Authorities evacuated a concourse at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Friday after a screening machine detected explosives in a bag, the mayor's spokeswoman said.
German investigators said on Friday they had received an unconfirmed tip-off that "terrorists of Islamist background" including suicide bombers planned to hijack passenger ships in several European countries.
Last July 9, an important member of al Qaeda arrived at a small airport near here on a tourist flight from Germany. Unlike millions of other foreigners who flock here to the Gold Coast in search of sun and fun, Ramzi bin Shibh slipped into a shadow world.
Newly freed from Afghanistan's most notorious prison, gaunt and bewildered Taliban inmates spoke yesterday of being packed 50 to 60 in cells meant for five and of starvation rations that sometimes led to death.
The Bush administration widened its financial assault against global terror Friday, ordering U.S. banks to block assets of one organization and seven individuals that the government believes support a separatist group that has mounted terror attacks in Spain.
Is Colombia's principal rebel group, the violent Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, really the al Qaeda of Latin America? Stroke by stroke Washington appears to be painting that image in the public mind.
In supporting its arrest of the leader of an Islamic charity this week, the Justice Department has made public new information tying a wealthy Saudi businessman, who is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, to several people convicted in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 or in unsuccessful plots to bring down airliners and assassinate the pope.
Captured Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has told Israeli interrogators that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat personally approved weapons funding for attacks against Israelis, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office said Thursday.
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge for the first time disclosed Thursday the Bush administration is studying ways to set national standards for driver's licenses that would assist in preventing fraudulent identification and expose aliens who overstayed their visas.
Two months before the suicide hijackings, an FBI agent in Arizona alerted Washington headquarters that several Middle Easterners were training at a U.S. aviation school and recommended contacting other schools nationwide where Arabs might be studying, law enforcement officials said.
An inmate has been flown out of Guantanamo Bay, only the second prisoner to leave the naval base on Cuba's coast since the United States began sending detainees from the war on terrorism here three months ago.
The European Union extended its black list of terrorist groups and individuals on Friday by 18 names, adding Babbar Khalsa and the International Sikh Youth Federation.
Police have arrested a senior member of the Abu Sayyaf, the al-Qaida-linked extremist group that the Philippine military is trying to destroy with American help.
The trial of four Islamic militants, for the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, resumed here today, after being moved out of Karachi because of security fears.
The repercussions of the Sept. 11 attacks that destroyed the twin symbols of U.S. financial might are rippling through the American economy, expanding the reach of the federal government and changing the way many companies do business.
Federal prosecutors intend to challenge a ruling declaring it unconstitutional to detain material witnesses for a grand jury proceeding - the latest step in a legal battle that could have broad implications for the government's terrorism probe.
For more than seven months, U.S. authorities probing the Sept. 11 attacks have scoured everything from caves to credit cards in the expectation that they would ultimately discover how the 19 hijackers plotted their brazen scheme.
But the global search has produced virtually nothing in the way of hard evidence about the terrorists' planning, and authorities said Monday that they face the growing realization that they may never know many key details.
In a little-noticed anti-terror initiative, the George W. Bush administration is trying to get colleges and universities to stop some foreign students from studying sensitive subjects. Educators fear they're being dragged into academic censorship.
A new anti-terrorist operation is afoot in Afghanistan, with several hundred Canadian troops leaving their base at Kandahar for a staging area at Bagram airport near Kabul, a senior Defence official said Wednesday.
An aging Philippine Air Force jet returning from a training exercise with U.S. anti-terror forces crashed into a school north of Manila on Thursday, killing the pilot and injuring 19 people on the ground.
A bomb blast in the volatile Pakistani city of Karachi killed a child on Thursday as a strike called in protest against the murder of two former MPs shut down large parts of the southern economic hub.
In a camp called Al Masada, hidden in the Afghan mountains near the Pakistani border, a man known by the war name "Abu Mahmoud the Syrian" would radio orders to his fellow Islamic fighters. Like some of them, he was first inspired by the Saudi businessman who led them all.
Separatists holding U.S. missionaries hostage ruled out further negotiations Wednesday and threatened to kill the Kansas couple if the U.S.-backed pursuit of the outlaws gets too close.
In the past three weeks, 600 specially trained Afghan soldiers have joined dozens -- sometimes hundreds -- of U.S. and British commandos in six raids on Al-Qaida hideouts, two senior Afghan commanders in Khowst said Wednesday.
But while a trove of weapons and ammunition has been seized in these operations, not a single Al-Qaida soldier has been killed and only two suspects have been taken into custody.
Some admitted they had trouble sleeping. Others said they feared leaving the house. Most found their minds wandering back to images of burning towers and the horror.
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have changed the process of designing skyscrapers by requiring anticipation of the unknown, says a structural engineer with the firm that built the World Trade Center.
British troops are leading a force of 1,000 allied fighters in a major new sweep in a mountainous region of southeastern Afghanistan that is thought to have been a key al Qaeda base, the British military said today.
Gaunt and bewildered, hundreds of Taliban inmates released from desperate conditions in a northern Afghan prison made their way home Thursday. Some said they had to buy their way out.
