More than 100 U.S. military planes will be “forward deployed” as early as Thursday in support of President Bush&#039s objectives, should he decide to order any military action against Afghanistan, Pentagon sources tell CNN. Full Story

The supreme leader of the Taliban told Islamic clerics Wednesday that Afghanistan’s rulers were prepared to renew talks with Washington over the fate of Osama bin Laden, who has been named by the United States as the prime suspect in last week’s terrorist attacks. Full Story

Like every U.S. citizen, I was shocked and revolted beyond comprehension by the attack on our nation last week. We need to do everything within our power to find the responsible persons and parties, bring them to justice and end the blight of terrorism. At the same time, we must all remember that just as…

In the week since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the USA has shown so much of its good side that the inevitable missteps tend to be overlooked and overshadowed. Full Story

Federal agents investigating last week&#039s air attacks on the United States have arrested three Arab men in Detroit who were allegedly found with false identification papers and notes on an American base in Turkey and a Jordanian airport, an FBI spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Full Story

Security experts in the United States are describing a new kind of country that could emerge, where electronic identification might become the norm, immigrants might be tracked far more closely and the airspace over cities like New York and Washington might be off-limits to all civilian aircraft. Full Story

The Pentagon intensified preparations yesterday for a possible overseas deployment of U.S. troops that could begin within weeks as U.S. and Pakistani officials drafted plans for using bases in Pakistan as staging grounds for raids into neighboring Afghanistan, according to officials in Washington and Islamabad. Full Story

Pausing to mark the terrorist attacks of a week earlier with a moment of silence, President Bush engaged yesterday in an intensive round of diplomacy designed “to rally the world” for the war he has promised against those responsible for the attacks. Full Story

Risking a Muslim backlash, Pakistan&#039s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is preparing an address to the nation that is expected to outline his country&#039s role in any U.S. military action in neighboring Afghanistan. Full Story

Pakistan teeters, the Europeans shudder and Israeli-Palestinian violence threatens to restrain Arab support. The problems in building an anti-terror coalition. Full Story

Suicide bombers are the most feared weapons in the arsenal of political activists. Unlike the bombing campaigns of the IRA or ETA, to give two examples, there is no telephone warning; the act itself and its resultant chaos announce the attack. Full Story

An American military operation is not in doubt; it will come sooner or later, and it will be fairly spectacular. However, President George W Bush is aware that an ill-conceived, botched military attempt will be worse than no action at all. Full Story

THE Taleban laid down conditions yesterday for handing over Osama bin Laden, including a demand to be part of the investigation into the prime suspect’s links with the attacks on the United States. Full Story

THE FBI has foiled a potential new skyborne attack on America after discovering that five associates of the hijackers had booked seats for an American internal flight this Saturday. Full Story

The United States has indicated that the surrender of Osama Bin Laden would not be enough to avert a military strike against terrorism. Full Story

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the Israeli army to halt attacks and withdraw from Palestinian-ruled territory on Tuesday after President Yasser Arafat told Palestinians to enforce a cease-fire. Full Story

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested on Tuesday that Washington had reason to believe one or more nations provided support for last week&#039s devastating attack on America. Full Story

THE CIA has asked the City regulators in London to investigate suspicious sales of millions of shares before last Tuesday’s attacks in America in the belief that the paper trail will lead to the terrorists. American authorities are investigating unusually large numbers of shares in airlines, insurance companies and arms manufacturers that were sold off…

The FBI is investigating the possibility that suicide hijackers were on board a fifth transcontinental airline flight last Tuesday, one that was cancelled just minutes before its scheduled 8:10 a.m. departure from Boston due to a mechanical problem, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Full Story

The calls for war that have come from Washington since Tuesday&#039s catastrophes – for “war” against terrorism, against evil, against enemies of civilization – answer the psychological demands of the hour, the leaders&#039 need to seem to lead. But they are wrong. Full Story

In the transformation of international relations that is following the terrorist assault last week, there is a large diplomatic opportunity for the United States in what might seem like one of the most unlikely places: the Middle East. Full Story

The rush has already begun to “unshackle” the Central Intelligence Agency and its fellow spy agencies so that they can better combat terrorism. Full Story

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Suicide hijack teams might have been aboard other commercial flights on the day four commandeered airliners slammed into U.S. landmark buildings and a Pennsylvania field, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. Full Story

Iran has sent a message to the United States via Canada saying it will not oppose targeted military strikes against those believed responsible for last week&#039s terror attacks, a Canadian newspaper said Tuesday. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban movement will launch a holy war against the United States, a senior cleric said on the Taliban&#039s Voice of Shariat radio, warning Washington against attacking his country. Full Story

After having served for many years in the U.S. military intelligence community, and after raising the issue of the need to field a credible human intelligence and counterintelligence capability on many occasions — it has now come down to this: We lacked the will to do the right thing. Now we are at War. We…

Islamic terrorists based in Britain and controlled by Osama bin Laden planned a devastating attack on the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France. Full Story

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi warned the United States on Sunday it could fall into a Soviet-style quagmire in Afghanistan if it retaliated there for devastating terror attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story

A top Chinese police official cautioned Monday against fighting terrorism with armed attacks that infringe on any country&#039s sovereignty, saying such operations could ultimately make matters worse. Full Story

For a few moments today, the mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, will divert his attentions from the tragedy engulfing his city to a street-naming ceremony half a world away. For Israelis, the change of name from Jaffa Road to New York Street, for the next 30 days, could not be more fitting. Full Story

The cost of rebuilding in New York and Washington, and of compensating the families of the thousands of people killed and injured in the attacks, could be as high as $100 billion (£68 billion), according to B&W Deloitte, the leading actuarial consultancy. Full Story

