|
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:49 by TRC-News
05/29/0000
Syria - Internal Security Forces Day
05/30/1961
Dominican Republic - Assassination of Trujillo ending a thirty-year personal dictatorship.
05/30/1972
Israel - Japanese Red Army Massacre at Lod Airport killed twenty-six.
05/30/1967
Nigeria - Biafra Declares Independence
Full Story and More Dates
Wiretaps May Have Foretold Terror Attacks
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:45 by TRC-News
Suspected Al Qaeda operatives wiretapped by Italian police in the 13 months preceding Sept. 11 made apparent references to plans for major attacks involving airports, airplanes and the United States, according to transcripts obtained by The Times on Tuesday. Full Story
Terrorism Focus Set For FBI
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:42 by TRC-News
The FBI will shift 480 agents from drug and other criminal investigations to counterterrorism posts and plans to more than double the bureau's anti-terror forces under a major reorganization that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is scheduled to announce today. Full Story
U.N. Prosecutors Giving Terrorism Evidence to U.S.
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:40 by TRC-News
U.N. war crimes prosecutors have been providing the United States with evidence of international terrorist activities they come across during their investigations, according to senior U.S. and U.N. officials. Full Story
Last Standing Steel Beam Removed From Ground Zero
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:38 by TRC-News
With bagpipes skirling, the last steel girder still standing at "ground zero" was cut down on Tuesday night, bringing a symbolic end to more than eight months of grueling recovery work at New York's World Trade Center site. Full Story
Moussaoui's Mom Hires Lawyer for Son
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:37 by TRC-News
A civil rights lawyer said Tuesday that the mother of terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui has hired him to try to persuade her son to abandon his plans to represent himself at trial. Full Story
U.S. Choppers Shot at in Philippines, No Injuries
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:36 by TRC-News
Muslim gunmen opened fire on two U.S. Pave Hawk helicopters in the southern Philippines but were driven off when the crew returned fire, Philippine military officials said on Wednesday. Full Story
US Exercise Mistaken for Enemy Fire in Philippines
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:35 by TRC-News
A firing exercise by two U.S. military helicopters in the southern Philippines was mistaken by Philippine officials for an attack by Muslim gunmen, officials from both sides said on Wednesday. Full Story
Jailers seize PFLP chief's mobile phone
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:32 by TRC-News
U.S. and British prison guards have confiscated the mobile phone of Ahmed Saadat, leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, to stop him from using it to make declarations to the media, a PFLP source said Wednesday. Full Story
Report: Al Qaida infests Pakistan cities
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:31 by TRC-News
Pakistani intelligence officials fear al Qaida fighters have infiltrated into many of the nation's large cities and have joined forces with anti-American guerrillas at a time when growing tensions with India have taken up more of the government's attention and resources. Full Story
US Offers $5M Reward for Philippine Kidnappers
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:27 by TRC-News
The U.S. government offered a reward of up to $5 million Wednesday for the capture of leaders of a Philippine Muslim extremist group that kidnapped two Americans and killed another. Full Story
India Minister Urges Terrorism Halt
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:26 by TRC-News
India's foreign minister said Wednesday that Pakistan must take urgent steps to halt cross-border terrorism and rein in Islamic insurgents in Kashmir. Full Story
Venezuela Coup Figure Leaves Country
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:25 by TRC-News
Venezuelan businessman Pedro Carmona, president during a coup that briefly ousted President Hugo Chavez, arrived in Colombia Wednesday after being granted asylum. Full Story
Israel Arrests Senior Militant After Suicide Bombing
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:19 by TRC-News
Israeli forces pushed into the West Bank city of Jenin today and arrested a senior Palestinian militant, the army and Palestinian officials said. The sweep, backed by helicopter gunships, came a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up at an outdoor cafe in a shopping center here, killing a baby girl and her grandmother and wounding more than 40 other people. Full Story
SPAIN: TERROR CASE THROWN OUT
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:18 by TRC-News
The Supreme Court threw out a terrorism case against a Basque political leader who ended a speech in France with the words "Long live Basque homeland and freedom." Full Story
Taliban, al-Qaeda linked to Kashmir
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:16 by TRC-News
Al-Qaeda and Taliban members are helping organize a terror campaign in Kashmir to foment conflict between India and Pakistan, U.S. intelligence officials and foreign diplomats say. Full Story
Instant messaging at work can open door to hackers
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:14 by TRC-News
That instant message you send from work could put your company's computer network at risk. That's because popular free IM systems, such as AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger, lack basic security features needed to protect corporate networks. That wasn't a problem when the systems, geared to consumers, were used for chitchat. But this year, 54 million people will use consumer IM systems on the job, research firm IDC says. Full Story
Libya offers $2.7B to families of Flight 103 victims
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:13 by TRC-News
Libya has offered $2.7 billion to relatives of the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, a record $10 million per family that Libya hopes will end its pariah status in the United States, a lawyer for the families says. Full Story
Unita Says Camps Are Full of Phony Fighters
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:08 by TRC-News
Angola's Defence Minister Kundi Paihama said on Tuesday the demobilisation camps the government set up for Unita soldiers have taken in many people who have falsely claimed to belong to the rebel group. Full Story
Five Wounded by Colombian Market Car Bomb
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:07 by TRC-News
Suspected Colombian leftist rebels detonated a bomb hidden in a car carrying oranges outside a market in the capital Bogota on Tuesday, slightly injuring five people, police said. Full Story
Germany Predicts al-Qaeda Strikes
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:06 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has strengthened its operations in Europe in recent months and is recruiting militants capable of carrying out new terror attacks, according to German officials. Full Story
Arab Rakes Israeli Yeshiva With Gunfire; 3 Students Die
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:05 by TRC-News
A Palestinian gunman assaulted an Israeli settlement near Nablus late tonight, killing three young yeshiva students before being shot and killed. Full Story
Missing Cyanide Cargo Stirs Fears
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:04 by TRC-News
Nearly eight tons of sodium cyanide hijacked from a truck in central Mexico this month is still missing despite an extensive law enforcement search and concerns that it poses a potential security threat in Mexico and the United States. Full Story
Maoists Suffer Heavy Loss in Rukum
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:03 by TRC-News
Maoists suffered one of their worst reverses as a fierce retaliation by the security forces early Tuesday morning left at least 152 dead and many wounded in Khara area of Rukum district. The security forces also seized arms and ammunition in substantial quantity from the rebels. Full Story
Pakistan-based Militant Groups Say Musharraf Has Abandoned Them Like Taliban
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:02 by TRC-News
Islamic militant groups fighting in Kashmir said Wednesday they feel betrayed by Pakistan's president as he tries to ease tensions with their archenemy, predominantly Hindu India. Full Story
Kidnapping Is a Growth Industry in Mogadishu
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:01 by TRC-News
Whenever Mohamud Ali Abdi's captors went out, they tied one of his toes to the trigger of an AK-47 assault rifle pointed at his stomach. On their return, they would make more phone calls to his relatives demanding $7 000 in ransom. This went on for 80 days until the merchant's relatives abducted three of the kidnappers' own clansmen and threatened to kill one a day until Abdi was freed. They let him go. Full Story
Somali Faceoff after 30 Die
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:00 by TRC-News
The Somali capital was quiet on Wednesday a day after intense fighting between forces loyal to a Somali warlord battled with militiamen belonging to the transitional government. More than 30 people - civilian and militia - were killed and another 80 injured, independent sources told CNN. Full Story
Fatah Group Urges End to Suicide Attacks in Israel
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:57 by TRC-News
A major forum in Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement echoed Wednesday his calls for an end to suicide attacks inside Israel, saying the bombings harmed the Palestinian struggle for a state. Full Story
Klez Variant Crowned Virus King
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:53 by TRC-News
Klez.H clocking up one infection every 300 emails A variant of the Klez virus has taken the crown as the biggest virus of all time, usurping last year's SirCam outbreak and even the infamous Melissa and I Love You viruses. Statistics from antivirus firm MessageLabs found that the Klez.H variant overtook SirCam on Sunday, clocking up 775,000 copies. Full Story
Government, Internet Biz Fight Terror
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:50 by TRC-News
In the seven months since the passage of a sweeping law to combat terrorism, Internet and telecommunications companies have seen a surge in law enforcement requests to snoop on subscribers. Full Story
In New Era, Corporate Security Looks Beyond Guns and Badges
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:47 by TRC-News
Businesses have been forced to review their notions of corporate security. And with those assessments has come realization that the job calls for a new kind of corporate security executive — one with breadth of experience, analytic skills, business acumen and leadership qualities. The job, in other words, calls for a chief security officer, or C.S.O., as the emerging term of art would have it. Full Story
Tech firms vie for billions in homeland security deals
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
Technology companies are enlisting in the war on terrorism, seeking to profit by making Americans more secure. But some of the new technologies, including lie detectors that claim to read brain waves and electronic scanners that see through clothing, raise concerns about possible invasions of privacy. Full Story
Cadets keep NSA crackers at bay
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:41 by TRC-News
Cadets and midshipmen from the nation’s service academies faced off last month in real-world cybercombat. They used all their skills to keep production networks up and running while under attack by National Security Agency experts. In the end, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point kept the coveted NSA Information Assurance Director’s Trophy it won last year. Full Story
Hackers break into California state computers
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
Computer hackers have broken into a computer system that contains personal financial information of 260,000 state workers, including top officials, authorities said Friday. Full Story
Industry opposes security standards
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:37 by TRC-News
The private sector has signaled its opposition to language requiring the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop benchmark security standards for federal agencies. The wording was added May 17 to a bill passed by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Full Story
Intrusion-detection net revived
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:36 by TRC-News
The General Services Administration and Carnegie Mellon University this fall will start testing a new technology to analyze and report on patterns in the cyber intrusion information gathered across government, an idea that was first floated and eventually sunk two years ago. Full Story
NZ anti-DoS tool goes convincingly to war
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
It was a successful military exercise: Esphion's anti-denial of service attack tool performed well for the armed forces of five nations. Full Story
TRC Terrorist Group Profile - MRTA: Tupac Amaru
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
This group operates in Peru but has suffered from President Fujimori's government offensive against MRTA, as well as the ubiquitous Sendero Luminoso (SL). Nonetheless, the pro-Cuban MRTA has been responsible for more anti-American attacks than any other group operating in Latin America. These incidents have recently focused on kidnapping-for-ransom, a growing industry amongst such groups worldwide. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Bookstores Recommends - Destroying the World to Save It
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
Destroying the World to Save It is an examination of cults, specifically as they relate to terrorism and apocalyptic violence. A Booklist review states that "psychiatrist and National Book Award^-winner Lifton comes this astonishingly intimate portrait of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that became world-famous when it released a nerve gas called sarin into the Tokyo subway. Lifton, who has written extensively both on Japan and on terrorism and genocide, interviewed former members of the cult, and his profile of Aum's leader, the charismatic con man Shoko Asahara, is extremely detailed and rather creepy. But the book is much more than a story of a single cult. It's an exploration of the idea of cults: how they grow, who joins them, who leads them." More Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 17:03 by TRC-News
05/28/1989
Japan - Anti-Narita Struggle Day
05/29/0000
Syria - Internal Security Forces Day
Full Story
FBI Director to Focus on Analysis, Intelligence
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 17:02 by TRC-News
FBI (news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller, under fire for the bureau's failure to prevent the deadly Sept. 11 attacks, will announce a series of changes at the FBI on Wednesday to boost analytical and intelligence capabilities. Full Story
Italy seals airspace as Russia joins Nato in anti-terror front
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 17:00 by TRC-News
Italy put 15,000 police and soldiers on alert yesterday, sealed off miles of coastline and closed Rome's airport to most traffic to prepare for a summit at which Nato and Russia will pledge a new alliance based on fighting terrorism. Full Story
Report: Taliban, Al Qaeda Plotting in Pakistan
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 17:00 by TRC-News
Senior Al Qaeda leaders and the Taliban have been driven out of eastern Afghanistan and are now in Pakistan plotting attacks to disrupt the selection of a new national government in Kabul next month, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Full Story
Terror Warnings Puzzling to Many
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:58 by TRC-News
The Taliban is history, al-Qaida is scattered and hundreds of suspected terrorists are in custody. So why all the hand-wringing in Washington? Full Story
Mag: Hijackers Took Test Flights
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:57 by TRC-News
The Sept. 11 hijackers made about a dozen dry runs last summer, checking out security and finding loopholes, it was reported yesterday. Full Story
U.S. power doesn't rally terror allies
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:56 by TRC-News
The Bush administration boasts that 20 nations have supplied troops for the U.S.-led military effort in and around Afghanistan, but all the talk of a robust coalition can't hide the fact that increasingly America is a military giant in a world of relative pygmies. Full Story
big security clampdown in the Yemen
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:52 by TRC-News
Arrests of 170 people suspected of links to al Qaida and new teams of bodyguards assigned to government officials around the country, is thought to presage the long-awaited attack on al Qaida bases in the deep interior near the Saudi border. Full Story
Congo Seeks International Probe into Kisangani Killings
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:45 by TRC-News
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is calling for an international investigation into recent slayings in Kisangani. The DRC also says it will seek legal action because of what it calls Rwanda's role in the killing of more than 150 civilians. Full Story
India Clashes Kill 19
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:44 by TRC-News
Ten soldiers and nine separatist rebels have been killed in two separate incidents of violence in India's troubled north-eastern region. In the state of Manipur bordering Burma, 10 troops of a paramilitary force were killed in an attack by separatist rebels. Full Story
Nine More Killed in Restive Aceh - Indonesia
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:43 by TRC-News
Despite the recent agreement between the government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), nine more people, including three rebels, were killed in separate gunfights in the conflict-ridden province over the weekend. Full Story
Forces On High Alert For Suicide Bombers In Jerusalem
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:41 by TRC-News
Security forces were put on heightened alert Tuesday following warnings that a terrorist or terrorists were planning to carry out an attack in north Jerusalem. Large police forces have been deployed in the capital and have set up roadblocks around the city. Police fear that the potential attackers would make there way to Jerusalem from Ramallah or villages around the capital. Full Story
Malaysia Police See Foreign Hand in Cargo Hijackings
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:40 by TRC-News
Malaysian police are tracking down foreign syndicates which they say are major buyers of stolen and hijacked goods around the country. Federal Serious Crimes Division Chief Assistant Commissioner Takbir Ahmad Nazir said police had gleaned the information from 197 people arrested in connection with cargo hijackings. Full Story
Soldiers Say Nigeria Ordered Massacre
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:39 by TRC-News
Soldiers accused of massacring more than 200 villagers in central Nigeria last year were acting on orders from President Olusegun Obasanjo's government, a former Nigerian army chief told an inquiry on Monday. Full Story
Abu Sayyaf Hostages Ailing, May Be Separated: Officials
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:38 by TRC-News
A US Christian missionary couple held hostage by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in the southern Philippines are both ill and may have been separated by their captors who are on the run from local troops backed by American forces, officials said Tuesday. Full Story
US Forces to Leave Philippines by July 31 as Planned
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:37 by TRC-News
Most US military forces in the southern Philippines will leave this summer even though the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group continues to operate in the region and hold an American couple captive. Full Story
Norway Pushes for Sri Lanka Peace
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:36 by TRC-News
Norwegian peace envoy Vidar Helgesen has held talks with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga amid signs that talks between the Sri Lankan Government and Tamil Tiger rebels could be further delayed. Full Story
Zambia Cancels Congo Peace Summit
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:33 by TRC-News
Zambia said on Tuesday a regional peace summit planned for Thursday to try to end more than three years of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo had been cancelled for lack of a quorum. Full Story
Iran Confirms Ballistic Missile Test
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:28 by TRC-News
Iran confirmed recent U.S. reports Sunday that it had conducted a successful test flight of a ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel. Full Story
European banks support Iran
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:27 by TRC-News
Two European banks have signed up to help Iran tap the international capital markets. The decision to help Iran flies in the face of the US view that the Middle Eastern state is the most active state sponsor of terrorism and a member of the "axis of evil". Full Story
Turkey Court Annuls Amnesty Program
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:25 by TRC-News
Turkey's top court on Tuesday annulled a government amnesty program for prisoners that could have benefited the man who shot Pope John Paul II. Full Story
Sinn Fein leaders bank on US funds
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:24 by TRC-News
In pockets of poverty where Ireland's boom barely echoes, Sinn Fein political posters are still plastered everywhere, promising economic equality, a united Ireland, better health care, and a hard line on drug dealers. Full Story
Report: Transcripts Show Italian Sept. 11 Link
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:17 by TRC-News
Italian police have intercepted phone conversations between Islamic militants that indicate Italy may have been used as a base for preparing the Sept. 11 attacks, Corriere della Sera newspaper reported Tuesday. Full Story
Germany Warns of Fresh Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:16 by TRC-News
German security officials said Tuesday that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network is still active in the country, regrouping and recruiting new militants capable of carrying out terrorist attacks. Full Story
Mexicans Search For Lost Cyanide
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:12 by TRC-News
Nearly eight tons of sodium cyanide hijacked from a truck in central Mexico this month is still missing despite an extensive law enforcement search, heightening concerns that it poses a potential security threat in Mexico and the United States. Full Story
Uribe backs Colombia peace talks -- if rebels halt violence
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:10 by TRC-News
Elected with a mandate to crush marauding leftist rebels, President-elect Alvaro Uribe of Colombia called for the United Nations to launch new peace talks under one strict condition: that guerrillas lay down their arms. Full Story
25 Die in Somalian Fighting
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:07 by TRC-News
Heavy fighting broke out early Tuesday between forces of Somalia's transitional government and gunmen loyal to an Ethiopian-backed warlord, killing at least 25 people. Full Story
Rebel 'rout' in Nepal
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 16:05 by TRC-News
At least 150 insurgents have been killed in the latest clash between Maoist rebels and the security forces in western Nepal, the army says. Full Story
Digital Warriors
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:56 by TRC-News
Sifting through piles of intelligence data to spot a terrorist attack may require the use of artificially intelligent computer systems. But don't expect these smart systems to provide blanket protection in an uncertain world. Full Story
Hackers May Have Hit 265,000 State Workers
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:56 by TRC-News
Computer hackers gained access to the California state government's computer systems in April and sensitive financial and personal information about as many as 265,000 state workers, officials said Friday. Full Story
Klez-H Is The Worst Virus Ever - Official
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:55 by TRC-News
Klez-H is the worst virus ever, according to figures from managed services firm MessageLabs, which has blocked 775,000 copies of the pathogen since it first appeared on April 15. Klez-H overtakes the infamous SirCam worm. Full Story
Requests For Subscriber Information Concern Privacy Advocates
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:54 by TRC-News
In the seven months since a sweeping law to combat terrorism was passed, Internet and telecommunications companies have seen a surge in law enforcement requests to snoop on subscribers. Full Story
Security Researchers Warn of Worm Blitzkriegs
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:53 by TRC-News
Security researchers are warning of the availability of more powerful virus writing techniques, which call for a more co-ordinated approach to combat next generation worms. Full Story
Security Urged to Stop Hackers
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:52 by TRC-News
MOST Australian companies spend more on the office coffee than they do to make their computer networks secure from hackers. But the money saved is a false economy, with many set to lose a bundle through fraud, a US-based internet security firm claims. The Nasdaq-listed Watchguard claims one in two small to medium businesses will suffer hacker-induced losses in the next two years. Full Story
Yahoo Bug on the Rampage
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:51 by TRC-News
The latest version of the popular Yahoo Instant Messenger (YIM) software has been hit by multiple vulnerabilities which may allow an attacker to hijack another user's machine. Because of the popularity of the software, the vulnerabilities may put as many as 60 million users at risk. Full Story
TRC Counterterrorist Organization Profile - Oman's Cobras
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:48 by TRC-News
Oman has not suffered from a persistent terrorist threat since the mid-1970's. Nonetheless, as with many Middle Eastern states, the great potential for activity from non-domestic threats exists and must be dealt with. Oman's answer was the raising of an elite unit known formally as the Sultan's Special Forces (SSF). The SSF was created after the end of the rebellion in Oman which lasted from 1962 to 1975. The Sultan of Oman had not presaged such an event occurring in his country and was thus caught unprepared when violence broke out. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Infowar Bookstore Recommends - Information Security Management Handbook
Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 15:46 by TRC-News
Information Security Management Handbook by Micki Krause and Harold F. Tipton (Editors). Since 1993, the Information Security Management Handbook has served not only as an everyday reference for information security practitioners but also as an important document for use by practitioners to conduct the intense review necessary to prepare for the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) examination. More Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:42 by TRC-News
05/27/1964
Colombia - Assault on Peasant "Republic"
On this date, government troops attacked the "independent republic" that Communist peasant groups had set up at Marquetalia, Caldas Department.
