AFTER 85 court sessions and nearly $90 million in legal costs, one Libyan underling has been found not guilty in the destruction of Pan American Flight 103. Another insignificant underling, Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, has been found guilty. The other matter the trial proved was the utter futility of responding to terrorism with the ordinary…

President Bush took a look at high-tech video war games yesterday as he vowed to retool America&#039s military to defend against new terrorist threats that come in containers as small as a suitcase. Full Story

The United States labored 10 years to bring about the recent trial in the Pan Am bombing case. US officials worked overtime to arrest the suspects now on trial in New York for bombing two US embassies in Africa in 1998. And serious efforts are under way to find the culprits in attacks on US…

Lawyers for two young suspects in an underground campaign of arson and destruction in Suffolk County are in negotiations with federal prosecutors that could result in guilty pleas in Federal District Court as soon as Wednesday, a law enforcement official said today. Full Story

A federal appeals court denied Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski’s bid for a new trial Monday, saying he was not coerced into pleading guilty to three fatal mail bombings. Full Story

The most serious attack inside Israel since the start of the Palestinian uprising has prompted a closure of Palestinian-ruled areas, but there have been calls for more drastic action to stop the violence. Full Story

Security experts from China, Russia and three central Asian states have begun talks in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, about setting up an anti-terrorism centre in Central Asia. Full Story

A former member of Osama bin Laden&#039s terrorist group testified Tuesday at the U.S. embassies bombing trial that poisoning a former Sudanese prime minister and bombing the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh were considered but not carried out. Full Story

U.S. and UN officials will begin discussing ways a Taliban representative may be able to remain in the United States following the closing of the Taliban offices in compliance with Security Council sanctions. Full Story

The Navy is enforcing wider security zones around its ships, even while in U.S. ports, in hopes of preventing terrorist attacks like the USS Cole bombing, a senior Navy admiral said Tuesday. Full Story

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said Wednesday Israel&#039s military crackdown on Palestinians was to blame for an upsurge of violence. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban movement lost the key central town of Bamiyan to opponents overnight and launched a counter-offensive Wednesday to retake it, a Pakistan-based Afghan news service reported. Full Story

Political turmoil in Bangladesh deepened on Wednesday as yet another opposition-led national strike took root and authorities braced for more violence following the killing of four people the previous day. Full Story

Rep. Gerry Adair, R-Roy, wants to create a new class of crime to fight vandalism done by animal-rights activists. His House Bill 322 is called Domestic Terrorism of Commercial Enterprises. It would add crimes against animal enterprises to the criminal code, making them harsher than the current penalties that vandalism normally incurs. Full Story

Police probing a spate of letter bombs yesterday renewed warnings to anyone linked with the agricultural business after two more devices were defused. Full Story

When the business was just a start-up, the boss had the first office on the left as you entered the eight- or nine-room headquarters on McNimr Street in downtown Khartoum, Sudan. Full Story

At least four people, including a policeman, have been shot dead during on-going anti-government protests in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. Full Story

The U.N. official in charge of peace negotiations to end Afghanistan&#039s civil war hopes Washington will agree to a formula that would allow Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers to keep a delegate in New York. Full Story

Around 10,000 supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid protested in another East Java city Tuesday, stoking fears of fresh violence in the volatile province, police said. Full Story

A rise in separatist activity in the oil-rich Angolan enclave of Cabinda could mean the demise of the rebel groups is near. A well-funded, well-equipped Angolan military and closer cooperation between Luanda and Cabinda’s former allies in Brazzaville and Kinshasa have further isolated the separatists. Now, while Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ government discusses…

Witnesses have begun to testify in a trial that U.S. prosecutors hope will prove the existence of a network of terrorists intent on attacking American targets. The start of this trial closely followed the completion of another uncommon proceeding — the Lockerbie bombing case — in which a Scottish court convicted a Libyan intelligence officer…

Israel has revelaed that its security forces had arrested a British citizen suspected of being sent by the Lebanese guerrilla organisation Hizbollah to carry out an attack in Israel. Full Story

Ronnie Flanagan was challenged today to state which loyalist faction was stockpiling bombs and drugs in a block of flats in Belfast. RUC officers uncovered parts for 11 pipe bombs, an under-car booby-trap device and a coffee jar-type bomb during raids on three flats in Ross House, in the Mount Vernon area of Belfast last…

Anti-terrorist legislation that comes into force next week is hailed by the government as a powerful weapon against international violence. But opponents say the law will stifle dissent, whether on the Internet or in slogans on a T-shirt. Full Story

In a breakthrough in the wave of arson and vandalism in Suffolk County claimed by the Earth Liberation Front, a Coram teenager who is believed to have played a key role in the incidents pleaded guilty to arson late Friday in a secret court hearing, according to several sources familiar with the case. Full Story

The fight against eco-terrorism continues to move at a maddeningly slow pace. But there was a victory recently when an Indiana man, apparently a member of the Earth Liberation Front, was arrested on a tree-spiking charge. Full Story

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The United States is increasingly vulnerable to attack because the monitoring agency responsible for early detection is losing the technology war to well-heeled, techno-savvy rogue groups, the head of the agency said in an interview released on Monday. Full Story

The Middle East&#039s most violent terrorists have agreed to a frightening megamerger in which they will pool resources to fight their common enemies: the United States and Israel. Full Story

Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh wrote in a published letter that his execution should be broadcast publicly. Full Story

