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  • Spain Holds 10 ETA Suspects As Vote Looms

    Spanish police have arrested 10 suspected members and supporters of the Basque separatist group ETA in the third round of arrests after a car bomb killed two people last week, officials said Sunday. Full Story

  • Algerian Forces Kill 40 Rebels, Bomb Kills 3

    Algerian security forces have killed 40 Islamic militants in a military crackdown against rebel strongholds in the past two days, media outlets reported at the weekend. Full Story

  • MILF Plot to Bomb Airport Bared

    Military intelligence has uncovered an alleged plot of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to bomb the General Santos City International Airport at any opportune time to pressure President Arroyo on the rebels? demand for Islamic self-rule in Mindanao. Full Story

  • One Day in September relives Munich Olympics terrorism

    “One Day in September” documents a historic day with great emotional impact. They were billed as the “Olympics of Peace and Joy,” but became the exact opposite. On Sept. 5, 1972, the Munich Games became the center of the world&#039s focus, not for the sports but the terrorist action taking place within the Olympic Village.…

  • 3 European nations instigate terror crackdown

    Fearing terrorist attacks, authorities in Britain, France and Germany have arrested at least 10 suspected Islamic militants, put two dozen others on trial and are investigating potential links to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Full Story

  • Greece drafts new anti-terrorism bill

    Greece said it was preparing a new anti-terrorist bill that would give police a freer hand in their work amid concerns about security at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Full Story

  • Terror Boss Held

    Alleged ETA terror boss Francisco Gaztelu was held yesterday after a Basque car bomb killed two in San Sebastian. Full Story

  • Taleban mulling trial for bin Laden abroad

    Officials in Pakistan believe Afghanistan&#039s rulers, beset by a fierce drought and international isolation, are ready to consider a compromise under which Saudi terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden could face trial in a third country. Full Story

  • London in torch-bomb terror alert

    An explosion in which a 14-year-old London Army cadet lost his hand was caused by a bomb hidden inside a torch, Scotland Yard said today. Full Story

  • Several Hurt in U.S. Embassy Protest in Beirut

    Security forces used water cannons, batons and the occasional rifle butt to drive back hundreds of student demonstrators who marched on the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday to protest the bombing of Iraq and American support for Israel. Full Story

  • Serbian Minister Escapes Kidnap Attempt

    Serb authorities say the senior official dealing with the ethnic Albanian militants in southern Serbia has escaped unharmed from an attempted kidnap. Full Story

  • European Arrests Linked to Bin Laden

    Detectives across Europe are investigating suspected links between the arrests of a number of suspected Muslim extremists and the notorious criminal Osama bin Laden. Full Story

  • Angola Rebels Kill 18 Miners, Agency Says

    Angolan UNITA rebels have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 18 diamond miners in the southwest African country, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Wednesday. Full Story

  • Bush Remarks at Oklahoma City National Memorial Dedication

    President Bush says Oklahoma City “will always be one of those places in our national memory where the worst and the best both came to pass.” Full Story

  • Unruffled Wahid Leaves As Bloodshed Hits Indonesia

    Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid dismissed fears of an explosion of unrest as he flew out of the crisis-racked country Thursday, but bloodshed escalated into beheadings even before be boarded his plane. Full Story

  • Gunmen Kills Three Shiites in Pakistan

    Gunmen killed a religious leader and two other members of the Shiite Muslim sect in two Pakistani cities on Thursday in what seemed to be the latest in a wave of sectarian violence, police said. Full Story

  • Kashmir Separatist Survives Murder Attempt

    The chief of Kashmir&#039s main separatist alliance said on Thursday that he narrowly escaped assassination and warned that the freedom movement of Kashmir would go on with or without him. Full Story

  • Blast Kills Two in Basque Region, ETA Blamed

    A car bomb exploded in Spain&#039s Basque region Thursday, killing two men and injuring four just two days after the Basque government called early elections. Full Story

  • Recent arrests raise fear of terrorism

    Fearing terrorist attacks, authorities in Britain, France and Germany have arrested at least 10 suspected Islamic militants, put two dozen others on trial and are investigating potential links to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Full Story

  • Hunting bin Laden”s Allies, U.S. Extends Net to Europe

    Spurred by growing international alarm about Osama bin Laden&#039s militant networks, the police in Britain and Germany have recently arrested more than a dozen Islamic radicals. American officials say some of those arrested were plotting terrorist attacks in Europe and elsewhere. Full Story

