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  • London police fear renewed terrorist attacks close to home

    A subway-station bomb – believed to have been planted by a dissident Irish group – reduced key sections of London to gridlock yesterday and raised fears of renewed terrorist attacks on the British mainland. Full Story

  • GAO Report Released – Combating Terrorism

    Combating Terrorism: Action Taken but Considerable Risks Remain for Forces Overseas. Full Report

  • Arrest made in bomb attempt at Wisconsin air base

    A 36-year-old former National Guard pilot was arrested Thursday and charged with attempting to plant bombs on a Wisconsin military base in an incident that appeared to be aimed at U.S. involvement in Kosovo, officials said. Milan Mititch of Milwaukee was arrested at his home following a tip, according to Barry Babler, a spokesman for…

  • Renegade Bombers Cloud Drive for N.Irish Peace

    Renegade republican groups are posing a serious threat on both sides of the Irish Sea, security sources said Thursday after a bomb was found in London. The “Real IRA,” still a small offshoot of the mainstream Irish Republican Army but flexing its muscles in Northern Ireland, is opposed to the IRA”s cease-fire and current peace…

  • Four German Skinheads Confess to Firebomb Attack

    Four teenage German skinheads confessed Thursday to carrying out a petrol bomb attack that injured three Kosovo children at a hostel for asylum seekers, police said. Full Story

  • Series of acts of terrorism prevented in Russia–details

    Officers of the Chief Anti-Organised Crime Department of the Russian Interior Ministry and of the Federal Security Service prevented on Wednesday a number of major acts of terrorism in several cities in the European part of Russia, a spokesman for the press service of the Anti-Organised Crime Department told Tass. Full Story

  • Ex-FBI Agent to Run 2002 Security

    After a brief absence, David Tubbs is involved again in the Olympic security effort. Full Story

  • Bombs, Kosovo protest found at Wisconsin base

    Two live bombs were found at a Wisconsin Air National Guard base Wednesday after an intruder who had scrawled graffiti protesting U.S. involvement in Kosovo was chased away, the FBI said. Full Story

  • Spain Hit by Fresh Attacks Blamed on ETA

    A Socialist politician escaped a failed car bombing Wednesday just hours after an explosion tore through a shopping center as Spaniards faced escalating violence blamed on radical Basque separatists. Full Story

  • US Bases Said Vulnerable to Attack

    U.S. forces around the world remain vulnerable to terrorist attack despite improvements made after a truck bomb killed 19 Americans at a U.S. military complex in Saudi Arabia four years ago, congressional investigators reported Wednesday. Full Story

  • Bomb Found on Tube Line

    Police have confirmed a bomb was planted near a London Underground station as parts of the capital are brought to a standstill by a series of security alerts. A coded warning led police to a package on the line near Ealing Broadway tube station and they sealed off the area and carried out a controlled…

  • Bomb Hits Basque Capital

    A bomb has exploded in a shopping centre in the Basque capital of Vitoria, causing severe damage but no injuries. Full Story

  • Fiji Political Crisis Takes Turn for the Worse

    Fiji&#039s political crisis deepened Wednesday with the prime minister and nationalist rebels squabbling over a delay in the swearing in of a new government and a report of a possible breakaway administration. Full Story

  • Sheehan Testimony – Terrorism in Asia

    Ambassador Michael Sheehan, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Testimony Before the House International Relations Committee, Washington, DC, July 12, 2000. Full Testimony

  • Afghan leader criticizes Bin Laden as U.S. special forces reported near Kabul

    For the first time, an Afghan leader has criticized Osama Bin Laden as the United States has launched an effort to capture the Saudi fugitive billionaire. Full Story

  • Russia, China to jointly fight terrorism

    Russia and the People&#039s Republic of China will “take active and concrete measures on the bilateral and multilateral basis” for fighting national separatism, international terrorism, religious extremism and transnational crime, says the Beijing Declaration, which was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of the People&#039s Republic of China Jiang Zemin on Tuesday. Full…

  • Afghan Taliban chief refuses to give up bin Laden

    Mulla Mohammad Omar, chief of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban militia has again rejected the expulsion of alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden, and any Pakistani role to end the stalemate, a report here said Saturday. Full Story

  • The ‘Terrorist’ Next Door

    Khalil Deek is either one of the world’s most dangerous men —a close friend of terrorist financier Osama bin Laden—or a naive computer geek whose religious beliefs and social connections led overzealous authorities to mistake him for an Islamic terrorist. Full Story

  • Bomb plot suspect faces N.Y. trial

    An Algerian suspected of links to an alleged bombing plot in the United States waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday and will go to New York for trial. Full Story

  • Could 100 Witnesses Have Been Mistaken?

