The FBI, acting with "an abundance of caution," said Friday that officials had received unsubstantiated information that terrorists were considering attacks against U.S. banks in the Northeast.
Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network was behind the threat that caused the FBI to issue an alert on Friday about a possible plan to attack U.S. financial institutions, a U.S. official said.
A Pakistani appeals court removed the judge hearing the case of slain U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl on Friday, just three days before the opening statements are scheduled to be heard, the chief prosecutor said.
Survivors and families of victims of the Oklahoma City bombing marked 168 seconds of silence Friday -- one tick of the clock for each person who died in the bombing exactly seven years ago.
A Palestinian blew himself up in a car at a checkpoint Friday, lightly injuring two Israeli soldiers, and Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in exchanges of fire in an abrupt escalation of conflict in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qaida’s apparent use of computers and inexpensive editing software to put together videotapes that emerged this week came as no surprise to U.S. intelligence officials, who told NBC News that laptops and high-speed Internet access had become terrorists’ primary tools for communicating over the past several years.
"Indeed, the root cause of terrorism is totalitarianism. Only a totalitarian regime, by systemically brainwashing its subjects, can indoctrinate hordes of killers to suspend all moral constraints for the sake of a twisted cause." - Benjamin Netanyahu
An Indonesian alleged bomb expert for the al-Qaeda network pleaded guilty in a Philippine court on Friday to falsifying two local passports as part of an alleged terror scheme.
There is much speculation about where the US-led war against terror is going next - but in a quiet way, the war has already been extended.
More than 600 US soldiers are on the ground on the southern Philippine island of Basilan.
Malaysian police believe that 100 members of an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group remain at large following the arrests of 14 suspects, including the wife of a Malaysian accused of helping two of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
The Justice Department has issued a directive that prohibits state and local governments from releasing the names of detainees held in the investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Federal agents Thursday arrested 28 workers who had access to secure areas at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport for using phony social security information to obtain clearance, authorities said.
Israel has captured or killed at least 15 Palestinians on its most wanted list, most of them during its three-week military offensive in the West Bank, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
Italian officials now believe that the crash of a small pilot plane into a Milan skyscraper on Thursday was an accident. The crash killed three and injured about 36.
After a face-to-face meeting with Asa Hutchinson, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, I know for certain that the war on drugs is inextricably linked to the war on terrorism.
The 52 Americans held hostage in Iran more than 20 years ago cannot sue their captors, a federal judge ruled yesterday, barring the once iconic figures from collecting damages against a nation designated by the State Department as the world's chief financier of international terrorism.
President Bush praised Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Thursday for "standing tall" against narcotics traffickers and terrorists, and urged Congress to let the South American nation use U.S. helicopters and other equipment in its fight against insurgents.
The United States is deploying 340 military engineers to build roads and water wells on a southern Philippine island stronghold of Muslim rebels linked to the al Qaeda network, officials said Friday.
The Taliban are over politically and militarily as a result of US-led allied attacks on Afghanistan, former New York Representative of the Taliban Abdul Hakeem Mujhaid said while talking to The Frontier Post on Thursday.
AL-QAEDA has clear linkages to Australia through the capture of two Australian citizens allegedly trained by the terrorist organisation, Defence Minister Robert Hill said today.
Relatives of passengers killed aboard hijacked United Flight 93 on Sept. 11 heard a bone-chilling cockpit tape yesterday that they said revealed a chaotic rebellion to take back control of the plane from terrorists.
He fled South Africa to avoid being sentenced for fraudulently obtaining his pilot's licence but now the sacked SAA pilot, Issaya Nombo, is being linked to the September 11 attacks in the United States.
The U.S, Navy ship heavily damaged in a terrorist bombing in Yemen less than two years ago returns to service Friday after 14 months of repairs and upgrades.
The World Trade Center lives on in a handful of new films whose makers left intact their pre-Sept. 11 footage of the twin towers out of respect for the dead and defiance of the terrorists who destroyed the buildings.
Malaysian authorities arrested 14 suspected members of an Al Qaeda-linked group in raids that turned up a map of the country's largest port, officials said yesterday.
