In addition to Afghanistan, a handful of other nations have reason to fear the military might of the United States after President Bush said a U.S. offensive would target those who sponsor and shelter terrorists. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Sudan were identified as such in April by the U.S. State Department.…

Identifying the thousands of victims of the devastating terrorist attacks in New York will take years because many bodies are likely to be so badly mutilated, according to a leading British forensic expert. Full Story

Plans for the terror attacks on the United States may have been in the works for at least five years, the Boston Globe reported Friday. The paper also said investigators have evidence indicating some of the hijackers took advantage of the U.S.&#039s good relations with Saudi Arabia to avoid close scrutiny in entering this country…

About 1,500 Palestinians, many supporters of the Islamic militant group Hamas, marched in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on Friday, burning Israeli flags and carrying a large poster of Osama bin Laden, who has been named as a key suspect in this week&#039s terror attacks in the United States. Full Story

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Friday he would support “very tough action” in response to unprecedented terror attacks on American soil but warned U.S. authorities not to jump to conclusions in their investigation. Full Story

Is Kansas City ready for terrorism on the scale that struck New York and Washington? The answer is no. But we&#039re working on it. In fact, every agency that responds to terrorism in Kansas City had been prepared to participate in a weapons of mass destruction exercise on Thursday. Full Story

Wall Street and its regulators girded yesterday for the reopening of U.S. stock markets as economic policymakers stepped up efforts to limit the fallout from Tuesday&#039s terrorist attacks on the global economy and financial system. Full Story

The FBI on Friday named 19 hijackers, including seven pilots, who commandeered the four airliners used in Tuesday&#039s terror attacks, sought to question more than 100 people and made the first arrest in the investigation. Full Story

Two passengers who flew to Boston with a pair of alleged hijackers said Friday that the men boarded separately, kept quiet and didn&#039t draw attention to themselves. Full Story

The F.B.I. said today that all but one of the people taken into custody on Thursday at Kennedy International and La Guardia Airports had been released and that none of those who had been detained had any connection with the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Full Story

After leading the nation at the National Cathedral in Washington in a day of prayer and mourning, President Bush arrived in New York City today and received an emotional reception from rescue workers at the devastated site of the World Trade Center. Full Story

Patriotism mixed with prayer Friday as Americans packed churches and clogged public squares on a day of remembrance for the victims of this week&#039s sneak attacks. At dusk, the flicker of candles illuminated city streets, as people responded to call for unity spread on the Internet. Full Story

Police in Belgium and the Netherlands arrested six suspected Islamic extremists in a joint swoop on a network thought to be planning attacks on U.S. targets in Europe, authorities said on Friday. Full Story

Pictures showing the evacuation of the World Trade Centre have been posted on the internet. The first pictures from inside the building show firefighters battling their way up the stairs as workers appear to file downwards without panic. Full Story

Osama bin Laden, a key suspect in Tuesday&#039s terrorist assault on the United States, changed locations within Afghanistan just minutes after reports of the attacks, a Pakistani intelligence source said Thursday. Full Story

As the second airliner slammed into the south tower of the World Trade Centre, Vice-President Dick Cheney was staring at a television in the White House. It was 9.03am. His Secret Service men grabbed him and hurried him down to the President&#039s emergency operations centre, an underground bunker hardened to withstand a nuclear attack. Full…

The United States drafted in elite Delta Force commandos to help protect planes as it fully reopened its airspace Thursday under a stringent new anti-terrorism regime. Full Story

There are reports five men suspected of being involved in the attack on the World Trade Centre set up cameras to record the atrocity. Full Story

Israel has offered its intelligence to the United States, but decided not to dispatch its experienced Home Front Command rescue teams to New York. More than 150 members of the rescue unit had been waiting at the Lod air base since early yesterday to depart for the US. An advance team was to have gone…

The collapse of the World Trade Center is likely to become the nation&#039s most expensive man-made disaster ever faced by the insurance industry. It also could lead to higher premiums and policies that restrict liability for acts of terrorism. Full Story

The FBI said yesterday it has identified at least 18 people as hijackers involved in Tuesday&#039s suicidal assaults on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Sixteen of the men have been directly or indirectly linked to the terrorist network run by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, according to a government source. Full Story

The CIA has been authorized since 1998 to use covert means to disrupt and preempt terrorist operations planned abroad by Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden under a directive signed by President Bill Clinton and reaffirmed by President Bush this year, according to government sources. Full Story

Russia said Thursday that it supports the use of military force to fight terrorism, but stopped short of saying whether it would join in strikes on terrorist bases. Russian representatives agreed in Brussels, Belgium, to increase cooperation with NATO to combat international terrorism following Tuesday&#039s attacks on the World Trade towers in New York and…

A man carrying fraudulent pilot’s identification was arrested Thursday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and six other people were detained, New York City’s police commissioner said. In addition, Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington has been closed indefinitely. Full Story

Hamy Bishara’s restaurant usually bustles late into the night. But on Wednesday, he closed Sariya early for the first time ever after receiving threats and hearing reports that Arab-Americans in the neighborhood had been attacked. Full Story

At least eight people were arrested Thursday at airports in New York because of new security measures — including four people who were seen at one airport before Tuesday&#039s terrorist attacks. Full Story

Americans are a patriotic people. They&#039re also angry. Following Tuesday&#039s terrorist attacks, people have been flocking to the Internet to express their opinions and offer suggestions on how the U.S. should respond. Full Story

The following comes from the National Association of School Psychologists, as a way to help children cope with Tuesday&#039s acts of terrorism. Full Story

An FBI official said Wednesday agents are looking for a former Arlington cleric whom they have labeled an intermediary for suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Full Story