  • Anti-Terrorist Tools on the Horizon

    With new tests that can sequence the entire genome of a bacteria or a virus in mere hours, doctors should soon have powerful tools to detect and treat infections caused by biological weapons, researchers said this weekend. Full Story

  • Feds buy up drug to fight terror attack

    The United States government is preparing for a possible bioterrorist attack. Why is the federal government quietly buying up a half billion tablets of that familiar antibiotic, Cipro (ciprofloxacin), used in everyday medicine to fight common infections? Full Story

  • FBI assesses grave damage from latest spy scandal

    U.S. officials said their intelligence agencies took an “exceptionally grave” hit as the latest spy scandal unraveled Tuesday. Full Story

  • U.S. officials see link in terrorism network

    .S. officials believe they&#039ve established a plausible link between terrorist cells operating in Jordan and Montreal and Osama bin Laden&#039s al-Qaeda network. Full Story

  • Tajik Police Arrest More Alleged Islamic Radicals

    Police in Dushanbe have arrested four putative members of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir organization over the past three days, Asia Plus-Blitz reported on 20 February. Full Story

  • Lankan Navy Sinks Two LTTE Boats, 15 Rebels Killed

    Sri Lankan navy destroyed two logistic boats belonging to the LTTE and killed 10 rebels in a midnight encounter near Point Pedro in the northern Jaffna peninsula, official reports said Wednesday. Full Story

  • Neo-Nazis Offered Cash to Quit

    Far-right extremists have been urged to quit fanaticism — with offers of German Government cash and new identities. Full Story

  • Afghanistan Turning into Chechen Militant Training Center

    Afghanistan has turned into a training center for Chechen Muslim extremists and international terrorists, the commanders of CIS country border forces declared at their recent 40th meeting in Baku. Full Story

  • LSE accused over terror link

    Russian President Vladimir Putin today accused the London School of Economics of being a recruiting ground for Islamic terrorism. Full Story

  • Zapatista Rebels Agree to Formal Talks

    Mexico&#039s Zapatista rebels have agreed to a meeting with government peace officials to discuss pending Indian rights legislation. Full Story

  • One Killed, Five Wounded in Nepal Maoist Ambush

    A policeman was killed and five others were wounded in an ambush by Maoist guerrillas at Lamidanda in Nepal&#039s Dolakha district, police said on Monday. Full Story

  • Malaysian Leaders Demonstrate at US Embassy

    Ethnic Malay Muslim officials from Malaysia&#039s ruling party staged a protest outside the US Embassy on Monday condemning recent American and British missile strikes on Iraq. Full Story

  • Bangladesh Makes Fresh Offer to Kidnappers

    Bangladesh has made another offer to hold face-to-face talks with kidnappers holding three Europeans hostage in remote hills in the southeast of the country. Full Story

  • 300 Killed by Taliban in January Massacre: Group

    A US-based human rights group on Monday called for an immediate inquiry into reports that as many as 300 Shiite Muslims were recently massacred by Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban in central Bamiyan province. Full Story

  • Bush Sees Chilling Reminders of Oklahoma

    A somber President George W. Bush witnessed chilling reminders on Monday of the worst terror bombing in U.S. history as he dedicated a memorial center honoring the 168 people killed in the Oklahoma City blast nearly six years ago. Full Story

  • UK extends anti-terror laws

    Britain has introduced new anti-terrorism legislation under which organisations such as the Palestinian group Hamas and Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers could be banned. Full Story

  • Eco-bomb protest at new terror law

    They called it a time bomb waiting to explode but, even with London on its highest terrorist alert for years, police on duty at the House of Commons yesterday had no problem accepting it. Full Story

  • Shanghai Forum Fails to Formalize Agreement on Anti-Terrorism Center

    The military officials of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan ended their two-day meeting in Bishkek on 15 February without reaching any formal agreement on setting up an anti-terrorism center in Bishkek, RFE/RL&#039s Kyrgyz Service reported. Full Story

  • Eight Dead, Hundreds Hostage in Brazil Prison Riots

    At least eight prisoners were killed on Sunday and hundreds of people taken hostage when an apparently coordinated wave of riots erupted in prisons across the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. Full Story

  • Carlos the Jackal Remains Unrepentant in Interview

    Jailed guerrilla leader Carlos the Jackal told a Spanish newspaper in an interview published on Sunday he remained unrepentant about his crimes and would do the same all over again, but this time “even better.&#039&#039 Full Story

  • Terrorism in Equador Takes Its Toll on Families in Oregon

    It has been more than four months now, and Gold Hill is still waiting for some good news from Ecuador. Full Story

