Doughnuts may not be quite as American as, say, apple pie, but they come close enough to make Samir Nasier, a Saudi fast-food king, nervous. So nervous, in fact, that Mr. Nasier and his brothers are offering roughly $300,000 to anyone who can prove that their House of Donuts chain has any connection to the…

Some 500 Maoist rebels stormed a Sanskrit university in west Nepal, set the building on fire and destroyed office records, an official said on Monday. Full Story

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has called off a three-nation trip so he can personally oversee a national “fight against terrorism,” the government says. Full Story

U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the major remaining concentrations of Al Qaeda fighters are in western Pakistan, rather than in Afghanistan, but Pakistan has resisted U.S. pressure to mount large-scale attacks against them, according to officials in Washington and Pakistan. Full Story

The Philippines is amenable to letting US military engineers stay longer in southern Basilan island to complete projects aimed at boosting the fight against local allies of the al-Qaeda network, an official said here. Full Story

The mayor of Taal, Batangas survived an assassination attempt inside a cockpit in his town early yesterday morning, police said. His assailant was gunned down. Full Story

The government announced yesterday that privately owned madaris or Islamic schools – some of which were rumoured to be producing students sympathetic to Osama bin Laden`s Al-Qaeda network – will be brought into the national educational system. Full Story

The chief editor of the Tolyatti Review has been gunned down in what law enforcement officials and colleagues say was a contract killing for his newspaper`s coverage of official corruption, organized crime and drug trafficking. Full Story

Three people have been detained on suspicion of being involved in the vicious terrorist attack that tore through a Victory Day parade in Russia?s southern republic of Dagestan, claiming 42 lives. Top Russian law enforcers in charge of the investigation claim that the suspects would help bring to justice the mastermind behind the blast. Full…

U.N. peacekeepers guarded the smashed-up party headquarters of Sierra Leone`s former rebels on Sunday after a riot that marred the run-up to this week`s landmark election, the first since the end of this nation`s bloody civil war. Full Story

Some 10,000 Somali civilians, mostly women and children, have fled fighting in their country to Kenya over the last month, the UN refugee agency said on Monday. Full Story

A bomb exploded Monday morning near an automatic teller machine of the La Caixa bank in a residential part of Barcelona, causing physical damage but no injuries, police told EFE. The blast, which occurred at 1:07 a.m. Monday morning (2307 GMT on Sunday) and could be felt more than half a mile away, caused a…

Ex-Soviet Turkmenistan has warned of a diplomatic row with Washington following a U.S. decision to give a visa to former foreign minister-turned-opposition figure Boris Shikhmuradov, wanted for serious crimes at home. Full Story

Ugandan rebels killed hundreds of people in southern Sudan as they retreated from the advancing Ugandan army, an official from Sudan`s Roman Catholic Church said Sunday. Full Story

Flightwatch America has developed a training exercise aimed at creating a sort of citizens` army made up of frequent flyers who are willing to do what is necessary to prevent a repeat of 11 September. Full Story

With the first summer of post-Sept. 11 travel just weeks away, Bay Area airports fear that federal delays in approving new security measures are going to mean a rerun of teeth-grinding lines for screening baggage, clearing checkpoints and boarding planes. Full Story

The occupation ended at midnight today. The men and women in green camouflage fatigues walked out the sliding doors of O`Hare International Airport here, rifles slung over their shoulders. In came their replacements, sauntering around with pressed blue shirts, metal badges and holstered handguns. Full Story

Some questions and answers about the latest developments in the federal investigation of the anthrax attacks. Full Story

For Alan Davidson, the associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, the greater issue involving H.R. 3482 — the Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2001 — is not increased surveillance of Internet users by Internet service providers (ISPs), but, rather, giving greater police powers to law enforcement agencies. The bill passed the House…

Argentina`s Supreme Court wants legislation to outlaw computer hacking after rights activists allegedly vandalized its own Web site but escaped punishment because no law covers digital attacks. Full Story

With every passing day and with every new network installed, the U.S. becomes more vulnerable to terrorist activity online, federal officials said this week. Full Story

A new system that will allow the Immigration and Naturalization Service to track approximately 1 million foreign students will be up and running in the next several months, Justice Department sources said yesterday. Full Story

At a secret markup Wednesday, members of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee came up with a richer program to bolster the nation`s anti-terrorist campaign but spent a lot of time complaining about the lack of cooperation from the CIA and the Justice Department in the committee`s ongoing investigation of apparent intelligence lapses that may have…

The Defense Department on Thursday announced the creation of a new agency to protect Pentagon workers and respond to terrorist threats. Full Story

Alert and attentive, the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) records, reports and analyzes Internet-based PC security incidents as they impact on the Malaysian Net population. Full Story

HAMAS was born in late 1987 in the Gaza Strip. By 1988, it was already seen as the primary rival to the established PLO. It was at this time that the “Intifada” began to explode throughout the occupied territories, and HAMAS` message was made available to the masses. Links to Full Profile and Other Group…

Preparing for Terrorism: An Emergency Services Guide, by George Buck, provides first responders an excellent resource in gaining an understanding of the phenomenon of terrorism and how best to respond. The book lays out a brief, but adequate, framework of terrorism, and then sketches out how to prepare and respond to a terrorist attack. Buck…

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Three small bombs have exploded in mailboxes in northern parts of Spokane County, the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday. There have been no injuries and postal inspectors believe the bombs are pranks, said Dennis Larson, a postal inspector in Spokane. Full Story

Uncle Sam`s latest doomsday scenario is out. And it`s nothing short of a bureaucratic pecking order that may be unlike any in the history of the republic. Full Story

