China paid Osama bin Laden several million dollars for access to unexploded United States cruise missiles left over from the US attack on his bases three years ago, a senior alleged al-Qaeda agent in Europe has claimed. Full Story

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf warned Monday that if U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan extended into the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, they would have a negative effect in the Muslim world. Full Story

Israeli warplanes fired missiles near a town in south Lebanon Monday after Hizbollah guerrillas fired at Israeli posts in the disputed Shebaa Farms zone, witnesses said. Full Story

Americans have received their marching orders. They have been told to stiffen their sinews, summon up their blood—and go to the mall. And a movie. This summons to normality is akin to the rallying cry on the eve of Agincourt. However, energetic everydayness, even lightheartedness, is suddenly a serious duty. Just as there is at…

More than a month after the September terror attacks, the United States and its close allies are still intercepting communications among Osama bin Laden&#039s associates and are convinced more attacks are coming, intelligence officials in several countries say. Full Story

After 40 days of the most aggressive criminal investigation in American history, federal law enforcement officials have arrested 830 people but have failed to develop evidence that anyone now in custody was a conspirator in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Full Story

President Bush worked today to deepen the stake that other countries feel in the U.S.-led coalition against terrorism, arguing for the first time that the Sept. 11 attacks were aimed at destroying world financial markets. Full Story

Governments around the world have been warned to prepare against a terrorist smallpox attack which could kill millions. The World Health Organisation has told them to ensure they can produce enough vaccine to protect their population against the disease, and is preparing to order mass precautionary vaccination of all citizens. Full Story

Leftist guerrillas killed nine people and injured 15 others in separate attacks in war-torn Colombia, the army said on Sunday as government and rebel negotiators traded barbs over new trouble in the country&#039s fragile peace process. Full Story

Two children were hurt in a bomb blast and a man was shot and wounded when violence flared at sectarian flashpoints in north Belfast on Sunday, Northern Irish police said. Full Story

President Bush won broad backing from a Pacific Rim summit Sunday for his war on terrorism, but Russia went further with a full vote of confidence in U.S.-led attacks against Afghanistan. Full Story

Israeli maintained its stranglehold on six Palestinian cities on Monday, saying its biggest ground offensive against the Palestinian Authority was aimed at pressuring, but not toppling, President Yasser Arafat. Full Story

The New York Post has received an anthrax-laced letter virtually identical to ones sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the tabloid newspaper said on Sunday. Full Story

President Bush has given the CIA &#039&#039new leeway&#039&#039 to do whatever is necessary in covert operations to destroy Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, a U.S. official said on Sunday. Full Story

A little-known exercise held last year to help federal, state and local officials in Utah prepare for a possible terrorist attack during the 2002 Winter Olympics may hold some of the most important lessons for critical-infrastructure protection in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a key official involved in the exercise.…

A probe of the financial backing of the Sept. 11 suicide attacks on the United States has led to bank accounts held by two suspected terrorists and a gleaming silver-and-granite exchange house in a grimy neighborhood of this freewheeling Persian Gulf commercial center. Full Story

President Bush and President Jiang Zemin of China met for the first time here this morning and emerged with Mr. Bush declaring that China had agreed to “cooperate with intelligence matters and interdict the financing” of major terrorist groups. Full Story

Investigators pursuing the anthrax exposure cases in New York, Washington and Florida say they suspect that the rash of contaminated letters is related to the Sept. 11 attacks and are investigating the possibility that Al Qaeda confederates of the hijackers are behind the incidents. Full Story

House negotiators have agreed to a Senate demand to include money laundering legislation in President Bush&#039s anti-terrorism package, clearing the last major hurdle to passage, senators said Thursday. Full Story

Two new cases of the skin form of anthrax were reported Thursday, one involving an assistant to CBS anchorman Dan Rather and the other a postal worker in New Jersey. That brought to six the total number of confirmed cases of infection. Full Story

Four Osama bin Laden disciples convicted in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa were sentenced to life without parole Thursday in a city still reeling from last month’s terrorist attacks. Full Story

The FBI and U.S. Postal Service on Thursday offered an award up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of those who sent anthrax through the mail. Investigators continued to link the various incidents through evidence. Full Story

Spanish police have arrested seven suspected members of armed Basque separatist group ETA, seizing arms and explosives in a series of raids. Full Story

Preliminary tests show the anthrax sent to NBC in New York and a tabloid newspaper company in Florida were the same strain, and the FBI is pursuing “substantive leads” in the investigation into who may have sent the bacteria, officials said Wednesday. Full Story

The House overwhelmingly passed a measure Wednesday expanding the government’s power to cut money flows to terrorist networks, amid protests from key senators that the legislation should not have been stripped from President Bush’s anti-terrorism package. Full Story

The Indian cabinet has approved new legislation to combat terrorism which makes it compulsory to pass information about terrorist activities to the authorities. Full Story

Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi, an extreme rightist who favored forcing millions of Arabs to leave Israel and Israeli-occupied territories, was shot to death outside his hotel room today by at least one Palestinian assassin. It was the first murder of an Israel cabinet minister by Palestinians in the Jewish state&#039s 52-year history. Full Story

Gov. George Pataki&#039s midtown Manhattan office showed the presence of anthrax in an initial test, the governor announced Wednesday. No workers were known to be exposed. Full Story

Thirty-one people have tested positive for exposure to anthrax as a result of a contaminated letter sent to the office of Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic majority leader, the senator said today. Full Story

President Bush said in an interview released on Wednesday that he envisioned the U.S.-led war on terrorism lasting more than two years and being fought in multiple theaters. Full Story

The terrorist threat against the United States “has not diminished” since the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued its warning last week on imminent anti-US terrorist attacks, FBI chief Robert Mueller said Tuesday. Full Story

