About 10 opposition politicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) left Kinshasa on Wednesday for South Africa where they are to hold talks with President Thabo Mbeki, a delegation member said. Full Story

Iran, with an assist from Russia and other countries, is developing a long-range missile that would give it the ability to strike NATO countries in Europe, a senior administration official says. Full Story

US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld met Sunday with the rulers of two former Soviet republics in Central Asia to bolster support for the war in nearby Afghanistan and for U.S. efforts to deny new sanctuaries for al-Qaida fighters. Rumsfeld stopped in Turkmenistan to see President Saparmurat Niyazov and then flew to Kazakhstan`s capital for…

A suicide bomber in a car packed with explosives killed 10 French defense technicians, a bus driver and himself on Wednesday outside a hotel in Pakistan`s volatile southern city of Karachi, officials said. Full Story

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, one of two men claiming the presidency of Somalia`s autonomous state of Puntland, has seized the region`s commercial capital Bossasso, following a three-day sweep across the region. Full Story

A report due to the president by mid-year on the status of homeland security likely will not have consensus, White House Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Monday. Full Story

A man who calls himself “Dr. Chaos” and was accused of storing cyanide in Chicago`s subway was indicted Tuesday on more than 50 acts of vandalism in 13 Wisconsin counties. Full Story

Cyberterrorists using “weapons of mass disruption” pose an increasingly dangerous threat to global security, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns in a new report. Full Story

It`s no secret. In addition to the U.S., at least six countries are known to be actively developing information warfare programs designed to cripple the IT, economic and military infrastructure of their potential adversaries. Full Story

Shortly after a military surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter last April, a two-week “cyberwar” began, and U.S. Army Web sites took numerous hits. Full Story

Roger Ver, 22, of San Jose, Calif., received the sentence Friday after pleading guilty to several charges, including dealing in explosives without a license, illegally storing explosives and mailing dangerous explosive material in violation of postal regulations. Full Story

Several 2002 security conferences are listed with contact information and general themes of the meetings. Conferences include: 14th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Conference (FIRST 2002), Privacy Paradox: The Gain of Security vs. Privacy`s Loss, DEF CON 10, Black Hat Briefings 2002, New Security Paradigms Workshop 2002, Fifth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion…

Bradford C. Brown, chairman of the National Center for Technology and Law at George Mason University, oversees a project set up to study the legal difficulties of guaranteeing computer networks` security. The project, in conjunction with James Madison University, is financed by a $6.5-million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Full Story

The Pataki administration has proposed legislation that would severely restrict public access to any information the state collects in its efforts to thwart terrorists. Full Story

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The FBI issued an all-points bulletin Tuesday for a 22-year-old man, described as armed and dangerous, in connection with a wave of pipe bombs found in rural mailboxes, authorities said. Full Story

The United States Postal Service understands your concerns about the pipe bombs placed in rural mailboxes in parts of Iowa and Illinois yesterday. Your safety – and the sanctity of the mail – are our primary concerns. Full Story

Text of note left in mailboxes in the Midwest where pipe bombs were found Friday: Full Story

A pipe bomb similar to those which have left a trail of terror across the rural American heartland has been found in a Texas mailbox, officials said on Tuesday, adding a fifth state to the shadowy bomber`s targets. Full Story

The United States on Monday accused three more states — Libya, Syria and Cuba — of pursuing weapons of mass destruction and warned it would take action to ensure they do not supply terrorists with such arms. Full Story

Libya Tuesday rejected U.S. accusations that it was trying to acquire or produce weapons of mass destruction. Full Story

Argentina`s president said again Tuesday he believed perpetrators of the Sept. 11 terror attacks also were responsible for the 1992 and 1994 attacks on Jewish targets in his country. Full Story

A Pakistani delegation is scheduled to arrive in Washington this week for talks on forming a joint working group with the Americans to combat terrorism, officials at the Pakistani embassy said Monday. Full Story

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson on Tuesday criticized Washington`s abandonment of a new international court for the world`s worst crimes, calling it regrettable and worrying. Full Story

Arab and developing nations were pressing to condemn Israel for alleged atrocities in the Jenin refugee camp and for blocking a U.N. fact-finding mission from looking into the fighting in the camp. Full Story

Dutch elections will go ahead on May 15 as scheduled, despite the slaying of right-wing leader Pim Fortuyn, the government announced Tuesday. Full Story

President Bush intends to include former President Clinton in a U.S. delegation to the May 20 celebration of independence for East Timor. Full Story

Police from Austin to Nashville have worked in recent years to convince their large Hispanic immigrant populations to trust police and call them if they`re robbed. Full Story

Nearly 6,000 U.S. and Philippine troops ended three weeks of training Monday aimed at strengthening the countries` military relationships amid the U.S.-led war on terror. Full Story

THE stabbing of a US Navy man marred an otherwise incident-free conclusion of Balikatan 2002-02 yesterday. Full Story

For the last month, squads of construction crews have been busily throwing up chain-link fences all along the road leading to a disputed Jewish neighborhood on the southern edge of Jerusalem. Full Story

