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  • Teenagers” Activism Takes a Violent Turn

    Jared McIntyre, a 17-year-old son of a New York City police sergeant, devoted many afternoons to researching global warming at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and writing impassioned essays for his high school newspaper that depicted prisons as “dungeons” and farms as “ecologically devastating.” Full Story

  • Three Die in Suspected Suicide Bombing in Israel

    A suspected suicide bomber killed himself and two teenagers on Wednesday when he blew himself up next to a group of youngsters waiting for a school bus in central Israel, police said. Full Story

  • Six Aid Workers Freed in Somalia, Four Still Held

    Six aid workers including five foreigners and a Somali seized by gunmen in heavy fighting in Mogadishu were freed on Wednesday and U.N. officials were in contact with a warlord to seek the release of four others. Full Story

  • Suspected Algerian Rebels Kill 15 Villagers

    Suspected Algerian rebels killed 15 people in a shantytown in the second such massacre this week in the violence-torn North African country, residents said Wednesday. Full Story

  • Somali Gunmen Kidnap Seven UN Health Workers

    Gunmen in the Somali capital Mogadishu took seven U.N. staff hostage on Tuesday in fighting that erupted following an attack on a compound of the Medecins Sans Frontieres charity, U.N. officials said. Full Story

  • Lawyer: Terror suspect tricked

    The attorney for a man accused of organizing a battalion for alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden said her client was tricked by the FBI and secretly brought to the United States to stand trial. Mohamed Suleiman al Nalfi was arrested last fall in Kenya after being lured from his home in the Sudan, his lawyer…

  • Coup Plot Foiled in Malawi

    Six people have been arrested in Malawi for allegedly planning a coup against the government of President Bakili Muluzi, police said. Police said the six were charged with treason, which carries the death sentence. Full Story

  • Seven Killed in Battle to Retake Kashmir Camp

    Seven people are dead after suspected Islamic separatists launched a suicide attack on a security camp in the disputed region of Kashmir. Full Story

  • Clashes Over German Nuclear Train

    German anti-nuclear protesters and police have been engaged in a series of confrontations as a train carrying nuclear waste from France approaches a storage site in northern Germany. Full Story

  • Suicide Bomber Wounds 22 in Jerusalem Blast

    A suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy Jerusalem intersection and wounded 22 people in the second bomb attack to rock Jewish neighborhoods of the holy city Tuesday, Israeli police said. Full Story

  • Fight in Political Arena, EU Tells Rebels

    European Union security chief Javier Solana visited the flashpoint city of Tetovo on Tuesday, urging ethnic Albanian guerrillas to lay down their arms and fight for their rights in the political arena. Full Story

  • Clashes Erupt in Somalia After Aid Office Raid

    Skirmishes broke out in a section of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday when armed men attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres compound, trapping about 20 people inside, witnesses and the charity said. Full Story

  • China Details Planning of Deadly Dormitory Blast

    The man arrested for a string of explosions that killed 108 people in the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang has detailed how he single-handedly coordinated the back-to-back blasts, the People&#039s Daily reported on Tuesday. Full Story

  • Military to Form Anti-Kidnap Force

    Philippine military chief Diomedio Villanueva said on Monday he would form a special force to help police combat a rash of kidnappings. Full Story

  • Seven Die, 100 Houses Burned in Aceh Sweep

    Fears are growing that Indonesia&#039s military plans to launch a big search and destroy operation against separatist rebels across wide areas of Aceh province. Full Story

  • Liberians Attack Ghanaian Police

    Thousands of Liberian refugees have fought with Ghanaian riot police in a camp near the capital, Accra, after officers refused to hand over a man who attempted to assault a refugee. Full Story

  • Guerrilla Hero Vows to Break Taliban Grip

    The most renowned guerrilla commander of the 25- year conflict in Afghanistan has pledged to launch a new offensive to rid the country of its Taliban leadership. Full Story

  • Russia Buries Bomb Victims As Toll Rises to 23

    Authorities in a southern Russian province rocked by a series of deadly bomb explosions declared a day of mourning Monday amid a huge security operation to capture those responsible. Full Story

  • Six Killed As Militants Storm Kashmir Security Camp

    A three-member suicide squad stormed a security camp in Kashmir&#039s main city on Monday, killing four paramilitary personnel and wounding four others, a paramilitary spokesman said. Full Story

  • The New Color of Terror: A Deadly Shade of Green

    Guess who the FBI considers to be the largest terrorist threat inside the borders of the United States? Full Story

  • U.S. Cyber-Chief Warns of Weaknesses

    The new director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) told news sources Tuesday that online terrorism and other types of cybercrime could gravely affect the U.S. economy unless federal agencies and corporations work together more closely than they have in the past. Full Story

  • Step 1: Set up shop in Canada

    For the past decade, terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has operated a series of secret training camps in Afghanistan where militants have gone to learn how to wage holy war against the &#039&#039enemies of Islam,&#039&#039 specifically Americans and Jews. Full Story

