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Friday, June 21, 2002
TODAY'S HEADLINE
- Abu Sayyaf leader believed killed (Newsday)
INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK
- 11 killed in bus attack in Algeria (Yahoo!)
- Car bombs in Spain as EU meets (CBS News)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- The new suicide bombers: Larger and more varied pool (NY Times)
- INCIDENT: Palestinians kill five hostages in response to Israeli land seizures (KC Star)
- Tanks fire on Jenin market (BBC)
- Arab ministers launch media blitz to defend Palestinians (Jerusalem Post)
OPINION
- Israel needs a border, not a fence by David Harsanyi (FrontPage Magazine)
- Watch what you say by Nicholas D. Kristof (NY Times)
- After Saddam by Max Singer (National Review)
- The Post-evacuation White House by Howard Kurtz (Washington Post)
- Al Qaeda may face the wages of attrition (Washington Times)
REMEMBERING 9/11
- Sept. 11 park is proposed at Logan (Boston Globe)
WAR ON TERROR
- RECOMMENDED READ: Agents pursue terrorists online (USA Today)
- Wide dragnet splinters al Qaeda (Boston Globe)
- US practiced attacks with drone in early 2001 (USA Today)
- COLOMBIA: US captures Colombia FARC rebel wanted for drugs (News International Pakistan)
- PAKISTAN: Pakistan to ban teaching radical Islam (USA Today)
- PAKISTAN: Pak detains two more al-Qaeda suspects: official (Hindustan Times)
- FRANCE: Paris group cites crackdown on terror aid (UPI)
BIOTERRORISM
- Panel: use 'ring' to fight smallpox attack (USA Today)
AXIS OF EVIL
- IRAQ: Cheney sees 'gathering danger' in Iraq (Namibian)
- SYRIA: US slams Syria over support to 'terror' groups (Al Bawaba)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Ridge defends proposed Homeland Security office (Nando Times)
TERRORIST THREAT
- FLASH: FBI investigating possible threat in Las Vegas (Nando Times)
- 'Dirty' work worries neighbors (Washington Post)
- Saudi probes death of Briton, Westerners worry (Miami Herald)
UPDATE: Saudi car bombing linked to alcohol smuggling (Voice of America
- Americans in Saudi Arabia warned to check cars before starting (World Tribune)
- Fear hangs over fireworks (NY Daily News)
- Authorities seek object that fell from airplane into reservoir (ABC News)
- Assam oil firms on alert after al Qaeda threat Express India
- Hail 'Car Bomb' heroes (NY Daily News)
- FBI warns of terror attacks with fuel tanker trucks (Yahoo!)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- Indictment drops crop-duster mention (Miami Herald)
DETAINEES
- RECOMMENDED READ: The saga of a Pakistani man caught in US anti-terror dragnet (Voice of America)
DOMESTIC TERRORISM
- Militia movement is in retreat (USA Today)
AMERICAN TALIBAN UPDATE
- Family feud: American Taliban vs CIA agent (WorldNet Daily)
DANIEL PEARL KIDNAPPER TRIAL
- Briton describes Pearl case evidence as a 'tissue of lies' (Ananova)
- Pearl slay suspect: Held illegally (Guardian)
- Omar Sheikh denies murdering US scribe Daniel Pearl (Hindustan Times)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Sept 11 probers want investigation of leaks (Mercury News)
SHOE BOMBER RICHARD REID
- Suspect in shoe bomb case not coerced, judge rules (Nando Times)
AL QAEDA
- Al Qaeda escaping via Iraq, Iran: US intelligence (Hindu)
OSAMA BIN LADEN
- Web site says bin Laden to make televised address (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Pietro 5:48 AM
Thursday, June 20, 2002
INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK
- SAUDI ARABIA: British man killed in Saudi car blast (MSNBC)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- FBI will monitor July 4 festivities (Washington Post)
- House panel endorses arming pilots (MSNBC)
- Dick Cheney complains about leaks (Washington Post)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- NSA intercepts on eve of 9/11 sent a warning (Washington Post)
- Al Qaeda tied to intercepted phone calls (CNN)
TERRORIST THREAT
- White House emptied by small plane (NY Daily News)
- Sources: Plane intercept near White House not timely (CNN)
- No change in Washington's travel warning: US embassy (Hindustan Times)
- Blair says terror threat still high (Reuters)
- FBI: Terrorists may try to arrive by sea (CNN)
- Explosive potential (ABC News)
- Cop-car bomb alert (NY Post)
- State department warning on marriage to Saudi men (ABC News/US State Dept)
- Assault on Europe inevitable: experts (Hindu)
TERROR TRIALS
- Man accused of Tinken trespassing on trial (Canton Repository)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- New tactics in fight against suicide bombers (Financial Times)
- Report: Arafat cancels planned call for end to suicide attacks (Ha'aretz)
- Police on high alert in northern Israel (CNN)
- A brief history of Yasir Arafat (Atlantic)
OKLAHOMA CITY
- US watched for Muslim terrorists ahead of Oklahoma City bombing (Nando Times)
WAR ON TERROR
- PAKISTAN: Pakistan detains 7 bombing suspects (Washington Post)
- AFGHANISTAN: Turkey takes over Kabul force (CNN)
- UK: Government to ban disguised knives (Ananova)
- PHILIPPINES: Pentagon OKs patrols in Philippines (Washington Post)
- PHILIPPINES: US advisors in -- and out (Washington Post)
- EGYPT: Egypt arrests 118 suspected Islamic militants (Hindustan Times)
- White House lauds al Qaeda arrests overseas (CNN)
DISSENTING VIEWS
- Stone to Israel: leave the West Bank (Yahoo!)
