of this moment. Following Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani through that day, this gripping, sorrowful documentary includes images and sounds too terrible to be seen or heard eight months ago. Full Story

President Bush stood today in the well of Germany`s reconstructed Reichstag and told Parliament that the terrorist groups the United States and its allies are hunting down constitute a “new totalitarian threat,” and in a clear reference to Hitler, compared the current struggle to a past generation`s battle against those who “killed in the name…

Hours after Zacarias Moussaoui was taken into custody last August, nearly a month before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal agents in Minnesota were told that he believed it was “acceptable to kill civilians who harm Muslims” and that he approved of Muslims who died as “martyrs” in such attacks, classified federal documents show. Full Story

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are nearing agreement on changes in the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund that would allow scores of American families from past terrorist attacks to receive hundreds of millions of dollars collectively in compensation. Full Story

After the surprise attack on America, homeland security came quickly to one of the nation`s hottest tourist attractions. Full Story

As always, the American Society for Microbiology`s annual meeting here this week was part science, part fellowship. But this year, the meeting of 10,000 members of the group was something else: part Agatha Christie. Full Story

A festering regional dispute could spark the world`s first nuclear exchange and make the Sept. 11 terrorism toll look minuscule by comparison. Full Story

Rebels in Burundi have freed a Roman Catholic bishop and his driver, who they had been holding since the weekend. Hutu rebels of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) took Bishop Joseph Nduhirubusa, of the eastern Ruyigi diocese, to a pre-arranged meeting place in a clearing, north of the capital, Bujumbura. He was…

Anti-Islamic and anti-Jewish incidents have increased across the EU since the September 11 terror attacks and the intensification of the Middle East conflict, a report has concluded. Full Story

India is reported to be planning to give Pakistan two months to stop cross-border attacks in Kashmir before military action is taken. The influential Hindustan Times newspaper, quoting unnamed sources, said the plan was discussed at a meeting attended by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during his visit to Kashmir on Thursday. Full Story

Pakistan sought on Thursday the United Nations intervention for restraining India from warpath and bringing it to the negotiating table for defusing the present volcanic situation in the region. Full Story

The giant rift between Iran and the United States over what defines terrorism is running squarely through Kazem Alavi`s modest nut shop. Full Story

Heavy fighting has broken out between government and rebel forces around two towns near the Liberian capital, government officials said Thursday. Full Story

There was a steady build-up of soldiers in two of Madagascar`s provincial towns on Thursday as president Marc Ravalomanana reiterated his intention to take military action if the blockade of the capital, Antananarivo, was not dismantled within four days. Full Story

A kidnapping ringleader`s confession has revealed a network of corruption and collusion that stretches from jewelers and drug traffickers to lawyers and law enforcement officials, according to the Mexican daily Reforma. Full Story

“I expect there will be another attack here,” Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin said in an interview with The Associated Press a week before ending her assignment in Pakistan. She noted that two of the attacks (one in the heavily defended capital of Islamabad and the other against French engineers working for Pakistan`s navy) were a direct…

France said on Thursday it was studying the possibility of emulating Britain and evacuating its diplomatic personnel from Pakistan, but that for the moment no decision hads been taken. Full Story

PHILIPPINE security forces killed three communist guerrillas in Compostela Valley in Southern Mindanao, the military said on Friday. Separate reports by radio RMN and the Agence France-Presse said government troops from the 60th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army ran into 20 members of the New People`s Army (NPA) on Wednesday, igniting a gunbattle that…

WESTERN Police District operatives are investigating the possible kidnapping of a Filipino-Chinese businessman in Manila on Friday, radio RMN reported. The victim was identified as one Ricardo Lim-Yu who was said to have been abducted by unidentified men between Makiling and Crisostomo streets in Sampaloc. Full Story

Armed Escorts Are a Fact of Life in Mogadishu The regularity of kidnappings in the Somali capital Mogadishu is a sign of continuing chaos in the war-ravaged country. The kidnappings are a blot on the country`s image abroad and increase the suffering of a population afflicted by 12 years of lawlessness. Full Story

