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  • Trial Focuses on Explosives in Car

    Government experts told jurors Tuesday that powders and liquids found in the car of an Algerian man accused in an alleged terrorist plot were explosives that could have detonated at any time. Full Story

  • Egyptian Islamists Deny Involvement in Zagreb Bomb Attack

    An Egyptian Islamic militant group has denied involvement in a recent bomb attack in front of Zagreb city hall, saying it was a result of “internal conflicts in Croatia,” the local press reported Tuesday. Full Story

  • Report: Possible Bin Laden-Cole Link

    The FBI has uncovered a possible link between the main suspect in the Cole bombing and the No. 1 U.S. terror suspect, Osama bin Laden, according to a report appearing in this week&#039s Newsweek. Full Story

  • Gunfire Hits Indonesian Minister”s Copter in Aceh

    Gunfire hit two helicopters carrying Indonesia&#039s mines and energy minister and other officials in rebellious Aceh on Tuesday, less than a week before President Abdurrahman Wahid is due to visit the province. Full Story

  • Spain Arrests Five Youths for Suspected ETA Links

    Spanish police on Tuesday arrested five people for alleged links with ETA in the latest swoop on the armed Basque separatist group and its supporters, a government spokesman said. Full Story

  • Venezuela Detains Colombian Guerrilla, Again

    Venezuela on Monday arrested a Colombian guerrilla wanted for a 1999 plane hijacking for a second time in just over a month, after his earlier release by Venezuelan police angered Colombia. Full Story

  • Russia Buries Hijack Stewardess, Queries How Killed

    Hundreds of mourners buried on Monday the stewardess killed in the hijacking of a Russian plane as officials queried whether she may have died from a Saudi rescuer&#039s bullet rather than a hijacker&#039s knife. Full Story

  • Colombian Police Identify Kidnapped German

    Colombian police on Monday identified a German hotelier kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels. Confirming local television reports, a police spokesman told Reuters that Lothar Hintze was kidnapped by suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Friday in the central Colombian province of Tolima. Full Story

  • Tamil Tigers shift out of London after British ban: report

    Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels have shifted their “international secretariat” out of London after being banned under new anti-terrorism laws in Britain, a press report here said Sunday. Full Story

  • Aum Doomsday Cult Shadows Japan

    Three faintly smiling faces stare out from tattered posters hung outside police stations across Japan. Few passers-by stop to look, though all know why police want the fugitives so badly. Full Story

  • CIS plans to combat international terrorism

    The CIS Interparliamentary Assembly (IPA) is drawing up recommendations to lay a common legal foundation to combat international terrorism within the Commonwealth. They will be discussed during the April 19 meeting of the Assembly in St.Petersburg. This was disclosed here on Monday during a meeting of the delegation from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly with representatives…

  • Terrorism training center set for state

    The quiet hills of West Virginia appear to be a world away from terrorist attacks. But they&#039ll be the epicenter of response to domestic and international terrorism, be it a cloud of poison gas, a bomb or a virulent bug. Full Story

  • Countys anti-terror plan lists targets

    The most likely places for terrorism to suddently erupt are railroads, schools and even the Sheboygan County fairgrounds. Thats one of the listings in a revised anti-terrorism plan that focuses on the terms and abilities of various Sheboygan County agencies that take immediate action, Emergency Management Director Stacy Karbe told a committee Wednesday. The proposal…

  • Oil giant pulls out as fighting rages in Indonesia

    Fifteen people, including 11 civilians, have died in renewed violence in Indonesia’s Aceh province as fears grow of an all-out war between the Government and separatist rebels. Full Story

  • Senators will weigh eco-terror penalties

    State senators will debate this week whether the state&#039s chemical and agricultural industries need legal protection from eco-terrorists – a threat they acknowledge has never occurred in Arizona. Full Story

  • Unidentified Gunmen Attack Ugandan Town, Kill 10

    Unidentified gunmen have attacked a western Uganda town, killing 10 people and setting ablaze a number of vehicles, a military spokesman said Sunday. Full Story

  • Grenade Attack Mars Peace Accord in Georgia

    Five police were wounded in a grenade attack Sunday in continued trouble between Georgia and its breakaway region of Abkhazia, ITAR-TASS said according to Abkhaz authorities. Full Story

  • Fighting Kills 42 In Algeria

    In recent violence surrounding a nine-year rebel insurgency, 22 Islamic militants were killed by security forces, and a clash between two rebel groups claimed the lives of 20 others, news reports said Sunday. Full Story

  • 1st Week of Terror Trial Concludes

    The first week of Ahmed Ressam&#039s trial ended Friday with 47 witnesses having offered bits and pieces of a puzzle that federal prosecutors say will fit together to reveal the face of a terrorist. Full Story