- Israeli TV companies weigh taking CNN off the air (Yahoo!)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- Prosecutors obtain new indictment against Moussaoui (Washington Post)
- Moussaoui's demand for early release rejected (Pakistan News Int'l)
OPINION
- Free maps for terrorists (Washington Times)
- America: a target-rich environment by Bob Newman (Denver Post)
- Jailhouse Islam by Cal Thomas (Nando Times)
- Throw away the key by Rich Lowry (National Review)
AXIS OF EVIL
- IRAQ: Iraqi ambassador predicts war with US (NewsMax)
THE 'DIRTY' BOMB
- RECOMMENDED READ: Dirty bombs: response to a threat (FAS)
AL QAEDA
- Ship attack suspect big gun in al Qaeda (New Zealand Herald)
BIOTERROR
- Hospitals balk at being centers for smallpox (San Francisco Chronicle)
TERROR SUSPECTS
- Terror suspects debated issue of killing Muslims (Washington Post)
Pietro 6:25 AM
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
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INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK
- ISRAEL: 4 dead as suicide bombing hits Jerusalem (Washington Post)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Congress gets bill setting up Security Dept. (NY Times)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Officials: Sept. 11 attacks were planned since 1998 (USA Today)
- In secret session, Congress hears Sept. 11 details (Boston Globe)
TERRORIST THREAT
- No terrorists here, say merchants on Catalina (LA Times)
- No sign of al Qaeda raiders along LA coast (UPI)
- Miramar man faces bomb threat charges (S Florida Sun-Sentinel)
- FBI braces for potential July 4 attacks (Baltimore Sun)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- The force of a death wish hits city hard (LA Times)
- Terror Ghoul didn't miss mark on third strike (NY Post)
TERRORISM
- Afghan govt blames Taliban for rocket attack (Miami Herald)
AL QAEDA AMERICANS
- Arab-American handed over to US (Pakistan News Service)
WAR ON TERROR
- MOROCCO: Morocco arrests al Qaeda operative (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- PHILIPPINES: Marines recover abducted Indonesian (Miami Herald)
OSAMA BIN LADEN
- Osama likely to resurface in October: Numerologist (Pakistan News Service)
SHOE BOMBER RICHARD REID
- Witnesses divided over sedated 'shoe bomber' (NY Post)
DISSENTING VIEWS
- Turner withdraws criticism of Israel as "terrorist" (Yahoo!)
OUR SO-CALLED 'FRIENDS'
- Saudis bar access to terror suspects (CBS News)
- Moussaoui wants trial in Denver (Rocky Mountain News)
- Moussaoui says judge is mentally ill (Guardian)
LOCKERBIE TRAGEDY
- Libya won't pay Lockerbie compensation (Reuters)
AMERICAN TALIBAN UPDATE
- Walker Lindh judge weighs classified documents (CNN)
- Gov't, Lindh lawyers reach deal (Guardian)
Pietro 6:12 AM
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK
- ISRAEL: Jerusalem Explosion leaves 20 dead (Washington Post)
- Hamas claims Jerusalem suicide bombing (Yahoo!)
- AFGHANISTAN: Two rockets explode near US embassy in Kabul (Fox News)
DISSENTING VIEWS
- CNN chief accuses Israel of terror (Guardian)
TERRORIST THREAT
- FBI searches LA coast for al Qaeda crew, cache (Washington Times)
- Davis aide warns summer attack 'almost inevitable' (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Russia's scattered tactical arms a temptation for terrorists (Boston Globe)
- It's a code yellow summer (CNN)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- 'Pride' of suicide attacker's mother (BBC)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- Judge names new lawyer for Moussaoui (Washington Post)
- Moussaoui wants indictment dismissed (Washington Post)
AMERICAN TALIBAN UPDATE
- Judge refuses to dismiss Lindh case (Yahoo!)
