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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak extended a “hand in peace” to the Lebanese people and President Emile Lahoud, during an unprecedented meeting of parliament here Thursday near the border with Lebanon. Full Story
‘- Fiji's traditional chiefs on Thursday threw their weight behind a racially-motivated coup in the Pacific nation, calling for ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry to be replaced by an indigenous Fijian. Full Story
Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Russian officials Thursday for threatening airstrikes on Afghanistan, saying they should not follow the U.S. example of bombing to fight terrorism. Full Story
Responding to suggestions from a House panel, the FBI has boosted security at its headquarters in Washington and other locations. Full Story
Right-wing militia wielding automatic rifles plant a bomb at the Olympics and take innocent bystanders hostage. A likely enough scenario to warrant a full-scale police rehearsal at Bruce Stadium in Canberra Thursday. Full Story
Anxiety now reigns in this city after an improvised bomb was found on a seat of a McDonald's outlet at the four-story Saver's Mall in busy Barangay Balibago at about 6:50 p.m. last Tuesday. Full Story
At least three people were injured today when a bomb exploded in a market in Karachi, police and residents said. The bomb, which was planted in a fruit crate in the vegetable market, injured three people and created panic in the area, they said. Bomb disposal squad chief Moeenuddin Ahmed said the bomb contained 300…
About 100 victims of Muslim-Christian religious riots were dumped into a mass grave and anguished residents salvaged belongings from burned-out homes Wednesday in northern Nigeria. Full Story
Just 70 kilometres from the hostage drama in Suva, a small village in the highlands of Viti Levu has endured a nightly reign of racial terror since a band of gunmen seized the Prime Minister last week. Full Story
Aurora police on Saturday morning found a 25-year-old white male dead in a motel room on the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center campus. Full Story Another story on TOP OFF.
Alabama is spending about $1 million in federal money this year to fight bioterrorism, and may spend as much as $4 million more over the next several years. That makes it one of the nation's biggest spenders in the war against biological terror. Full Story
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels set a deadline of Friday for an estimated 40,000 government troops defending the northern Jaffna peninsula to surrender or face a “blood bath.” Full Story
A fugitive with alleged ties to Saudi militant Osama bin Laden has been arrested on charges of planning terrorist attacks during New Year's celebrations, government officials said Wednesday. Full Story
Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss rejected concerns on Thursday that Hezbollah guerrillas — and not Lebanese security forces — were controlling the streets of southern Lebanon in the wake of Israel's withdrawal from the region. Full Story
Fiji's traditional chiefs risked international condemnation on Thursday when they urged the president to replace a democratically elected prime minister and pardon gunmen who have held him hostage for nearly a week. Full Story
A jilted husband wearing a blue bonnet and toting a grenade and a gun hijacked a domestic passenger flight in the Philippines on Thursday, robbing passengers before parachuting out. Full Story
Congressional investigators using phony identification successfully penetrated 19 of the federal government's most secure buildings and two high-profile airports, sources close to the probe said Wednesday. Full Story
Russia told the United States Wednesday it had no plans to attack the Afghan bases of Islamist groups it accuses of helping Chechen separatists, a U.S. official said. Full Story
A Reuters correspondent and a Spanish journalist were killed in an ambush in Sierra Leone on Wednesday that left four Sierra Leone Army soldiers dead. Full Story
What comes to mind when you hear the words “bombing” or “terrorist”? Unfortunately, there are many possibilities: the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; the devastation at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City; the World Trade Center bombing in New York; the blasts at the U.S. embassies in East…
A poison gas attack, a deliberate outbreak of plague, and a truck bombing — all of them nightmare scenarios. Government officials simulated these terrorist attacks to test the nation’s readiness to respond. Full Story This is a video segment.
