Start your day with intelligence. Get The OODA Daily Pulse.
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence
Start your day with intelligence. Get The OODA Daily Pulse.
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence
Canada's spy agency didn't make Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub aware of his rights when agents interviewed him last year about other suspected terrorists, court was told Friday. Full Story
Muslim militants aligned with Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden have warned Britain of a backlash in wake of the government's new anti-terrorism legislation. Full Story
The fire was fairly large, but it broke out in the middle of the night in an empty building in rural Tulare County and hardly warranted a mention in local newspapers. Then, five days later, the e-mail message went out. “We chose this warehouse because it contained massive quantities of transgenic cotton seed in storage,”…
A 29-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been charged with offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Full Story
Terrorist activity on the mainland has gathered pace in the last nine months. Full Story
Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has confirmed the cause of a fire which destroyed a plane he was about to board was “definitely an explosive.” Full Story
Three pro-Moscow police officers and a woman civilian died Saturday when a blast ripped through a market in the Chechen capital Grozny, ITAR-TASS quoted the Russian interior ministry as saying Sunday. Full Story
A massive car bomb blast outside the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation in London was designed to wreck the shaky Northern Ireland peace process, a British government minister said Monday. Full Story
‘- Israel went on high alert on Monday, expecting more suicide bombings as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon prepared to take office with the avowed aim of restoring security shattered by a Palestinian uprising. Full Story
The military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas said on Saturday it was prepared to launch suicide bombing attacks on Israelis as soon as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon takes power. Full Story
A suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in an explosion that rocked the heart of the Israeli coastal city of Netanya Sunday, a day after Islamic militants vowed to launch fresh attacks. Full Story
Prudence Bushnell was certain she was going to die as she descended the bloody stairwell of a building next door to a bombed U.S. embassy in Africa. Full Story
Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden might be hiding in Afghanistan. But his agents are alive and well in Europe. Arab security sources said Bin Laden has established a network of agents in Central Europe to help supply equipment needed for his campaign against the United States and the West. They said this includes components…
The man jailed three years on secret evidence accusing him of terrorist ties said Wednesday he would feel a “moral obligation” to report terrorist activity if he knew about it. Full Story
The government began to lay the groundwork for its defense in a $10 million civil suit Wednesday by suggesting that a former Iraqi contractor whose testimony led to a conviction in a terrorist bombing may have been kicked out of the federal Witness Protection Program. Full Story
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were reported on Friday to have shelled world-famous, rock-hewn Buddhas as a U.N. envoy warned them of a devastating reaction if they carried out a plan to destroy all of the country's historic statues. Full Story
An estimated two million pilgrims attended Friday prayers at Islam's holiest shrine in Mecca on the eve of the haj, the annual pilgrimage in the footsteps of the Prophet Mohammad. Full Story
Israel's army said on Friday it had killed a Gaza resident suspected of planning to attack Israelis, but Palestinians said he was an innocent homeless man. Full Story
Seven foreign oil workers held hostage in Ecuador's Amazon jungle region for 4-1/2 months by an unidentified armed group were freed on Thursday, a week after their employers paid a $13 million ransom. Full Story
The Working Group on Civilian Biodefense, an expert panel convened by the Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, says that botulinum toxin poses a major biological weapons threat to the public. Botulinum toxin is the cause of the disease called botulism. The Hopkins Working Group's latest report recommends…
Israel's chief of staff has accused Yassir Arafat's Palestinian Authority of evolving into “a terrorist entity”, raising expectations of a tougher Israeli response to more than five months of clashes. Full Story
The government yesterday banned 21 groups, the majority Islamic, which it has branded as terrorist under a new law enabling it for the first time to proscribe organisations targeting foreign states. Full Story
The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office this week released President Clinton’s report to Congress on the status of federal efforts to secure the information systems that support the nation’s critical infrastructure. Full Story A copy of the report is archived here
The Tamil Tigers are among foreign organisations that the British Government intends to ban under new anti-terrorist legislation. Full Story
At least three Shiite Muslims were killed and one critically wounded as gunmen opened fire in a market in the northwestern Pakistani city of Hangu on Thursday, police said. Full Story
A “serious attack” was averted yesterday in the heart of Tel Aviv after bomb squad officers neutralized a briefcase bomb left at a restaurant in the early evening. Full Story
An Israeli car exploded in northern Israel on Thursday during a long chase by police who suspected it was carrying “terrorists” about to detonate a car bomb, and one person was killed, officials said. Full Story
One person was killed and nine wounded when a car exploded in northern Israel on Thursday during a chase by police who suspected it carried “terrorists'' about to detonate a bomb, police and ambulance workers said. Full Story
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Thursday the main suspect in the bombing of the warship USS Cole was believed to have fled to Afghanistan. Full Story
Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden described in a poem how the USS Cole (news – web sites) destroyer slowly sailed to its doom at Aden port, where a suicide bombing attack killed 17 U.S. sailors on board, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Full Story
