Nato has approved the United States&#039 eight specific requests for military and logistical support in the war against terrorism, after Washington provided evidence of Osama bin Laden&#039s involvement in the attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story

A &#039Second Chance&#039 Seen to Bury the Cold War Full Story

THE Taleban have accused Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist being held in Afghanistan, of being a member of a special forces unit. Full Story

Attorney General John Ashcroft continued to push Congress on Thursday to strengthen a legislative package of antiterrorism measures proposed in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story

A senior U.S. defense official indicated Thursday the United States is considering pre-emptive strikes against air defense sites in Afghanistan to ensure the safe delivery of humanitarian aid. Full Story

The month before the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks, the CIA received information suggesting Osama bin Laden was increasingly determined to strike on U.S. soil. In the days since, the FBI has linked the hijackers to bin Laden&#039s network through phone intercepts, money transfers and training camps. Full Story

The hunt for Osama bin Laden took a major step forward on Thursday when Pakistan said he was probably behind suicide plane attacks on America and the United States revealed it had an inkling of where he was hiding. Full Story

Sixteen men of Middle Eastern origin were indicted on charges of obtaining illegal commercial driver&#039s licenses on Thursday as part of a federal crackdown on hazardous material haulers, U.S. authorities said. Full Story

A Russian plane that crashed into the Black Sea with more than 70 people on board appeared to have been hit accidentally by an errant Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Full Story

The U.S. government plans within the next week to freeze the assets of several more individuals and groups suspected of conducting or financing terrorist activities. Full Story

NATO troops are “ready to deploy” in support of U.S. troops in the international fight against terrorism. Air and sea forces would provide support to any U.S. military action and demonstrate international resolve, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said. Full Story

A man has been charged in London under the Terrorism Act with training others how to use weapons. Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin, 43, from Greenwich, south east London, was charged with two offences, Scotland Yard confirmed. Full Story

Speaking to a special session of Parliament, Blair said British lawmakers would be given documents directly implicating bin Laden in the Sept. 11 attacks and other incidents. Blair said there was other evidence “of a more direct nature” which it was not possible to disclose for security reasons. Full Story

Hours after Palestinian gunmen killed two Israelis in a Gaza settlement — and were in turn shot dead — and an Israeli tank incursion killed five Palestinians, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Wednesday Israel would not resume talks until the Palestinian Authority reined in militants. Full Story

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

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban exerts significant control over thecultivation and distribution of the nation&#039s opium poppy crop and theillicit trade in heroin derived from the plant, said Drug EnforcementAdministration head Asa Hutchinson as he testified October 3 before acongressional committee on criminal justice and drug policy. Full Story

After more than four hours of anxious moments, Union Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said the supposed hijacking of the Alliance Air was a creation of confusion caused by false alarm received at the ATC Ahmedabad. Full Story

Sheriffs&#039 deputies are scouring Arapahoe County in search of a missing tanker truck capable of spraying 5,000 gallons of liquid along city streets, officials said Tuesday. Full Story

The largest outbreak in history of a highly contagious disease that causes patients to bleed to death from every orifice was confirmed yesterday on Pakistan&#039s frontier with Afghanistan. Full Story

A key suspect in a plot to attack the U.S. Embassy in France was placed under investigation on Wednesday for his alleged ties to a terrorism network in Europe that has been linked to Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Just finding the way to the main entrance of this military installation in desolate southwest Uzbekistan is no easy task. Many locals don&#039t know where it is. Full Story

The United States says terrorists might be planning to attack “symbols of American capitalism” in Italy. Full Story

Christian and Muslim leaders have gathered in Rome to seek ways of preventing attacks similar to those against New York and Washington through better mutual understanding. Full Story

Anti-terrorism police arrested a 24-year-old man after he attempted to board a train for Europe, police said Wednesday. Full Story

Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that the United States was unfit to lead the world in a war against terrorism. He warned that the “war on terrorism” could involve promoting unrest in Arab countries. Full Story

More than $100 million of suspected terrorist assets has been frozen in domestic and foreign banks since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, a senior Treasury Department official said yesterday. Full Story

Israeli tanks shelled Palestinian police stations and flattened armland Wednesday in retaliation for a deadly raid of a Jewish settlement by Islamic militants. Two young Israelis and two assailants were shot dead in the settlement raid, and six Palestinians were later killed by Israeli fire. 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 Clicking here

The families of the more than 5,000 victims of the World Trade Center attack will each receive a wooden urn with dirt from the mass graveyard, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Tuesday as a court cleared the way for the first death certificates to be issued for the missing. Full Story

President Bush October 1 reported “progress on many fronts” in the battle against terrorism, saying authorities around the world had frozen $6 million in bank accounts linked to terrorist activities; frozen 30 al Qaeda accounts in the United States and 20 overseas and arrested or detained “about 150 terrorists and their supporters” in 25 different…

A Franco-Algerian man told French investigators on Tuesday of a plot in which a suicide bomber planned to sneak into the U.S. embassy in Paris and detonate explosives strapped to his body, a judicial source said. Full Story