Lebanon's army commander said on Wednesday that his country will give no security guarantees to Israel unless it withdraws further from Lebanese and Syrian lands and solves the Palestinian refugee issue. Full Story
A blast ripped through the Norwegian embassy here Wednesday hours after Norway's deputy foreign minister Raymond Johansen left the island after a peace mission, officials said. Full Story
Offices of the company formerly headed by Fiji coup leader George Speight were ablaze after a suspected arson attack Thursday morning, witnesses said. Full Story
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism held their first series of public hearings yesterday. Here is the testimony of Dr. Kennith Alibek on Chem/bio terrorism. Full Testimony
Operation Ring True, the final test of Australia's counter-terrorism forces for the Sydney Olympics, began Wednesday. Full Story
NATO chief George Robertson said Wednesday Moscow should team up with the Atlantic alliance to tackle terrorism and extremism, warning that on its own Russia could not boost security in Central Asia. Full Story
Australian Defense Department officers caused tens of thousands of dollars damage to an Olympic venue at a counter-terrorism exercise last week, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Wednesday. Full Story
Russia's Chechnya spokesman stood by a warning on Tuesday that Moscow could launch air strikes against Afghanistan for supporting Chechen rebels, making clear that his threats were backed by the Kremlin. Full Story
A huge column of Israeli armor and troops crossed back into northern Israel in the early hours of Wednesday morning, signaling the end of Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon. Full Story
Diplomatic sources said the head of the South Lebanon Army left Paris to join his disbanding militia, which was scattering out of southern Lebanon after Israel suddenly began removing troops from its self-declared security zone. Full Story
Spanish Premier Jose Maria Aznar hosted French President Jacques Chirac for a one-day summit Tuesday at this northern Spanish city in which cooperation in the fight against terrorism and European Union reform initiatives topped the agenda. Full Story
Afghanistan has not received an official notification from Moscow about the possibility of Russia's dealing preventive strikes at terrorists' bases in the Afghan territory. First secretary of the Afghan embassy in Russia Gairat Gulam Sahi said this in a live broadcast of Echo of Moscow radio on Tuesday to comment on the statement of Russian…
Terrorist groups continue to kill indiscriminately and one of the latest show of force was during the visit of an Amnesty International delegation during which dozens of passengers of a bus were assassinated. While many say that security forces have slowed down their chase of terrorists, the military have in fact reinforced their positions in…
Twenty terrorist attacks against American targets in a 12-month period; a combined 40 strikes on U.S., French and British holdings; 52 anti-American protest marches; seven rocket attacks … the country in question isn't Afghanistan or Iran. It's Greece. The cradle of democracy, and a key NATO ally, is the home of anti-American terrorism. An intelligence…
Israeli troops blew up several outposts in an acceleration of their withdrawal early Wednesday, leaving southern Lebanon to Shiite Muslim guerrillas who have been filling a power vacuum created by departing enemies. Full Story
The Clinton administration and American Jewish leaders expressed support Tuesday for Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon as the Jewish state's 24-year-old security zone in Lebanon began collapsing six weeks early. Full Story
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism held their first series of public hearings today. Among the speakers was Dr. Dororthy Denning, who provided us with a copy of her testimony on “Cyberterrorism”. Full Testimony We will post additional testimony as it becomes publically available.
A shot was heard this morning from within the parliament complex where Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry is being held hostage by gunmen in a coup attempt, Fiji Radio reported. Full Story
A man calling himself Martin Bormann after one of Hitler's senior Nazi henchmen has been arrested for possessing a large cache of explosives by the elite police unit in charge of Sydney's Olympic security. Full Story
Things are getting back to normal this morning at Baltimore-Washington International Airport following the discovery of a suspicious package by an X-ray machine. Full Story
In the wake of the Israeli army's exodus from south Lebanon, the Israel-allied Lebanese militia released all the inmates at the infamous El-Khiam prison on Tuesday, Israeli sources said. Full Story
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group, is expressing concern over the scheduled appearance of an “Islamophobe” at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week. Steven Emerson, a self-styled “terrorism expert,” will testify before the committee at a May 23 hearing on H.R. 2121, the Secret Evidence Repeal Act. Full Story
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly urged Congress to reject legislation which would strip the government of an essential shield for confidential sources needed to prevent terrorism. Full Story
A man on trial for allegedly planning terrorist attacks during the New Year was compiling information on Israeli diplomats and Jordanian officials and businessmen, a police officer testified Monday. Full Story
The head of Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs urged the leader of a coup attempt Tuesday to free the country's prime minister and other hostages he has been holding in parliament. Full Story
The trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing resumes on Tuesday with testimony expected to focus on detailed evidence based on explosive physics and forensic science. Full Story
Hizbollah guerrillas swept through more of Israel's shrinking occupation zone Tuesday, spurred on by the Jewish state's decision to withdraw quickly and the disintegration of its local militia. Full Story
The latest blast confirms fears that Muslim insurgents in the south are taking their war to the capital, raising the spectre of martial law. Full Story
Israel's South Lebanon Army militia appeared to be disintegrating in front of advancing Hizbollah guerrillas Monday as the Jewish state prepared to end its 22-year occupation. Full Story
Virtual patients” began reporting to Denver-area hospitals Saturday as a multi-agency mock biological warfare drill got under way to test the ability of public health and law enforcement agencies to respond to a real attack. Full Story
A group of 143 Kosovo Albanians accused of terrorism were sentenced Monday to between 7 and 13 years imprisonment by a Serbian court on charges of taking part in attacks against Belgrade government forces during the 1999 NATO air strikes. Full Story
At least three Maoist guerrillas were killed and seven police security guards injured in a shoot-out in Kalikot district, west of Kathmandu, on Sunday night, a police source said Monday. Full Story
Gunmen holding Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry in an attempted coup dragged him onto the lawn of the parliament building Monday and held a gun to his head, witnesses said. Full Story
Israel's army ordered residents of northern Israel into bomb shelters on Monday, witnesses said. The reason was not immediately clear. Full Story
Emergency planners learned yesterday how much they wouldn't know — at least in time to do much good — if a small nuclear bomb exploded in the District of Columbia. Full Story
Turkish Interior Minister Saadettin Tantan underlined on Saturday the depth of the Turkish-Egyptian relations, voicing hope for upgrading cooperation between the countries in all fields. Full Story
A bomb exploded in Manila's largest shopping mall Sunday, killing one person and injuring 11 others in the second attack on a shopping center in the capital in four days, officials said. Full Story
A series of mock terrorist attacks began on Saturday in the United States, testing the ability of top local, state and federal officials to respond to a catastrophic sequence of biological and chemical releases. Full Story
Sierra Leonean rebels released another 54 U.N. personnel Sunday after holding them hostage for nearly three weeks, a U.N. official said. Full Story
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