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Osama bin Laden, accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, said two weeks after the United States started hunting for him in Afghanistan that “the battle has moved inside America”, in an interview shown by CNN Thursday. Full Story
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a warning that terrorists were plotting to crash a commercial U.S. jetliner into a nuclear power plant somewhere in the United States, according to a document obtained by CNN. Full Story
U.S. officials have uncovered documents in Afghanistan indicating that al-Qaida planned terrorist attacks on Seattle’s landmark Space Needle, the Los Angeles International Airport, the Grand Coulee Dam and the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, NBC News’ Jim Miklaszewski has learned. Other reports indicated that the terror network also is or was planning attacks on nuclear power…
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called Thursday for tens of billions of dollars in new spending on high-tech weapons to defend the United States against “the unknown, the uncertain, the unseen and the unexpected,” warning that the nation’s military must now prepare for potential surprise attacks “vastly more deadly” than those of Sept. 11. Full Story
Philippine troops on Thursday rescued a German seriously wounded in a suspected communist insurgent ambush but the body of his foreign companion has not been recovered, military officials said. Siegfried Whitman, 78, was picked up by an air force helicopter a day after he and his friend, Bryan Smith, were ambushed while trekking towards Pinatubo…
The man who has claimed responsibility for last week’s attack on the American Center in Kolkata also planned to murder a high-profile Indian nuclear scientist and kidnap two Indian cricket stars, a report says. The report, published in the Hindustan Times on Wednesday, said that a former scientific adviser to the prime minister, A. P.…
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview on Thursday Israel should have killed Yasser Arafat in 1982 when it had the Palestinian leader under siege in Beirut. Sharon’s comments underlined the depth of animosity between himself and Arafat after 16 months of violence and pushed the prospects of them holding peace talks even further…
Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday the United States was doing “everything we can” to rescue an American reporter kidnapped in Pakistan but there would be no negotiations over his captors’ demands. A group claiming to hold Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, 38, said on Thursday it was extending by one day…
President Bush warned nations that might seek to terrorize the United States they had “better get their house in order” or face the consequences as he stepped up harsh rhetoric on Thursday against Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Full Story
US detectives have found evidence that alleged shoe-bomber Richard Reid did not act alone. The FBI has discovered someone else’s hair and palm prints in the explosive-filled shoes, with which Reid allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight. The shoes have undergone a battery of forensic tests in a bid to find the source…
Elite U.S. troops attacked two guerrilla compounds in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing up to 15 Taliban fighters and capturing 27 others, Pentagon officials said. One U.S. soldier was wounded. Full Story
Presented by Salah Najm Conducted by Jamal Isma’il in an unspecified location in Afghanistan Aired 10 June 1999 [Salah Najm] When Bin-Ladin’s name is mentioned, a number of conflicting ideas cross one’s mind. Wealth, asceticism, terrorist, heroism, and Jihad. What links all these words together is this man, whom some people consider to be a…
Statement for the Record of J. T. Caruso, Acting Assistant Director CounterTerrorism Division Federal Bureau of Investigation on Al-Qaeda International Before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Terrorism Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate Washington, D.C. Good morning, Madam Chairwoman and Members of the Subcommittee. My name is J.T. Caruso and I am the…
During the oil boom of the Middle East during the 1970s, Mohammad bin Ladin, an ordinary from Yemen came and settled with his family in Saudi Arabia. He opened a business which later proved to be on of the biggest construction companies in the entire Middle East: the Bin Ladin Corporation. This company was involved…
By Roger W. Barnett A couple of years ago, no one took information warfare seriously. But the more you learn about it, the more concerned you become.” 1 Typical of many today on the subject of information warfare, this statement implies the equation: ignorance = complacence. Yet information warfare has been around since at least…
Attempts to link information warfare and deterrence were inevitable. Emerging at the end of the Cold War, the concept of information warfare seemed to offer new relevancy for old doctrines, policies, or ideas. Many leaders and analysts, searching for new foreign policy priorities and grand strategies, have linked information warfare to a range of issues,…
The State Department historian has released a chronology of significant terrorist incidents from 1961 – 2001. We have archived this list on our site. 1961 First U.S. Aircraft Hijacked, May 1, 1961: Puerto Rican born Antuilo Ramierez Ortiz forced at gunpoint a National Airlines plane to fly to Havana, Cuba, where he was given asylum.…