A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA exploded Thursday in the northern city of Pamplona, injuring two people and sending a huge cloud of smoke billowing over the city center, authorities said. Full Story

Fifteen people are reported to have been killed and many more injured when a plane dropped bombs on a village in southern Sudan. The rebels Sudan People`s Liberation Movement has accused the government of responsibility. An Antonov bomber attacked in the dark without warning early on Wednesday, according to foreign aid workers inside southern Sudan.…

The man who briefly replaced Venezuela`s president during a short-lived coup was seeking asylum in the Colombian Embassy Friday after escaping from house arrest. Full Story

Seven members of a religious sect in Zimbabwe – including a 4-year-old boy – died after drinking tea suspected to have been poisoned, police said Thursday. Full Story

The government has cut training for federal air marshal applicants and put new hires on flights without requiring the advanced marksmanship skills the program used to demand, USA TODAY has learned. Full Story

National lab scientists are developing a plan to help cities track biological and chemical agents such as anthrax and other nearly invisible weapons of mass destruction. Full Story

A new terrorism warning surfaced this week indicating that as many as 25 terrorists of Middle Eastern origin may have slipped into the U.S. unnoticed after stowing away aboard cargo ships that entered four major U.S. seaports. Full Story

To better track hazardous waste, California is implementing a secure Web-based system for government agencies, manufacturers and haulers to keep tabs on the transport and disposal of used oil and other manufacturing byproducts. Full Story

The Social Security Administration, cracking down on the use of Social Security numbers in the aftermath of Sept. 11, no longer will issue numbers to foreigners to apply for driver`s licenses even in states that require them. The agency also has stepped up efforts to identify mismatches between names and Social Security numbers with help…

A bill to create a Cabinet-level homeland security department cleared the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday on a 7-3 party-line vote. Full Story

A few weeks ago, RapSheets.com began selling national criminal background checks for $20 to $30 a pop. The tiny Tennessee firm claims its new criminal directory is the most comprehensive on the Internet, encompassing 50 million criminal records in 36 states (it includes Virginia but not Maryland or the District). Full Story

The US State Department says it has been affected by the Klez computer virus. An official says hundreds of rogue emails have been in circulation claiming they`re from one of its offices. Full Story

Network-centric warfare – which seeks to make data available to those who need it across the organization or on the battlefield – is the future of the U.S. military, but many potential pitfalls must be addressed to ensure its success, according to a top official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Full Story

After watching the popularity of video gaming grow into a $9 billion business last year, the U.S. military is launching a video game with an eye toward recruiting. Full Story

Corporate secrets are being left unprotected on personal digital assistants (PDAs), with one in four users not bothering to protect their PDA with a password. Full Story

Most, if not all, of corporate web sites are fundamentally insecure. And this insecurity can allow attackers to access databases, delete or change information, and cause absolute chaos with very little effort or technical know how. Full Story

This group was formed in the 1960s by the college-educated children of wealthy Iranian merchants. Their purpose in organizing was to counter what they perceived as excessive Western influence in the Shah`s regime and to bring the nation more in line with their philosophical blend of Marxism and Islam. At a point early in the…

Origins of Terrorism : Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind looks at the causes of terrorism. Two possibly conflicting thoughts on the origins of terrorism are proposed at the beginning of the book in the form of two essays: 1) Terrorism is a product of strategic choice, and 2) Terrorism is a product of psychological…

05/23/1951China (People`s Republic of) – Tibet was “peacefully liberated” when representatives of the Dalai Lama signed an agreement with the Beijing government accepting Chinese rule in return for a promise of greater autonomy. 05/24/1993Eritrea – Independence from Ethiopia 05/24/1984Philippines – Urban Terrorism Begins 05/25/1946Jordan – Independence Day 05/25/1990Spain – Sevillano Died (GRAPO Member) after a…

Former Mayor Rudoph Giuliani told emergency management officials from around the country on Wednesday that the world is safer now than before Sept. 11. Full Story