OPINION
- Forget the small fry; the big guys are still out there by Mark Steyn (Telegraph)
- Our ally, our problem by Martin J. Strmecki (National Review)
- Make them talk by EV Kontoravich (Wall Street Journal)
- RECOMMENDED READ: They heard it all here, and that's the trouble by Dennis Pluchinsky (Washington Post)
TERRORISM
- PHILIPPINES: Suspected rebels kidnap four Indonesians in Philippines (Reuters)
- SAUDI ARABIA: Aussie survives sniper attack (Australian News Interactive)
INVESTIGATION
- Italy suspects 547 of links to terror cells (Miami Herald)
WAR ON TERROR
- Infighting slows hunt for hidden al Qaeda assets (Washington Post)
- SYRIA: Syrian leader says he's helping US (Mercury News)
- PAKISTAN: Arrested Americans said to be al Qaeda suspects (Reuters)
- SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia arrests terror suspects (San Diego Union Tribune)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Key figure in Sept. 11 plot held in secret detention in Syria (Washington Post)
AL QAEDA
- Al Qaeda in Lebanon, Israeli military source says (Miami Herald)
- Report: al Qaeda assets in untraceable commodities (ABC News)
Pietro 6:05 AM
Monday, June 17, 2002
INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK
- Explosions damage tankers bound for US base in Kandahar (Fox News)
- J'lem police on high alert; bomber kills self near Border Police (Ha'aretz)
AMERICAN TALIBAN UPDATE
- The Lindh e-mails (Newsweek)
- John Walker Lindh can't get fair trial, lawyers say (Nando Times)
- Lawyers argue Lindh had right to associate with Taliban (San Francisco Chronicle)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Israel formally begins building a West Bank fence (Reuters)
- INCIDENT: Palestinian suicide bomber kills self, no other casualties (Voice of America)
- Hamas threatens chemical weapons against Israel (Jerusalem Post)
- Young Palestinians wild for 'martyr' necklaces (Toronto Star)
AXIS OF EVIL
- IRAQ: President broadens anti-Hussein order (Washington Post)
- IRAQ: Iraq accused of smuggling nuclear parts on aid flights (London Times)
TERRORIST THREAT
- RECOMMENDED READ: The next wave (Time)
- Saudis deny presence of "sleeping" al Qaeda cells in Kingdom (Al Bawaba)
- Qaeda's new links increase threats from global sites (NY Times)
- The kitchen table atom bomb (BBC)
THE 'DIRTY' BOMB
- Radiological attack: 'Manhattan would be uninhabitable for years' (Independent)
DIRTY BOMB SUSPECT
- RECOMMENDED READ: The case of the Dirty Bomber (Time)
OPINION
- Wanted: A better list by Brendan Miniter (Wall Street Journal)
- Loose lips by William Saletan (Slate)
- Hatred of Western civilization: Why terrorists attacked America (Capitalism)
WAR ON TERROR
- PAKISTAN: Pak committed to eradicate terrorism (Pak Frontier Post)
- MOROCCO: CIA helps defuse al Qaeda bomb plot in Morocco (CNN)
- PAKISTAN: Pak foreign ministry says two Americans detained along border (Hindustan Times)
- PHILIPPINES: US troops fired on in Philippines (Washington Post)
- Rumsfeld discusses al Qaeda search (Miami Herald)
INVESTIGATION
- FBI terror referrals rise dramatically (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Half of terror cases not prosecuted (Boston Globe)
- Man with possible links to Al Qaeda arrested in Fla. (Fox News)
- Terror plotted in Switzerland (News24 S Africa)
KARACHI BOMBING
- US consulate reopens in Karachi (CNN)
- Consulate bombing: women used as bait (UPI)
TALIBAN
- Mullah Omar plays it safe with demo tape (Independent South Africa)
AL QAEDA
- Suspect faces trial in attack on US plane (Boston Globe)
- Sudan hands suspect in US plane attack to Saudi (Miami Herald)
- Al Qaeda changing its attack strategy (Boston Globe)
- Al Qaeda aims to destabilize secular nations (Washington Post)
ANTHRAX
- War on terror: 'FBI guilty of cover-up' over anthrax suspect (Scotsman)
CULTURE OF TERRORISM
- More US Hispanics drawn to Islam (Nando Times)
Pietro 6:14 AM
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