India said Tuesday there were &#039&#039credible links&#039&#039 between a Pakistan-based guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bomb attack on the Kashmir legislature and the al Qaeda group led by Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Saudi Arabia has pledged to protect family and relatives of Osama bin Laden as Saudi citizens, the kingdom&#039s Interior Minister said in an interview published on Tuesday. Full Story

Switzerland said Tuesday it had found no evidence so far that the country&#039s financial system was used to help pay for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Full Story

A suspect in an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris has told investigators he visited Osama bin Laden&#039s headquarters in Afghanistan to discuss the planned attack, a source close to the case said Tuesday. Full Story

In President Islam Karimov&#039s Uzbekistan, more than 7,000 political prisoners are in jail, many of them religious Muslims accused of no more than sporting a beard or circulating religious leaflets. The political opposition has been thoroughly crushed. There is no independent mass media. And the few who do speak out are routinely beaten, harassed, arrested…

Today one of the biggest construction groups in the kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] and the Middle East, the “bin Laden empire” traces its origins to Sheik Mohammed bin Laden, a native of the Chafeite (Sunni) Hadramout who emigrated [from South Yemen] to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the century. Full Story

The nightmarish terrorist attack of Sept. 11th succeeded in part because it was simply unimaginable. That assault has made other horrifying attacks by nuclear, chemical or biological weapons all too imaginable. Just last week, Bill Gertz of The Washington Times revealed that Osama bin Laden&#039s al Qaeda has attempted to acquire such weapons from organized…

One of eight secret U.S. government staging areas poised to respond to a biological or chemical attack ferried 50 tons of supplies to New York hours after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, according to a Sunday broadcast report. Full Story

United States Attorney General John Ashcroft has warned Americans of the likelihood of “further terrorist activity” in response to prospective US military action against Afghanistan. Full Story

A car bomb blamed on Basque separatists exploded in the regional capital of Vitoria on Monday, causing $1 million in damage to a courthouse and burning cars and ending more than two months of relative peace. The Basque government said one person was slightly injured by flying glass. Full Story

The General Security Service revealed yesterday the recent arrest of more than 20 Hamas terrorists, part of a widespread terrorist infrastructure operating in Samaria who were trained and received their instructions directly from Hamas headquarters in Syria and other countries. Full Story

The government asked Americans living in Indonesia to stay calm amid growing anti-America protests as the calls by some groups to hunt down and expel foreigners were only verbal threats, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hassan Wirajuda saidon Monday. Full Story

In a daring suicide attack, an explosive-laden car was blown up by militants on Monday near the entrance of the Jammu and Kashmir state legislature. At least 15 people were feared killed and 50 injured in the attack. Full Story

A car bomb packed with bullets exploded in a car park near a Jerusalem shopping district on Monday, injuring no one but dealing a new blow to hopes an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire would take hold. Full Story

A Saudi newspaper urged the United States on Monday to soften its tone in dealing with allies in its fight against terrorism, suggesting its summary demands for cooperation could alienate some of its friends. Full Story

As the Office of Homeland Security takes shape, federal and private-sector technology experts are urging the Bush administration to ensure that cybersecurity is included. President Bush created the office last month in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as its head. The Cabinet-level office will coordinate, not replace,…

New York officials on Sunday decreased by more than 400 the number of people reported missing in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, which would bring the total number of people dead or missing in the airborne assaults on America to fewer than 6,000. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban were poised on Monday for a showdown with the world&#039s most modern army after admitting holding the world&#039s most wanted man at a secret location and showing no sign of handing him over. Full Story

President Bush plans to name a retired Army general to a new counterterrorism post, and declared yesterday that his war preparations are gaining momentum but are unlikely to produce quick results. Full Story

The United States is receiving conflicting intelligence reports about Osama bin Laden&#039s whereabouts that are complicating the Bush administration&#039s efforts to track down the man it blames for this month&#039s terrorist attacks, according to U.S. officials. Full Story

No, allied special forces have not been captured in Afghanistan. Yes, they are active. So what are they up to? Full Story

The 19 hijackers who carried out the worst act of terror ever to occur on U.S. soil worked with little outside help as a single, integrated group composed of identifiable leaders and shadowy foot soldiers who prepared for their final day in a tight choreography over 18 months. Full Story

Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist detained by the Taliban, is under investigation for spying, Kabul radio announced last night. If charged, she would face a possible death penalty. Full Story

Police believe up to 30 more &#039spectaculars&#039 are planned Full Story

A matrix of terrorist cells – allied to bin Laden but often more extreme than him – planned mayhem across the continent from bases in Britain, Spain, Germany and France. Only now are the links between these shadowy groups coming to light as intelligence services realise that, unknown to them, the battle had started long…

The Observer has obtained information – from a secret dossier compiled by an Arab intelligence service and from US sources – that, for the first time, connects bin Laden&#039s al-Qaeda organisation to the hijack teams. Full Story

First reports emerge of systematic torture that is forcing Afghans to flee – causing a humanitarian disaster far beyond the country&#039s borders Full Story

Devastating attacks on bases controlled by Osama bin Laden are set to be launched in the next 48 hours as part of a tightly focused military operation approved by US President George Bush and backed by Britain. Full Story

Thousands of protesters peacefully flooded the streets of the nation&#039s capital on Saturday to call for peace, as President Bush moved forward with plans for a military strike against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Full Story