05/27/1991
Turkey - Constitution Day
05/28/1989
Japan - Anti-Narita Struggle Day
Full Story and More Dates
FBI Warns About Small Planes
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:39 by TRC-News
The FBI has issued a fresh warning that terrorists may be interested in using small planes to carry out suicide attacks. Full Story
U.S. Says Al Qaeda Seeking Haven
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:38 by TRC-News
The al Qaeda terrorist network is trying to establish a safe haven in Pakistan, and the United States will deal with it when the time is right, the U.S. Army's second-in-command said today. Full Story
Most WTC Victims on Upper Floors
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:37 by TRC-News
An analysis of e-mail, phone calls and voice mail messages from the World Trade Center after the twin towers were attacked on Sept. 11 shows that most of those who died were on the upper floors of the towers, The New York Times reported Sunday. Full Story
Detainees Say They Were Charity Workers
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:36 by TRC-News
Attorneys for 11 Kuwaiti men held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have released letters and documents to support their claim that at least some of them were innocent aid workers swept up in mass arrests that followed the U.S. attack in Afghanistan. Full Story
Threat Hits Home in Va. High-Rises
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:33 by TRC-News
Terror struck Justine McCoy where she works when American Airlines Flight 77 exploded into the side of the Pentagon on Sept. 11. This week, it found her again, in the place where she is supposed to feel safest -- her home. Full Story
Ashes drop sparks US terror alert
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:33 by TRC-News
An attempt to honour a dead baseball fan's last wish went horribly wrong on Friday, forcing the evacuation of Safeco Field, the home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, amid fears of a bio-terror attack. Full Story
9/11 Hearings Set for June
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:31 by TRC-News
Responding to calls for an aggressive congressional inquiry into the government's actions before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the probe's two leaders announced yesterday that they will begin hearings early next month. Full Story
FBI Reorganizing Post-Sept 11, Lawmakers Say
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:29 by TRC-News
The FBI is moving forward with a major reorganization amid criticism the agency missed clues that would have helped uncover the Sept. 11 plot, congressional Republicans said Sunday. Full Story
Clamp on Drills Seen Raising Risk at U.S. Reactors
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:28 by TRC-News
When nuclear regulators put U.S. atomic reactors on high alert after the Sept. 11 attacks, they also froze training drills for the plant's security forces, a move critics warn weakens their defense. Full Story
Iraq Says It Forces Unmanned Plane to Land
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:27 by TRC-News
Iraq said Monday its air defenses had forced down an unmanned reconnaissance plane on a mission over northern Iraq to land. Full Story
Iran Reformers Vow to Meet Again on U.S. Ties
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:26 by TRC-News
Leading reformers in Iran's parliament vowed Monday to continue to explore ways of improving ties with the United States despite a judiciary ban. Full Story
Anti-Abortion Murder Suspect to Head for U.S. Trial
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:25 by TRC-News
An anti-abortion militant suspected of murdering a doctor has given up fighting his extradition order and will return to the United States to try and clear his name by standing trial, his lawyer said Monday. Full Story
Iraqi Kurds Worry About U.S. Action
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:23 by TRC-News
Kurds in northern Iraq have created a quasi-democratic, somewhat prosperous life under the protection of U.S. jets patrolling a no-fly zone and keeping Saddam Hussein's tanks away. Full Story
3 Die in Mall Explosion in Israel
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:21 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded Monday at a mall in the center of Petach Tikvah, east of Tel Aviv, killing three people including a suicide bomber, a police commander said. Full Story
In New Era, Corporate Security Looks Beyond Guns and Badges
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:16 by TRC-News
Ominously, vaguely, federal officials are again warning Americans to be on alert for some sort of terrorist attack. Will corporate America be ready? Full Story
Pakistani Militants' Ties to Military Make Radicals Hard to Dislodge
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:15 by TRC-News
For more than 20 years, the Pakistani government has used Islamic radicals as an instrument of both domestic and foreign policy. Now, many Pakistani security experts doubt that the government has the will or the means to neutralize what has become a huge network of violence. Full Story
Hard-Liner Elected in Colombia With a Mandate to Crush Rebels
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:13 by TRC-News
Bitter after three years of fruitless peace talks, voters gave a resounding victory today to a hard-right candidate for president who promises a sharp buildup in the armed forces to battle two rebel groups that have been waging war for 38 years. Full Story
Flight Schools See Downside to Crackdown
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:12 by TRC-News
The security crackdown meant to keep terrorist hijackers out of American flight schools has forced thousands of foreign students to train overseas, weakening the country's global dominance in aviation training, officials in the industry say. Full Story
Fact-Finding and Its Limits
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:10 by TRC-News
It's not surprising that many officials in Washington are talking about convening an independent panel to investigate the federal government's actions before the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story
From Public, a Strong Voice for Rebuilding Twin Towers
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:08 by TRC-News
Given a chance to tell the people who will oversee the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan what they want to see there, hundreds of New Yorkers and others responded on Thursday with a surprising answer: rebuild the twin towers. Full Story
'Jihad': Predicting an Islamic Reformation
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:04 by TRC-News
Gilles Kepel, a French academic, argues that the militant Islamic theocracy movement has run its course. Full Story
Germany Is Negotiating Extradition of an Islamic Militant to Turkey
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:03 by TRC-News
German officials have been negotiating with the Turkish government to extradite a Turk who is serving a four-year sentence in Germany for operating a terrorist organization and calling for the murder of a rival, the German interior minister said today. Full Story
Nuclear Nightmares
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:02 by TRC-News
Experts on terrorism and proliferation agree on one thing: Sooner or later, an attack will happen here. When and how is what robs them of sleep. Full Story
President's Stance on 9/11 Inquiry Bucks Tradition
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 13:00 by TRC-News
The political dispute over whether to have an independent commission investigate intelligence and law enforcement lapses before Sept. 11 represents a reversal of normal form. Full Story
Seeing Strength, Too, in an Open Society
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:59 by TRC-News
Conventional wisdom has it that America's openness is its greatest weakness in preventing and tracking terrorist attacks. But there is an alternative view — one that sees the same openness as a source of some protection alongside the vulnerability. Full Story
Stock Adviser Knew About 9/11 Attacks, U.S. Suggests
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:49 by TRC-News
A San Diego stock adviser who is accused of bribing an F.B.I. agent to give him confidential government information may have had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal prosecutor said yesterday. But a judge disregarded that contention and the adviser's lawyer called the allegation ludicrous. Full Story
F.B.I. Agent Says Superior Altered Report, Foiling Inquiry
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:48 by TRC-News
A senior F.B.I. agent in Minneapolis has accused a supervisor at the agency's Washington headquarters of altering a report in a way that made it impossible for investigators to obtain crucial evidence in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, before the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, government officials said today. Full Story
State Security Leaders Frustrated About Lack of Direction
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:47 by TRC-News
Despite this week's ominous warnings from the Bush administration about the threat of additional terrorist attacks, the nation's new coterie of state homeland security czars said they took no action because the alerts were too vague and their overburdened agencies already stand at heightened readiness. Full Story
Cameras to Seek Faces of Terror in Visitors to the Statue of Liberty
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:46 by TRC-News
In response to a warning of a potential terrorist attack on the Statue of Liberty, the National Park Service activated a face recognition surveillance system yesterday that takes pictures of visitors and compares them with a database of terror suspects. Full Story
Travel Warning: INDIA
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:43 by TRC-News
The Department of State warns Americans to defer travel to India, particularly all border areas between India and Pakistan including the Indian states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Punjab, and to the state of Jammu & Kashmir. The Indian Government has closed virtually all land and air links with Pakistan, ending travel between the two countries. Military movements continue along both the Line of Control in Kashmir and the border between India and Pakistan. Artillery firing along the Line of Control has caused death and injury in that area. Terrorist groups, some of which are linked to al-Qaida and have previously been implicated in attacks on Americans, are active there as well, and have attacked and killed civilians. The Department of State urges American citizens who remain in India to consider departing the country. Full Story
Travel Warning: PAKISTAN
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:42 by TRC-News
Tensions between India and Pakistan have risen to serious levels, and the risk of intensified military hostilities cannot be ruled out. Virtually all land and air links with India are closed. Military movements continue along both the Line of Control in Kashmir and the border between India and Pakistan. Artillery firing along the Line of Control has caused death and injury in that area. The possibility of threats to Americans and other civilian targets continues. Full Story
Public Announcement: JAPAN/KOREA WORLD CUP
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:32 by TRC-News
This Public Announcement is being issued to inform the American public that the U.S. Department of State and the American Embassies and Consulates in Japan and Korea stand ready to provide consular assistance and protection to U.S. citizens traveling to Japan and Korea for the 2002 World Cup. Full Story
Eleven Soldiers Die In Colombia Landmine Blasts
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:30 by TRC-News
Eleven soldiers were killed in the explosion of land mines placed by leftist rebels in northern Colombia, a police commander announced on Friday. Full Story
Nepal Crisis Talks Under Way
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:30 by TRC-News
High-level consultations are under way in Nepal to defuse a political crisis over Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's attempts to extend the state of emergency to fight Maoists rebels. A leading figure in the ruling Nepali Congress party, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, has returned to Kathmandu from London to oversee reconciliation efforts between Mr Deuba and a former prime minister, Girija Prasad Koirala. Full Story
Pakistan Hails 'Auspicious' Test-firing
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:28 by TRC-News
Saying Pakistan did not want war but was ready for it if necessary, Gen. Pervez Musharraf hailed as 'auspicious' Saturday?s successful test-firing of a medium-range missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons deep into the territory of nuclear-armed rival India. Full Story
Somali Gunmen Release UN Captive
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:26 by TRC-News
A United Nations employee in the Somali capital Mogadishu has been freed after being kidnapped nearly four weeks ago. Mohamed Ali Abukar - a Somali working for the UN Development Programme - was said to be tired but unharmed. Full Story
Sri Lanka Truce Gains Momentum, But Problems Remain
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:25 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka's peace process took a step forward with the lifting of a ban on the supply of various items to rebel zones but a parliamentary group said on Saturday key points of the ceasefire had not been fully implemented. The government and minority Tamil guerrillas agreed to a Norwegian-brokered ceasefire in February in an effort to end a nearly two-decade conflict that has killed an estimated 64,000 people. Full Story
Venezuela Will Respect Asylum Decision For Coup Leader, Vice President Says
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:24 by TRC-News
Venezuela said it won't object if Colombia grants asylum to the figurehead of a short-lived coup who escaped house arrest and fled to the Colombian ambassador's residence. Full Story
Bulletins warned airports in '98
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:19 by TRC-News
The Federal Aviation Administration warned the nation's airports and airlines in late 1998 about a possible terrorist hijacking ''at a metropolitan airport in the Eastern United States'' and urged a ''high degree of vigilance'' against threats to US civil aviation from Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, according to classified security bulletins obtained by the Globe. Full Story
IMF Reports Further Anthrax Testing
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:16 by TRC-News
The International Monetary Fund said Friday that follow-up tests determined that no anthrax spores were present on mail it received. Full Story
State CIOs to advise on homeland
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:12 by TRC-News
Chief information officers from state governments have been asked to form a small working group to help the federal government on technology-related homeland security matters, including the creation of a national plan. Full Story
FBI shuts website showing Daniel Pearl murder
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:09 by TRC-News
The FBI has ordered an internet provider to stop hosting a video showing US journalist Daniel Pearl being murdered. Agents told the company Pro Hosters based in Virginia to delete the video which a customer had posted on a web site. a href=http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_594707.html> Full Story
Navy Domain Hijacked By German Pornography Site
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:08 by TRC-News
Due to a domain registration snafu, two Internet addresses used by the U.S. Navy for recruiting new sailors have recently been commandeered by other sites, including a pornography site. Full Story
GSA preps security solutions
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:06 by TRC-News
Agencies and vendors should expect to see some big opportunities for increasing government security as the General Services Administration readies several new solutions and solicitations this year. Full Story
NATO terminals link allies
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:05 by TRC-News
The United States and five of its NATO allies soon will have computer terminals in their respective capitals dedicated solely to military planning for coalition operations. Full Story
TRC Terrorist Group Profile - Shining Path, a/k/a: Sendero Luminoso
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:02 by TRC-News
Shining Path is considered by many to be the most dangerous and violent terrorist organization in the world. The group derives its name from Mariategui, an avowed Marxist, who once stated that Marxism was a "shining path to the future." Yet, despite this apparent connection, Shining Path espouses a neo-Maoist orientation and was formed as a splinter group of the Communisty Party of Peru. The goal of this organization is the destruction of the existing Peruvian government in favor of an Indian-run socialist system. Full Story and More Reviews
TRC Bookstores Recommends - America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack
Posted Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:00 by TRC-News
America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack examines the potential NBC terrorism threat faced by the united States. The book presents the threat without hype, and provides policy recommendations. U.S. Senator Richarc Lugar said of the book, "I know of no more incisive, detailed assessment of the growing threat of mass destruction terrorism than America's Achilles' Heel. This outstanding book is essential reading for anyone with serious interest in American national security." More Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
05/25/1946
Jordan - Independence Day
05/25/1990
Spain - Sevillano Died (GRAPO Member) after a prolonged hunger strike.
Full Story and More Dates
Agent Alleges Moussaoui Roadblocks
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:39 by TRC-News
Concerned that Washington headquarters was hindering their pre-Sept. 11 probe of terrorism defendant Zacarias Moussaoui, FBI agents in Minnesota took the radical step of contacting the CIA for help, an FBI whistleblower says. Full Story
Phoenix FBI Agent Accused of Naming Terrorism Informant
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:38 by TRC-News
The FBI agent who suggested last July that the bureau bear down on suspicious Arab pilots-in-training is also at the center of allegations that agents here mishandled a Chinese spy case and an undercover attempt to collect information about Palestinian terrorist organizations abroad, according to court papers and interviews. Full Story
Shoe Bomb Defendant Outlined Plot in E-Mail
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:37 by TRC-News
Two days before he boarded a flight in Paris armed with powerful explosive devices hidden in his shoes, Richard C. Reid told his mother that his alleged attempt to blow up the airliner was "part of the ongoing war between Islam and disbelief, and as such a duty upon me as a Muslim," government lawyers said in a court filing in Boston yesterday. Full Story
Taliban Supporters Held Over Bin Laden Pictures
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:31 by TRC-News
Afghan authorities have arrested three Taliban supporters in a southern border town for distributing anti-government leaflets and pictures of the fugitive Osama bin Laden, a local official said on Friday. Full Story
Pope Clears Bulgaria of Link to 1981 Murder Plot
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:30 by TRC-News
Pope John Paul cleared Bulgaria on Friday of any link to a 1981 attempt to assassinate him, rejecting years of speculation the Balkan state was tied to Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in a communist conspiracy. Full Story
US wants end to Pakistani aid to militants
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
The United States has asked Pakistan to end its support of groups that have infiltrated into the Indian side of Kashmir to avoid a more serious military conflict. "We understand India's frustrations and anger over continued terrorist actions, but would reiterate that rather than being the solution, military action in this crisis would create even greater problems," State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said. Full Story
House OKs $29B Anti-Terror Bill
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:26 by TRC-News
The House approved $29 billion early Friday for the fight against terrorism overseas and at home as the two parties grappled in a bitter election-year spat over war and the growing national debt. Full Story
Rail Systems Given Terror Warning
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
The Transportation Department has warned transit and other railroad systems about possible terrorist attacks, a department official said Friday. Spokesman Chet Lunner said the information that triggered the alert cited "unconfirmed, non-specific reports that indicated attacks" that were being considered against subway trains. Full Story
NY Commissioners Seek Closer Ties for Fire Dept. and the Police
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
The commissioners of the New York City Police and Fire Departments said yesterday that for the first time they would exchange liaison officers and carry out specialized training together. The moves, they said, are intended to improve communications between the two agencies, but may also ease the tensions that have long divided some of their members. Full Story
Bomber Killed in a Bid to Drive Car Into a Tel Aviv Nightclub
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
A suspected Palestinian militant tried to ram a car full of explosives into a Tel Aviv nightclub crowded with teenagers early today but was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard. Full Story
A Chronicle of Horror, and Hope
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
EVEN as it adds to a timeless historical record, "In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01" is very much of this moment. Following Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani through that day, this gripping, sorrowful documentary includes images and sounds too terrible to be seen or heard eight months ago. Full Story
In Reichstag, Bush Condemns Terror as New Despotism
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
President Bush stood today in the well of Germany's reconstructed Reichstag and told Parliament that the terrorist groups the United States and its allies are hunting down constitute a "new totalitarian threat," and in a clear reference to Hitler, compared the current struggle to a past generation's battle against those who "killed in the name of racial purity." Full Story
Student Tied to Terror Suspect Gave F.B.I. Disturbing Portrait
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
Hours after Zacarias Moussaoui was taken into custody last August, nearly a month before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal agents in Minnesota were told that he believed it was "acceptable to kill civilians who harm Muslims" and that he approved of Muslims who died as "martyrs" in such attacks, classified federal documents show. Full Story
Changes to Sept. 11 Fund Would Extend Aid to Victims of Past Terror Bombings
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:11 by TRC-News
Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are nearing agreement on changes in the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund that would allow scores of American families from past terrorist attacks to receive hundreds of millions of dollars collectively in compensation. Full Story
Tourist sites on heightened alert
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:04 by TRC-News
After the surprise attack on America, homeland security came quickly to one of the nation's hottest tourist attractions. Full Story
Anthrax attacks put microbiologists' work under a magnifier
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
As always, the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting here this week was part science, part fellowship. But this year, the meeting of 10,000 members of the group was something else: part Agatha Christie. Full Story
Some fear Kashmir conflict could escalate to nuclear disaster
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
A festering regional dispute could spark the world's first nuclear exchange and make the Sept. 11 terrorism toll look minuscule by comparison. Full Story
Burundi Rebels Release Bishop
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:55 by TRC-News
Rebels in Burundi have freed a Roman Catholic bishop and his driver, who they had been holding since the weekend. Hutu rebels of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) took Bishop Joseph Nduhirubusa, of the eastern Ruyigi diocese, to a pre-arranged meeting place in a clearing, north of the capital, Bujumbura. He was then handed over to representatives of the Catholic Church. Full Story
EU Reports Post-Sept. 11 Racism
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:54 by TRC-News
Anti-Islamic and anti-Jewish incidents have increased across the EU since the September 11 terror attacks and the intensification of the Middle East conflict, a report has concluded. Full Story
India 'Puts Off' Kashmir Attack
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
India is reported to be planning to give Pakistan two months to stop cross-border attacks in Kashmir before military action is taken. The influential Hindustan Times newspaper, quoting unnamed sources, said the plan was discussed at a meeting attended by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during his visit to Kashmir on Thursday. Full Story
Pakistan Asks UN to Intervene: War-like Situation
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:52 by TRC-News
Pakistan sought on Thursday the United Nations intervention for restraining India from warpath and bringing it to the negotiating table for defusing the present volcanic situation in the region. Full Story
Iranians Offended By U.S. Terrorism Report
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:50 by TRC-News
The giant rift between Iran and the United States over what defines terrorism is running squarely through Kazem Alavi's modest nut shop. Full Story
Fighting Breaks out in Two Towns Near Liberian Capital
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:49 by TRC-News
Heavy fighting has broken out between government and rebel forces around two towns near the Liberian capital, government officials said Thursday. Full Story
Troop Build-Up As Spectre of Civil War Looms in Madagascar
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
There was a steady build-up of soldiers in two of Madagascar's provincial towns on Thursday as president Marc Ravalomanana reiterated his intention to take military action if the blockade of the capital, Antananarivo, was not dismantled within four days. Full Story
Kidnapper's Testimony Reveals Network of Collusion in Mexico
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:47 by TRC-News
A kidnapping ringleader's confession has revealed a network of corruption and collusion that stretches from jewelers and drug traffickers to lawyers and law enforcement officials, according to the Mexican daily Reforma. Full Story
Departing U.S. Ambassador Expects More Attacks in Pakistan
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:46 by TRC-News
''I expect there will be another attack here,'' Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin said in an interview with The Associated Press a week before ending her assignment in Pakistan. She noted that two of the attacks (one in the heavily defended capital of Islamabad and the other against French engineers working for Pakistan's navy) were a direct assault on Musharraf's authority. Full Story
France may ask embassy staff to quit Pakistan
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:45 by TRC-News
France said on Thursday it was studying the possibility of emulating Britain and evacuating its diplomatic personnel from Pakistan, but that for the moment no decision hads been taken. Full Story
3 Communist Guerrillas Slain in Compostela Valley
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:44 by TRC-News
PHILIPPINE security forces killed three communist guerrillas in Compostela Valley in Southern Mindanao, the military said on Friday. Separate reports by radio RMN and the Agence France-Presse said government troops from the 60th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army ran into 20 members of the New People's Army (NPA) on Wednesday, igniting a gunbattle that claimed the lives of three guerillas. Full Story
Filipino-Chinese Businessman Abducted in Manila: Report
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
WESTERN Police District operatives are investigating the possible kidnapping of a Filipino-Chinese businessman in Manila on Friday, radio RMN reported. The victim was identified as one Ricardo Lim-Yu who was said to have been abducted by unidentified men between Makiling and Crisostomo streets in Sampaloc. Full Story
Somalia's Kidnapping Industry
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:42 by TRC-News
Armed Escorts Are a Fact of Life in Mogadishu The regularity of kidnappings in the Somali capital Mogadishu is a sign of continuing chaos in the war-ravaged country. The kidnappings are a blot on the country's image abroad and increase the suffering of a population afflicted by 12 years of lawlessness. Full Story
Car Bomb Explodes In Spanish City Of Pamplona; Two Injured
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA exploded Thursday in the northern city of Pamplona, injuring two people and sending a huge cloud of smoke billowing over the city center, authorities said. Full Story
Sudan Plane 'Bombs' Southern Village
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
Fifteen people are reported to have been killed and many more injured when a plane dropped bombs on a village in southern Sudan. The rebels Sudan People's Liberation Movement has accused the government of responsibility. An Antonov bomber attacked in the dark without warning early on Wednesday, according to foreign aid workers inside southern Sudan. Full Story
Venezuelan Coup Plotter Escapes
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:38 by TRC-News
The man who briefly replaced Venezuela's president during a short-lived coup was seeking asylum in the Colombian Embassy Friday after escaping from house arrest. Full Story
Poisoned Tea Kills 7, Injures 47 in Zimbabwe
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
Seven members of a religious sect in Zimbabwe - including a 4-year-old boy - died after drinking tea suspected to have been poisoned, police said Thursday. Full Story
Air marshals' skills doubted
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
The government has cut training for federal air marshal applicants and put new hires on flights without requiring the advanced marksmanship skills the program used to demand, USA TODAY has learned. Full Story
Computers to track biological, chemical threats
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:29 by TRC-News
National lab scientists are developing a plan to help cities track biological and chemical agents such as anthrax and other nearly invisible weapons of mass destruction. Full Story
Terror warning issued for nation's ports
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
A new terrorism warning surfaced this week indicating that as many as 25 terrorists of Middle Eastern origin may have slipped into the U.S. unnoticed after stowing away aboard cargo ships that entered four major U.S. seaports. Full Story
System tracks hazardous waste
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:25 by TRC-News
To better track hazardous waste, California is implementing a secure Web-based system for government agencies, manufacturers and haulers to keep tabs on the transport and disposal of used oil and other manufacturing byproducts. Full Story
Govt Probing Social Security Numbers
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:24 by TRC-News
The Social Security Administration, cracking down on the use of Social Security numbers in the aftermath of Sept. 11, no longer will issue numbers to foreigners to apply for driver's licenses even in states that require them. The agency also has stepped up efforts to identify mismatches between names and Social Security numbers with help from employers nationwide, sometimes revealing immigrants working in the United States illegally. Full Story
Panel casts partisan vote for homeland security department
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:22 by TRC-News
A bill to create a Cabinet-level homeland security department cleared the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday on a 7-3 party-line vote. Full Story
Police Records For Anyone's Viewing Pleasure
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:18 by TRC-News
A few weeks ago, RapSheets.com began selling national criminal background checks for $20 to $30 a pop. The tiny Tennessee firm claims its new criminal directory is the most comprehensive on the Internet, encompassing 50 million criminal records in 36 states (it includes Virginia but not Maryland or the District). Full Story
Klez virus claims US State Department's email identity
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:16 by TRC-News
The US State Department says it has been affected by the Klez computer virus. An official says hundreds of rogue emails have been in circulation claiming they're from one of its offices. Full Story
Net-centric warning delivered
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:14 by TRC-News
Network-centric warfare — which seeks to make data available to those who need it across the organization or on the battlefield — is the future of the U.S. military, but many potential pitfalls must be addressed to ensure its success, according to a top official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Full Story
Army is looking for a few good gamers
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:13 by TRC-News
After watching the popularity of video gaming grow into a $9 billion business last year, the U.S. military is launching a video game with an eye toward recruiting. Full Story
Corporate secrets are rich pickings on PDAs
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:11 by TRC-News
Corporate secrets are being left unprotected on personal digital assistants (PDAs), with one in four users not bothering to protect their PDA with a password. Full Story
Comment: Web sites insecure as ever
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:09 by TRC-News
Most, if not all, of corporate web sites are fundamentally insecure. And this insecurity can allow attackers to access databases, delete or change information, and cause absolute chaos with very little effort or technical know how. Full Story
TRC Terrorist Group Profile - Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO)
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:07 by TRC-News
This group was formed in the 1960s by the college-educated children of wealthy Iranian merchants. Their purpose in organizing was to counter what they perceived as excessive Western influence in the Shah's regime and to bring the nation more in line with their philosophical blend of Marxism and Islam. At a point early in the 1970's, the MEK concluded that violence was the only way to bring about change in Iran. Since then, the MEK has developed into the largest and most active armed Iranian dissident group. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Bookstores Recommends - Origins of Terrorism : Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind
Posted Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:04 by TRC-News
Origins of Terrorism : Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind looks at the causes of terrorism. Two possibly conflicting thoughts on the origins of terrorism are proposed at the beginning of the book in the form of two essays: 1) Terrorism is a product of strategic choice, and 2) Terrorism is a product of psychological forces. The rest of the book uses essays and case studies to follow up on these two positions. This is not only a classic in the realm of terrorism research, but is also an interesting piece of work on what causes the phenomenon of terrorism. More Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 12:02 by TRC-News
05/23/1951
China (People's Republic of) - Tibet was "peacefully liberated" when representatives of the Dalai Lama signed an agreement with the Beijing government accepting Chinese rule in return for a promise of greater autonomy.
05/24/1993
Eritrea - Independence from Ethiopia
05/24/1984
Philippines - Urban Terrorism Begins
05/25/1946
Jordan - Independence Day
05/25/1990
Spain - Sevillano Died (GRAPO Member) after a prolonged hunger strike.
Full Story and More Dates
Giuliani: World Safer Than Pre-9/11
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:57 by TRC-News
Former Mayor Rudoph Giuliani told emergency management officials from around the country on Wednesday that the world is safer now than before Sept. 11. Full Story
Suicide Bombings May Spread to Europe, U.S.