    Today is the fourth anniversary of one of the most mysterious, tragic and controversial air crashes in U.S. history — the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, which killed 230 passengers and crew. Full Story

  • Greeks observe nationwide moment of silence against terrorism

    Greeks observed an unprecedented nationwide minute of silence against terrorism Wednesday, part of a government-sponsored publicity campaign to fight a menace that has plagued the country for 25 years. Full Story

  • Car Bomb Injures Nine in Madrid, ETA Blamed

    A car bomb rocked central Madrid just before dawn on Wednesday, injuring nine people in the latest attack blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. Full Story

  • Taliban release US aid worker in Afghanistan

    Elderly US aid worker Mary MacMakin has been released after four days of detention in Afghanistan for alleged spying, the US embassy in Pakistan said Wednesday. Full Story

  • Bioterrorism could affect U.S., West

    A panel of experts debated bioterrorism&#039s threat to the United States during a public discussion at Dartmouth&#039s Thayer School of Engineering last Friday evening, raising scientific and political issues and reaching no firm conclusions. Full Story

  • Victims” Kin Win Against Iran

    A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Iran was responsible for a terrorist bombing in Israel that killed an American couple and awarded their relatives $327 million. Full Story

  • Too Many Hostages, “Robot” Complains

    Apparently realizing that it already has more captives than it can handle, the Abu Sayyaf appealed to government negotiators yesterday to resume the stalled negotiations for the freedom of the hostages. Full Story

  • 2 Bombs Found At North Cotabato Provincial Capital

    Lawmen safely detonated the other day two powerful explosives planted inside the North Cotabato provincial capitol in Kidapawan City, just as President Estrada was raising the Philippine flag at Camp Abubakar in Maguindanao. Full Story

  • Bound to Each Other by Bombs

    The buildings looked alike even before the bombs shattered them–tan and black fortresses of poured concrete that housed U.S. government offices. But in Oklahoma City, the terrorists killed only Americans. In Nairobi, almost all who died were Africans. Full Story

  • Fiji Nationalist Rebels Free Nine Hostages

    Fiji&#039s military said on Wednesday the overnight release of nine hostages was a positive sign that the country&#039s eight-week political crisis was heading for a resolution. Full Story

  • Car Bomb Injures Nine in Madrid, ETA Suspected

    A car bomb rocked central Madrid before dawn on Wednesday, injuring nine people in the latest attack blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. Full Story

  • Five journalists still “missing”

    The Algerian press currently enjoys greater freedom of tone, accompanied by the creation of new titles, and there are over 30 dailies in existence today. The authorities try, however, to curb this freedom by economic and legal means. Certain sympathies in Algerian society are rarely or never found in the country&#039s main news media. Full…

  • Further Violence Expected in Northern Ireland Today

    Further Orange Order protests and associated violence are expected in Northern Ireland today and tonight on the eve of the Twelfth celebrations. Full Story

  • US fears narco-terrorism in Mexico

    Spanning the Rio Grande flood plains from the Mexican industrial town of Reynosa, to Pharr, Texas, is a new four-lane bridge where hundreds of trucks queue day and night to transport Mexican-made goods into the United States. Full Story

  • Osama”s movements monitored: Taliban

    The supreme leader of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban said the Islamic militia was monitoring and restricting the movements of Osama bin Laden and denied the Saudi-born terrorist had training camps in Afghanistan. Full Story

  • First person on trial in U.S. embassy bombings pleads innocent

    The first defendant to stand trial in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa pleaded innocent on Monday to a charge of housing five men suspected in the attack. Full Story

  • Nuclear Terrorism Moves Closer to Home

    It is only a matter of time. Consider the possibility of waking to the news one morning that a terrorist squad has planted a nuclear device somewhere in your city and is threatening to detonate it. Is this scenario plausible? The answer is definitely yes. Full Story

  • Barriers To Guard Washington Monument

    The federal government is working on a plan to protect the Washington Monument from terrorists by using a circle of spaced metal bollards or a barrier of some other design to prevent vehicles from approaching it. Full Story

  • Terror Returns to the Skies

    Terrorists may be returning to hijacking tactics of the 70s. India&#039s surrender to hijackers last year is seen as setting a bad precedent. Full Story

  • Two Men Killed In Hospital Attack In Solomon Islands

    Hooded gunmen walked into a hospital in the Solomon Islands capital today and shot dead two patients, witnesses said, in the latest attack in the Pacific nation&#039s deadly ethnic dispute. Full Story

  • Filipino Rebels Kidnap Three French Journalists

    Extremists holding 37 hostages in the southern Philippine island of Jolo have kidnapped three French television journalists covering the 12-week hostage crisis, a senior provincial government source and their colleague said today. Full Story