The pell-mell advances of rebel forces in Afghanistan have so outpaced expectations that American commanders are considering a new war plan that would scale back bombing raids and intensify counterguerrilla operations, senior officials said today. The new plan would include a greater concentration on gathering intelligence and hunting leaders of the Taliban and Al Qaeda…
The end of al-Qaida won’t mean the end of the United States’ battle against terrorism, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Sunday, comparing it to the continuing wars on drugs and crime. Ridge said al-Qaida cells or sympathizers probably were still in America. Even if those networks were destroyed, other terrorists could take their place,…
Several state groups are asking Richard Clarke, the nation’s cyber-security adviser, to ensure that federal efforts to protect the nation’s computer systems are in line with state and local efforts. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and the National Governors’ Association (NGA) are asking for a meeting with Clarke to make sure…
Four policemen were killed and at least 14 people injured in a dawn attack by unidentified gunmen outside the U.S. information office in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta Tuesday, police said. Immediately after the unprecedented attack, police cordoned off streets around the already heavily guarded center, which houses the U.S. press attache, a trade…
The Counter-Terrorism Committee formed by the UN Security Council to analyze and coordinate each nation’s anti-terrorism capabilities is critical to the war on terrorism, U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham said January 18. In a speech to the UNSC, Ambassador Cunningham said that “the events of September 11 changed the way all of us look at, and…
When a young man with unkempt hair sauntered into the British consulate in Amsterdam in July and asked for a new passport, the officials wanted to know what had happened to the old one. He gave a fairly credible answer: he had put the document into the washing machine after drinking too much, and it…
Seeking to forestall possible future attacks, U.S. officials asked the public on Thursday to help locate “suicide terrorists'' shown in five video tapes recovered from an al Qaeda house in Afghanistan. Full Story
Renowned Harvard biochemist Don C. Wiley died accidentally in a fall from a Memphis bridge, medical authorities concluded yesterday in an autopsy report. Full Story
We're bombing Afghanistan, anthrax is in the mail, and all across America it looks like Stars and Stripes forever. It is the evening of Oct. 11, one month into the war on terrorism, and Congress is cooking up something that will be called the USA Patriot Act. This sweeping law includes a dramatic expansion of…
U.S. Special Forces have begun arriving in the Philippines to assist Philippine troops in their fight against Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden, part of a significant expansion of the U.S. war on terrorism outside Afghanistan. Full Story
ABC News reported on the evening of January 14 that the CIA believes that Usama bin Laden has “escaped from Afghanistan and has gone beyond Pakistan,” most likely by sea. This is incorrect. We have reached no such conclusion. ABC did not contact the Agency about this allegation before airing it. Full Story
Three months before the Sept. 11 attacks on America, John Walker Lindh learned that Osama bin Laden had sent people to the United States to carry out suicide missions, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Walker, the 20-year-old Californian who joined Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last year, met bin Laden several times while at a…
The federal government's bid to upgrade security at airports nationwide hinges on persuading experienced professionals to work for government wages when they could fetch as much as $550,000 a year in the private sector. Full Story
Four months after terrorists chose Logan Airport as their launchpad, area public safety agencies are quietly replacing their safety-at-any-price strategies with more targeted and less expensive security measures. Full Story
Two unidentified men exchanged gunfire with security officials at the Lahore airport early Wednesday, wounding at least three of them before escaping, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported. Full Story
Just hours after President Andres Pastrana accepted an eleventh-hour accord to salvage Colombia's three-year-old peace process, leftist rebels came out fighting Tuesday. Full Story
US forces trying to root out the remnants of the Taleban regime and Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan have uncovered an enemy hideout stashed with weapons just outside their base in the southern city of Kandahar. Full Story
The United States on Tuesday charged American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh with conspiring to kill U.S. nationals in the Afghanistan (news – web sites) war and with providing support to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, charges that spare him from facing the death penalty. Full Story
U.S. jets prowled the skies above Afghanistan, hunting new targets after demolishing al Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in the east as the war against elusive Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden ran into a 102nd day. Full Story
In an alarming twist to the current kidnap wave in the country, the authorities recently found that Chinese kidnappers from the mainland have extended their activities to the Philippines. Police say most of these Chinese criminals come from Fujian province in southern China, the ancestral home of many Chinese-Filipinos, and prey mainly on the affluent…