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:55 by TRC-News
International security agencies are concerned suicide bombings will spread to Europe and the United States much in the way airliner hijackings proliferated across the globe in the 1970s and 80s. Full Story
Mubarak calls for Islamic moderation
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:54 by TRC-News
President Hosni Mubarak, marking the Prophet Muhammad's birthday, called on Muslims to project a true image of a merciful and compassionate Islam by showing moderation and taking part in dialogue with non-Muslims. Full Story
GOP Hopes to Vote on Anti-Terror Bill
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:52 by TRC-News
A popular House bill throwing $29 billion at the fight against terrorism has become the battleground for an election-year tussle over the burgeoning national debt. Full Story
Suicide Bomber Kills 2 Israelis in Attack Near Tel Aviv
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:49 by TRC-News
Hours after the Israeli military killed a well-known Palestinian militant and two of his comrades, a young man with bleached-blond hair and a hidden bomb blew himself up at a park gazebo here, killing at least 2 Israelis and injuring 27 others. Full Story
Qaeda Tip Spurred Alert in New York
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:47 by TRC-News
The source of a tip this week that terrorists might strike at the Brooklyn Bridge or the Statue of Liberty was Abu Zubaydah, the highest-ranking Qaeda operative captured since Sept. 11, a senior law enforcement official said yesterday. That is one reason New York officials put the city on high alert and publicized details of the threat, something the Federal Bureau of Investigation never intended to do. Full Story
Bush Warns Germans on Terror; Has No Iraq `War Plans on Desk'
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:46 by TRC-News
In a wide-ranging speech that touched on the expansion of NATO, United States ties with Russia and the prospects of peace in the Middle East, President Bush told the German Parliament today that the dangers of terrorism were worldwide and that European nations were at risk. Full Story
FBI agent says he didn't foresee 9/11
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
The FBI agent whose concerns about radical Middle Easterners at U.S. flight schools were cast aside by the bureau last summer defended his troubled agency here this week, telling lawmakers that he did not foresee the attacks of Sept. 11. Full Story
Public Announcement: PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:35 by TRC-News
Papua New Guinea will hold national elections in mid-June 2002. During the lead-up to polling and in the weeks after the results are announced, political meetings and impromptu demonstrations are likely. In the past, some of these have turned violent, especially in the Highlands region. Full Story
Al-Qaeda Using Gems to Hide Funds
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
Al-Qaeda's assets are being spirited away, the UN says. A UN Security Council monitoring group has warned that the al-Qaeda movement may be converting its financial assets in an attempt to avoid global constraints on the funding of terrorist networks. Full Story
Algerian Troops 'Killed In Ambush'
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
About 10 government troops have been killed in an ambush near the Algerian capital, reports say. The attack in the Blida region, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Algiers, comes amid increasing violence one week before Algerians are due to vote in legislative elections. Full Story
Angola Says US, Others Sending Food For Ex-Rebels
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
The Angolan government says the United States and other countries have begun sending food and other relief supplies for former UNITA rebels, some of whom are dying of malnutrition and disease. Full Story
War is Seen Spreading Outside Colombia
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:31 by TRC-News
The talk of the day in Latin American diplomatic circles: whether the expected electoral victory on Sunday of Colombia's hard-line presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe will bring about an escalation of Colombia's war that could spill over to neighboring Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador and Peru. Full Story
Executions Continuing in Kisangani, DRCongo
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:30 by TRC-News
Arrests and executions are continuing in Kisangani in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following a failed mutiny within an armed anti-government movement, UN Special Representative to the DRC Amos Namanga Ngongi said on Tuesday. Full Story
Sides Called to the Hague for Border Talks
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
Ethiopia and Eritrea traded accusations this week after a high-level meeting to iron out any potential problems over the border ruling, announced last month. Full Story
French Embassy in India Turns Into Fortress
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
Right-wing extremist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen may not be the only threat that France is facing. Rocked by the devastating May 8 explosion aboard a Pakistan Navy bus that left 11 of their countrymen dead in Karachi, the French are taking no chances. The aftershocks of the attack are being felt as far away as Chanakyapuri in Delhi where the French Embassy in India has retreated behind an imposing wall of impregnable security. Full Story
Indian PM Steps Back From Brink
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:26 by TRC-News
In a televised address to the nation, India's prime minister has stepped back from the strong military posturing that has marked his stance on the disputed territory of Kashmir. Full Story
Al-Aqsa Group Vows More Suicide Strikes On Israel
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
A leader of the militant group behind a suicide bombing that killed two Israelis in a city park vowed on Thursday to carry out more attacks. Full Story
Bomb Sets Fire to Israeli Fuel Depot
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
A bomb attached to a tanker truck exploded Thursday at Israel's biggest fuel depot in what police said was likely a Palestinian terror attack. The blast ripped through the driver's cabin and sent fuel pouring onto the tarmac, but the fire was quickly extinguished and no one was hurt. Full Story
Macedonian Army Says Attacked by Albanian Gunmen
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
The Macedonian army said on Thursday ethnic Albanian gunmen attacked an army post by the Kosovo border, describing it as one of the most serious incidents directed at its forces since last year's conflict. Full Story
Pakistan Plays Down Security Fears
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
IIslamabad has responded to warnings by foreign governments about the safety of their citizens living in Pakistan, saying it can provide all necessary security and calling for calm. Full Story
Suspects In Daghestan Bomb Attack Arrested
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
The head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says several people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a bomb attack which killed 43 people in Daghestan. Full Story
Sierra Leone Concerned About Pakistani Peacekeepers' Withdrawal
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
Officials in Sierra Leone are expressing concern about reports that Pakistan is considering withdrawing its troops from the U.N. peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone. The officials are worried a Pakistan pullout would jeopardize the country's return to peace. Full Story
Sri Lanka Talks 'In Doubt'
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
Landmark peace talks between the Sri Lankan Government and Tamil Tiger rebels could be delayed because of a row over a key ceasefire accord, rebel radio has said. Full Story
Military questions Iraq plan Chiefs say forces already strained
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
As President Bush tries to rally European support for military action against Iraq, U.S. armed services leaders are questioning whether their forces are ready for another war. Full Story
Philippines Arrests Abu Sayyaf Leader for Bombing
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
Philippine police said on Thursday they had arrested a leader of a Muslim guerrilla group linked to the al Qaeda network on suspicion of masterminding a bombing that killed 15 people. Full Story
Nepal dissolves parliament and announces elections
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:13 by TRC-News
Nepal announced the dissolution of its parliament on Wednesday in a bid to head off a ruling party revolt, and said it would hold fresh elections in November. Full Story
Bush Warns Russia Over Iran Gaining Weapons
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:11 by TRC-News
President Bush said Thursday he would warn Russian President Vladimir Putin at talks Friday on U.S. concerns Russia is contributing to weapons proliferation by helping Iran build a nuclear plant. Full Story
Colombian War Zone Spreads to Cities
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
Soldiers crouched behind a Coca-Cola sign, squeezing off bullets at an unseen enemy. Frightened teen-agers stumbled through the streets, carrying wounded children in their arms. For many Colombians, images from this week's battle in Medellin underscored a terrifying new phase their country's long cycle of violence: urban warfare. Full Story
Church bombing: All sides accused
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:07 by TRC-News
The United Nations has released its much-anticipated report on events in Bojaya, where earlier this month more than 100 civilians sheltering in a church were killed when Marxist guerrillas bombed the building. Full Story
Ethiopia 'trained us to terrorise Somalia'
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
Dozens of Somali former military officials have said they were trained and armed by Ethiopia in its attempts to destabilise the Somalia's transitional government. Full Story
International financial agencies send workers home after anthrax scares
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
More than a thousand World Bank employees worked from home after an anthrax scare, and its sister agency, the International Monetary Fund found evidence of spores in its mail room. Full Story
Whitehall Begins Review of UK's Cybercrime Laws
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
The Government has begun a review of the Computer Misuse Act, acting on concerns that UK law contains loopholes that make it difficult for the police to prosecute the perpetrators of denial of service attacks. Full Story
Six Arrested Over 'Nigerian Email' Frauds
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:38 by TRC-News
South African police have made a breakthrough against organised criminals who spam Internet users in an attempt to defraud them of thousands of pounds Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian email and letter fraud. Full Story
New Version of E-mail Scam Purports to be From American Soldier in Afghanistan
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
A new e-mail scam from a purported American ''Special Forces Commando'' in Afghanistan who needs help getting terrorist drug money out of the country is making the rounds on the Internet. Full Story
Firewalls Are Still Sizzlin'
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:36 by TRC-News
It won't come as news to IT pros that cybercrime is soaring. But a new slate of stats reveals just how bad the situation really is. Research firm Computer Economics predicts computer crime will more than double this year while virus incidents are expected to increase by 22 percent. Full Story
2 FBI Agents Charged In Internet Fraud Scheme
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
Two FBI agents passed confidential information about investigations of companies to participants in a stock-manipulation scheme, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. Jeffrey A. Royer and Lynn Wingate were charged with racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Royer, who resigned from the FBI in December and allegedly went to work for one of the stock manipulators, was also charged with extortion. Full Story
Certification deadline draws near
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:32 by TRC-News
In an effort to improve the security of the commercial software it buys, the Defense Department beginning in July will prohibit the military services from purchasing information assurance products that have not met a third-party security evaluation. Full Story
Philippine Govt Agencies Eye Computer Forensics
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:31 by TRC-News
The Philippine Computer Emergency Response Team (PH-CERT) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are teaming up for a computer forensics training and investigation program that would allow both organizations to respond immediately to computer-related problems, especially those related to hackings as well malware attacks. Full Story
International group eyeing IT security principles, standards
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:29 by TRC-News
An international body representing more than 30 nations, including the U.S., is developing a set of information security principles intended to help in the development of IT security standards, best practices and potential security-related laws. Full Story
Sophos Warns of World Cup Virus
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:27 by TRC-News
Seemingly harmless World Cup screensavers, spreadsheets and electronic wall charts could provide the ideal vehicles for virus and worm propagation. Sophos is advising employees and home PC users not to open unsolicited emails, download material from the Internet or use anything on their computer which is not known to be virus-free. Full Story
Waging war on computer viruses
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
New net technologies present opportunities for more than just entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Virus writers like them, too. Almost every novel internet technology, from e-mail to peer-to-peer networks, has been exploited by virus writers and vandals keen to cause havoc. Full Story
TRC Counterterrorist Organization Profile - Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG-9) of Germany
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:21 by TRC-News
GSG-9 was formed as a direct result of the inept response of German police to actions of Black September terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Following the end of World War Two, German authorities had been apprehensive about creating an elite military unit for any purpose. This, in addition to the desire to demonstrate to the world that Germany was no longer the fearsome entity it once was, caused planners to establish security that was as low-profile as possible. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Infowar Bookstore Recommends - Information Security Policies Made Easy
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:18 by TRC-News
Information Security Policies Made Easy by Charles C. Wood is a required bookshelf item for anyone involved in the development, maintenance or analysis of information security policies within a government or commercial organization. More Book Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:45 by TRC-News
05/22/1972
Sri Lanka - Republic Day - Also known as National Heroes' Day.
05/22/1990
Yemen - North and South Yemen Reunited - day declared "Yemeni National Day."
05/23/1951
China (People's Republic of) - Tibet was "peacefully liberated" when representatives of the Dalai Lama signed an agreement with the Beijing government accepting Chinese rule in return for a promise of greater autonomy.
Full Story and More Dates
Report Cites Victories in Battle Against Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:41 by TRC-News
In its first official survey since Sept. 11 of the worldwide terrorism threat, the State Department reported Tuesday that U.S.-led efforts have made significant progress in capturing terrorists and persuading some "rogue" nations to change their behavior. Full Story
US stands firm on list of terrorist-tied nations
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
Libya and Sudan have curbed their support for militant groups and have cooperated with the US antiterrorism campaign, but their efforts are not yet enough to remove them from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, according to an annual government report released yesterday. Full Story
Conferees Agree on Bioterror Bill
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:38 by TRC-News
House and Senate negotiators agreed yesterday on the final version of legislation meant to ensure a sustained, comprehensive effort to shore up the nation's defenses against a bioterror attack. Full Story
Suspect Bag Briefly Shuts NY Bridge After Alert
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:35 by TRC-News
A police investigation of a suspicious bag closed the Brooklyn Bridge for an hour on Wednesday, a day after officials warned New Yorkers about vague threats against the landmark bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Full Story
Palestinian Militants Begin Life in Exile
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:35 by TRC-News
Twelve Palestinian militants began a life in exile Wednesday, flashing a "V" for victory sign as they left Cyprus for other European nations under a deal to end a siege by Israeli forces of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Full Story
Jibril's son buried near Damascus
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:33 by TRC-News
Jihad Jibril, son of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command leader, was buried Wednesday in a refugee camp near Damascus while thousands of mourners pledged to take revenge on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Full Story
UN-Iraq talks resume in July, in Vienna
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
Talks between Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri aimed at returning U.N. weapons inspectors to Baghdad are slated to resume in early July in Vienna, chief U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Tuesday. Full Story
Brazilian forces massed near Colombia
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
In an interview with Brazilian radio earlier Tuesday, Minister of Defense Geraldo Quintao said the exercises -- the first major joint military operation involving the country's Army, Navy and Air Force -- were "especially important now, as we are facing problems such as smuggling, drug trafficking and the guerrillas in Colombia." Full Story
Daschle Is Seeking a Special Inquiry on Sept. 11 Attacks
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
Headed for a confrontation with the White House and Congressional Republicans, the majority leader of the Democratic-controlled Senate called today for an independent commission to investigate government action before the Sept. 11 attacks. He said such a panel was needed for "a greater degree of public scrutiny, of public involvement, of public understanding." Full Story
The Warning du Jour Comes via Rumsfeld, but Worriers Abound
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
Each day, another senior Bush administration official has come forward with a dire warning. One by one, they have predicted, with near certainty, that terrorists will strike again in the United States — culminating today with a warning that New York landmarks like the Statue of Liberty might be at risk. Full Story
Anti-U.S. Views at Pilot Schools Prompted Agent's Alert
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
At a closed-door Congressional hearing, an F.B.I. agent from Phoenix said today that he wrote a memorandum last July about a potential terrorist plot after conducting several interviews with Arab flight school students who expressed extreme animosity toward the United States, lawmakers said today. Full Story
Japan and South Korea Brace for World Cup
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
One million soccer fans are expected to visit Japan and South Korea for the coming World Cup, which for the first time is being played in Asia and has two countries as hosts. But the monthlong event, which garners the largest television audience in the world, may also be remembered as the first in which security gets top billing. In fact, the hosts are not sure whether to roll out or roll up the welcome mat. Full Story
Foreigners linked to terror tricked INS, report says
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
At least half of the 48 Muslim radicals linked to terrorist plots in the USA since 1993 manipulated or violated immigration laws to enter this country and then stay here, an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies says. Full Story
Public Announcement: MIDDLE EAST UPDATE
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
The U.S. Government continues to receive information about potential terrorist actions against U.S. interests abroad. There is growing concern that individuals may be planning terrorist actions against United States citizens and interests, as well as tourist sites frequented by westerners, in the region of the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa. U.S. citizens should exercise caution in those areas at this time. As indicated in the Worldwide Caution Public Announcement of March 17, 2002, increased security at official U.S. facilities may lead terrorists and their sympathizers to seek softer targets. Full Story
Travel Warning: LIBERIA
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
The Department of State reaffirms its warning to U.S. citizens against travel to Liberia due to the unstable security situation throughout the country. Dissidents have clashed with government troops in a number of areas, including the counties of Lofa, Gbarpolu, Bomi, Margibi and Bong. The fighting may spread to other areas of the country without warning. Full Story
Travel Warning: MACEDONIA
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer travel to Macedonia. The security situation in Macedonia is improving as a result of steps taken to implement the August 2001 Framework Agreement, which called for legislative and constitutional changes as the groundwork for a sustainable peace. Nevertheless, the situation remains unsettled and potentially dangerous. Although the overall level of violence has diminished, localized political and inter-ethnic violence, including armed exchanges, continues. Acts of intimidation and violence against American citizens remain possible, and land mines and unexploded ordnance pose a continuing threat. Full Story
Congo Rebels, Oppn Hold Talks with Mugabe
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:16 by TRC-News
Rwandan-backed Democratic Republic of Congo rebels and other political groups held talks with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Tuesday to try to get him to press Kinshasa for renewed peace talks, state TV reported. Full Story
DR Congo Police Officers 'Missing'
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
More than 100 police officers are reported missing in two towns in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, says the United Nations. Four policemen in the second city of Kisangani were confirmed dead and an inquiry has been opened to ascertain what had happened to the others, the head of the UN in DR Congo, Amos Namanga Ngongi, said on Tuesday. Full Story
Bush Seeks Europe's Support on Terror
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
US President George W Bush has left for a week-long tour of Europe where he will urge key allies to persevere in the war on terror. Full Story
Lebanon Probes Car - Bomb Murder Amid Security Fears
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
Police hunted for clues on Tuesday in the murder of a Palestinian guerrilla leader's son in Lebanon, a country still haunted by the specter of political killings that plagued it during a 15-year civil war. Full Story
Lebanon Terror Summit Didn't Include al Qaeda Leaders, U.S. Says
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
A widely publicized March meeting in Lebanon of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders did not include any senior al Qaeda representatives, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Full Story
Liberia Rebels Take Control Of Town
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:10 by TRC-News
Rebel forces have taken control of a key diamond-mining town in northwestern Liberia, military officials said Tuesday. The rebel fighters, using heavy weaponry, met little resistance from government troops when they burst into the town of Lofa Bridge three days ago, the officials said on condition of anonymity. Full Story
Key Island Bridge Blown Up in Madagascar
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
Another bridge on a key artery in Madagascar has been blown up, says an army officer loyal to disputed President Marc Ravalomanana, blaming the sabotage on the presidential rivals in a bitter power struggle. Full Story
Philippine Rebel Denies Ransom Row, Hostages 'Safe'
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:07 by TRC-News
A Muslim guerrilla leader in the southern Philippines on Wednesday denied newspaper reports his men were fighting over ransom for two U.S. hostages they have held for almost a year. Full Story
Sri Lanka Foes Hold Direct Talks
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
The Sri Lankan Government and Tamil Tiger rebels have held their first direct talks in seven years. A government team, accompanied by a diplomat from Norway, flew to a rebel stronghold to discuss a key road linking the northern Tamil heartland with the rest of the island. Full Story
Report: Al Qaeda, Taliban Smuggled Into Europe
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
Taliban and al Qaeda guerrillas have been smuggled into Europe in the last few months and are on their way to Britain, a German newspaper reported Wednesday, quoting a letter from Interpol to the German police. Full Story
Bush Says al-Qaida Still a Threat
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:02 by TRC-News
President Bush warned on Tuesday that al-Qaida terrorists still "want to hurt us," while his Pentagon chief said terrorists inevitably will acquire weapons of mass destruction from countries like Iraq, Iran or North Korea. Full Story
Lebanon Probes Car-Bomb Murder Amid Security Fears
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
Police hunted for clues on Tuesday in the murder of a Palestinian guerrilla leader's son in Lebanon, a country still haunted by the specter of political killings that plagued it during a 15-year civil war. Full Story
UK Pulls Diplomats From Pakistan, Warns Nationals
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
Britain said on Wednesday it was withdrawing some diplomats and their families from Pakistan and warned its citizens living and working in the country of a heightened risk to their safety after a number of serious bomb threats to British interests. Full Story
Long, quiet ethnic war in Burma
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:56 by TRC-News
The day after Burma's military rulers released democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, they also ordered the destruction of Kho Kay village, say ethnic leaders. Soldiers from three different battalions descended on the ethnic Karen village on May 7 and gave the residents an ultimatum: Leave or be shot. Full Story
Six more Pak soldiers killed
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:54 by TRC-News
At least six Pakistani soldiers were killed and several of their bunkers destroyed when the Indian forces resorted to retaliatory artillery fire on Pakistani positions across the LoC at the Noorpur, Shahpur, Khari Karmara and Sawjian areas of the Poonch sector throughout last night. Full Story
Indian PM Tells Troops Time for 'Decisive Fight'
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Wednesday told Indian soldiers confronting Pakistani forces across their border in disputed Kashmir that the time had come for a decisive fight. Full Story
Moderate Separatist Leader Is Assassinated in Kashmir
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:51 by TRC-News
Two masked men wearing police uniforms here today fatally shot a Muslim separatist leader who advocated a conciliatory approach to resolving the long-running dispute over Kashmir that has brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. Full Story
Khmer Rouge rail murder arrest
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
A former Khmer Rouge commander has been arrested in Cambodia in connection with the murders of three Western backpackers in 1994, military officials said. Full Story
Army, Rebels Fight on Colombia City Streets; 8 Dead
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:46 by TRC-News
At least eight people were killed, including two children, when gunbattles erupted on Tuesday between government troops and Marxist rebels on the streets of Colombia's third-largest city, authorities said. Full Story
Failures in cargo security reported
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
A month after the Sept. 11 attacks, a government report warned federal officials that terrorists easily could plant bombs on passenger jets by shipping them as cargo. But the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has failed to remedy flaws that the report warns could prove ''catastrophic,'' government sources familiar with cargo security say. Full Story
Computer Virus Attacks Law Enforcement, Media
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
The State Department's e-mail identity was forged by a computer virus that sent itself to law enforcement and media outlets across the country, a department official said Tuesday. Variants of the virus, called Klez, have been spreading since the late 1990s and are transmitted through e-mails and attachments. Klez does not destroy computer files but can clog up mail systems and corporate networks. Full Story
Infosec Research Bill Amended
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:36 by TRC-News
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee passed a bill May 16 that would add millions to federal information security research funding and ? thanks to a last-minute amendment ? establish regularly updated baseline security standards for agencies. Full Story
Cyber Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:35 by TRC-News
Over the last few years, we have been deluged with the new, hyped up, techno-phrase, "cyber terrorism". Many a noted expert has labelled cyber terrorism as a myth overused by fearmongers, moviemakers and sensationalists. Others have been quietly warning that the threat is real, new and remarkably hard to prevent. Full Story
IT Security Breaches on Rise in India
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
Information security breaches in India are on the rise. While virus infection continues to be the most chronic of all kinds of breaches, hackers and unauthorised users are responsible for over two-thirds of the security breaches. Some of the common forms of security breaches in India are manipulation of software application programmes and telecom-related frauds. Full Story
Leaky Cyber Borders
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:32 by TRC-News
A U.S. shield against foreign spam and hackers: national security or censorship? While the government vigilantly patrols our physical borders, it is doing precious little to control our electronic ones. Consider this: someone trying to bring fresh fruit from Europe into the United States will be stopped by an agent of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But there's nothing to protect you from the electronic damage wrought by an infected Microsoft Word file sent to you by some computer hacker in Iraq. Full Story
TRC Terrorist Group Profile - Kurdistan Labor\Workers Party (PKK)
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:25 by TRC-News
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is one of the most active and best-organized terrorist organizations in the world. It is their goal to establish an independent nation for Kurds, known as Kurdistan. To fully understand its current motives, however, it is necessary to understand the history of the Kurdish people. For centuries, the Kurdish people (estimates today suggest 20,000,000 Kurds) have inhabited an area in the Middle East encompassing southeast Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, with the majority residing in Turkey. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Bookstores Recommends - Toxic Terror : Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:22 by TRC-News
Toxic Terror : Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons, edited by Jonathan B. Tucker is an excellent work on past cases of chemical and biological terrorism. Separate authors take on the task of analysing in depth one of twelve cases (Aum Shinrikyo, Alphabet bomber, Rajneeshees, etc.), and do so by utilizing many primary sources. Toxic Terror provides a clear and unambiguous look into what has happened in the past and then looks to the future based on this realistic view of history. This book is a must for anyone who is studying the potential use of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists. More Reviews
Patterns of Global Terrorism Report released
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 17:14 by TRC-News
Secretary Powell released the "Patterns of Global Terrorism" this report "marks the significant progress against terrorism that we and our coalition partners are making . . . [we] have strengthened law enforcement and intelligence cooperation. State Department Site
Link to electronic copy of Patterns of Global Terrorism
Secretary Powell’s Statement
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 17:09 by TRC-News
05/21/1991
India - Prime Mininster Rajiv Gandi Assassinated during a campaign rally in Tamil Nadu State.
05/22/1972
Sri Lanka - Republic Day - Also known as National Heroes' Day.
05/22/1990
Yemen - North and South Yemen Reunited - day declared "Yemeni National Day."
Full Story and More Dates
N.Y. Police May Issue Landmarks Alert-Official
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 17:05 by TRC-News
New York City may soon be issuing alerts about possible threats to the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty, perhaps over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, a law enforcement official said on Tuesday. Full Story
U.S.: Iran Is Active Terror Sponsor
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 17:04 by TRC-News
Iran remains the world's most active sponsor of terrorism, while Sudan and Libya took some steps — but not enough — to "get out of the business," the State Department said Tuesday in an annual report to Congress. Full Story
Trial on Aid to Guerrillas to Begin
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 17:02 by TRC-News
Two men accused of helping run a cigarette-smuggling operation to benefit Lebanese guerrillas were brought by armored truck to a courthouse, where jurors were chosen amid tight security. Full Story
Two studies warn of terrorist threat
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 17:01 by TRC-News
The United States faces a substantial threat of a terrorist nuclear attack on an American city, and the federal government is not doing enough to prevent it, two scientific teams concluded in independent studies released yesterday. Full Story
FBI chief sees suicide blasts in US
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 17:00 by TRC-News
FBI director Robert S. Mueller III said suicide bombings similar to those that have plagued Israel in recent weeks are ''inevitable'' in the United States, adding his voice to the chorus of top-level Bush administration officials who have spoken in stark terms about what they describe as looming terrorist threats. Full Story
Iran to Hold Closed-Door Talks on U.S. Ties
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:58 by TRC-News
Reformists called on Iran to drop its "emotional" stance on ties with long-time foe the United States ahead of a meeting of MPs, senior political figures and foreign policy experts Tuesday to discuss the divisive issue. Full Story
Senate Leader Backs New Inquiry Into Sept. 11
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:56 by TRC-News
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, setting up a possible showdown with President Bush, voiced support on Tuesday for an independent commission to investigate events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Full Story
Journalist, sister detained in Syria
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:54 by TRC-News
A Syrian journalist and her sister were arrested by Syrian security forces weeks ago but their whereabouts and reasons for their arrest were still unknown, a human rights group said Tuesday. Full Story
EU agrees on plan for 'Bethlehem 13'
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:53 by TRC-News
The European Union on Tuesday agreed on how to divvy up the 13 Palestinian militants stuck in Cyprus as a result of the deal to end the Israeli siege on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Full Story
Peru Rethinks Order for Arrest of Officers in '97 Rescue Raid
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:49 by TRC-News
Peru's justice minister said today that an arrest order for 11 army officers once hailed as heroes for helping end a 1997 hostage siege could be softened to a summons in an investigation into whether they executed rebel hostage-takers after the rebels surrendered. Full Story
Kidnappings Hinder Aid Efforts in Somalia
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:47 by TRC-News
Somali militiamen do not bite the hand that feeds them. Rather, they kidnap the hand, and the rest of the body, and hold the victim at gunpoint for ransom. Full Story
Tensions Mount Over Kashmir as Separatist Leader Is Killed
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:37 by TRC-News
A Kashmiri separatist leader was gunned down in Indian Kashmir Tuesday in the latest incident in a spiral of violence which is pushing India and Pakistan to the brink of war. Full Story
Ashcroft Learned of Agent's Alert Just After 9/11 but Bush Was Not Told
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:36 by TRC-News
Attorney General John Ashcroft and the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, were told a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks that the F.B.I. had received a memorandum from its Phoenix office the previous July warning that Osama bin Laden's followers could be training at American flight schools, government officials said today. Full Story
Rumsfeld Says Terrorists Will Use Weapons of Mass Destruction
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:32 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned today that terrorist states will inevitably be able to attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction. Full Story
Americans back Bush, not agencies, on Sept. 11 actions
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:29 by TRC-News
A plurality of Americans think President Bush did all that he could have possibly done with his early warnings of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Newsweek poll suggests. Full Story
With US on alert, Ridge lacks clout
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:28 by TRC-News
These are the times the Office of Homeland Security was created for – a rising level of warning over terrorist activity as intelligence officials report portentous chatter among terror organizations similar to that before 9/11. Full Story
Worker background checks raise privacy concerns
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:26 by TRC-News
Employers are carrying out more rigorous background checks since Sept. 11, but critics say the practice is trampling workers' privacy rights by going beyond traditional checks. Full Story
Alert hits home in apartments
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:25 by TRC-News
Landlords and tenants from San Francisco to New York went on alert Monday for suspicious persons and vehicles that could represent a terrorist threat to the nation's apartment buildings. The vigilance came after the FBI notified law enforcement agencies and apartment managers across the nation of intelligence reports that members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist group had discussed renting units in the USA and wiring them with explosives. Full Story
Multiple failures cited in approvals of hijackers' visas
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:24 by TRC-News
''Widespread failures'' within the Immigration and Naturalization Service led the agency to grant student visas to two Sept. 11 hijackers -- including alleged ringleader Mohamed Atta -- months after the terrorist attacks, an internal Justice Department review said Monday. Full Story
New military South chief vows to crush Sayyaf, rescue victims
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:16 by TRC-News
Newly appointed military southern command chief Major General Ernesto Carolina on Tuesday vowed to defeat the rebels and rescue the hostages. "We will rescue the hostages and crush the Abu Sayyaf. This is my priority," Carolina said. Full Story
Jungle, Rebels Hurt Philippines Search
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:15 by TRC-News
Nearly a year since Filipino Muslim extremists abducted an American couple, a massive U.S.-backed search has failed to pinpoint them, a U.S. general said Monday. Full Story
Burundi Rebels Say Kidnapped Bishop Is Alive
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:14 by TRC-News
Burundian rebels said on Tuesday that the Catholic bishop kidnapped in a road attack at the weekend was alive and would be released soon, along with his driver. Joseph Nduyirbusa, the bishop of the eastern Ruyigi province, and his driver were kidnapped on Saturday after their car was ambushed on a road some 40 km (25 miles) from the capital Bujumbura. Full Story
FARC Deserter Helps Hostages Escape
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:13 by TRC-News
Two foreigners held hostage for five months by Colombian guerrillas managed to escape after securing help from a deserter of the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, who led them to an army base and freedom. Full Story
Rebels Taking Aim at Bomb Squads
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:12 by TRC-News
It wasn't long ago that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia had an unspoken agreement with the Colombian police. Rebels would plant a stick of dynamite, a timer and sometimes even a big sign, ''CAR BOMB!'' The bomb squad dismantled it, and everyone went home happy. The FARC got its publicity and chaos, and the techs made sure nobody was killed. Full Story
50 U.N. Trainees Unaccounted for Amid Alleged Rebel Slaughter of Congo Police
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:11 by TRC-News
U.N. authorities said Monday they were trying to locate 50 Congolese who had gathered for U.N. police training, amid reports that scores of Congolese policemen had been killed in rebel-held east Congo. "At the moment, we don't know their whereabouts," U.N. Congo mission spokesman Hamadoun Toure said in Kinshasa, Congo's capital. Full Story
Security Police: Finland Has Dozens of Potential Terrorists
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:10 by TRC-News
According to SUPO, the Finnish Security Police, Finland has up to a few dozen people living in the country with connections to international terrorist organisations. As SUPO sees it, some of them might be capable of perpetrating terrorist acts themselves. On the positive side, SUPO says that Finland has not had any terrorist attacks. Also, there are no terrorist organisations operating in this country, nor is there a concrete threat that any terrorist attacks might take place. Full Story
Indian PM Heads for Kashmir as Troops Trade Fire
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:09 by TRC-News
Indian and Pakistani troops traded heavy fire in disputed Kashmir on Tuesday, just hours before Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was due to visit. War fears spooked financial markets in both countries as security forces in Jammu and Kashmir -- where a separatist revolt has raged for 12 years -- geared up for Vajpayee's arrival. Full Story
Madagascar PM to Visit Secessionist Provinces
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:06 by TRC-News
As the spectre of military confrontation loomed in Madagascar, Prime Minister Jaques Sylla was expected Sunday to tour parts of the country still under the control of a rival leader. Full Story
Rwandan Rebels Active in Uganda
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:05 by TRC-News
The rebels - extremist Hutu militiamen involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda - have set up camps in a Ugandan national park on the Rwandan border and are also believed to be in a forest north of the park that borders war-divided Congo, according to the report obtained on Monday by The Associated Press. Full Story
Southeast Asia to Coordinate Action Against Terror
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:04 by TRC-News
Southeast Asian nations on Tuesday sent a sharp warning to militants in the region by saying they would coordinate tactics to counter terror mongers. "We commit to counter, prevent and suppress all forms of terrorist acts," interior ministers from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) said after a meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Full Story
Tamil Tigers Says Peace Bid S.Lanka's Last Chance
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 16:03 by TRC-News
A senior guerrilla leader was quoted by a pro-rebel Web site as saying a ceasefire in place since February and direct talks with the government planned for next month had to succeed. ''This is the last chance for peace. The Sri Lankan government should firmly grasp this opportunity and make the most of it to settle the conflict,'' rebel leader S. Karikalan was quoted as saying on Monday by Tamilnet. Full Story
FBI to polygraph workers in Md., Utah on anthrax
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:58 by TRC-News
The FBI will soon begin giving polygraph exams to scores of employees at the Army's bio- defense center at Fort Detrick in Frederick and at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah to see if a government insider mailed the anthrax that killed five people last fall, an FBI official confirmed last night. Full Story
Cipro Resistance Shows 'Alarming' Climb in Calif.