Shackled and wearing orange jumpsuits and goggles, 32 detainees arrived on this bleak outpost yesterday - the first large group of arrivals in more than two months.
Zacarias Moussaoui, the first man charged in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks, wants a new trial judge. But the judge won't recuse herself from the case.
At least 18 people were wounded, some of them critically, as two bomb explosions rocked Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Wednesday within 10 minutes, police said.
Standing before a humble mosque, Abu Jibril Abdurrahman quickens his cadence as he approaches the emotional crescendo of his sermon: "Oh God," he implores, "help us to destroy the infidels who have killed our children."
Two bombs exploded Wednesday in the Spanish capital, one close to Real Madrid's soccer stadium just hours before a game. Seven people were slightly injured.
A grenade explosion killed three people and wounded two others Wednesday after police said they thwarted two possible terrorist attacks, including one that may have targeted President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
The U.S. no longer thinks that terrorist hijacker Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Europe last year. This conclusion kills the only known link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the Sept. 11 attacks.
The U.S. government plans to decide this week whether it will let airline pilots carry stun guns in the cockpit, an anti-terror measure that key officials favor over arming crew members with hand guns.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a tirade against the United States Wednesday, accusing Washington of bullying and ruling out holding any talks with Washington.
United States Congressman Curt Weldon seems to take a grim delight in warning Americans that nuclear annihilation might be, quite literally, just around the corner, but even by the veteran Republican's alarmist standards, what he had to say last week was unusually disturbing.
The images of shackled al-Qaeda and Taleban prisoners seen through wire netting at Guantanamo that so incensed human rights groups would appear to have become a thing of the past.
Lawyers for American Taliban John Walker Lindh said Tuesday the U.S. government should make available potential witnesses being held in Cuba or else should dismiss the count charging him with conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens.
ABC will set aside its normal programming for a full day and evening on Sept. 11 to commemorate the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
A Muslim extremist group threatened Wednesday to kill an American missionary couple, after the government refused to negotiate anything but the group's surrender.
Enaam M. Arnaout--so close to Osama bin Laden that he took care of one of his wives--has operated a suburban Muslim charity that funneled money to overseas "freedom fighters" in the 1990s and once named a suspected terrorist as a director of the foundation, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Arnaout, 39, and Benevolence International Foundation are charged with perjury for lying in federal court documents about the charity's links to terrorism, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said.
The NATO military alliance said it was ending its unprecedented operation to patrol the skies of the United States, launched after the Sept. 11 attacks, because U.S. air defense security had been improved.
Security officials in Algeria have claimed a military success against an Islamist militant group that has been waging a war of insurgency for the past nine years.
Twice during the period encompassing the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, University of Utah physician Per Gesteland received an automatic alarm signal through his pager.
What does Saddam Hussein see in himself that no one else in the world seems to see? The answer is perhaps best revealed by the intimate details of the Iraqi leader's daily life
The head of a joint congressional investigation into why U.S. intelligence agencies failed to detect the plot that led to the Sept. 11 attacks on America has resigned, U.S. government sources said on Monday.
A federal judge Tuesday threw out a perjury indictment against a Jordanian college student who knew two alleged Sept. 11 hijackers, citing errors made when investigators applied for an arrest warrant.
Four months after suspected Al Qaeda terrorist Mohammed Afroz made a confession before a magistrate about his participation in a conspiracy to blow up targets abroad, on Tuesday he retracted his statement saying it was made under duress and threats by police.
Socioeconomic grievances, or so some assert, explain (though they do not justify) terrorism in general and Islamic terrorism in particular — the factors Al Gore called this past February "another axis of evil in the world: poverty and ignorance; disease and environmental disorder; corruption and political oppression," all of which lead to terrorism. But do they?
Prosecutors asked a federal judge on Tuesday to quash a defense subpoena for a U.S. government employee who tried to question American Taliban John Walker Lindh at an Afghan prison right before a CIA officer was killed in an uprising.
An Islamic charity and its executive director were charged with perjury Tuesday for denying in a lawsuit against the federal government that they have supported groups engaged in terrorism.
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge told newspaper executives Monday that the color-coded alert system used to keep the nation apprised of the danger of terrorist threats may have to be "tweaked" in the days to come.
Osama bin Laden was able to escape the clutches of US troops in Afghanistan thanks to a powerful military commander currently serving with the Afghan government, a rival warlord said.
U.S.-led special forces engaged suspected al-Qaida terrorists in two firefights near the eastern border with Pakistan, killing up to four of them, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday. No coalition casualties were reported.
via The Washington Post RECOMMENDED READ - SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS, INVESTIGATION: Tower-tumble twist
They were both targeted by hijacked 767s, but the manner in which each of the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11 was strikingly different, a sensational new TV documentary reports tonight.
Libya is ready to make a "substantial formal offer" to compensate families of the Lockerbie airliner bombing within a month, Time magazine said, but British relatives dismissed the move as political posturing.
The trial in Pakistan of a Briton accused of planning the abduction and murder of Daniel Pearl is to be moved from Karachi over fears of an attack on the court.
