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  • Terrorist Attacks Imminent, FBI Warns

    The FBI warned yesterday that additional terrorist acts could be directed at U.S. interests at home and abroad over the “next several days,” marking the most specific and urgent call of alarm from the Bush administration since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story

  • Caves Smashed, Pentagon Says

    As U.S. warplanes pounded the Afghan capital of Kabul yesterday during the fifth straight day of bombing, Pentagon officials reported that airstrikes had devastated mountain cave complexes and may have struck Taliban leader Mohammad Omar&#039s Chevrolet Suburban with several as yet unidentified individuals inside. Full Story

  • India Uses Teargas to Quell Anti-U.S. Protests

    Indian police fired teargas and used water cannons on Friday to disperse thousands of Muslims protesting against the U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan. Full Story

  • Saudi Clerics Issue Edicts Against Helping “Infidels”

    In a series of fatwas released from inside Saudi Arabia, prominent Muslim clerics have instructed their followers to wage jihad on Americans in the kingdom and condemned the rulers who give them protection as infidels. The religious edict appears to sanction the overthrow of the house of Al Saud, and makes the royals apostates, subject…

  • Egyptian “Terrorist” Arrested in Baku

    An Egyptian national suspected of involvement in international terrorism has been handed over to Egypt by authorities in Azerbaijan following a request by the Egyptian intelligence services. Full Story

  • Bin Laden Wins African Cult Status

    Muslims in Nigeria are flocking to a state capital — to pick up Osama bin Laden memorabilia. In the state of Zamfara, Nigeria, where the Muslim practice of Sharia law is practiced, the curious and the fanatical are buying copies of the Koran and pictures of bin Laden. Full Story

  • New ultimatum for Taleban

    As Kabul is rocked by a fifth night of bombing, US President George Bush offers to halt the attacks if Osama Bin Laden is handed over. Full Story

  • Bush: We Have al-Qaida on the run

    President Bush said Thursday night “it may take a year or two&#039&#039 to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but asserted that after a five-day aerial bombardment, “we&#039ve got them on the run.&#039&#039 Full Story

  • US inquires about six Lebanese allegedly planning attacks in Kuwait

    The United States has asked Lebanon for information on six Lebanese suspected of preparing attacks in Kuwait and allegedly linked to Islamist Osama bin Laden, Prosecutor General Adnan Addum said Wednesday. Full Story

  • UNSC Committee Adds Names to List of bin Laden

    A UN Security Council sanctions committee has added the names of several organizations, individuals, and companies associated with Usama bin Laden to the list of those whose assets are to be frozen, the United Nations announced October 9. Full Story

  • White House Cautions on al-Qaida Tapes

    Suspicious that Osama bin Laden is using American TV to send coded messages, the White House asked the networks Wednesday to think twice before airing his terrorist organization&#039s videotaped messages. Full Story

  • Customs Switches Priority From Drugs to Terrorism

    The new head of the United States Customs Service said today that terrorism has replaced drug smuggling as the agency&#039s top priority, and that he has redeployed hundreds of agents to provide round-the-clock inspections at the Canadian border to prevent terrorists from entering the country. Full Story

  • European Crackdown Nets 3 Arrests

    Police in Italy and Germany arrested three men Wednesday in a crackdown on alleged Islamic militants suspected of links to Osama bin Laden&#039s terrorist network, Italian authorities said. Full Story

  • Insurers halt terrorist attack coverage

    As Congress works to gather support and hammer out details on a plan to make the federal government the insurer of last resort in the event of terrorist acts, insurers are moving rapidly to eliminate coverage related to terrorist attacks in property policies coming up for renewal. Full Story

  • Justice Department Creates Sept. 11 Prosecution Task Force

    The U.S. Justice Department has created a “9/11 Task Force&#039&#039 of prosecutors to handle any cases arising from the hijacked plane attacks on the United States that killed more than 5,500 people, department officials said on Wednesday. Full Story

  • ‘Most Wanted’ terrorist list unveiled

    The FBI on Wednesday unveiled a new “most wanted” list of suspected terrorists that offers rewards for information leading to the capture of 22 fugitives, many of whom have been at large for years. Topping the list: Osama bin Laden, the Saudi dissident suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and…

  • Sources: Anthrax possibly linked to lab

    Investigators believe the anthrax strain that killed a man in Florida was manufactured at a facility in Iowa half a century ago, sources said. Full Story

  • Bin Laden”s Men: Angry Words, Murky Pasts

    Soon after U.S.-led air strikes on Afghanistan began Sunday, Osama bin Laden and rarely seen aides appeared on a video, using emotive Arabic phrases to hail the Sept. 11 attacks on America and declare war on the West. Full Story

