A U.S. government inquiry into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 into the Atlantic has entered a new and possibly final phase in which the main question must be confronted: Did a reserve co-pilot, Gameel Batouti, deliberately put the plane into a dive on Oct. 31? Full Story

Lebanon granted political asylum today to Kozo Okamoto, a 52-year-old Japanese man who helped carry out a massacre in which 26 people died at an airport in Israel in 1972. Simultaneously, the Beirut government ordered the deportation to Jordan of four other members of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist organization among the world&#039s most…

Amid signs that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi might be mellowing, the Clinton administration is now trying to determine whether it is safe for U.S. citizens to visit the oil-rich country, despite an 18-year-old travel ban. Full Story

The Justice Department has reopened a long-dormant grand jury investigation, hoping to indict Gen. Augusto Pinochet for a notorious 1976 car bombing that killed former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and an American colleague on Washington&#039s Embassy Row. Full Story

Several terrorist groups have directed threats at President Clinton in connection with his weeklong visit to South Asia, including an assassination plot directly linked to accused terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, officials here said Wednesday. Full Story

The U.S. is spending millions of dollars to stage several mock terrorist attacks in late May to test the preparedness of top government officials. Unfortunately, most of them probably won&#039t be paying much attention. Full Story

U.S. citizens and leaders must not assume that the nation&#039s power makes it impervious to a wide range of threats to its security from other countries and terrorist groups alike, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 21. Full Story

A “terrorist&#039&#039 threat against President Clinton, possibly linked to Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, forced the cancellation of his visit to a rural village in Bangladesh, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. Full Story

Gunmen lined up and fatally shot 40 Sikh villagers in India&#039s disputed northern territory of Kashmir, police said today, casting a pall over the start of President Clinton&#039s visit to the country. Full Story

Lebanon granted political asylum yesterday to Kozo Okamoto, a 52-year-old Japanese who carried out a massacre of 26 people at an airport in Israel in 1972. Full Story

With the advent of the 21st Century, not only is it likely that many of the conflicts facing the United States and her allies will be of an asymmetrical and devolving nature, but it is also likely that the threats will come from diverse and differing vectors. Particularly of concern is the possibility that conventional…

Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., may be onto something here: cyber-terrorism might be an “emerging threat to US national security.” Full Story Seems Saxton may be a little behind the times. We don&#039t need more government reports. We need an unclassifed threat assessment that can be distributed to industry.

Japan honored the victims of a terrorist attack on Tokyo&#039s subways in a solemn public ceremony Monday at the train station where the gassing took place five years ago. Full Story

Residents were evacuated from a suburban Baltimore neighborhood where a man suspected of four murders was holding three people hostage for a third day. Full Story

On May 30, 1972, Mr. Okamoto was one of three Japanese Red Army members who pulled machine guns and grenades from bags coming off an Air France flight from Rome at Israel&#039s international airport near Lod. In the ensuing carnage, 26 people were killed, including 16 Puerto Rican Roman Catholics on a pilgrimage to the…

Asiaweek magazine said on Thursday that exiled Saudi Arabian dissident Osama bin Laden is dying of kidney failure. The weekly news magazine, quoting “a Western intelligence source who has been tracking him,” said in its latest edition the kidney disease had begun to affect bin Laden&#039s liver and associates were trying to obtain a dialysis…

Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will announce a major overture toward Iran today, promising steps toward the return of assets frozen since Iran&#039s 1979 Islamic revolution, lifting a ban on imports of Iranian luxury goods and making it easier for Iranian academics and athletes to visit the United States. Full Story

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are pursuing the death penalty against at least one defendant in the bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa in 1998, according to defense lawyers involved in the broad terrorism case. Full Story NYTimes registration required (Free).

An Algerian man awaiting extradition to the United States to face trial in an alleged terrorist bombing plot has acknowledged he knows two other Algerians jailed in the investigation. Full Story

Legislation to help former hostages and other victims of state-sponsored terrorism to collect court judgments is headed for Senate action after a unanimous endorsement by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Full Story

Researchers at a U.S. university said Monday they had been asked to study a smallpox vaccine because of fears the deadly virus could be spread or revived through terrorist attacks. Full Story

The Justice Department unveiled a Web site on Monday to pull together information on its growing battle against cybercrime. The Web site, at www.cybercrime.gov, includes press releases, officials&#039 speeches, testimony to Congress, legal texts and Justice Department reports among other things.

The men behind Northern Ireland&#039s deadly 1998 Omagh bombing have been identified but may never be convicted because of lack of evidence, Ireland&#039s top policeman has been quoted as saying. Full Story

The man convicted of the worst instance of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States started becoming disillusioned with the U.S. government during his service in the Gulf War, he told CBS&#039s “60 Minutes” in an interview aired Sunday. Full Story

An Alaska Airlines flight attendant was stunned Saturday to reach into a child&#039s backpack for crayons and find what looked like an explosive device, prompting an emergency U-turn and landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Full Story

Borrowing a page from the headline-grabbing Web attacks last month, a group of Internet activists is set to release its own software tool designed to cripple Web sites. The distributed denial of service attack tool to be released by the “Electrohippies” group will allow thousands of protesters to aim their computers at a single Web…

The FBI is planning to double its force of digital G-men over the next two years by deploying computer crime squads in all 56 field offices nationwide to fight cybercrime and cyberterrorism. Full Story

Basque separatist militants have demonstrated in Spain and France on the eve of the Spanish general election. Full Story

