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  • Colombian Army Attacks FARC Rebels

    Army officials in Colombia say that at least twenty-five guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the FARC, have been killed in a military air attack. Full Story

  • Sri Lanka Eases Curbs on Goods to Rebel Areas

    Sri Lanka said Friday it had eased economic restrictions on rebel-held territory, clearing a major hurdle in the way of face-to-face peace talks with separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas. Full Story

  • Cyber terror threatens UKs biggest companies

    Cyber-terrorists have hacked into a third of the country&#039s big companies and public sector organisations, including government offices, causing damage ranging from infiltrating corporate bank accounts to information theft, a survey reveals today. Full Story

  • Businesses: Terrorists have changed their targets

    Security has improved so much at official U.S. installations abroad that terrorists are turning to softer targets such as American businesses, relief workers and tourists, terrorism experts told a House subcommittee Tuesday. Full Story

  • Colombian Rebels Threaten U.S. Civilian Mercenaries

    Colombia&#039s largest leftist guerrilla group warned on Wednesday it would attack American civilian “mercenaries” who take part in military operations in the South American nation&#039s long-running war. Full Story

  • Colombian Generals Cartel Bombshell

    The army thinks it can win a head-on fight. The commander of Colombia&#039s army says there is hard proof that leftist rebels are controlling the country&#039s massive drug trade. Full Story

  • Defense Rests in Terror Plot Case

    The defense called only six witnesses before resting its case Wednesday in the terrorism conspiracy trial of an Algerian accused of bringing bomb-making materials from Canada into the United States in late 1999. Full Story

  • Five Arrested in Plot Against U.S. Embassy in Rome

    Italian police have arrested five suspected members of an Islamic guerrilla group with links to Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, authorities said on Thursday. Full Story

  • Israeli Troops Kill Youth, Row Over Shooting

    Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager protesting on Thursday at their killing of children, while officials argued over which side was to blame for Israel&#039s firing on a convoy of Palestinian security chiefs. Full Story

  • Jolo Rebels Postpone Beheading of U.S. Hostage

    Muslim rebels in the Philippines said on Thursday they have postponed the beheading of a young American hostage in response to a tearful appeal from his mother and wife to let the captive go home. Full Story

  • Responding to Terrorism Victims: OKC and Beyond

    The April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Murrah Building) in Oklahoma City sent shock waves throughout America. This event was the most devastating incident of domestic terrorism in our Nation’s history. The shock of this terrorist act was magnified by its location—the very center of our country. “This is the…

  • Book Review – American Terrorist

    *TRC Recommends – Terrorism* American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck is one of the most insightful books on the Oklahoma City bombing that will ever be published. The authors spent over 70 hours directly interviewing Timothy McVeigh and his comments are candid and uncensored. In addition,…

  • Most of Terrorism Experts Testimony Is Barred

    A terrorism expert was barred Monday from telling a federal jury that evidence seized from accused bomb smuggler Ahmed Ressam&#039s Montreal apartment links Ressam to Islamic militant Osama bin Laden. Full Story

  • Terror in Columbia

    Dagoberto Ospina, a 10-year-old Colombian peace activist, became a powerful anti-terrorist symbol last year when he was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas. Ultimately his parents paid $134,000 in ransom to obtain his release eight months later. Full Story

  • Bomb Increases Tensions at Brazil Port

    A bomb exploded at Brazil&#039s key port of Santos on Tuesday, adding to already high tensions on the eighth day of a dockworkers&#039 strike, but causing no serious damage, the port authority said. Full Story

  • Kidnapped Aid Workers Being Freed in Somalia

    Two British U.N. aid workers held hostage by gunmen in Somalia for over a week are in the process of being freed, a source close to the negotiations for their release said on Wednesday. Full Story

  • Hizbollah Says Syrian Troops Must Stay in Lebanon

    The leader of Hizbollah passionately defended Syria&#039s troop presence in Lebanon on Wednesday and urged Christians to stop demanding their withdrawal. Full Story

  • Moroccan Tried for German Synagogue Attack

    A German court began the trial on Wednesday of a Moroccan accused of involvement in an arson attack on a west German synagogue initially blamed on right-wing extremists. Full Story

  • Outcry Over a Killers Story

    Six years after Tim McVeigh’s truck bomb broke the heart of Oklahoma City, the wreckage of the Murrah Federal Building has been demolished and its site, on Fifth Street, is now a monument to the 168 men, women and children who died there. The emotional scars are not so easily repaired. The bombing’s anniversary, April…

  • 11 dead, 200 hurt in Sri Lanka blast

    Eleven people were killed and some 200 wounded in a grenade attack at a packed pop concert in northwestern Sri Lanka on Sunday, police said. Police blamed the explosion on rival gangs in the city of Kurunegala, where the main football stadium was crammed with more than 100,000 fans for a performance by two singers…