International security agencies are concerned suicide bombings will spread to Europe and the United States much in the way airliner hijackings proliferated across the globe in the 1970s and 80s. Full Story

President Hosni Mubarak, marking the Prophet Muhammad`s birthday, called on Muslims to project a true image of a merciful and compassionate Islam by showing moderation and taking part in dialogue with non-Muslims. Full Story

A popular House bill throwing $29 billion at the fight against terrorism has become the battleground for an election-year tussle over the burgeoning national debt. Full Story

Hours after the Israeli military killed a well-known Palestinian militant and two of his comrades, a young man with bleached-blond hair and a hidden bomb blew himself up at a park gazebo here, killing at least 2 Israelis and injuring 27 others. Full Story

The source of a tip this week that terrorists might strike at the Brooklyn Bridge or the Statue of Liberty was Abu Zubaydah, the highest-ranking Qaeda operative captured since Sept. 11, a senior law enforcement official said yesterday. That is one reason New York officials put the city on high alert and publicized details of…

In a wide-ranging speech that touched on the expansion of NATO, United States ties with Russia and the prospects of peace in the Middle East, President Bush told the German Parliament today that the dangers of terrorism were worldwide and that European nations were at risk. Full Story

The FBI agent whose concerns about radical Middle Easterners at U.S. flight schools were cast aside by the bureau last summer defended his troubled agency here this week, telling lawmakers that he did not foresee the attacks of Sept. 11. Full Story

Papua New Guinea will hold national elections in mid-June 2002. During the lead-up to polling and in the weeks after the results are announced, political meetings and impromptu demonstrations are likely. In the past, some of these have turned violent, especially in the Highlands region. Full Story

Al-Qaeda`s assets are being spirited away, the UN says. A UN Security Council monitoring group has warned that the al-Qaeda movement may be converting its financial assets in an attempt to avoid global constraints on the funding of terrorist networks. Full Story

About 10 government troops have been killed in an ambush near the Algerian capital, reports say. The attack in the Blida region, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Algiers, comes amid increasing violence one week before Algerians are due to vote in legislative elections. Full Story

The Angolan government says the United States and other countries have begun sending food and other relief supplies for former UNITA rebels, some of whom are dying of malnutrition and disease. Full Story

The talk of the day in Latin American diplomatic circles: whether the expected electoral victory on Sunday of Colombia`s hard-line presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe will bring about an escalation of Colombia`s war that could spill over to neighboring Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador and Peru. Full Story

Arrests and executions are continuing in Kisangani in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following a failed mutiny within an armed anti-government movement, UN Special Representative to the DRC Amos Namanga Ngongi said on Tuesday. Full Story

Ethiopia and Eritrea traded accusations this week after a high-level meeting to iron out any potential problems over the border ruling, announced last month. Full Story

Right-wing extremist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen may not be the only threat that France is facing. Rocked by the devastating May 8 explosion aboard a Pakistan Navy bus that left 11 of their countrymen dead in Karachi, the French are taking no chances. The aftershocks of the attack are being felt as far away as…

In a televised address to the nation, India`s prime minister has stepped back from the strong military posturing that has marked his stance on the disputed territory of Kashmir. Full Story

A leader of the militant group behind a suicide bombing that killed two Israelis in a city park vowed on Thursday to carry out more attacks. Full Story

A bomb attached to a tanker truck exploded Thursday at Israel`s biggest fuel depot in what police said was likely a Palestinian terror attack. The blast ripped through the driver`s cabin and sent fuel pouring onto the tarmac, but the fire was quickly extinguished and no one was hurt. Full Story

The Macedonian army said on Thursday ethnic Albanian gunmen attacked an army post by the Kosovo border, describing it as one of the most serious incidents directed at its forces since last year`s conflict. Full Story

IIslamabad has responded to warnings by foreign governments about the safety of their citizens living in Pakistan, saying it can provide all necessary security and calling for calm. Full Story