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&#039s 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&#039s 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&#039s 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&#039s 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&#039s 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

The United States is more likely to suffer a nuclear, chemical or biological attack from terrorists using ships, trucks or airplanes than one by a foreign country using long-range missiles, according to a new U.S. intelligence estimate. Full Story

A federal judge said Wednesday she was concerned that television could have a chilling effect on witnesses at the Zacarias Moussaoui terrorism trial, but she did not decide immediately whether to permit cameras. Full Story

Suspected Islamic militants arrested in Singapore were plotting attacks on US servicemen, the Singapore Government said on Friday. One plan was to blow up a shuttle bus carrying US personnel between a naval base and a local subway station, a government statement said. Full Story

Israeli tanks and bulldozers tore up the runway of the Palestinian-controlled international airport in the Gaza Strip on Friday in retaliation for a Palestinian raid that killed four Israeli soldiers. Full Story

Three militants, including a dreaded National Democratic Front Bodoland commander and a linkman of the banned ULFA, were killed in separate encounters with police and the Army in Assam, police said on Friday. Full Story

Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Thursday gave international mediators 48 hours to meet FARC rebels in a last-ditch effort to save three-year-old peace talks and avoid all-out war. Full Story

Florida law enforcement officials said late on Thursday that an investigation was under way into a potential threat to blow up Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, younger brother of President Bush. Full Story

With warlords and bandits setting up fiefdoms across Afghanistan, U.S. troops began disarming local militia on Friday as the first prisoners of the war were in the air en route to a detention camp on Cuba. Full Story

The TRC is offering a training session on January 28-30, 2002 in Atlanta, GA. The course is entitled “Advanced Counterterrorism Operations: Preventing, Mitigating and Defeating Terrorist Attacks”. Additional details and on-line registration are available here.

Osama bin Laden established Al-Qaida in the late 1980s to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion. It helped finance, recruit, transport and train Sunni Islamic extremists for the Afghan resistance. Its current goal is to establish a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world by working with allied Islamic extremist groups to…

Congress has provided more than $60 billion since the September 11 suicide hijacking attacks to combat terrorism at home and abroad and to rebuild from those attacks. That&#039s roughly five times what the country spent to fight terrorism in the previous year. Full Story

A British Muslim who claims to have helped recruit more than 200 British volunteers to fight for the Taliban has warned they may launch terrorist attacks here. Full Story

A surgical strike against terrorist elements in Somalia could be just days away, Pentagon and US State Department officials have signalled. The comments follow a steady stream of intelligence and surveillance information that has led the United States to believe that crack al-Qaeda terrorist troops are successfully regrouping at bases around the capital, Mogadishu. Full…

Security at Singapore&#039s American Club has been beefed up The arrests in Singapore over the weekend followed a similar swoop in neighboring Malaysia on Friday, raising concerns that the region&#039s close ties to Washington could make it a target for terrorism. Full Story

GARDA anti-terrorist officers were satisfied last night they have delivered a major setback to the Real IRA after arresting seven suspects in the Full Story

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that the clearest rule governing any India-Pakistan dialogue must be the complete absence of support for any terrorist activity. Full Story

Colombia&#039s second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), has announced it is ending a ceasefire declared before Christmas, accusing government forces of violating it. Full Story

U.S. jets pounded suspected Osama bin Laden training camps in eastern Afghanistan Monday and on the ground special forces pursued scattered fighters of the al Qaeda network set up by the world&#039s most wanted man. Full Story

Investigators following the money trail in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States have traced more than $325,000 via credit card receipts, ATM withdrawals and other transactions connected to the 19 suspected hijackers, The Washington Post reported on Monday. Full Story

Police on Sunday gave details of a suicide note that appeared to show the lone 15-year-old who flew a light plane into a high-rise office block in Tampa was inspired by the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Full Story

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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat faced mounting pressure from both Palestinian militant groups and Israel after his pleas for a cessation of violence were largely ignored. Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians on Monday, including a Hamas member and a 12-year-old boy, after Israel dismissed Arafat as “irrelevant.” Palestinian gunmen later wounded four Jewish settlers in…

With days having passed since the voice believed to belong to Osama bin Laden was last heard in radio transmissions, there was still no sign of the Saudi exile on Tuesday. A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that “it’s anybody’s guess” whether he’s trapped in the Tora Bora region with the remnants of his fleeing al-Qaida…

