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Friday, June 14, 2002
INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK
- PAKISTAN: Explosion kills 8 outside US Consulate in Pakistan (Washington Post)
US condemns Karachi car bombing (CNN)
Al Qaeda link probed (CNN)
US: Pakistan attack 'vivid' reminder of danger (Reuters)
- INDIA: Suspected terrorists blow up bridge in Kashmir (Hindustan Times)
AMERICAN TALIBAN UPDATE
- Defense tries to change image of Marin Taliban (Mercury News)
- American Taliban says interrogation violated rights (Reuters)
DIRTY BOMB SUSPECT
- Pakistan says it alerted US over 'Dirty Bomb' man (Miami Herald)
- Judge upholds custody of dirty bomb suspect (Cox News)
- Officials: No tribunal for seized American (Mercury News)
GITMO DETAINEES
- Foreign Office visits terror suspects (BBC)
WAR ON TERROR
- PHILIPPINES: Abu Sabaya escapes again (Gulf News)
- SUDAN: Key al Qaeda suspect is captured in Sudan (Mercury News)
MARTIN & GRACIA BURNHAM UPDATE
- Family of slain hostage calls for justice (Miami Herald)
SEPTEMBER 11 AFTERMATH
- Search of World Trade Center debris at landfill nears end (Nando Times)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- Judge rules Moussaoui can represent self (CNN)
INVESTIGATION
- Charity focus of al Qaeda money probe (Mercury News)
TERRORIST THREAT
- Pak faces mounting threat from al Qaeda remnants (Hindustan Times)
- al Qaeda's new threat (Newsweek)
- Arab League leader warns west again (Washington Post)
OPINION
- Fearing the race factor by Diana West (Washington Times)
- The Constitution doesn't protect al Qaeda (Wall Street Journal)
- Terrorism on trial by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
TERROR TRIALS
- Mohamad Hammoud to take stand in own defense (Durham Herald-Sun)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Ex-VP no airport VIP (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- US moves on chemical plant safety (MSNBC)
ANTHRAX
- FBI probes leads on anthrax source (Guardian)
- Army lab eyed as anthrax source (CBS News)
AXIS OF EVIL
- IRAQ: US calls Iraqi diplomat spy, wants him out (UPI)
- IRAN: US: Iran helping al Qaeda and Taliban (Reuters)
DISSENTING VIEWS
- Global eye - Hellraiser 2.0 (Moscow Times)
Pietro 6:30 AM
Thursday, June 13, 2002
TERRORIST THREAT
- Air Force attack attempt discovered (ABC News)
- Terror ties to Canada highlight a US concern (Boston Globe)
- Attack threats put Europe, India on alert (Mercury News)
- US backtracks on 'al Qaeda in Kashmir' statement (Ananova)
- Why was America attacked on Sept. 11? (Arutz Sheva)
TERRORIST 'THREAT'
- Airline passenger's rash sets off a smallpox scare (SF Chronicle)
DIRTY BOMB SUSPECT
- Padilla didn't invent plot in Broward, mosque says (Miami Herald)
- At Fla. mosque, bomb plot suspect recalled as studious (Boston Globe)
- Padilla sought radioactive material (Washington Post)
- Jose Padilla sought out violent Muslims (Nando Times)
GITMO DETAINEES
- Saudi Arabia wants access to Guantanamo detainees (Namibian)
- US prisoners in Cuba run the gamut (ABC News)
SHOE BOMBER RICHARD REID
- Sedative may have addled shoe bomb suspect (USA Today)
WAR ON TERROR
- MOROCCO: Al Qaeda bid for attacking NATO ships foiled (Pakistan News Service)
- PAKISTAN: Al Qaeda captives include US men (San Francisco Chronicle)
- PHILIPPINES: Philippines says Abu Sayyaf rebels dispersing into jungle (Reuters)
- AFGHANISTAN: US Special Forces come under fire in Afghanistan (Reuters)
- SINGAPORE: Singapore attempts to prevent smuggling weapons of mass destruction (Voice of America)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- General suspects Sept. 11 plot was wider (Globe and Mail)
OSAMA BIN LADEN
- Bomb victims sue bin Laden (News 24 S Africa)
TERROR TRIALS
- Wife of Malaysian militant suspect ordered jailed for two years (Malaysia Star)
BIOTERRORISM
- Germ war funds OK'd by Bush (Boston Globe)
TALIBAN
- Russians claim to have interviewed Mullah Omar (Guardian)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Fatah military wing claims bombing in Israel (Yahoo!)
