More than two years after the election of a new Iranian president raised hopes of a thaw between Washington and Tehran, the Clinton administration has reluctantly concluded that Iran is increasing the flow of arms and money to terrorist groups in an effort to thwart the U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace process. Washington Post

Britain yesterday unveiled plans to broaden antiterrorism laws to cover acts motivated by religion or ideology. The plans to update laws originally written to tackle terrorism related to Northern Ireland were published the day the province&#039s new power-sharing government of Protestants and Catholics met for the first time. Full Report

I don&#039t know what Robert Theobald would have thought of the Seattle gathering of the World Trade Organization. The futurist, who died last Saturday in Spokane at age 70, might have thought the delegates to the 135-nation confab mistaken to pin too much hope on an ever-expanding economy, but he might have welcomed the multinational…

Federal inspectors tried “several dozen times&#039&#039 to slip by guards and locked doors at New York&#039s JFK International Airport to test security but succeeded only four times, an official said Thursday. Full Story

Two British airports were hit with security alerts on Thursday after staff at an airport in central England found a suspicious package, which turned out to be harmless, on a plane from Germany. Full Story

A recent exchange in The Washington Post had ABC&#039s Ted Koppel defending the indefensible, a medical misstatement put forth in the November &#039&#039Frontline&#039&#039 special on bioterrorism. His consultants had advised him that death from the dread bacteria anthrax occurs two to three days after exposure. That is just wrong. Full Story

As Defense Department, FBI and congressional investigators examine the recent hacking of DoD systems by Russian government entities, the more deeply the hackers appear to have burrowed into military computers. Full Story

Transportation Department investigators penetrated security so easily at major U.S. airports some were seated comfortably aboard airliners at departure time and could have taken a free trip. Full Story

EgyptAir would not object to U.S. authorities handing over the investigation into the October crash of Flight 990 to the FBI, the airline&#039s chief said Wednesday. Full Story

Investigators are baffled by a series of pipe bombs that were planted, apparently at random, around the Des Moines area every other Tuesday in November, police said today. Full Story

Libya on Thursday pledged to deny aid and protection to`those responsible for terrorist acts&#039&#039 and called for further international cooperation to stamp out such activity. Full Story. Here is a Better Story. Also covered on CNN

Picture a surreptitious character lugging a lunch cooler and skulking about in the darkness near a giant Midwestern feedlot. He slips into a pen and swiftly swabs the muzzles of a dozen steers with the contagious foot and mouth disease he scraped from the blistered tongue of some Third World bovine. Full Story

Doug Hunt was gassed three times on the way back to his hotel room Tuesday night. From his room, he went online to tell the world about the WTO protests and the police response. Full Story Interesting account of recent hacktivist activity. Very close to the techniques used by the Electronic Disturbance Theatre.

A new GAO report has been released to the public. The report, entitled “Combating Terrorism: Chemical and Biological Medical Supplies are Poorly Managed” has been archived on the TRC server. GAO Report in PDF format

We alerted our readers to the Slashdot discussion regarding a proposed Jane&#039s article on cyberterorism over a month ago. Jane&#039s has now published the article with the Slashdot comments incorporated. From the article summary: With the 1990s propensity to dot.com everything that moves, &#039hacking&#039 and &#039cyberterrorism&#039 have become subjects of intense media coverage. Almost daily,…

The mother of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh says it&#039s time for survivors to get over their anger about the 1995 explosion, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds… …Martin Cash, who lost an eye in the bombing, said, &#039&#039If she wants us to get over it, when do we get to execute her poor…

The State Department is accusing Iran of reneging on promises to abandon support for terrorism in an attempt to destroy hopes among Arabs and Israelis for a comprehensive peace. Full Story

The man who last spring called for a “national conversation” on the conflicting demands of security and openness in government architecture initiated that discussion yesterday with a warning. Full Story

If the Cape Town bombings are meant to convey a political point, the message is unclear. If the pipe bombs are intended for a particular target, none readily comes to mind. Full Story

Despite public criticism in Egypt of the U.S. investigation of EgyptAir 990&#039s crash, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh says bureau agents are receiving good cooperation in Cairo. Full Story