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:57 by TRC-News
Resistance to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin has shown an "alarming" increase among patients at one of the western United States' largest rehabilitation facilities, a study released Monday shows. Full Story
World Bank Mail Tests Positive for Anthrax
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:56 by TRC-News
Some 1,200 World Bank employees were advised to stay home from work on Tuesday after inconclusive tests detected anthrax contamination on mail bound for their building, a World Bank spokeswoman said on Monday. Full Story
Grandmother admits to anthrax hoax
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:55 by TRC-News
A Bellingham grandmother known for caring for the elderly and the infirm pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to sending 18 threatening hoax letters to the state attorney general, six of them laced with white powder, at the height of last fall's anthrax scare. Full Story
Government Says Pilots Can't Have Guns in Cockpits
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:54 by TRC-News
After months of debate following the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings, the Transportation Department has decided that airline pilots will not be allowed to have guns in the cockpits. Full Story
Thirty countries sign cybercrime treaty
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:52 by TRC-News
Thirty countries today signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime. Representatives of 26 Council of Europe (CoE) member states, plus the U.S., Canada, Japan, and South Africa, put their signatures on the document at an international meeting in Budapest. Full Story
Alert issued for China's next cyber attack
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:49 by TRC-News
Washington's War Situation Rooms are abuzz these days with a score of major flashpoints scattered across the globe, from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Central Asia and North Korea to Cuba, and has now an issued alert of China's readiness to launch a cyber attack targeting key government computer systems. Full Story
Infosec research bill amended
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:47 by TRC-News
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee passed a bill May 16 that would add millions to federal information security research funding and — thanks to a last-minute amendment — establish regularly updated baseline security standards for agencies. Full Story
Senate committee sets up 'emergency technology guard'
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:46 by TRC-News
Legislation to make it easier for science and technology experts to assist government agencies during terrorist attacks or other national emergencies won quick approval Friday from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Full Story
The Viral Mind: Understanding the Motives of Malicious Coders
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:45 by TRC-News
Over the years I have seen many people offer opinions on why virus writers do what they do. While I accept that many of these people have indeed spoken to a small number of malware authors, it has become all too apparent that much of their text has been based on opinion and not fact. In this article, I will draw upon my own experiences as a virus writer and as a member of the virus (and anti-virus) community to explore some of the reasons that people would devote their time to developing viruses. Full Story
State Dept. virus exposes system flaw
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:44 by TRC-News
When the State Department sent out a computer virus to an e-mail list devoted to travel warnings last weekend, the incident exposed a larger shortcoming in the agency’s security. According to the company that manages the mailing list, the State Department list had been set up to allow anyone to send a message to all recipients — including journalists, foreign diplomats, overseas nationals. The virus proved it would have been easy for someone to send out a fake global travel warning in the name of the State Department. Full Story
TRC Counterterrorist Organization Profile - Forsvarets Spesialkommando (FSK) of Norway
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:39 by TRC-News
The Norwegian unit trains for counterterrorist actions mainly against oil rigs, which Norway has in abundance. FSK is not limited to this activity, however, and also trains for operations on airplanes, trains, and buildings. FSK are on 24 hour alert, however are held mostly in reserve in case the police should require special assistance. Another of their missions is also to protect the royal family, the government and the national assembly. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Infowar Bookstore Recommends - Cyberwar 2.0 : Myths, Mysteries & Reality
Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 15:36 by TRC-News
Cyberwar 2.0 : Myths, Mysteries & Reality by Alan D. Campen, Douglas H. Dearth is a compilation of essays by some of the most influential thinkers on information warfare and cyberterrorism. More Book Reviews
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to Make Statement on Annual Terrorism Report - May 21
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:42 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell will deliver an on-the-record statement concerning the release of the Department's annual report "Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2001" on Tuesday, May 21 at 12:30 p.m. in the press briefing room. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:40 by TRC-News
05/20/1989
China (- Martial Law in Beijing. The death of Hu Yao Bang on April 15 set off protests, hunger strikes, and the occupation of Tienanmen Square by pro-democracy student radicals, which led to the imposition of martial law in Beijing.
05/20/1927
Saudi Arabia - Independence Day
05/21/1991
India - Prime Mininster Rajiv Gandi Assassinated during a campaign rally in Tamil Nadu State.
Full Story and More Dates
Other Groups, with Al Qaeda, Said to Threaten U.S.
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:32 by TRC-News
Islamic groups like Hizbollah and Egypt's Islamic Jihad could be planning to attack the United States and may be more able to do so than the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman said on Monday. Full Story
2 Tried in Alleged Terror Funding
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:30 by TRC-News
The trial of two men accused of funneling cigarette-smuggling profits to the terrorist group Hezbollah started Monday under tight security. Full Story
Foreigners Obtain Social Security ID With Fake Papers
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:29 by TRC-News
Tens of thousands of foreigners are illegally obtaining Social Security numbers by using fake documents, a typical first step to identity theft and other crimes, but federal officials still have not found a way to search immigration records to prevent the practice, federal investigators say. Full Story
Hollywood Shakes Off Fear of Terror Images
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:28 by TRC-News
"The Sum of All Fears," a political thriller in which the nation and its leaders are caught off guard by a terrorist attack, opens this month, the first film to be released since Sept. 11 to deal so explicitly with the sort of national trauma experienced that day. Full Story
A Surge in Al Qaeda Messages
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:26 by TRC-News
The government has intercepted a series of vague but menacing messages that appear to be communications among al Qaeda terrorists who could be planning a strike in the United States, senior administration officials said yesterday. Full Story
Threat to Orlando Water Supply Probed
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:22 by TRC-News
Federal and state authorities were investigating an unspecified threat to the water supply in Orlando, home to Walt Disney World, and alerted the public Sunday as a precaution. Full Story
Question Raised About Latest Bin Laden Video
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:21 by TRC-News
A British-based Islamic news agency released video footage of Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) Sunday which it said was filmed just two months ago. Full Story
U.S. Jets Hit Iraqi Radar Site in 'No-Fly' Zone
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:20 by TRC-News
U.S. warplanes on Monday attacked an Iraqi air-defense radar in response to threats against American and British jets policing a "no-fly" zone in southern Iraq, the Pentagon said. Full Story
Bush to Seek German Support Over Iraq, Rice Says
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:19 by TRC-News
President Bush will try to shore up support from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in his alliance against Iraq during his visit to Berlin this week, a top White House official said. Full Story
Report Criticizes INS for Giving Hijackers U.S. Visas
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:16 by TRC-News
An investigative report released on Monday found "widespread failure" by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for giving two Sept. 11 hijackers student visas and approving them months after they already had carried out an attack on the World Trade Center. Full Story
Colombia's FARC offers peace for territory
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:15 by TRC-News
Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, offered Sunday to begin peace negotiations with the Colombian government in exchange for the demilitarization of two of the country's provinces. Full Story
NYC Mayor Sees Lessons From Attacks
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:13 by TRC-News
Emergency responders need better training and improved communication in order to prepare for more terrorist attacks, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. Full Story
Docs Test Body Believed to Be Pearl's
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:12 by TRC-News
An autopsy report shows the body believed to be that of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was a white man whose neck had been slit and left hand tied with green rope, a source close to the investigation said Monday. Full Story
British Marine Commander to Be Replaced
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:11 by TRC-News
The commander of the British marine forces in Afghanistan is to be replaced after claims that he mishandled operations, lost the confidence of his men and infuriated British and U.S. officials. Full Story
Suicide Bomber Blows Himself Up
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:09 by TRC-News
A Palestinian militant detonated explosives at a busy intersection Monday as he was approached by police — killing himself, but causing no other injuries in the second suicide bombing in northern Israel in two days. Full Story
Officials: FBI shared suspicions
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:07 by TRC-News
The FBI asked the CIA to check on the backgrounds of Middle Eastern men taking flight lessons in Arizona months before Sept. 11 and were told the men had no direct connection to terrorists, senior government officials said Sunday. Full Story
W. Va. Guardsman killed in Afghanistan
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:06 by TRC-News
A West Virginia National Guardsman was killed in a firefight in eastern Afghanistan when his special operations unit came under fire, U.S. military officials said early today. Full Story
Bomber Disguised as Israeli Soldier Kills 3 in Market
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:04 by TRC-News
A suicide bomber disguised as an Israeli soldier blew himself apart on Sunday in a cramped market aisle here, ending almost two weeks of relative quiet in Israel by killing 3 Israelis and wounding more than 50 with a shrapnel-packed bomb. Full Story
Cheney Expects More Terror for U.S.
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:03 by TRC-News
Vice President Dick Cheney said today that he considered another major attack by Al Qaeda against the United States to be "almost certain." Full Story
Israel Arrests Settlers it Says Tried to Bomb Palestinians
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:01 by TRC-News
Israel's internal security agency, which usually searches for Palestinians deemed to be terrorists, now says it has uncovered a suspected Jewish network that apparently planned to bomb two or more Palestinian schools. Full Story
Early Warnings
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:00 by TRC-News
Last week, Democrats in Congress pounced on a disclosure that President Bush was cautioned last August, the month before the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, that Osama bin Laden might be planning a hijacking. Full Story
F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:58 by TRC-News
The F.B.I. had been aware for several years that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network were training pilots in the United States and elsewhere around the world, according to court records and interviews at flight schools and with federal law enforcement officials. Full Story
Democrats Raise Questions Over Remarks on Warnings
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:58 by TRC-News
Some Congressional Democratic leaders and party strategists raised concerns today about remarks made by senior Bush administration officials last fall that they had received no warnings about the type of terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11. Full Story
Tribute Will Signal the End of the Search
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:55 by TRC-News
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg delicately told New Yorkers yesterday that May 30 would be the day to move on. On that day, Mr. Bloomberg said, a minute before 10:30 a.m., Fire Department bells will ring and an honor guard made up of uniformed officers, ground zero workers and families of the dead will carry an empty stretcher draped with an American flag up a ramp that runs from the floor of the site to the street. The stretcher, representing the hundreds of bodies never recovered at the site, will then be placed in an ambulance and driven slowly up West Street. Full Story
Public Announcement: TURKEY
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:51 by TRC-News
The U.S. Government has received unconfirmed and fragmentary information that suggests unknown terrorists may be planning to conduct a terrorist incident, possibly to include activities directed against Civil Aviation. The Government of Turkey has already taken all prudent measures to address this possible incident. The U.S. and Turkey continue to consult and cooperate fully together in the war on terrorism. Full Story
Burundi Rebels Kill Guards, Kidnap Bishop
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:50 by TRC-News
Rebels in Burundi killed two guards and kidnapped a Catholic bishop and his driver when they ambushed their car on a road in the eastern part of the country, a local official said on Sunday. Full Story
Blast Damages Quebec City Synagogue
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:49 by TRC-News
A pre-dawn explosion Sunday at the only synagogue in Quebec City damaged the front door and shattered glass, but caused no injuries, police said. Full Story
Attacks Raise India-Pakistan Tension
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:48 by TRC-News
Fresh militant attacks on security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir and heavy exchanges of fire across the border are heightening fears of another Indo-Pakistani conflict. Full Story
Kashmir Just The Beginning in Jihadis' Vision of War
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:47 by TRC-News
The deadly hand of jihadis appears finally to have stoked the fires of confrontation to such an extent that a clash between India and Pakistan is inevitable. Full Story
Indonesian Muslim Militants Surrender Weapons
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:46 by TRC-News
Muslims in the riot-hit Indonesian province of Maluku yesterday surrendered hundreds of weapons and explosives to the security authorities. Full Story
Iranian Reformists Claim Responsibility For Bomb Near Militia Offices
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:45 by TRC-News
An explosion near offices of a hardline militia in Iran injured two pedestrians and caused minor damage, state radio reported Sunday. Full Story
Beirut Bomb Kills Militant Leader's Son
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
A car bomb has exploded in a busy commercial district of Beirut killing the son of hardline Palestinian leader Ahmed Jibril. Full Story
Liberian Rebels 'Holding' British Priest
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
Rebels in Liberia say they believe that some of their fighters have taken a British Roman Catholic priest prisoner. However, a spokesman for the rebels told Reuters news agency that he had no knowledge of the 60 blind refugees who had gone missing with Father Garreth Jenkins. In a bizarre coincidence, the rebel spokesman, William Hanson, said that he had once been taught by Father Jenkins and promised that he would not be harmed. Full Story
Opposition Mounts To Nepal Emergency
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
The Nepalese government's plans to extend a state of emergency have come under threat amid opposition to the move from a dissident faction within the ruling party. Full Story
Forum Vows to Resist Oil Firms' Threat
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
The recent decision by the major oil companies operating in the country to withdraw their monthly statutory three per cent allocation to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has come under strong criticism by the South-south Ideological Forum. Full Story
Philippine troops kill five suspected kidnappers
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:39 by TRC-News
Philippine troops killed five suspected kidnappers in a gun battle on Sunday with Muslim gunmen believed to be holding a South Korean hostage for more than three months, the military said. Full Story
5 Arrested for Abduction of Baguio Foreign Tourists
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
Philippine police have arrested a dismissed soldier and four other suspects in the abduction of a German woman and her Brazilian husband in a northern mountain resort, local authorities said Monday. Full Story
Al-Qaeda 'Responsible' For Tunisia Blast
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:31 by TRC-News
Al-Qaeda was responsible for last month's attack on a Tunisian synagogue which killed 19 people, a man described as an al-Qaeda commander has been quoted as saying. Full Story
FAA knew of Moussaoui arrest
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
A week before the Sept. 11 attack, investigators told the Federal Aviation Administration that student-pilot Zacarias Moussaoui had been arrested and was under investigation as a potential terrorist with a particular interest in flying Boeing 747s. But the agency decided against warning U.S. airlines to increase security. Full Story
Security Agency Mulls Emergency Number
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
Federal officials reviewing airline security are considering setting up toll-free telephone numbers that passengers in the air could use during emergencies. Full Story
Flight Crews' Reaction Mixed on a Lack of Pre-9/11 Alerts
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
Some pilots and flight attendants are criticizing airlines for not passing on to flight crews general warnings of terrorist threats that the federal government gave to the carriers before Sept. 11. But others say such vague warnings are useless and would have made little difference in the way they went about their daily routine. Full Story
Some Airport Workers Bypass Security
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:26 by TRC-News
While passengers and pilots pass through tightened airport security checkpoints, baggage handlers and other workers still bypass screeners and metal detectors by using identification cards that open locked doors. Full Story
Airlines Report Hearing Only Vague Caution
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
The two airlines whose planes were hijacked on Sept. 11 said today that they had received only general, vague warnings of terrorism last summer and nothing that would have prompted them to make major changes in their operations. Full Story
Applicants sought for part-time baggage screening jobs
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
The Transportation Security Administration will start considering job applications from people who want to work part-time as baggage screeners at the nation's airports, a spokesman said Friday. Full Story
Exporting weapons draws U.S. sanctions
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
Chinese and European arms exporters were hit with U.S. economic sanctions for selling cruise missile and chemical weapons goods to Iran, The Washington Times has learned. Full Story
Russia has loose grip on nuclear stockpiles
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
One day in February, Maxim Shingarkin, an antinuclear campaigner for Greenpeace Russia, led a Russian legislator and a camera crew past unwitting guards, around fences, and into the heart of a supposedly high-security restricted area in Siberia where 3,000 tons of highly radioactive, spent nuclear fuel are stored. Filming the whole way, traveling on well-worn footpaths, the six men spent several hours in the facility and left unnoticed. Full Story
No Decision on Anthrax Vaccine Program
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
The Defense Department is struggling toward a final decision on how to resume its controversial anthrax immunization program, balancing its need to protect U.S. troops with a desire to make the vaccine available to at-risk civilians. Full Story
W.H.O. Delays End of Smallpox Virus
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:18 by TRC-News
The World Health Organization agreed today to delay the planned destruction of the world's remaining stocks of the deadly smallpox virus to allow more time to develop new vaccines and treatments. Full Story
U.S. Dismisses July 4 Threat to Nuclear Sites
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:11 by TRC-News
White House and Justice Department officials Monday dismissed a recent intelligence tip about possible attacks against U.S. nuclear facilities on or around July 4, saying it is uncorroborated and came from an unreliable source. Full Story
Efforts to beef up port, rail security lose steam
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:10 by TRC-News
After Sept. 11, Congress was in a bipartisan rush to pass legislation to beef up transportation security. But after passage of an aviation security package last fall, security measures for railroads and ports appear to have all but drowned in a political quagmire. Full Story
TRC Terrorist Group Profile - ETA: Euskadi ta Askatasuna - Basque Group in Spain
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:04 by TRC-News
Located in the northwest corner of Spain, the Basque people have lived under centuries of semi-autonomous rule. During Franco's reign, however, this autonomy was drastically restricted. As a result, Basque nationalists, in conjunction with the newly-formed (1959) Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA) began to carry out acts of violence against a variety of targets. As the Basque movement grew, so to did the ETA. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Bookstores Recommends - No One a Neutral: Political Hostage Taking in the Modern World
Posted Monday, May 20, 2002 - 10:59 by TRC-News
No One a Neutral: Political Hostage Taking in the Modern World by Norman Antokol and Mayer Nudell is an essesntial read on the topic of political hostage taking. While this book was published several years ago, one need only look at today's headlines to determine the need for insights into this continuing phenomenon. Please note that while Amazon says this book may take 6-8 weeks, it is still in stock and should be available to you within 1-2 weeks after ordering. More Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:23 by TRC-News
05/17/1989
Germany - Conviction of Mohammad Ali Hamadei of hijacking TWA flight 847 on June 14, 1985 and of the murder of a passenger, U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem.
05/17/1983
Israel - Israeli Troops Leave Lebanon
05/18/1980
Peru - The Maoist terrorist movement Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) began its armed struggle.
05/19/1928
Cambodia - Birthday of Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge.
05/19/1991
Turkey - Ataturk Holiday
05/19/1890
Vietnam - Birthday of Ho Chi Minh
05/20/1989
China (- Martial Law in Beijing. The death of Hu Yao Bang on April 15 set off protests, hunger strikes, and the occupation of Tienanmen Square by pro-democracy student radicals, which led to the imposition of martial law in Beijing.
05/20/1927
Saudi Arabia - Independence Day
Full Story and More Dates
Democrats Press Ahead with Pre-Sept. 11 Probe
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:16 by TRC-News
Democratic leader Richard Gephardt said on Friday that inquiries into how much warning the U.S. government had of the Sept. 11 attacks would include members of Congress as well as the White House. Full Story
Mullah Omar Says Bin Laden Still Alive - Paper
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:15 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Plane Worker Charged in Bomb Threat
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:11 by TRC-News
A federal grand jury indicted a French flight attendant for allegedly writing bomb threats aboard a London-to-Orlando flight, prompting a precautionary landing in Iceland. Full Story
State Dept. Report Investigating Arafat's Links to Terror Is at Odds With Israeli Claims
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:09 by TRC-News
A new State Department report has found "no conclusive evidence" that Yasir Arafat or other senior Palestinian leaders planned or approved specific terrorist attacks on Israel in the six months that ended in December, an assertion sharply at odds with recent Israeli claims. Full Story
Foreboding Increased, but No Single Agency Had All the Clues
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:08 by TRC-News
Foreboding grew in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, as President Bush and his national security aides studied intelligence reports hinting that terrorists could be plotting a major attack, Mr. Bush's National Security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said today. Full Story
Machinery saved people in WTC
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:06 by TRC-News
The 16 people who escaped the burning top floors of the World Trade Center's south tower owe their lives to an unlikely hero: a row of giant elevator machines that shielded one stairway from destruction. Full Story
Macapagal defends pact with MILF
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:04 by TRC-News
President Macapagal-Arroyo said Wednesday there was nothing in a recent agreement signed by the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that returned captured rebel camps to the MILF. Full Story
Public Announcement: NEPAL
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:02 by TRC-News
Recent reports of threats against and robberies of American trekkers, property destruction suffered by two businesses with an American affiliation, and increased anti-American rhetoric by the Maoist leadership indicate an increased risk to Americans in Nepal, particularly outside the Kathmandu Valley. Full Story
Public Announcement: VENEZUELA
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:01 by TRC-News
The Department of State cautions U.S. citizens in Venezuela to avoid demonstrations and to take appropriate precautions to protect themselves from common crime. Because of the continued threat of kidnapping near Venezuela's border with Colombia, the Department of State advises against travel to that region. Full Story
Shed Where Pearl Held Believed Found
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:00 by TRC-News
Investigators searched a single-room shed on Friday where they believe Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was held for two or three days before he was killed and his body buried nearby. Full Story
Dozens Dead in Colombia Clashes
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:59 by TRC-News
Up to 80 people have been killed in Colombia as Marxist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries continue their war for territorial control in the north-western province of Antioquia. Full Story
Failed Attack on US Store in Berlin Ahead of Bush Visit
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:57 by TRC-News
Following the failed arson attack on a store of the US Wal-Mart supermarket chain in Berlin, police investigations are in full swing. However, no firm lead has been discovered yet, a police spokesman stated on Friday 17 May . It was not clear, either, whether the attempted attack was in any way related to the planned visit to Berlin by US President George W. Bush next week, he added. The police state protection office, which is responsible for crimes with a political background, has taken care of the investigations. Full Story
Kashmiri Group Vows To Continue Struggle
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:56 by TRC-News
Kashmir's main militant alliance vowed on Thursday to continue its armed struggle against Indian troops as New Delhi contemplated its response to a bloody attack in the state. Full Story
India, Pakistan Trade Fire After Army Camp Raid
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:54 by TRC-News
Indian and Pakistani troops traded unusually heavy border fire on Friday as New Delhi weighed its response to Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant groups it blamed for a raid on an Indian army camp. Full Story
Iran Faces Social Explosion
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:53 by TRC-News
Iran is on the verge of a social explosion, according to a leading conservative cleric. The cleric, Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini, is the deputy head of the influential and conservative Assembly of Experts - the body that has the authority to appoint or dismiss the country's supreme leader. Full Story
Liberian Fighters Claim Victory Over Encroaching Rebels
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:51 by TRC-News
Liberian forces claimed Thursday to have driven back the strongest offensive of a 3-year-old guerrilla campaign against President Charles Taylor's government after retaking a key central stronghold. Full Story
Mexico Continues Search for Stolen Cyanide
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:49 by TRC-News
Mexican police found a stolen truck today that was carrying 10 tons of sodium cyanide, but one drum containing the deadly chemical had been opened and most of the others were missing. Full Story
Death by Design
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:48 by TRC-News
The killing of Pakistan's most wanted terrorist Riaz Basra was hailed a success by the government but questions have been asked about the case, writes Rory McCarthy. Full Story
Bomb Injures Nine People in Philippine Market
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:46 by TRC-News
A homemade bomb exploded Thursday in a crowded public market in the southern Philippines, injuring nine people in a region on alert for possible attacks from Muslim rebels and extortion gangs, officials said. Full Story
Putin Puts Country on Alert
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:45 by TRC-News
One week after a bomb shattered a World War II Victory Day celebration killing 42 people in Dagestan, President Vladimir Putin ordered the nation's defense and security organizations to be on "permanent high alert." Full Story
Mailroom Meltdown at Library of Congress
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:42 by TRC-News
At the Library of Congress, the fight against terrorism has left a bit of a mess. The process of zapping the mail is so intense--postal officials originally used an irradiation level 25 times greater than that used to kill bacteria on beef--that letters routinely arrive yellowed, crinkled and sometimes burned beyond recognition. Even though the thermostat has since been turned down to a mere 10 times the normal zap, the mail is being cooked at temperatures as great as 170 degrees, and damage is noticeable. Full Story
Defense Agency Found Using Unsecure WLAN Security Cameras
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:39 by TRC-News
The agency responsible for the U.S. Defense Department's global networks and classified command and control systems has a gaping security hole in its front yard -- security cameras at its headquarters in Arlington, Va., are connected to a nonsecure and unencrypted wireless LAN. Chris O'Ferrell, chief technology officer at NETSEC Inc. in Herndon, Va., which provides intrusion-detection services to numerous federal agencies and commercial customers, detected the nonsecure wireless LAN at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DSIA) last Friday. Full Story
The Indian Cyber Criminal is Amongst the Best Brains in the World
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:37 by TRC-News
With the worldwide Internet population growing at an unprecedented pace, the task of dealing with a cyber criminal is getting complex each passing day. The increase in the quantum of sensitive data in cyberspace has particularly put the spotlight on cyber-policing and security measures. Supreme Court lawyer and cyber crime consultant Pavan Duggal spoke to eFE on the emerging challenges to deal with cyber crime in India. Full Story
Fire, infrastructure offices launch information-sharing effort
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:34 by TRC-News
The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) and the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) on Monday launched an information-sharing partnership to better inform the nation's "first responders" to emergencies of potential terrorist threats. Full Story
Fanatics with Laptops: The Coming Cyber War
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:32 by TRC-News
The blossoming of the Internet and its universal adoption have reinforced a trend toward interdependence of the world's political, economic and social systems. That increasing interdependence, however, becomes frightening when one considers that a next-generation cyber terrorist will likely not represent an aggressive world power. Full Story
Hackers turn on open source
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:30 by TRC-News
The hacker underground appears to be moving away from targeting Microsoft, as May turns out to be a hot month for attacks on open source security. Security watchers warned this week that May has seen a dramatic increase in defacements on Linux boxes, most noticeably on those from German speaking domains. Full Story
Face Recognition Technology Fails Again, ACLU Claims
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:28 by TRC-News
The civil rights group, a vociferous opponent of the technology that has figured prominently in national security planning since terrorist attacks in the U.S. last year, said the first four weeks of testing at the Palm Beach airport showed the technology was "less accurate than a coin toss." Full Story
Pentagon hires anti-terror sniffer bees
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:27 by TRC-News
The US government is hoping to use the wired up insects to sniff out minute residues of explosives and lead them to bomb factories and landmines. Each bee will carry a tiny wireless transmitter which can be tracked using a wireless connection to an army laptop computer. The bees are trained to think that TNT contains sugar so that they make a beeline for it. Full Story
TRC Terrorist Group Profile - PLO
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:24 by TRC-News
The Palestine Liberation Organization is undoubtedly one of the best known terrorist organizations in the world. Accordingly, the organization is led by perhaps the best known individual in the modern history of international terrorism; Yasser Arafat. The PLO was created in 1964 during a meeting known as the Palestinian Congress in an effort to give a voice to the large number of Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon. It was not long before the group began to splinter into various factions, all of whom believed they knew the best way to achieve Palestinian liberation. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Bookstore Recommends - The World's Most Dangerous Places
Posted Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:21 by TRC-News
The World's Most Dangerous Places, 4th Edition by Robert Young Pelton is one of the most fascinating books I've added to my library this year. Pelton provides an overview of the world's hot-spots (over 30 countries) that is so unique it has earned this book a spot on the CIA's required reading list. Pelton's insights are humorous, educational, and may just save your life should you ever find yourself face-to-face with terrorists, third-world rebels, or armed bandits. At over 1000 pages, you won't read this book in on sitting, but you will find yourself constantly referencing it, especially if you follow the news from some of the world's least popular places. More Book Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:19 by TRC-News
05/16/1983
Sudan - The Sudanese People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/SPLA) was founded.
