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Friday, June 07, 2002

FLASH HEADLINE: AMERICAN HOSTAGE SLAIN, WIFE FREED IN PHILIPPINE RESCUE
(Yahoo!)
- Family of US missionary hostage shaken by news (Reuters)
- Bush says Philippine rebels will pay for seizing American hostages (KC Star)
- A chronology of events in the kidnappings of Martin and Gracia Burnham... (KC Star)
- Gracia Burnham to be flown to Okinawa (Philippine Daily Inquirer)


SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION


- RECOMMENDED READFace to face with a terrorist (ABC News)
- Terror chief may have attended US school (Fox News)
- Woman learned to fly with terror suspect (BBC)


SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL


- Judge sets Moussaoui hearing date (Guardian)


TERRORIST THREAT


- US: our embassy in Kabul will be attacked (UPI)
- Nuke ships 'pose World Cup risk' (Reuters)
- Al Qaeda plans to assassinate Musharraf: report (Rediff)
- JFK terminal evacuated for suspicious package (Reuters)


WAR ON TERROR


- PAKISTAN: US House panel urges Musharraf to dismantle terror camps (Hindustan Times)


HOMELAND SECURITY


- Bush calles for Homeland Security Agency (UPI)
- Who protects the nation's infrastructure? (Business Week)


REMEMBERING 9/11


- Architects construct plan for 110-story 'memorial' tower (NY Post)


ISRAEL AND PALESTINE


- Living's easy for the Gaza terror chiefs (NY Daily News)


THE QUESTION 'WHAT IF?'


- Another US agency had clues before Sept. 11, some officials say (Mercury News)


TERROR TRIALS


- Pakistani national admits using bogus passport (Philadelphia Inquirer)


AXIS OF EVIL


- IRAQ: Cheney urges action on Iraq (BBC)


SHOE BOMBER RICHARD REID


- Pilot feared shoe bomb suspect had accomplices (CNN)


AL QAEDA


- Al Qaeda trained close to 50,000 terrorists (Hindustan Times)


CULTURE OF TERRORISM


- RECOMMENDED READ: Saudi radicalism springs from deep source (Christian Science Monitor)


OPINION


- The other shoe by Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal)


Pietro 5:55 AM

Thursday, June 06, 2002

DANIEL PEARL KIDNAPPER TRIAL


- Boston weekly newspaper prints photo from video of Daniel Pearl's execution (AP)
- Prosecutors wrapping up arguments in Daniel Pearl case (Nando Times)


THE QUESTION 'WHAT IF?'


- Congressional staffers question FBI whistle-blower (Yahoo!)
- RECOMMENDED READ: Missed chance (US News)


AMERICAN TALIBAN UPDATE


- Gov't: Lindh in Taliban for violence (AP)
- Chilling portrait of Lindh drawn in prosecutors' pretrial motions (NY Times)


SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION


- Mueller outlines origin, funding of Sept. 11 plot (Washington Post)
- Hill probers upgrade evidence gathered from Moussaoui (Washington Post)
- Mohammed Atta's roommate wired money to hijackers (Nando Times)


INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK


- Bomb on Indonesian bus kills four (Washington Post)


ISRAEL AND PALESTINE


- Israel blows up 3 Arafat buildings (Miami Herald)
- Islamic Jihad: Small but deadly (Baltimore Sun)
- White House opposes idea of exiling Arafat (Yahoo!)
- RECOMMENDED READ: Driver of bombed bus survives fourth attack (USA Today)


TERRORIST THREAT


- Terror fears spark Asian port checks (CNN)
- Egypt warns: "Most dangerous" al Qaeda threat yet to come (Al Bawaba)
- Rocket cache found near Moscow airport (Reuters)


INVESTIGATION


- Suspected terrorists being monitored: FBI (Indian Express)


MARTIN & GRACIA BURNHAM UPDATE


- Mother of US hostage held in Philippines increasingly concerned (Voice of America)
- Rebel chief pledges Filipino release (Miami Herald)


OPINION


- Into Iraq? Yes by Pejman Yousefzadeh (Tech Central Station)
- Cooperation lacking on Khobar Towers (Florida Today)
- Ransom paid holds us captive (National Review)


HOMELAND SECURITY


- Bush proposes Homeland Security Department (Reuters)
- 30 airport workers arrested in security crackdown (Virginian-Pilot)


GITMO DETAINEES


- More cells added to Guantanamo detention center (Nando Times)


AXIS OF EVIL


- IRAQ : US plans for post-Iraqi government (UPI)
- CUBA: US claims proof of Cuba's germ warfare project (Guardian)


SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL


- Judge sets Moussaoui mental competency hearing (Reuters)


LOCKERBIE DISASTER


- Libya discusses Lockerbie payments (Miami Herald)


Pietro 5:54 AM

Wednesday, June 05, 2002

TERRORIST THREAT


- RECOMMENDED READ: Made in the USA (US News)
- RECOMMENDED READ: Our man ordered waffles, but paid for tools of war (CS Monitor)


HOMELAND SECURITY


- Residents near NY nuke plant to get iodide pills (Reuters)
- US will seek to fingerprint Visas' holders (NY Times)
- NORAD tests anti-hijacking skills, avoids panic (Yahoo!)


INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK


- ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: Suicide car bomb kills at least 16 in Israel (Reuters)


ISRAEL AND PALESTINE


- Bomber planned to use cyanide in Netanya attack (Drudge Report)


AMERICAN TALIBAN UPDATE


- Lindh tied to killing of CIA agent (SF Chronicle)
- US says Lindh knew of more attack plans (Mercury News)


SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION


- Kuwaiti considered mastermind of terrorist attacks, official says (Baltimore Sun)
UPDATE - Minister: Suspected Sept. 11 planner not Kuwaiti (Reuters)


DISSENTING VIEWS


- Airlines sued for profiling (Mercury News)


INVESTIGATION


- FBI on the lookout for 2 Arab women (Pakistan News Service)


SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL


- Moussaoui judge in tough spot (USA Today)


Pietro 5:39 AM

Tuesday, June 04, 2002

SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION


- Egypt warned US of a Qaeda plot, Mubarak asserts (NY Times)
- RETORT: No specific warning of attack from Egypt, US says (Reuters)
- CIA learned of Moussaoui under alias (Washington Post)
- Czech official confirms Atta met Iraqi agent - Paper (Miami Herald)


SHOE BOMBER RICHARD REID


- Shoe bomber suspect seeks uncensored Time magazine (ABC News)


THE QUESTION 'WHAT IF?'


- Bush: our agents could have done a better job (NY Post)
- Unheeded attack warnings began to build last summer (National Post)
- US military considers longer Philippine mission (Mercury News)
- INDIA: Top Hizbul terrorist killed (Hindustan Times)
- TURKEY: US airbase in Turkey prepared to fight global terrorism (Voice of America)
- CIA creates anti-terrorist hit team (BBC)
- Financial weapon against terror (Mercury News


AL QAEDA


- Report: Rumsfeld says al Qaeda remains active (Reuters)
- Al Qaeda's new threat (Bahrain Tribune)


DANIEL PEARL KIDNAPPER TRIAL


- "Online" bureau chief detained in Pearl case (Pakistan News Service)
- Sindh court defers Pearl video ruling (BBC)


TERRORIST THREAT


- NYPD briefs landlords on terror tactics (Washington Post)


GITMO DETAINEES


- Lawyer: Most Cuba detainees not terrorists (Washington Post)
- US-Saudi citizen is not a terrorist, lawyer says (Miami Herald)


PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER...


- Memphis med. examiner attack probed (Yahoo!)


AXIS OF EVIL


- IRAN: Iran leader vows humiliating defeat to US (Reuters)


HOMELAND SECURITY


- Preparing for the worst (ABC News)
- US improving eyes in sky for terror war, official says (Reuters)


SEPTEMBER 11 AFTERMATH


- Report details artifacts lost 9-11 (Guardian)


Pietro 5:44 AM

Monday, June 03, 2002

HOMELAND SECURITY


- US tells Canadian students to stay home (UPI)
- The big airport revolt (Time)
- FBI terrorism experts check Florida dive shops (Florida Today)
- In terror war, privacy vs. security (Washington Post)


TERRORIST THREAT


- Nine out of ten Americans believe terror attack in US somewhat or very likely in the next 12 months (Drudge Report)
- Report: al Qaeda tells US to get ready for attack (Reuters)
- Post-9/11 plots thwarted (NY Post)
- Six arrested, one sought in radioactive 'dirty bomb' plot (Guardian)


SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION


- RECOMMENDED READ - The hijackers we let escape (MSNBC)


MARTIN & GRACIA BURNHAM UPDATE


- Forces closer to kidnapped americans (KC Star)


ISRAEL & PALESTINE


- RECOMMENDED READ - Bomber on the bus? (ABC News)
- Israelis shocked by accused suicide bomber 'helper' (Miami Herald)
- Tel Aviv suburb holds drill to simulate hijacked plane crashing into building, using lessons from Sept. 11 (SF Chronicle)


AXIS OF EVIL


- IRAQ: US 'refused Iraq's terror suspect offer' (BBC)
- IRAN: Ruling cleric warns Iran 'on the brink of explosion' (World Tribune)


OPINION


- Rethinking foreign students by George J. Borjas (National Review)


TALIBAN


- Taliban leader still alive, says Afghan minister (Miami Herald)
- Taliban stickers warn America of their return (Ha'aretz)


INVESTIGATION


- FBI head to review all terror case search warrants (Salt Lake Tribune)
- A witness against al Qaeda says the US let him down (Yahoo!)


SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL


- Attorney unable to meet Moussaoui (Guardian)


REMEMBERING 9/11


- From Africa, a 9-11 tribute (Dallas Morning News)


Pietro 6:50 AM



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