British police arrested 87 animal rights activists overnight (HK time) after demonstrations outside two pharmaceutical companies turned violent. In a co-ordinated action by the group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, or Shac, protesters gathered at nine locations around Britain, including London-area offices of pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer, to protest their alleged links to drug testing…

Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to hold peace talks in a European country but warned they would pull out if Britain banned them under new anti-terrorism laws. Full Story

Six people were killed in Aceh as security forces and separatist rebels reached a new deal to reduce violence, residents said yesterday. Full Story

Pauline Hanson: still a powerful force It is the news that most Australian politicians have been quietly dreading: Pauline Hanson is back. After three years of silence from the former fish and chip shop owner, the One Nation founder has proved that her right-wing, racist brand of politics remains a force to be reckoned with.…

At least 26 people have been killed in a new massacre in Algeria – the biggest single attack so far this year. Eleven of those killed were children, with at least one victim only six months old. Full Story

Northern Irish police said on Monday they had dealt a severe blow to Protestant militants by uncovering a “bomb-factory&#039&#039 in a pro-British area of north Belfast. Full Story

Two explosions were heard in a northern Tehran Monday, near a number of military and security bases, Iran&#039s student news agency ISNA reported. Full Story

The Libyan secret agent convicted in the Lockerbie bombing proclaimed his innocence and said in remarks published Monday that he was fasting in prison to be closer to God. Full Story

U.S. and Yemeni investigators are close to arresting the main suspect in the bombing of American warship USS Cole, the Yemen Observer reported on Saturday. Full Story

A powerful bomb exploded outside a government office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, wounding four people, and another in the eastern town of Jalalabad, officials of the ruling Taliban movement said. Full Story

Colombia&#039s most powerful guerrilla group is marching back to peace talks, but it must still convince a war-weary people that negotiations are more than a ploy to buy time to build its military strength. Full Story

Seventeen people were detained after scuffles broke out at a demonstration against a small neo-Nazi march in the western German town of Hagen on Saturday. Full Story

Kenneth Gluck was lucky the book in his bag — “History of the Arab Peoples” — was 551 pages long. It kept him company during the 25 days he was held captive in Chechnya, not knowing whether he would ever be released. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers are prepared to allow Osama bin Laden -sought by the U.S. on terrorism charges -to be tried by Islamic clerics, perhaps in a third country, Pakistan&#039s interior minister said Thursday. Full Story

Mohamed Saddiq Odeh, one of two men charged in connection with the bombing of the US embassy in Kenya, told US investigators last week that he was tortured by into giving a false confession. Odeh said he was denied food, drink, and sleep for three days until he confessed. The bombings killed 250 black Africans…

Some say going after underlings can unlock conspiracies. Yet so far, the US has failed to bring masterminds to trial. Full Story

Reps. James Saxton, R-N.J., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., this week introduced legislation that calls on the government to develop a new legal framework to prosecute hackers and other Internet criminals. Saxton and Chambliss offered a House resolution that also labels cyber-terrorism “an emerging threat to the national security of the United States which has the…

Last week, when movers and shakers of the global economy gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for an annual forum, it was no surprise to see protesters jamming the streets, massed police protecting powerful VIPs from the crowds, or even scattered acts of violence and vandalism in the posh ski resort. Full Story

Colombian President Andres Pastrana and guerrilla chief Manuel &#039&#039Sureshot&#039&#039 Marulanda will meet again on Friday after eight “productive&#039&#039 hours of talks to revive a stuttering peace process on Thursday. Full Story

Tension remained high in Vietnam&#039s central highlands on Friday, with riot police and soldiers keeping round-the-clock patrols after a wave of ethnic protests and embassies warned against travel to the area. Full Story

A powerful car bomb exploded in a Jewish religious neighborhood of Jerusalem Thursday, hurling shards of metal through the air, but only one person was hurt, police said. Full Story

A former member of Osama bin Laden&#039s alleged terrorist network told a federal jury today that the Islamic extremist group tried to buy uranium in late 1993 but that he was not sure whether the deal was completed. Full Story

Transcript of the third day of the trial. Full Story

About 250 people who were injured or lost loved ones in the Oklahoma City bombing want to watch Timothy McVeigh put to death for the attack. Federal prison officials are weighing how to accommodate those who want to witness the first federal execution since 1963, and are even considering the possibility of a closed-circuit television…

Statement by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the “Worldwide Threat 2001: National Security in a Changing World” (as prepared for delivery)07 February 2001 Full Story

If there&#039s one thing the FBI hates more than Osama bin Laden, it&#039s when Osama bin Laden starts using the Internet. So it should be no surprise that the feds are getting unusually jittery about what they claim is evidence that bin Laden and his terrorist allies are using message-scrambling techniques to evade law enforcement.…

A car bomb shattered storefronts in Netanya, a seaside resort town in northern Israel, and wounded 60 diners and shoppers on the evening of Jan. 1. There was one fatality–the bomber himself. The group behind this blast didn&#039t call a TV station to claim credit. Instead Hamas, the Palestinian organization that sponsors acts of terror…

One day in mid-1996, a Sudanese man stood in the visa line at an American embassy abroad. When a clerk asked if he wanted an application, he replied, “No, I don&#039t want visa, but I have some information for your government.” Full Story

A blast rocked police headquarters in Istanbul on Thursday, Turkish officials told Reuters, but it was not immediately clear what caused the explosion. “There was an explosion,” a police officer said. “It&#039s being investigated. There are no details of any injuries yet.” Full Story

There have been a number of bomb attacks in Northern Ireland coinciding with a meeting between victims of loyalist violence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr Cowen taking place this morning. Full Story