A plurality of Americans think President Bush did all that he could have possibly done with his early warnings of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Newsweek poll suggests. Full Story

These are the times the Office of Homeland Security was created for , a rising level of warning over terrorist activity as intelligence officials report portentous chatter among terror organizations similar to that before 9/11. Full Story

Employers are carrying out more rigorous background checks since Sept. 11, but critics say the practice is trampling workers` privacy rights by going beyond traditional checks. Full Story

Landlords and tenants from San Francisco to New York went on alert Monday for suspicious persons and vehicles that could represent a terrorist threat to the nation`s apartment buildings. The vigilance came after the FBI notified law enforcement agencies and apartment managers across the nation of intelligence reports that members of Osama bin Laden`s terrorist…

“Widespread failures” within the Immigration and Naturalization Service led the agency to grant student visas to two Sept. 11 hijackers — including alleged ringleader Mohamed Atta — months after the terrorist attacks, an internal Justice Department review said Monday. Full Story

Newly appointed military southern command chief Major General Ernesto Carolina on Tuesday vowed to defeat the rebels and rescue the hostages. “We will rescue the hostages and crush the Abu Sayyaf. This is my priority,” Carolina said. Full Story

Nearly a year since Filipino Muslim extremists abducted an American couple, a massive U.S.-backed search has failed to pinpoint them, a U.S. general said Monday. Full Story

Burundian rebels said on Tuesday that the Catholic bishop kidnapped in a road attack at the weekend was alive and would be released soon, along with his driver. Joseph Nduyirbusa, the bishop of the eastern Ruyigi province, and his driver were kidnapped on Saturday after their car was ambushed on a road some 40 km…

Two foreigners held hostage for five months by Colombian guerrillas managed to escape after securing help from a deserter of the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, who led them to an army base and freedom. Full Story

It wasn`t long ago that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia had an unspoken agreement with the Colombian police. Rebels would plant a stick of dynamite, a timer and sometimes even a big sign, “CAR BOMB!” The bomb squad dismantled it, and everyone went home happy. The FARC got its publicity and chaos, and the…

U.N. authorities said Monday they were trying to locate 50 Congolese who had gathered for U.N. police training, amid reports that scores of Congolese policemen had been killed in rebel-held east Congo. “At the moment, we don`t know their whereabouts,” U.N. Congo mission spokesman Hamadoun Toure said in Kinshasa, Congo`s capital. Full Story

According to SUPO, the Finnish Security Police, Finland has up to a few dozen people living in the country with connections to international terrorist organisations. As SUPO sees it, some of them might be capable of perpetrating terrorist acts themselves. On the positive side, SUPO says that Finland has not had any terrorist attacks. Also,…

Indian and Pakistani troops traded heavy fire in disputed Kashmir on Tuesday, just hours before Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was due to visit. War fears spooked financial markets in both countries as security forces in Jammu and Kashmir — where a separatist revolt has raged for 12 years — geared up for Vajpayee`s…

As the spectre of military confrontation loomed in Madagascar, Prime Minister Jaques Sylla was expected Sunday to tour parts of the country still under the control of a rival leader. Full Story

The rebels – extremist Hutu militiamen involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda – have set up camps in a Ugandan national park on the Rwandan border and are also believed to be in a forest north of the park that borders war-divided Congo, according to the report obtained on Monday by The Associated Press.…

Southeast Asian nations on Tuesday sent a sharp warning to militants in the region by saying they would coordinate tactics to counter terror mongers. “We commit to counter, prevent and suppress all forms of terrorist acts,” interior ministers from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) said after a meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Full…

A senior guerrilla leader was quoted by a pro-rebel Web site as saying a ceasefire in place since February and direct talks with the government planned for next month had to succeed. “This is the last chance for peace. The Sri Lankan government should firmly grasp this opportunity and make the most of it to…