  • Rebels Launch Terrorist Attacks in Macedonia

    The conflict in Macedonia entered a dangerous new phase Thursday as ethnic Albanian rebels launched urban terrorist attacks while their forces retreated under government artillery fire. Full Story

  • Bush Orders CIA To End Direct Middle East Role

    President George W Bush has ordered the US intelligence service, the CIA, to stop acting as a broker between Israel and the Palestinians. The decision is typical of the new administration&#039s hands-off approach to the Middle East peace process. Full Story

  • Suspect Had Speech Excerpts in Home

    Excerpts of a speech by President Clinton about terrorism were found in the apartment of the fugitive co-defendant of an Algerian accused of smuggling explosives into the country, a witness testified Thursday. Full Story

  • Mass. technology eyed in fight against airline terrorism

    The EntryScan3 seems innocent enough. It looks like an oversized airport metal detector that uses voice commands to direct passengers in and out of a security checkpoint. Full Story

  • One Dead in Communal Violence in Indian Kashmir

    Authorities imposed a curfew on a town in India&#039s restive Kashmir region on Friday after a protester was killed in a demonstration against burnings of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, by Hindu hard-liners. Full Story

  • French Police Arrest Suspected ETA Organizer

    Spanish and French police on Friday arrested eight suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA on both sides of the border, including a man suspected of smuggling ETA&#039s arms between France and Spain. Full Story

  • Experts say Ressam moving highly volatile bomb materials

    Experts from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms testified yesterday that some of the chemical explosives found in the trunk of Ahmed Ressam&#039s car were so volatile they could have been detonated by static electricity. Full Story

  • Bin Laden is cult figure of Pakistani Muslims

    Demonization by the West of the world&#039s most wanted terrorist has turned Osama bin Laden into a “cult figure among Muslims,” says Pakistan&#039s military ruler. Full Story

  • Bill would establish National Homeland Security Agency

    Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) today introduced legislation that would reorganize the federal government to better prepare for threats against the American homeland. Full Story

  • Cohen Feels Bioterrorism is Real Threat

    Now that he&#039s no longer the nation&#039s secretary of defense, William Cohen apparently feels free to leak government secrets. Full Story

  • FBI: Terrorists lurk online

    Terrorist organizations are increasingly lurking on the Internet, looking for ways to penetrate government and private networks and using the Web to pass information, the government&#039s top cybercrime sleuth said Tuesday. Full Story

  • Spain protests over suspected ETA killing

    Silent in grief, but vocal in their anger, thousands of Spaniards have demonstrated at the latest killing in the Basque region, believed to be linked to seperatist group ETA. Full Story

  • Oklahoma City blast

    A former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City last night told Fox News Channel&#039s Bill O&#039Reilly she has gathered massive evidence of a foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the 1995 bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people. Full Story

  • Terror Suspect Held Secretly for 4 Months

    A new suspect in a global conspiracy to kill Americans abroad has been held secretly in New York City for more than four months since his arrest in Africa last fall, court records show. Full Story

  • Shooting Erupts, EU Tries to Prevent New Balkan War

    Two ethnic Albanians were shot dead by police in Tetovo and one policeman was wounded in shooting not far from the Macedonian capital on Thursday as European powers tried to avert civil war. Full Story

  • Violence Flares As Sharon Heads Back to Israel

    Israeli troops and Palestinians fought one of the fiercest gun battles for days in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, despite Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#039s vow not to hold peace talks until violence ends. Full Story

  • Sri Lanka”s Tamil Tigers Extend Ceasefire

    Tamil Tigers fighting for independence in Sri Lanka said on Thursday they would extend a unilateral cease-fire for one more month but also threatened to break it if the government did not respond positively. Full Story

  • Home of Judge in Guatemala Bishop Case Bombed

    Unidentified assailants on Wednesday bombed the house of a judge slated to preside over the trial on Thursday of five suspects in the killing of Guatemalan human rights advocate Bishop Juan Gerardi in 1998. Full Story

  • Berenson Proclaims Innocence

    An optimistic and somewhat nervous Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen convicted of treason in Peru in 1996 but later granted a retrial, Tuesday denied charges of aiding Marxist rebels at the opening day of her public hearing. Full Story

  • Freed British hostage tells of terror in Bangladeshi jungle

    A British engineer held hostage for four weeks in the Bangladeshi jungle yesterday told how he feared for his life. Tim Selby, 28, was snatched at gunpoint by rebels on February 16 in the south-east of Bangladesh, while working on a road surveying project for a Danish firm. Full Story

  • Fighting Kills 16 PKK Terrorists, Three Turk Soldiers

    Sixteen terrorists and three soldiers have been killed in fighting between security forces and PKK militants in southeastern Turkey, a military official said on Tuesday. Full Story

  • Militants Killed in Kashmir

    Nine separatist militants have been killed in a clash with Indian police in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Police say it took place in the mountainous district of Poonch, about 200 kilometres from the state&#039s winter capital, Jammu, on Wednesday morning. Full Story

  • 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