Pakistani intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network is preparing to unleash a wave of suicide attacks around the world, a report said on Thursday.
A 21-year-old college student who the FBI says admitted to planting 18 pipe bombs across the Midwest was due back in Iowa on Friday to face charges his mailbox bombs injured six people.
An Indonesian man swept up in the anti-terrorism investigations after Sept. 11 was sentenced to seven months in jail for identification fraud this morning – time he already has served – and a federal judge said there was nothing linking him to the hijackings.
The death toll in Russia's Victory Day bombing near Chechnya rose to 41 Friday, and foreign expressions of sympathy seemed likely to fuel Moscow's case for a tougher crackdown on its unruly southern rim.
Lawyers for John Walker Lindh want to question another U.S.-born Taliban soldier at a pretrial hearing, but prosecutors said they must await a decision on how other al-Qaida and Taliban captives would testify.
Shaken by this week's deadly bombing, the military government has put its security forces on a war footing to combat a new enemy in Pakistan – the suicide bomber, Gen. Rashid Quereshi said Friday.
via The Washington Post HOMELAND SECURITY: Miles to go
The Canadian border is a bit like a neglected sibling whose misbehaving brother gets all the family's attention.
The press is trying to implicate Saudi Arabia as the fourth member of the "Axis of Evil," but the kingdom is still the most strategically vital ally the U.S. has in the Middle East.
via National Review HOLLYWOOD AND TERRORISM: Comic relief
Humor Helps a Nation Come to Terms With Terrorism-Induced Anxiety..
A new, highly secretive facility to monitor terrorist threats and coordinate responses will become operational in the next few weeks, connecting for the first time nearly all federal agencies with state and city authorities using state-of-the-art technology.
Numerous unaired videotapes made by Osama Bin Laden — including one in which he names targets — are circulating in the Mideast and Pakistan, an Arabic TV journalist said yesterday.
A judge ordered the extradition Friday of an Algerian man suspected of links to Osama bin Laden and charged in the United States of masterminding a plot to blow up the Los Angeles airport.
Federal aviation authorities were alerted in early 2001 that an Arizona flight school believed one of the eventual Sept. 11 hijackers lacked the English and flying skills necessary for the commercial pilot's license he already held, flight school and government officials say.
Foreign businessmen in the Philippines should take security precautions against kidnappings even though the number of abductions has fallen in recent years, police said Friday.
An investigation into an alleged scheme to obtain fraudulent student visas turned up a student Federal Aviation Administration flight manual, a hand-drawn diagram of a plane striking one of the World Trade Center towers and a date book with a lone entry: Sept. 11, according to court documents.
The car packed with the explosives that killed 16 people here Wednesday, including 11 French nationals, was purchased 17 hours earlier by three men who appeared to be Pakistanis, police officials said today.
A cow that died in Texas in 1981 has been positively identified as the original source of the anthrax spores used in the terrorist attacks in America last year which killed five people, according to a study published today.
Airbus, the European jet manufacturer, is planning to build concealed cameras into the light fittings above the seats in its aircraft. The idea is to let the crew monitor passengers and spot hijackers before they strike. The cameras also work in the dark.
A former State Department anti-terrorism prober now claims that a missing suspect in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing is a former Iraqi soldier who later secured a job at Boston's Logan Airport, where two of the 9-11 hijackers boarded planes they later commandeered and slammed into the World Trade Center.
Yesterday, IDF forces operating in PLO-controlled Tul Karem apprehended the local Hamas leader, Abbas Mahmoud Mustafa el-Siyad. El-Siyad was sought out after the intelligence community learned he was planning a suicide attack in the near future.
FBI headquarters ignored its own agent's red-flag warning a month before 9/11 that Zacarias Moussaoui was the kind of person who might "fly something into the World Trade Center," FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted yesterday.
Officials in Southeast Asia have attributed recent violence in Ambon, Indonesia -- where nearly 10,000 people have died in Muslim-Christian conflict since 1999 -- to al Qaeda operatives.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has set up 44 offices in Pakistan and 12 in Afghanistan along the sensitive borders of the two countries in the last two months, top diplomats have said.
Pakistani security agencies have stepped up efforts to hunt down the perpetrators of Wednesday's bomb explosion in Karachi and other incidents of terrorism.
Here are some notable articles about September 11, terrorism, and the war on terror. These have been picked because the level of detail or subject matter makes for an interesting read. If you know of any interesting articles concerning terrorism, please let me know of them at my email address.
A Muslim scholar who taught John Walker Lindh said Wednesday he was released after telling U.S. agents who picked him up for questioning that his religious school had "nothing to do" with Islamic extremism.
Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, and other viruses that cause deadly hemorrhagic fever illnesses could be used as biological weapons, according to a report from the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense, a panel of 26 experts convened by the Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
A bomber detonated explosives at a bus stop near the northern port city of Haifa on Wednesday, critically wounding himself but causing no injuries to others.
via Netscape Newssearch RECOMMENDED READ - SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION: Atta, Prague, Iraq
What is the status of the meeting in Prague between September 11th hijacker Mohamed Atta and Iraqi embassy intelligence officer, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani?
Even on weeknights, the Sheffield pool hall was often crowded with teen-agers.
On Tuesday night, it was reduced to smoke and rubble in a suicide attack that killed at least 16 people, including the bomber.
The man arrested by the FBI Tuesday in connection with the string of pipe bombs left in mailboxes is a college junior who studied industrial design and played in a punk rock band called Apathy.
A 21-year-old college student was charged Tuesday in connection with the five-state string of mailbox pipe bombs after he was arrested on a windswept highway following a manhunt that stretched across half the country.
Iran, with an assist from Russia and other countries, is developing a long-range missile that would give it the ability to strike NATO countries in Europe, a senior administration official says.
A Canadian judge has ruled that a Yemeni man seized with false travel documents on a U.S.-bound airplane on Sept. 11 can be extradited to the United States.
Islamic affairs ministers ended a three-day meeting in Malaysia on Wednesday saying Islam tolerated no form of terrorism and extremism and the killing of innocent people including non-believers is a sin.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Wednesday he is willing to wage "war on terrorism" and has directed his security forces to work to foil Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians.
Indonesia's Supreme Court has quashed a 17-year-old subversion conviction against a radical Muslim cleric whom Singapore and Malaysia accuse of terrorism links, an official said on Wednesday.
In the post-Sept. 11 world of intelligence gathering, counting Russian aircraft or tanks from above just doesn't cut it anymore.
Now, the bad guys move fast, hide underground and don't park their weapons out in the open. The prime threat to American national security isn't a discernible line of nuclear-armed bombers at a faraway airfield; it may be some nondescript laboratory in the third world where biological weapons are being cultivated.
The captain had just finished telling the airline passengers that he was turning off the fasten seat belt sign when the hijacker struck, appearing instantly with a dagger in his right hand.
Libya on Wednesday challenged the United States to substantiate charges that Tripoli was seeking weapons of mass destruction, saying such false accusations were a Washington tool to bully other nations.
Cattle feedlot manager Dusty Turner crossed the state to Topeka last September for a legislative hearing. The topic: keeping foot-and-mouth disease out of Kansas and the USA. Turner passed out copies of his company's "biosecurity" practices — measures meant to stop the accidental spread of the same virus that had ravaged Great Britain's livestock industry just months before. The date on his handouts: Sept. 11, 2001.
Everything we know we learned from television:
This is how the week started off: We got a letter from a woman suggesting that "Baby Bob" was over our head.
The head of Iran's parliamentary foreign affairs committee has said Iran, contrary to official denials, has been holding secret talks with arch-enemy the United States, the official IRNA news agency said Wednesday.
Intelligence services have warned Tony Blair that the threat to Britain from terrorist attacks remains as high today as in the immediate aftermath of the 11 September attacks.
A Muslim scholar who taught American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh for six months has been arrested in a joint U.S.-Pakistan operation, a Muslim leader said Tuesday.
The FBI has issued an all-points bulletin asking West Texas law officers to search for a 22-year-old pipe-bombing suspect, a Lubbock Police Department spokesman said Tuesday.
The FBI in Texas issued an alert today saying authorities are seeking a man in connection with the recent pipe-bomb attacks in the Midwest, Colorado and Texas.
The Indiana State Police are investigating why a man killed in a car crash was carrying three identifications and four checkbooks with different names.
Authorities are investigating the possibility that a white powder inside a letter opened Monday in the Thomas Eagleton Federal Building in downtown St. Louis might be anthrax.
A man carried two loaded handguns through a security checkpoint at Louis Armstrong International Airport on Monday but was arrested after a random check before he boarded a flight to Los Angeles.
An FBI official said a pipe bomb found in a Colorado mailbox Monday appeared linked to 16 others found in three Midwestern states, raising concerns that the domestic terrorism spree is spreading West.
Troops from the US-led coalition in Afghanistan have been gathering human DNA samples in the mountains of Tora Bora to see if Osama Bin Laden died there.
Former President Bill Clinton warned yesterday that one day the U.S. might have no alternative but to intervene militarily to end the bloodshed in the Middle East.
via The New York Daily News We're well aware of Bill's failure in the Middle East, so he shouldn't be surprised if his predictions don't come true. ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: Sneaky $audis caught in act
Israel yesterday said captured documents show Saudi Arabia had given about $135 million to Palestinian terrorist organizations and the families of homicide bombers in the past 16 months.