- Palestinians 'betting on suicide bombings' (Guardian)
DANIEL PEARL KIDNAPPER TRIAL
- America the still-vulnerable (Economist)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- US to argue Moussaoui mentally fit (Guardian)
- Moussaoui denies Sept. 11 role (Washington Post)
Pietro 5:46 AM
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
DIRTY BOMB SUSPECT
- Al Mujahir alleged to be scouting terror sites (Washington Post)
- Democrats suspicious of arrest announcement (Washington Times)
- British security sources raise doubts over US claims about 'dirty bomber' (Independent)
- Alleged trips for al Qaeda outlined (Philly Inquirer)
- Second terrorism suspect (Mercury News)
- More questions in dirty bomb case (Yahoo!)
WAR ON TERROR
- PAKISTAN: Pakistan: More Americans arrested (UPI)
- PERU: Peru captures five suspects linked to Lima car bombing in March (Bloomberg)
- INDIA: Rumsfeld says he has indications al Qaeda in Kashmir (Reuters)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- NSA got 9/11 warning on 9/10 (NY Post)
- Investigators know who recruited September 11 terrorists: Washington Post (Hindustan Times)
DETAINEES
- Suspect held 8 months without seeing judge (Washington Post)
TERRORIST THREAT
- INS issues alert on Yemenis (CBS News)
- Eminem's enemy (NME)
- Terrorists plan attack on Amarnath pilgrims (Hindustan Times)
- Alert over al Qaeda plan to shoot down civilian aircraft (Ananova)
- Counterterrorists shift focus to radioactive material in the US (Miami Herald)
- Terror warning over model planes (CNN)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Terrorist describes sending bombers to their targets (Jerusalem Post)
- Israel captures 10 bombs at Arafat security command (World Tribune)
INCIDENT - TERRORISM
- Hijackers shot on Ethiopian Air (News 24)
- Palestinian suicide bomber kills Israeli girl (Namibian)
THE 'DIRTY' BOMB
- Potassium Iodide a hot seller (Washington Post)
- Threat of dirty bomb softened (USA Today)
INVESTIGATION
- FBI probes scuba dive schools (Washington Post)
- FBI checks for local terror links to car left in Winter Park (Florida Today)
SHOE BOMBER RICHARD REID
- Worker testifies about shoe bomber (Washington Post)
- France makes shoe bomb arrests (MSNBC)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- Judge keeps airline data from Sept. 11 suspect (Reuters)
AMERICAN TERRORISTS
- RECOMMENDED READ: Americans find their own reasons to join terrorists (Baltimore Sun)
- Officials see prisons as fertile breeding grounds for anti-American sentiment (Nando Times)
Pietro 6:17 AM
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK
- 15 injured in explosion in Israel (Washington Post)
THE 'DIRTY' BOMB
- Panic, economic turmoil would be fallout from dirty bomb attack (CNS News)
- Material for dirty bomb easy to come by (Baltimore Sun)
- Radiological dispersal devices: an assessment (Jane's)
- For Boston, the catastrophe could lie in evacuation and cleanup (Boston Globe)
DIRTY BOMB SUSPECT
- Suspect's years in South Florida were troubled (Miami Herald)
- How US foiled dirty bomb plot (SF Chronicle)
- First dirty bomb tip came up in April (CNN)
- US labs eyed for bomb material (MSNBC)
- Dirty bomb arrest: Role of intelligence (Washington Post)
- An unusual odyssey (Washington Post)
- Dirty bomb suspect not cooperating, Wolfowitz says (Reuters)
- The first sign of a fifth column? by John Podhoretz (NY Post)
- Homeland security by Thomas Sowell (Town Hall)