As President Clinton prepared Wednesday to address the World Trade Organization in Seattle, demonstrators who battled with police, throwing the conference into chaos on its opening day, vowed to repeat the disruptions. Authorities insisted that wouldn&#039t happen. Full Story

The U.S. Embassy in Cambodia is on heightened alert after a report that Islamic extremist Osama bin Laden is allegedly planning terrorist activity in Cambodia, embassy officials said today. Full Story

A pipe bomb exploded inside a crowded beachfront restaurant Sunday, injuring at least 43 people, police said. The blast near Cape Town came just weeks after police in the area all but declared victory in a war against terrorist bombings. Full Story

Since the Aum Shinrikyo crisis, no mass attacks have occurred using unconventional weapons in the United States or against Americans abroad. Nevertheless, there has been a mushrooming of concern about bioterrorism in government circles — complete with commissions, congressional hearings, and a thriving herd of consultants and defense contractors grazing on an expanding anti-terrorism budget.…

In the chilly corridors of power, Taliban officials huddled around space heaters are as defiant as ever about the cause of Osama bin Laden, the wealthy Saudi fugitive whose alleged terrorist attacks and continued sanctuary in Afghanistan have led to new U.N. economic sanctions against the impoverished nation. Full Story

According to officials and intelligence reports, Iranian leaders are urging terrorist groups to attack Israeli targets in hopes of derailing Mideast peace talks. Full Story

The State Department and the United Nations are tightening security at their outposts in Pakistan and throughout Central Asia after receiving warnings that Islamic militants with links to Osama bin Laden may be planning attacks in the region, U.S. and U.N. officials said today. Full Story

Crew members of a Chinese airliner overpowered and arrested a man who claimed he had explosives and tried to hijack the aircraft to Taiwan. Full Story

Police have issued a terrorist alert, fearing a holiday season bombing campaign by an Irish Republican Army offshoot group opposed to the Northern Ireland peace agreement, British newspapers reported today. Full Story

Militant supporters of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif claimed responsibility Sunday for a bomb explosion that killed seven people in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan&#039s eastern Punjab province. Full Story

Four years after the subway gas attack, Japan prepares police and citizens alike for war on Aum Shinrikyo. Newsweek

Investigations into last month&#039s crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 will not be handled as a criminal act, Egyptian officials who participated in the investigation said Friday. “A political agreement was reached with the U.S. side that the file will remain with the National Transport Safety Board,&#039&#039 Murad Shawki, head of aviation safety at the civil…

Teams from the United States and Egypt were back on the job Friday working to resolve differences in interpretation of the final words on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir Flight 990. CNN Story

The United States faces new terrorist threats that range from wayward nuclear weapons to increasingly organized skinhead groups, say researchers speaking at the American Society of Criminology&#039s annual conference. Full Story

While stumping for the Republican presidential nomination, Orrin Hatch invoked the specter of Olympic terrorism with assertions that draw skepticism from security experts. The senior Utah senator said he believes residents of his home state possess character traits that make them “prime targets for terrorism” during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Full Story

This article provides some additional details regarding the threat of cyberterrorism. If you want to avoid the sensationalism associated with the recent Jane&#039s conference, we recommend that you read the 1996 paper entitled Information Terrorism: Can You Trust Your Toaster?”

Officials at the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday they have completed their readout of the last three to four seconds of information from EgyptAir Flight 990&#039s flight data recorder and it indicates a struggle for control of the plane. CNN and the Washington Post

As part of an effort to sell industry on its nascent computer crime investigation unit, the FBI has just completed an entertaining, slick video detailing how they caught three teenagers who were behind the famed February 1998 information warfare attack on at least 11 Defense Department networks as the military prepared for a renewed war…

On Wednesday in Washington, D.C., a group of about 50 government policy workers and industry executives were recast as cyberterrorists in a simulated war game, bent on destroying an IRS-like organization through the use of laptop computers alone. Full Story

Communist China is preparing to wage an “all-conquering” war in cyberspace, on a scale with conventional combat operations, by seizing “the Internet command power.” Full Story The Washington Times also covered this topic with this story

One of the more disturbing developments in recent law enforcement history is the FBI&#039s decision to set up a division devoted solely to investigating domestic terrorism. Full Story