A major security operation was mounted outside schools across north Belfast today to protect teachers and pupils. The move follows a threat from the loyalist Red Hand Defenders that staff at Catholic schools would be considered as “legitimate targets”. Tension is high after the murder of Catholic postal worker Daniel McColgan (20) on Saturday morning.…
In August last year, U.S. intelligence agents learned that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network had obtained a highly detailed, hand-drawn map of the U.S. diplomatic compound here. Full Story
The government on Sunday flatly dismissed the same-day front-page publication of a purported Greek intelligence report apparently listing various terrorists, including a handful of ruling PASOK party cadres. Full Story
Declaring an end to peace talks with the government, Colombia's largest rebel group prepared on Sunday to abandon a vast sanctuary in the center of the country where the guerrillas have acted freely for the last three years. Full Story
U.S. special forces will join the Philippine military in operations against Muslim guerrillas Tuesday, but will limit themselves to advice and will not take part in combat, senior Philippine officials said. Full Story
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Sunday that the United States is safer and more vigilant than it was more than four months ago when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Full Story
Military sources in Kandahar, Afghanistan, said Sunday that U.S. forces are holding detainees who had “plans to one day travel to the United States and kill Americans.” Full Story
The recent spate of potentially deadly anthrax mailings is being investigated chiefly as suspected U.S. domestic terrorism, not a foreign plot, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said on Sunday. < a href=http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020113/pl/attack_anthrax_dc_1.html>Full Story
The Department of Transportation, which last month agreed with Congress in deciding not to require high school diplomas for airport screeners, has taken a different approach in hiring the security directors at the largest airports. Full Story
Months into an expanded war on bioterrorism, the government is still making available to the public hundreds of formerly secret documents that tell how to turn dangerous germs into deadly weapons. Full Story
The events of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax incidents underscored the seriousness of the terrorism threat to the United States. They also drew attention to a host of vulnerabilities and the need for additional training for state and local “first responders,” those on the front line against possible terrorism — firefighters, police officers, emergency…
Although the Pentagon last year approved funding for more than $7 million in safety gear to be used in the case of a chemical weapons accident, federal officials say there is still much uncertainty surrounding the items. Full Story
Around the world, terror groups are finding many former havens no longer particularly safe nor welcoming. The reason: National leaders can all see what happened in Afghanistan, and none wants anything like that to happen to them. Full Story
When the Olympic torch reaches Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah in a month, commercial air traffic at Salt Lake City International Airport will be at a standstill. Surveillance planes will be flying miles overhead as F-16 fighter jets remain on constant alert nearby. Thousands of military troops will patrol the streets. Full Story
Israel waged an internal debate Sunday over the army's demolition of Palestinian homes in the southern Gaza Strip, with critics of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saying the operation was inappropriate and poorly handled. Full Story
Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels declared a three-year-old peace process dead on Sunday, saying they would vacate major towns in their demilitarized enclave as thousands of troops, tanks and jets readied to storm the zone on Monday night. Full Story
The Australian Broadcasting Corp has obtained a video it said showed al Qaeda militants rehearsing an attack on world leaders at a golf tournament and on a motorcade in what appears to be Washington. Full Story
A package irradiated as part of the government's anti-anthrax screening gave off a noxious gas Thursday when it was opened at the Commerce Department, sickening at least 11 workers, a fire official said. Full Story
An international drug-smuggling ring broken up by federal agents may have links to terrorist organizations, an FBI spokesman said. Full Story
A study released Friday predicts the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will reverberate through the U.S. economy for years, wiping out more than 1.6 million jobs in 2002 alone. Full Story
America's zero-tolerance policy against terrorism is being adopted by other countries confronting protracted internal or regional conflicts – sometimes with negative consequences. Full Story
Scotland Yard is spearheading plans to create a pan-European anti-terrorist task force to help track down and prosecute members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, it was revealed yesterday. Full Story
Some 50 Malaysians are involved with the worldwide al Qaeda network accused of carrying out the September 11 air attacks on the United States, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday. Full Story
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