One person carrying false identification was arrested at New York&#039s Kennedy Airport on Thursday, and “five or six&#039&#039 others were detained, said Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. Full Story

A search crew found the flight data recorder on Thursday from the hijacked United Airlines plane that crashed in Pennsylvania after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, raising hopes of important new clues to what happened aboard the Boeing 757. Full Story

Military aircraft patrolled the skies over major U.S. cities Thursday as officials pledged to wage &#039&#039the first war of the 21st Century&#039&#039 against shadowy militants believed responsible for the worst attack ever staged on American soil. Full Story

For all their differences, the media in the Middle East – from Iraq to Israel – seem to be agreed on one thing: whoever was to blame for yesterday&#039s carnage in the US, the attacks are the result of American policies. Full Story

Afghan citizens, fearing a U.S. strike on targets associated with Osama bin Laden, a leading suspect in the terror attacks on the United States, braced for the worst on Thursday. Reports of people digging trenches and building fortifications near the capital came as the country’s Islamic rulers denied that they had put bin Laden under…

Nearly two days after the deadly terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, companies, agencies and individuals from across the country and around the world tallied their missing and mourned their dead. Full Story

Law enforcement officials have told CNN there may have been as many as 50 people involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist hijackings and attacks that toppled the World Trade Center&#039s two towers and damaged the Pentagon. Full Story

Only God knows what kind of heroic acts took place at 25,000 feet as passengers and crews contended with four teams of highly trained enemy terrorists. But it is clear that the hunt for the culprits began way up in the sky, by the doomed passengers and crews themselves, minutes before the attacks took place.…

Germany has detained an airport worker in connection with Tuesday&#039s U.S. terror attacks and three of the suicide hijackers may have belonged to a Hamburg-based extremist group, authorities said on Thursday. Full Story

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For the past few months, a videotape has been circulating in the Middle East showing Osama bin Laden appealing to his followers to join a “holy war” against the United States. Wearing white robes and a Yemeni dagger, the fugitive Saudi millionaire goes on to thank Allah for the “destruction” of a U.S. warship in…

As United Airlines Flight 93 entered its last desperate moments in the sky, 31-year-old passenger Jeremy Glick used a cell phone to tell his wife Lyzbeth of his impending death – and pledged to go down fighting. Full Story

Rescuers combed mountains of rubble at what had been the World Trade Center yesterday in a grim search for survivors among the thousands presumed dead in its collapse. Investigators meantime cast a worldwide net for those behind the hijackers who slammed jetliners into the twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia…

A false alarm forced the evacuation of thousands of people from the Empire State Building and surrounding streets of midtown Manhattan on Wednesday night, officials said. Full Story

Osama bin Laden, the man intelligence officials say is the prime suspect behind Tuesday&#039s hijacking attacks, is the head of a shadowy organization that is believed to have been targeting the United States and its allies since the early 1990s. Full Story

Rescue and medical efforts near New York&#039s collapsed World Trade Center slowed to a trickle late Wednesday, as the partial collapse of one skyscraper and the possible fall of another forced emergency personnel away from ground zero. Full Story

Not all the hijackers aboard the four commandeered jets used in Tuesday&#039s terrorist attacks may not have known each other, according to law enforcement sources, who said the suspects may have begun their operation after receiving an overt signal. Full Story

On Wednesday, both America Online and EarthLink acknowledged that they are working with the FBI to turn over specific information that may be relevant to the case. Full Story

Some of the hijackers who commandeered planes used in terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were trained as pilots in the United States, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Wednesday. Full Story

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said on Wednesday that only 82 deaths had been confirmed from Tuesday&#039s attack on the World Trade Center, but that the death toll would likely run into the thousands as rescuers continued to dig for survivors in the debris. Full Story

The global aviation industry stood still for the second straight day on Wednesday as regular flights were halted, airports closed and passengers stranded following terror attacks in the United States. Full Story

The United States said on Wednesday that it was trying to build a global coalition against &#039&#039terrorism,&#039&#039 including allies, Russia, China and Muslim states, after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Full Story

U.S. intelligence agencies, aided by friendly foreign security services, conducted a massive hunt on Wednesday for information to determine who was responsible for the devastating terror attack on America. Full Story

Invoking a mutual defense clause for the first time in its history, NATO Wednesday pledged collective assistance to the United States if it responds militarily to Tuesday&#039s devastating attacks. Full Story

The terrorists who crashed planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center probably were able to overcome the flight crews and then fly the airliners themselves, aviation safety experts suggested. Full Story

The world&#039s tallest buildings, Kuala Lumpur&#039s Petronas Twin Towers, were evacuated Wednesday morning following a bomb threat. The threat came during morning working hours, some 12 hours after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Full Story

Morgan Stanley, which had been the World Trade Center&#039s largest tenant, said it had “limited information&#039&#039 as to the fate of its employees there after the devastating attack by two hijacked commercial airplanes. Full Story

The most obvious way of carrying out a major terrorist attack against the United States has long been thought to be the use of a hijacked commercial airliner. Tom Clancy even detailed such an attack in a novel, as have several movie makers. So what kind of warning did the Federal Aviation Administration and Air…

Today&#039s devastating and astonishingly well-coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York and on the Pentagon outside of Washington plunged the nation into a warlike struggle against an enemy that will be hard to identify with certainty and hard to punish with precision. Full Story

Authorities in Massachusetts have identified five Arab men as suspects in Tuesday&#039s attack on New York City and have seized a rental car containing Arabic-language flight training manuals at Logan International Airport, a source told the Boston Herald newspaper. Full Story

“…the Terrorism Research Center offers its reassurance to the citizens of the United States and faith in the United States Government, that the cowards who perpetrated these acts will be identified, located, and brought to justice quickly.” TRC Statement