  • Call for Jihad Resounds Faintly in Muslim World

    Osama bin Laden&#039s call for a holy war against America found little resonance in much of the Muslim world on Wednesday, amid fears a U.S. war on terrorism could engulf other Islamic countries. Full Story

  • Defiant Taliban Lift Curbs on Bin Laden

    Reeling from repeated U.S. air raids, Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban on Wednesday lifted all restrictions on the world&#039s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, saying he was free to wage a holy war against the United States. Full Story

  • Hijackers “ignorant of suicide mission”

    About a dozen of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre may not have known that they were about to embark on a suicide mission, it was revealed yesterday. Full Story

  • U.S. Releases “Most Wanted Terrorists” List

    The White House Wednesday released a list of 22 “most wanted terrorists,&#039&#039 including Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and others indicted in connection with five major incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. Full Story

  • Call for Holy War Renewed

    Osama bin Laden&#039s spokesman on Tuesday called for a holy war against U.S. interests everywhere and said the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon “did something good.&#039&#039 Full Story

  • China Willing to Cooperate with Any Country on Anti-terrorism

    China is willing to co-operate with any country against terrorism, especially those suffer from direct terrorist attacks, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi Tuesday. Full Story

  • Military increases security on local waterways

    With U.S. military forces in action overseas and very real threats of terrorism at home, security in the port of Hampton Roads is at its tightest level since World War II. Full Story

  • U.S. to Intensify Effort Against Threat of Computer Terrorism

    The Bush administration confirmed Monday that it will spend $10 million to launch a newly intensive war against cyber-terrorism, which many government officials and terrorism experts consider a serious threat to national security with the potential for causing mass confusion and loss of life. Full Story

  • Hijackers” funds traced to bin Laden ally”s bank

    Investigators say they have closed the circle on a key part of the financing for last month&#039s terrorist attacks, identifying a single Arab bank account that supplied $100,000 to the suspected hijackers a year before the attacks and received $15,000 back from the hijackers just before Sept. 11. Full Story

  • Arrests in terror investigation now more than 600; some 200 being sought

    More than 600 people have been arrested in the investigations following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and more than 200 people are still being sought, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday. Full Story

  • Irish police arrest four in connection with terrorist attacks

    Police were questioning four foreigners arrested Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Full Story

  • Violent protests in Pakistan follow strikes on Afghanistan

    Storming this city by the Afghan border Monday, mobs lobbed firebombs while chanting glory to Osama bin Laden and hatred for America. Police shot one man dead in the tear gas-shrouded confusion. Full Story

  • FBI Probes Anthrax, Terror Link

    The FBI is investigating the possibility that terrorism is behind the anthrax bacteria that killed a Florida man last week and have now been found in the nasal passages of a co-worker, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday. Full Story

  • Bush Swears In Anti-Terror Chief

    With an anxious nation on high alert for terrorist reprisals, President Bush installed former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as head of a new Office of Homeland Security. “America is going to be prepared,&#039&#039 Bush pledged. Full Story

  • U.S. warns of possible evacuation from Indonesia

    The United States on Monday warned its citizens to prepare for a possible evacuation from Indonesia, the world&#039s largest Muslim nation, after U.S.-led forces struck Afghanistan. Full Story

  • Hizbullah condemns inclusion on US terrorist list

    Hizbullah reacted strongly to its inclusion in a new American list of terrorist organizations over the weekend, calling Washington and Tel Aviv “the heads of world terrorism.” Full Story

  • Indonesian radicals threaten to attack Americans

    Radical Islamic groups in Indonesia have threatened to attack Americans as part of a “jihad” or holy war following the U.S. strikes against Afghanistan. Full Story

  • Bin Laden Says U.S. “Full of Fear”

    Osama bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and swore America will never “dream of security&#039&#039 until “the infidels&#039 armies leave the land of Muhammad,&#039&#039 in a videotaped statement aired after the strike launched Sunday by the United States and Britain against Afghanistan. Full Story

  • U.S., Allies Launch Missile Attack

    American and British forces unleashed a punishing air attack Sunday against military targets and Osama bin Laden&#039s training camps inside Afghanistan, striking at terrorists blamed for the attacks that murdered thousands in New York and Washington. Full Story

  • FBI Asks Law Enforcement to Be on Highest Alert for New Terrorism

    Concerned about more terrorist attacks, the FBI on Sunday urged law enforcement agencies nationwide to move to their highest level of alert after the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan. Full Story

  • US launches “anti-terror” satellite

    The United States has launched a satellite which intelligence analysts say will probably be used to gather information in the global campaign against terrorism. Full Story

