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  • Six Persons Kidnapped in Tripura

    National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants have kidnapped six persons in separate incidents in Tripura, police said on Thursday. Full Story

  • French Put Terror Suspect Under Investigation

    French authorities placed a French citizen of Algerian origin with suspected links to the international terrorist Osama bin Laden under formal investigation Wednesday for alleged links with a terrorist organization, judicial sources said. Full Story

  • Worldwide Caution

    As we approach the height of the tourist season, the Department of State reminds American citizens worldwide of the need to remain vigilant with regard to their personal security. This Public Announcement is not in response to a particular threat or event but to emphasize our ongoing concern for the security of Americans overseas. Should…

  • Lockerbie Judges Adjourn Trial Until July 11

    The trial of two Libyans accused of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988 was adjourned Thursday until July 11. Full Story

  • Fiji Military May Isolate Rebels

    Fiji&#039s military said on Thursday it might cut off electricity and other services to rebels who have held 27 hostages for almost six weeks and a former coup leader urged the army not to discount the use of force to free them. Full Story

  • France hails cooperation with RF in fight against terrorism

    French Interior Minister Jean- Pierre Chevenement said “there are certain tracks of Islamic terrorism in Chechnya”. Full Story

  • Terrorism Hearing Postponed in Canada

    An extradition hearing for an Algerian man suspected by the United States of links to an alleged terrorist plot was postponed Wednesday, the second delay in two weeks. Full Story

  • Man Holds Texas Archbishop Hostage

    A man claiming to wield a hand grenade and complaining about government mistreatment took hostage the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Antonio on Wednesday, church officials and police said. Full Story

  • Altered States

    The State Department&#039s decision to no longer use the term “rogue states” to describe the likes of Libya, North Korea or Iran, but to refer to them instead as “states of concern,” was one of those policy moves that is easy to ridicule. In fact, let&#039s do that for a moment. Full Story

  • Yugoslavia Drafts Tough Anti-Terrorism Law

    Yugoslav authorities released details Tuesday of a draft anti-terrorism law that critics say will plunge the country into “darkness and fear.” Full Story

  • S.Leone Army Says 11 Rebels Killed in Convoy Attack

    Sierra Leone&#039s army said on Tuesday it had killed some 11 rebel soldiers, including a senior commander, with a helicopter gunship attack on a convoy. Full Story

  • Two U.N. Staff Shot Dead in Baghdad – FAO

    Two United Nations staff members were shot dead at the mission of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Baghdad on Wednesday after a man entered the office and the army then stormed the building, the FAO said. Full Story

  • Israeli arrested at Peruvian airport with sticks of dynamite

    Authorities arrested Israeli national Jair Habooshi early Tuesday morning at Lima airport in possession of two sticks of dynamite, according to customs police. Full Story

  • Terrorists use new tools, old tactics

    Despite increasing concern about cyberterrorism, a report published this month by a blue-ribbon panel of experts concluded that the tactics and goals of the world’s terrorist organizations remain low-tech. Full Story

  • Schumer: Virus showed nation unprepared for bioterrorism crisis

    Last year&#039s West Nile virus outbreak exposed gaping holes in the nation&#039s preparedness to deal with bioterrorism, a congressional report says. Full Story

  • Mock terrorists fake nerve gas

    At least seven people would&#039ve died Friday night if a mock terrorist training exercise on North Memorial Parkway had been real. Full Story

  • Bomb Blast Greets Norwegian Envoy as Peace Bid Inches Forward

    A Norwegian-funded aid agency was bombed in Colombo on Tuesday as Oslo&#039s special envoy arrived to revive a tottering peace process, amid an escalation of ethnic bloodletting on the island. Full Story

  • Six People Injured In Thai Temple Bomb Blast

    Six ethnic Hmongs were wounded Tuesday when a bomb exploded at a temple complex in central Thailand which is home to about 15,000 Hmong and other hill tribespeople, police said. Full Story

  • France Suspects Corsicans Behind Paris Bomb

    French police suspect Corsican separatists planted a bomb that failed to explode outside a Paris conference centre due to hold a seminar on Middle East peace negotiations, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Scraps of a Corsican newspaper attached to the 23 sticks of dynamite found near the Kleber international centre led police to this assumption,…

  • Rogue Fiji Officer Says Hostages Would Die In Rescue Try

    A former officer of Britain&#039s elite Special Air Service, who is one of the leaders of the gunmen holding Fiji&#039s government hostage, said today the captives will die if the army tries to rescue them. Full Story

  • Violence Rages in Indonesia

    Gunfire and bomb blasts echoed across the violence-wracked Maluku islands city of Ambon on Tuesday, hours after the government declared a civil emergency aimed at ending the conflict. Full Story