- These are strange times by Colleen Cason Minneapolis Star Tribune
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- Germany holding back in US capital case vs. Moussaoui (Boston Globe)
TERRORIST THREAT
- Morocco arrests al Qaeda suspects planning terrorist attacks (Ha'aretz)
- Coast Guard warns of attack by sea (Fox News)
- Bush warns of 'catastrophic power' in terror war (Reuters)
- Al Qaeda says it'll use Chem, bio weapons (Fox News)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Official: Terror links run in family (Washington Post)
- Big Ben 'was September 11 target' (CNN)
WAR ON TERROR
- PHILIPPINES: Portrait of a weakened, desperate Abu Sayyaf (Washington Post)
- UNITED STATES: Bush: 'Full scale manhunt' for terrorists (CBS News)
- PAKISTAN: Britain sees clear link between ISI and terrorist outfits (Hindustan Times)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Poll: Majority of Palestinians see Israel's elimination as goal (Yahoo!)
REMEMBERING 9/11
- Capsule installed behind Pentagon (AP)
DANIEL PEARL KIDNAPPER TRIAL
- Court: Defense can view Pearl tape (Washington Post)
Pietro 8:12 AM
Monday, June 10, 2002
(ABC News)
- Bomb plot shows terrorist resolve (Christian Science Monitor)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Arafat threatens 'disastrous explosion' (Jerusalem Post)
- 'Palestinians planned to attack beaches' - Israel (Ananova)
DETAINEES
- Egypt considers releasing terrorist leader (Washington Times)
WAR ON TERROR
- UZBEKISTAN: Nerve gas traces found at US base in Uzbekistan (Reuters)
- PAKISTAN: Militants on the run, Musharraf boasts (National Post)
- KUWAIT: US troops in Kuwait said key to terror war (Baltimore Sun)
- PHILIPPINES: Malaysian military on alert for fleeing Abu Sayyaf (Reuters)
- PHILIPPINES: Four Army battalions cordon off Zamboanga jungle (Manila Times)
OPINION
- Resistance (New Republic)
LOCKERBIE DISASTER
- Mandela takes up bomber's case (BBC)
TERRORIST THREAT
- Brooklyn Jews plan to launch patrols (Jerusalem Post)
- Ridge says al Qaeda still active in United States (Mercury News)
- Hiding (and seeking) messages on the Web (MSNBC)
- Subways on alert (KYW TV-3 Philadelphia)
- Cracks in the system (Time)
MARTIN AND GRACIA BURNHAM UPDATE
- Rescued American missionary heads home from Philippines (Voice of America)
- Rescued American remembers husband (KC Star)
AXIS OF EVIL
- IRAQ: Iraq lying about weapons, says Rumsfeld (Voice of America)
- IRAQ: Baghdad 'using Syria rail link to smuggle in military hardware' (London Times)
TUNISIAN BLAST UPDATE
- Bombing link brings call for crackdown (National Post)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Report sees cargo as security issue (Boston Globe)
INVESTIGATION
- Taliban official tells of tip to US (Boston Globe)
- France cites plot to bomb cathedral (Boston Globe)
THE QUESTION 'WHAT IF?'
- The news that didn't fit to print (Washington Post)
- US long underestimated al Qaeda (International Herald Tribune)
- In years of plots and clues, scope of al Qaeda eluded US (NY Times)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- September 11 terrorist suspect psychoanalyzed (India Express)
BIOTERROR
- Monkeypox could be used as bioweapon (UPI)
SURVIVORS' STORIES
- RECOMMENDED READ: What makes Christian Zimmerman an Idaho gem? (KBCI TV-2, Boise)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Czech official says he expelled Iraqi envoy after Atta meeting (World Tribune)
Pietro 5:59 AM
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