President Bush said on Monday he would hand over historic Governors Island to New York, promising to help put the former military base off the southern tip of Manhattan to “good use” as an education center after the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

Muslim nations sidestepped defining terrorism at a conference aimed at addressing the issue Tuesday, but said they rejected any attempt to label the Palestinian struggle as terrorism. Full Story

The Bush administration accused Iran, Iraq and Syria of formenting terror while it urged Yasser Arafat on Monday to ban suicide attacks on Israel. Full Story

Prosecutors in the case of U.S. Taliban John Walker Lindh need not prove he killed Americans, but they must show he knowingly belonged to groups that had this deadly goal, a judge said on Monday. Full Story

Police will replace military troops patrolling U.S. airports beginning next month until the government can provide new law enforcement staffing, according to a new security directive. Full Story

Iran rejected U.S. accusations it sponsored terrorist attacks on the West Bank, saying on Tuesday that Palestinian suicide bombers were resisting occupation by Israel. Full Story

Calling Yasir Arafat “the enemy of the entire free world,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Israel on Sunday to be in a war. He spoke after a suicide bomber blew himself apart in a restaurant in the seaside city of Haifa, killing at least 14 other people, while Israel was tightening its ring of tanks…

The Bush administration`s six-month struggle to keep its war on terrorism separate from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may have collapsed this weekend, Middle East experts say. Full Story

Pakistani authorities have handed over to the United States a man thought to be the biggest catch yet in the war on terrorism: Abu Zubaydah, a senior al-Qaida leader believed to be leading an attempt to reconstitute the group in Afghanistan. Full Story

Muslim countries were split over whether to condemn Palestinian suicide bombers as terrorists Monday at the start of a major international Islamic conference on terrorism. Full Story

Abdullah Awad bin Laden, patriarch of one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia and uncle of terror suspect Osama bin Laden, has died at the age of 75. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20020331/ap_on_re_mi_ea/obit_abdullah_bin_laden_2

Tim Wright had an idea about how to help fight terrorism and he wanted to tell someone about it. So he called the Office of Homeland Security and asked for an appointment. Full Story

The federal courthouse in Alexandria where “the American Taliban” and the alleged “20th hijacker” will be tried is known as the Rocket Docket for the speed with which it disposes of case. Full Story

The scene is a makeshift courtroom aboard an aircraft carrier, where the third-ranking leader of the Qaeda terrorist network, a Saudi citizen in an orange jumpsuit, is on trial accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

The American troops sent here with fanfare last month to train the Philippine military in counterterrorism and to help rescue two American hostages will most likely stay longer than the originally announced six months, American and Philippine officials said this week. Full Story

An unmanned U.S. spy plane which has been used to help Philippine forces battle Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden crashed into the sea while on a training mission on Sunday. Full Story

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded restaurant near a shopping mall in this northern port city Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 40 in the fourth Palestinian attack in Israel in five days. Full Story

Angola`s armed forces and UNITA rebels signed a preliminary cease-fire agreement on Saturday intended to pave the way for an end to one of Africa`s longest and bloodiest wars. Full Story

Uganda captured all four bases of the rebel Lord`s Resistance Army in southern Sudan on the second day of an offensive to crush their 16-year-old insurgency, Uganda`s defense minister said on Saturday. Full Story

A huge explosion, apparently caused by a suicide bomber, ripped through a busy restaurant in downtown Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, wounding over 20 people. Full Story

Pakistan has handed over to U.S. authorities about 20 Arabs arrested last week in raids on suspected al-Qaida hideouts, a senior intelligence official said Sunday. Full Story

The commander of the military campaign in Afghanistan said yesterday that hundreds of al-Qaida terrorists were killed in Operation Anaconda earlier this month in the mountains near Gardez but that small numbers likely fled into Pakistan. Full Story

Breaking the official family silence the bin Ladens have kept since Sept. 11, Abdullah bin Laden, one of Osama`s 53 siblings, says the bin Ladens should not be blamed for the actions of their notorious relative. Full Story

An Islamic advocacy group hopes to raise $1 million for a legal defense fund to help people alleging civil rights violations since the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

Nine senior al Qaeda members have been killed and three captured during the war in Afghanistan, leaving the whereabouts of an additional 15 on the Pentagon`s list of most-wanted terrorist network leaders still unknown to U.S. military authorities, government officials said yesterday. Full Story

A team of American law enforcement and intelligence officials stormed several houses in Pakistan early Thursday and captured five Taliban fighters and 25 Arabs suspected of having links to Al Qaeda, senior Pakistani law enforcement officials said today. Full Story

Fireproofing, sprinkler systems and the water supply for hoses were all disabled in the twin towers on Sept. 11 in the face of a blaze so intense that it drove temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees and generated heat equivalent to the energy output of a nuclear power plant, a federal report on how the…

Lebanon`s Hizbollah group warned on Saturday that its fighters would not sit idle while Israel laid siege to Palestinian cities and forced its way into the headquarters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Full Story

Hezbollah guerrillas fired rockets at Israeli posts in a disputed border region Saturday, prompting Israeli missile strikes in south Lebanon and raising worries of a new front heating up as Israel wages an assault against the Palestinians. Full Story

U.S. and Pakistani authorities are trying to determine whether an Arab arrested in raids here this week is a key lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, a senior police official said Saturday. Full Story

The Bush administration said Thursday it will seek to execute Zacarias Moussaoui in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks and appealed to European allies to keep cooperating with terrorism investigations despite their opposition to the death penalty. Full Story