The FBI will soon begin giving polygraph exams to scores of employees at the Army`s bio- defense center at Fort Detrick in Frederick and at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah to see if a government insider mailed the anthrax that killed five people last fall, an FBI official confirmed last night. Full Story

Resistance to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin has shown an “alarming” increase among patients at one of the western United States` largest rehabilitation facilities, a study released Monday shows. Full Story

Some 1,200 World Bank employees were advised to stay home from work on Tuesday after inconclusive tests detected anthrax contamination on mail bound for their building, a World Bank spokeswoman said on Monday. Full Story

A Bellingham grandmother known for caring for the elderly and the infirm pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to sending 18 threatening hoax letters to the state attorney general, six of them laced with white powder, at the height of last fall`s anthrax scare. Full Story

After months of debate following the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings, the Transportation Department has decided that airline pilots will not be allowed to have guns in the cockpits. Full Story

Thirty countries today signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime. Representatives of 26 Council of Europe (CoE) member states, plus the U.S., Canada, Japan, and South Africa, put their signatures on the document at an international meeting in Budapest. Full Story

Washington`s War Situation Rooms are abuzz these days with a score of major flashpoints scattered across the globe, from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Central Asia and North Korea to Cuba, and has now an issued alert of China`s readiness to launch a cyber attack targeting key government computer systems. Full Story

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee passed a bill May 16 that would add millions to federal information security research funding and – thanks to a last-minute amendment – establish regularly updated baseline security standards for agencies. Full Story

Legislation to make it easier for science and technology experts to assist government agencies during terrorist attacks or other national emergencies won quick approval Friday from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Full Story

Over the years I have seen many people offer opinions on why virus writers do what they do. While I accept that many of these people have indeed spoken to a small number of malware authors, it has become all too apparent that much of their text has been based on opinion and not fact.…

When the State Department sent out a computer virus to an e-mail list devoted to travel warnings last weekend, the incident exposed a larger shortcoming in the agency`s security. According to the company that manages the mailing list, the State Department list had been set up to allow anyone to send a message to all…

The Norwegian unit trains for counterterrorist actions mainly against oil rigs, which Norway has in abundance. FSK is not limited to this activity, however, and also trains for operations on airplanes, trains, and buildings. FSK are on 24 hour alert, however are held mostly in reserve in case the police should require special assistance. Another…

Cyberwar 2.0 : Myths, Mysteries & Reality by Alan D. Campen, Douglas H. Dearth is a compilation of essays by some of the most influential thinkers on information warfare and cyberterrorism. More Book Reviews

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell will deliver an on-the-record statement concerning the release of the Department`s annual report “Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2001” on Tuesday, May 21 at 12:30 p.m. in the press briefing room. Full Story

05/20/1989China (- Martial Law in Beijing. The death of Hu Yao Bang on April 15 set off protests, hunger strikes, and the occupation of Tienanmen Square by pro-democracy student radicals, which led to the imposition of martial law in Beijing. 05/20/1927Saudi Arabia – Independence Day 05/21/1991India – Prime Mininster Rajiv Gandi Assassinated during a campaign…

Islamic groups like Hizbollah and Egypt`s Islamic Jihad could be planning to attack the United States and may be more able to do so than the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden (news – web sites), the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman said on Monday. Full Story

The trial of two men accused of funneling cigarette-smuggling profits to the terrorist group Hezbollah started Monday under tight security. Full Story

Tens of thousands of foreigners are illegally obtaining Social Security numbers by using fake documents, a typical first step to identity theft and other crimes, but federal officials still have not found a way to search immigration records to prevent the practice, federal investigators say. Full Story

“The Sum of All Fears,” a political thriller in which the nation and its leaders are caught off guard by a terrorist attack, opens this month, the first film to be released since Sept. 11 to deal so explicitly with the sort of national trauma experienced that day. Full Story

The government has intercepted a series of vague but menacing messages that appear to be communications among al Qaeda terrorists who could be planning a strike in the United States, senior administration officials said yesterday. Full Story

