A woman who published a death notice in a Finnish newspaper for one of the suspected suicide hijackers in the September 11 attacks on U.S. landmarks claimed she had a warm relationship with him over the Internet. Full Story

Fifteen years after the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque that killed two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman, a Berlin court convicted four defendants Tuesday in an attack that the United States claimed was ordered by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Full Story

Spanish authorities arrested nine people on Tuesday suspected of having links to the international network of Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect behind the September 11 attack in the United States. Full Story

Greeted by cheering residents, opposition fighters captured Afghanistan&#039s capital, Kabul, on Tuesday in defiance of international pressure to stay out, after the city was abandoned by the Taliban under cover of darkness. Full Story

A team of U.S. special forces dressed in civilian clothes and carrying M-16 assault rifles landed by helicopter at Bagram airbase north of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, a Reuters reporter said. Full Story

Investigators scoured wreckage in search of the flight data recorder from a Dominican Republic-bound jetliner that crashed in a waterfront neighborhood, killing at least 265 people in the latest aviation calamity to strike the nation. Full Story

Federal agents today shut down offices operated by two terrorist organizations in the United States, but the Web site of one of the groups is still online and hosted by Internet media giant Yahoo. Full Story

The police vowed on Wednesday to increase security at international schools in the aftermath of a grenade explosion in the courtyard of the Australian International School (AIS) in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta on Tuesday night. Full Story

The U.S.-led military attacks on Afghanistan should be stopped as soon as possible because the whole world sees them as a war against innocent civilians, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday. Full Story

A gunman was shot and killed today after he opened fire at American and Qatari troops guarding an air base in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar that was being used by American military aircraft. The attack added to concerns in a region made uneasy by the war in Afghanistan. Full Story

Gov. Bill Owens plans to ask lawmakers to fund a Colorado office of homeland security in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent threat of bioterrorism. Full Story

Iraq had always said that its Al Hakam factory made pesticides out of harmless bacteria, a common process in the world of agriculture. But when Richard Spertzel visited in 1994, he decided something was not right. Full Story

Federal health officials have begun reorganizing their approach to fighting bioterrorism, an effort that critics in and outside of government say has been marred by mixed messages, bureaucratic infighting and lack of experience. Full Story

If there is one positive to the wave of anthrax-by-mail attacks around the country, it is that they did not hit California first. The state, like most others, needed more time to prepare. Full Story

America is a cyber nation. In this post-industrial world, moving information is as important as moving people or things. If you wanted to cripple America, one of the things you might strike is the telecommunications network. Fortunately, Americans are thinking of this possibility and are working together to protect this crucial national resource. Full Story

The government is investigating hundreds of Internet sites offering products to counter bioterrorism. The Federal Trade Commission disclosed the widening investigation Tuesday, telling a lawmaker that more Web sites claiming to fight bioterrorism are being launched every day. The Food and Drug Administration last week took the first step in shutting down 11 foreign pharmacies…

Galvanized by the recent anthrax attacks, molecular biologists are warning that genetic engineering has the potential to create even more fearsome germs. Full Story

The Bush administration yesterday launched a round of domestic raids and international banking actions to shut down two financial networks it accused of funding Osama bin Laden&#039s al Qaeda terrorist organization. Full Story

Two defectors from Iraqi intelligence said Wednesday they had worked for several years at a secret Iraqi government camp that trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of five or six months since 1995. They said that the training in the camp, south of Baghdad, was aimed at carrying out attacks against neighboring states and possibly Europe…

President Bush promised congressional leaders Tuesday that he would veto any emergency legislation that exceeds the $40 billion Congress has already provided for anti-terrorism efforts. Full Story

Police in the Pakistani city of Quetta are investigating an attack by unidentified armed men on its main airport that left one security guard dead. Quetta is near the volatile Afghanistan border and police say the attack could be linked to the American bombing campaign against the Taleban. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban have executed the captured nephew of slain former mujahideen commander Abdul Haq and are hunting a tribal leader and fellow supporter of ex-King Zahir Shah, family members said on Wednesday. Full Story