House and Senate negotiators agreed yesterday to spend more than $245 million to help the District, Northern Virginia and the Metro transit system prepare for potential acts of terror, part of a $20 billion emergency aid bill set to pass Congress, city and congressional officials said. Full Story

The hunt for Osama bin Laden is zeroing in on the mountainous Afghan-Pakistan border amid fears the terror lord has escaped and will activate al Qaeda sleeper cells still lurking in the United States, sources said. Full Story

The security drills created by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure that reactor security guards can repel terrorists involve mock attacks by only three intruders, assisted by one confederate inside the plant, according to a nuclear safety group. Full Story

Policy-makers, security experts, and network protection companies told Silicon Valley executives Thursday that it&#039s time to concentrate on new, high-tech weapons against terrorism. Full Story

Seven suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA have been arrested in Spain. A large quantity of dynamite was also seized in the operation in the Basque region, said a government spokeswoman. Full Story

NATO Secretary-General George Robertson called on allied defense ministers Tuesday to shelve Cold War reflexes and be prepared to spend money to gird for the new war on global terrorism. Full Story

Haiti&#039s beleaguered government staved off an apparent coup attempt, with police recapturing the presidential mansion from armed men in a day of violence that killed at least seven people. Full Story

U.S.-backed tribal forces on Tuesday pursued Osama bin Laden, his al Qaeda fighters and defeated Taliban allies as officials in Kabul counted down to the inauguration of an interim Afghan government. Full Story

Mayor James K. Hahn wants to make the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach more secure by adding more Coast Guard patrol vessels and police positions, and requiring background checks on thousands of employees. Full Story

The nation&#039s governors have asked Congress for at least $2 billion in federal funds to support efforts to improve the ability of state and local health systems to respond to bioterrorism. The governors say that their states cannot shoulder the responsibility of keeping the nation&#039s populace safe from biological weapons such as anthrax and smallpox.…

President Bush marks the three-month anniversary of the murderous Sept. 11 attacks on Tuesday with a remembrance ceremony and a speech on the new military threats confronting the United States. Full Story

The White House turned to a former U.S. Secret Service director on Monday to head a new agency responsible for transportation security, including the task of building a federal airport screener force from scratch. Full Story

Nepal said on Monday its security forces had killed at least 11 Maoist rebels in a forest firefight, taking the death toll since the rebels broke a truce in November to at least 300. Defence Secretary Padam Kumar Acharya told Reuters that government troops killed the rebels after an ambush in Kailali in west Nepal…

Latvian police said on Tuesday they had detained a Russian a former member of an elite Soviet paramilitary force in connection with the 1998 bombing of a Riga synagogue. The 1998 bombing was at the height of a row between Latvia and Russia. It caused no deaths or injuries but was condemned by the United…

Osama bin Laden&#039s photo adorns sentry posts along the road into Poso, with the words “jihad post” scrawled on the wooden walls. Above them fly flags bearing Arabic calligraphy and sometimes the image of a sword. Inside them the occupants may well be asleep. But a few weeks ago it was not like that. Traffic…

A seized video shows Osama bin Laden “amused” that some of the terrorists in the September 11 attacks thought they were merely hijackers and did not realise they were going to die, says a United States official. The Bush Administration is yet to decide whether to release the 40-minute video, which it says proves bin…

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the West Bank and destroyed a Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza on Tuesday, shortly before the start of a European mission to bolster U.S. peace efforts. Full Story

Afghan fighters chased Osama bin Laden&#039s forces to “one last base&#039&#039 in the mountains on Tuesday, as the United States paid fresh tribute to those who died in the New York and Washington attacks exactly three months ago. Full Story

President Bush on Monday moved toward releasing a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden that he said proves the Islamic militant&#039s responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Full Story

Senior officials of the Department of Health and Human Services said yesterday that some tens of thousands of letters processed weeks ago might have been contaminated with trace amounts of anthrax spores merely by coming into contact with intentionally poisoned mail. Full Story

Governors whose soldiers have been called to provide security in their states are asking the federal government to pay for the activation, New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson said Monday in El Paso. Full Story

The White House is calling on the information technology industry to assist in government efforts to strengthen the state of cybersecurity and is also urging vendors to ensure that what they sell is secure. Full Story