ABCNEWS has learned details of an alleged plot to bomb a hotel in Amman, the capital of Jordan, and kill crowds of Americans and Western tourists on New Year’s Eve. Full Story

Government awareness of and measures against hackers breaking into ministry and agency Web sites lag far behind other industrialized countries, a point brought home by a recent series of hackers entering government Web sites. Full Story

The Clinton administration issued a public warning to Pakistan today that it could be branded a state sponsor of terrorism — ending any hope for a resumption of large-scale American aid — if the Pakistani Army continued to support terrorists blamed for the hijacking of an Indian Airlines jet last month. Full Story

FBI agents are preparing to question an African man in Senegal who U.S. law enforcement officials believe has family links to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden and allegedly had a role in a plot to plant bombs in the United States during New Year&#039s weekend, U.S. officials said yesterday. Full Story

An African man with family ties to Saudi multimillionaire and indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden was detained in the last several days in Senegal in connection with an Algerian terrorist cell&#039s plan to bomb the United States over the New Year holiday, law enforcement sources said yesterday. Full Story

U.S. officials say they have found what they believe is a link between Algerians charged with plotting an attack in the United States and Osama bin Laden, the exiled Saudi accused of bombing U.S. embassies in Africa, the New York Times said on Thursday. Full Story

Algerian exiles now under arrest planned an urban bomb attack, investigators believe, and were trained abroad. Full Story

Vermont Governor Howard Dean has leaped to Canada&#039s defence, dismissing as “political blather” a congressional committee&#039s attempts to charge Canada with being a haven for terrorists. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban and Pakistan&#039s military leaders have rebuffed U.S. appeals to crack down on terrorism, and one militant group warned Tuesday of a violent backlash if they tried. Full Story

Nearly two years after Eric Robert Rudolph allegedly carried out the first fatal U.S. abortion clinic bombing, federal agents are patiently laying in wait for the suspected serial bomber in the rugged mountains near his western North Carolina home. Full Story

Three people died and more than a dozen were injured Thursday when terrorists unleashed deadly gas in a mall food court. Well, not really. Full Story

The TRC suffered a severe outage on Monday January 24, 2000. This outage was a result of a failure at a major Internet backbone provider resulting in a complete loss of connectivity for several hours. We apologize for the outage, but it was out of our control.

Thai commandos on Tuesday killed nine armed Myanmar Karen guerrillas who had seized a western Thai hospital, and freed all their hostages, a senior Thai army officer at the scene said. Full Story Another report of the incident from CNN.

A group of about 10 armed men believed to be from an ethnic Karen guerrilla splinter group stormed a hospital west of Bangkok Monday and took an unknown number of people hostage, Thai provincial officials said. Full Story

Early on the morning of Dec. 21, with tensions growing around the world about possible acts of terror during New Year&#039s celebrations, Irish police officers raided a house in a working-class section of Dublin as part of a series of sweeps that rounded up five North African immigrants for questioning. Full Story

An Algerian charged by U.S. authorities with assisting in a terrorist bombing plot has begun to cooperate with American investigators and has provided details about the small network that allegedly planned the attack, according to an FBI affidavit made public here today. Full Story

A U.S. citizen charged in Jordan for his involvement in a terror plot linked to Osama bin Laden may have eyed targets close to his California home. Full Story

Two car bombs exploded in the Spanish capital Madrid early Friday, killing a senior army officer and raising fears that Basque separatists have resumed a campaign of terrorism. Full Story

A national “cyberforce” of computer specialists is to be established by the home office to police the internet and combat a rising tide of online crime. It was confirmed last night that the home secretary, Jack Straw, has assigned £337,000 to the UK National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) to draw up plans for establishing a…

Investigators examining the debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 still believe the Boeing 767 was deliberately crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 people aboard, sources familiar with the inquiry said on Thursday. Full Story

A federal grand jury in Seattle on Thursday charged bomb-smuggling suspect Ahmed Ressam and another Algerian man with conspiring to commit international terrorism. Full Story

Canadian prosecutors today offered the most detailed picture to date of a bomb plot they said stretched from Canada to Brooklyn and involved a number of Algerians, including one they said was trained at camps in Afghanistan operated by Islamic militants. Full Story

Details surrounding the indictment of an Algerian man for his alleged role in a terrorist conspiracy indicate he is one of the group&#039s leaders, counter-terrorism experts said yesterday. Full Story

The United States and India agreed Wednesday to establish a joint working group on counter-terrorism which will hold its first working meeting in Washington early next month, said State Department spokesman James Rubin. Full Story

An Algerian-born man from Montreal arrested by Canadian authorities and wanted in the United States in connection with a suspected bomb plot is scheduled to make his first public court appearance on Thursday in Montreal. Full Story

Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian fundamentalist movement which has been held responsible by Israeli security officials for Monday&#039s bombing in Hadera, relies on motivation and ideological zeal rather than a large following. Full Story

Everyone abhors international terrorism, but the world community has had a hard time putting a stop to it, largely because the crime has never been legally defined. The old saw says that one man&#039s terrorist is another man&#039s freedom fighter. Full Story

An alleged Algerian terrorist ring was operating in America for years before a member was caught smuggling bomb-making materials into the country at Port Angeles in December, federal officials said yesterday. Full Story

ON JANUARY 10, France and the United States were among the first states to sign a historic anti-terrorism agreement. Recently adopted by the United Nations, the agreement reflects the fact that an increasingly interdependent world, which believes in free movement, has to have at the same time instruments for more effective cooperation against terrorism, even…

A federal grand jury in New York indicted a Montreal man yesterday for his alleged role in a terrorist conspiracy tied to explosives ferried into the United States by an Algerian arrested last month in Seattle. Full Story