President Bush on Wednesday will announce new steps in his attempt to crack down on the financing of terrorism, aides said. Full Story

The FBI concluded Tuesday that the raw intelligence behind last week&#039s warning that terrorists might attack West Coast bridges was not credible. Full Story

In remarks believed to reflect fears in Western intelligence organisations that bin Laden will have given orders for further attacks in the event of his being captured or killed in Afghanistan, Mr Straw says that he has always worked on the basis that terrorist cells operating under al-Qaeda’s umbrella would continue for a period after…

President Bush warned on Tuesday for the first time that Osama bin Laden&#039s network was seeking nuclear weapons, rallying European allies to fight what he called a threat to “every nation and, eventually, to civilization itself.&#039&#039 Full Story

As a country in a Muslim region not that far from the war in Afghanistan, this Persian Gulf state had to fight to keep this week&#039s World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. Full Story

As the Saudi-born dissident Osama Bin Laden&#039s latest broadcast denounces Muslims who support the US strikes on Afghanistan – such as the Saudi Government – many ordinary Saudis remain loyal to their home-grown idol. Full Story

Israeli forces began pulling out early this morning from a Palestinian-controlled city in the West Bank, despite an attack on Sunday by a Palestinian gunman who emptied a semiautomatic rifle into a city bus here, killing two teenagers and wounding dozens of other Israelis. Full Story

A suicide squad of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) struck at an Army camp, triggering a fierce encounter in which four soldiers and a militant were killed and five Jawans injured in Anantnag district of south Kashmir, official sources said Sunday. Full Story

Gunmen burst into a bar and attached hotel in a San Salvador neighborhood and killed 10 people in an execution-style slaying that could be related to the drug trade, police said Friday. Full Story

The ruler of the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan told Reuters on Sunday that he had crushed a coup attempt by soldiers launched two days ago in which one person was killed. Full Story

Fighters from Colombia&#039s largest rebel group killed three policemen and kidnapped at least 11 civilians over the weekend, authorities said Sunday. Separately, gunmen abducted a judge and three lawyers Sunday in Antioquia province north of Bogota, the army said. It wasn&#039t immediately clear who the captors were. Full Story

Former Soviet germ warfare scientists, warning that rogue powers could lure underpaid Russian researchers, called Monday for wide reintroduction of worldwide vaccination against the now extinct smallpox virus. Full Story

U.S. aircraft maintained their relentless assault on Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban on Monday as traces of anthrax showed up at the Pentagon, one of the targets of the Sept. 11 hijack attacks on the United States that plunged the world into crisis. Full Story

American Airlines Flight 11 was in line for takeoff from Logan International Airport, the passengers already reminded to turn off personal electronic devices, when Mohamed Atta, in seat 8D in business class, dialed his cellphone for the last time. Full Story

A unique manual for Islamic terrorists, detailing every aspect of how to fight a guerrilla war, from biochemical attacks to finding the fatal pressure point during hand-to-hand combat, has been obtained by western intelligence agencies. The 7,000-page guide – entitled Encyclopaedia of Jihad – provides an insight into how terrorists from Osama Bin Laden&#039s Al-Qaeda…

Tucked deep in the Appalachian Mountains, this one-stoplight town of 1,545 residents along the Meadow River has always seemed far removed from what&#039s happening in the rest of the world. Full Story

Even if the war in Afghanistan ends in a victory of sorts, even if Osama bin Laden is captured or killed, even if Islamic grievances are addressed and political talks begun, will the threat of terrorist attacks on the West disappear? No, say terrorism analysts, likely not for years. Full Story

The Philippines military has rejected calls by Muslim rebels to negotiate for the release of hostages. The Abu Sayyaf have offered to negotiate over the release of two Americans and about nine Filipinos they are holding on the southern island of Basilan. The group, accused by the US of having links with Osama Bin Laden&#039s…

