A young man was caught trying to sneak explosives onto a domestic flight in Finland in the first such incident recorded in the Nordic country, police said on Friday.
U.S. troops battling remnants of the al Qaeda network in southeast Afghanistan uncovered a biological weapons laboratory during recent mountain operations, a British government source said on Friday
The U.S. Embassy shut down all operations Friday because of a terrorist threat, just days after police raided an Islamic charity and seized bogus passports, weapons and plans for making bombs and boobytraps, officials said.
Defence Minister Robert Hill linked Saddam Hussein to the al-Qaeda terrorist network yesterday, but remained non-committal about whether Australia would help the United States overthrow the Iraqi regime.
A key terror suspect has fled Indonesia for Pakistan, according to police in Jakarta, who did not know his whereabouts until Malaysian officials told them.
A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday at a military roadblock between the West Bank and Israel as senior Israeli and Palestinian military and intelligence officers resumed meetings aimed at reaching a cease-fire.
At least 42 people have been wounded after unidentified militants hurled grenades into crowded public areas in the revolt-racked Indian Kashmir region, police say.
After months of searching the bomb-ravaged wreckage of terrorist training camps and other sites in Afghanistan, investigators have concluded that while Al Qaeda researched chemical and biological weapons there is no indication that it acquired or produced them, government officials say.
President Bush wants an extra $27.1 billion for the battle against terrorists abroad and to enhance security at home, in the latest costly response to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has labeled the Palestinian al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades a terrorist group and ordered its assets frozen, marking the first time the Bush administration has taken such action against an organization linked to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's party.
An Illinois man in federal custody tried to call a number in the United Arab Emirates linked to a reported paymaster for some of the September 11 hijackers, according to an FBI affidavit.
The National Park Service will begin round-the-clock video surveillance at all major monuments on the Mall by October, moving aggressively in the wake of last year's terrorist attacks to tighten security around national symbols visited by millions of tourists each year.
Sen. Hillary Clinton was "very mad." Her colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, was critical as well. New York's mayor, Mike Bloomberg, was not happy either, and neither was New York's governor, George Pataki. As for myself, I am painfully perplexed. For once, the right answer eludes me.
Leaders of poor nations warned their rich counterparts that if they want a world free of terrorism, they will need to pay for it. Drawing a direct link between poverty and violence, leaders at a U.N. summit said increased aid to the world's neediest is more urgent than ever in the post-Sept. 11 world.
After deciding to send American soldiers to train antiterrorism forces in the Philippines, Yemen and Georgia, the Bush administration has decided it would be "counterproductive" to deploy troops in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, because of concerns about an anti-American backlash, senior administration officials said today.
via The New York Times OPINION:Terror is terror by John E. Sweeney
AS the Passover holiday nears, all of us must pray for the success of Gen. Anthony Zinni as he seeks to facilitate a cease-fire between the Palestinians and Israel. Nothing is more important than putting a halt to the violence.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in a main shopping area in downtown Jerusalem on Thursday, causing casualties, police said. At least seven people were seriously wounded, Israeli media reports said.
President Bush said Thursday "two-bit terrorists" who exploded a bomb near the U.S. Embassy in Peru would not stop him from going there as part of a Latin American trip.
FBI agents searching telephone records have linked a 36-year-old Illinois student to the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon, according to newly unsealed court papers.
The White House yesterday ordered all federal agencies to scrub their Web sites of sensitive information on weapons of mass destruction and other data that might be useful to terrorists, The Washington Times has learned.
At least seven people were killed on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded near the U.S. Embassy in Lima three days before a visit by President Bush, police said.
Singapore authorities are interrogating additional suspects in an alleged Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist network whose members have been accused of plotting to bomb Western targets here, officials said on Thursday.
Federal agents yesterday raided 14 sites across Northern Virginia, many with links to the Middle East, seizing boxes of documents in an ongoing investigation of the funding of terrorist groups.
Following the Sunday terrorist attack on a Protestant International in Islamabad the President Pervez Musharraf has issued directives to the all law and order agencies to take merciless and ruthless actions against those elements who are involved in acts of terrorism.