A day after resuming cross-border family reunions, North Korea told the United States that a U.S. diplomat would be welcome to visit Pyongyang, apparently clearing the way for the first official talks between the two countries in 18 months, the Bush administration said Monday.
The Philippine government on Tuesday rejected a call by Muslim guerrillas linked to the al Qaeda network for negotiations on the release of a U.S. missionary couple held hostage for almost a year.
It's too much to expect even the most macho airline pilot to turn the cockpit over to a co-pilot, get a gun out of a lockbox, open a bulletproof door, shut and lock it behind him, go back to the coach section, shoot a terrorist dead (making sure not to kill a passenger or break a window), return to the cockpit and land the plane.
via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ah yes, but it's also too much to ask the pilot to expect a single latched door to protect him from the force of armed assailants, and to fight with his bare hands - and win - when they finally break through. The pilot isn't supposed to be a Rambo; his job is to land the plane safely, protecting the thousands of other people at risk if a hijacker decided to take over and target another skyscraper. He needs every means possible to do so. So what will it be - a fraction of 200 dead, or thousands dead? OPINION: Equal Time - Arming the pilots the surest route to safer skies by Zell Miller
Among the many hard lessons of Sept. 11 was this one: We have a long way to go to make our commercial airplanes secure. I submit that the fastest and surest way to get there is to let trained airline pilots carry a weapon that's as lethal as the terrorists themselves.
No matter how heinous the charge, the accused gets a vigorous defense and the benefit of the doubt. That tenet of American justice is sure to be put to the test in the military tribunals for suspected terrorists that President Bush authorized in the fall after Sept. 11.
Two of the Palestinians arrested during an operation on Friday in Kalkilya and other villages in Samaria were planning to perpetrate suicide bomb attacks inside Israel, the army said.
As interrogation techniques go, the recommended opener from a 1963 CIA manual - "My little man, you are not of much concern to us" - has gone the way of trench coats and truncheons.
The word Qaeda must now be known to almost everyone on the globe within reach of a radio, a television or a newspaper.
Al-Qaeda means "the base", and since the organisation was formed that base has been Afghanistan.
Terror suspect Osama bin Laden and one of his top lieutenants have reportedly been spotted in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt, a leading newspaper here said on Monday.
British forces will give most al-Qaida or Taliban fighters they capture to Afghanistan's interim government – not the United States – after granting them special status denied to U.S.-held captives, British military officials said Monday.
The chief prosecutor in Pakistan's Daniel Pearl murder trial said Monday he had asked a provincial high court to move the proceedings outside the port city of Karachi because of an alleged threat to security.
In a pep talk Friday to U.S. troops in this Central Asian outpost, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged them to prepare for a long war against the "evil of mass murderers" — and not only in Afghanistan.
In the heyday of the Cold War, when the world made grisly sense, strategists touted a rollback policy toward communism. In the event, we rolled back precious little and had to be content with holding the line, at least until 1989. But "rollback" was a strategy decades ahead of its time. Unsuited to the brinksmanship of our Dr. Strangelove days, it is an eminently sensible approach to radical Islam.
Hundreds of employees with access to high-security areas of airports have been arrested on charges such as using phony Social Security numbers, lying about past criminal convictions or being in the United States illegally, government records show.
The band of Muslim extremists that is holding two Americans hostage in the southern Philippines has refused to hand them over after a paid ransom of nearly $300,000. The group is now demanding $200,000 more for their release, according to Philippine and American officials.
Imagine living in a country where your neighbor could be dragged from his car in the morning commute, locked up and imprisoned for months essentially in secret.
A million people could die if terrorists launch a biological attack that widely disperses smallpox, anthrax, Ebola or other agents, according to an analysis of the damage that could be caused by weapons of mass destruction.
For years, Ahmed Abdel Sattar seemed a friendly, mild-mannered postman -- who happened to know a lot of terrorists. Now the government says there was a reason for that: He was a terrorist, too.
A top Central Intelligence Agency official has warned Americans that a new terrorist attack is unavoidable, despite all efforts to prevent it and the fact that the CIA is now "stealing more secrets" than ever. "Now for the hard truth. Despite the best efforts of so much of the world, the next terrorist attack -- it's not a question of if, it's a question of when," CIA Deputy Director for Operation James Pavitt told an academic conference earlier this month.
Assailants in black masks hacked, shot and burned to death 14 Christians, including a six-month-old baby, in the religiously divided capital of Indonesia's Maluku province yesterday, threatening a fragile peace pact.
The IRA has been teaching Palestinian terrorists to build booby-trap bombs for use against Israeli soldiers, according to a British explosives expert working in the Jenin refugee camp.
Officials of American FBI Financial Wing are in Pakistan as the US government has chalked out a comprehensive plan to trace the financial channels, if any, of al-Qaeda in Pakistan.
Nobody talks about honor anymore, certainly not male honor, so this is going to sound very old-fashioned. And nobody, except the hippest, most artfully abstruse academics, thinks of wars in terms of gender paradigms.