  • Fiji Rebels Given 24-Hour Ultimatum by Military

    Fiji&#039s military rulers set a 24-hour deadline on Tuesday for indigenous rebels to lay down their weapons and free the country&#039s ethnic Indian prime minister and 26 hostages held for five weeks in parliament. Full Story

  • Military Praises Device That Detects Deadly Viruses

    Military scientists are studying a DNA detector that may make Americans significantly less vulnerable to terrorist attacks with chemical and biological weapons. Full Story

  • Army Reveals Olympic Security Role

    The U.S. Army will provide expertise and equipment to help safeguard the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Full Story

  • Sudan: Terrorism Issue Resolved

    Sudan said Monday it had resolved questions about its sponsorship of terrorism, and urged the United States and other U.N. Security Council members to lift sanctions imposed five years ago. Full Story

  • 50,000 police for Athens 2004: minister

    Fifty thousand policemen will be deployed to provide security during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, four times the present strength, which will “make impossible all terrorist activity and attempts to steal”, Greek public order minister Michalis Chryssohoidis said Monday. Full Story

  • Bomb Found Near Arc de Triomphe

    Workers on Monday found a package booby-trapped with 25 sticks of dynamite at a work site facing Paris&#039 International Conference Center, not far from the Arc de Triomphe, police said. Full Story

  • Bomb blast rocks mosque in southern Indian state

    A crude bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, injuring one person and sparking off an outbreak of violence in the area, police said on Monday. Full Story

  • Explosion at Kuwaiti oil refinery kills 3

    An explosion early Sunday at the largest of Kuwait&#039s three oil refineries killed three workers and injured 43, the facility&#039s operations manager said. Full Story

  • Clinton criticises Greece”s poor anti-terrorsim record

    President Bill Clinton joined in widespread international criticism of Greece&#039s anti-terrorism record Sunday and reiterated his full support to the Greek government in curbing it. Full Story

  • Hostage freed in Philippines; bombs kill one

    A Malaysian forest ranger, one of 21 mostly foreign hostages held by Moslem rebels in the southern Philippines, was released on Saturday, raising hopes of a breakthrough in the two-month-old kidnap saga. Full Story

  • Mock terrorist attack staged along river

    More than 150 people from 30 agencies, including the U.S. Army, the Ohio National Guard, the Toledo police department, and the FBI yesterday staged a simulated terrorist attack in International Park and responded to it for practice. Full Story

  • State Department considers warning U.S. tourists of terrorist threat

    The U.S. State Department is putting its quick response teams on alert and may soon warn American travelers worldwide of an increased risk of terrorist attacks. Full Story

  • ADF Terrorist Netted

    The Head of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) urban terrorism unit has been captured in Kampala, the military announced Saturday. Full Story

  • Car Bomb in Spain”s Basque Region Injures Seven

    A car bomb exploded in a wealthy neighborhood in Spain&#039s Basque region early Sunday, injuring seven people in the latest attack blamed on the radical separatist group ETA. Full Story

  • Terrorism Panel Faulted for Exaggeration

    More Americans have died from scorpion bites than from foreign terrorist attacks over the past five years. But that didn&#039t stop the National Commission on Terrorism from describing the terrorist threat in vastly exaggerated terms earlier this month. Full Story

  • Go-ahead given for food, medicine as hostages enter third month

    A Malaysian Red Crescent mission has been given the go-ahead to resume food and medicine deliveries to Asian hostages held by Muslim extremists, mission members said Friday as the Philippine hostage crisis entered its third month. Full Story

  • Thirteen Killed in Latest Kashmir Violence

    There have been several clashes in the past twenty-four hours in Indian-administered Kashmir. Police said four Indian soldiers and two militants were killed in one clash in the frontier district of Kupwara. They said the fighting which began yesterday on Thursday was still continuing. Full Story

  • Ministry prepares for possible bio-terrorism at G-8 summit

    The Health and Welfare Ministry has compiled a draft action plan to prepare for the possibility of an attack using biological weapons at next month&#039s Group of Eight (G-8) summit, and has launched a study group to work out measures against possible biological terrorism in Japan, a major Japanese daily reported Friday. Full Story

  • U.S.-Canada Counterterrorism Bilateral

    The U.S.-Canadian Bilateral Consultative Group on Counterterrorism Cooperation met June 19-20 in Washington, D.C. At the meeting, co-chaired by Ambassador at Large Michael A. Sheehan and Canadian Director-General for Security and Intelligence Paul Dingledine, the two sides reviewed international terrorist trends and planned ways to intensify joint counterterrorist efforts. This builds on a long history…

  • Fiji Rebels, Military to End Crisis

    Fiji rebels and military leaders reached an agreement on Friday to end the South Pacific nation&#039s five-week political crisis, paving the way for the release of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and 30 other political hostages. Full Story