Investigators awaited the arrival of Egyptian experts on Wednesday to test a U.S. theory that EgyptAir Flight 990 was deliberately flown into the sea, as debate swirled over interpretation of a crew member&#039s remark. Full Story

Communist rebels stormed nine Colombian towns overnight on Tuesday, killing at least seven policemen in the first coordinated attacks since a nationwide offensive four months ago, officials said. Full Story

Simulated terrorists will strike in the heart of Albuquerque on Wednesday in an exercise aimed at teaching emergency workers how to deal with the release of a weapon of mass destruction. Full Story

The FBI will take control of the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash investigation after the cockpit voice recorder threw up information suggesting “a criminal act&#039&#039 may have caused the disaster. Careful examination of the recorder tape showed someone making a religious comment about death — before the plane began its unusual plunge.Reuters

The Department of State warns U.S. citizens traveling abroad that United Nations sanctions against the Taliban Faction in Afghanistan will go into effect on November 14, 1999. UN Security Council Resolution 1267, passed unanimously October 15, requires the Taliban to turn over terrorist Usama Bin Laden to a country where he has been indicted or…

The Clinton administration warned Afghanistan that if the ruling Taliban fails to help bring Osama bin Laden to trial on terrorism charges, the United Nations would impose sanctions this weekend. Full Story

Just hours after a car bomb killed eight people here and evoked fears of a renewed narco-terrorist campaign, President Andres Pastrana sent a firm message to the attack&#039s organizers: The government isn&#039t backing down this time. Full Story

The FBI is putting one person in charge of all its anti-terrorist efforts for the first time in agency history. Full Story

The U.N. aims to hit terrorists where it hurts the most: in their financial war chests. A U.N. working group has just finalised a new international convention aimed at cutting off all legal and illegal sources of funding for terrorism. Full story from the Hindu

Unnerved by the deadly gas attack on the Tokyo subway and stories from high-level defectors about the size of the Soviet germ warfare program, government officials flood Capitol Hill with requests for money to fight the bioterrorism threat. Full Story

In its most dramatic organizational overhaul in decades, the FBI is changing its structure to address internal problems with the handling of information and put a greater emphasis on preventing terrorism and espionage, rather than simply responding to such crimes after they happen. Washington Post

A STATE Department official recently announced Washington was “willing to work with the Taliban&#039&#039if the Afghani militants hand over suspected terrorist Osama Bin Laden. At a news conference last week, Secretary of State Madeline Albright echoed this suggestion by stating that the Taliban, “if they wish to be treated with any sense of regularity,&#039&#039 must…

Four makeshift gas canister bombs exploded outside a car dealership in central Athens Wednesday in what appeared to be another protest against a visit to Greece by President Clinton. Full Story Update: AP just ran a story indicating that Clinton&#039s trip to Greece would be postponed and shortened to a duration of less than 24…

Fernald employees learned Monday just how unfunny a prank using the word &#039&#039anthrax&#039&#039 can be in today&#039s world, after someone noticed a yellow &#039&#039sticky note&#039&#039 attached to a ceramic coffee cup with the warning: &#039&#039Do not touch. Anthrax sample.&#039&#039 Full Story

The United States condemned a pipe bomb attack that wounded 14 people in Israel Sunday on the eve of intensive Israeli-Palestinian talks and urged both sides to pursue their efforts to secure a final peace treaty. Full Story

Bill Clinton goes to Athens Nov. 13 to reward the Greek government for not breaking NATO ranks on Kosovo. The administration also hopes to sign a protocol on counterterrorist cooperation aimed at the “November 17” terrorist organization, held responsible for the deaths of four Americans and attacks on many more. Washington Post Story

The threat to public safety posed by hi-tech crime should be as high a priority as economic and foreign policy for governments worldwide, the chief of the U.S. FBI said Monday. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban army on Tuesday threatened unspecified action against the United States if economic sanctions were imposed for its refusal to hand over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Full Article

The United States is working closely with other countries to obtain and exchange information on extremists, especially suspected guerrilla Osama bin Laden, FBI director Louis Freeh said Saturday. Reuters Story