05/17/1989
Germany - Conviction of Mohammad Ali Hamadei of hijacking TWA flight 847 on June 14, 1985 and of the murder of a passenger, U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem.
05/17/1983
Israel - Israeli Troops Leave Lebanon
Full Story and More Dates
Bush Was Told of Hijacking Dangers
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:15 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Congress Demands Answers of Bush About Pre-Sept 11
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:14 by TRC-News
Members of Congress demanded answers on Thursday on whether the U.S. government had enough information to head off the Sept. 11 attacks, as the White House went into damage control over disclosure that President Bush received a warning in August of a possible plot to hijack U.S. planes. Full Story
GIs Battle 'Ghosts' in Afghanistan
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:12 by TRC-News
The three men were acting suspiciously, running back and forth, pointing and ducking and carrying something into a streambed. Watching from a nearby hill, 1st Lt. Quinn Eddy and his men decided they could be hostile and prepared for a firefight. Full Story
Afghan Chiefs Say Bin Laden, Omar Likely Alive
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:10 by TRC-News
A provincial governor and a warlord from a part of eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar were once believed to be hiding said on Thursday they thought the pair may still be alive. Full Story
FBI Agents Cross-Examined in Pearl Murder Case
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:09 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Analysis: Tough times for Iran reformists
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:07 by TRC-News
A prominent reformist member of Iran's parliament predicts tougher times ahead for his colleagues and co-thinkers even as Iranian President Mohammad Khatami seeks to ease pressure on embattled reformists. Full Story
Analysis: U.S. and South Asia
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:05 by TRC-News
Yet another U.S. attempt to defuse tensions between South Asia's two belligerent nuclear neighbors -- India and Pakistan -- appears to have ended without much success. Full Story
Mystery Fever Strikes British Troops
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:04 by TRC-News
British forces racing to find the cause of a mystery fever that has struck 18 soldiers at an Afghan air base evacuated another six men to the United Kingdom for emergency treatment Thursday, a British military spokesman said. Full Story
AAA: Fewer to Fly Over Memorial Day
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:02 by TRC-News
Marking the start of the first summer travel season since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the former American Automobile Association said 35.2 million U.S. travelers are expected to go at least 50 miles from home on the holiday weekend. That's a 1 percent boost from the 34.9 million who traveled during the same period last year. Full Story
Palestinian Legislators Demand Vote
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:01 by TRC-News
In the most serious challenge yet to Yasser Arafat top Palestinian legislators demanded Thursday that general elections be held within a year, as part of wide-ranging reforms aimed at overhauling the corruption-ridden Palestinian Authority. Full Story
Asian Regional Antiterrorism Effort
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 12:00 by TRC-News
Defense ministers from Russia, China and three central Asian nations decided to pool their efforts to combat terrorism, extremism and separatist movements, saying they posed a threat to the entire region. Full Story
Drugs, Terror and Tuna: How Goals Clash
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:57 by TRC-News
This industrial city on the southern coast of Mindanao Island illustrates how America's various strategic aims in the wars on drugs and terrorism can clash, alienating important allies engaged in battling terrorism. Full Story
Defendant in Terrorism Case Balks at Psychiatric Testing
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:56 by TRC-News
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is refusing to submit to a psychiatric examination, leading a federal judge to warn that she may deny his request to represent himself at trial, according to a court document released today. Full Story
Secure often means secret
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:53 by TRC-News
In the eight months since the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, the Bush administration has moved more quickly than any administration since World War II to make government activities, documents and other information secret, liberals and conservatives say. Full Story
Army officials on alert against attacks from above
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:51 by TRC-News
In the midst of their war on terrorism, the Army's leaders are waging another battle inside the Pentagon against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Last week's public fight between the Army and Rumsfeld over the future of the $11 billion Crusader artillery system was only the latest clash between the military's largest service branch and the Defense chief. In recent months, they have sparred over issues that range from new weapons the Army wants to possible troop cuts to the future role of ground forces in war. Full Story
State Department Public Announcement: ZIMBABWE
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:31 by TRC-News
U.S. citizens in Zimbabwe should be aware of continuing conditions that could adversely affect their personal security. The political, social, economic, and security situation in Zimbabwe remains fluid. There continue to be incidents of land seizures, police roadblocks, political violence and intimidation in urban, and especially rural areas. The possibility of mass demonstrations cannot be discounted. Growing food shortages and increasing numbers of internally displaced persons have added to social and economic tensions. Full Story
Angola Rebel Soldiers 'Starving'
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
Reports from Angola say Unita soldiers are starving in the demobilisation camps where most are now gathered as part of a ceasefire agreement to end decades of civil war. Full Story
Burma - KNU Claims Success in Skirmishes
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
Burma's ethnic minority rebels claim they have killed 25 government soldiers and their Buddhist Karen allies in two separate attacks on Tuesday and yesterday. Karen National Union soldiers wade across the Moei river towards Mae Konken village in Tak's Mae Sot district after an attack on a Burmese outpost yesterday. They were trying to return to their base via Thailand, but Thai soldiers pushed them back. Full Story
India Weighs Kashmir Response
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
Senior Indian ministers and security officials have been meeting in the capital, Delhi, to decide how to react to Tuesday's militant attack on an army camp in Jammu and Kashmir. Thirty-four people, many of them women and chidren and including the attackers, were killed in the gunfight, the bloodiest in the region since last October. Full Story
Pakistan Prepared to Repulse Attack: Nisar Urges Peace with India
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
The government has sufficiently enhanced its military strength on borders to repulse any attack by the enemy, Information Minister Nisar Memon said on Wednesday. Full Story
Jakarta Action Against Militants Impeded by VP
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:26 by TRC-News
Indonesian Vice-President Hamzah Haz is courting several militant leaders, impeding government efforts to crack down on suspected terrorists in the country. Full Story
Singapore Strait Patrols Keep Pirates at Bay
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
Indonesia-Malaysia Joint patrols have kept the area safe but nearby Malacca Strait is still the most pirate-infested in the world. Full Story
Iraq Accepts Oil-For-Food Extension
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
Iraq has accepted an extension of the United Nations oil-for-food programme, but again rejected a new sanctions regime imposed by the Security Council. The UN Security Council unanimously passed the sanctions resolution on Tuesday, which frees up the delivery of civilian goods to Iraq but restricts imports which could be used for military purposes. Full Story
Foes Unite to Oust Liberia's Charles Taylor
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
Charles Taylor helped pile up a lot of bodies - a quarter-million, by rough count - and racked up a lot of enemies over a decade-plus of fueling conflicts at home in Liberia and among its neighbors. The dead are buried, but the enemies have united, and now they have one common goal: Getting rid of Taylor. "If he doesn't leave, we'll force him to leave," a rebel spokesman, William Hanson, declared from the bush in northern Liberia this week. Full Story
Arab Groups Mark Israel's Birthday With Subdued Protests
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
Police outnumbered pro-Palestinian protesters in Egypt at annual gatherings Wednesday to mark the creation of the state of Israel 54 years ago - a day mourned as catastrophic in the Arab world. Full Story
Pakistan Steps Up al-Qaeda Search
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
Pakistan has sent more than 1,000 troops near Afghanistan's borders as it steps up its search for suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban militants. The move comes shortly after US press reports said that Washington was not pleased with Pakistan's efforts in the region. Full Story
Briton, 4 Filipinos Injured in Davao Hotel Blast
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:16 by TRC-News
A British man and four Filipinos were seriously injured in two separate explosions in the southern Philippines on Thursday, police said. Full Story
Cops Kill 8 Kidnap Suspects
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
Eight suspected members of the "Oliver" kidnapping gang, who were allegedly about to kidnap a wealthy Batangas businessman, were killed while a policeman was wounded in an encounter here yesterday afternoon. Full Story
Cheers Greet Election Results in Sierra Leone Capital
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
Freetown's people cheered unofficial, incomplete results showing President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah far in the lead in war-scarred Sierra Leone's elections. Results Wednesday showed the party of reconstituted rebels trailing well behind. Full Story
Sri Lanka Government's Reconnaissance Flights Irk Tamil Rebels
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:13 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are irked by the air force reconnaissance flights over the north and east of the country, claiming that it is a violation of a truce agreement signed between them and the government. Full Story
Sudan Ready to Respond to International Peace Efforts: President
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir on Wednesday expressed his sincere hope for peace and stability in his war-torn country. "The Sudanese government is ready to respond to all the effort made by Arab countries and the international community to achieve the objective," Bashir said after talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak. Full Story
Anthrax Vaccine Challenged
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
An attorney for two Air Force officers told a federal judge in Washington yesterday that the Department of Defense does not have the right to inoculate troops with an anthrax vaccine that has not received final approval by the Food and Drug Administration. Full Story
Massport hoping to create elite police unit at Logan
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:08 by TRC-News
Massport officials and Acting Governor Jane Swift said yesterday that state officials are negotiating with the police union to make all 144 officers of the State Police barracks at Logan International Airport part of a single, elite antiterrorism unit. Full Story
Replacing Airport Screeners Proves Tough
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:07 by TRC-News
After 4,800 people applied for 600 federal airport screening jobs at Baltimore-Washington International, the Transportation Security Administration confidently removed the job application from its Web site. Then the problems started. Hundreds of applicants either failed the government's tests for prospective screeners or they didn't even show up for the exam, according to a TSA official. Full Story
Jackal-Dog Created for Airport Security
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:05 by TRC-News
Russian scientists have let the wild dogs out by mating jackals with domesticated dogs to create a canine with a heightened sense of smell that can sniff out bombs, drugs and other threats to flight safety. Full Story
Securing The Center
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
Heightened concerns about cyberterrorism and the increasing need to open internal networks to outside access are pushing corporations to bolster data center security, both on the IT front and physically. The goal is to add multiple layers of protection and redundancy around the data center infrastructure and software while still maintaining the levels of service demanded by the business. Full Story
Firms weigh in on national plan
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
The information technology and communications sectors May 13 formally submitted their input on the latest version of the plan for securing the nation's critical infrastructure. Richard Clarke, President Bush's cyberspace security adviser, is leading development of the national plan. Full Story
Deceptive Duo Suspects Netted In FBI Raids
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:55 by TRC-News
Teenager Robert Lyttle, notorious more than a year ago as the pro-Napster hacker Pimpshiz, has been linked to another round of high-profile Web-site defacements following FBI raids targeting a pair known as the Deceptive Duo. Full Story
Hackers Use Skills To Promote Politically Motivated Mischief
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:54 by TRC-News
American hackers aligned with others around the globe to penetrate, deface and possibly crash hundreds of Web sites based in the Middle East thought to be affiliated with the terrorists, Infowar.com reported. Full Story
Turkey Mulls Strict Net Bill
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:49 by TRC-News
A media bill to go before the Turkish parliament Tuesday could cripple the Internet industry, harm the nation's struggling economy and hobble free speech on the Web, observers say. The bill would expand already stringent regulations on all forms of media and would require websites to submit two hard copies of pages to be posted on the Internet to a government agency for prior approval. Full Story
Homeland security effort boosts e-gov initiatives
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:46 by TRC-News
"E-gov"--shorthand for the information technology-based initiative intended to make it easier for individuals to access government services, while also cutting costs--has been expanding throughout the past decade, as the Internet has reached into the homes of rank-and-file citizens. But it is receiving heightened attention since the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story
TRC Counterterrorist Organization Profiles - Netherlands Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid - BBE
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:39 by TRC-News
The Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid, or BBE, is the elite counterterrorist unit of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. This unit was made famous in 1977 when they brought an end to the hijacking of a train by South Mollucan terrorists. This incident was one of the defining moments in the history of modern counterterrorism and provided lessons which are still being taught today. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Bookstore Recommends - InfoWar
Posted Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:35 by TRC-News
Winn Schwartau is one of the earliest architects of the information warfare concept. In this second edition of his most popular title "Information Warfare", Schwartau supplements his own thoughts and experiences in the fields with those of numerous other security professionals. This book is a must-read introdcution to the topic. More Book Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:30 by TRC-News
05/15/1979
Iraq, Israel - Arab terrorist group 15 May Organization Founded
05/15/1991
Israel - Palestinian Struggle Day
05/16/1983
Sudan - The Sudanese People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/SPLA) was founded.
Full Story and More Dates
Blair Says He Wants to 'Get Rid' of Saddam
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday he favored getting rid of President Saddam Hussein, but signaled he might change his view if Iraq allowed U.N. weapons inspectors back in unconditionally. Full Story
Pakistan Court Hears E-Mail Links to Pearl Accused
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
Pakistani prosecutors produced two witnesses on Wednesday they said established links between two key e-mails and four men on trial over the kidnapping and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. Full Story
Arafat calls for change, reform
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday called for change and reform of the Palestinian Authority and new elections, and again denounced armed attacks that target Israeli civilians. Full Story
Report:IRA chief meets Colombia terrorists
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
A senior leader of the Irish Republican Army, on parole from a 24-year sentence for possession of a car bomb, traveled to Colombia to meet Marxist terrorists being trained by the IRA in exchange for drug money, a London newspaper reported Wednesday. Full Story
S.Korea, Japan stage anti-terrorism drill
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
South Korea and Japan, co-hosts of the upcoming World Cup soccer finals, conducted a joint maritime drill Wednesday aimed at honing tactics and skills that may be needed in the event of a terrorist attack or other types of trouble during the high-profile tournament. Full Story
L.A. to Accept Mexican ID Cards
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
The City Council approved a six-month pilot program allowing city agencies to accept identification cards issued by the Mexican consulate, giving thousands of immigrants greater access to government. Full Story
Gunmen Kill 30, Including 10 Children, in Kashmir
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Report: India, Pakistan Were Near Nuclear War in '99
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:10 by TRC-News
Pakistan was preparing to possibly fire nuclear weapons during a 1999 border conflict with India, moving the countries closer to nuclear war than was commonly known at the time, according to a new article by President Bill Clinton's chief White House adviser on South Asia. Full Story
FBI Director to Propose 'Super Squad' for Terror
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Air Testing After Sept. 11 Is Both Perplexing and Reassuring
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 10:55 by TRC-News
The ground-level atmosphere of Lower Manhattan has become one of the most intensely studied and sampled environments on the planet. Air monitors have been hung from trees and strapped to the belts of truck drivers. At least 11,000 people who worked at ground zero have had chest X-rays. Thousands more have been interviewed by researchers. What has been learned, scientists say, will have a far-reaching effect on urban disasters in the future. Full Story
US now holds a regional Taliban chief
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
US special forces have captured a former Taliban regional commander in the southern city of Kandahar, an Afghan general said yesterday. Abdul Salam was taken into custody late last week, after he met in Kandahar with American officers and an aide of the city's governor, said General Khan Mohammed, the head of the Afghan military in Kandahar. Full Story
Pre-Attack Memo Cited Bin Laden
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 10:52 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Pentagon wants extra $10 million for Northern Command
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 10:51 by TRC-News
The Defense Department has included $10 million in its fiscal 2002 supplemental appropriations request to help set up the proposed Northern Command, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. Full Story
New Joint Task Force to Command U.S. Forces in Afghanistan
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 10:49 by TRC-News
An Army three-star general will assume command of a new joint task force that will consolidate operations in Afghanistan under one umbrella. Joint Task Force Afghanistan is scheduled to stand up in Kandahar in late May or early June, Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today in a Pentagon briefing. Full Story
TRC Terrorist Group Profiles - Hizballah
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 10:44 by TRC-News
Hizballah, or Party of God, is one of the more significant indepenence movements based in the Middle East. This Lebanese Shi'ite group was created in 1983 with strong guidance from the Islamic government in Iran. Its goal today, as always, is the creation of an independent, Islamic Lebanon and the ouster of anything related to the "godless West", which is borne out in their virulently anti-U.S. and anti-Israel activities. In light of these facts, it is no surprise that Hizballah has been extremely active in its efforts to disrupt the process. Full Profile
TRC Bookstore Recommends - American Terrorist
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck's American Terrorist is not only the most illuminating book on the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah building, but stands as one of the few books about a terrorist incident where the perpetrator expounds point by point on his crime. The authors were able to spend over 78 hours interviewing McVeigh, and countless days with over 150 others regarding the bombing. McVeigh's confession is brutal in honesty and lack of remorse. There will never be another book on the OKC bombing with this much detail, or McVeigh's own words. This is a book that all in the field of counter terrorism should read. More TRC Book Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 0:03 by TRC-News
05/14/1948
Israel - State of Israel Proclaimed as the British mandate in Palestine expired.
05/14/1948
Israel - First Arab-Israeli War Began shortly after the state of Israel was proclaimed.
05/14/1985
Sri Lanka - Tamil Separatists Attack Buddhist Shrine killing more than 150.
05/15/1979
Iraq, Israel - Arab terrorist group 15 May Organization Founded
05/15/1991
Israel - Palestinian Struggle Day
Full Story and More Dates
Strike on Nuclear Plants Threatened
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:59 by TRC-News
U.S. intelligence officials have received threats that terrorists will strike a U.S. nuclear power plant July 4, and are reviewing the information to determine whether it is reliable. Full Story
Nuclear Plant Threat Called Unreliable
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:58 by TRC-News
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials have received information suggesting terrorists are planning an attack July 4 on a nuclear power plant, but they do not consider the threat credible enough to warrant a new alert, authorities said yesterday. Full Story
G8 Justice Officials Seek Action on Terror Funds
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:57 by TRC-News
The world's rich industrialized nations adopted a blueprint on Tuesday to battle terrorism and trans-border crime, urging countries to make extradition easier and choke off funds to terrorist groups. Full Story
Treaty's Dark Side: Threat of Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:56 by TRC-News
To generations who came of age during the Cold War, the nuclear arms agreement announced Monday by U.S. and Russian officials has the ring of a once-impossible dream. Thousands of nuclear weapons would be removed from arsenals that defined decades of hostility between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Full Story
Ill. Charity Chief's Photos Released
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:54 by TRC-News
Photos discovered on a computer disk during a raid on an Islamic charity's office in Bosnia, including one of Osama bin Laden, were released by a judge as he refused to throw out perjury charges against the leader of the foundation. Full Story
Sifting the Last Tons of Sept. 11 Debris
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:53 by TRC-News
At the other place, the place called The Hill, things are winding down. Workers are decontaminating the barges, towing away equipment, spraying the ground with a gray concrete sealant. Soon, the makeshift village of sorrowful duty that sits on a remote landfill will exist only in the memory of a few. Full Story
San Diego Home to Many 9/11 Terrorists
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:52 by TRC-News
A "high number" of the Sept. 11 hijackers and their associates made their homes in San Diego, according to newly released court documents. Shortly after the attacks, federal authorities identified three hijackers on the plane that struck the Pentagon as having San Diego connections. Full Story
U.S. Troops in Thailand for Anti-Terror Exercise
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:50 by TRC-News
More than 20,000 troops from the United States, Thailand and Singapore began annual war games in Thailand on Tuesday, which for the first time include training in battling terrorism. Full Story
UK Marines insist hunt for al-Qaida was a success
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:49 by TRC-News
The Royal Marines have announced the end of Operation Snipe, their two-week search for al-Qaida fighters and weapons in mountainous areas of southeastern Afghanistan in which they saw no sign of the enemy. Full Story
Graham: Step up hunt for terrorists, scale back on Iraq
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:48 by TRC-News
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham said Monday that the Bush administration should slow down plans to attack Iraq but speed up efforts against terrorist groups, including the Middle East's powerful Hezbollah. Full Story
Chicago Judge Rules Against Muslim Charity
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:47 by TRC-News
A federal judge told a Muslim charity on Tuesday it may not proceed with a lawsuit to recover assets frozen by the U.S. government until a criminal complaint alleging it lied about supporting "terrorist activity" is settled. Full Story
Alabama Church Bombing Called 'Medal' for Klansman
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:46 by TRC-News
The 1963 bombing that killed four black girls at a Birmingham church was an accused ex-Ku Klux Klansman's "badge of honor," prosecutors told an Alabama jury during opening statements on Tuesday, in a case involving one of the most violent acts of the U.S. civil rights movement. Full Story
Operation to catch bin Laden, Omar soon
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:44 by TRC-News
A major operation to catch Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar will be launched in the next 10 days, Kandahar's governor said. Full Story
Pakistan kills a master terrorist
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:43 by TRC-News
Pakistan announced Tuesday the death of Riaz Basra, a man linked to dozens, if not hundreds, of sectarian murders across the country. Full Story
FBI makes rare Pakistan court appeareance
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:41 by TRC-News
In a rare display of cooperation, the FBI has allowed two of its agents to appear before a Pakistani court trying four men accused of kidnapping and slaying Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Full Story
Bush Signs Border Security Law
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:40 by TRC-News
President Bush signed legislation Tuesday to hire more investigators and invest in new technologies to keep tabs on foreign visitors. "We must know who's coming into our country and why they're coming," Bush said. Full Story
No Direct Questioning of Detainees
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:39 by TRC-News
Government lawyers Tuesday rejected direct questioning of military detainees in Cuba by attorneys for John Walker Lindh, the American who fought on the front lines with the al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners. Full Story
Lawyers Seek Release of American captured in Afghanistan
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:36 by TRC-News
The government is breaking the law by detaining without charges the second American-born prisoner captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan defense attorneys said in court papers. Full Story
Senator: Bin Laden still threat to U.S.