As the White House continues to resist calls for Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to testify formally before Congress, Senate Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) has urged his Democratic colleagues not to participate in informal briefings offered by the administration.
The CIA is receiving a "huge" increase in anti-terrorism funds this year, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Richard Shelby said on Wednesday.
The latest Osama bin Laden video, which ran yesterday on the Saudi-funded, London-based MBC network, answers unequivocally the question whether bin Laden was behind the September 11 (or as they call it, "blessed Tuesday") attacks, that is in case anyone was still asking. Yes. He did it. He was proud of it. He loved it. It was a dream come true.
A small tourist aircraft has hit a skyscraper in the northern Italian city of Milan. At least one person has been reported killed and many were injured in the crash.
American sailors are waiting off the Philippine coast for approval to go ashore in a plan to expand counterterrorism efforts against Muslim extremists, senior defense officials said Wednesday.
Philippine troops captured Abdulsibni Ladja, brother of Jolo-based Abu Sayyaf leader Habib Ladja, on board the ferry Queen Pacific bound for Jolo island before midnight on Monday.
The prospect of rescuing an American missionary couple from Kansas is "very, very high," the Philippine military said Wednesday, claiming it was tracking down and closing in on their Muslim extremist captors.
via The Miami Herald QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"When I saw Wolfowitz stand in Washington and say I support Sharon while we were meeting with Secretary of State Powell, this told me something; we don't have neon saying 'stupid' on our foreheads." - Saeb Erekat, a top Arafat advisor
Pentagon officials believe Somalia is an early success in the 6-month-old war on terrorism, as diplomatic pressure and intensive surveillance have prevented al Qaeda from re-establishing operations on the Horn of Africa.
Captured al Qaeda fighters say Osama bin Laden was wounded in Tora Bora last year and ordered his lieutenants to disperse in various directions from the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, according to high-level anti-terror coalition intelligence sources.
U.S. law enforcement officials pressed Pakistan on Wednesday to strengthen counterterrorism operations in the country's interior and to upgrade border controls.
Despite a massive number of tips, rumors and other intelligence, the U.S. military has never had good enough information on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts to mount a mission to go after him, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday.
The Pentagon in October will debut a new command organization, U.S. Northern Command, to oversee the defense of the United States and to streamline support to civilian agencies during natural disasters, top Defense officials announced Wednesday.
In its latest rebuff to demands for an independent body to decide the legal status of captives held here, the United States said detainees have no right to lawyers, and can be held as long as the U.S.-led war on terrorism lasts.
Jakarta has asked the Philippines to free three Indonesians held for suspected terrorism in a Manila jail, an Indonesian embassy spokesman said Thursday. The call came after a fourth Indonesian was handed a long prison term by a Philippine court for possession of explosives.
A court in the southern Philippines has sentenced an Indonesian man suspected of links to the al-Qaida terrorist network to 10 to 12 years in prison for illegal possession of explosives.
The war on terrorism would be easier if China shared more intelligence information with the American military, the chief of the U.S. Pacific Command complained Thursday.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, with Colombian President Andres Pastrana by his side, promised to push to allow U.S. military equipment to be used against Colombian insurgents as well as drug traffickers.
"Terrorism is terrorism, whether it's narcoterrorism or terrorism against a government," Hastert, R-Ill., said Wednesday.
World Cup authorities in Japan and South Korea, on the alert after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, are bracing for everything from hooligans to hijacked planes, officials said Thursday.
Federal authorities said Wednesday that they have detained a Tanzanian man and are investigating why his name was found on a document in an Al Qaeda cave in Afghanistan congratulating him on his graduation from a U.S. flight school.
The spokesman for Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terror network claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, in a videotape aired by a Saudi-owned television network on Wednesday.
Stating that Al Qaeda activists and Taliban had started trickling into Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Thursday asked the Centre to formulate a fresh policy to deal with these elements and appealed to the international community not to 'turn a blind eye' to India's concerns.
