Now, some eight months after that horrible day, a handful of hip-hop artists are releasing songs that take a more contrary stance. Some criticize the military action in Afghanistan, and others are cynical about the praise heaped upon the New York Police Department. Full Story

Man Who Went to FBI to Detail His Trip With Hijackers Faces Deportation. Full Story

To counter the wave of anti-American rhetoric emanating from the Middle East, the United States is fighting fire with fire by creating its own programming for the region. On Monday, the House International Relations Committee authorized a bill to spend $245 million over two years for television and radio broadcasts aimed at the Middle East.…

The Bush administration`s leading hawk on Iraq, in a speech warning of a dangerous gap between the West and Islam, has called for a broad American initiative to strengthen ties with moderate Muslim nations and with the “tolerant people in the Muslim world.” Full Story

Nine men were arrested in the northern Philippines in raids on alleged cells of the al-Qaeda terror network, police said. Full Story

Senior Church leaders here have urged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to probe deeper into why the military, with considerable help from paramilitary forces and United States troops, has not been able to solve the decade-old Abu Sayyaf problem in Basilan. Full Story

Despite two crashes of Philippine Air Force aircraft, Philippine and US military officials rated this year`s “Balikatan 02-2” war games in Central Luzon as successful. Full Story

Biding their time on the instructions of elusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban are regrouping in mountain hide-outs, waiting for the Afghan government to falter, a Taliban intelligence official in hiding said Sunday. Full Story

Suspected Islamic rebels killed 15 Algerian government soldiers and wounded seven others on Sunday in one of the deadliest ambushes of government forces this year, newspapers said on Monday. Full Story

The death toll in an isolated village where rebels and paramilitaries were battling rose Sunday to 108 including 40 children while troops began to move into the region. Full Story

Colombian President Andres Pastrana has held emergency security talks in the western provincial town of Quibdo in Choco state after fighting in a remote jungle area left at least 108 people civilians, 45 of them children. Full Story

Germany assumed command from the United States of a multinational patrol of sea routes off the east African coast on Sunday to try to prevent any al Qaeda fighters escaping to Somalia. Full Story

Army helicopters pounded the heartland of Maoist guerrilla territory, killing hundreds of rebels in overnight airstrikes, a government spokesman said Monday. Full Story

The army has killed around 50 Ugandan rebels based in neighboring southern Sudan during two days of fighting, an army spokesman said Sunday. Full Story

The US may try to remove Saddam Hussein from power even if he agrees to new weapons inspections, the secretary of state, Colin Powell, said yesterday. Full Story

One concourse at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was evacuated on Friday after a screening device detected possible explosives residue, officials said. Full Story

The Bush administration, flouting the advice of major allies and outraging human rights organizations, renounced on Monday legal obligations toward the treaty that set up the International Criminal Court. Full Story

Pakistan`s Supreme Court said Monday that the trial of Muslim militants charged in the kidnap-slaying of Daniel Pearl can proceed until it rules on a defense request to move it back to its original venue in Karachi, where the Wall Street Journal reporter was abducted. Full Story

In his telephone calls to Mexico, Victor A. Martinez Pastrana had told his wife little beyond the fact that he lived in an apartment in Manhattan with a friend, whom he simply called “Chava,” and washed dishes in a restaurant he never named at the World Trade Center with a fellow Mexican from Puebla. Full…

As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heads for Washington today, Israeli officials are presenting documents and other material seized in recent raids of Palestinian installations on the West Bank as evidence of what they call Yasir Arafat`s direct role in supporting and sponsoring terrorism. Full Story

As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon flew to Washington, Israeli officials intensified their campaign today to discredit Yasir Arafat, distributing three compilations of captured Palestinian documents to American officials here that Israelis contend are indisputable proof that the Palestinian leader personally approved terror attacks. Mr. Sharon is expected to show the documents to President Bush when…

A man who led the campaign to rid the world of smallpox is resigning as director of the campaign to protect Americans from bioterrorism. Full Story

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) wants $200 million to develop homeland security technologies under a new Science and Technology Office within a cabinet-level Homeland Security Department. Full Story

Government and private computer networks are facing new threats of terrorist attacks, ranging from an attempt to bring havoc to a major city to nationwide disruptions of finances, transportation and utilities. But people with knowledge of national intelligence briefings say little has been done to protect against a cyberattack. Full Story

Two bills to strengthen the nation`s cyberdefenses will come up this month before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a sponsor of the Science and Technology Emergency Mobilization Act, said his bill would establish volunteer rapid response teams to help restore critical infrastructures in the wake of disasters. The teams,…

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Two months before the suicide hijackings, an FBI agent in Arizona alerted Washington headquarters that several Middle Easterners were training at a U.S. aviation school and recommended contacting other schools nationwide where Arabs might be studying, law enforcement officials said. Full Story

Kurdish separatist rebels in Turkey and Iraq-based guerrillas fighting the Iranian government have been added to the European Union`s list of banned “terrorist” groups, EU diplomats said on Thursday. Full Story

In supporting its arrest of the leader of an Islamic charity this week, the Justice Department has made public new information tying a wealthy Saudi businessman, who is Osama bin Laden`s brother-in-law, to several people convicted in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 or in unsuccessful plots to bring down airliners and…