A Malaysian man was sentenced to death in neighbouring Indonesia on Tuesday for the bombing of a Jakarta shopping mall that the judge said aimed to stir up religious hatred.
Cuba has been researching offensive ``biological warfare'' weapons and may have shared its technology with ``other rogue states,'' a top U.S. official alleged Monday.
A federal judge said Monday that defense requests for interviews with detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, presented an unprecedented legal conflict that could block the prosecution of accused Taliban sympathizer John Walker Lindh.
Another pipe bomb has been discovered in Colorado. The device, found in a mailbox appeared linked to 16 others found in three Midwestern states, raising concerns that the domestic terrorism spree is spreading West.
Shortly after prayers at his Falls Church, Va., mosque last spring, computer technician Eyad Alrababah struck up a conversation with two strangers and invited them back to his apartment for tea.
Alrababah found one of the men dour and inapproachable, but he took a liking to the other, whom he knew as Nawaf Atabi, and he helped steer the pair to an apartment in Northern Virginia. Then, last May, the Jordanian immigrant says he spent a couple of days with his new acquaintances, driving with them from Virginia to Connecticut to New Jersey.
The least-defaced poster in the New York subway system may be a 50-foot-long, 4-foot-high display that snakes across three walls of the Union Square station and lists, in alphabetical order, the names of the 2,830 people killed in the attack on the World Trade Center.
Last Thursday, I sat in the garden of the Pesantren Darunnajah, one of Jakarta's finest Islamic boarding schools, with 20 thoughtful young Indonesians to ask them for their views of America. I wanted to understand how the world's largest Muslim nation was reacting to Sept. 11 and the Middle East crisis. I could tell you in my own words, but let me instead run the tape of my chat with the most articulate student: 18-year-old Wisam Rochalina.
After failing to win support for an oil embargo against the United States and other allies of Israel, the Iraqi Cabinet voted Sunday to resume oil exports beginning midnight on Tuesday, national television reported.
Hundreds of U.S. Marines gathered at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in late January to pay their respects to Staff Sgt. Dwight J. Morgan, a helicopter mechanic killed in a crash in Afghanistan. Now, Morgan is being honored again.
Seaports along the New York Harbor are taking a closer look at illegal immigrants who slip into the country by hiding in cargo containers, particularly after Sept. 11.
Spurred by concerns about terrorism, federal authorities are investigating whether private guards hired by major airlines at LAX have smuggled international passengers from the Middle East and elsewhere into the United States.
It's a tale only the best conspiracy theorist could dream up.
Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism.
Islamist clerics in Pakistan's tribal areas have threatened to attack American troops who are mounting secret raids to track down senior al-Qaida commanders.
Members of an elite Israeli commando squad say they helped foil an attack on Israel's tallest building, prompting security chiefs to warn that the Palestinians may be planning a new round of attacks more destructive than anything seen to date.
Kuwait said Monday it would send a legal team to assist citizens detained at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay naval in Cuba for allegedly being members of the al Qaeda and Taliban movement.
Investment guru Warren Buffett offered a bleak prediction for the nation's national security, saying a terrorist attack on American soil is "virtually a certainty."
Le Journal du Dimanche reports Sunday that Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network is preparing to kidnap hundreds of people throughout Europe over the next few days.
The Afghan chief of military intelligence, Hazrat Uddin, says he has received "credible reports" that terror leader Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant Ayman al Zawahiri, were seen inside Pakistan, Newsweek reports in the current issue.
Biding time on the instructions of elusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban is regrouping in mountain hide-outs, waiting for the Afghan government to falter, a Taliban intelligence official in hiding said yesterday.
Less than six months after an anthrax scare rocked the U.S. Postal Service, mail carriers are facing a new form of terrorism: pipe bombs.
Mail carriers were expected to return to their routes Monday with a heightened sense of caution following the discovery of 15 mailbox pipe bombs across the Midwest since Friday, authorities said.
The Philippines named a senior military officer responsible for the fight against Muslim guerrillas linked to the al Qaeda network as the country's new armed forces chief on Monday.
Two more explosive devices were found yesterday in mailboxes in Nebraska, police said. Authorities had not determined whether the devices were similar to 14 pipe bombs found in three states, including Nebraska, in the past three days.
That the Muslim charity Global Relief Foundation sought to distance itself from Wadih El-Hage is understandable. El-Hage was a personal aide to Osama bin Laden and was convicted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa.
Schoolchildren fill the sidewalks again, stores are reopening, a movie theater welcomes back customers with $2 tickets. The terror-scarred neighborhood near the World Trade Center is creeping back to normal.
AN Australian accused of training with the al-Qaeda terrorist group, Mamdouh Habib, has been transferred from Afghanistan to the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Canadian soldiers scouring a mountain cave complex in Eastern Afghanistan have uncovered a gold mine of information that could help advance the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
