The White House acknowledged Friday it had a battle plan to topple Osama bin Laden awaiting President Bush's approval in the days before the Sept. 11 attacks. The administration accused Democrats of seeking political gain by suggesting that Bush ignored warning signs of an attack.
Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden's terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon or other government building.
A Connecticut man who has been jailed since he voluntarily came forward in September to tell the FBI he had spent time with some of the Sept. 11 hijackers was sentenced this morning to the time he already has served followed by immediate deportation.
Terrorists planned to attack a U.S. ship and a U.S. building in Singapore, but based on information gathered "very recently" in Afghanistan, the Bush administration was able to thwart the attack before it happened, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday.
Osama bin Laden is alive and the future of the United States in Afghanistan is ``fire, hell and total defeat,'' fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was quoted as saying by a pan-Arab newspaper Friday.
A four-story apartment building was evacuated Thursday night after six residents who ate together became ill because of what authorities feared was cyanide contamination.
Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday raised the specter of a new, devastating terror attack on the United States and said Democratic Party criticism of the White House's handling of pre-Sept. 11 terror warnings at such a time was "thoroughly irresponsible".
Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and Rep. Richard Burr, R-5th, hold seats on congressional intelligence committees that had pre-Sept. 11 information about the possibility that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack American airliners.
Cynthia McKinney appeared to feel vindicated Thursday, after revelations that the Bush administration had warnings before Sept. 11 about possible airplane hijackings.
The world's most wanted man Osama bin Laden is still alive, said another top fugitive, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in remarks published by a leading pan-Arab newspaper on Friday.
Traditionally viewed as a problem affecting the Middle East and South Asia, the threat posed by suicide terrorism is spreading around the globe. Rohan Gunaratna assesses the nature of the threat, preventive and reactive security measures, and examines future trends.
The Philippines said on Thursday any attempt to rescue U.S. hostages, held for almost a year by gunmen linked to al Qaeda, would be a Filipino operation without direct American military involvement.
THE TALIBAN may be no more, and Osama bin Laden may be dead or in hiding, but Islamism - the militant, extremist wing of Islam that carried out the crimes of Sept. 11 - is alive and well and still spewing its hateful rhetoric.
Senate officials are scouting locations 1,000 miles outside of Washington, D.C., in an effort to identify facilities that could house the body if a catastrophic event forced lawmakers to flee the nation's capital.
- The four men emerged Tuesday night from a restroom at BJ's Wholesale Club dressed in fatigue jackets. They took off their shoes and began praying loudly in a language that sounded like Arabic.
Pakistani prosecution and defense lawyers on Thursday cross-examined two U.S. FBI agents on key emails and video evidence in the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl.
Philippine police said on Thursday they believe Muslim militants were behind the bombing of a market in the south that wounded at least nine people.
Hours earlier, also in the south, a blast damaged the hotel room occupied by a 65-year-old British treasure hunter, setting off a fire and seriously wounding the man, police said. They said the blast appeared to have been accidental.
President Bush and his top advisers were informed by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking airplanes, according to reliable sources.
A Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department's Inspector General Wednesday to investigate how the FBI handled an internal warning last summer that terrorists might be taking flight lessons in the United States, according to a letter obtained by United Press International.
Some of the Justice Department's most aggressive tactics in its legal war against terror are getting knocked down in court. Experts suggest that through recent court decisions, the judiciary is recalibrating the balance between government secrecy and individual rights – a balance set inthe massive federal investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks.
California-raised John Walker Lindh had a constitutional right to associate with al-Qaida and another U.S.-identified terrorist group, his lawyers argued Wednesday in seeking dismissal of most counts in his indictment.
A man with a history of psychiatric problems and violent run-ins with police was arrested on suspicion that he placed an explosive inscribed with the words "Free Palestine now" in a mailbox.
The date is May 30. NewsChannel 4 has learned that, on Friday, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is expected to announce that a May 30 ceremony will mark the end of recovery and cleanup at Ground Zero at the former site of the World Trade Center.
Pakistan is understood to have pleaded with the US government to avoid a direct operation in the tribal areas of the country in search of al-Qaeda activists and has assured Washington of use of local law enforcement agencies there if the situation demands, it is reliably learnt.
Office workers in Sydney were terrified on Thursday when they saw what appeared to be a large airliner shadowed by a military jet bank over city skyscrapers.
Enemies of the United States are spreading on the Internet a gruesome piece of propaganda. It is a videotape of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered earlier this year in Pakistan. And it is being used by terrorists to recruit new soldiers for the cause.
An investigation into whether two Middle Eastern men taken into custody on Whidbey Island last week were bomb-toting terrorists or not has gone to the dogs.
A new FBI "super squad," headquartered in Washington, would lead all major terrorism investigations worldwide under FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III's plan to remake the agency in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said yesterday.
The classified memorandum written by an F.B.I. agent in Phoenix last summer urging bureau headquarters to investigate Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight schools also cited Osama bin Laden by name and suggested that his followers could use the schools to train for terror operations, government officials said for the first time today.
CBS News on Tuesday broadcast edited excerpts of a video that it said showed the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, earning a stinging rebuke from the Pearl family.
In one of the deadliest attacks India has witnessed in recent years, three men disguised in army fatigues killed 30 people today and wounded 48 with sprays of automatic gunfire in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which both India and Pakistan claim.
In its "Viewpoint" column, the Iranian daily Kayhan International has criticized Muslim nations as apathetic and called upon them to unite against the U.S.
A day after a mailbox bomb was found and detonated by Philadelphia police, officials investigated another suspicious package in a nearby neighborhood that turned out to be sneakers.
Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners may soon be answering questions from lawyers for fellow Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh, but the government doesn't want the detainees to know who posed the questions.
Defense attorneys for the second American-born prisoner captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan said their client is being held illegally and should be released.
Law enforcement and emergency personnel reacted - in a rehearsal at least - to a biological terrorist attack today at Port Canaveral and at a Central Florida amusement park.
The military said yesterday Muslim guerrillas might release an American woman missionary who has been held hostage for almost a year because her health was deteriorating.
The Bush administration has taken steps to tighten security at U.S. nuclear power facilities based on documents and information obtained from al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, a White House spokesman said yesterday.
The Coast Guard has issued an urgent warning to law enforcement agencies that as many as 25 terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network have sneaked into the United States aboard cargo ships, it was revealed yesterday.
The walls of a Gaza City community center are lined with row after row of drawings by Palestinian children asked to express what's on their minds. The answer is tanks, ambulances, corpses – of 1,500 sketches, only 10 do not depict violent scenes.
While CNN was repeatedly broadcasting Yasser Arafat yesterday saying that he wants peace with his Jewish "cousins" in Israel, at the same time he was calling for “one million martyrs” to march to Jerusalem. Arafat was speaking to a crowd while visiting PLO-controlled Shechem during his first foray outside of Ramallah in almost six months.
A bomb found in a corner mailbox in Northeast Philadelphia and exploded by police sent shrapnel flying more than 100 feet and contained a message that read: "Free Palestine now."
A series of letters between Osama Bin Laden and the head of an Islamic charity in Chicago allegedly documents their friendship, with one letter addressed to "his excellency the exalted sheik."
After her husband's body ''rained down over New York City'' on Sept. 11, as Ellen Mariani puts it, she didn't want to forget what happened. She placed a back-lit photograph of the World Trade Center Towers at her breakfast table in their now-empty house in downtown Derry, and settled down to the pressing business of finding answers: Why were terrorists able to board United Air Lines Flight 175 at Logan Airport? Had the government ignored years of security warnings? Could better airline regulation have saved Neil Mariani's life?
The four men accused of the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl sat unmoved on Tuesday as a Pakistani court viewed a video showing the Wall Street Journal reporter having his throat cut, lawyers said.
The government won a first round Monday in its terrorism-related criminal case against a Chicago-area Islamic charity and its leader, who has been in jail for two weeks on perjury charges.
Thirty persons, including three army men and three militants, were killed when militants stormed a heavily guarded camp of the army at Kalochak on the Jammu-Pathankote highway early on Tuesday morning.
Defense attorneys said Monday that American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh was nothing more than a foot soldier against the Taliban’s opponents and that a wide-ranging conspiracy charge against him should be dismissed.
A two-week search operation by mostly British forces in eastern Afghanistan dealt a "significant blow" to al-Qaida's ability to mount future terrorist strikes, even though no suspects were captured, the top British commander in the U.S.-led coalition said Monday.
The radical Islamic group Hamas vowed on Monday to continue its suicide bombings against Israel, defying pressure from the Palestinian Authority to give international peace efforts a chance.
Italian authorities Monday said an apparent attempt to cause an explosion in one of Milan's busiest metro stations did not appear to be the work of an organized terrorist group.
Authorities believe a U.S. postal employee in custody here helped draft a letter of introduction that may have been used by two men who posed as journalists to assassinate a leading opposition figure in Afghanistan last fall, according to a U.S. official familiar with the case.
When Israel released documents last week purporting to show that the government of Saudi Arabia is financing Palestinian terrorist groups, Saudi officials angrily dismissed the charge. The Saudis, however, are not disputing a key Israeli claim: that money from the Kingdom is going to the families of suicide bombers.
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said Palestinian militants carrying out suicide attacks in Israel were supported by foreign powers.
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The FBI has insisted it had no advance warning about the 9-11 attacks. But internal documents suggest there were more concerns inside the bureau’s field offices than Washington has acknowledged.
The sheer number of suicide belt-bombers attacking Israel this spring, and the diversity of their backgrounds, has increased fear among terrorism experts that the tactic will be exported to the United States.
The FBI has issued another alert about possible terrorism attacks, but this time quietly. Law enforcement sources tell TIME that the bureau has sent word to its field offices and 56 federal terrorism task forces that they should advise local officials to tighten security around large apartment buildings, as well as busy malls, supermarkets and restaurants. The alert is a response to statements made by the same man whose words put U.S. banks on alert two weeks ago — captured bin Laden aide Abu Zubaydah.
Americans already know what it is like to fear lethal anthrax lurking in their mail, but when they go to take a bite out of a sandwich or sit down to a family dinner, how can they be sure they are not about to ingest these deadly microorganisms?
Residents of this biblical city are expressing relief at the exile to Cyprus last week of 13 hard-core Palestinian militants, who they said had imposed a two-year reign of terror that included rape, extortion and executions.
India charged on Monday that Pakistan is an "epicenter of Islamic fundamentalism" and has not stopped support to terrorists in Kashmir--a key condition set by New Delhi to end a five-month border standoff.
The trial of four suspects in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl resumed Monday with a defense lawyer cross-examining an investigative magistrate who took their statements shortly after they were arrested.
Senior U.S. officials have been stepping up discussions with Iraqi opposition groups, including several newly prominent in U.S. thinking, as the Bush administration proceeds with plans for toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The government has entrusted the relatives of al-Qaeda members arrested from here to the Gaddafi Foundation of Saif al-Salam, son of Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi.
A pair of high-profile lawsuits and the first signs of skepticism from the courts, all within the past month, are posing new challenges to Justice Department investigators who scoured the country for suspected terrorists in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