The Australian government said Thursday they had been advised that 46-year-old Sydney man Mamdouh Habib is now in U.S. military custody, after being arrested in Pakistan in early October last year.
Amid fresh questions on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, President Bush on Wednesday predicted a "spring thaw" in terrorist activity as bin Laden's network tries to regroup and strike again.
One of America's best hopes to handle a terrorist attack effectively lies in West Virginia coal country, down a dirt road and past a speck of a town cradled between huge shoulders of mountainside.
French security agents on Wednesday were questioning five people arrested in Paris and its nearby suburbs in connection with the investigation into shoe bomber Richard C. Reid, French television reported.
Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden was shown in an undated videotape excerpt aired on Wednesday, hailing the major blow the September 11 attacks had dealt to the U.S. economy.
The widely watched Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera will air a "highly emotional" tape linked to Osama bin Laden and the September 11 terror attacks despite criticism that the broadcast could increase hostility toward Arabs and the Palestinian cause.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday he has not seen enough "solid evidence" to support claims by Afghan war detainees that Osama bin Laden escaped from the Tora Bora mountains of eastern Afghanistan last year.
In the mid-1990s, Marwan Barghouti was hailed as a Palestinian reformer brave enough to challenge Yasser Arafat's corrupt regime. He was regarded as the hope of Palestinian democracy.
At the time of his arrest on Monday, Barghouti was said to be the leading architect of Palestinian terrorism. He heads the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which appears on the State Department list of terrorist groups, and has sent waves of suicide bombers to attack Israeli cities.
A second videotape that appears to be a message from Osama bin Laden's terror network — this one showing images of al-Qaida commanders killed by American bombs — has been delivered to an Arabic satellite station, the station reported Wednesday.
A Spanish magistrate ordered the suspected financial chief of the al Qaeda terrorist network in Spain to be jailed on charges of belonging to a terrorist group, court sources have told CNN.
Prosecutors in the case of John Walker Lindh want to keep information from interviews with 13 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, out of the hands of the news media and the public.
The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge.
Osama bin Laden is dead or deformed badly by shrapnel or so ill that he can't talk or show himself. No, I have not had the privilege of administering him his last rites or seen him buried or had a CIA agent whisper this information into my ear.
President George W. Bush will give Americans an update on his plans for the war on terrorism on Wednesday, as divisions at home and abroad and violence in the Middle East cast doubt on U.S. efforts to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday issued a long-awaited condemnation of terrorism after coming under intense pressure from the United States a day after a suicide bombing threatened to derail its peace mission.
Inside the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, dozens of detainees held for months in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have been confined to their cells nearly 24 hours a day.
Increasing military pressure by Philippines troops backed by U.S. advisers could soon lead to the safe recovery of an American couple held by Abu Sayyaf rebels, U.S. Pacific Command Chief Admiral Dennis Blair said yesterday.
German Interior Minister Otto Schily said on Tuesday he would travel to Tunisia, possibly in the next few days, to inform himself on investigations into a suspected terrorist explosion that killed 15 at a Djerba synagogue on April 11.
After a four-week lull, military operations are stepping up in eastern Afghanistan as U.S.-led forces intensify their search for members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
BRITISH forces sweeping through a former Taliban and al-Qaeda stronghold in eastern Afghanistan found evidence enemy fighters had returned since a major US offensive last month, a spokesman said today.
An explosion damaged several buildings in downtown San'a on Tuesday, including one that witnesses said houses a Yemeni intelligence office. A group saying it backs the al-Qaeda terror network claimed responsibility.
Denmark's Soccer Federation received a bomb threat against Wednesday's World Cup warmup game with Israel, already slated to be played amid tight security.
If terrorists should attack an American city with anthrax, the first warning could come from a security action as simple as monitoring sales of flu medicine.
German police questioned and then freed a man on suspicion of acting as a contact in the explosion of a truck at a synagogue in Tunisia that killed 15 people, including 10 Germans, prosecutors said Tuesday.
A powerful explosion in downtown San'a on Tuesday damaged several buildings, including one housing a Yemeni intelligence office, witnesses said. No injuries were reported.
