Palestinians produced chemical and biological weapons to target Israeli population centers as well as national water reservoirs, a senior source" told the Ynet Hebrew news website.
Anthrax spores have been found for a second time at a postal sorting center that serves a large portion of Connecticut, including the town where a 94-year-old woman died of inhalation anthrax, officials said.
The father of a kidnapped American missionary Thursday accused the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf of reneging on an agreement to free his son and daughter-in-law.
It looks like wacky Zacky Moussaoui, aka "the 20th Hijacker," was only kidding on Monday when he took over a pretrial hearing and ranted and raved for a full 50 minutes wishing death to Israel, America and assorted other al-Qaeda foes.
Two weeks after his lawyer was charged with helping him send messages from jail, federal prison officials have made convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman virtually disappear from their system.
NEW YORK was seized by fears of a “dirty bomb” terrorist attack yesterday after an apparently accidental explosion ripped through a commercial building, injuring dozens, at least six critically.
A bomb exploded in the women's section of a Shiite Mosque in a Pakistani province wracked by religious violence, killing 12 female worshippers and wounding at least 13 other people, hospital officials said Friday.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had a firsthand look Friday at the cooperation from a new strategic partner in Central Asia – a foothold for American and allied airpower in the war on terrorism.
The trial of four Pakistani men accused of murdering US reporter Daniel Pearl was delayed indefinitely today as the high court heard a prosecution petition to change the presiding judge.
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said Tuesday he believes that Osama bin Laden not only has the capacity to produce a "dirty nuke" radiation bomb, but that national security experts are operating on the assumption that he's already smuggled one inside the U.S.
Unclassified summaries of interviews with Taliban and al-Qaida captives should not be kept secret as the government proposes, lawyers for U.S.-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh said Tuesday.
NBC is hopping mad with the Saudi Arabian government for detaining MSNBC reporter Dr. Bob Arnot - and confiscating 18 videotapes and Arnot's laptop computer.
National Guardsmen deployed by President Bush to safeguard commercial airports in the United States after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will be going home by May 10.
Zacarias Moussaoui spoke his mind in court Monday, and legal specialists say his words are a gold mine for prosecutors who, as a result, won't have to try hard to convince the judge or jury that the Frenchman hates America and would be capable of participating in a terrorist plot.
Spanish police arrested a suspected terrorist financier Tuesday who is accused of funneling money from Madrid to Al Qaeda operatives around the world, including close associates of the Hamburg, Germany, cell that allegedly carried out the Sept. 11 attacks.
One of five Algerian men on trial for terrorism in Germany has admitted he intended to bomb a synagogue in France with the help of his four co-defendants.
Police arrested three more suspects Wednesday in deadly bombings in the southern Philippines and were looking into possible links among three rebel groups.
A special court on Wednesday ordered police to provide armed security guard to suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist Mohammad Afroz Abdul Razaaq with immediate effect.
Just because you don't think you have a mind-control chip in your brain doesn't necessarily mean that at this precise moment 10 white men aren't seated at a round table in an ice palace 500 miles beneath the Arctic Circle controlling your every thought. I mean, they could be.
Pentagon officials have been discussing whether to secretly transfer a high-level al-Qaeda operative captured late last month in Pakistan to the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia, sources close to the talks said Tuesday.
Germany said yesterday that it has crushed a terror cell led by a London-based cleric linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, arresting 11 suspected Islamic militants in raids throughout the country.
Pakistan will allow US advisers to accompany Pakistani troops on raids of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda hideouts in tribal areas near the country's border with Afghanistan, the New York Times reported today, citing senior Pakistani officials.
Zacarias Moussaoui, a self-styled "slave of Allah," says he is fully prepared to die for his brand of extreme Islam, but he has just made it much harder for the U.S. government to grant that request.
A gas truck explosion outside the oldest synagogue in Africa was a deliberate criminal attack – not an accident – the Tunisian government has acknowledged.
Two men arrested for a deadly series of bombings in the southern Philippines claimed it was part of a "destabilization" campaign that includes targets in the capital, police said Tuesday.
How will the conversation go between President Bush and Crown Prince Abdullah if Bush actually challenges the Saudi prince with any tough questions during their meeting later this week? We got a preview Sunday, when a Saudi spokesman on Meet the Press danced around nearly every question thrown to him by Tim Russert.
United Airlines has begun training its pilots to use stun guns for self-defense in the cockpit, becoming the first U.S. airline to take that step in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Israeli military sources said documents and material found in the Ramallah office of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat point to weapons and material either sent or modified by Baghdad and Teheran. The weapons and material were apparently smuggled in Arafat's helicopter during his frequent trips abroad, the sources said.