Authoritarian regimes in both Egypt and Tunisia have for years used their own “wars against terror” to restrict civil liberties and abuse human rights, say Western diplomats and rights activists in the Middle East, Europe, and the US. Full Story

The Israeli embassy in Nairobi has condemned a plan by Sudanese elements in Sudan to train volunteers to fight in the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story

The insurgency in Nepal is just one of three deadly conflicts in South Asia which have brewed quietly in the background of the Afghan conflict. But the lack of media attention is no indication of a lack of US involvement. Full Story

Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have signed an anti-terrorism pact as part of South-East Asia`s battle against regional militant groups. Full Story

Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok is considering whether or not to postpone next week`s general election following the murder of controversial anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn. Speaking after a meeting with members of Fortuyn`s right-wing party, who said they wanted the election to go ahead on 15 May as planned, Mr Kok said he needed more…

The suspected killer of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is a vegan animal rights activist who declares on the Internet that “protecting animals is civilising people”, according to a source close to Fortuyn`s party. Full Story

The authorities in Nepal say troops on the ground and helicopters in the air have killed a large number of Maoist rebels in continuing assaults on rebel bases in western Nepal. Full Story

Supporters of embattled Madagascan ruler Didier Ratsiraka blew up a sixth bridge on the island after the veteran leader`s rival was sworn in as president, officials said on Tuesday. Full Story

The United Nations Security Council has voted to renew sanctions on Liberia for another 12 months. The government of President Charles Taylor “has not yet complied fully” with UN demands to end its support for rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone, the council said. Full Story

Three Irish republican guerrillas who tried to buy arms in Slovakia for a bombing campaign were sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years imprisonment each. Full Story

Colombian authorities attempted on Monday to reach the site of one of the bloodiest single episodes of this nation`s internal conflict and rejected criticism that they failed to act on warnings that could have prevented the bloodshed. Full Story

Colombia`s air force said today that it had shot down a helicopter providing air support to outlawed paramilitary gunmen who last week battled leftist rebels in a fight that killed at least 108 people, among them 45 children. Full Story

Deepening the mystery of the biological attacks that terrified the nation last fall, federal investigators have discovered that the anthrax sent through the mail, in general, grew more potent from one letter to the next, with the spores in the final letter to be opened – the one sent to Senator Patrick J. Leahy of…

When he was laid up in the intensive care unit of the Winchester Medical Center with intravenous tubes sticking out at every angle, bleeding ulcers gnawing at his gut and the lymph nodes in his chest swollen up like cherry tomatoes, David Hose believed that anthrax would surely kill him. Full Story

Troops from the US-led coalition in Afghanistan have been gathering human DNA samples in the mountains of Tora Bora to see if Osama Bin Laden died there. Full Story

House leaders want to double the security fee airline passengers pay per flight leg, from $2.50 to $5, to help cover the burgeoning costs of making aviation safer. Full Story

Trying to steer world opinion, Israeli and Palestinian sympathizers are turning increasingly to the Internet, waging an online battle using passionate e-mail, partisan Web sites, and combative chat rooms. Full Story

Israel`s military action in the Palestinian territories has disrupted the region`s computer networks. Many Palestinian websites run from the region have been knocked offline for weeks, including most government sites. Full Story

Officials are most concerned that a cyber attack could be coupled with a conventional terrorist attack, such as those on September 11th, and hinder rescue efforts. Full Story

October 5 may not be as famous as September 11, but it may prove more historic and seminal. On that day last year the United States suffered its first death ever from a biological warfare attack. Full Story

Before murdering thousands at the World Trade Center, Mohammad Atta made repeated trips to rural airports, trying to learn everything he could about crop dusters. Why? Most people think he was interested in spreading chemical or biological terror over a major city. Full Story

“Deny-use” technology could prevent terrorism and jump-start the economy. Full Story

Criminal members of a powerful and shadowy international network conspire to enter the U.S., bringing with them implements to destroy Americans. To fight them, the government develops new strategies and new technologies, but the well-trained and well-financed malefactors continue to test the defenses, seeking any weak spots. Full Story

Top administration officials intend to announce in June or July a comprehensive plan for defending the nation against biological warfare. Senior officials are hoping that by then they can offer enough details to reassure citizens and to guide lower-level officials, said Anna Johnson-Winegar, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for chemical and biological defense. Full Story

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Le Journal du Dimanche reports Sunday that Osama bin Laden`s al Qaida terrorist network is preparing to kidnap hundreds of people throughout Europe over the next few days. Full Story

Pipe bombs left in mailboxes in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska were nearly identical and clearly came from the same source, the FBI (news – web sites) said Monday. Full Story

When three immigration agents knocked on his apartment door in Ann Arbor, Mich., in December, Rabih Haddad already had his attorney on the phone. Full Story

Proposals aimed at cracking down on terrorism in the state sailed through the House of Representatives with little debate early Saturday, winning unanimous support. Full Story