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  • Colombian Policeman Held in Death Squad Attack

    A Colombian police captain has been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a union leader by a paramilitary death squad late last year, a police general said on Wednesday.Full Story

  • Ebola threat downplayed

    Canadian health officials were trying to ease fears Tuesday about the possible arrival of the deadly Ebola virus, even as the likelihood increased that a woman quarantined in a hospital here had the disease. Full Story

  • Bin Laden Aide Says Warned U.S. on Embassy Attacks

    A former aide to Osama bin Laden testified Wednesday that he told U.S. authorities in 1996 that the Saudi dissident&#039s group was trying to “make war&#039&#039 against the United States inside America and against its army and embassies in other countries. Full Story

  • USA v. bin Laden – Trial Transcript Day 2

    Digital file from the Court Reporters Office, Southern District of New York. Full Story

  • CIA Chief Sees Bin Laden As Biggest Threat

    Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, accused of a string of bloody attacks against U.S. targets, is the most immediate and serious threat to America&#039s national security, CIA chief George Tenet said on Wednesday. Full Story

  • Ex-Aide to bin Laden Describes Terror Campaign Aimed at U.S.

    A secret government witness emerged yesterday to tell a hushed federal courtroom in Manhattan how he helped the Saudi exile Osama bin Laden move money and arms to terrorist groups in Africa and the Middle East as part of a conspiracy aimed at the United States. Full Story

  • Sudanese Rebels Kill Seven Policemen

    Police in Sudan say that rebels have shot dead seven policemen in a pre-dawn raid on a station in the east of the country. Full Story

  • Three Killed in Maoist-Police Shootout

    Three days after the failed assassination attempt on Chief Jusice Keshab Prasad Upadhaya, two Maoists and a policeman were killed Tuesday in a shootout in Surkhet. The rebels were killed during an intensified search operation in the district. Full Story

  • Irian Rebels Free Three Remaining Hostages

    Three hostages, including two South Koreans, were released on Wednesday by rebels in a remote area of Irian Jaya province, police said. The three hostages were the last of 17 hostages who had been held by the rebels for the past three weeks. Full Story

  • 1,480 Bombs Seized in N. Jakarta Warehouse

    Police questioned the owner and guard of a warehouse in which they confiscated around 1,480 bombs of various sizes in North Jakarta on Wednesday. Full Story

  • 14 Killed in Colombia Violence

    Gunmen in Colombia have killed fourteen people in two separate attacks in the north of the country. Full Story

  • Six Die in Violence on Bangladesh Fatwa Issue

    At least six people were killed and 100 others injured on Tuesday in fierce clashes between police and religious hardliners in Bangladesh&#039s eastern district of Brahmanbaria. Full Story

  • Russia Could Be Drawn Into Afghan Conflict

    The battle between Afghanistan&#039s Taliban and the opposition Northern Alliance continues through an unusually mild winter, setting the stage for an early spring offensive. The continuous fighting, however, will leave both sides depleted and looking for external support. Pakistan traditionally commits resources to the Taliban cause, but this spring&#039s offensive could draw Russia to participate…

  • Oklahoma Conspirator Back In Court

    Lawyers for Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols were headed back to federal court Wednesday to ask a judge to throw out their client&#039s conviction and life sentence. Full Story

  • Terror Islands

    Until recently Thomas Pury, 45, grew nutmeg and cloves on his four-acre farm on a remote island in the Moluccas, once called the Spice Islands. Like their parents before them, Thomas and his wife were Roman Catholics; so was virtually their entire village of 100 on the island of Kesui. Full Story

  • Indonesia Police Fire Warning Shots at Protest

    Indonesian police on Wednesday fired warning shots as thousands of protesters ransacked the local head office of the former ruling party Golkar. Full Story

  • Orders Recalled at Bin Laden Followers” Trial

    The leadership of a militant Islamic group led by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden ordered its fighters to attack U.S. bases and not to worry about civilian deaths, a member of the group testified. Full Story

  • Security at Athens 2004: Danger is there

    The Olympic Games have suffered badly from doping and money scandals. Most fans probably hope the worst is past. It isn&#039t. The clock is ticking toward potential bloody disaster at the Athens Games in 2004, the worst since the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Games in 1972. The International Olympic Committee is aware…

  • Kosovo guerrillas launch new attacks

    Ethnic Albanian guerrillas and government forces clashed late Monday in Serbia’s Presevo Valley, a volatile area where fighting is seen as a potential trigger for fresh violence elsewhere in the Balkans. Full Story

  • Why Trials Matter in the War Against Terrorism

    As four alleged Bin Laden associates go on trial in New York, TIME Intelligence correspondent Massimo Calabresi says courts don&#039t stop terror — but they do put diplomatic pressure its sponsors. Full Story