  • Anti-Shevardnadze Rebel Shot Dead as Hostage Drama Ends in Blood

    Crack Georgian commandos overnight Sunday shot dead a renegade colonel who once sought to overthrow President Eduard Shevardnadze, as a hostage drama ended in blood, the interior ministry said. Full Story

  • Algeria: Fourteen Killed in Armed Attacks

    Reports from Algeria say fourteen people have been killed and seven kidnapped in weekend attacks blamed on armed Islamist groups. Full Story

  • Violence Flares in N.Ireland for Eighth Night

    Protestant hard-liners hurled stones at police and set hijacked vehicles ablaze in Northern Ireland overnight in new protests against a ban on a march through a Roman Catholic area, witnesses said on Monday. Full Story

  • Blast rips through Bangalore church

    An explosion took place in the prayer hall of a church in J J Nagar in the city on Sunday night, police said. Full Story

  • Six Killed in Russian Explosion

    Two bombs exploded at an outdoor food market and a department store in southern Russia on Sunday, killing six people and wounding 16 others. Full Story

  • The Aftershock of Lockerbie

    It had rained the night before, and the air was clear and fresh, the smell of winter on the wind, as President Clinton&#039s motorcade wound among the gleaming white headstones of Arlington National Cemetery. The president&#039s destination was an empty patch of earth. It had been chosen as the site of a memorial to the…

  • Bomb Explodes at Northern Ireland Police Station

    A bomb exploded at a police station in Northern Ireland in the early hours of Sunday morning, as tension mounted ahead of a controversial Protestant march. Full Story

  • Report: Ex-Soldier to Testify on “74 Irish Bombings

    A former British soldier has agreed to give evidence of alleged British military involvement in car bombings in Ireland which killed 33 people in a single day in 1974, the Sunday Business Post newspaper reported. Full Story

  • Fiji Rebels Trade Hostages for Influence

    Fiji rebels and military signed an accord Sunday aimed at ending a seven-week crisis and paving the way for the release of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and 26 other political hostages. Full Story

  • Bomb explodes on Italian beach, one wounded

    A 79-year-old Italian was fighting for his life on Friday after a homemade pipe-bomb buried under a beach blew up in his face. Full Story

  • Indonesia police say bombs were military type

    Bombs planted at the Indonesian attorney-general&#039s office this week were a type used in military operations, national police chief Rusdihardjo was quoted on Friday as saying. Full Story

  • Canada holds alleged Egyptian terrorist

    Canadian authorities arrested an Egyptian man with links to alleged terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden and the Al Jihad movement, published reports said Friday. Full Story

  • Duma ratifies convention on curbing terrorism

    The European convention on curbing terrorism was ratified by the State Duma at its plenary meeting on Friday. Three hundred and 25 MPs voted for the ratification, four voted against and four abstained from voting. The convention was signed by Russian in Budapest on May 7, 1999. Full Story

  • Some US Moslems maintain ties with Islamic radical groups

    Some U.S. non-governmental Moslem organisations maintain close contacts with radical Islamic groups, Stanley Bedlington, U.S. expert on anti-terrorism struggle, told Itar-Tass. According to his information, those public organisations often raise money on the U.S. territory, to be given to foreign extremist organisations. Full Story

  • One Killed, Four Injured in Lahore Bomb Blast

    At least one person was killed and four seriously injured when a bomb exploded at a main bus stand in Lahore today, police and witnesses said. The bomb was planted under a minibus shortly before it was to depart for Gujrat, they said. The blast, apparently triggered by remote control, badly damaged the vehicle and…

  • Fifth Night of Tension and Attacks in North

    There was another night of tension across Northern Ireland last night as loyalists took to the streets in support of Drumcree Orangemen. Full Story

  • FRY govt backs RF”s efforts to fight terrorism in Chechnya

    The Yugoslav government is supporting Russia&#039s efforts to fight terrorism in Chechnya and expressing its condolence to the families of those who killed in the republic, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Full Story

  • India launches global campaign against terrorism: Advani

    India has launched a global campaign against terrorism and will defeat any attempt by Pakistan to fuel unrest in Kashmir, Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said here on Thursday. Full Story

  • India and Nepal reach deal on terrorism

    India and Nepal Thursday signed an agreement to set up a specialist joint unit to counter terrorism and share information about criminals operating along their border. Full Story

  • Afghan terror concerns Council

    The U.N. Security Council, expressing “serious concern” about the war in Afghanistan, Thursday warned of its spread to other nations and about the use of Afghan territory to support international terrorism. Full Story