The government has sufficiently enhanced its military strength on borders to repulse any attack by the enemy, Information Minister Nisar Memon said on Wednesday. Full Story

Indonesian Vice-President Hamzah Haz is courting several militant leaders, impeding government efforts to crack down on suspected terrorists in the country. Full Story

Indonesia-Malaysia Joint patrols have kept the area safe but nearby Malacca Strait is still the most pirate-infested in the world. Full Story

Iraq has accepted an extension of the United Nations oil-for-food programme, but again rejected a new sanctions regime imposed by the Security Council. The UN Security Council unanimously passed the sanctions resolution on Tuesday, which frees up the delivery of civilian goods to Iraq but restricts imports which could be used for military purposes. Full…

Charles Taylor helped pile up a lot of bodies – a quarter-million, by rough count – and racked up a lot of enemies over a decade-plus of fueling conflicts at home in Liberia and among its neighbors. The dead are buried, but the enemies have united, and now they have one common goal: Getting rid…

Police outnumbered pro-Palestinian protesters in Egypt at annual gatherings Wednesday to mark the creation of the state of Israel 54 years ago – a day mourned as catastrophic in the Arab world. Full Story

Pakistan has sent more than 1,000 troops near Afghanistan`s borders as it steps up its search for suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban militants. The move comes shortly after US press reports said that Washington was not pleased with Pakistan`s efforts in the region. Full Story

A British man and four Filipinos were seriously injured in two separate explosions in the southern Philippines on Thursday, police said. Full Story

Eight suspected members of the “Oliver” kidnapping gang, who were allegedly about to kidnap a wealthy Batangas businessman, were killed while a policeman was wounded in an encounter here yesterday afternoon. Full Story

Freetown`s people cheered unofficial, incomplete results showing President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah far in the lead in war-scarred Sierra Leone`s elections. Results Wednesday showed the party of reconstituted rebels trailing well behind. Full Story

Sri Lanka`s separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are irked by the air force reconnaissance flights over the north and east of the country, claiming that it is a violation of a truce agreement signed between them and the government. Full Story

Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir on Wednesday expressed his sincere hope for peace and stability in his war-torn country. “The Sudanese government is ready to respond to all the effort made by Arab countries and the international community to achieve the objective,” Bashir said after talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak. Full Story

An attorney for two Air Force officers told a federal judge in Washington yesterday that the Department of Defense does not have the right to inoculate troops with an anthrax vaccine that has not received final approval by the Food and Drug Administration. Full Story

Massport officials and Acting Governor Jane Swift said yesterday that state officials are negotiating with the police union to make all 144 officers of the State Police barracks at Logan International Airport part of a single, elite antiterrorism unit. Full Story

After 4,800 people applied for 600 federal airport screening jobs at Baltimore-Washington International, the Transportation Security Administration confidently removed the job application from its Web site. Then the problems started. Hundreds of applicants either failed the government`s tests for prospective screeners or they didn`t even show up for the exam, according to a TSA official.…

Russian scientists have let the wild dogs out by mating jackals with domesticated dogs to create a canine with a heightened sense of smell that can sniff out bombs, drugs and other threats to flight safety. Full Story

Heightened concerns about cyberterrorism and the increasing need to open internal networks to outside access are pushing corporations to bolster data center security, both on the IT front and physically. The goal is to add multiple layers of protection and redundancy around the data center infrastructure and software while still maintaining the levels of service…

The information technology and communications sectors May 13 formally submitted their input on the latest version of the plan for securing the nation`s critical infrastructure. Richard Clarke, President Bush`s cyberspace security adviser, is leading development of the national plan. Full Story

Teenager Robert Lyttle, notorious more than a year ago as the pro-Napster hacker Pimpshiz, has been linked to another round of high-profile Web-site defacements following FBI raids targeting a pair known as the Deceptive Duo. Full Story

American hackers aligned with others around the globe to penetrate, deface and possibly crash hundreds of Web sites based in the Middle East thought to be affiliated with the terrorists, Infowar.com reported. Full Story

A media bill to go before the Turkish parliament Tuesday could cripple the Internet industry, harm the nation`s struggling economy and hobble free speech on the Web, observers say. The bill would expand already stringent regulations on all forms of media and would require websites to submit two hard copies of pages to be posted…

“E-gov”–shorthand for the information technology-based initiative intended to make it easier for individuals to access government services, while also cutting costs–has been expanding throughout the past decade, as the Internet has reached into the homes of rank-and-file citizens. But it is receiving heightened attention since the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

The Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid, or BBE, is the elite counterterrorist unit of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. This unit was made famous in 1977 when they brought an end to the hijacking of a train by South Mollucan terrorists. This incident was one of the defining moments in the history of modern counterterrorism and provided…

Winn Schwartau is one of the earliest architects of the information warfare concept. In this second edition of his most popular title “Information Warfare”, Schwartau supplements his own thoughts and experiences in the fields with those of numerous other security professionals. This book is a must-read introdcution to the topic. More Book Reviews

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday he favored getting rid of President Saddam Hussein, but signaled he might change his view if Iraq allowed U.N. weapons inspectors back in unconditionally. Full Story

Pakistani prosecutors produced two witnesses on Wednesday they said established links between two key e-mails and four men on trial over the kidnapping and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. Full Story

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday called for change and reform of the Palestinian Authority and new elections, and again denounced armed attacks that target Israeli civilians. Full Story

A senior leader of the Irish Republican Army, on parole from a 24-year sentence for possession of a car bomb, traveled to Colombia to meet Marxist terrorists being trained by the IRA in exchange for drug money, a London newspaper reported Wednesday. Full Story

