Random checks of passengers in airport lines do little to bolster security, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said yesterday, maintaining that the government and the airline industry must do a better job of identifying travelers who pose the greatest risk. Full Story

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Abu Zubaydah – Bin Laden`s chief of operations until his capture in Pakistan last month – said the organisation also knew how to smuggle it into the United States, unnamed US officials have been quoted as saying. Full Story

Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person facing American charges in the Sept. 11 hijackings, jarred a federal courtroom yesterday by telling a judge he wants to fire his court-appointed attorneys and praying for the destruction of the United States and Israel. Full Story

A federal judge said yesterday that a lawsuit filed by the nation`s largest Muslim charity raised “significant and distressing allegations” about government actions in its war on terror. Full Story

Eugene Clark, who worked for insurance broker Aon Corp. on the 102nd floor of the south World Trade Center tower, was one of the nearly 3,000 killed when the complex was destroyed on Sept. 11. Full Story

Iran on Monday denounced a U.S. move to bar visitors from what Washington calls terrorism-sponsoring countries. Full Story

Authorities burst into apartments in several cities on Tuesday and arrested 11 alleged Islamic militants suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Germany, prosecutors said. Full Story

Congo`s government said on Monday it was pushing ahead a power-sharing deal with a key rebel group, despite warnings it could drive Africa`s third biggest country back to all-out war. Full Story

Hooded gunmen on Tuesday shot dead three men suspected of collaborating with Israel at the scene of an overnight Israeli missile strike that killed two Palestinian militants in Hebron, witnesses said. Full Story

Nepal has closed down for a five-day national strike ordered by Maoist rebels fighting to overthrow the king and government. Full Story

Prosecutors were preparing to call a police officer to the stand Tuesday to testify that he heard a British-born Islamic militant admit his role in the kidnap-slaying of reporter Daniel Pearl. Full Story

Vowing to “fight terrorism to the end,” President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today sought to soothe her edgy nation a day after bombings killed 14 people. She put security forces on high alert and offered a $100,000 reward for information on the bombers. Full Story

The U.S. Department of Commerce said Friday that its Bureau of Export Administration had been renamed the “Bureau of Industry and Security,” to spotlight the agency`s heightened role in the Bush administration`s cybersecurity and homeland security efforts. Full Story

The Army last week concluded the first exercise of an initiative designed to improve the service`s ability to defend its networks against attacks. Full Story

Taiwan is planning a drill to boost the island`s Internet defence against any hacker attacks, especially from China, an official said Monday. Full Story

The Department of Energy privately warned White House officials in late March that it lacked the funds to adequately protect the nation`s nuclear weapons research facilities shortly after the administration had offered public assurances that security was more than adequate. Full Story

During the first big test of Oklahoma`s new homeland defense plan, Gov. Frank Keating and other top state officials huddled in a Capitol “war room” here to confront a horrific terrorism scenario: a smallpox outbreak in Tulsa. Full Story

The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide to what extent federal racketeering law covers anti-abortion protesters who carried out a nationwide conspiracy to shut down health clinics by destroying property and attacking patients. Full Story

A new investing tool screens for firms tied to countries singled out by the US government as `sponsors` of terrorism. But will it sully some upstanding firms? Full Story

Some free software and a little Web surfing can enable anyone to hide coded messages in the digital photos of ordinary Internet sites, turning a harmless company marketing tool into a conduit for spies and terrorists. Full Story

The FBI said Monday its warning about possible terrorist attacks on banks in the Northeast remains in effect although the government has no new information that would substantiate reports of any specific threats or plots. Full Story

The White House couldn`t quite believe captured Al Qaeda strategist Abu Zubaydah about the threat to U.S. banks. But they couldn`t ignore it either. Full Story

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Microbiologists, like nature, abhor a vacuum, and in the absence of an FBI arrest in last fall`s anthrax attacks, some of the nation`s top scientists are offering their own theories. Full Story

Six months after inhaling anthrax spores, several of the mail workers who survived the deadly disease have yet to make a full recovery and are experiencing serious fatigue and memory loss. Full Story

The FBI, acting on information from a captured senior aide to Osama bin Laden, warned banks and financial institutions throughout the Northeast on Friday that they face the threat of terrorist attacks. Full Story

Police seized two Muslim guerrillas Monday they said had been trained in bomb-making in Malaysia and were hunting other suspects behind fatal weekend explosions in the southern Philippines. Full Story

A Pakistani court Monday began the trial of British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other men for the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in Karachi in January. Full Story

A right hand, a forearm and a clavicle, and the DNA they carried, were all investigators had to identify the remains of Timothy Stout, who worked on the 103rd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Full Story

The government portrays him as a mystery man who traveled the world with no clear means of support, kept bricks of cash in a briefcase and founded a U.S.-based charity that fed money to terrorists. Full Story

