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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
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's 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's 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's 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's 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's 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
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 by Here. Today is the last day to register at the early-bird price of $350
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…