  • U.S. forces in Middle East always face terrorist threat, says Gen. Franks

    The Defense Department can spend a fortune on high-tech intelligence gathering systems and flood the Middle East with spies, but U.S. forces stationed there will still face terrorist attacks, the Pentagon’s highest-ranking officer in the region warned Congress last week. Full Story

  • Taliban will not sacrifice Bin Laden

    The Taliban&#039s supreme spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has privately ruled out handing over Osama bin Laden for trial and has said he is ready to “sacrifice” what is left of his shattered country before giving up his “guest” to the US, it emerged last night. Full Story

  • Combating Terrorism: In Search of a National Strategy

    Last week we learned the stalled investigation of the Khobar Towers bombing that killed nineteen Americans has been beset by a long-simmering power struggle between the FBI Director and the U.S. Attorney assigned to bring the terrorist perpetrators to justice. Transfer of the case to another prosecutor may breathe new life into the five-year-old inquiry,…

  • Sayyaf Threatens to Behead American on GMA”s 54th Birthday

    Muslim extremists who have been holding an American hostage for the past eight months threatened to behead their captive and send the head as a birthday present to President Arroyo Thursday. Full Story

  • Burundi Rebels Attack Aid Convoy

    A convoy of trucks carrying aid from the World Food Programme (WFP) has been ambushed in Burundi. Monday&#039s attack, carried out by a group of about 10 heavily armed rebels in Gitega province, left three people injured – one of them critically. Full Story

  • Four Killed, Hundreds Injured in Bangladesh Strike

    Four people have been killed and 300 injured in a Bangladesh strike as protesters continue for the third day to urge prime minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. Full Story

  • Trial Aims to Show Bin Laden Plan to Kill Americans

    Federal prosecutors are expected to end their case against four Osama bin Laden followers this week after two months of chilling testimony they said shows the Saudi dissident&#039s aim to kill Americans. Full Story

  • Israeli Tank Shells Destroy Bethlehem Homes, Hotel

    Tanass Abu Aita was playing cards with his brothers in the lobby of the Paradise Hotel in Bethlehem when the first shots rang out late on Monday. Full Story

  • Sierra Leone Rebels Want to End 10-Year War

    Sierra Leone&#039s rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) said on Tuesday it wanted to end more than 10 years of war, but complained that loyalist forces had just attacked its positions from neighboringn Guinea. Full Story

  • Israeli Army Sees West Bank Escalation

    An Israeli army commander in the West Bank said Tuesday warfare with the Palestinians had heated up and vowed that his troops would shoot to kill armed foes. Full Story

  • Suspect arrested in Y2K terror case

    Algerian security forces have arrested a fugitive who may be connected to a reputed terrorist on trial for allegedly plotting to attack West Coast targets around the time of the millennium celebrations. Full Story

  • Warlords flex muscles in Somalia

    Somalia’s turbulent warlords are not going quietly. By seizing a group of foreign aid workers, militia chiefs sidelined for months by a national reconciliation process have thrust themselves back into the political limelight in the way they know best — through the barrel of a gun. Full Story

  • Washington Siding With Terrorism in Chechnya Contacts, Says Russia

    Russia accused Washington of siding with terrorism Tuesday after a senior U.S. official held talks with an envoy from the separatist republic of Chechnya. Full Story

  • Hacking is now bigger threat than terrorism

    COMPUTER hacking could now cripple Britain more quickly than a military strike or terrorist campaign, Robin Cook, the Foreign Secretary, told the Commons last night. He said that the electronic technology controlling essential services such as water, power and transport had become a leading target for terrorists and other groups who wanted to disrupt the…

  • ETA Warns Tourists to Keep Away From Spain

    The Basque separatist group ETA threatened a spate of attacks on tourism resorts on Friday, warning tourists to stay away from Spain after setting off two bombs at beach towns earlier this month. In a statement to Basque newspapers, ETA warned tourists of “undesirable consequences” if they came to Spain, and included “Spanish touristic-economic interests”…

  • UN Hostages Freed in Somalia

    Somali gunmen have released another two of the United Nations aid workers they kidnapped on Tuesday. The two are Belgian Pierre-Paul Lamotte and Frenchman Mohamed Mohamedi. Two Britons, Bill Condie from Scotland and Roger Carter, are still being held. Full Story

  • Risky Plans for New Colombian Guerrilla Haven Move Ahead

    With three armed factions battling nearby and cocaine crops carpeting the hills, this northern town in one of Colombia&#039s hottest war zones seems a risky venue for peace talks. Yet President Andres Pastrana&#039s plans to convert the area into a new guerrilla safe haven are barreling ahead, even though many residents bitterly oppose the idea.…

  • FBI displays terrorist blasts

    Federal prosecutors showed videotaped bomb blasts yesterday during the terrorism trial of Ahmed Ressam, in a graphic display of what might have happened if a powerful explosive found in Ressam&#039s car had been detonated. Full Story