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:33 by TRC-News
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham said Monday that Osama bin Laden is probably alive and that eliminating the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ''by capture or death'' must remain a priority. Full Story
Study: Anthrax Tainted Up to 5,000 Letters
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:30 by TRC-News
Envelopes full of anthrax spores cross-contaminated as many as 5,000 letters in the eastern United States, almost certainly causing the mysterious deaths of two women in New York City and rural Connecticut, scientists said yesterday. Full Story
Man in UK Anthrax Hoax Case Sentenced
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:29 by TRC-News
A kitchen worker who sparked an anthrax alert a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by leaving an envelope packed with white sugar powder to play a joke on a colleague was ordered Tuesday to do 100 hours of community service. Full Story
Health officials building global collaboration on bioterror response
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:27 by TRC-News
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, health leaders across the globe are collaborating to prepare countries for possible bioterror strikes. Full Story
In US 'war on terror,' Syria is foe – and friend
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:24 by TRC-News
Since Sept. 11, Syrian information has been instrumental in catching militant Islamists around the world, say US officials. But at the same time, Syria's hatred of Israel – and the Jewish state's own "war on terrorism," directed at militant Palestinian organizations – has created a difficult balancing act for those who would seek better relations between the United States and Syria. Full Story
Spanish Court Convicts 17 ETA Suspects
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:20 by TRC-News
Spain's High Court Monday convicted and sentenced 17 members or collaborators of the violent Basque separatist group ETA, handing authorities a victory in their crackdown against the outlawed organization. Full Story
Annan urges Cyprus talks progress
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:19 by TRC-News
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has arrived in Cyprus to try to revive talks on the future of the divided island. Full Story
Pakistan Trial Views Video Showing Pearl Dead
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:18 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Nepal PM seeks British help
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:16 by TRC-News
Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has confirmed he is seeking military assistance from Britain in his talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Full Story
Nepal Army Regroups for New Strikes Against Rebels
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:14 by TRC-News
Nepal's ill-equipped army is regrouping to launch fresh strikes against Maoist rebels in their west Nepal stronghold after two of the deadliest battles in the six-year uprising, officials said Sunday. Full Story
Al-Qa'ida arms link to rebels in Nepal
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:13 by TRC-News
Western intelligence agencies suspect that al-Qa'ida is implicated in supplies of sophisticated weaponry reaching Maoist insurgents in Nepal, where six years of fighting have claimed more than 4,000 lives. Full Story
Malaysia and US to sign anti-terror declaration
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:11 by TRC-News
Malaysia and the United States will sign a declaration to combat international terrorism during Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s visit here which begins today. Full Story
Rumsfeld Pushes Indonesia Relations
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:10 by TRC-News
It's time to rebuild military relations with Indonesia, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday, more than two years after programs were suspended because of human rights violations. Full Story
Indonesia says it won't allow anti-terror U.S. forces
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:09 by TRC-News
Indonesia will not allow U.S. forces on its soil to help in the fight against terrorism, but is eager to normalise military relations that had been severed in 1999, Indonesian Defence Minister Matori Abdul Djalil said on Monday. Full Story
Indonesia military suspected in Papuan leader's death
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:08 by TRC-News
Six months after the death, a government investigation committee has confirmed what many in Papua say they knew from the start: Eluay was the victim of an Army assassination. So far, six suspects have been detained, including Major Hutabarat and his commander, Colonel Hartomo, who both attended the memorial dinner. Full Story
Indonesia hands second death penalty over bombing
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:06 by TRC-News
An Indonesian court on Monday sentenced to death an accomplice of a Malaysian bomber over an explosion at a Jakarta shopping mall last year that was linked by the judge to an international terrorist network. Full Story
Fighting breaks out in DR Congo
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:02 by TRC-News
At least two people were killed in Kisangani early on Tuesday when soldiers from the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy mutinied and took over a local radio station. Full Story
At Least 30 Killed in Kashmir by Suspected Islamic Militants
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:01 by TRC-News
In one of the deadliest terrorist attacks India has witnessed in recent years, three heavily armed men disguised in army fatigues killed 30 people today and wounded 48 in wild sprays of automatic gunfire on the outskirts of Jammu, the winter capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Full Story
Sierra Leoneans Vote After Decade of War
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 23:00 by TRC-News
Sierra Leoneans, some with hands hacked off by rebels, voted on Tuesday in elections to give their West African country a new start after a decade of war. Full Story
Liberia calls up military personnel
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:58 by TRC-News
The Liberian authorities have issued a call-up of all military personnel, instructing them to report to the main barracks in the capital, Monrovia. Full Story
U.N. Revamps Sanctions Against Iraq
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:57 by TRC-News
A unified Security Council revamped U.N. sanctions against Iraq Tuesday to speed the delivery of food and medicine and also strengthen an 11-year-old military embargo. Full Story
Philippine Gunmen Said Willing to Free U.S. Hostage
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:55 by TRC-News
The Philippine military said on Tuesday Muslim guerrillas might release a U.S. woman missionary who has been held hostage for almost a year because her health was deteriorating. Full Story
Federal security supervisor on way to beleagured Logan
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:53 by TRC-News
Logan International Airport, whose security was ridiculed after two airliners hijacked from there slammed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, is about to get a new federal supervisor responsible for security, according to high-level government officials. Full Story
Man removed from plane at BWI after making threat
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:52 by TRC-News
Reid Davis, an airline spokesman, said Flight 1446 from Atlanta was headed toward LaGuardia Airport in New York with 142 passengers. The MD-80 plane landed about 5:40 p.m. at Baltimore-Washington International Airport because of thunderstorms, Davis said. Full Story
Officials: Lack of trust undermines security
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:49 by TRC-News
Industry, government wary of info sharing. The private sector manages more than 85 percent of the nation's critical infrastructure and must therefore collaborate with the government to protect those resources, officials said at a Senate hearing last week. Full Story
Two Virginia Universities To Join Forces Against Cybercrime
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:47 by TRC-News
The Critical Infrastructure Protection Project - to be housed at the George Mason School of Law in Arlington - is a collaborative effort between GMU's National Center for Technology and Law and researchers and academicians at James Madison University. Full Story
War on cybercrime--we're losing
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:46 by TRC-News
Although law enforcement agencies are quick to trumpet their occasional victories against cybercriminals, they are rarely able to track down hackers sophisticated enough to pull off such complicated heists. Few hackers of this caliber are arrested, and fewer still spend time behind bars. Full Story
E-Defining Education
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:44 by TRC-News
Cyber Schools, Online Teaching and Testing, and Other E-Learning Initiatives are Changing How Schools Operate. Full Story
Biotech firms figure into homeland security
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:40 by TRC-News
Military and federal health officials, seeking cutting-edge technologies to defend the country against bioterrorism and protect soldiers on the battlefield, are turning to the biotechnology industry for help. Full Story
Complete STARS system is operating at Texas airport
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:39 by TRC-News
STARS, the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, has been implemented in El Paso International Airport, TX. The new STARS system will replace terminal radar in 172 Federal Aviation Association and 199 Department of Defense facilities. The next airport scheduled to complete the conversion is in Philadelphia, PA in November 2002. Full Story
Computer-based artificial societies may create real policy
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:38 by TRC-News
Agent-based modeling is an emerging computer technology that holds promise as a powerful tool for analyzing policy problems - and experts in the field believe it has the potential to fundamentally change the way social scientists and economists test theories, examine data, and create new policies. Full Story
TRC Counterterrorist Group Profiles - Australia's Tactical Assault Group
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:35 by TRC-News
The Australian SAS was formed in 1957 with the creation of the 1st SAS Company. By 1964, an additional two companies had been added and the Company was renamed the Special Air Service Regiment. The SASR saw action in Borneo just a year later where it found itself engaged in a widespread counterinsurgency campaign. Not long after, Regiment members were sent to Vietnam (although records indicate some may have been present as early as 1962) to aid in training the Australian Army. Full Story and More Profiles
TRC Bookstore Recommends - Information Warfare and Security
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 22:32 by TRC-News
Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy Denning provides one of the most comprehensive overviews on information warfare ever written. Denning's strength is in her expertise and comfort with the subject (she teaches a class on Information Warfare at Georgetown University) which she conveys to the reader chapter after chapter. A review in Dr. Dobbs Journal noted that "... part of what Denning has done in Information Warfare and Security is chronicle what seems to be just about every breach in computer security over the past few years. Page after page of hacks, cracks, phreaks, and psyopts by everyone from teenagers and thrill seekers to spies and nuts. Credit card numbers, passwords, bank accounts -- they're all fair game for anyone who is bright, persistent, online, and so inclined. Not that it was Denning's intent simply to titillate us with one interesting or exciting story after another. Instead, her goal is to provide us with a comprehensive overview of what's become known as "information warfare". More TRC Book Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:57 by TRC-News
05/13/1981
Italy - Attempt to Kill the Pope
05/13/1969
Malaysia - The Malay Uprising between Malays and ethnic Chinese led to numerous deaths.
05/14/1948
Israel - State of Israel Proclaimed as the British mandate in Palestine expired.
05/14/1948
Israel - First Arab-Israeli War Began shortly after the state of Israel was proclaimed.
05/14/1985
Sri Lanka - Tamil Separatists Attack Buddhist Shrine killing more than 150.
Full Story and More Dates
U.S. Fears Use of Belt Bombs
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:52 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Single Firefighters' Families Object After Fund Excludes Them From Aid
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:51 by TRC-News
A bitter dispute has erupted over the decision by a firefighters' union to exclude the families of single firefighters who died on Sept. 11 from receiving any of the roughly $60 million collected through its Widows' and Children's Fund. Full Story
Sixth Briton held at Camp X-Ray
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:50 by TRC-News
A sixth Briton is being held by the US at Camp X-Ray, the Foreign Office has confirmed. Martin Mubanga was arrested in Zambia and then transferred to the maximum security base at Guantanamo Base in Cuba. Full Story
Qatar Lawyer Builds Case for Detainees At Guantanamo Bay
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:49 by TRC-News
The former justice minister of Qatar has assembled a legal team from a half-dozen countries to represent the families of 70 al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners held at a U.S. Navy base in Cuba and is preparing to ask the U.S. government to release them or hold hearings to determine their fates. Full Story
More opposition to detentions in terror probe
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:47 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Terrorism Case Puts Judge in Quandary
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:46 by TRC-News
The federal judge who must decide whether Zacarias Moussaoui can fire his attorneys and represent himself in his terrorism conspiracy trial could face a stark choice, legal analysts say: allow an alleged terrorist to use his defense as a political platform or find him mentally incompetent and cancel the trial. Full Story
British Judge Says U.S. Court Should Try Qaeda Suspect
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:45 by TRC-News
A British judge ruled on Friday that an Algerian accused of being the leader of a London-based Al Qaeda cell and of plotting with Osama bin Laden to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium celebrations should be extradited to the United States. Full Story
Lax Federal Lab Safeguards Found
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:43 by TRC-News
Investigators reviewing federal safeguards against terrorism found lax oversight at hundreds of Agriculture Department laboratories where dangerous viruses are stored and say the Energy Department failed to closely track nuclear material sent abroad decades ago. Full Story
G8 Justice Ministers Focus on Terrorism, Crime
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:41 by TRC-News
Meeting for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks forced governments to rethink security, justice officials from the world's richest countries gather in an off-season Quebec ski resort on Sunday for talks on countering a global terrorist threat. Full Story
Jordanian King Says Mideast Crisis Bolsters Bin Laden
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:39 by TRC-News
King Abdullah of Jordan warned on Sunday that Osama bin Laden, "if he is alive," is drawing strength from the Middle East crisis. Full Story
U.S. to Press India and Pakistan as Fears Rise
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:38 by TRC-News
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca arrives in New Delhi Tuesday on a new round of shuttle diplomacy that analysts say is a sign of Washington's increasing concern over tensions between New Delhi and Pakistan. Full Story
Arafat Promises Statehood Despite Likud Vote
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:37 by TRC-News
Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) toured West Bank cities for the first time in five months Monday and reassured Palestinians they would win their own state, brushing aside a vow from Israel's ruling party never to allow it. Full Story
Arafat Says Foreign Powers Support Suicide Bombers
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:36 by TRC-News
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said Palestinian militants carrying out suicide attacks in Israel were being supported by international powers. Full Story
France buries Karachi blast victims
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:33 by TRC-News
French President Jacques Chirac vowed Monday that those responsible for a suicide bombing attack in Karachi, Pakistan last Wednesday would be caught and punished, and that the war against terrorism would continue. Full Story
Analysis: Balkans crack down on smugglers
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:32 by TRC-News
Seven European government leaders met this weekend in Greece to coordinate crime-fighting efforts in line with growing Western pressure to stop smugglers from moving people and cigarettes from the Balkans to the West. Full Story
Violence Blamed on Al-Qaida Influence
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:30 by TRC-News
Foreigners in Pakistan are falling victim to bombings and other savage attacks, and the country's Shiite Muslim minority is being terrorized by death squads. Full Story
Allied Forces Targeted in Afghanistan
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:29 by TRC-News
Two rockets were fired near a U.S. military unit in eastern Afghanistan, but nobody was hurt, an Afghan official said Monday. Full Story
Arafat Leaves Ramallah After 6 Months
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:28 by TRC-News
His travel ban lifted, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat toured West Bank towns Monday but skipped the devastated Jenin refugee camp, apparently to avoid possible heckling. Also, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered defeat when his party voted overwhelmingly to oppose Palestinian statehood. Full Story
Arafat Leaves Ramallah After 6 Months
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:27 by TRC-News
His travel ban lifted, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat toured West Bank towns Monday but skipped the devastated Jenin refugee camp, apparently to avoid possible heckling. Also, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered defeat when his party voted overwhelmingly to oppose Palestinian statehood. Full Story
6 EU Nations to Take Palestinians
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:26 by TRC-News
European Union (news - web sites) foreign ministers said Monday six EU nations will take in the 13 Palestinian militants who were freed last week from Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and flown to Cyprus after a 39-day standoff with Israeli troops. Full Story
Shock of Sept. 11 Is Making Americans More Supportive of Israel, Polls Suggest
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:24 by TRC-News
American sympathy for Israel has been on the rise, a trend that has been on display in Congress and in recent opinion polls. Full Story
North Koreans Draw U.S. Into a Diplomatic Mess
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:17 by TRC-News
The eight North Koreans who tried to storm into two foreign consulates in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang this week were seeking asylum in the United States, not in South Korea, the requested destination of previous asylum seekers, a diplomat and rights advocates familiar with the group say. Full Story
Reliving 9/11: Too Much? Too Soon?
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:15 by TRC-News
A week after they've each lost a parent in the World Trade Center attack, two boys, ages 7 and 16, conduct an experiment. They take a map of the world into a local store in Tottenville, at the southern tip of Staten Island. As customers come in, the older boy hands them a marker and asks them to circle Afghanistan. Full Story
Iranian Official Warns U.S. of Widening Rift Over Israel
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:13 by TRC-News
In a series of public statements, Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, has suggested that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has stymied efforts by Iranian moderates to open a dialogue with the United States. Full Story
U.S. Agencies Seen as Slow to Move on Terrorism Risk
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:12 by TRC-News
Independent auditors at several federal agencies have issued new reports in recent weeks criticizing the agencies for moving too slowly to confront the risks of terrorist attacks. Full Story
The 13 Men on Israel's 'Most Wanted' List: Affiliations and Accusations
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:10 by TRC-News
Of the 13 Palestinians being deported from the Church of the Nativity to Europe, Israel says 9 are members of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, a militia linked to Yasir Arafat's Fatah movement. Following are the deportees' names, with details provided by Israel on six of them. Full Story
F.B.I. Agent Suing Bureau for Barring Book on Terror
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:09 by TRC-News
An F.B.I. agent has sued the bureau for refusing to let him publish a book about what he says were botched efforts to investigate fund-raising by Hamas and other militant Islamic networks in the United States in the 1990's. Full Story
Prosecutors Say Terror Suspect Lied to Save Plot
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 12:07 by TRC-News
Zacarias Moussaoui told investigators a month before Sept. 11 that he had sought flight training in the United States for "personal enjoyment" and intended to go "sightseeing in New York City and Washington," federal prosecutors said today in arguing that he should be executed for conspiring in the attacks. Full Story
Atrocities Against Israelis Seem Also Aimed at Arafat
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:49 by TRC-News
The suicide bombing this week at a pool hall and slot-machine parlor near Tel Aviv, was aimed not only at Israelis but also at the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, whose credibility as a peacemaker was further tarnished, Palestinian officials and analysts say. Full Story
Feds target bogus 9/11 disaster-relief claims
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:46 by TRC-News
The generosity and compassion Americans have shown after the attack on the World Trade Center are well documented. But the tragedy also has spawned deceit and greed. Full Story
Mushrooming homeland security budgets face Hill scrutiny
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
Months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Congress remains eager to give the Bush administration billions of extra dollars to make the nation more secure within its borders. But some members are beginning to wonder how it is being spent. Full Story
VA panel authorizes construction, approves new bioterror research centers
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee approved a bill Thursday authorizing the Department of Veterans Affairs to launch 10 medical facility construction projects at a cost of $285 million. Full Story
Danger Drives Government, Police From Colombian Towns
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
Jose Guido Mena is the mayor of Rio Quito, but he works at somebody else's city hall. His own offices are too dangerous. Mena is one of 10 mayors in Colombia's northwestern Choco region who have been chased out of their hometowns. The mayors run their towns from the state capital. Their municipalities are left with no authorities, and often no police either -- most of them were killed years ago in rebel attacks and never replaced. Full Story
Cuba Opens Up for Carter
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:38 by TRC-News
Former US President Jimmy Carter has embarked on a busy schedule on the first day of his tour of Cuba - the first by an American president in more than 40 years. Full Story
Coke Plant bombed in Patna, India
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:37 by TRC-News
Three bombs were hurled by unidentified motorcycle-borne miscreants at the Coca-Cola's bottling plant here on late Sunday evening, the police said on Monday. Full Story
Sabotage Blamed for India Train Crash
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:36 by TRC-News
Officials in India say sabotage was probably to blame for a train derailment in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in which 12 people died. Up to 100 others were injured when 13 coaches of a 24-coach train jumped the tracks. Full Story
GAM Confirms Death of Rebel Spokesman, Five More Killed in Aceh - Indonesia
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:35 by TRC-News
A Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist leader in Aceh Besar, Ayah Sofyan, alias Zakaria Yahya, 37, was shot dead during a raid at a rebel base in Kuta Baro village on Saturday, officials and separatists confirmed. Full Story
Militant Islam Poses Stern Test for Indonesia
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
THE law has finally caught up with Islamic militant Jafaar Umar Thalib for inciting violence in the Maluku islands, but there is no certainty that justice will be served. Full Story
Iranian Hijacking Thwarted By Agents
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:33 by TRC-News
Security officers on an Iranian airliner overpowered a man threatening to explode two homemade bombs tied under his clothes, foiling an attempt to hijack the domestic flight, Iran's official news agency reported Sunday. Full Story
Failed Fire Attack in Milan Metro
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
Italian police are investigating a fire which broke out in one of Milan's main metro stations on Saturday night. The tap of a gas cylinder was set alight at around 2245 (2045 GMT), filling the station with smoke and delaying trains for about half an hour. Full Story
Fighting in Liberia Nears Capital Again
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
Rebels seeking to oust President Charles Taylor have attacked a town just 22 miles from the capital, both sides said yesterday. Full Story
Ethnic Clashes Rock Madagascar
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
Six people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Madagascar as the political confrontation continues between the two men who claim to be president. Full Story
Madagascar's President Asks Kadhafi to Mediate
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana asked Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to act as a mediator to solve the current crisis in his country, JANA the official agency reported. Full Story
Ashcroft Endorses Malaysia's Internal Security Act
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
US Attorney-General John Ashcroft has 'positively endorsed' the significance of Malaysia's Internal Security Act (ISA), saying that he understood the relevance, the use and the background of Malaysia having such a law. Full Story
For more info on Malaysia's law, see article below.
Mexican Police, Gang Shoot-out Kills Eleven
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
At least 11 people, including two policemen, have been killed in a shootout between police and an armed gang in the state of Sinaloa in northern Mexico, the Notimex news agency reported on Saturday. Full Story
An Anti-American Boycott Is Growing in the Arab World
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
Doughnuts may not be quite as American as, say, apple pie, but they come close enough to make Samir Nasier, a Saudi fast-food king, nervous. So nervous, in fact, that Mr. Nasier and his brothers are offering roughly $300,000 to anyone who can prove that their House of Donuts chain has any connection to the United States. Full Story
Nepal Rebels Set Fire to Sanskrit University
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
Some 500 Maoist rebels stormed a Sanskrit university in west Nepal, set the building on fire and destroyed office records, an official said on Monday. Full Story
Nepal Rebels Set Fire to Sanskrit University
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
Some 500 Maoist rebels stormed a Sanskrit university in west Nepal, set the building on fire and destroyed office records, an official said on Monday. Full Story
Musharraf Steps Up Terror Fight - CNN
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:18 by TRC-News
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has called off a three-nation trip so he can personally oversee a national "fight against terrorism," the government says. Full Story
Pakistan Resists Fighting Qaeda - Washington Post
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the major remaining concentrations of Al Qaeda fighters are in western Pakistan, rather than in Afghanistan, but Pakistan has resisted U.S. pressure to mount large-scale attacks against them, according to officials in Washington and Pakistan. Full Story
Manila amenable to longer stay for US military engineers
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
The Philippines is amenable to letting US military engineers stay longer in southern Basilan island to complete projects aimed at boosting the fight against local allies of the al-Qaeda network, an official said here. Full Story
Philippines - Batangas Mayor Survives Slay Try
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
The mayor of Taal, Batangas survived an assassination attempt inside a cockpit in his town early yesterday morning, police said. His assailant was gunned down. Full Story
Philippines to Rein in Islamic Schools
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:13 by TRC-News
The government announced yesterday that privately owned madaris or Islamic schools - some of which were rumoured to be producing students sympathetic to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network - will be brought into the national educational system. Full Story
Editor of Tolyatti Paper Gunned Down
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:11 by TRC-News
The chief editor of the Tolyatti Review has been gunned down in what law enforcement officials and colleagues say was a contract killing for his newspaper's coverage of official corruption, organized crime and drug trafficking. Full Story
FSB Claims to be Closing in on Kaspiisk Terrorists
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:10 by TRC-News
Three people have been detained on suspicion of being involved in the vicious terrorist attack that tore through a Victory Day parade in Russia?s southern republic of Dagestan, claiming 42 lives. Top Russian law enforcers in charge of the investigation claim that the suspects would help bring to justice the mastermind behind the blast. Full Story
Riots Erupt Before Sierra Leone Polls
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
U.N. peacekeepers guarded the smashed-up party headquarters of Sierra Leone's former rebels on Sunday after a riot that marred the run-up to this week's landmark election, the first since the end of this nation's bloody civil war. Full Story
Somalis Flood into Kenya
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:08 by TRC-News
Some 10,000 Somali civilians, mostly women and children, have fled fighting in their country to Kenya over the last month, the UN refugee agency said on Monday. Full Story
Bomb Explodes Near Barcelona Bank, No Injuries
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded Monday morning near an automatic teller machine of the La Caixa bank in a residential part of Barcelona, causing physical damage but no injuries, police told EFE. The blast, which occurred at 1:07 a.m. Monday morning (2307 GMT on Sunday) and could be felt more than half a mile away, caused a large cloud of smoke to envelop the seven-story building in which the ATM was located. Full Story
Turkmenistan in Row with U.S. Over Dissident Visa
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:05 by TRC-News
Ex-Soviet Turkmenistan has warned of a diplomatic row with Washington following a U.S. decision to give a visa to former foreign minister-turned-opposition figure Boris Shikhmuradov, wanted for serious crimes at home. Full Story
Church Official: Ugandan Rebels Kill Hundreds in Sudan
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
Ugandan rebels killed hundreds of people in southern Sudan as they retreated from the advancing Ugandan army, an official from Sudan's Roman Catholic Church said Sunday. Full Story
Passengers Train to Tackle Hijackers
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 11:02 by TRC-News
Flightwatch America has developed a training exercise aimed at creating a sort of citizens' army made up of frequent flyers who are willing to do what is necessary to prevent a repeat of 11 September. Full Story
Federal delays may snarl air travel
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
With the first summer of post-Sept. 11 travel just weeks away, Bay Area airports fear that federal delays in approving new security measures are going to mean a rerun of teeth-grinding lines for screening baggage, clearing checkpoints and boarding planes. Full Story
Goodbye, National Guard; Hello, Local Police Officers
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:56 by TRC-News
The occupation ended at midnight today. The men and women in green camouflage fatigues walked out the sliding doors of O'Hare International Airport here, rifles slung over their shoulders. In came their replacements, sauntering around with pressed blue shirts, metal badges and holstered handguns. Full Story
Questions, Answers on Anthrax Probe
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
Some questions and answers about the latest developments in the federal investigation of the anthrax attacks. Full Story
Smith Bill Raises Police Power Concerns
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:49 by TRC-News
For Alan Davidson, the associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, the greater issue involving H.R. 3482 -- the Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2001 -- is not increased surveillance of Internet users by Internet service providers (ISPs), but, rather, giving greater police powers to law enforcement agencies. The bill passed the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday and now awaits a floor vote of the full membership. Full Story
Top Argentine Court Wants Law Against Hackers
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
Argentina's Supreme Court wants legislation to outlaw computer hacking after rights activists allegedly vandalized its own Web site but escaped punishment because no law covers digital attacks. Full Story
At Senate hearing, cyberterrorism fears on the rise
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:46 by TRC-News
With every passing day and with every new network installed, the U.S. becomes more vulnerable to terrorist activity online, federal officials said this week. Full Story
INS Tracking System Set to Roll
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:44 by TRC-News
A new system that will allow the Immigration and Naturalization Service to track approximately 1 million foreign students will be up and running in the next several months, Justice Department sources said yesterday. Full Story
Senate intelligence panel moves to bolster anti-terror campaign
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:42 by TRC-News
At a secret markup Wednesday, members of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee came up with a richer program to bolster the nation's anti-terrorist campaign but spent a lot of time complaining about the lack of cooperation from the CIA and the Justice Department in the committee's ongoing investigation of apparent intelligence lapses that may have failed to head off the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Full Story
New Defense agency will protect Pentagon
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
The Defense Department on Thursday announced the creation of a new agency to protect Pentagon workers and respond to terrorist threats. Full Story
Net Threats Monitored In Malaysia
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
Alert and attentive, the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) records, reports and analyzes Internet-based PC security incidents as they impact on the Malaysian Net population. Full Story
TRC Terrorist Group Profiles - HAMAS Special Profile
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:35 by TRC-News
HAMAS was born in late 1987 in the Gaza Strip. By 1988, it was already seen as the primary rival to the established PLO. It was at this time that the "Intifada" began to explode throughout the occupied territories, and HAMAS' message was made available to the masses.