  • Israeli Killed As Sharon Starts U.S. Mission

    Palestinian gunmen shot dead a Jewish settler on a West Bank road Monday, and the Israeli army immediately reimposed its blockade of the town of Bethlehem where the attackers were believed to have fled. Full Story

  • Spain Car Bomb Found After Blast Kills Policeman

    A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA killed a policeman in northern Spain late Saturday and police deactivated a second bomb on the country&#039s southeastern coast early Sunday. Full Story

  • Bangladesh Kidnappers Free European Hostages

    Bangladeshi kidnappers released on Saturday three Europeans who had been held hostage for a month in a dense forest in the country&#039s southeast, security officials said. Full Story

  • Baghdad Bus Blast Kills Two, Injures 27

    A device planted between two buses at a garage in the Iraqi capital exploded early Friday, killing two people, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. Full Story

  • Saudis Storm Hijacked Russian Plane, Three Die

    Three people were killed when Saudi commandos stormed a Russian airliner and freed more than 100 passengers on Friday from hijackers claiming to be Chechens who had threatened to blow up the plane. Full Story

  • Feds prepare state, local governments for terrorist attacks

    When you walk into clouds of poisonous gas for a living, it helps to have a sense of humor–even a morbid one. That&#039s why fire department hazardous-materials specialists often call their police colleagues “blue canaries.” It&#039s a reference to the songbirds that old-time miners took with them underground as living–or dying–indicators of bad air in…

  • Alleged terrorist fund-raisers indicted by grand jury

    Seven people suspected of soliciting money from airport travelers to buy weapons for an anti-Iranian terror group have been indicted by a federal grand jury. Full Story

  • False Canadian passports easy to get, terror trial told

    Canada&#039s passport security system was depicted yesterday as a shambles that allowed Ahmed Ressam to almost effortlessly get a Canadian passport using forged documents. Full Story

  • Venezuela Frees Suspected Hijacker

    A Colombian hijack suspect is free to leave Venezuela because there are no local charges against him, Venezuela&#039s attorney general said Wednesday in comments sure to fan fierce debate here over the case. Full Story

  • Egyptian Tour Guide Frees 4 German Hostages

    An Egyptian tour guide early Thursday released four German tourists he had held for more than three days in a desperate bid to end a child custody dispute, police said. He then surrendered without incident. Full Story

  • Turkey Reports Russian Airliner Hijacked

    A Russian airliner carrying 162 people was hijacked by two people claiming to be Chechens after leaving Istanbul on Thursday and at least one person was injured, Turkey&#039s transport minister said. Full Story

  • IRA Says Has Talks with Disarmament Body

    The Irish Republican Army (IRA) said on Wednesday one of its representatives had met Northern Ireland&#039s disarmament commission for talks. Full Story

  • Arafat Arrives in Libya for Talks with Gaddafi

    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat arrived in Libya on Wednesday for talks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Palestinian officials said. Full Story

  • Ben-Eliezer pledges more active battle against terror

    In a meeting with leaders of the Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip yesterday, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer promised to maintain an open channel of communications and adopt a more active role in quelling terrorism. Full Story

  • Survivors Give Eerie Details of Bombing in Terror Case

    It was Elizabeth Slater&#039s third day on the job. At 10 a.m., she was sitting in her office at one of her first official meetings. Forty minutes later, she was trapped there, buried in rubble up to her chest. Full Story

  • Opposing Views Open Terror Trial

    A man suspected of terrorism arrested with a carload of explosives shortly before New Year&#039s Day 2000 is either a careless militant who left behind a trail of incriminating evidence or a naive “lost soul” who was used by extremists bent on attacking the United States, a federal jury was told Tuesday. Full Story

  • US Pilots Said at Risk in Drug War

    U.S. civilian pilots are carrying out “risky&#039&#039 missions in Colombia&#039s drug war, flying fumigation planes low sometimes through guerrilla fire, the country&#039s defense minister says. But he insists U.S. troops here face minimal danger. Full Story

  • Terrorism Trial May Keep to Narrower Focus

    Federal prosecutors opened their case today against an Algerian man accused of transporting bomb-making equipment into the United States from Canada in the trunk of a rented car 15 months ago. Full Story

  • Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian on Day of Rage

    Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip Wednesday while Palestinians in the West Bank took to the streets in mass demonstrations to protest against an Israeli blockade. Full Story

  • Taliban Expel BBC for Criticism of Destruction

    The ruling Taliban expelled the British Broadcasting Corp. from Afghanistan Wednesday for transmitting criticism of the group&#039s destruction of all ancient statues, including two large Buddhas in Bamiyan. Full Story

  • Gaddafi Safe From French Bomb Case Charges

    France&#039s highest court ruled on Tuesday that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi could not be prosecuted for the 1989 bombing of a French DC-10 airliner over Niger that killed 170 people. Full Story