A London-based Arabic newspaper said Wednesday it received an e-mail it claims might be from Osama bin Laden denouncing Saudi Arabia`s Mideast peace plan. Full Story

An FBI document filed in U.S. District Court Wednesday ties a Bridgeview-based charity to a convicted Al Qaeda terrorist who once was the personal assistant to Osama bin Laden. Full Story

For all the sophisticated electronic tools the United States government has at its investigative disposal, tracking the activities of suspected terrorist groups online has proved to be not unlike the search for Osama bin Laden and his operatives on the ground. Full Story

A recent two-day anti-terrorism exercise found large and potentially serious gaps in the government`s ability to remove debris, clear roads and preserve public sanitation in a large-scale attack on the nation`s capital. Full Story

A Virgin Atlantic flight attendant suspected of writing a false al Qaeda bomb threat was ordered held on $250,000 bail on Thursday after U.S. authorities charged him with claiming to have found the note on a transatlantic flight that was then diverted to Iceland. Full Story

A court in Pakistan on Friday set an April trial date for four men accused in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a case widely seen as a test of Pakistan`s commitment to combat religious extremism. Full Story

Doctors can safely dilute the nation`s 15.4 million doses of smallpox vaccine to make up to 10 times more inoculations, according to new research that comes as the government attempts to buy still millions more doses discovered in a drug company`s freezers. Full Story

Thailand will host landmark peace talks between Sri Lanka`s government and separatist guerrillas who have fought an 18-year war on the Indian Ocean island, officials said Friday. Full Story

Washington`s embassy in Italy said in a statement the U.S. government had received “credible reports” that extremist groups were planning attacks in Venice, Florence, Milan or Verona. Full Story

Israel said Thursday it would exercise its right to self defense, but stopped short of formally abandoning U.S.-backed truce efforts following a Palestinian suicide bombing in a hotel banquet hall. It killed 20 diners and wounded more than 130 during a festive Passover Seder, the ritual meal ushering in the weeklong Jewish holiday. Full Story

Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday designated three Middle East groups as terrorist organizations, including the al-Aqsa brigades, a Palestinian militia linked to the Fatah faction of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Full Story

The Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center had a devastating psychological effect on Manhattan residents, a survey finds, and the worst may be yet to come — not only in New York City but all across the nation. Full Story

A tent at the World Trade Center site where recovery workers eat meals and take showers will be removed and replaced with a hotel parking lot, an official said. Full Story

A pilot program unveiled on Tuesday will allow national security and emergency personnel in Washington and New York to use mobile phones to speed calls through overloaded wireless and landline networks that blocked calls on Sept. 11. Full Story

In the six months since Sept. 11, police across the United States and Europe have arrested nearly 1,400 people in connection with the attacks on New York and Washington. But they have charged only one of them in connection with the worst terrorist outrage in history. Full Story

Train, boat and bus passengers could soon be screened for weapons and have their bags searched for bombs just as airline passengers do, the nation`s transportation-security czar said yesterday. Full Story

Families of passengers and crew members aboard United Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed outside Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, will hear nothing to resolve crucial questions about their loved ones` last minutes when they listen to the cockpit voice recorder next month, say officials who have heard the tape or read transcripts of…

Federal authorities charged a Virginia man yesterday with lying to a grand jury after he and another man flew from New York to Israel carrying a letter that an F.B.I. agent described as a terrorist`s farewell. Full Story

US military officials said yesterday that the hunt for Osama bin Laden remains a key objective of US and coalition forces in Afghanistan, but they acknowledged that the trail has run cold, despite newly reported sightings by local Afghans. Full Story

Pakistan`s government said on Wednesday it was confident that fugitives Osama bin Laden (news – web sites) and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar were not in the country, and it would not allow U.S. troops to look for them there. Full Story

Back in his Texas hometown for the first time since commanding U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Gen. Tommy Franks on Wednesday said the country`s declared war on terrorism could last longer than his own life. Full Story

A French pharmaceutical company has discovered as many as 90 million long-forgotten doses of smallpox vaccine in its freezers, in a find that ensures the United States an adequate supply in the event of a bioterrorist attack, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Full Story

In a setback for the government, a superior court judge ruled on Tuesday information on people held in two New Jersey jails after the Sept. 11 attacks must be disclosed, including their names and the reasons why they were detained. Full Story

Pakistani police released a sketch Wednesday of a clean shaven young man with curly hair they suspect lobbed grenades into an Islamabad church during a service killing five people, including two Americans. Full Story

A senior Afghan intelligence official said Monday that he is confident Osama bin Laden is hiding in a southeastern Afghanistan frontier area along the border with Pakistan. Full Story

Federal immigration officials have arrested and are seeking to deport a young Pakistani immigrant who they say plotted last spring to blow up power plants and other sites in South Florida, law enforcement officials said today. Full Story

Dozens of contract workers in protective suits will spend about two months in lower Manhattan cleaning potentially hazardous World Trade Center debris from surrounding buildings, officials said Tuesday. Full Story

A fraud artist may have left an unknown number of illegal Canadian passports in the hands of Osama bin Laden`s network before being deported. Full Story

More bodies were removed from ground zero yesterday as the gruesome recovery efforts continued in some of the final areas of the World Trade Center ruins to be searched. The effort to find remains has proven especially productive in the last three weeks, as Fire Department searchers mapped more than 700 new discoveries. Full Story