Investigators unearthed six suspicious canisters Thursday from the backyard of Dr. Larry C. Ford&#039s Irvine home as details emerged about the biomedical researcher&#039s possible one-time links to military and biological weapons programs. Full Story

A bomb blast on a busy Colombo street killed a least 18 people and wounded more than 40 during the evening rush hour on Friday, Sri Lankan police and hospital sources said. Full Story

Statement of Cynthia A. Bascetta, Associate Director Veterans’ Affairs and Military Health Care Issues Health, Education, and Human Services Division. Full Story

Claiming his lawyer leaked inflammatory stories about him to the media – including a purported confession – Timothy McVeigh asked a federal judge for a new trial in the Oklahoma bombing Tuesday. Full Story

Israeli commandos besieged a cell of suspected Palestinian extremists, killing as many as four of them and foiling what officials said would have been a major terrorist attack. Full Story

Thank you for this opportunity to provide a statement on cyber threats and critical infrastructure protection. CIA, like other Federal agencies, is developing and implementing its response to Presidential Decision Directive-63 (PDD-63) “Critical Infrastructure Protection.” The Directive enjoins CIA to enhance its overall capabilities to provide intelligence support for threat assessment and warning and to…

The passenger, indistinguishable from his fellows in beard, turban and baggy pants, was whisked through security at Jalalabad airport on the strength of a flimsy rectangle of cardboard. Full Story

The Department of National Defence has declared war on Internet hackers by creating a new unit to help hunt down cyberspace intruders. Full Story

Statement of Jack L. Brock Director, Governmentwide and Defense Information Systems Accounting and Information Management Division Testimony

The head of the country&#039s intelligence agency says Canada isn&#039t more likely to be a target for terrorists than other Western countries. Full Story

Israeli security forces swooped down on an explosive-laden hideout before dawn Thursday and killed at least two Palestinian militants and wounded a third in a shoot-out. Full Story

In a startling reversal, suspected terrorist Mahnaz Samadi admitted yesterday she was once a commander with a dissident army dedicated to overthrowing the Iranian government. Full Story

SWAT officers in suburban Pittsburgh have taken a suspect into custody after a shooting spree Wednesday that wounded at least five people, the mayor&#039s office told CNN. Full Story

The chief of U.S. intelligence says he worries every day that Saudi exile Osama bin Laden will strike again and the “terrorist&#039&#039 threat by one of America&#039s most wanted men has not diminished. Full Story

Middle Eastern and American officials say they believe that a key lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, the millionaire Saudi exile, coordinated a terrorist plot that targeted Western and Israeli tourists in Jordan in December. Full Story

The United States was recently reminded again that it is woefully ill-prepared to deal with the threat of biological terrorism. The General Accounting Office, an investigative branch of Congress, charged that the government has failed to properly manage the medical stockpiles developed to protect the public from the scourge of potentially devastating biological weapons. Full…

No man has made himself more Israel&#039s enemy in recent years than Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the portly, bespectacled Shiite Muslim cleric who leads Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based, Iran-backed Party of God that has evolved into a formidable guerrilla movement and political party from the umbrella organization that once directed the Middle East&#039s most brutal Islamic terrorists.…

Troops stationed along roadways searched vehicles for explosives Friday after a bomb planted on a crowded bus killed at least 26 people and injured dozens more. Full Story

A bomb exploded at a British army base Friday, causing no injuries. Officials later found and defused three more explosives near troop sleeping quarters. Full Story

Police, security officers and employees of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee could be jailed and fined for disclosing security arrangements for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games under a penalty being considered by the Utah Legislature. Full Story

A leading U.S. cyberwar expert told the Joint Economic Committee yesterday that sophisticated foreign military and intelligence services represent a far greater threat to America&#039s burgeoning Internet economy than hackers who recently launched “denial of service” attacks against commercial Web sites. Full Story

Threats today from computer hackers may be as dire as those that came in the past from tanks and missiles, Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, said Wednesday. Full Story

Osama bin Laden may be preparing to hand control of his terrorist network to one of his top lieutenants, several Islamists and analysts in the Middle East say. Full Story

A car bomb exploded in the Basque regional capital of Vitoria yesterday, killing a Socialist politician and his bodyguard in an attack attributed to the separatist guerrilla group ETA. Full Story

The FBI is warning U.S. companies that they may be targets of terrorist activity by groups wanting to mark the anniversaries of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Full Story

A car bomb exploded in northern Spain on Tuesday, killing a leader of the opposition Basque Socialist Party and his bodyguard. Full Story

A deportation hearing today for a suspected Iranian terrorist has prompted CSIS, Canada&#039s spy agency, to intensify surveillance on several reputed members of an extremist group operating in Ottawa — including two merchants, a taxi driver and a senior Bell Canada employee. Full Story

Government officials investigating a decade of international terrorist attacks say they have found a common thread, Islamic charities and relief organizations that they suspect are being used to move men, money and weapons across borders. Full Story

Memo from Ronald D. Lee, Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice to Jeffrey Hunker, Director, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office regading the National Information Systems Protection Plan, March 8, 1999 (obtained by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act) Full Memo

A Montreal woman accused of links to Algerian Islamic extremists was released and returned home to Canada earlier this week.Full Story

Hamas has little motivation to carry out terror attacks in Israel because the movement increasingly sees itself as a legitimate political opponent to the Palestinian Authority and its chairman, Yasser Arafat, terrorism experts said yesterday. Full Story

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has rejected a congressional request to allow relatives of victims of the Pan Am 103 bombing to view a letter sent by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi regarding an upcoming trial. Full Story