Links to Full Profile and Other Group Profiles
TRC Bookstore Recommends - Preparing for Terrorism: An Emergency Services Guide
Posted Monday, May 13, 2002 - 10:31 by TRC-News
Preparing for Terrorism: An Emergency Services Guide, by George Buck, provides first responders an excellent resource in gaining an understanding of the phenomenon of terrorism and how best to respond. The book lays out a brief, but adequate, framework of terrorism, and then sketches out how to prepare and respond to a terrorist attack. Buck includes valuable resources, such as the Federal Response and Planning Guidelines to Terrorism, information on chemical and biological agents, and several incident management tools. This book is a great place to start for first responders interested in learning how to prepare for a terrorist attack. More TRC Book Reviews
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
05/10/1902
Cuba - Independence Day
05/10/0000
Jordan - Arab Resistance Day
05/13/1981
Italy - Attempt to Kill the Pope
05/13/1969
Malaysia - The Malay Uprising between Malays and ethnic Chinese led to numerous deaths.
Full Story and More Dates
3 Mail Bombs Explode in Wash. State
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:37 by TRC-News
Three small bombs have exploded in mailboxes in northern parts of Spokane County, the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday. There have been no injuries and postal inspectors believe the bombs are pranks, said Dennis Larson, a postal inspector in Spokane. Full Story
White House Hopes Plan of Succession Stays Unused
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:36 by TRC-News
Uncle Sam's latest doomsday scenario is out. And it's nothing short of a bureaucratic pecking order that may be unlike any in the history of the republic. Full Story
Pipebomb Suspect to Face Iowa Court
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
The FBI said Luke Helder's alleged string of pipe bombings was part of an "elaborate plan" but wouldn't say if it included targeting mailboxes in a "smiley-face" pattern across the central United States, as Helder claimed. Full Story
Police Say Bomb Suspect Aimed to Make 'Smiley Face'
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:33 by TRC-News
The 21-year-old college student accused of planting pipe bombs across the U.S. Midwest planned to arrange the devices in the shape of a giant "smiley face" stretching across the map of the United States, authorities said on Thursday. Full Story
Bomb Suspect Traced by Cell Phone
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
Mailbox bomb suspect Luke Helder made a crucial mistake while on the run: He turned on his cell phone. As soon as he activated it, FBI agents quickly triangulated his position between two rural towns and had him in handcuffs within an hour Tuesday, according to Nevada authorities. Full Story
Defining terrorism in Colombia
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:18 by TRC-News
The Colombian guerrillas who fired gas cylinders filled with explosives into a crowded church Friday were not terrorists, at least not in the eyes of the European Union. Nor, according to the EU, was it a terrorist group who left the booby-trapped corpse of a teenage boy outside a Colombian army base last weekend. Full Story
FAA Investigated Hijacker in 2001
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:16 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Britain to Extradite Terror Suspect
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
A judge ordered the extradition Friday of an Algerian man suspected of links to Osama bin Laden and charged in the United States with masterminding a plot to blow up the Los Angeles airport. Full Story
Immigrants encounter red lights at state DMVs
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:08 by TRC-News
When Emmanuela Pierre went to renew her Florida driver's license, she found a roadblock facing foreign-born drivers nationwide: States are cracking down on non-citizens seeking licenses in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Full Story
Four villagers killed in south Philippines blast
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
Four people were killed and at least eight others injured on Thursday when a mortar shell accidentally exploded in a fishing village in the southern Philippines, police said. Full Story
Dagestan Blast Toll Climbs to 39
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:04 by TRC-News
The death toll from a blast that ripped through a VE Day celebratory parade in Dagestan is reported to have risen to 39. Full Story
Pakistan Hunts Bomb Suspects
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
Pakistani investigators are looking for three men in connection with a suicide bomb attack that killed 15 people, including 11 French nationals. The three men are believed to have bought the car used in the attack. Full Story
Key Liberian Town under Attack
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
Rebel forces in Liberia are now in control of many areas of the strategically important town of Gbarnga, including the police station. Full Story
US Action on Iraq Slowed by Rift over Whom to Support
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
Despite repeated vows by President Bush to force Saddam Hussein from power, Bush administration officials are still at odds over which Iraqi opposition groups the United States should support, American officials and Iraqi opposition leaders say. Full Story
Palestinians Leave Nativity Church
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:59 by TRC-News
Palestinian gunmen, some waving or flashing V-signs, walked out of the Church of the Nativity on Friday, marking the end of a 39-day standoff with Israeli troops at one of Christianity's holiest shrines. Full Story
Exiled Palestinian Militants Arrive in Cyprus
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
The 13 arrived in a grey-painted C-130 Hercules aircraft under a European-brokered deal to end their 38-day standoff with the Israeli army. They had left the church earlier on Friday. The Palestinian fighters, one of whom was taken by stretcher from the plane to a waiting ambulance, walked off the plane and boarded a bus that drove off escorted by armoured police vehicles. Full Story
DRC Rebels Brief Mbeki
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:56 by TRC-News
Congolese rebel movement representatives will brief President Thabo Mbeki in Cape Town this morning on their plans to advance the peace process in their war-torn country. Full Story
US Halts Anti-Drug Aid to Colombia
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
The Colombian authorities have launched an investigation into expenditure at the anti-narcotics police after the US suspended aid to the unit, alleging that some $2m had been diverted from a bank account provided to cover administrative expenses. Full Story
Ammunition Caches Found in Afghanistan; Jalalabad Airport Attacked
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:52 by TRC-News
British troops in eastern Afghanistan have found anti-tank and anti-aircraft ammunition in caves that local residents said were used by al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, a senior British commander said Thursday. The airport in Jalalabad, meanwhile, came under missile attack late Wednesday in an apparent new outburst of factional fighting in the east of the country. Full Story
Probe Turns Up Suspicious Items
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:49 by TRC-News
Federal agents searching a Falls Church address in connection with a student testing and visa scam found a flight manual, flight school brochures, a hand-drawn diagram of a plane hitting the World Trade Center and a datebook that contained only one entry -- on Sept. 11, according to government sources and court documents unsealed this week. Full Story
FBI makeover speeds along with 9/11 probe
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:47 by TRC-News
On the day last month when the FBI's attention was focused on threats that terrorists might strike banks in the Northeast, a two-page personnel announcement from headquarters didn't get much notice. Full Story
Smallpox Vaccine Knowledge Found Lacking
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:45 by TRC-News
Doctors and the public poorly understand the dangers of the smallpox vaccine and need to be better informed if vaccinations are to be reintroduced after an absence of 30 years, federal health officials and infectious disease experts said here today. Full Story
Anthrax Traces at Fed Could Be False Positives
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
The Federal Reserve said on Thursday it found traces of anthrax in about 20 pieces of its mail at an outside facility, but a U.S. official quickly said that the preliminary test could be wrong or due to cross-contamination from earlier incidents. Full Story
Study: Anthrax Used in Attack Genetically Distinct
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:39 by TRC-News
Researchers said on Thursday they had compared the genetic sequence of the anthrax that killed a Florida man to a standard laboratory strain, and found differences that may or may not help in the investigation of last fall's anthrax attacks. Full Story
Florida researcher says common pesticide will kill anthrax
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:38 by TRC-News
A common pest-control agent used to kill termites and fumigate citrus for shipment overseas could also be used to clean anthrax spores out of buildings, a researcher says. Full Story
Union Proposes Arming Flight Attendants With Clubs
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
If pilots get guns, flight attendants want 16-inch metal batons, the union for flight attendants told Congress. Full Story
Private Plane Ban To End at National
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:36 by TRC-News
Federal officials said yesterday that they are working on a plan that would allow private aircraft to return to Reagan National Airport as early as next month, ending a ban in effect for security reasons following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story
In-flight cameras to curb hijack fears
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:35 by TRC-News
The spy in the sky could get even closer. It could soon be looking over your shoulder. Airbus, the European jetmaker, is contemplating a set of tiny, concealed cameras above its passenger seats. At the flick of a switch - whether the lights are on or off - a wary pilot could spot a potential hijacker. Full Story
Diverted Jet Inspected in Greenland
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
Bomb-sniffing dogs and Danish explosives experts arrived Wednesday in Greenland to inspect a Seattle-bound jetliner diverted to the Arctic island after threatening messages were found at the Seattle airport and a nearby restaurant. Full Story
Stopping the Cyber-criminals
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:28 by TRC-News
Police have adapted their methods to fight the new breed of cyber-criminal, with computer forensics experts often replacing the men in white coats at the scene of a crime. In Britain, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is responsible for tackling e-crime, an umbrella term for a vastly differing range of offences, including hacking, fraud, child pornography and any offline crime that uses computers. Full Story
'Cyber jihad' warning to terror experts
Posted Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
A "cyber jihad" could be launched against the West as terrorists moved from the real world to an Internet-based virtual world, a US expert warned today. Michele Zanini, a consultant with the think-tank McKinsey and Company, said terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda were already making huge use of the web for communications, propaganda, recruitment and target data. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 12:28 by TRC-News
05/10/1902
Cuba - Independence Day
05/10/0000
Jordan - Arab Resistance Day
Full Story and More Dates
Mailbox Suspect's Dad Alerted Police
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 12:20 by TRC-News
The FBI zeroed in on 21-year-old Luke Helder as the suspect in the string of pipe-bomb attacks after his father called police about a disturbing letter in which his son warned, "Mailboxes are exploding," authorities said Wednesday. Full Story
Ridge's Room With a View--of All
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 12:12 by TRC-News
Dogged by questions about its readiness to meet the next terrorist threat, the Office of Homeland Security opened its doors Wednesday to showcase its new high-tech headquarters. Full Story
Reason Cited for Ousting of Terror Inquiry's Director
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 12:11 by TRC-News
The staff director of the Congressional panel investigating the government's handling of the Sept. 11 attacks was forced to resign last month because he did not alert the committee that he had hired an employee who was being investigated for failing a C.I.A. polygraph exam, government officials said today. Full Story
Iraq to Hold Referendum on Presidency This Year
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 12:06 by TRC-News
Iraq is making preparations to hold a referendum on the post of president this year, the official al-Iraq newspaper said Thursday. Full Story
Israel Approves Military Strikes After Suicide Bomb
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 12:04 by TRC-News
Israel's security cabinet gave the green light for military reprisals Thursday following a suicide bombing that killed 15 people, but kept the Palestinians waiting nervously for the first major strike. Full Story
Iraq said to sign oil deal with Syria
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 12:03 by TRC-News
Syria has been given permission to work an Iraqi oil field under an agreement covering fossil fuels, according to the weekly Al-Zawra, quoting an unidentified Iraqi oil source. Full Story
Pakistan Arrests 250 After Bombing
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 12:01 by TRC-News
More than 250 suspected Islamic militants were arrested Thursday as U.S. and French investigators joined Pakistanis to look for possible links between al-Qaida terrorists and a bombing that killed 14 people, including 11 French engineers. Full Story
Blast Rocks Southern Russian Town
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:57 by TRC-News
A remote-controlled bomb exploded Thursday as a Victory Day parade marched down the main street of this Caspian Sea port town near Chechnya. At least 32 people died, including 12 children, and 150 were injured as the town celebrated the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany. Full Story
Bomb Hits US Restaurants in Lebanon
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:57 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded outside two American-based fast-food restaurants early Thursday, leaving extensive damage but injuring no one, police said. Full Story
Papers: Suspect Had Flight Manuals
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:55 by TRC-News
A suspect in an alleged scheme to obtain fraudulent student visas had flight manuals, a drawing 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. Full Story
Colombian War Brings Carnage to Village Altar
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:54 by TRC-News
All that is left today of the church in this riverbank hamlet are four bullet-scarred walls. The roof was blown off. The wooden pews are splintered, the statue of Jesus smashed to pieces. The floor is covered with blood and maggots, evidence of the worst loss of civilian life in a single day in Colombia's seemingly endless civil conflict. Full Story
Indonesian Arrested in Manila Had Ties to Al Qaeda
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:49 by TRC-News
Philippine and Western intelligence officials have identified an Indonesian man apprehended at Manila's international airport with bomb-making equipment as a leader of a Muslim extremist group that helped train al Qaeda operatives, sources familiar with the investigation said. Full Story
Saudi Convicted in Embassy Bombings Sues
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
A man convicted in the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 filed the first federal lawsuit today challenging a controversial rule that allows the Justice Department to eavesdrop on conversations between lawyers and inmates to prevent future acts of terrorism. Full Story
Senators Criticize FBI Chief For Not Acting on Warning
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:41 by TRC-News
In some of the strongest public criticism of the FBI since Sept. 11, Democratic senators yesterday upbraided the bureau for not aggressively pursuing an internal report last July that suspected terrorists might be enrolling in U.S. aviation schools. Full Story
Pirate Attacks Soar Worldwide
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
Pirate attacks surged worldwide in the first three months of 2002, with Africa rivaling Southeast Asia for the first time as a high-risk region. Full Story
Weapons Deals With Iran Spur U.S. Sanctions
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
Underscoring the growing concerns about Iran, the Bush administration has decided to impose new sanctions on Chinese, Armenian and Moldovan companies accused of aiding Tehran's alleged programs seeking weapons of mass destruction, a senior U.S. official said yesterday. Full Story
Hamas Says Attacks Against Israel Will Continue
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
The spiritual leader of Hamas said Israel's military operation in the West Bank had not crippled the organization and on Wednesday vowed additional attacks against Israel. Sheik Ahmed Yassin remarks came in an interview with The Associated Press a day after the group carried out a suicide bombing south of Tel Aviv that killed 15 Israelis. Full Story
Palestinian Police Arrest Hamas Members
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
Palestinian security forces have arrested 14 members of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip after President Yasser Arafat ordered measures to foil attacks on Israeli civilians, a security official has said. Full Story
Heavy Fighting Rages in Liberia
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
Heavy fighting is raging between Liberian Government forces and rebels known as Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (Lurd) near the central town of Gbarnga. Thousands of people are fleeing the city - which used to serve as the headquarters of President Charles Taylor's forces when he was a rebel leader. Full Story
Hundreds Dead in Nepal Clashes
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
At least 350 fighters and civilians have been killed in clashes between rebels and government troops in western Nepal, according to the country's state radio. It said some 250 Maoist rebels and villagers and more than 100 soldiers and police officers died in fighting over the past few days near the village of Gam. Full Story
Nepal Rebels Offer Truce
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:16 by TRC-News
Maoist rebels in Nepal have announced a unilateral ceasefire from next week. In an unsigned statement e-mailed to newspapers in the capital, Kathmandu, the rebels said the cease-fire would begin on Wednesday and last for a month. Full Story
Pakistan Court Rejects Pearl Suspect Plea on Venue
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Thursday by those accused of the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl against transferring the trial away from Karachi, a prosecution lawyer said. Full Story
President Putin Held an Urgent Sission in the Kremlin to Discuss the Terrorist Act in Kaspiisk
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:13 by TRC-News
At an urgent session in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin demanded that the criminals who committed a terrorist act in Kaspiisk (a city in Dagestan, Russia's North-Caucasian republic) should be "identified, accused and punished as soon as possible". Full Story
Sri Lankan Govt to Pursue Truce Pact: PM
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:13 by TRC-News
Sri Lankan Prime Minster Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the government must pursue an indefinite ceasefire agreement it signed with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels despite violations committed by the rebels. Full Story
Sudanese Govt. Order Civilians to Vacate Areas Occupied by Ugandan Rebels
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
Sudanese authorities have ordered civilians to vacate areas in the south, currently occupied by Uganda's Lord Resistance Army (LRA) rebels as fighting intensifies, the New Vision newspaper reported on Wednesday. Full Story
Postal Theory: Mail Sorter Acted as Mill for Anthrax
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
Postal investigators say a chance extra run through sorting machines by the anthrax-tainted letter sent last fall to Senator Patrick J. Leahy may explain why its clumps of spores were smaller and more dangerous than those in a letter mailed the same day to Senator Tom Daschle. Full Story
First Responders Conduct Drill at Pentagon
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 11:02 by TRC-News
For those who witnessed the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon last year, the sounds of chaos that filled the building's center courtyard this morning may have been a vivid reminder of that tragic day. Full Story
Band's Sites Deluged After Mailbox-Bomb Suspect ID'd
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 10:56 by TRC-News
If suspected mailbox bomber Luke John Helder was looking for attention, he's getting it not only from the FBI. He's also getting noticed in a big way on the World Wide Web. Full Story
South Korea takes on World Cup bio-terror threat
Posted Thursday, May 9, 2002 - 10:54 by TRC-News
The South Korean government will deploy new biological agent-detection technology during the World Cup. The Defence Ministry has announced it will deploy 30 mobile units in 10 cities hosting matches. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 15:08 by TRC-News
05/08/0000
Algeria - War Dead Day
05/08/1945
Victory in Europe (VE) Day - Germany surrendered in World War II.
Full Story and More Dates
Pipe Bomb Suspect Arrested
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 15:06 by TRC-News
FBI agents and Nevada state troopers yesterday apprehended a troubled 21-year-old art student from Minnesota wanted in connection with the series of pipe bombs left in rural mailboxes across the Midwest, officials said. Full Story
Pipe Bomb Suspect Faces Slew of Charges
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 15:05 by TRC-News
A 21-year-old college art student accused of planting a series of pipe bombs in rural mailboxes across the U.S. Midwest in a campaign of "domestic terror" was being held in a Nevada jail cell on Wednesday and is expected to face a slew of criminal charges. Full Story
FBI: Pipe-Bomb Suspect Confessed
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 15:04 by TRC-News
The FBI said Wednesday that 21-year-old college student Luke Helder confessed to planting 18 pipe bombs in rural mailboxes in five states. Six people were injured in the spree. Full Story
Newspaper Prints Pipe Bomb Suspect's Manifesto
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 15:03 by TRC-News
In a rambling manifesto arguing that ghosts exist and marijuana be legalized, the college art student charged with planting pipe bombs across the U.S. heartland wrote that he and others may die "to change all of you for the better." Full Story
Congress Approves Border Security Bill
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 15:01 by TRC-News
In a move to strengthen security at the nation's entry points following the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress on Wednesday approved legislation beefing up efforts to screen visitors and track foreign students. Full Story
Interior Dept. Faulted On Sept. 11 Response
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 15:00 by TRC-News
A senior Senate Republican yesterday called for an immediate shake-up of Interior Department law enforcement operations in response to findings that officials did little to meet requests for assistance after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story
E.P.A. to Lead Cleanup Effort of Homes Close to Ground Zero
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:59 by TRC-News
The federal Environmental Protection Agency will lead an effort to clean up and test apartments south of Canal Street in Lower Manhattan that were fouled by the dust and ash from the destruction of the World Trade Center, a person who was briefed on the plan said. Full Story
Feds to Screen Foreign Students
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:58 by TRC-News
The Bush administration is creating a screening process for some foreign graduate students who want to do sensitive study that could be put to terrorist uses against the United States. Full Story
U.S. Official Cannot Confirm Any Secret Iran Talks
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:55 by TRC-News
A U.S. official said on Wednesday he could not confirm whether the United States and Iran, adversaries since the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, have held secret talks but said it was public knowledge that their officials talk in international forums about Afghanistan. Full Story
Gadhafi son wants observers to see Libyans
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:53 by TRC-News
Charity leader Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's son, Wednesday called for international observers to check the well-being of three Libyan nationals being detained by the United States at Guatanamo Bay in Cuba. Full Story
Suicide bomber kills 15 in Israel
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:49 by TRC-News
A Palestinian suicide bomber struck with provocative timing and devastating force last night, killing 15 Israelis in a suburban snooker club, just as Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was sitting down in Washington for talks with President George Bush. Full Story
Sharon Flies Home After Suicide Bombing
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:47 by TRC-News
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cut short a trip to the United States and flew back to Israel on Wednesday after a suicide bombing south of Tel Aviv killed 15 people and injured about 60 in a stunning reminder of the Middle East conflict his trip was intended to defuse. Full Story
Botched Suicide Bombing Near Haifa
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:45 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Arafat: Forces Ordered to Stop Terror
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:43 by TRC-News
In the wake of a deadly suicide bombing in Israel, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) told Palestinians in a televised address Wednesday that he has ordered security services to prevent "terror attacks against Israeli civilians." Full Story
Studies Cite Smallpox Vaccine Tradeoff
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:39 by TRC-News
A mass campaign to vaccinate Americans against smallpox might result in 200 to 300 deaths and make several thousand people severely ill -- yet could save thousands of lives in the event of a bioterrorist attack with the virus, according to research presented yesterday at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in Baltimore. Full Story
Washington Accuses Cuba of Germ-Warfare Research
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:37 by TRC-News
The Bush administration has accused Cuba of producing small quantities of germs that can be used in biological warfare and says Libya and Syria are also violating international treaties by making unconventional weapons. Full Story
U.S. Urges Sudan to Divide Oil Income as Step to Peace
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:34 by TRC-News
President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, John C. Danforth, has recommended that the Sudanese government share its oil revenue with rebels as part of an effort to end a decades-long civil war. Full Story
Dutch Charge Activist in Killing
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:33 by TRC-News
Dutch prosecutors charged an environmental activist with murder and illegal weapons possession Wednesday in the killing of populist leader Pim Fortuyn. Full Story
Taliban cruelty evidenced
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:30 by TRC-News
International experts say early evidence appears to confirm reports of ethnic massacres and other bloodletting in the six years of rule by the repressive Taliban regime. Full Story
Armchair anti-American warrior aims, shoots duds
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:28 by TRC-News
Suddenly, with no fanfare or mainstream press attention, Noam Chomsky has emerged as a best-selling author. According to articles in The New York Times and The Washington Post, Chomsky's 125-page paperback entitled 9-11 has sold well over 100,000 copies. More than six months after publication, it ranked No. 87 Tuesday evening on the amazon.com sales list of all books. Full Story
After 9/11, some workers turn their lives upside down
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:27 by TRC-News
For more than six years, Angela Yoo worked to become a journalist. She studied communications in college, tackled internships and landed a job at InStyle magazine in New York. It was what she'd always wanted. Full Story
Alleged shoe-bomber's lawyers protest order
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:25 by TRC-News
Lawyers for alleged terrorist Richard C. Reid have asked a federal judge to lift a court order they say amounts to a gag order on them and is preventing them from preparing an adequate defense of the man accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami. Full Story
Diverted Jet Inspected in Greenland
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:24 by TRC-News
Bomb-sniffing dogs and Danish explosives experts arrived Wednesday in Greenland to inspect a Seattle-bound jetliner diverted to the Arctic island after threatening messages were found at the Seattle airport and a nearby restaurant. Full Story
Feds: Airport Worker Lied When Hiring
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:23 by TRC-News
A woman responsible for hiring screeners at the Philadelphia airport was charged Tuesday with falsifying employment forms to enable people with murder, drug and weapons convictions to get jobs. Full Story
With the cease-fire truce in place, development in Southern Philippines promised
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:22 by TRC-News
With the cease-fire truce in place, the Philippines government and the country's main secessionist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), signed an agreement Tuesday to develop the war-torn areas in southern Philippines. Full Story
Nepal Rebels Attack Security Post, 100 Dead
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:20 by TRC-News
Maoist guerrillas and government forces in Nepal fought a pitched battle that killed scores overnight, as President Bush offered aid to the Himalayan kingdom. Full Story
Revised Sanctions On Iraq Backed
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:13 by TRC-News
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have agreed to a fresh effort to slow the flow of military equipment to Saddam Hussein's government while easing the delivery of civilian goods to Iraq's isolated population. Full Story
Bomb Explodes Near Argentine Bank
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:09 by TRC-News
A small homemade bomb exploded in the parking lot of a Spanish-owned bank in central Argentina on Tuesday, police said, as public fury grew against a banking system demonized amid economic crisis. Full Story
Second Argentine Bank Hit by Small Explosive Device
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:09 by TRC-News
A small explosive device designed to scatter pamphlets detonated outside a branch of a foreign-owned bank in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, in the second such attack in as many days. Full Story
Colombian Troops Take Control of Bloodied Villages
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:07 by TRC-News
Colombian troops on Tuesday began securing control of two beleaguered villages five days after leftist FARC rebels killed 117 civilians when they bombed a church, apparently by mistake, during a battle with far-right militias. Full Story
DRCongo Delegation Off to South Africa
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:06 by TRC-News
About 10 opposition politicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) left Kinshasa on Wednesday for South Africa where they are to hold talks with President Thabo Mbeki, a delegation member said. Full Story
Iran Said to be Developing Long-Range Missile
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:04 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
US Top Official Ends His Visit To Central Asian
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 14:00 by TRC-News
US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld met Sunday with the rulers of two former Soviet republics in Central Asia to bolster support for the war in nearby Afghanistan and for U.S. efforts to deny new sanctuaries for al-Qaida fighters. Rumsfeld stopped in Turkmenistan to see President Saparmurat Niyazov and then flew to Kazakhstan's capital for talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Full Story
Pakistan Suicide Bomb Kills 12, Mostly French
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:57 by TRC-News
A suicide bomber in a car packed with explosives killed 10 French defense technicians, a bus driver and himself on Wednesday outside a hotel in Pakistan's volatile southern city of Karachi, officials said. Full Story
Bossasso Falls to Somali Warlord
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:56 by TRC-News
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, one of two men claiming the presidency of Somalia's autonomous state of Puntland, has seized the region's commercial capital Bossasso, following a three-day sweep across the region. Full Story
Homeland security report will lack consensus, Ridge says
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:47 by TRC-News
A report due to the president by mid-year on the status of homeland security likely will not have consensus, White House Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Monday. Full Story
Dr. Chaos Indicted in Wisconsin Utility Attacks
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:46 by TRC-News
A man who calls himself "Dr. Chaos" and was accused of storing cyanide in Chicago's subway was indicted Tuesday on more than 50 acts of vandalism in 13 Wisconsin counties. Full Story
Infrastructure Open to Hacker Attack: Canadian Gov't Study Reveals
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:45 by TRC-News
Cyberterrorists using "weapons of mass disruption" pose an increasingly dangerous threat to global security, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns in a new report. Full Story
Warning on Cyberattack 'Exaggerated'
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:41 by TRC-News
It's no secret. In addition to the U.S., at least six countries are known to be actively developing information warfare programs designed to cripple the IT, economic and military infrastructure of their potential adversaries. Full Story
Army Layers Security Blankets To Guard Networks
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:39 by TRC-News
Shortly after a military surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter last April, a two-week “cyberwar” began, and U.S. Army Web sites took numerous hits. Full Story
Man Gets 10 Months For Ebay Exposives Auction
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:38 by TRC-News
Roger Ver, 22, of San Jose, Calif., received the sentence Friday after pleading guilty to several charges, including dealing in explosives without a license, illegally storing explosives and mailing dangerous explosive material in violation of postal regulations. Full Story
Upcoming IT security conferences in 2002
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:37 by TRC-News
Several 2002 security conferences are listed with contact information and general themes of the meetings. Conferences include: 14th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Conference (FIRST 2002), Privacy Paradox: The Gain of Security vs. Privacy's Loss, DEF CON 10, Black Hat Briefings 2002, New Security Paradigms Workshop 2002, Fifth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. Full Story
George Mason U. Project Looks at Legal Implications of Network-Security Efforts
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:35 by TRC-News
Bradford C. Brown, chairman of the National Center for Technology and Law at George Mason University, oversees a project set up to study the legal difficulties of guaranteeing computer networks' security. The project, in conjunction with James Madison University, is financed by a $6.5-million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Full Story
New York Contemplates Shielding Data It Collects
Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 13:32 by TRC-News
The Pataki administration has proposed legislation that would severely restrict public access to any information the state collects in its efforts to thwart terrorists. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:17 by TRC-News
05/07/1948
Israel - Independence Day as observed by Arabs in the occupied territories.