Police raided a house in a remote part of southwestern Pakistan, arresting an Iraqi on suspicion of ties with the al-Qaida terrorist network officials said.
On Sept. 11, Americans discovered that a civilian airline jet could be turned into a flying bomb.
Now the respected Economist magazine is warning that container ships could be the next terrorist vehicle.
A 13-year-old Dutch boy admitted he had made a bomb threat that prompted some U.S. financial institutions in the Washington D.C. area to close temporarily on Monday, the public prosecutor's office said.
Suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network claimed responsibility for the blast near a synagogue which killed 15 including ten German tourists last week in Tunisia, the Al-Qods Al-Arabi newspaper said.
Lawyers for accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui filed a court motion Friday objecting to his "overly restrictive and oppressive" prison conditions, arguing he needs more space in his prison cell, computer equipment and greater access to legal counsel while he prepares for his criminal trial this fall.
The United States should seek a victory for safety, prosperity and freedom in the Middle East. Anything short of victory for those values will be a defeat. The forces of hatred, terrorism and ferocity dominate Palestinian society today. These forces glorify the suicide bomber, teach hate for Israelis and educate the young to fight a war of annihilation against an Israel that is not recognized by Palestinian schoolbook maps.
The trial of five Algerian men charged with plotting to blow up a French holiday market opened with a flourish today when a defendant disrupted the proceedings and was removed from court.
House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, Missouri Democrat, says he disagrees with anti-administration statements made by fellow Democrat Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney, but he is not taking action against the Georgia representative.
More than six months after the Security Council launched its global campaign against terrorism, 50 countries have failed to respond to its demand that all U.N. member states submit their plans to participate in the fight, and diplomats here have been unable to reach even tentative agreement on exactly what terrorism is.
The Israeli-Lebanon border had been quiet for two years until Ariel Sharon's savage campaign against the Palestinians fanned the flames of a wider conflict, writes Brian Whitaker.
Hearing in a constitutional petition challenging the competence of the Judge of Anti-Terrorism Court, Arshad Noor Khan, who is trying the kidnap and murder case of Wall Street General reporter, Daniel Pearl would be resumed today (Tuesday).
Two men who helped run the Virginia branch of a Somali-based financial network accused by the Bush administration of giving money to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network pleaded innocent Monday to charges of evading federal banking rules.
Osama bin Laden and his top deputy were shown in a video excerpt aired Monday that also included a man identified as a Sept. 11 hijacker delivering what appears to be a farewell message, saying "it's time to kill Americans in their heartland."
The Kurdish rebel group that waged a 15-year war against Turkey announced a name change and shift in strategy Tuesday, saying it now wants to campaign peacefully for greater Kurdish rights.
Hearts of violence haters throb with fear when they hear that the Global Anti-terrorism Coalition is planning to attack Somalia, a country suffering crippled governance.
A Canadian who was jailed in the United States in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is to be deported today, CBC television's The National reported.
There is "no hope" of reconciliation with Israel, and Palestinians will continue using human bombs as their leading weapon, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority says.
A letter seized by the IDF from Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Ramallah office suggests a concerted effort by the PA to incite Israeli Arabs against Israel. The letter, released Sunday, is dated September 30, 2001, the first anniversary of the "Aksa Intifada."
A Jewish group breaks off decades of interfaith talks with Christian and Catholic denominations. Two synagogues are set on fire. Protests are held regularly in major cities.
THE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's massive implication in the death of 3,000 Americans on 9/11, I argued in February, is reason for the victims and their families to consider suing it for compensation. Three important developments have occurred since then, all of them propelling this idea forward.
Two survivors of last week's gas truck explosion at an ancient synagogue believe it was a deliberate attack that killed 16 people, including three Germans who died Sunday.
Spanish police have arrested an Algerian man suspected of being the financial chief in Spain of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, the Interior Ministry said yesterday.
Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, had ordered the assassination of former Afghanistan ruler Mohammed Zahir Shah in 1991 and the failed assassin had visited Delhi to organise logistics for a training camp for militants operating in Kashmir, reports on Sunday said.