Federal and state authorities were investigating an unspecified threat to the water supply in Orlando, home to Walt Disney World, and alerted the public Sunday as a precaution. Full Story

A British-based Islamic news agency released video footage of Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden (news – web sites) Sunday which it said was filmed just two months ago. Full Story

U.S. warplanes on Monday attacked an Iraqi air-defense radar in response to threats against American and British jets policing a “no-fly” zone in southern Iraq, the Pentagon said. Full Story

President Bush will try to shore up support from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in his alliance against Iraq during his visit to Berlin this week, a top White House official said. Full Story

An investigative report released on Monday found “widespread failure” by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for giving two Sept. 11 hijackers student visas and approving them months after they already had carried out an attack on the World Trade Center. Full Story

Colombia`s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, offered Sunday to begin peace negotiations with the Colombian government in exchange for the demilitarization of two of the country`s provinces. Full Story

Emergency responders need better training and improved communication in order to prepare for more terrorist attacks, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. Full Story

An autopsy report shows the body believed to be that of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was a white man whose neck had been slit and left hand tied with green rope, a source close to the investigation said Monday. Full Story

The commander of the British marine forces in Afghanistan is to be replaced after claims that he mishandled operations, lost the confidence of his men and infuriated British and U.S. officials. Full Story

A Palestinian militant detonated explosives at a busy intersection Monday as he was approached by police – killing himself, but causing no other injuries in the second suicide bombing in northern Israel in two days. Full Story

The FBI asked the CIA to check on the backgrounds of Middle Eastern men taking flight lessons in Arizona months before Sept. 11 and were told the men had no direct connection to terrorists, senior government officials said Sunday. Full Story

A West Virginia National Guardsman was killed in a firefight in eastern Afghanistan when his special operations unit came under fire, U.S. military officials said early today. Full Story

A suicide bomber disguised as an Israeli soldier blew himself apart on Sunday in a cramped market aisle here, ending almost two weeks of relative quiet in Israel by killing 3 Israelis and wounding more than 50 with a shrapnel-packed bomb. Full Story

Vice President Dick Cheney said today that he considered another major attack by Al Qaeda against the United States to be “almost certain.” Full Story

Israel`s internal security agency, which usually searches for Palestinians deemed to be terrorists, now says it has uncovered a suspected Jewish network that apparently planned to bomb two or more Palestinian schools. Full Story

Last week, Democrats in Congress pounced on a disclosure that President Bush was cautioned last August, the month before the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, that Osama bin Laden might be planning a hijacking. Full Story

The F.B.I. had been aware for several years that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network were training pilots in the United States and elsewhere around the world, according to court records and interviews at flight schools and with federal law enforcement officials. Full Story

Some Congressional Democratic leaders and party strategists raised concerns today about remarks made by senior Bush administration officials last fall that they had received no warnings about the type of terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11. Full Story

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg delicately told New Yorkers yesterday that May 30 would be the day to move on. On that day, Mr. Bloomberg said, a minute before 10:30 a.m., Fire Department bells will ring and an honor guard made up of uniformed officers, ground zero workers and families of the dead will carry an…

The U.S. Government has received unconfirmed and fragmentary information that suggests unknown terrorists may be planning to conduct a terrorist incident, possibly to include activities directed against Civil Aviation. The Government of Turkey has already taken all prudent measures to address this possible incident. The U.S. and Turkey continue to consult and cooperate fully together…

Rebels in Burundi killed two guards and kidnapped a Catholic bishop and his driver when they ambushed their car on a road in the eastern part of the country, a local official said on Sunday. Full Story

A pre-dawn explosion Sunday at the only synagogue in Quebec City damaged the front door and shattered glass, but caused no injuries, police said. Full Story

Fresh militant attacks on security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir and heavy exchanges of fire across the border are heightening fears of another Indo-Pakistani conflict. Full Story