  • Canadian spy evidence refused at millennium bomber trial

    Canada&#039s Spy Agency won&#039t comment on criticism levelled toward it by the American judge handling the trial of Ahmed Ressam. Full Story

  • Israelis Kill Five As Palestinian Protests Surge

    Israeli troops shot dead at least five Palestinians on Friday during the strongest wave of protests to sweep the West Bank and Gaza Strip in weeks. Full Story

  • Colombia Yanks Troops From Rebel Zone to Aid Talks

    Colombia began a complete withdrawal of its troops from a leftist rebel stronghold on Thursday, hoping to encourage a resumption of peace talks with the nation&#039s second-largest guerrilla force, the military said. Full Story

  • France Confirms Arrest of U.S. Fugitive

    French police arrested U.S. anti-abortion activist James Kopp, one of the FBI&#039s 10 most wanted fugitives, in the western region of Brittany on Thursday, a police spokesman said. Full Story

  • FBI: McVeigh discussed other bombing targets

    Within the first days after the arrest of Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing, investigators turned up information that he might have planned other attacks, the FBI told CNN. Full Story

  • McVeigh: His Own Words

    Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has no serious regrets for the attack that killed 168 people, and he calls the deaths of 19 children slain in the 1995 blast “collateral damage,” according to a new book. Full Story You can purchase this book at Amazon.com

  • Military fears attacks from cyberspace

    The commander of the U.S. Space Command said yesterday he is worried about China&#039s growing capability to conduct computer warfare against U.S. military networks. Full Story

  • Hacktivism is OK, Professor Says: Cyberterrorism Fears Overblown

    Dark predictions about cyberterrorism and outrage over young hackers disrupting company Web sites is so “overblown” it&#039s obscuring the excessive control that corporations have in shaping Internet communications, says a University of Toronto professor who is among the speakers at today&#039s conference in Ottawa on “e-government.” Full Story

  • Tourist Thieves Sentenced to Death

    Two Tanzanians were sentenced to death Thursday for robbing 29 American tourists on their way to visit Kenya&#039s Masai Mara game reserve. Full Story

  • Somali Hostage Releases Likely

    A group of Somali warlords has said that the four aid workers being held in Mogadishu will be released soon. The warlords said at a news conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, that they are in touch with the kidnappers and that the hostages are safe and sound. Full Story

  • Bush Names Coordinator For Counterterrorism

    The President intends to nominate Brigadier General Francis X. Taylor to be the federal government&#039s Coordinator for Counterterrorism with the rank of Ambassador at Large, the White House announced March 21. Full Story

  • Demands for a terrorist crackdown irk Greece

    Even by the shadowy standards of terrorist groups, the Revolutionary Organization November 17 is a mysterious entity. In the past 26 years, it has killed 23 people, including four American officials, a US Embassy employee, and a British military attaché. Full Story

  • Judge OKs Evidence in Terrorism Trial

    The judge in the terrorism trial of Ahmed Ressam ruled Tuesday that the jury can hear evidence that a foreign government concluded Ressam was only a courier in an alleged millennium bomb plot. Full Story

  • Macedonia Pounds Last Rebel Hideouts

    Macedonian forces pounded the remaining hideouts of ethnic Albanian guerrillas on Thursday in a final drive to quell a month-long insurrection. Full Story

  • Arafat Says Air Strikes Will Not Stop Uprising

    President Yasser Arafat said on Thursday Israeli air strikes would not halt the six-month-old Palestinian uprising and Palestinians fought new clashes with Israeli troops. Full Story

  • Small Bombs Go Off in Basque Region, ETA Blamed

    Spanish officials on Thursday blamed the separatist group ETA, which has stepped up its armed campaign ahead of regional elections, for two small bombs that exploded overnight in the northern Basque region. Full Story

  • Israeli Forces Attack Gaza, Ramallah, Witnesses Say

    Israel forces attacked the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip from the air Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses said. Full Story

  • FBI agent: Threat of biological weapons real

    Most people won&#039t encounter weapons of mass destruction in their lifetimes, but Shahna Richman deals with the threat every day. Full Story

  • Brit Team in Balkan Alert

    Anti-terror experts from the UK have been put on alert to go into war-threatened Macedonia. Westminster sources said around 20 anti-terrorist specialists from the Royal Marines have been picked out. Full Story

  • Sharon: Lack of security becoming unbearable

    The “deterioration” of security in Israel is becoming “unbearable,” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell after two bombings in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Full Story

  • TASE falls in reaction to terror attacks

    Stocks dropped yesterday, led by Clal Industries and Investment Ltd., after two bombs exploded in Jerusalem, stoking concern about an escalation of Israeli-Palestinian turmoil. Full Story

  • Rebels Kidnap Nepal Policeman

    Maoist rebels in Nepal have abducted a police officer, as he was travelling on a bus in the west of the country. Police launched a massive search for the man. Full Story