The FBI said Luke Helder`s alleged string of pipe bombings was part of an “elaborate plan” but wouldn`t say if it included targeting mailboxes in a “smiley-face” pattern across the central United States, as Helder claimed. Full Story

The 21-year-old college student accused of planting pipe bombs across the U.S. Midwest planned to arrange the devices in the shape of a giant “smiley face” stretching across the map of the United States, authorities said on Thursday. Full Story

Mailbox bomb suspect Luke Helder made a crucial mistake while on the run: He turned on his cell phone. As soon as he activated it, FBI agents quickly triangulated his position between two rural towns and had him in handcuffs within an hour Tuesday, according to Nevada authorities. Full Story

The Colombian guerrillas who fired gas cylinders filled with explosives into a crowded church Friday were not terrorists, at least not in the eyes of the European Union. Nor, according to the EU, was it a terrorist group who left the booby-trapped corpse of a teenage boy outside a Colombian army base last weekend. Full…

Federal aviation authorities were alerted in early 2001 that an Arizona flight school believed one of the eventual Sept. 11 hijackers lacked the English and flying skills necessary for the commercial pilot`s license he already held, flight school and government officials say. Full Story

A judge ordered the extradition Friday of an Algerian man suspected of links to Osama bin Laden and charged in the United States with masterminding a plot to blow up the Los Angeles airport. Full Story

When Emmanuela Pierre went to renew her Florida driver`s license, she found a roadblock facing foreign-born drivers nationwide: States are cracking down on non-citizens seeking licenses in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Full Story

Four people were killed and at least eight others injured on Thursday when a mortar shell accidentally exploded in a fishing village in the southern Philippines, police said. Full Story

The death toll from a blast that ripped through a VE Day celebratory parade in Dagestan is reported to have risen to 39. Full Story

Pakistani investigators are looking for three men in connection with a suicide bomb attack that killed 15 people, including 11 French nationals. The three men are believed to have bought the car used in the attack. Full Story

Rebel forces in Liberia are now in control of many areas of the strategically important town of Gbarnga, including the police station. Full Story

Despite repeated vows by President Bush to force Saddam Hussein from power, Bush administration officials are still at odds over which Iraqi opposition groups the United States should support, American officials and Iraqi opposition leaders say. Full Story

Palestinian gunmen, some waving or flashing V-signs, walked out of the Church of the Nativity on Friday, marking the end of a 39-day standoff with Israeli troops at one of Christianity`s holiest shrines. Full Story

The 13 arrived in a grey-painted C-130 Hercules aircraft under a European-brokered deal to end their 38-day standoff with the Israeli army. They had left the church earlier on Friday. The Palestinian fighters, one of whom was taken by stretcher from the plane to a waiting ambulance, walked off the plane and boarded a bus…

Congolese rebel movement representatives will brief President Thabo Mbeki in Cape Town this morning on their plans to advance the peace process in their war-torn country. Full Story

The Colombian authorities have launched an investigation into expenditure at the anti-narcotics police after the US suspended aid to the unit, alleging that some $2m had been diverted from a bank account provided to cover administrative expenses. Full Story

British troops in eastern Afghanistan have found anti-tank and anti-aircraft ammunition in caves that local residents said were used by al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, a senior British commander said Thursday. The airport in Jalalabad, meanwhile, came under missile attack late Wednesday in an apparent new outburst of factional fighting in the east of the country.…

Federal agents searching a Falls Church address in connection with a student testing and visa scam found a flight manual, flight school brochures, a hand-drawn diagram of a plane hitting the World Trade Center and a datebook that contained only one entry — on Sept. 11, according to government sources and court documents unsealed this…

On the day last month when the FBI`s attention was focused on threats that terrorists might strike banks in the Northeast, a two-page personnel announcement from headquarters didn`t get much notice. Full Story

Doctors and the public poorly understand the dangers of the smallpox vaccine and need to be better informed if vaccinations are to be reintroduced after an absence of 30 years, federal health officials and infectious disease experts said here today. Full Story

The Federal Reserve said on Thursday it found traces of anthrax in about 20 pieces of its mail at an outside facility, but a U.S. official quickly said that the preliminary test could be wrong or due to cross-contamination from earlier incidents. Full Story

Researchers said on Thursday they had compared the genetic sequence of the anthrax that killed a Florida man to a standard laboratory strain, and found differences that may or may not help in the investigation of last fall`s anthrax attacks. Full Story

A common pest-control agent used to kill termites and fumigate citrus for shipment overseas could also be used to clean anthrax spores out of buildings, a researcher says. Full Story

If pilots get guns, flight attendants want 16-inch metal batons, the union for flight attendants told Congress. Full Story

Federal officials said yesterday that they are working on a plan that would allow private aircraft to return to Reagan National Airport as early as next month, ending a ban in effect for security reasons following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story

The spy in the sky could get even closer. It could soon be looking over your shoulder. Airbus, the European jetmaker, is contemplating a set of tiny, concealed cameras above its passenger seats. At the flick of a switch – whether the lights are on or off – a wary pilot could spot a potential…

Bomb-sniffing dogs and Danish explosives experts arrived Wednesday in Greenland to inspect a Seattle-bound jetliner diverted to the Arctic island after threatening messages were found at the Seattle airport and a nearby restaurant. Full Story

Police have adapted their methods to fight the new breed of cyber-criminal, with computer forensics experts often replacing the men in white coats at the scene of a crime. In Britain, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is responsible for tackling e-crime, an umbrella term for a vastly differing range of offences, including hacking, fraud,…

A “cyber jihad” could be launched against the West as terrorists moved from the real world to an Internet-based virtual world, a US expert warned today. Michele Zanini, a consultant with the think-tank McKinsey and Company, said terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda were already making huge use of the web for communications, propaganda, recruitment and…

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