  • U.S. Falls Short Hunting Terrorists

    Fifteen years after the United States launched a campaign to track down terrorists around the world and bring them to justice, most extremists linked to attacks against American interests are still at large–and not one state sponsor has been held accountable in a U.S. criminal court. Full Story

  • Extremists Said to Be Scrambling Messages on Web

    Muslim extremists, including Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden are posting encrypted — or scrambled — photographs and messages on popular Web sites and using them to plan attacks against the United States and its allies, USA TODAY reported Tuesday. Full Story / USA TODAY Article

  • Afghan Taliban Says Won”t Surrender Bin Laden

    Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban movement said Tuesday it would continue to give sanctuary to Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who Washington wants to put on trial for allegedly blowing up two U.S. embassies. Full Story

  • Moscow Metro Blast Injures Nine

    A small bomb exploded in one of Moscow&#039s busiest underground railway stations during rush hour Monday, injuring up to nine people and causing minor damage. Full Story

  • U.S. man released unhurt in Chechnya

    After a month of captivity in breakaway Chechnya, an American aid worker was questioned Monday by Russian authorities who said they had orchestrated his release and were preparing to send him home. Full Story

  • Embattled Barak warns of war with Palestinians

    A day before Israel’s fateful election, Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Monday still trailed far behind challenger Ariel Sharon despite his renewed warning that a Sharon victory will plunge Israel into war with the Palestinians. Israeli security forces, meanwhile, were on high alert for possible attempts by Palestinian militants to carry out terror attacks on…

  • Why One Defendant Got Off

    Abdul Majid Giakawas expected to be a star witness when the Lockerbie trial began last spring. An ex-Libyan intelligence officer and a CIA informant, Giaka claimed to know of the two defendants’ access to explosives. Full Story

  • Muslim Separatists Demand Talks

    Muslim separatists demanded talks with the Philippine government Monday after renewing threats to kill an American hostage who they said is growing gravely ill. Full Story

  • Saudi Bomb Suspects May Face Execution

    Saudi authorities say that three Western men shown on Saudi television confessing to their alleged involvement in a bombing campaign are to be tried under Islamic law. Full Story

  • Bomb Hits Office in Ecuador”s Capital, No Injuries

    A bomb blast damaged an office building in Ecuador&#039s capital Quito late on Sunday that houses the Reuters office as well as other foreign companies and a local bank and government agency. Full Story

  • Colombians Angry Over Rebel Zone

    President Pastrana visited the FARC zone on Saturday. Over 10,000 people have taken part in a demonstration in the northern Colombian state of Bolivar, to reject the formation of the country&#039s second demilitarised zone. Full Story

  • Making Chemical Weapons Is No Easy Task

    With U.S. intelligence fixated on Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden and the chilling possibility that he has been testing chemical weapons on animals, policymakers in the Bush administration and members of Congress would do well to consider the true difficulties involved in making chemical weapons. Full Story

  • Canada – $250M set aside for bio-chem gear

    Worried about biological and chemical agents on the battlefield and in the hands of terrorists, the Canadian Forces will spend $250 million on protective equipment — its largest purchase ever of such gear. Full Story

  • Communities get grant to help fight disasters

    Paul Brouwer hopes the thousands of dollars in emergency equipment Clinton Township is planning to buy never has to be used. But it will be a comfort to the township&#039s deputy fire chief to know it&#039s available. Brouwer, who also is chief emergency operations coordinator for Clinton Township, is overseeing the community&#039s share of a…

  • Security tight in terror trial of Arlington man

    Steel barricades that can rise into place to stop up to 7½ tons of speeding truck, and cameras capable of reading a newspaper a block away are just some of the new measures protecting federal court buildings for New York&#039s fifth major terrorism trial in a decade. Full Story

  • Naked to Terrorism

    Sometime over the next quarter-century a direct terrorist attack “against American citizens on American soil” with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons is likely, and the nation has few defenses against such a threat. That assertion by the congressionally mandated Commission on National Security is not alarmist but realistic, and it should be treated by the…

  • A Cowering United States Gives Terrorism a Free Ride

    After 85 court sessions and nearly $90 million in legal costs, one Libyan underling has been found innocent of the destruction of Pan American Flight 103, and another insignificant underling, Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, has been found guilty. The other thing that the trial proved was the utter futility of responding to terrorism with the…

  • Trial of 4 Alleged Bin Laden Allies Starts Monday

    Prosecutors will accuse four men later on Monday of conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the 1998 fatal bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa as part of the Saudi dissident&#039s plots to kill Americans wherever they could. Full Story

  • Two Injured in Blast in Northern Ireland

    Two people were injured in an explosion in Northern Ireland Sunday, hospital officials said, and a Roman Catholic politician said the blast had been caused by a pipe bomb. Full Story