The effort to obtain information from al Qaeda and Taliban fighters detained at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba has been hampered by inexperienced interrogators and linguists, military bureaucracy and squabbles among private language contractors, according to sources familiar with the government`s mission there. Full Story

Uncertain about how they will be able to prosecute many of the nearly 300 prisoners detained at a naval base in Cuba, Bush administration officials are considering a new legal doctrine that would allow prisoners to be brought before military tribunals without specific evidence that they engaged in war crimes. Full Story

U.S. military advisers have begun training Yemeni troops hunting remnants of Osama bin Laden`s al Qaeda network, Yemen`s president said in an Italian newspaper interview published Sunday. Full Story

A videotape of Osama bin Laden made public Monday shows the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks again urging all Muslims to join him in a holy war against the United States. Full Story

Dick Stethem keeps a fat binder at home in Port Tobacco, stuffed with articles, reports and notes about a man he has never met. Imad Mugniyah is the terrorist who authorities say plotted the hijacking of a jetliner that resulted in the torture and murder of his son. Full Story

The Justice Department reluctantly agreed yesterday to release immigration court documents in the case of a Lebanese activist detained in Michigan after Sept. 11, providing one of the first and most detailed official accounts of the government`s secretive anti-terrorism campaign. Full Story

The gas truck explosion at a historic Tunisian synagogue that left 16 people dead, mostly Germans, was definitely the result of a terrorist attack, Germany`s interior minister said Monday. Full Story

A taxi driver testified Monday that he saw a British-born Islamic militant drive off with Daniel Pearl in a white car the day the Wall Street Journal reporter went missing. Full Story

At least 13 people were killed and 60 wounded when three bombs exploded yesterday afternoon in this port city, the Central Mindanao police reported. Full Story

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APRIL 19, 2002UNITED STATES – The Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank are to be held in Washington, DC. The meetings will last until the 22nd. Anti-globalization and anti-war demonstrations are expected. Full Story and More Dates

Relatives of some of the people on board one of the airplanes hijacked on 11 September have been listening to the screams and struggles from the flight`s final minutes. Full Story

In Sydney, he was regarded as a bit of a crank, but 46-year-old Mamdouh Habib has hit the Islamic fundamentalist big time. Full Story

The FBI has arrested a Tanzanian pilot in North Carolina on suspected immigration violations after U.S. intelligence officials found an al-Qaeda document in Afghanistan congratulating him on graduating from a Florida flight school. Full Story

An Indonesian alleged bomb expert for the al-Qaeda terror network was sentenced to up to 12 years in jail in the Philippines for illegal possession of explosives. Full Story

House appropriators blasted the new Transportation Security Administration yesterday for trying to spend too much money and hire too many people as it sets up a nationwide airport security system. Full Story

New Mexico`s Information Systems Division (ISD) put together its first disaster recovery plan in the mid-1980s but, like information technology managers in others states, New Mexico officials found themselves focusing on other issues in the 1990s. Full Story

An airline crew subdued a mentally ill passenger who was trying to hijack a domestic flight in China`s northeast, officials said Thursday. Full Story

Peace talks on the future of the Democratic Republic of Congo have collapsed as the Kinshasa government and the two main rebel movements failed to find a peaceful settlement to the country`s civil war. Full Story

The Islamabad kidnapping drama ended on Friday, with the discovery of an injured Indian diplomat. A R Khanna, an assistant in the Commission, was found by Islamabad police, many hours after he was abducted. Full Story

Israel Defense Forces arrested a top official in the military wing of Hamas on Thursday, the IDF and Palestinian security forces said. Full Story

Malaysian authorities arrested 14 suspected members of a group linked to Al Qaeda in raids that turned up a map of the country`s largest port, officials said today. Full Story

A bomb planted by Maoist rebels damaged an airport in the eastern part of Nepal but there were no injuries, police said on Friday. Full Story

A list of Conservative politicians has been discovered on a republican hit list in Belfast, it has been reported. Full Story

Yemeni police fired shots in the air and used tear gas and clubs to prevent about 5,000 pro-Palestinian protesters from reaching the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, witnesses said. Full Story

The United States is deploying 340 military engineers to build roads and water wells on a southern Philippine island stronghold of Muslim rebels linked to the al Qaeda network, officials said Friday. Full Story

Contrary to recent reports, Israeli Web sites have not born the brunt of the escalating violence in the Middle East, security experts said today. Full Story

A Pakistani appeals court removed the judge hearing the case of slain U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl on Friday, just three days before the opening statements are scheduled to be heard, the chief prosecutor said. Full Story

Speaking before a conference of hundreds of federal technology personnel and industry officials Wednesday morning, Richard Clarke, President Bush`s point man on national cybersecurity, outlined the next phase in the controversial plan to build an impenetrable information network for the federal government, known as Govnet. Full Story