The United States has sent a team of special agents from its Bureau of Diplomatic Security to Pakistan to assist with the investigation into last Sunday's church bombing in Islamabad.
U.S. law enforcement authorities will ask some 3,000 foreign nationals for voluntary interviews in continuing attempts to learn more about the threat of terrorism, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday.
The battlefield commander in Operation Anaconda said Wednesday that al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, fueled by a fresh influx of cash, are trying to regroup in eastern Afghanistan despite the just-concluded American offensive there.
Now they want to use X-ray vision on us at the airports. After they get done removing such dangerous items as ballpoint pens, fingernail clippers and tie pins they will run you through a machine that can see through your clothing. The photographic images will not go all the way to the bone, like at the doctor's office, but stop at the skin, revealing any handguns and swords that you have managed to have sewn into your stomach.
Senior officials at the Pentagon are acting as if they have flunked econ 101 if they took it at all. Frustrated that dirt-poor Afghans have not responded to multi-million dollar rewards by supplying true tips about the whereabouts of top terrorist Osama bin Laden, the Pentagon decided last week to offer smaller rewards, according to a report in the Washington Times. Explaining their decision, officials said that the big rewards were "beyond the comprehension of the Afghan people." Unfortunately, the new reward policy is probably prolonging the war on al Qaeda.
Tokyo subway employees on Wednesday marked the seventh anniversary of the deadly nerve gas attack by Aum Shinrikyo, offering silent prayers and flowers at Kasumigaseki Station.
Interference from Iran is emerging as one of the most vexing problems for allied interests in Afghanistan because the Islamic Republic continues to allow Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters to escape across its border, the director of the CIA told members of Congress on Tuesday.
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed seven people, four of them Israeli soldiers, in an attack on a bus in Israel, Israel's Ha'aretz and other news services said, citing police. Thirty-five were hurt, AFP said.
The incident took place Tuesday night at the airfield near the volatile town of Khost, about 40 miles east of fighting in the recently concluded Operation Anaconda.
``Last night, terrorists using machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars attacked coalition forces in Khost. We returned fire and continue to develop the situation as we speak,'' said Maj. Bryan Hilferty, spokesman for the 10th Mountain Division, at Bagram air base north of Kabul.
Armed with evidence that al-Qaeda members have fled from Afghanistan to Indonesia, Bush administration officials are pressing to get U.S. forces into the giant archipelago.
The al Qaeda forces routed in a recent bloody battle were so well organized, they used the Internet and laptop computers to communicate as they dashed from cave to cave.
The Islamic Jihad Movement for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack early Wednesday in northern Israel, which killed six Israelis and wounded 30 others.
The threat of terrorism has prompted NASA to guard its shuttle launch times for the foreseeable future, agency officials said Monday.
NASA will not publicize its launch times until 24 hours before liftoff, said Kennedy Space Center spokesman Bill Johnson.
Two American diplomats have sought co-operation from metropolitan police in furthering investigations following the arrest of two foreign suspects believed to have ties with international terrorists.
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist organization remains a threat to Americans around the world, despite a U.S.-led worldwide crackdown that has resulted in the apprehension of more than 1,300 extremists, the head of the CIA said Tuesday.
Fight against international terrorism is not an easy thing. And Pentagon knows it very well. After recent failure of anti-Taliban operation in Afghanistan, the US military institution decided that it would be not bad, to increase number of soldiers in other hot spots. Just in case. And first of all, in Philippines.
The French widow of abducted and slain US journalist Daniel Pearl has said she would not mind the execution of Sheikh Omar, the Chief suspect in the case, calling him "a nuisance for humanity".
Avoid places where fellow Americans congregate, even churches and schools. Drive to work a different way each day, with the windows up. Be cautious. Remain vigilant.
The government is giving Americans overseas those warnings after a weekend attack on a church in Islamabad, Pakistan, that killed five people, including an American woman who worked at the U.S. Embassy and her teen-age daughter.
A half brother of Osama bin Laden says the terrorist's family has its own information that bin Laden is alive and that he does not have kidney disease requiring dialysis.
Pakistan will send the United States DNA samples from the body of a man believed to have carried out a deadly grenade attack on a Protestant church, a government official said Tuesday.
When helicopters touched down in the mountains in early March at the start of the deadliest battle for Americans in Afghanistan, the infantrymen who rushed out immediately came under surprisingly intense fire. Bursts from rifles and machine guns were joined by explosions from well-placed mortar rounds, a coordinated mix of firepower that is one mark of a capable military force.
American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh became disillusioned with his radical Islamic comrades after learning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington but could not leave his unit "for fear of death," his lawyers say in court papers filed Friday.
A man named by President Bush as one of the 22 most dangerous in the world has been captured in Sudan, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
Citing unnamed U.S. intelligence sources, the newspaper said Abu Anas Al-Liby, described as a senior militant from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, was being held at a high-security prison in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network has stepped up its financial activity markedly in recent weeks, suggesting some leaders are reasserting control and may be seeking to finance more attacks against American interests, a U.S. official says.
At least five people have died in a grenade attack on a Protestant church in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
The church, inside the city's heavily guarded diplomatic enclave, was crowded with Sunday morning worshippers.
A man who authorities suspect alerted some of the Sept. 11 hijackers to the opportunity to obtain fake IDs from Virginia pleaded innocent Monday to two counts of document fraud.
Somewhere in the world, a terrorist mastermind is on the loose. A Scottish court has firmly fixed the blame for the actual destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. A Libyan government agent, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, will serve the rest of his life in prison for that act. He placed the bomb that blew up the plane and killed the 270 people aboard the plane and in the Scottish town hit by the falling pieces. But the court and witnesses agree that Megrahi was a ``soldier'' in this act of terrorism. The general who planned it and gave Megrahi his orders and his rewards remains at large.
An extensive paper trail left across Afghanistan by fleeing Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters provides a glimpse into the mindset and inner workings of the fighters who have declared jihad against the West, the New York Times reported today. Reporters for the daily collected over 5,000 pages of documents from abandoned safe houses and training camps destroyed by bombs, some as mundane as a grocery list, others as chilling as notes for the proper positioning of a truck bomb, the daily reported.
Six months ago, they were mere Cold War trash: hundreds of small radioactive power generators scattered across the Soviet Union decades ago and largely forgotten, except when the odd lumberjack turned up with severe radiation burns.
But in the aftermath of Sept. 11, these aging but potentially lethal devices are being viewed in a troubling new light: as possible components in a weapon to be used in a terrorist strike. Even more troubling, some of them have vanished.
A Newsnight investigation raised the possibility that there was a secret CIA project to investigate methods of sending anthrax through the mail which went madly out of control.
A new report in the New Yorker magazine suggests that Iraqi intelligence has been in close touch with top officials in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group for years, and that the two organizations jointly run a terrorist organization that operates in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.
In this week's issue, Jeffrey Goldberg reports from Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, where, in the late nineteen-eighties, Saddam Hussein waged a devastating chemical and, possibly, biological war against the Kurdish people. Today, the Kurds have achieved limited autonomy, thanks to the U.S.-British no-fly zone, but they still face the threat of ethnic cleansing. Goldberg's report also raises questions about fears of future biochemical attacks against America or Israel—as well as Iraq's possible links to Al Qaeda. Here Goldberg discusses his trip to Kurdistan and his article.
Key Al Qaeda officials, possibly including Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No. 2 to Osama bin Laden, were present in the fortified Shah-i-Kot caves of this region just before the recent US attacks.
The Bush administration has decided to stop round-the-clock patrols by fighter jets over New York and to reduce intermittent combat flights over other major U.S. cities, senior defense officials said on Sunday.
The delayed mailings of visa approvals for two September 11 terrorists has the Immigration and Naturalization Service in dutch with everyone from President Bush on down. We won't waste your time piling on. The need for serious reform at the INS is obvious, but so is the need for lawmakers to distinguish between immigrants who bus tables and those who hijack airplanes.