  • Terrorism response teams are on road to readiness

    The Pentagon&#039s inspector general says the National Guard&#039s terrorism response teams in Missouri, Illinois and eight other states are ill-trained, ill-equipped and far from ready. Full Story

  • Algerian goes on trial for terrorism

    A jury was seated Monday in the trial of an Algerian national accused of plotting to bomb Seattle and other U.S. cities during millennium celebrations. Full Story

  • Oklahoma City weighs heavily on Ressam trial

    The horrifying spectre of the Oklahoma City bombing enveloped the start of the trial Monday of accused Algerian terrorist conspirator Ahmed Ressam, inside and outside a heavily secured courtroom. Full Story

  • Aid Workers Abducted in Sudan

    Reports from Sudan say the government is working to release four aid workers who were abducted last week in the war-ravaged south of the country. Full Story

  • Angola Separatist Group Says Holding Portuguese

    A separatist group in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda has said it&#039s holding five Portuguese construction workers who were abducted in the area last week. Full Story

  • 23 Killed In Clashes In Algeria

    Five civilians and 18 suspected Islamic militants have been killed in clashes in Algeria, wracked by a bloody, nine-year insurgency, newspapers reported Monday. Full Story

  • Border Arrest Stirs Fear of Terrorist Cells in U.S.

    An Algerian man arrested crossing the Canadian border 15 months ago with a carload of explosives was part of a terrorist “sleeper cell” activated by Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, U.S. intelligence officials believe. Full Story

  • Egyptian Abducts Four European Tourists Near Luxor

    An Egyptian tour guide has taken four foreign female tourists hostage, security sources said on Tuesday. At least three are believed to be German nationals, and according to a police source, one woman may be Spanish. Full Story

  • Seven Killed in Pakistan Mosque Shooting

    Gunmen opened fire at a Muslim prayer meeting at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday night, killing seven people and wounding 18 in what police said was the latest in a wave of sectarian violence. Full Story

  • CIA Is Stepping Up Attempts To Monitor Spread of Weapons

    Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet last week created a unit with 500 analysts, scientists and support personnel to focus on nonproliferation and arms control issues, calling the spread of missile technology and “weapons of mass destruction” a growing global threat. Full Story

  • The ultimate terrorist: myth or reality?

    In the last decade, terrorism has emerged as one of the most important political issues in the United States. Unlike its European partners, the US virtually escaped the horror of terrorism during the Cold War era. This is no longer true. Terrorists now select targets in the United States itself. Full Story

  • DoD Science Board Examining Homeland Defense

    The Pentagon&#039s Defense Science Board (DSB) has set up several task-force groups to study an array of issues over the coming months ranging from outlining intelligence needs for homeland defense to defining problems with precision target weapons. Full Story

  • Trial to begin over Y2K bomb plot

    Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian man accused of helping to plot a terrorist bomb attack on U.S. cities celebrating the millennium, goes on trial in Los Angeles Monday. Ressam’s case, in which prosecutors will try and document his ties to Osama bin Laden, will focus on his alleged attempt to smuggle explosives from Canada into Washington…

  • Chechen Kidnappers of Britons Held

    Russian interrogators are to begin questioning a Chechen rebel leader about the kidnap and beheading of three British telecommunication engineers and a New Zealander in 1998. Full Story

  • Chechen Rebels Execute Two Russian Soldiers

    Chechen separatists said Sunday they have hanged two Russian soldiers they captured in a town near the Chechen capital of Grozny. Full Story

  • Israeli Troops Fire At Palestinians Trying To Break Blockade

    Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas Monday at hundreds of Palestinians using a bulldozer to try to break through an Israeli army blockade, part of a new chokehold on Ramallah. Full Story

  • U.S. Mobilized Hostage Rescue

    An elite U.S. Delta Force team was poised to attempt a rescue of four kidnapped Americans being held in Ecuador&#039s jungle by a band of ex-guerrillas who had already killed an American hostage and declared their intention to kill another, U.S. officials say. Full Story

  • Ransom Sought for Japanese Kidnap Victim

    Riku Yazaki of Yazaki Corp., left, speaks to reporters Saturday in Toyko. FARC rebels have demanded millions for the release of Chikao Muramatsu, 52, vice president of Yazaki&#039s Colombia-based joint venture. Full Story

  • 14 Killed In Violence In Algeria

    Security forces killed 10 suspected rebels in a sweep operation, part of an ongoing hunt for Islamic militants who have waged a violent nine-year insurgency, an Algerian newspaper reported Sunday. Full Story

  • Terror reached across nation

    An Algerian man arrested crossing the Canadian border 15 months ago with a carload of explosives was part of a Montreal “sleeper cell” activated by accused terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, U.S. intelligence officials believe. Full Story