The Bishkek Group has signed documents on joint measures against dangerous crimes, Russian Interior Minister Colonel-General Vladimir Rushailo said at a news conference on Friday. Full Story

Right-wing extremists celebrating an anniversary of the birth of Adolf Hitler have set fire to a synagogue in the east German city of Erfurt, according to German police. Full Story

The United States has reopened its embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, which has been closed for nearly three years, the official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported Friday. Full Story

Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo on Friday called on the Shanghai Five countries to join efforts in fight against international terrorism.Full Story

The Laskar Jihad, a 10,000-strong force, is preparing to travel to Indonesia’s Maluku province in a stated attempt to end the simmering sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians. An initial 3,000 volunteers are to arrive as early as April 23, threatening to fuel problems in the strife-torn province. Full Story

Julia Moreno Macuso, alias “Bombi,” an alleged ETA activist arrested Sunday in Landes, France, was sentenced Thursday by a French judge who ordered her imprisoned after finding her guilty of associating with terrorist groups and other charges, court officials told EFE. Full Story

Fifteen people allegedly linked to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden pleaded not guilty here Thursday to charges of plotting attacks on Western and tourist targets. Full Story

A defendant on trial for the 1986 bomb attack on a Berlin discotheque which killed three people — including two US citizens — and wounded 200, broke his silence Thursday, saying it was the Libyan response to an earlier US attack. Full Story

Tribal guerrillas killed 11 Nepali settlers in two separate attacks in India&#039s remote northeast, police said Thursday. Full Story

The High Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the British Broadcasting Corp. to broadcast the trial of two Libyans accused of blowing up a Pan Am jet in 1988. Full Story

A trial opened Thursday for 28 men charged with plotting to attack U.S. and Israeli tourists in Jordan over the New Year&#039s holiday. Full Story

Jordan&#039s military prosecutor today opened the trial of 28 people accused of links to Osama bin Laden by implicating them in a plot to carry out attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets in this pro-Western Arab kingdom. Full Story

Japan may cancel the Japanese citizenship given to an Italian man so he can be extradited to Italy to face trial for acts of terrorism, government officials indicated Thursday. Full Story

Non-military threats are increasingly apparent in the Asia Pacific region (APR, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said. He said in an interview with Itar-Tass on Thursday that “new security threats of a non-military nature” are emerging in the APR. He spelled the threats as terrorism, traffic in drugs, transnational crime. Full Story

A five-day meeting of the chiefs of the law enforcement agencies of Shanghai Five countries is to open here on April 21. They will discuss cooperation among Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan in fighting the most dangerous crime. A Chinese delegation of the Ministry of Public Security has left for Moscow by air to…

A bill to combat computer hacking through enhanced law enforcement and to protect the privacy and constitutional rights of Americans, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Full Bill

Terrorists, say experts gathered for the fifth anniversary of what people here refer to simply as “the bombing,” are more cunning than ever. Full Story

Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh could become a martyr for anti-government extremists if the federal death penalty against him is carried out, said experts at a terrorism conference marking the fifth anniversary of the blast yesterday. Full Story

Immigration officials are preparing a $43 million computerized system to track all 500,000 foreign college students in the USA under a program prompted by the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. Full Story

A bomb blast at a McDonald&#039s in western France killed a young female employee this morning and left a giant crater behind the building. French terrorism investigators began an inquiry immediately. Full Story

Following is a transcript of remarks by President Clinton at the Oklahoma City National Memorial dedication…Full Transcript

Today marks the 5th anniversary of the OKC bombing. The dedication of the memorial will be broadcast on all of the major networks. Four years ago, we started the Terrorism Research Center as an independent research insitute. Today, we provide resources to hundreds of thousands of researchers per month, provide information to academic institutes and…

Lone zealots driven to terror attacks by personal demons are replacing the well-organized guerrilla groups of the past as a security threat, a conference marking the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing was told on Monday. Full Story

The United States will continue to urge North Korea to stop providing shelter to Japanese terrorists who have been in the country following their 1970 hijacking, a senior State Department official said Tuesday. Full Story

On fences and car windows throughout northwestern Pakistan, small posters are popping up carrying a message to Mulsim youth from suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden: Join a holy war to the death against the United States. Full Story

Towering gates, a long reflecting pool and a field of 168 empty bronze chairs commemorating the dead are the hallmarks of a major memorial to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing due to be opened on Wednesday. Full Story

The Council of border troop commanders of the CIS member countries gathered for its 37th meeting in Moscow on Friday to outline the guidelines for setting up a Commonwealth anti-terrorist center and to work out a joint CIS programme to fight international terrorism and extremism upto 2003. Full Story

U.S. intelligence has identified the designated successor of ailing terrorist leader Osama bin Ladin, according to U.S. government sources. Full Story

Before Jim Bell went to prison, he suspected that most government officials were corrupt. Three years behind bars later, the self-proclaimed Internet anarchist is sure of it. Full Story We&#039ve been tracking the Assassination Politics issue for a few years. This article should be of interest to both the IW and CT folks out there.

The Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders resumed this morning its consideration of international cooperation in combating transnational crime. Full Story

International terrorist Osama bin Laden finances the sending of young British Moslems to Chechnya, Afghanistan and Kashmir. This information, coming from sources in the British secret services, was made public in London on Friday.Full Story

The United States is slowly increasing indirect pressure on Afghanistan&#039s Taliban regime to force it to expel terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Ruling Taliban militia&#039s foreign minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel said Thursday there were no terrorist camps in Afghanistan and blamed the West for blowing up the issue. Full Story

At least seven people were killed and five others seriously injured by a boobytrap mine laid by Maoist rebels, police sources said Thursday. Full Story

The United States has asked Pakistan to impose severe trade sanctions on Afghanistan to force the country&#039s Taliban rulers to expel terrorism-suspect Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Sensitive information about computer network vulnerabilities and intrusions transferred from the private sector to the federal government would be shielded from public disclosure, under a bill set to be announced Wednesday by Representatives Tom Davis (R-Va.) and Jim Moran (D-Va.).Full Story

GAO report entitled “Combating Terrorism: Issues in Managing Counterterrorsim Programs” has been archived on the TRC site. PDF Document

Threat to United States: Consequences of lax policies affect Americans. The Algerian bomb plot against the United States that was stopped by a lone customs agent last December might have inspired a comedy if it weren&#039t such a scathing indictment of the way Canada has allowed itself to be used by members of almost every…

A pair of bombs ripped through a market and a busy bus stand today, injuring 17 people, six of them critically, police said. Full Story

Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels launched a raid in northeastern Sri Lanka on Friday, killing 11 policemen and four civilians, a military officer said. Full Story

The United States offered up to $5 million on Thursday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Abdelmajid Dahoumane, an Algerian indicted in Seattle in January on bombing conspiracy charges. Full Story

In response to growing concerns about terrorism, hackers and other high-tech criminals, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning a series of sophisticated computer systems that would sharply increase agents&#039 ability to gather and analyze information. Full Story

Security is tight in Karachi in advance of the verdict in the trial of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Full Story

In two weeks, a national memorial will be dedicated on the fifth anniversary of the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, an attack that left 168 people dead and more than 500 injured. Full Story

A simulation aimed at determining how the Perry Nuclear Power Plant&#039s security can cope with a terrorist attack is so secret that even the results will be closely guarded. Full Story

As concern about the power of Shiite Muslim radicals peaked in the 1980s, Eli Sowan pulled the fishnet stockings from the window of his lingerie store and hid his vampish French advertising posters. Even along Hamra Street, in the traditionally cosmopolitan Ras Beirut area, the presence of Hezbollah and its attempt to duplicate an Iranian-style…

For Attorney General Janet Reno, getting Silicon Valley companies to help the federal government fight computer crime is proving a hard sell. Full Story

Permanent representative of Russia at the United Nations Sergei Lavrov signed on Monday on behalf of the Russian Federation the International Convention on the fight against financing terrorism, says a dispatch for the press from the Information Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, received by Itar-Tass on Tuesday. Full Story

Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, in a filing made public on Wednesday, asked an appeals court to order the judge who conducted his trial to step aside so a different judge can rule on his request for a new trial. Full Story

Major biotechnology firms Monsanto Co. and Aventis Co. S.A. will find themselves in the digital crosshairs starting this weekend. According to a spokesman for the Electrohippies, a group that plans Internet-based protests, the two companies will first be targeted with a straightforward e-mail write-in campaign. But by the end of the week, new denial-of-service software…

When counterterrorism officials compare notes on what keeps them awake at night, the weapon they most fear is not a nuclear bomb or poison gas, but a disease that was wiped off the planet 20 years ago. Full Story

Islamic terrorism, partly a spillover from Afghanistan, poses a threat in Central Asia, where Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will make her first visit next month, a senior Clinton administration official said today. Full Story

US instructors are training Uzbek troops to combat terrorism and prevent anticipated attacks by Islamic extremists in this Central Asian republic, an Uzbek defense ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Full Story

The impact of organized crime has so permeated everyday life in Canada that it is threatening democracy, a top-ranking RCMP official says. Full Story

Between the time an adjudicator ordered her deported as a terrorist and Immigration Canada whisked her away yesterday, Mahnaz Samadi had just enough time to stop in a bathroom. Full Story

Richard Clarke witnessed the dawn of the millennium in a top-secret government communications vault, monitoring intelligence traffic for any sign of activity by Islamic terrorist groups loyal to Osama bin Laden. It was not until midnight in California — 3 a.m. Washington time – that the Clinton administration’s counterterrorism chief finally permitted himself a celebratory…

The California National Guard has created two special units, one to be deployed at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Los Alamitos this summer, as part of a nationwide effort to help local authorities defend against biological and chemical terrorism. Full Story

A German terrorism suspect plans to name Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as having ordered a 1975 attack on an OPEC oil ministers&#039 conference in Vienna that left three people dead, according to a newspaper report. Full Story

President Ali Abdullah Saleh has vowed to eradicate terrorism from Yemen, but that message may not have been heard by gun-runners and purveyors of terrorism, who are long used to Yemen&#039s reputation as a safe haven and transit point for Islamic militants. Full Story

The turn of the millennium is a good time for reflection, and this is very much true for the issue of Information Warfare. Created as a paradigm during the early nineties, Infowar is today a fact of life, as much as many may still scoff at the idea. Part I/II