A Staten Island mailman who was a follower of the blind terror sheik tracked down confidential addresses of FBI agents and prosecutors pursuing Al Qaeda, according to court records and federal sources.
Abu Zubaydah, the senior al-Qaida field commander in U.S. custody, told his interrogators that the terrorist network knows how to build a ``dirty bomb,'' a terror weapon capable of dispersing radioactivity over a wide area, a U.S. official said Monday.
The chief of Palestinian security said outside his gutted headquarters today that it is "not my priority" to stop attacks on Israel. Other Palestinian officials appealed for international protection for Yasser Arafat, whom they said the Israeli government wants to assassinate.
Apathetic, almost laid-back, sometimes even entertaining, is how Thabet Mardawi yesterday described his time as a senior Islamic Jihad member. The terrorist from Jenin, who dispatched nine suicide bombers to fatal attacks inside Israel, is not ashamed of anything he has done. "I am proud," he says, "I did something for my people, for Allah."
Amidst intelligence reports of a possible terrorist strike to damage the Taj Mahal, a world heritage monument, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh police to hand over the security of the monument to the Central Industrial Security Force from May one.
The U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Monday warned Americans living there of a possible imminent assault, the latest in a string of such alerts since Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
An Algerian man accused of plotting with Osama bin Laden to blow up the Los Angeles International Airport during year 2000 millennium celebrations is fighting extradition to the United States from Britain.
Random checks of passengers in airport lines don't do much to bolster security, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Monday, maintaining that the government and the airline industry must do a better job of identifying travelers who pose the greatest risk.
The four men accused of murdering the American journalist Daniel Pearl were formally charged by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan's largest city Karachi.
A man accused of conspiracy to commit terrorism in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks declared in court Monday that he was ending cooperation with his court-appointed lawyers and said he prayed to Allah for the destruction of the United States and Israel.
A taxi driver testified today that he saw Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl shake hands with accused militant Sheik Omar Saeed and climb with him into the back seat of a white Toyota Corolla on the day Pearl disappeared.
A powerful car bomb exploded outside an oil company's headquarters in Madrid today, damaging vehicles and shattering windows in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Basque separatist group ETA.
Zacarias Moussaoui, who has become the first person to be charged directly in connection with the terror attacks on the United States, was long under suspicion before 11 September.
It was an expensive four-wheel-drive vehicle, the kind that ordinarily might cruise unchallenged through a police checkpoint, especially on the side of the road heading into Afghanistan.
But the Pakistani frontier guard in the remote village of Chapri, about 15 miles from the Afghan border, flagged down the Mitsubishi Pajero regardless. It was just a routine stop -- until the guard discovered that the man in the passenger seat could not speak any of the languages of western Pakistan. He turned out to be Yemeni.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin concluded a five-nation tour in Iran, voicing loud opposition to an expansion of Washington's "war on terror" and policies in the Middle East.
Living under tight prison restrictions, former Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh still can use a StairMaster exerciser. Accused Sept. 11 accomplice Zacarias Moussaoui soon may get the computer he wants to read legal documents.
Both have copies of the Quran, but may not participate in group prayers.
After more than six months of frustration and futility, U.S. military officials believe they may finally be closing in on Osama bin Laden and his inner circle of terrorist plotters.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo called today for a new offensive against Muslim guerrillas thought to be linked to Al-Qaida after a third bomb in two days rocked the southern part of the country.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered tough security measures on Monday, including imposition of curfews, after police arrested two Muslim suspects in connection with bomb blasts which killed 14 people.
A Pakistani court has formally charged British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other men with the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in Karachi in January.
The Department of Energy privately warned White House officials in late March that it lacked the funds to adequately protect the nation's nuclear weapons research facilities shortly after the administration had offered public assurances that security was more than adequate.
A new investing tool screens for firms tied to countries singled out by the US government as 'sponsors' of terrorism. But will it sully some upstanding firms?
Amid warnings that another terrorist strike might come tucked inside one of the 17,000 cargo containers that enter the United States each day, researchers are scrambling to make the nondescript metal boxes - and their modes of delivery - tamper-proof.
The war on terror shifts to south Asia. Late last week, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia took decisive action against local Islamist terrorist cells.
British military officials warned during the weekend that Mohammed Zahir Shah, the former Afghan king who returned from exile last week, was under the threat of assassination from killers posing as journalists
U.S. military advisers have begun training Yemeni troops hunting remnants of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, Yemen's President said in an Italian newspaper interview published yesterday.