South Korea and Japan, co-hosts of the upcoming World Cup soccer finals, conducted a joint maritime drill Wednesday aimed at honing tactics and skills that may be needed in the event of a terrorist attack or other types of trouble during the high-profile tournament. Full Story

The City Council approved a six-month pilot program allowing city agencies to accept identification cards issued by the Mexican consulate, giving thousands of immigrants greater access to government. Full Story

In one of the deadliest attacks India has witnessed in recent years, three men disguised in army fatigues killed 30 people today and wounded 48 with sprays of automatic gunfire in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which both India and Pakistan claim. Full Story

Pakistan was preparing to possibly fire nuclear weapons during a 1999 border conflict with India, moving the countries closer to nuclear war than was commonly known at the time, according to a new article by President Bill Clinton`s chief White House adviser on South Asia. Full Story

A new FBI “super squad,” headquartered in Washington, would lead all major terrorism investigations worldwide under FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III`s plan to remake the agency in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said yesterday. Full Story

The ground-level atmosphere of Lower Manhattan has become one of the most intensely studied and sampled environments on the planet. Air monitors have been hung from trees and strapped to the belts of truck drivers. At least 11,000 people who worked at ground zero have had chest X-rays. Thousands more have been interviewed by researchers.…

US special forces have captured a former Taliban regional commander in the southern city of Kandahar, an Afghan general said yesterday. Abdul Salam was taken into custody late last week, after he met in Kandahar with American officers and an aide of the city`s governor, said General Khan Mohammed, the head of the Afghan military…

The classified memorandum written by an F.B.I. agent in Phoenix last summer urging bureau headquarters to investigate Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight schools also cited Osama bin Laden by name and suggested that his followers could use the schools to train for terror operations, government officials said for the first time today. Full…

The Defense Department has included $10 million in its fiscal 2002 supplemental appropriations request to help set up the proposed Northern Command, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. Full Story

An Army three-star general will assume command of a new joint task force that will consolidate operations in Afghanistan under one umbrella. Joint Task Force Afghanistan is scheduled to stand up in Kandahar in late May or early June, Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today in a Pentagon…

Hizballah, or Party of God, is one of the more significant indepenence movements based in the Middle East. This Lebanese Shi`ite group was created in 1983 with strong guidance from the Islamic government in Iran. Its goal today, as always, is the creation of an independent, Islamic Lebanon and the ouster of anything related to…

Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck`s American Terrorist is not only the most illuminating book on the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah building, but stands as one of the few books about a terrorist incident where the perpetrator expounds point by point on his crime. The authors were able to spend over 78 hours…

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U.S. intelligence officials have received threats that terrorists will strike a U.S. nuclear power plant July 4, and are reviewing the information to determine whether it is reliable. Full Story

U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials have received information suggesting terrorists are planning an attack July 4 on a nuclear power plant, but they do not consider the threat credible enough to warrant a new alert, authorities said yesterday. Full Story

The world`s rich industrialized nations adopted a blueprint on Tuesday to battle terrorism and trans-border crime, urging countries to make extradition easier and choke off funds to terrorist groups. Full Story

To generations who came of age during the Cold War, the nuclear arms agreement announced Monday by U.S. and Russian officials has the ring of a once-impossible dream. Thousands of nuclear weapons would be removed from arsenals that defined decades of hostility between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Full Story

Photos discovered on a computer disk during a raid on an Islamic charity`s office in Bosnia, including one of Osama bin Laden, were released by a judge as he refused to throw out perjury charges against the leader of the foundation. Full Story

At the other place, the place called The Hill, things are winding down. Workers are decontaminating the barges, towing away equipment, spraying the ground with a gray concrete sealant. Soon, the makeshift village of sorrowful duty that sits on a remote landfill will exist only in the memory of a few. Full Story

A “high number” of the Sept. 11 hijackers and their associates made their homes in San Diego, according to newly released court documents. Shortly after the attacks, federal authorities identified three hijackers on the plane that struck the Pentagon as having San Diego connections. Full Story

More than 20,000 troops from the United States, Thailand and Singapore began annual war games in Thailand on Tuesday, which for the first time include training in battling terrorism. Full Story

The Royal Marines have announced the end of Operation Snipe, their two-week search for al-Qaida fighters and weapons in mountainous areas of southeastern Afghanistan in which they saw no sign of the enemy. Full Story

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham said Monday that the Bush administration should slow down plans to attack Iraq but speed up efforts against terrorist groups, including the Middle East`s powerful Hezbollah. Full Story

A federal judge told a Muslim charity on Tuesday it may not proceed with a lawsuit to recover assets frozen by the U.S. government until a criminal complaint alleging it lied about supporting “terrorist activity” is settled. Full Story

The 1963 bombing that killed four black girls at a Birmingham church was an accused ex-Ku Klux Klansman`s “badge of honor,” prosecutors told an Alabama jury during opening statements on Tuesday, in a case involving one of the most violent acts of the U.S. civil rights movement. Full Story

A major operation to catch Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar will be launched in the next 10 days, Kandahar`s governor said. Full Story

Pakistan announced Tuesday the death of Riaz Basra, a man linked to dozens, if not hundreds, of sectarian murders across the country. Full Story

In a rare display of cooperation, the FBI has allowed two of its agents to appear before a Pakistani court trying four men accused of kidnapping and slaying Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Full Story

President Bush signed legislation Tuesday to hire more investigators and invest in new technologies to keep tabs on foreign visitors. “We must know who`s coming into our country and why they`re coming,” Bush said. Full Story

Government lawyers Tuesday rejected direct questioning of military detainees in Cuba by attorneys for John Walker Lindh, the American who fought on the front lines with the al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners. Full Story

The government is breaking the law by detaining without charges the second American-born prisoner captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan defense attorneys said in court papers. Full Story