Suspected Palestinian gunmen killed one Israeli and wounded another in the West Bank on Friday, as thousands of Palestinians marched in a funeral procession for two militants whose car was attacked Thursday by Israeli helicopters. Full Story

A former U.S. Army sergeant who trained Osama bin Laden&#039s bodyguards and helped plan the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya was a U.S. government informant during much of his terrorist career, according to sources familiar with his case. Full Story

The head of the 22-nation Arab League Sunday dismissed an appeal by Osama bin Laden to Muslims to join a holy war against the West, saying the Saudi militant did not speak for the world&#039s Arabs and Muslims. Full Story

The United States again struck Taliban front lines in Afghanistan on Sunday and its military leaders said they had seriously damaged the ability of the country&#039s fundamentalist Islamic rulers to govern, communicate or defend themselves. Full Story

The United States, fearful of a bioterrorism attack similar to the anthrax scare sweeping the country, said on Sunday key front-line medical workers were being vaccinated against smallpox. Full Story

National Guard troops armed with M-16 rifles stood watch at San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay bridges as a warning of terrorist attacks shifted the nation’s anxiety from the East Coast to the West. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said that law enforcement officials must stay on alert “indefinitely” to deter terrorist attacks. Full…

British Airways is to charge passengers an extra £2.50 on every journey from next weekend in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks. The charge, which will be added to the cost of every ticket issued after November 9, will pay for higher insurance costs and better security. Full Story

Since Sept. 11, federal agencies across government have accelerated deadlines for the development of major technology projects aimed at helping to fight the war on terrorism. Full Story

America has more than 95,000 miles of coastline and hundreds of major sea and river ports, not to mention myriad inland lakes and rivers. The Million-Dollar question: Who protects all of this shoreline and waterways against possible terrorism? The Navy? Is that your final answer? Wrong … the correct response is the United States Coast…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is calling on the world&#039s nuclear powers to tighten security at their nuclear plants to avoid them being targeted by terrorists. Full Story

Since being jolted by the terrorist attacks and the persistent, mysterious spread of anthrax, the U.S. government has been struggling to discern what, if any, weapon might be next. Full Story

Ankara has decided to send a 90-person special forces team to Afghanistan, upon the U.S request made last week that Turkey take part in the operations with the U.S. forces in fighting terrorists, protecting innocent civilians, and coordinating with the Northern Alliance forces. Full Story

Doctors have a new clue to help sort out whether people with aches and coughs have the ominous first signs of inhaled anthrax or ordinary colds and flu: Anthrax victims don’t have runny noses. Full Story

The House passed aviation security legislation Thursday after rejecting a Senate version that would have turned airport screening operations over to federal employees. The vote was a major victory for the White House and its Republican allies, and sets tougher safety standards for private contractors at airports in the wake of the Sept 11 hijack…

The anthrax that killed a New York hospital worker matches the germs found in threatening letters sent to media outlets and the Senate majority leader, health officials announced Thursday. The finding suggests that the victim’s infection came from the same source even though investigators have found “no clues” that the woman came into contact with…

So you have your Cipro, your gas mask, your canned water and your crank-powered radio. You have a bike locked on the other side of the East River and your escape route is all planned out. You’ll be fine. Unless, of course, you’re in the shower alone in your apartment when it happens, the radio…

Following publication of this article, Telepolis was contacted by Stephen Whitelaw of Iomart, the Scottish internet company which claimed to have been asked by US intelligence to track steganographic communications on the internet used by Osama bin Laden. He admitted that the press stories were wrong. Full Story

A statement attributed to Osama bin Laden criticizes the government of Muslim Pakistan for standing “under the banner of the cross&#039&#039 and calls on Pakistanis to “make Islam victorious.&#039&#039 Full Story

A Pakistan newspaper editor said Friday a white powder in an envelope hand-delivered to his paper last week had tested positive for anthrax spores, the first confirmed case of its kind outside the United States. Full Story

U.S. B-52s carpet-bombed front lines of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban north of the capital Kabul on Friday, ahead of a promised offensive by the Taliban&#039s civil war foes. Full Story