  • Bioterrorism awareness pushed

    City health officials yesterday asked Boston&#039s public health board to approve a rule that would require hospitals to be part of a high-speed bioterrorism detection network. Full Story

  • UK nail bomber found therapy in bombs

    A self-confessed Nazi who killed three people in a spate of nail bombings across London found bomb-making a form of therapy, a psychiatrist told a British court Thursday. Full Story

  • A Secretive Team, on Guard for Nuclear Terror

    The Nuclear Emergency Search Team – the Energy Department unit likened to a nuclear bomb squad that kept sensitive information on the two computer disks that disappeared at Los Alamos – is a highly secretive outfit little-known to the public. Full Story

  • Dealing fairly with terrorism

    International terrorism increasingly threatens Americans at home and abroad. While the number of attacks has declined slightly, the number of casualties has risen dramatically since 1990. Full Story

  • U.S. tells nationals in Jordan of terrorist threat

    The United States beefed up security around its embassy in Jordan on Thursday to guard against what it said was a terrorist threat and advised U.S. nationals to take extra precautions. Full Story

  • Draft Peace Plan Ready to Go to Tigers

    Sri Lanka is set to discuss a crucial peace plan with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in an attempt to end decades of violence that claimed 60,000 lives, a senior minister said. Full Story

  • No Ransom – France, Finland, Germany

    Sorry, Abu Sayyaf. Finland, France and Germany will not pay ransom. Officials of the three European countries vowed yesterday that they will not pay any ransom for the release of their nationals who are among the 21 Caucasian and Asian hostages being held by the Muslim extremist group in Mindanao. Full Story

  • Man arrested after explosion rocks Belfast area

    Police arrested a man after an explosion rocked a Roman Catholic area of the Northern Ireland capital Belfast on Wednesday, seriously injuring two men believed to be a father and son, officials said. Full Story

  • Bioterrorism defense under fire Doctors say military plans are wrong approach

    Plague stalked the streets of Denver recently, in the form of a sham bioterrorist attack. Starting in mid-May, when fake patients started walking into city hospitals, federal officials used the exercise to gauge the response of law enforcement and public health authorities to an intentional outbreak of infectious disease. Full Story

  • Anti-Terrorism Center Set-Up in Russia

    At their one-day Kremlin summit on Wednesday, the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States established a joint anti-terrorist center and moved ahead with long-stalled plans for a free-trade zone. Full Story

  • Boston is unprepared for attack by bioterrorists, report warns

    A chilling report to be unveiled today says the city of Boston is unprepared for a bioterrorist attack, lacking the high-speed coordination between hospitals and government needed to detect a strike before casualties mount. Full Story

  • Explosion Hits West Belfast, Two Injured

    An explosion rocked a Catholic area of Belfast Wednesday and two men, said to be a father and his son, were taken to hospital with extensive injuries, emergency services in Northern Ireland said. Full Story

  • Bomb Blasts Rock Southern Serbia Near Kosovo

    Two policemen and a security guard were reported injured in a series of bomb blasts in a volatile part of Serbia near Kosovo Wednesday and Belgrade authorities blamed the explosions on “Albanian terrorists.&#039&#039 Full Story

  • So, “Rogue” Is Too Rough; How About “Naughty”?

    Having retired the term &#039rogue state,&#039 the State Department scrambles to come up with an alternative. TIME.com has some suggestions. Full Story

  • No Terrorists To Be Allowed To Use Thai Soil

    The Thai government will not permit any terrorist group to use its territory against Sri Lankan government, Thai Ambassador of Thailand to the country Lanka Thakur Phanit said on Tuesday here. Full Story

  • Security chiefs hoping to dispel author”s nightmare scenario

    Prolific author Tom Clancy&#039s latest international best-seller, Rainbow Six, is unlikely to be the chosen bedtime reading of the small group of experts at the Olympic Security Command Centre (OSCC) who are charged with policing the 2000 Sydney Games. Full Story

  • Swiss businessman says he made bomb timers for Libya

    A key witness in the Lockerbie bombing trial said Tuesday that he manufactured electronic timers for the Libya&#039s secret service that were similar to the one used to blow up Pam Am flight 103. Full Story

  • CIS prime ministers finalize anti-terrorist program into 2003

    Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Tuesday told Tass that a session of CIS prime ministers held here earlier in the day had finalized a joint program of struggle against terrorism. “A special centre for struggle against terrorism will be set up in Moscow,” Kasyanov said. Full Story

  • Firefighters to stage phony terrorist event as training exercise

    A phony terrorist event will be staged in Huntsville sometime within the next month or so to see how Huntsville Fire & Rescue personnel would handle it, said Capt. Marc Thrailkill, the department&#039s hazardous materials training officer. Full Story