  • British government under fire over terrorism

    The British Government is dropping its guard against terrorism in Northern Ireland by slashing the police budget by more than £100 million over the next three years, it has been claimed. Full Story

  • The new face of terror: a family man who works for the enemy

    In a heavily guarded room at a hospital near Tel Aviv, Israeli interrogators have been trying to solve a question that has baffled the entire world. What – or who – turned Khalil Abu Olbeh, a mild-mannered Palestinian bus driver with no record of violence or political militancy, into a ruthless killer? Full Story

  • Terrorism charge expanded in bomb-smuggling case

    A new indictment handed down yesterday in the Ahmed Ressam case seeks to bolster the federal government&#039s contention that a web of Algerians was working with the accused bomb smuggler. Full Story

  • Iran Plans Another Terrorism Conference

    Iran is planning another terrorism conference. This conference will be held in Teheran in April. Last month, Iran sponsored a terrorism conference in Beirut. Full Story

  • McVeigh lets clemency deadline pass

    Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh allowed a deadline to pass Thursday without asking President Bush to spare his life. Full Story

  • Jordan Draws Line, Arrests Anti-Israel Activists

    In a move that demonstrates anew how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict affects the internal politics of Middle Eastern countries, Jordan has come down hard on activists who oppose its peace with Israel. Full Story

  • Serbian Minister in Belgrade Gun Drama

    Gunmen in Belgrade have opened fire in an apparent assassination attempt on the Serbian Interior Minister, Dusan Mihajlovic. Full Story

  • Taliban Virtually Wipes Out Afghanistan”s Opium Crop

    U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan — once the world&#039s largest producer — since banning poppy cultivation last summer. Full Story

  • Four Serbs Killed, 23 Wounded in Kosovo Bus Attack

    Four Serbs died and 23 were injured on Friday in Kosovo when a bus they were traveling in was blown up by a remote control device, international peacekeepers said. Full Story

  • Twelve Killed in Mexican Gun Attack

    Twelve people died when a group of attackers armed with rifles burst into a community gathering in the northern state of Sinaloa, dragged them into a truck and shot them, the local attorney general&#039s office said on Thursday. Full Story

  • US-licensed pilot tells New York court how he flew for bin Laden

    A US pilot of Egyptian origin recounted to a New York court Wednesday how he bought and flew a private jet for Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in the United States on terrorism charges. Full Story

  • Nine years for repentant terrorist Klein

    A Frankfurt court Thursday sentenced repentant terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein to nine years&#039 imprisonment for his part in a bloody hostage-taking led by “Carlos the Jackal” at an OPEC conference in 1975. Full Story

  • Ransom deal in Ecuador kidnappings

    Kidnappers holding seven foreign oil workers — including four Americans — have agreed to a ransom offer just ahead of their deadline to kill another captive, the head of Ecuador’s armed forces said Wednesday. Full Story

  • County evaluates terrorism potential

    Terrorism? In Pasco County? Don&#039t snicker. Just in case some ne&#039er do well tried a stunt similar to the Oklahoma City bombing, Pasco&#039s Office of Emergency Management is investigating the terrorist threat close to home. Michele Baker, the county&#039s emergency management director, calls terrorism a “low probability event.” But she said it&#039s better to be…

  • The Terrorism Cloud Hovers Over the U.S.

    WHEN George W. Bush travels to Mexico to meet with Vicente Fox tomorrow, two significant trends-one positive, one negative-will clash. The first trend is the greater economic, political and ethnic integration of the United States and Mexico. The second trend is the greater threat to the United States from terrorism. While Mexico is not a…

  • Israel poised to avenge bus terror

    Ehud Barak, Israel’s outgoing Prime Minister, was last night considering military strikes against Yassir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority after a Palestinian man drove his bus into an Israeli crowd, killing eight people. Full Story

  • Kosovo Extremists Seen United in Stirring up Unrest

    The commander of peacekeeping forces in Kosovo said on Wednesday extremists on opposing sides were bent on stirring up trouble to try to block a peaceful future for the province. Full Story

  • Thousands Flee Colombian Violence

    The Ecuadorian town of Lago Agrio is just 22km (14 miles) from the border with Colombia. For many Colombians, Lago Agrio provides some sort of refuge from the violence in their homeland Its frontier is shared with Colombia&#039s Putumayo region – the heart of the cocaine trade in Latin America and a zone of conflict…

  • Rebels Kill Two in Bujumbura

    Reports from Burundi say Hutu rebels have attacked a neighbourhood in the north-west of the capital, Bujumbura, killing a soldier and a teenage boy. Full Story