The FBI has received 2,300 reports of suspected anthrax attacks since the start of the month. FBI director Robert Mueller said the overwhelming majority have been false alarms or hoaxes. Full Story

Federal investigators are searching for possible links between the September 11 attacks on the United States and the recent anthrax cases that have triggered bioterrorism scares across the country. Full Story

There is no guarantee against more terrorist strikes, but America is secure and getting safer, Tom Ridge, the nation&#039s first director of homeland security, said Tuesday. “The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown,&#039&#039 he said. Full Story

White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told millions of viewers of Arabic-language television Monday that the U.S. offensive in Afghanistan was a “war against people who take the lives of innocents&#039&#039 and not a campaign targeting Arab or Muslim nations. Full Story

Across Europe and elsewhere Monday, anthrax scares sent some people to hospitals and others home from work, uncertain whether or not they had been exposed to the spores. Full Story

Authorities closed an entire wing of an eight-story Senate office building Tuesday and began testing and treating hundreds of people for possible anthrax exposure after tests found the bacteria in a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Meanwhile, the Justice Department released photos of the anthrax-tainted letters sent to Daschle and NBC Nightly…

Look past the planes. (Can you?) How about the power grid? Last spring someone broke into the computer systems of the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO), the state manager of long-distance electricity transmission. According to Cal-ISO, the target was a test system unconnected to the grid. There was no damage. Still, the electronic intrusion, looked…

Asia-Pacific leaders will condemn the terror attacks against the US at their summit this week, pledge to toughen controls on terrorist funds and act to safeguard oil supplies in an emergency, according to a proposed declaration. Full Story

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is pressing ahead with legislation to allow the military to help the US-led campaign against terror despite losing opposition support for his plans. Full Story

Thousands of people joined a Gaza funeral procession Monday for a man killed in a pro-Osama bin Laden demonstration, in what amounted to the biggest protest ever by Palestinians against their governing authority. Full Story

Osama bin Laden is not fighting a holy war, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad told Malaysians last night over national television. The Malaysian leader, using his strongest language yet to condemn the Sept 11 attacks, noted that 6,000 innocent people, including Malaysians, had lost their lives when two hijacked planes crashed into the World…

U.S. authorities have foiled four bombing plots overseas since Sept. 11, but evidence grows that loosely knit terrorist cells are agitating to strike again, government officials say. Full Story

Canada unveiled a sweeping security bill Monday to ban fund-raising by terrorist groups, widen wiretapping authority and allow police to make preventive arrests of people they think will engage in terrorism. Full Story

Violence gripped northern Nigeria on Monday, with the biggest city of Kano still troubled after four days of Muslim-Christian fighting and police saying 16 soldiers had been killed in unrelated bloodshed elsewhere. Full Story

Historic clan ties and religious zeal have fueled a recruitment drive among untrained young men in Pakistan&#039s tribal areas eager to face off with the best troops from the world&#039s only superpower, tribal sources say. Full Story

Anthrax anxiety rippled across the world on Tuesday, with suspicious incidents reported from Brazil to Japan, as the number of people in the United States exposed to the potentially deadly germ rose to at least 12. Full Story

Terrorists scored a direct hit on the American economy, sending it spiraling into recession. The nation’s defense contractors are a rare bright spot, with the stocks of many soaring by nearly 30 percent in the past month. Analysts are predicting that the defense budget will increase 66 percent to $500 billion by 2005. But the…

In this age of celebrity, Osama bin Laden knows the importance of stagecraft. He cultivates an air of mystery, and has a knack for tapping feelings of alienation and anger. Full Story

As Saudi Arabia’s longtime chief of intelligence, Prince Turki al Faisal helped nurture the Afghan resistance movement that begot the country’s Taliban leadership. So the sense of betrayal last week was understandably deep when he publicly addressed Osama bin Laden, another Saudi veteran of the anti-Soviet Afghan war. Full Story

A senior member of President Bush&#039s cabinet has admitted for the first time that the series of anthrax attacks across America could be the work of terrorists. Full Story

President Bush strongly rebuffed a Taliban offer to turn over Osama bin Laden to a third country in exchange for an end to U.S. bombing. Bush&#039s health chief pledged to strengthen the nation&#039s response to bioterrorism following the recent anthrax cases. Full Story

Supporters of Osama bin Laden threatened fresh suicide attacks on airlines and high-rise buildings in the United States and Britain as the Taliban leadership defiantly refused any compromise to end the war in Afghanistan and the US confirmed preparations to deploy ground forces. Full Story

Palestinians accused Israel of killing an Islamic militant Monday despite U.S. and British pressure to end a year-long conflict threatening regional support for the Washington-led war on terrorism. Full Story

Indonesian police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse about 700 anti-American protesters outside parliament Monday, injuring several, as Muslims praised the president&#039s veiled condemnation of U.S. strikes on Afghanistan. Full Story

Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and the Afghan Taliban&#039s supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar are well and reports of Taliban rifts are groundless, their deputy ambassador to Pakistan said Monday. Full Story

Americans returning to work faced anxious moments opening envelopes after the number of people across the nation exposed to anthrax sent through the mail jumped over the weekend. Full Story

The House on Friday quickly approved anti-terrorist legislation pushed by the Senate and White House to increase the government&#039s power to spy on, detain and punish suspected terrorists. Full Story

Two new cases of anthrax exposure involving suspicious envelopes sent through the mail were reported at a Microsoft subsidiary office in Reno, Nevada, and at NBC headquarters in New York. Full Story

The FBI has issued an advisory poster on what to do if you receive a suspicious package. The document is in PDF Format and can be found by clicking here.