South Korean World Cup organisers voiced their concerns about terrorism on Monday, vowing to work closely with the CIA and other security bodies to ensure safety at next year&#039s tournament. Following last week&#039s attacks on the United States, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has expressed support for American plans to thwart international terrorism as his…

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) denounced attacks made against Arab-Americans in the days since a terrorist assault on the United States. In a September 17 briefing, Robert Mueller called such acts crimes that the FBI is already investigating. Full Story

The September 11 attacks against the United States are “acts of violence against innocents (that) violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith, and it&#039s important for my fellow Americans to understand that,” President Bush said at the Islamic Center in the nation&#039s capital. Full Story

Before setting off across the country on United Airlines Flight 93 to move in with her daughter in Danville, 79-year-old Hilda Marcin gave folders to her family with an accounting of her assets and a prepared obituary. Full Story

With the United States gearing up for a “war against terrorism,&#039&#039 some nations are gingerly pointing out that Washington does not have a blank check for military action from the United Nations or NATO. Full Story

Associates of hijackers who crashed jetliners into U.S. landmarks last week may be at large in the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Monday in pressing Congress to expand powers to wiretap telephones, conduct searches and seize assets. Full Story

Stocks posted a wrenching slide on Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average pushed to its biggest point drop ever, as investors shrugged off a surprise interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve and focused on fears that last week&#039s terror attack on the world&#039s financial heart may stoke a global recession. Full Story

From baseball stadiums to Wall Street, Americans grappled with new security fears on Tuesday — one week after attacks demolished New York&#039s World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and raised the twin specters of a new U.S. war and a global recession. Full Story

Corporate jets equipped with missile detectors, counter-terrorism training for executives, fingerprint scanners that deny computer access to unauthorized users, and Internet safeguards that use the lexicon of warfare. Full Story

For Americans traveling abroad, it has always been a jarring experience to land in the airport of a country where terrorism is a real and unrelenting threat. Full Story

U.S. COMMISSION ON NATIONAL SECURITY, 21ST CENTURY, 1ST REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1999: ” … for many years to come, Americans will become increasingly less secure, and much less secure than they now believe themselves to be.” Full Story

As airports and airlines struggled to resume service Sunday, the U.S. government announced the creation of two teams of experts to improve air security. Most airports were open, but Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., remained closed. Full Story

Relatives of suspected hijacker Ziad Jarrah said Sunday that he was an “innocent passenger” on an airplane that was taken over by terrorists before it crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Full Story

Commercial airline flights Sunday were running about two-thirds of normal volume on one of the busiest travel times of the typical week, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday. Full Story

The Federal Reserve on Monday lowered interest rates by half a point, as Wall Street prepared to reopen after the longest suspension in trading since the Great Depression. Full Story

Did Osama bin-Laden outwit US intelligence agencies in a deadly game of decoy or double bluff? CounterPunch has learned from two sources that a) three weeks before the attack of September 11 security at the World Trade Center was abruptly heightened and that b) six weeks before the attack a US army base in New…

The German authorities have rejected reports that an Iranian man detained in Hanover could have helped avert Tuesday&#039s devastating attacks on New York and Washington. However, a French-Algerian identified by the French media as a radical with “a profile similar to the kamikaze pilots” is being held for further questioning by US investigators after his…

Osama bin Laden today denied any involvement in last week&#039s terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. “The US is pointing the finger at me but I categorically state that I have not done this,” bin Laden said in a statement faxed to the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency. Full Story

European and US intelligence, law enforcement and military officials are braced for fresh terrorist attacks – including the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Full Story

President Clinton signed a secret directive in 1998 authorizing U.S. efforts to capture or disrupt Osama bin Laden and his terrorism network, and several unsuccessful attempts were made, a person familiar with the effort said Sunday. Full Story

The Bush administration considered lifting a decades-old executive order banning U.S. involvement in assassinations overseas, as four people were under arrest as &#039&#039material witnesses&#039&#039 in connection with the deadly attack, officials said on Sunday. Full Story

A tough-talking White House on Sunday promised retaliation by a “mighty giant&#039&#039 awakened by the world&#039s worst terror acts as New Yorkers looked to God and Wall Street to help them recover from attacks that reduced the World Trade Center to rubble. Full Story

It was the toughest decision on a nightmarish day — to shoot down civilian airliners if they threatened the U.S. Capitol or White House after attacks on New York and Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday. Full Story

Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in this week&#039s terrorist strikes in the United States, has had close links with two Egyptian fundamentalist groups through an Islamic movement he founded in 1998. Full Story

All of us live in the world of here and now. Sure, we sometimes think of the past and try to plan for the future but most of us are consumed by the events of today. Unfortunately, the world of here and now was shattered for all of us by the dastardly attack on the…

The design of the World Trade Center saved thousands of lives by standing for well over an hour after the planes crashed into its twin towers, say structural engineers. Full Story

America has created so many enemies with its foreign policy, that even the Pentagon does not have a clue as to who was behind the destruction of its symbol of freedom. The Pentagon, a symbol of militant supremacy was attacked viciously with no survivors. The two financial towers, a symbol of U.S. economic might, were…

Moving swiftly in America&#039s new war on terrorists, a senior State Department official today met with 15 Arab representatives and gave them a stark choice: either declare their nations members of an international coalition against terrorism, or risk being isolated in a growing global conflict. Full Story

Hoping to prevent future terrorist attacks, House and Senate lawmakers expressed broad support today for funneling more money to intelligence operations, beefing up spy networks and creating one agency to handle terrorism. Full Story