ABCNEWS has learned that the FBI in Los Angeles has arrested members of a terrorist organization. FBI officials are not providing any details of the arrest or the charges but said they will be holding a news conference at 1:30 p.m. ET. ABCNEWS.com will carry the news conference live. Full Story
The same advantages the Internet and advanced technology bring to the general public and to business — speed, security and global linkage — are helping international terrorist groups organize their deadly and disruptive activities. Full Story
A federal judge on Tuesday denied convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' request to void his conviction and life sentence, rejecting an argument that jury instructions in the original trial were faulty. Full Story
China continued to send “substantial” assistance to Pakistan's missile program during the first half of 2000 and also aided missile programs in Iran, North Korea and Libya, according to a CIA report. Full Story
President Bush vowed on Tuesday to press for improved trade terms to help Colombia’s stricken economy and to tackle drug trafficking, but the U.S. leader said he would not get directly involved in the peace negotiations between the Colombian government and left-wing rebels. Bush made his remarks after meeting Colombia’s president, Andres Pastrana, at the…
Home Secretary Jack Straw is due to publish the first list of organisations to be banned under the new Terrorism Act. Full Story
Up to 500 people were being told by the RUC yesterday that their personal details have been found in the hands of loyalist terrorists.The warnings follow searches in north Belfast in which police seized documents and computer disks along with weapons and pipe bombs. Some of the information is thought to be up to 10…
George W Bush is planning to ban the Real IRA in America as a way of cutting off support and funding for the terrorist group that carried out the Omagh bombing. Full Story
The father of Hollywood movie actress Bronagh Gallagher told the Saville Inquiry that he was so convinced he was going to be shot on Bloody Sunday, that he tried to say an Act of Contrition, but he was so scared he forgot the words. Full Story
Security forces fanned out Monday across Indonesia's blood-soaked Central Kalimantan province, where an indigenous Dayak leader declared victory after a terror campaign to drive an ethnic minority from the region. Full Story
With less than 24 hours to go before an appeal court ruling, Fiji awaits its fate, anxious that the outcome may spark civil unrest. Full Story
As a nation, we have decided that terrorism that results in loss of life should face the possibility of the death penalty. But is this wise? Full Story
Pakistan hanged an Islamic activist on Wednesday for killing an Iranian official in 1990, sparking sectarian disturbances in which police said one man was killed. Full Story
Live in Alan B. Carroll's world for a while, and you'll probably never look at a computer the same way again. Carroll, one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's leading computer crime experts, mesmerized an Orlando trade show audience Monday with tales of cyber-threats and hacker attacks against the nation's government and business infrastructure. Full…
A 40-year-old refugee from Egypt repeatedly denied allegations by Canadian intelligence officials that he's a high-level international terrorist with links to Osama bin Laden. Full Story
A meeting with government officials Monday failed to comfort organizations worried about being unfairly targeted by legislation aimed at groups that raise money for terrorists. Full Story
A top Muslim militant, carrying a reward of 200,000 rupees (4,300 dollars) on his head, surrendered Monday to Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in India's restive state of Kashmir. Full Story
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed has sought an early end to the crisis surrounding three Europeons even at the cost of 1.6 million dollar ransom, a report said here Tuesday. Full Story
NATO scrambled to smother a fresh crisis in the Balkans Tuesday, ordering advisers to Macedonia to tackle a guerrilla challenge and accelerating plans to help end a revolt in the neighboring Presevo Valley. Full Story
A gunfight broke out on Tuesday between Indonesian police and soldiers charged with restoring peace to Borneo island, where ethnic bloodshed has killed hundreds in the last nine days. Full Story
Northern Ireland's peace process faced fresh strains on Tuesday after a senior Irish republican warned that the IRA's war against “British imperialism'' was not yet over. Full Story
It's getting easier to mass-produce deadly biological weapons; at the same time, supplies of vaccines to counter such killer viruses. Full Story
The American Civil Liberties Union and animal rights activists spoke against a Utah bill on Feb. 22 that targets animal-rights protests, arguing the measure would limit speech. Full Story
Armed gangs of indigenous Dayaks on Monday broadened their campaign of terror on Borneo Island, forcing thousands of minority Madurese to flee the slaughter and Indonesia to send in more troops. Full Story
After three years and $143 million, the Army National Guard has no anti-terrorism teams ready to respond to nuclear, chemical, or biological attacks because of defective safety equipment and poor training, an internal Pentagon review found. Full Story
Six federal agencies have teamed up to develop a plan for responding to terrorist threats and incidents involving weapons of mass destruction. Full Story Archived copy of the Interagency Domestic Terrorism Conop Plan
.S. investigators have identified a senior Iranian official as one of some two dozen suspects responsible for the 1996 bombing at the Khobar Towers military complex in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, CBS News reported on Friday. Full Story
Algerian security forces have killed 40 people they believed to be Islamic militants in a crackdown against rebel strongholds in the last two days, the news media reported over the weekend. Full Story
A 26-year-old man was charged Saturday with sending a series of letter bombs that injured several people, including a 6-year-old girl. Full Story
With tears in her eyes and anger in her voice, former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Sara Jane Olson broke months of silence about her case on Friday and vehemently denied charges she was involved in attempted bombings of two Los Angeles police cars in 1975. Full Story
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence