A militant Palestinian group linked to Yasser Arafat claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem on Friday, Lebanon's Hizbollah al-Manar television said.
A major terrorist alert was sparked today after it emerged the Government has bought 30 million anti-smallpox vaccines, enough to protect half Britain's population from a biological attack.
Two Afghan nuclear scientists, in the strongest indication yet that al Qaeda was trying to construct a nuclear bomb, have revealed how the terrorist group attempted to recruit them.
The New York City area's three major airports will install high-technology security equipment, including biometric identification scanners, Governors George Pataki of New York and James McGreevey of New Jersey announced.
The financial side of the war against terror is only just starting to heat up and authorities have most likely seized only a small part of the world's total terrorist funding base, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Friday.
Pentagon has found photos of U.S. special forces troops posing with a blindfolded and shackled John Walker Lindh while he was being held in Afghanistan.
A suspected Islamic terrorist has been told he may be extradited to France.
Mustapha Labsi, 32, was remanded in custody at the high security Belmarsh Magistrates Court in Plumstead, south-east London, charged with conspiracy to forge and supply forged documents to terrorists.
The pilots of small planes are free to fly over downtown Chicago for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, prompting city officials to warn Thursday that the federal decision to lift the temporary ban leaves Sears Tower and other high-profile buildings vulnerable.
Nearly three-quarters of the nation's nuclear power plant operators are behind schedule on new federally mandated security upgrades, mostly dealing with truck bombs, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
Reports reaching here two weeks after the high-powered operation in Faisalabad that led to the capture of 65 suspected Al Qaida terrorists, suggest that the real mission may have been the capture of Osama bin Laden himself.
A bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem on Friday shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell met in another part of town with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to discuss how Israel might end its military operation in Palestinian cities.
has given the United States a cache of documents that Israeli officials say were captured in raids in the West Bank and establish that Yasir Arafat financed and oversaw terrorist attacks by Palestinian militants.
via The New York Times After seeing this morning's news conference with Powell and Sharon today, it is clear that the US higher-ups are finally(?) realizing the necessity of rooting out terror in Israel, and are giving the Israelis more leeway to do so. This is a good move, but why did it take so much evidence? TERRORIST THREAT: France's Jews adopt fortress mentality under daily attacks
A near-daily series of anti-Semitic attacks in France linked to the violence in the Middle East showed no sign of abating, threatening to divide one of Europe's most racially mixed countries.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is calling for an investigation into whether President Bush and other government officials had advance notice of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 but did nothing to prevent them. She added that "persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war."
via The Washington Post It seems the ridiculous and banal aren't about to make their exit very quickly. Ms. McKinney is already well-known for her Anti-American statements; it comes as no surprise that she would stoop down to the level of reactionaries like BartCop. She does a great disservice to America, America's troops, and our national pride by spouting unbased allegations. I sincerely hope she's laughed off the podium and right out of office. DANIEL PEARL KIDNAPPER TRIAL: Pearl murder trial adjourned again in Pakistan
The trial in Pakistan of British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices for the kidnap and murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl was adjourned for 10 days on Friday, lawyers said.
Police believe they may have foiled a potential terror attack in the City after a car sped through an anti-terrorist checkpoint on the day of the Queen Mother's funeral.
A top Al Qaeda official denied knowledge of who was behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States when interrogated shortly after his arrest here, Pakistani officials said Thursday.
A senior U.S. official said Washington helped pay ransom last month to Muslim guerrillas in the Philippines linked to Osama bin Laden, but the Manila government said on Friday that no such incident took place.
McALESTER, Okla. - For three days, this town will be the site of one of the most complex bioterrorism drills ever undertaken, complete with a low-flying airplane simulating an attack run and 10,000 packets of jelly beans used in place of real medicine.
Congress will likely give the Immigration and Naturalization Service $362 million next year to build a sophisticated computer system that would record the arrival and departure of millions of foreign visitors to the United States.
U.S. Army researchers are planning to simulate a biological and chemical attack off the coast here to determine if weather radar systems can detect weapons agents dispersed by crop-dusters.
No one should be surprised that the U.S. military has failed to kill or capture terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, the commander of the war in Afghanistan said Thursday.
Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, will be considered alive until forensic evidence proves the contrary, U.S. officials said on Thursday as DNA testing continued on tissue samples from Afghanistan.
Each new suicide bombing in the Middle East and every report of an al-Qaida operative slipping through the U.S. dragnet teaches America a fresh lesson in the resilience of terrorists.
Coalition forces have detained several more Al-Qaeda terrorist suspects and destroyed arms caches in Afghanistan, a United States army spokesman said on Friday.
The Philippine Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an ongoing U.S. counterterrorism training exercise for Filipino soldiers is legal but reminded American troops that they cannot engage in combat.
The trial of four men suspected of kidnapping and murdering American reporter Daniel Pearl is set to resume behind closed doors in a Pakistan jail on Friday, but human rights groups say the process is deeply flawed.
Seven months after the terrorist attacks on America, members of Congress and state and local officials are still coming to grips with the concept of homeland security. Security experts are warning that time is of the essence.
Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network has claimed responsibility for an attempt to kill Afghan Defence Minister Mohammad Qassim Fahim in a telephone call to al-Hayat newsaper, the Arabic daily said on Thursday.
About 180 people are on a global blacklist of suspected members of the al Qaeda network and airport authorities across the world have been asked to watch out for them, the Philippines' immigration chief said yesterday.
The arrest of Osama bin Laden's senior aide Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan stemmed from information gathered by U.S. interrogators of arrested Pakistanis in Kabul, an intelligence source said on Thursday.
International peacekeepers and Afghan forces have swooped on Taliban-al Qaeda hideouts in Kabul, arresting rebels suspected of firing rockets on the capital and seizing 151 Chinese-made rockets, officials said on Thursday.
A major alert has been sounded and security stepped up around the India's premier nuclear establishment, the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Mumbai, following a recent intelligence report that BARC could be the target of missile attacks by al-Qaeda terrorists, Press Trust of India reported
Nearly seven months after Ziad al-Jarrah seized United Airlines Flight 93 and crashed it into a field in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Federal Aviation Administration continues to include Mr. Jarrah on its mailing list and has been sending pilot correspondence to him at an apartment in southern Florida that he rented last summer.
The catastrophic effect of September 11 on Lloyd's was underlined yesterday when the London insurance market reported a record £3.11 billion ($A8.41 billion) loss for 2001.
In an apparent suicide attack, an explosive-laden truck went off Thursday near the synagogue of the Jewish community on the isle of Djerba, killing at least five people and wounding 20 others, including Europeans on holiday.
US Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly said on Thursday that South-east Asia should be on its guard for terrorist groups that could use the region as a jumping-off point.
Three civilian volunteers attached to the Philippine army were killed and 13 people were wounded in two separate bomb blasts in the south of the country, officials said on Thursday.
The U.S. military is finding it a challenge to quickly translate thousands of pages of al Qaeda documents and crack the group's laptop computers found in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army's senior intelligence officer said Tuesday.
Nine suspects have been arrested in recent attacks on international peacekeepers and an apparent assassination attempt against the defense minister, officials said Wednesday. The arrests came amid reports of new tensions undermining this country's fragile stability.
Television journalist Arlyn de la Cruz has said in a letter to a university professor in Manila that she has been held hostage by a group of armed men who thought she was carrying ransom money for the release of American hostages Martin and Gracia Burnham, from the Abu Sayyaf in Basilan, a local paper said.
Police shut down central avenue Parkveien in Oslo Tuesday to increase security around the Israeli embassy. Last week several Muslim men reportedly said they were willing to be suicide bombers in Oslo.
The Justice Department on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s order to release transcripts of closed deportation hearings for the detained founder of an Islamic charity.
The Saudi Arabian government has paid out at least $33 million to families of Palestinians killed or injured in the 17-month-old intifada and in December 2001 earmarked another $50 million for the payments, according to Arabic news agencies and the Saudi Embassy's Web site.
Faiq Arshad Farooqi needed $25 to get out of the Stark County Jail. Abdiwahab Muhumed Madhobe needed $50.
As the FBI and the U.S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization looked into why they crashed a guarded gate Monday night at the Timken Co.’s Gambrinus plant, Sheriff Tim Swanson discovered that the two were in the area for legitimate reasons.
Colombia's capital was on edge after a string of bombings — including one that killed two police officers — and the launching of two homemade mortars near the presidential palace.
A new U.N. treaty aimed at halting the flow of cash to terrorists comes into force on Wednesday, with the vast majority of countries ratifying the agreement after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is alive and well and planning new attacks, his al-Qaeda network has warned in a statement published here.
US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice has praised efforts by Pakistan to combat terrorism and said terrorists should not be provided refuge or safe haven.
North Sumatra Police are still on the lookout for five Singaporeans who entered Medan via Belawan seaport in January and are allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda global terrorist network.
Canada's spy service says it is gaining valuable intelligence from the confessions of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian terrorist trained by al-Qaeda who used Montreal as a base for plotting a millennium bombing attack in the United States.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, the U.S. State Department has issued more than 50,000 new visas to allow non-Israeli visitors from the Middle East to enter the United States.
Trying to close a security loophole, the Federal Aviation Administration plans to require pilots of private planes to carry photo identification cards.
Within the next two weeks, all 299 suspected terrorists in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are set to leave their makeshift cells at Camp X-Ray and move to a new detention facility on a rocky bluff overlooking the Caribbean Sea.
A chilling possibility considered credible by many experts, but thus far ignored by the media, is that suicide bombers could be exported to America. All the necessary elements — bombs, bucks, and bodies — could easily come together on our soil to target innocent civilians in crowded public areas.
The top Egyptian cleric of Al-Azhar University, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi – after previously advising against the targeting of civilians in suicide bombings – has now declared that martyrdom (suicide) operations and the killing of civilians are permitted acts according to the Koran, and that more such attacks should be carried out.
Justice Department officials have decided not to charge the American-born prisoner who was transferred from a U.S. military prison in Cuba to a Navy brig in Norfolk last week, concluding that the U.S. government lacks enough incriminating information about him to support a criminal prosecution, officials said.
Al Qaeda and Taliban diehards are believed to be responsible for a bomb attack on Afghanistan's new defense minister that yesterday killed four bystanders and injured 16 others.
A group of 128 US intellectuals opposed to the notion that the "war on terrorism" is a "just war" has sent a letter to European counterparts calling for "a sane and frank European criticism of the Bush administration's war policy."
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service disclosed sweeping changes to the rules that govern foreign students and visitors yesterday, including proposals to cut the length of time a visitor can stay in the United States.
The US trade representative, trying to embolden President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia to take steps against terrorism, promised in talks here to cooperate with her government against the "dangers" in her society.
The word itself was born in turmoil, at the moment when the French Revolution's fire of liberté, égalité and fraternité exploded into an inferno of terreur. The Jacobins claimed the label proudly, but by 1795 the British conservative Edmund Burke was already denouncing "thousands of those hellhounds called terrorists."
At a time when states and cities are clamoring for help in responding to the threat of terrorism, the Justice Department has failed to distribute more than $141 million in grants set aside for emergency equipment, according to a report issued yesterday.
Suspected Al Qaeda terrorist, Mohammed Afroz Abdul Razak, was on Tuesday released from Byculla prison following bail granted by a special court even as the police filed a chargesheet against him, four months after his arrest in a case of sedition.
The United States and Yemen have reached a deal to allow US warships to resume refueling in the Yemeni port where the USS Cole was attacked nearly 19 months ago, officials from both countries said yesterday.
Al-Qaeda fighters are trying to stir up a new jihad, or holy war, in Afghanistan by offering huge rewards for the kidnapping and assassination of Westerners.
Pakistan has categorically denied that Osama bin Laden has sneaked into Pakistan and taken refuge in Faisalabad. This was said by Aziz Ahmad Khan foreign office spokesman during his weekly press briefing held in the foreign office on Monday.
Though U.S. forces have failed to capture Osama bin Laden, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says the manhunt has at least neutralized the terrorist leader.
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo met Monday with an Italian priest who had just been freed from six months of captivity by Muslim gunmen, and said she will "annihilate" kidnapping gangs in the Philippines.
Mullah Mohammad Omar, the fugitive leader of the Afghan Taliban, is still alive and delivering anti-US tirades on the Internet, according to a newspaper report.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has given the strongest signal yet he would back United States-led military action against Iraq to topple the "detestable, brutal" regime of President Saddam Hussein.
A Delta Air Lines terminal was shut down for part of Monday morning at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport because a carry-on bag that appeared to contain a knife may have gotten past security.
PAKISTAN'S President Pervez Musharraf, by shutting down madrasahs, or religious schools, in his campaign against Islamic militants and expelling thousands of unregistered foreign students, is, in effect, re-exporting an irksome problem.
A team of Pakistani intelligence officers will leave soon for Cuba to help US authorities interrogate prisoners held at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, government officials said yesterday.
A kidnapped Italian priest held in the Southern Philippines since October has been freed, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced Monday.
Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden managed to escape hours before a joint team of FBI and Pakistan commandos raided an Al-Qaeda hideout in Faisalabad in Punjab province on March 28, which resulted in the capture of his lieutenant Abu Zubaydah, a media report said on Monday.
The introduction to this Arabic language poem, which was found with Al Qaeda documents in an abandoned house in Kabul, says, "Half of the verses of this poem are by the poet Dr. Abd-ar-Rahman al-Ashmawi, and the other half are by Sheik Osama bin Laden."
Federal prosecutors reportedly have been taking it easy on alleged "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui, suggesting there may be a deal with him in the works.
Sixty Islamic terrorists, trained in Afghanistan by Osama bin Laden, are holed up in the town of Biyara in northern Iraq, guests of Saddam Hussein. Their assignment is to infiltrate the no-flight zone and to kill the Kurdish leaders, who Saddam assumes will be allied with the U.S. in his overthrow.
An Algerian man and two roommates who were arrested in Detroit a week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were planning to conduct holy war against the United States, a federal prosecutor said in court Friday.
From his corner office in Manhattan, James Kallstrom can see the Chrysler Building with its gleaming steel spire and a thicket of other skyscrapers. The vista is a daily reminder of the task he faces.
Kallstrom's job description is starkly simple: Protect the almost 19 million people of New York state from another terrorist attack.
COLIN POWELL, the US secretary of state, left Washington on his Middle East mission last night amid reports that Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat were planning to stage joint terrorist attacks in the region.
via The Daily Telegraph One point to consider here: how long has it been since the last Palestinian suicide bomber? You mean there hasn't been one since Israel clamped down on terrorism? Well, I'll be! It actually works!
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The United States has warned the 30,000 Americans living in Saudi Arabia to remain indoors as they are coming under increasing threat from Islamic demonstrators.
Last fall FBI profilers announced that the person who sent deadly anthrax-laced letters to news organizations and Capitol Hill was probably a grudge-bearing, sociopathic male laboratory nerd with knowledge of the geography of Trenton, N.J. But a new scientific analysis sent to top government officials suggests the anthrax attacker may be a scientific whiz so smart that he succeeded in making a “weaponized” form of the bacterium more sophisticated than any previously known.
The Trilateral Commission — long viewed by critics and conspiracy theorists as a secret world-government-in-waiting — will begin its annual meeting today in Washington to discuss the future of the world's three main industrialized continents post-September 11.
Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., invokes the language of the war on terrorism in describing environmental and animal rights activists who ransack research labs and torch ski resorts.
Afghan Defence Minister Mohammad Fahim escaped injury when an explosive device went off near his convoy during a visit to the eastern city of Jalalabad.
The US military said on Sunday they had found no evidence to support rumours a network of reinforced caves found in eastern Afghanistan had been used as a refuge for Osama bin Laden or other al-Qaeda leaders. US soldiers returning from a six-day mission on Saturday said they saw rooms with steel ceilings and concrete floors, including a possible jail, in some of the 15 caves they searched.
Two bombs exploded in a provincial capital of Colombia Sunday, killing 12 people, wounding dozens and stoking fears that Colombia's civil war is becoming one of indiscriminate terrorist attacks.