  • Bangladesh Islamic Leader Held, Protests Erupt

    Bangladesh police arrested a leader of a Muslim fundamentalist group Sunday for questioning about unrest in Dhaka, triggering fresh protests in the capital by his supporters in which witnesses said nearly 100 people were hurt. Full Story

  • Russia Says Taliban Support 30 Guerrilla Camps

    A top Russian security official said Sunday Afghanistan was supporting about 30 “terrorist&#039&#039 camps aimed at training commandos as well as smuggling drugs and arms. Full Story

  • Bioterrorism threat finds new urgency

    Suddenly, the threat of bioterrorism on American soil doesn&#039t seem so far-fetched anymore.A series of anthrax hoaxes nearly shut down Canada&#039s immigration department this week. At the same time, a blue-ribbon US commission reported that an attack using nuclear, chemical, or biological agents was likely in the United States in the next 25 years. In…

  • British Troops Battle Rioters in Kosovo

    British troops fired plastic bullets and drove tanks through the streets of the Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Thursday to scatter hundreds of ethnic Albanians hurling rocks and gasoline bombs. Full Story

  • Ukraine Police Storm Prison, Free Hostages

    Security service forces freed two prison guard hostages and killed three of their captors in a pre-dawn raid on a penal colony in southern Ukraine on Friday, an official said. Full Story

  • Honduran Congress Turns Violent

    Lawmakers kicked over tables and chairs and pulled out guns on the floor after legislative leaders proposed reducing the size of congress from 128 seats to 90. Full Story

  • White House Statement on PanAm 103 Verdict in Lockerbie

    White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said in a statement that President Bush “congratulates the Scottish prosecution team” that won the January 31 guilty verdict in the bombing of PanAm 103. Full Story

  • New Anti-Terror Cabinet Agency Urged

    A blue-ribbon commission on Wednesday called for creation of a Cabinet-level agency to assume responsibility for defending the nation against the increasing likelihood of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Full Story

  • Five held in anti-terrorist raid

    Police have arrested five men on suspicion of conspiring to cause explosions following a dawn raid in west London. Full Story

  • Israel”s Barak, Sharon Talk Up Peace And Security

    On the surface, there would seem to be no real difference between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and right-winger Ariel Sharon as both pound away on peace and security four days before an election. Full Story

  • Canada Asks to Charge 3rd Air India Bomb Suspect

    Canadian prosecutors said on Thursday they want to file charges against a third suspect for the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet that killed 329 people in history&#039s deadliest act of aviation sabotage. Full Story

  • Report: Cole bombing planned for 3 years

    A Yemeni newspaper said Thursday the bombing of the U.S. destroyer in the port of Aden that killed 17 servicemen on October 12, 2000, required more than three years of preparations. Full Story

  • USS Cole suspects may be tried in the U.S.

    Suspects wanted in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole will be tried in the United States if they are caught outside Yemen, Western diplomats said Thursday. Full Story

  • Acquitted Libyan Gets Hero”s Welcome

    A smiling Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday warmly embraced a Libyan acquitted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, who returned home shaking his fist in victory and chanting, “God is great&#039&#039 before well-wishers. Full Story

  • Libyan bomber sentenced to life

    A Libyan intelligence agent has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the mass murder of 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Full Story More information on the complete trial on CNN&#039s Lockerbie Bombing Trial. In-Depth Special

  • CNN”s David Ensor on the new Terrorism Report

    Correspondent David Ensor answers, What are some of the key points of the Terrorism Report released today by the Commission on National Security in the 21st Century? Full Story

  • U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century Report

    The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, also known as the Hart-Rudman Commission has just issued its third report. Read the report in pdf format. Report

  • Kidnapped American found dead in Ecuador jungle

    An American oil worker kidnapped along with seven other internationals in Ecuador was found dead in a remote jungle, shot in the back and draped in a sheet emblazoned with a warning, authorities said Thursday. Full Story

  • U.S. Homeland Defense Policy Mired in Competing Interests

    Federal resources that were spent during the past five years on programs to defend the United States against potential weapons-of-mass-destruction attacks have not resulted in any substantial capabilities to cope with such threats, according to government, industry and independent experts. Full Story

  • With Money for “Martyrs,” Iraq Invests in Image

    Shortly after 15-year-old Saber Khamis Brash was shot through the heart by an Israeli soldier for slinging rocks at troops near a checkpoint, the governor of this West Bank city presented his grieving parents with an ornate, red felt-covered plaque designating the boy a martyr. Full Story

  • Activists, CEOs Find Little in Common as World Economic Forum Ends

    They gathered under the theme of “bridging the digital divide,” but business leaders and social activists at the World Economic Forum found that goal was overshadowed by a more troublesome divide: a communication gap. Full Story