When the authorities charged the director of an Islamic charity with perjury this week, they buttressed their complaint with evidence gathered with the approval of a special antiterrorism court that law enforcement officials say has taken on a greater role since the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

He was the “true patriot, a trusted friend” chosen by President Bush nine days after Sept. 11 to create a grand strategy for deterring terrorist attacks. Full Story

Sen. Robert Byrd lashed out at the Bush administration Thursday for letting Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge informally brief senators while Byrd`s committee was holding a hearing at which Ridge had refused to appear. Full Story

The U.S. Coast Guard, after beefing up security at the nation`s ports within hours of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, said it began this week to cut back its “sea marshal” forces because it is running out of money. Full Story

At the direction of President Bush, White House officials have been meeting behind closed doors to debate an anti-terrorism policy that would keep some foreign students from studying “sensitive” academic subjects. Full Story

The U.S. military flew another planeload of al Qaeda and Taliban captives from Afghanistan on Friday toward the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the second such flight in two days after a two-month delay to build a new prison, U.S. officials said. Full Story

British forces began sweeping through rugged terrain in southeastern Afghanistan on foot Friday as part of a large-scale operation to hunt down remaining pockets of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, a Royal Marines spokesman said. Full Story

The closed-door trial of Muslim militants charged in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl resumed briefly under tight security Friday after moving from Karachi because of prosecution fears of a terrorist attack, officials said. Full Story

Israeli troops swooped down on a Hamas hide-out in the West Bank`s largest city Friday, while Orthodox Christians in biblical Bethlehem marked a somber Good Friday with no sign of a break in the siege of the Church of the Nativity, now entering its second month. Full Story

President Bush`s hopes of building a strong insurgent group to replace Iraqi President Saddam Hussein have been set back by feuding among U.S. officials over who should lead the opposition. Full Story

There are many more war memorials in the world than there have been wars, but almost certainly none is quite like the one here in the capital of Eritrea: a sculpture of two giant sandals. Full Story

Through the blur of unnoticed seasons, in an effort without parallel, 1.6 million tons of material from the collapse of the World Trade Center have been dismantled, examined and carted off to be examined again. That fire-spitting, hellish mound – crushed concrete and scorched metal and body parts – has been reduced, one truckload at…

After releasing Yasir Arafat before dawn from a monthlong siege, the Israeli government declared late tonight that other Palestinian leaders under Israeli interrogation had implicated him in financing terrorist attacks. Full Story

Police have arrested a senior member of the Abu Sayyaf, the al-Qaida-linked extremist group that the Philippine military is trying to destroy with American help. Full Story

Four people died in a grenade explosion that rocked a village in the southern Philippines late Wednesday night, police said Thursday. Full Story

Three were killed and a fourth kidnapped in the northwest of the country yesterday, just a day after 31 people were massacred in the same region, which is witnessing a surge of violence ahead of parliamentary elections on May 30. Algerian security services said two men and a woman were killed as they returned from…

A helicopter which disappeared in Colombia last month was hijacked by leftist rebels, who have kidnapped two Canadians, a Frenchman and an Ecuadorean who were on board, military authorities said on Thursday. Full Story

A rebel bomb derailed a coal train and damaged a stretch of track, halting the transport of coal from one of the world`s largest open-face mine, the mine`s operator said Thursday. Full Story

Saboteurs blew up a fifth bridge in Madagascar on Friday to disrupt supplies into the capital, where African diplomats were due to hold talks to resolve a leadership crisis that has split the island. Full Story

At least 58 Maoist guerrillas were killed in overnight battles with security forces in western Nepal, a government official said Friday. Full Story

The number of al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has dropped to 331 from 332, said U.S. military officials, who declined to say on Thursday where the prisoner had been taken. Full Story

Plans to use cheaper and more portable equipment to detect bombs in airline luggage in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks could trigger a large number of intrusive searches that might mean more delays and hassles for air travelers, a leading U.S. senator said on Thursday. Full Story

In the life of an air marshal, there are hours of boredom and seconds of unbelievable excitement. The big question: How many of them are really needed? Full Story

Philadelphia International Airport officials are hastening to figure out how to pay a bill of up to $85 million this year to meet new federal security requirements that all luggage be checked for bombs before being loaded on planes. Full Story

In what is billed as one of the first efforts of its kind, a Dallas university is teaming up with local and federal crime experts to establish a new institute aimed at fighting cybercrime. The University of Texas at Dallas is forming the Digital Forensics and Security Institute with the Greater Dallas Crime Commission, in…

Near a table laden with coffee, tea and croissants, David Dittrich, senior security engineer for the University of Washington, discusses the newest tools of the trade with a hacker-cum-security-consultant known as “K2.” Full Story

A pair of hackers who have been penetrating US government computer systems across the country said they are trying to call attention to vulnerabilities in national security. Full Story

Scientists from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health urged biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to develop treatments for biowarfare agents at an industry meeting on Tuesday, indicating the government is stepping up efforts to ensure it is prepared for bioterrorist attacks. Full Story

Biometrics vendors are doing their best to supplant passwords as the chief form of computer security, but Government Computer News Lab tests indicate that many of their products are not quite ready. Some developers have continued to improve already good devices, but others need to go back to the drawing board. Full Story

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Before the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, government officials did not press hard enough to counter anti-American views being preached in mosques in the United States and the Middle East, a former State Department official said yesterday. Full Story