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

The deadly hand of jihadis appears finally to have stoked the fires of confrontation to such an extent that a clash between India and Pakistan is inevitable. Full Story

Muslims in the riot-hit Indonesian province of Maluku yesterday surrendered hundreds of weapons and explosives to the security authorities. Full Story

An explosion near offices of a hardline militia in Iran injured two pedestrians and caused minor damage, state radio reported Sunday. Full Story

A car bomb has exploded in a busy commercial district of Beirut killing the son of hardline Palestinian leader Ahmed Jibril. Full Story

Rebels in Liberia say they believe that some of their fighters have taken a British Roman Catholic priest prisoner. However, a spokesman for the rebels told Reuters news agency that he had no knowledge of the 60 blind refugees who had gone missing with Father Garreth Jenkins. In a bizarre coincidence, the rebel spokesman, William…

The Nepalese government`s plans to extend a state of emergency have come under threat amid opposition to the move from a dissident faction within the ruling party. Full Story

The recent decision by the major oil companies operating in the country to withdraw their monthly statutory three per cent allocation to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has come under strong criticism by the South-south Ideological Forum. Full Story

Philippine troops killed five suspected kidnappers in a gun battle on Sunday with Muslim gunmen believed to be holding a South Korean hostage for more than three months, the military said. Full Story

Philippine police have arrested a dismissed soldier and four other suspects in the abduction of a German woman and her Brazilian husband in a northern mountain resort, local authorities said Monday. Full Story

Al-Qaeda was responsible for last month`s attack on a Tunisian synagogue which killed 19 people, a man described as an al-Qaeda commander has been quoted as saying. Full Story

A week before the Sept. 11 attack, investigators told the Federal Aviation Administration that student-pilot Zacarias Moussaoui had been arrested and was under investigation as a potential terrorist with a particular interest in flying Boeing 747s. But the agency decided against warning U.S. airlines to increase security. Full Story

Federal officials reviewing airline security are considering setting up toll-free telephone numbers that passengers in the air could use during emergencies. Full Story

Some pilots and flight attendants are criticizing airlines for not passing on to flight crews general warnings of terrorist threats that the federal government gave to the carriers before Sept. 11. But others say such vague warnings are useless and would have made little difference in the way they went about their daily routine. Full…

While passengers and pilots pass through tightened airport security checkpoints, baggage handlers and other workers still bypass screeners and metal detectors by using identification cards that open locked doors. Full Story

The two airlines whose planes were hijacked on Sept. 11 said today that they had received only general, vague warnings of terrorism last summer and nothing that would have prompted them to make major changes in their operations. Full Story

The Transportation Security Administration will start considering job applications from people who want to work part-time as baggage screeners at the nation`s airports, a spokesman said Friday. Full Story

Chinese and European arms exporters were hit with U.S. economic sanctions for selling cruise missile and chemical weapons goods to Iran, The Washington Times has learned. Full Story

One day in February, Maxim Shingarkin, an antinuclear campaigner for Greenpeace Russia, led a Russian legislator and a camera crew past unwitting guards, around fences, and into the heart of a supposedly high-security restricted area in Siberia where 3,000 tons of highly radioactive, spent nuclear fuel are stored. Filming the whole way, traveling on well-worn…

The Defense Department is struggling toward a final decision on how to resume its controversial anthrax immunization program, balancing its need to protect U.S. troops with a desire to make the vaccine available to at-risk civilians. Full Story

The World Health Organization agreed today to delay the planned destruction of the world`s remaining stocks of the deadly smallpox virus to allow more time to develop new vaccines and treatments. Full Story

White House and Justice Department officials Monday dismissed a recent intelligence tip about possible attacks against U.S. nuclear facilities on or around July 4, saying it is uncorroborated and came from an unreliable source. Full Story

After Sept. 11, Congress was in a bipartisan rush to pass legislation to beef up transportation security. But after passage of an aviation security package last fall, security measures for railroads and ports appear to have all but drowned in a political quagmire. Full Story

Located in the northwest corner of Spain, the Basque people have lived under centuries of semi-autonomous rule. During Franco`s reign, however, this autonomy was drastically restricted. As a result, Basque nationalists, in conjunction with the newly-formed (1959) Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA) began to carry out acts of violence against a variety of targets. As the…

No One a Neutral: Political Hostage Taking in the Modern World by Norman Antokol and Mayer Nudell is an essesntial read on the topic of political hostage taking. While this book was published several years ago, one need only look at today`s headlines to determine the need for insights into this continuing phenomenon. Please note…

05/17/1989Germany – Conviction of Mohammad Ali Hamadei of hijacking TWA flight 847 on June 14, 1985 and of the murder of a passenger, U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem. 05/17/1983Israel – Israeli Troops Leave Lebanon 05/18/1980Peru – The Maoist terrorist movement Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) began its armed struggle. 05/19/1928Cambodia – Birthday of Pol Pot, the…

Democratic leader Richard Gephardt said on Friday that inquiries into how much warning the U.S. government had of the Sept. 11 attacks would include members of Congress as well as the White House. Full Story

The world`s most wanted man Osama bin Laden is still alive, said another top fugitive, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in remarks published by a leading pan-Arab newspaper on Friday. Full Story

A federal grand jury indicted a French flight attendant for allegedly writing bomb threats aboard a London-to-Orlando flight, prompting a precautionary landing in Iceland. Full Story

A new State Department report has found “no conclusive evidence” that Yasir Arafat or other senior Palestinian leaders planned or approved specific terrorist attacks on Israel in the six months that ended in December, an assertion sharply at odds with recent Israeli claims. Full Story

Foreboding grew in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, as President Bush and his national security aides studied intelligence reports hinting that terrorists could be plotting a major attack, Mr. Bush`s National Security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said today. Full Story

The 16 people who escaped the burning top floors of the World Trade Center`s south tower owe their lives to an unlikely hero: a row of giant elevator machines that shielded one stairway from destruction. Full Story

President Macapagal-Arroyo said Wednesday there was nothing in a recent agreement signed by the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that returned captured rebel camps to the MILF. Full Story

Recent reports of threats against and robberies of American trekkers, property destruction suffered by two businesses with an American affiliation, and increased anti-American rhetoric by the Maoist leadership indicate an increased risk to Americans in Nepal, particularly outside the Kathmandu Valley. Full Story

The Department of State cautions U.S. citizens in Venezuela to avoid demonstrations and to take appropriate precautions to protect themselves from common crime. Because of the continued threat of kidnapping near Venezuela`s border with Colombia, the Department of State advises against travel to that region. Full Story

Investigators searched a single-room shed on Friday where they believe Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was held for two or three days before he was killed and his body buried nearby. Full Story

Up to 80 people have been killed in Colombia as Marxist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries continue their war for territorial control in the north-western province of Antioquia. Full Story

Following the failed arson attack on a store of the US Wal-Mart supermarket chain in Berlin, police investigations are in full swing. However, no firm lead has been discovered yet, a police spokesman stated on Friday 17 May . It was not clear, either, whether the attempted attack was in any way related to the…