  • U.S. rejects Taliban offer as strikes loom

    The United States has rejected an offer by Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban to try Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, as anticipated military strikes loom closer. Full Story

  • Saudi blast tests Western nerves in Gulf

    A bombing that killed two people including an American in Saudi Arabia is testing nerves among Westerners in the Gulf amid fears that Washington&#039s war on terrorism could spark reprisals against foreigners. Full Story

  • Car explosion is Israel kills two

    An explosion rocked a rural area in northern Israel early on Sunday killing two people who appeared to be Palestinian bombers, Israeli police said. Full Story

  • NATO to deploy AWACS in U.S.

    At Washington’s request, NATO will soon deploy surveillance aircraft for anti-terrorist operations in the United States in response to the attacks on New York and Washington, NATO officials said Sunday, an unprecedented use of foreign military forces to defend the U.S. homeland. Full Story

  • Taliban Offer to Detain bin Laden

    In a desperate 11th-hour appeal to halt U.S. attacks, Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban offered Sunday to detain terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden (news – web sites) and try him under Islamic law if the United States makes a formal request. Full Story

  • Senators Warn Americans on Attacks

    Terrorists could well try more strikes at America once threatened U.S. military action begins in Afghanistan, senators close to the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks said Sunday. Full Story

  • G-7 vows to smash terrorist financial networks

    The finance ministers from the world&#039s seven top industrialized nations pledged Saturday they would smash the complex international financing machinery of terrorist organizations. Full Story

  • Iraq says US is a terrorist while Israel praises Islam

    Iraq has accused the United States and Israel of terrorism, while Israel defended itself against a string of Arab accusations and praised Islam as one of the world&#039s great religions. Full Story

  • U.S. sees no evidence of terrorism in jet crash

    The United States has no evidence indicating a Russian plane crash in the Black Sea was the result of an act of terrorism, a White House spokesman said. Full Story

  • State Dept. Cites Terrorist Groups

    The network headed by Osama bin Laden and several Palestinian groups were cited by the State Department Friday as terrorist organizations.The list is compiled every two years. Administration officials said the new one published Friday was virtually unchanged from the one issued in 1999. Full Story

  • Feds use secrecy in terror investigation

    The feds have detained more than 500 people in what Attorney General John Ashcroft calls the biggest criminal investigation in U-S history. Full Story

  • Terror suspects remanded in UK

    A British court has refused an application for bail by an Algerian pilot accused of training some of last month&#039s suicide hijackers. Full Story

  • US begins ground deployment

    Around 1,000 US troops are on their way to Uzbekistan for the first major deployment of ground forces in the campaign against terrorism, US officials have said. Full Story

  • 150 Arrest in Attacks Investigation

    Investigators are trying to discover whether the suspected terrorists in Osama bin Laden&#039s network disguised their plotting and planning on the Internet before the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks. President Bush says 150 people believed to be linked to bin Laden are in custody. Full Story

  • Terrorism suspected in Black Sea crash

    Russian prosecutors have launched a criminal inquiry following the mid-air explosion which destroyed a Russian airliner over the Black Sea on Thursday, killing at least 76 people. Full Story

  • Ground transport officials on alert for terror attacks

    Wake-up calls hardly seem necessary in the aftermath of last month&#039s terrorist attacks, but government officials got another one with the attack on a Greyhound bus. Full Story

  • Indonesia stays neutral in U.S. war on terrorism

    Indonesia, the world&#039s largest Muslim nation, would stay neutral in any U.S.-led attack against Afghanistan&#039s Taliban, its defence minister said on Friday. Full Story

  • FBI, CIA See High Probability of New Attack-Report

    U.S. intelligence officials have warned members of Congress it is highly probable that militants linked to extremist Osama bin Laden will attempt another major attack on American targets at home or abroad in the near future, the Washington Post reported on Friday. Full Story

  • Rumsfeld: Terror Fight Like Cold War

    The U.S.-led struggle to defeat terrorism is more likely to resemble the West&#039s decades-long contest against communism — fought on many fronts, often outside the military arena — than a major shooting war, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. Full Story

  • Anti-terror bill gets nod

    Senate Democrats and the Bush administration reached agreement Wednesday on a package of new police powers to combat terrorism. A House committee sent its own compromise package to the full House for approval. Full Story

  • What Is This Evidence Against Bin Laden?

    Within hours of the World Trade Center collapsing, the U.S. began pointing fingers at Osama bin Laden. And within days of those accusations, the Bush administration began talking of the “evidence” against bin Laden. Full Story