RUSSIA made clear yesterday that it would not pull out of the American-led coalition against terror even if the United States launched a unilateral strike against Iraq.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health believe the October 2001 anthrax attack on the United States could have been much worse. A statistical analysis of the attack shows that twice as many people could have contracted the deadly form of inhalational anthrax if they had not received antibiotic treatment. The study, which appears in March 8, 2002 issue of Science, is the first to estimate the number anthrax cases that may have been prevented by antibiotic prophylaxis and is a valuable tool for assessing the risks and benefits of anthrax treatments. The analysis also emphasizes the need for rapid detection of disease outbreaks.
"Fearing flight schools could again become training grounds for terrorists, lawmakers in several states are seeking to limit instruction and require background checks for students.
The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will step up cooperation with Southeast Asian countries to prevent terrorist strikes in the region and thwart any attempts by the Al-Qaeda organisation to set itself up outside Afghanistan, said its director Robert Mueller on Friday.
County prosecutors yesterday withdrew charges against an Egyptian national accused of showing a suspicious identification card at a nightclub and turned him over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
A leader of the largest Palestinian terrorist group spearheading suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel says he is following the orders of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Some appear to be naive teenagers whipped into religious frenzy and dispatched to holy war by wily elders. Others are seasoned thugs who drilled intensively at Osama bin Laden's camps in the sinister arts of murder with bare hands and construction of hairbrush bombs. Now they're all tossed together in three U.S. prisons surrounded by razor wire: 300 at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba and 244 at two camps in Afghanistan awaiting transfer to the Caribbean prison for questioning in new windowless plywood interrogation huts.
A Libyan jailed for life over the bombing of a U.S. jetliner above the Scottish town of Lockerbie arrived at a Scottish prison more than 13 years after the attack, the British Broadcasting Corp. and Agence France- Presse reported.
At the behest of President Bush, Swiss law authorities are investigating an alliance between Islamic militants and European neo-Nazis who have allegedly been providing financial support to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
President Bush said Wednesday he was "plenty hot" to learn that student visas for two Sept. 11 hijackers were delivered months after they flew planes into the World Trade Center.
He ordered his attorney general to investigate and urged reform of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
President Bush said Wednesday his administration has "all options on the table" as the Pentagon reworks its nuclear weapons policy to deter any attack on America – including from non-nuclear states such as Iraq and Iran.
The Pentagon is planning a new system of rewards in Afghanistan that would offer smaller bounties to learn the whereabouts of al Qaeda terrorists, after
locals failed to respond to the multimillion-dollar bounties dangled by Washington.
Vice President Dick Cheney brought a promise of more U.S. military aid and friendship to Osama bin Laden's ancestral home Thursday in a bid to shore up Yemen's fragile support for the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
Several Hispanic groups have received letters in recent days containing ethnic slurs and a white powder purported to be anthrax, federal officials said Wednesday.
The USA hardly likes any suggestions that Osama bin Laden is alive. Americans have already “rolled him up”. In a roll of toilet paper. US forces were not a success with catching bin Laden this cold winter in Afghanistan, they hope to gain revenge in the warm toilets. The New York Times reported, toilet paper with a printed portrait of bin Laden was being distributed among the Pentagon officials.
A former Oregon wildlife manager's law enforcement credentials, found near the wreckage of the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93, suggest he was involved in the fight to retake the plane from terrorists on Sept. 11.
Law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic has been beefed up - not only as a result of the disaster on 11 September, but in the UK at least as a result of recent government reports warning that resourcing had slipped badly in the past few years.
But a related problem is that while money laundering experts are the best suited to take on the job of fighting terrorist finance, the two crimes have different characteristics.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei B. Ivanov said Wednesday that his country will not ignore international terrorists who have infiltrated neighboring Georgia.
He said they are linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and are "full of new plans for terrorist operations."
U.S. military forces have identified at least 12 new areas in Afghanistan where al Qaeda and Taliban die-hards are suspected of massing that could become targets for new ground offensives this spring, The Post has learned.
THE PRESIDENT is "plenty hot." The attorney general is "extremely concerned and furious." The Senate majority leader is "just absolutely shocked" to learn that an Immigration and Naturalization Service contractor mindlessly ground out routine confirmations of visas approved last summer for suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi to enroll in a Florida flight training school. In fact it should come as a shock to no one that the INS is plagued by backlogs and delays, has little sense of who is in its system and can't track individuals once they arrive in the country.
Good morning, fellow citizens. President Bush has called on all Americans to be vigilant in this time of increased threat. I'll be keeping guard with you all, giving you the news and opinions (maybe even some of my own) concerning the terrorist threat. God bless America!
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Pietro 5:18 AM