The folks at JYA have converted the Chinese Unrestricted Warfare document to HTML. This allows for searching and indexing of this insightful document. Unrestricted Warfare – Part IUnrestricted Warfare – Part IIUnrestricted Warfare – Full Document (500+k)

This article by the American Forces Press Service outlines current Department of Defense initiatives to provide civil support in the case of a chemical or biological terrorist event in the United States. Full Story

DoD announced plans to form 17 more Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams, bringing the total nationwide to 27. The teams, originally called Rapid Assessment and Detection teams, would deploy and assist civil first responders in the event of a weapons of mass destruction incident. Full Story

In newspaper advertisements Sunday, the U.S. government is offering a “substantial monetary reward” for information leading to the arrest of the culprits behind a November 1999 rocket attack in Islamabad. Full Story

International terrorist groups are exploiting Canada’s immigration system, using the country as a safe haven and a base to raise money for activities abroad, according to a confidential report by the country’s intelligence service. Full Story

Critical piece of modern military thinking from within China. As described in a Hong Kong article in Yazhou Zhouka, the authors state that: “…we [China] should formally turn nonmilitary activities such as computer hacking, financial intrusion, and media propaganda into methods of warfare and form a many-stranded “combination of non-restriction” with the aim of defeating…

In compliance with a European court request, Turkey&#039s coalition government on Wednesday decided to put the death sentence against the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan on hold. Full Story

Muslims Claim They Were Singled Out for Questioning in the Federal Effort to Squelch Millennium-Related Terrorism; Agents Deny Bias. Full Story

At the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 1998, just after the terrorist attacks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, and the bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland, I proposed that our concerted efforts should be directed at the jugular in the war against terrorism: the flow of money to…

A physician who treated fellow passengers aboard a hijacked Indian Airlines plane said today that she recognized the faces of the hijackers in photographs distributed by the Indian government. Full Story

India ends a tense hijacking drama by releasing three militants. But the move sends a dangerous message: Terrorism works Full article While this article is ten days old, it is an excellent summary of the hijacking and provides good commentary.

White House plan for information/infrastructure protection released last week. Full Document

A couple of year-end arrests at the Canadian border, the suspicion of an Algerian plot to do us harm, and a quiver runs through this country. Editorial Column

President Clinton on Friday proposed boosting government spending on computer security by US$251 million as part of a long-term plan to guard against threats ranging from hackers to terrorists. Wired Story – CNN Story Provides more details than articles earlier this morning.

Attorney General Janet Reno yesterday summoned top prosecutors and law enforcement officials from New York and Seattle to Washington, D.C., for a strategy meeting on terrorism. Full Story

As we begin a new century, the Pentagon is preparing for war of the future. U.S. military officials announced today they&#039re working on plans to go high-tech by going after an enemy&#039s computer systems. CNN Story – Full Transcript of the briefing

Stepping up vigilance against cyber-terrorism, President Clinton plans to announce a new initiative Friday to protect federal computers from infiltrators. CNN Story – USA Today – Reuters News

The FBI said on Thursday it had moved to thwart up to 20 or so possible threats against targets such as power plants and computer networks during a heightened security watch that started before 2000 dawned. Full Story

The government tightened security in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo less than a day after a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people, including herself, near the prime minister&#039s office. Full Story

India on Thursday announced that four militants — two Pakistanis, a Nepali and an Indian — had been arrested on suspicion of providing the support base for the week-long hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane. Full Story

A suspected separatist Tamil rebel detonated powerful explosives strapped to her body near the prime minister&#039s office today, killing herself and 10 others, police said. Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike was not in the building in Colombo, Sri Lanka&#039s capital, at the time of the explosion. Full Story

As FBI agents questioned people in several states, hoping to get to the new year without a feared terrorist attack, an Algerian man arrested in Brooklyn was ordered held without bail yesterday despite what his defense attorney said was a lack of evidence. Full Story

A Brooklyn man of Algerian descent was charged today with providing support to an Algerian national who authorities say was caught trying to smuggle a cache of explosive materials into Washington state from Canada. Full Story

Law enforcement and intelligence officials in the United States and around the world remained on a high state of alert today because of the possibility of terrorism, even as they expressed relief that the year 2000 began without any sign of significant disruptions caused by criminal or extremist groups. Full Story

It&#039s a made-for-the-Net tale with all the right ingredients: Y2K, hackers, terrorists, and planes flying straight into the ground. Full Story

The arrest of a suspected terrorist by U.S. immigration officials at Port Angeles should serve as a wake-up call about the need to beef up security along our border with Canada. The porous border is a wide-open invitation to all manner of mischief-makers. Full Story

THE AFTERMATH of the Indian Airlines hijacking presents something of a puzzle. The governments of both Afghanistan and Pakistan have condemned terrorism and publicly refused asylum to the hijackers. Yet the hijackers are thought to have escaped from Afghanistan, the scene of their piracy, and into Pakistan. Full Story

The new role of Algerians in alleged terrorist plots against the United States is attributable largely to a combination of three factors — skills, anger and lack of association in the past with anti-American extremism — according to senior U.S. officials and experts on Algeria. Full Story

Waking up in the year 2000 to face nothing worse than the debris in Times Square, many may have decided that Washington had hyped the prospect of an attack by Osama bin Laden and his allies beyond reason. Full Story

The Armed Islamic Group is the principal Muslim underground organization waging war against the Algerian government. If the group or its sympathizers are involved in trying to export terrorism to theUnited States, as U.S. prosecutors suggest, it would mark a radical departure from the group&#039s focus on Algeria.Full Story