05/08/0000
Algeria - War Dead Day
05/08/1945
Victory in Europe (VE) Day - Germany surrendered in World War II.
Full Story and More Dates
FBI Names Pipe-Bomb Suspect
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:14 by TRC-News
The FBI issued an all-points bulletin Tuesday for a 22-year-old man, described as armed and dangerous, in connection with a wave of pipe bombs found in rural mailboxes, authorities said. Full Story
USPS Message To Customers In Pipe Bomb Areas
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:13 by TRC-News
The United States Postal Service understands your concerns about the pipe bombs placed in rural mailboxes in parts of Iowa and Illinois yesterday. Your safety - and the sanctity of the mail - are our primary concerns. Full Story
Mailbox Bombs Note
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:12 by TRC-News
Text of note left in mailboxes in the Midwest where pipe bombs were found Friday:
Full Story
Pipebomb Scares Spread to Texas
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:10 by TRC-News
A pipe bomb similar to those which have left a trail of terror across the rural American heartland has been found in a Texas mailbox, officials said on Tuesday, adding a fifth state to the shadowy bomber's targets. Full Story
US Accuses Libya, Syria and Cuba on Weapons Spread
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:08 by TRC-News
The United States on Monday accused three more states -- Libya, Syria and Cuba -- of pursuing weapons of mass destruction and warned it would take action to ensure they do not supply terrorists with such arms. Full Story
Libya denies U.S. weapons accusation
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:05 by TRC-News
Libya Tuesday rejected U.S. accusations that it was trying to acquire or produce weapons of mass destruction. Full Story
Argentine leader reasserts terror theory
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:04 by TRC-News
Argentina's president said again Tuesday he believed perpetrators of the Sept. 11 terror attacks also were responsible for the 1992 and 1994 attacks on Jewish targets in his country. Full Story
Pakistan, US to form anti-terrorism group
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:02 by TRC-News
A Pakistani delegation is scheduled to arrive in Washington this week for talks on forming a joint working group with the Americans to combat terrorism, officials at the Pakistani embassy said Monday. Full Story
U.N. Raps U.S. for Rejecting International Court
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 14:00 by TRC-News
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson on Tuesday criticized Washington's abandonment of a new international court for the world's worst crimes, calling it regrettable and worrying. Full Story
Emergency Session Set at U.N.
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:55 by TRC-News
Arab and developing nations were pressing to condemn Israel for alleged atrocities in the Jenin refugee camp and for blocking a U.N. fact-finding mission from looking into the fighting in the camp. Full Story
Dutch Elections to Go Ahead
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:53 by TRC-News
Dutch elections will go ahead on May 15 as scheduled, despite the slaying of right-wing leader Pim Fortuyn, the government announced Tuesday. Full Story
Clinton Likely in Timor Delegation
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:52 by TRC-News
President Bush intends to include former President Clinton in a U.S. delegation to the May 20 celebration of independence for East Timor. Full Story
Police departments balk at idea of becoming 'quasi-INS agents'
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:50 by TRC-News
Police from Austin to Nashville have worked in recent years to convince their large Hispanic immigrant populations to trust police and call them if they're robbed. Full Story
U.S. Military Leaving N. Philippines
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:47 by TRC-News
Nearly 6,000 U.S. and Philippine troops ended three weeks of training Monday aimed at strengthening the countries' military relationships amid the U.S.-led war on terror. Full Story
Stabbing of US sailor mars end of Balikatan
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:47 by TRC-News
THE stabbing of a US Navy man marred an otherwise incident-free conclusion of Balikatan 2002-02 yesterday. Full Story
Israelis Seek to Build Physical Barrier in West Bank
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:45 by TRC-News
For the last month, squads of construction crews have been busily throwing up chain-link fences all along the road leading to a disputed Jewish neighborhood on the southern edge of Jerusalem. Full Story
Arabs Fight Islamists, with Few Rules
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:40 by TRC-News
Authoritarian regimes in both Egypt and Tunisia have for years used their own "wars against terror" to restrict civil liberties and abuse human rights, say Western diplomats and rights activists in the Middle East, Europe, and the US. Full Story
Keep Off West Bank, Israel Warns Khartoum
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:38 by TRC-News
The Israeli embassy in Nairobi has condemned a plan by Sudanese elements in Sudan to train volunteers to fight in the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story
The US Quietly Wades Into South Asia's Rebel Conflicts
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:37 by TRC-News
The insurgency in Nepal is just one of three deadly conflicts in South Asia which have brewed quietly in the background of the Afghan conflict. But the lack of media attention is no indication of a lack of US involvement. Full Story
South-East Asia Acts On Terror
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:35 by TRC-News
Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have signed an anti-terrorism pact as part of South-East Asia's battle against regional militant groups. Full Story
Dutch Murder May Delay Election
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:31 by TRC-News
Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok is considering whether or not to postpone next week's general election following the murder of controversial anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn. Speaking after a meeting with members of Fortuyn's right-wing party, who said they wanted the election to go ahead on 15 May as planned, Mr Kok said he needed more time to consult other political leaders. Full Story
Dutch Politician's Party Says His Killer Was Animal Rights Activist
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:30 by TRC-News
The suspected killer of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is a vegan animal rights activist who declares on the Internet that "protecting animals is civilising people", according to a source close to Fortuyn's party. Full Story
Nepal Turns up Heat on Rebels
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:29 by TRC-News
The authorities in Nepal say troops on the ground and helicopters in the air have killed a large number of Maoist rebels in continuing assaults on rebel bases in western Nepal. Full Story
Saboteurs Blow up Sixth Madagascar Bridge
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:28 by TRC-News
Supporters of embattled Madagascan ruler Didier Ratsiraka blew up a sixth bridge on the island after the veteran leader's rival was sworn in as president, officials said on Tuesday. Full Story
UN Renews Liberia Sanctions
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:27 by TRC-News
The United Nations Security Council has voted to renew sanctions on Liberia for another 12 months. The government of President Charles Taylor "has not yet complied fully" with UN demands to end its support for rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone, the council said. Full Story
Real IRA Trio Sentenced to 30 Years by Britain
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:26 by TRC-News
Three Irish republican guerrillas who tried to buy arms in Slovakia for a bombing campaign were sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years imprisonment each. Full Story
Colombian Military Moves to Deadly Attack Site
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:24 by TRC-News
Colombian authorities attempted on Monday to reach the site of one of the bloodiest single episodes of this nation's internal conflict and rejected criticism that they failed to act on warnings that could have prevented the bloodshed. Full Story
Colombia Shoots Down Copter That Aided Paramilitary Fighters
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:21 by TRC-News
Colombia's air force said today that it had shot down a helicopter providing air support to outlawed paramilitary gunmen who last week battled leftist rebels in a fight that killed at least 108 people, among them 45 children. Full Story
Anthrax Sent Through Mail Gained Potency by the Letter
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:13 by TRC-News
Deepening the mystery of the biological attacks that terrified the nation last fall, federal investigators have discovered that the anthrax sent through the mail, in general, grew more potent from one letter to the next, with the spores in the final letter to be opened — the one sent to Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont — the deadliest of all. Full Story
For Anthrax Survivors, a Halting, Painful Recovery
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:12 by TRC-News
When he was laid up in the intensive care unit of the Winchester Medical Center with intravenous tubes sticking out at every angle, bleeding ulcers gnawing at his gut and the lymph nodes in his chest swollen up like cherry tomatoes, David Hose believed that anthrax would surely kill him. Full Story
DNA collected in Bin Laden hunt
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:09 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
Airline security fee hike sought Lawmakers want to double air tax
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:07 by TRC-News
House leaders want to double the security fee airline passengers pay per flight leg, from $2.50 to $5, to help cover the burgeoning costs of making aviation safer. Full Story
The Mideast Conflict Goes Cyber, Harsh Words and All
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:05 by TRC-News
Trying to steer world opinion, Israeli and Palestinian sympathizers are turning increasingly to the Internet, waging an online battle using passionate e-mail, partisan Web sites, and combative chat rooms. Full Story
Palestinian Websites Knocked Offline
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:04 by TRC-News
Israel's military action in the Palestinian territories has disrupted the region's computer networks. Many Palestinian websites run from the region have been knocked offline for weeks, including most government sites. Full Story
Cyberspace Full of Terror Targets
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 13:01 by TRC-News
Officials are most concerned that a cyber attack could be coupled with a conventional terrorist attack, such as those on September 11th, and hinder rescue efforts. Full Story
Al Qaeda's Anthrax
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 12:58 by TRC-News
October 5 may not be as famous as September 11, but it may prove more historic and seminal. On that day last year the United States suffered its first death ever from a biological warfare attack. Full Story
Cropduster Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 12:55 by TRC-News
Before murdering thousands at the World Trade Center, Mohammad Atta made repeated trips to rural airports, trying to learn everything he could about crop dusters. Why? Most people think he was interested in spreading chemical or biological terror over a major city. Full Story
Eliminating the Tools of Terror
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 12:51 by TRC-News
"Deny-use" technology could prevent terrorism and jump-start the economy. Full Story
Fighting Drugs, Fighting Terror
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 12:50 by TRC-News
Criminal members of a powerful and shadowy international network conspire to enter the U.S., bringing with them implements to destroy Americans. To fight them, the government develops new strategies and new technologies, but the well-trained and well-financed malefactors continue to test the defenses, seeking any weak spots. Full Story
Bioterrorism preparedness plan expected this summer
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 12:47 by TRC-News
Top administration officials intend to announce in June or July a comprehensive plan for defending the nation against biological warfare. Senior officials are hoping that by then they can offer enough details to reassure citizens and to guide lower-level officials, said Anna Johnson-Winegar, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for chemical and biological defense. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 12:34 by TRC-News
05/06/1915
Lebanon, Syria - Martyrs' Day
05/07/1948
Israel - Independence Day as observed by Arabs in the occupied territories.
Full Story and More Dates
Terror alert issued in Europe
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 12:33 by TRC-News
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. Full Story
FBI: Mail Bombs Nearly Identical
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 12:28 by TRC-News
Pipe bombs left in mailboxes in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska were nearly identical and clearly came from the same source, the FBI (news - web sites) said Monday. Full Story
In Michigan, Anti-Terrorism Effort Goes Public
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 12:26 by TRC-News
When three immigration agents knocked on his apartment door in Ann Arbor, Mich., in December, Rabih Haddad already had his attorney on the phone. Full Story
House Passes Anti-Terrorism Bill
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 12:04 by TRC-News
Proposals aimed at cracking down on terrorism in the state sailed through the House of Representatives with little debate early Saturday, winning unanimous support. Full Story
After Sept. 11, hip-hop raises dissenting voices
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 12:03 by TRC-News
Now, some eight months after that horrible day, a handful of hip-hop artists are releasing songs that take a more contrary stance. Some criticize the military action in Afghanistan, and others are cynical about the praise heaped upon the New York Police Department. Full Story
A Willing Witness, a Painful Price
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 12:01 by TRC-News
Man Who Went to FBI to Detail His Trip With Hijackers Faces Deportation. Full Story
TV programs to join U.S. radio in offering American spin
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 12:00 by TRC-News
To counter the wave of anti-American rhetoric emanating from the Middle East, the United States is fighting fire with fire by creating its own programming for the region. On Monday, the House International Relations Committee authorized a bill to spend $245 million over two years for television and radio broadcasts aimed at the Middle East. Full Story
Key U.S. Pentagon Official Calls for Ties With Moderate Muslims
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:59 by TRC-News
The Bush administration's leading hawk on Iraq, in a speech warning of a dangerous gap between the West and Islam, has called for a broad American initiative to strengthen ties with moderate Muslim nations and with the "tolerant people in the Muslim world." Full Story
Nine arrested in raid on suspected al-Qaeda group in Philippines
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:57 by TRC-News
Nine men were arrested in the northern Philippines in raids on alleged cells of the al-Qaeda terror network, police said. Full Story
Priests tell Gloria: Probe deeper to solve Abu problem
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:56 by TRC-News
Senior Church leaders here have urged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to probe deeper into why the military, with considerable help from paramilitary forces and United States troops, has not been able to solve the decade-old Abu Sayyaf problem in Basilan. Full Story
Despite twin PAF crashes, Balikatan 02-2 a success
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:55 by TRC-News
Despite two crashes of Philippine Air Force aircraft, Philippine and US military officials rated this year’s "Balikatan 02-2" war games in Central Luzon as successful. Full Story
Taliban Regrouping in Small Pockets
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:52 by TRC-News
Biding their time on the instructions of elusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban are regrouping in mountain hide-outs, waiting for the Afghan government to falter, a Taliban intelligence official in hiding said Sunday. Full Story
Reports: Islamists Kill 15 Troops in Algeria
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:51 by TRC-News
Suspected Islamic rebels killed 15 Algerian government soldiers and wounded seven others on Sunday in one of the deadliest ambushes of government forces this year, newspapers said on Monday. Full Story
Colombia Death Toll Rises to 108
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:50 by TRC-News
The death toll in an isolated village where rebels and paramilitaries were battling rose Sunday to 108 including 40 children while troops began to move into the region. Full Story
Colombia Sends in Army After Killings
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:50 by TRC-News
Colombian President Andres Pastrana has held emergency security talks in the western provincial town of Quibdo in Choco state after fighting in a remote jungle area left at least 108 people civilians, 45 of them children. Full Story
Germany Takes over Africa Anti-terror Watch
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:48 by TRC-News
Germany assumed command from the United States of a multinational patrol of sea routes off the east African coast on Sunday to try to prevent any al Qaeda fighters escaping to Somalia. Full Story
Hundreds of Nepalese Maoists Killed
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:45 by TRC-News
Army helicopters pounded the heartland of Maoist guerrilla territory, killing hundreds of rebels in overnight airstrikes, a government spokesman said Monday. Full Story
Uganda Claims 50 Rebel Deaths
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
The army has killed around 50 Ugandan rebels based in neighboring southern Sudan during two days of fighting, an army spokesman said Sunday. Full Story
US Wants to Oust Saddam Even If He Makes Concessions
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
The US may try to remove Saddam Hussein from power even if he agrees to new weapons inspections, the secretary of state, Colin Powell, said yesterday. Full Story
Terminal Evacuated at Cleveland Airport
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
One concourse at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was evacuated on Friday after a screening device detected possible explosives residue, officials said. Full Story
U.S. Renounces Obligations to International Court
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:38 by TRC-News
The Bush administration, flouting the advice of major allies and outraging human rights organizations, renounced on Monday legal obligations toward the treaty that set up the International Criminal Court. Full Story
WSJ Reporter Slaying Trial Adjourned
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:36 by TRC-News
Pakistan's Supreme Court said Monday that the trial of Muslim militants charged in the kidnap-slaying of Daniel Pearl can proceed until it rules on a defense request to move it back to its original venue in Karachi, where the Wall Street Journal reporter was abducted. Full Story
For Illegal Workers' Kin, No Paper Trail and Less 9/11 Aid
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
In his telephone calls to Mexico, Victor A. Martinez Pastrana had told his wife little beyond the fact that he lived in an apartment in Manhattan with a friend, whom he simply called "Chava," and washed dishes in a restaurant he never named at the World Trade Center with a fellow Mexican from Puebla. Full Story
Enlisting Data Seized in Raids, Israel Widens an Effort to Implicate Arafat in Terrorism
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:30 by TRC-News
As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heads for Washington today, Israeli officials are presenting documents and other material seized in recent raids of Palestinian installations on the West Bank as evidence of what they call Yasir Arafat's direct role in supporting and sponsoring terrorism. Full Story
Israelis Release More Documents Accusing Arafat of Terror
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon flew to Washington, Israeli officials intensified their campaign today to discredit Yasir Arafat, distributing three compilations of captured Palestinian documents to American officials here that Israelis contend are indisputable proof that the Palestinian leader personally approved terror attacks. Mr. Sharon is expected to show the documents to President Bush when he meets with him at the White House on Tuesday. Full Story
Bioterrorism Office Gets a New Director
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
A man who led the campaign to rid the world of smallpox is resigning as director of the campaign to protect Americans from bioterrorism. Full Story
Lieberman Bill Would Create Tech Homeland Security Office
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) wants $200 million to develop homeland security technologies under a new Science and Technology Office within a cabinet-level Homeland Security Department. Full Story
Cyberspace Full of Terror Targets
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
Government and private computer networks are facing new threats of terrorist attacks, ranging from an attempt to bring havoc to a major city to nationwide disruptions of finances, transportation and utilities. But people with knowledge of national intelligence briefings say little has been done to protect against a cyberattack. Full Story
Net Guard would function as a virtual National Guard
Posted Monday, May 6, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
Two bills to strengthen the nation’s cyberdefenses will come up this month before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a sponsor of the Science and Technology Emergency Mobilization Act, said his bill would establish volunteer rapid response teams to help restore critical infrastructures in the wake of disasters. The teams, which would be known as the Net Guard, would function like an IT equivalent of the National Guard. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:46 by TRC-News
05/04/1986
Japan - Chukaku-Ha terrorists Bomb Tokyo economic summit
05/04/1978
Namibia - Kasinga Day commemorates a raid by South African military forces that left hundreds dead.
05/04/1988
New Caledonia - French Forces Storm FLNKS stronghold holding 23 hostages.
05/04/1989
New Caledonia - FLNKS Chairman and assistant killed by rival group FULK.
05/04/1980
Serbia-Montenegro - Death of Tito
05/05/0544
Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand - Buddha was born circa 544 BC.
05/05/1981
United Kingdom - First PIRA Hunger Striker, Bobby Sands, Dies
05/06/1915
Lebanon, Syria - Martyrs' Day
Full Story and More Dates
FBI Warned of Training Before 11th
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:38 by TRC-News
Two months before the suicide hijackings, an FBI agent in Arizona alerted Washington headquarters that several Middle Easterners were training at a U.S. aviation school and recommended contacting other schools nationwide where Arabs might be studying, law enforcement officials said. Full Story
EU Puts Kurdish PKK, Iran Rebels on 'Terror' List
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:37 by TRC-News
Kurdish separatist rebels in Turkey and Iraq-based guerrillas fighting the Iranian government have been added to the European Union's list of banned "terrorist" groups, EU diplomats said on Thursday. Full Story
Bin Laden Relative Linked to '93 Trade Center Bombers, Affidavit Says
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:35 by TRC-News
In supporting its arrest of the leader of an Islamic charity this week, the Justice Department has made public new information tying a wealthy Saudi businessman, who is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, to several people convicted in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 or in unsuccessful plots to bring down airliners and assassinate the pope. Full Story
After Sept. 11, a Little-Known Court Has a Greater Role
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
When the authorities charged the director of an Islamic charity with perjury this week, they buttressed their complaint with evidence gathered with the approval of a special antiterrorism court that law enforcement officials say has taken on a greater role since the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story
Big Visions for Security Post Shrink Amid Political Drama
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
He was the "true patriot, a trusted friend" chosen by President Bush nine days after Sept. 11 to create a grand strategy for deterring terrorist attacks. Full Story
Ridge Briefs Congress Informally
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:31 by TRC-News
Sen. Robert Byrd lashed out at the Bush administration Thursday for letting Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge informally brief senators while Byrd's committee was holding a hearing at which Ridge had refused to appear. Full Story
Cash-Strapped Coast Guard Trims Security Force
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:30 by TRC-News
The U.S. Coast Guard, after beefing up security at the nation's ports within hours of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, said it began this week to cut back its "sea marshal" forces because it is running out of money. Full Story
Bush seeking tighter security in academia
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
At the direction of President Bush, White House officials have been meeting behind closed doors to debate an anti-terrorism policy that would keep some foreign students from studying "sensitive" academic subjects. Full Story
U.S. Flying More Detainees to Cuba From Afghanistan
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
The U.S. military flew another planeload of al Qaeda and Taliban captives from Afghanistan on Friday toward the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the second such flight in two days after a two-month delay to build a new prison, U.S. officials said. Full Story
British Troops Begin al-Qaida Sweep
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
British forces began sweeping through rugged terrain in southeastern Afghanistan on foot Friday as part of a large-scale operation to hunt down remaining pockets of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, a Royal Marines spokesman said. Full Story
Trial in Pearl Slaying On, Off
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
The closed-door trial of Muslim militants charged in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl resumed briefly under tight security Friday after moving from Karachi because of prosecution fears of a terrorist attack, officials said. Full Story
Israeli Troops Attack Hamas Hideout
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
Israeli troops swooped down on a Hamas hide-out in the West Bank's largest city Friday, while Orthodox Christians in biblical Bethlehem marked a somber Good Friday with no sign of a break in the siege of the Church of the Nativity, now entering its second month. Full Story
Feuding trips up policy on Iraq
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
President Bush's hopes of building a strong insurgent group to replace Iraqi President Saddam Hussein have been set back by feuding among U.S. officials over who should lead the opposition. Full Story
For Eritrean Guerrillas, War Was Hell (and Calluses)
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
There are many more war memorials in the world than there have been wars, but almost certainly none is quite like the one here in the capital of Eritrea: a sculpture of two giant sandals. Full Story
Mournful Task Ending, Forever Unfinished
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
Through the blur of unnoticed seasons, in an effort without parallel, 1.6 million tons of material from the collapse of the World Trade Center have been dismantled, examined and carted off to be examined again. That fire-spitting, hellish mound — crushed concrete and scorched metal and body parts — has been reduced, one truckload at a time, to a few piles on a bedrock-bottomed pit. Full Story
Sharon Says Prisoners Implicate Arafat in Financing of Terrorism
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:10 by TRC-News
After releasing Yasir Arafat before dawn from a monthlong siege, the Israeli government declared late tonight that other Palestinian leaders under Israeli interrogation had implicated him in financing terrorist attacks. Full Story
Police Capture Abu Sayyaf Aide
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:07 by TRC-News
Police have arrested a senior member of the Abu Sayyaf, the al-Qaida-linked extremist group that the Philippine military is trying to destroy with American help. Full Story
4 die in grenade explosion in S. Philippines
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
Four people died in a grenade explosion that rocked a village in the southern Philippines late Wednesday night, police said Thursday. Full Story
Algeria Rebels Massacre 34
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:04 by TRC-News
Three were killed and a fourth kidnapped in the northwest of the country yesterday, just a day after 31 people were massacred in the same region, which is witnessing a surge of violence ahead of parliamentary elections on May 30. Algerian security services said two men and a woman were killed as they returned from their fields near Chlef, 200km west of Algiers, and a young woman was kidnapped. Full Story
Colombia Rebels Hijacked Copter, Foreigners - Army
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:02 by TRC-News
A helicopter which disappeared in Colombia last month was hijacked by leftist rebels, who have kidnapped two Canadians, a Frenchman and an Ecuadorean who were on board, military authorities said on Thursday. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Bomb Train
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
A rebel bomb derailed a coal train and damaged a stretch of track, halting the transport of coal from one of the world's largest open-face mine, the mine's operator said Thursday. Full Story
Saboteurs Blow Up Fifth Bridge in Madagascar
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
Saboteurs blew up a fifth bridge in Madagascar on Friday to disrupt supplies into the capital, where African diplomats were due to hold talks to resolve a leadership crisis that has split the island. Full Story
Nepal Gov't: 58 Maoists Killed
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:59 by TRC-News
At least 58 Maoist guerrillas were killed in overnight battles with security forces in western Nepal, a government official said Friday. Full Story
Prisoner Count at Guantanamo Drops One, Now 331
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:56 by TRC-News
The number of al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has dropped to 331 from 332, said U.S. military officials, who declined to say on Thursday where the prisoner had been taken. Full Story
Luggage Bomb Scanning Could Prompt New Searches
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
Plans to use cheaper and more portable equipment to detect bombs in airline luggage in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks could trigger a large number of intrusive searches that might mean more delays and hassles for air travelers, a leading U.S. senator said on Thursday. Full Story
Weighing the need for sentries at 35,000 feet
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:52 by TRC-News
In the life of an air marshal, there are hours of boredom and seconds of unbelievable excitement. The big question: How many of them are really needed? Full Story
New security steps may cost airport up to $85 million
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:51 by TRC-News
Philadelphia International Airport officials are hastening to figure out how to pay a bill of up to $85 million this year to meet new federal security requirements that all luggage be checked for bombs before being loaded on planes. Full Story
Texas University Plans Cybercrime Institute
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
In what is billed as one of the first efforts of its kind, a Dallas university is teaming up with local and federal crime experts to establish a new institute aimed at fighting cybercrime. The University of Texas at Dallas is forming the Digital Forensics and Security Institute with the Greater Dallas Crime Commission, in an effort that also involves the nonprofit National White Collar Crime Center. The facility, which will offer a cybersecurity degree program, will open in September, the school said. Full Story
Hacking in the Shadow of 9/11
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:46 by TRC-News
Near a table laden with coffee, tea and croissants, David Dittrich, senior security engineer for the University of Washington, discusses the newest tools of the trade with a hacker-cum-security-consultant known as "K2." Full Story
Hacker Duo Say They Hack for Sake of National Security
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:45 by TRC-News
A pair of hackers who have been penetrating US government computer systems across the country said they are trying to call attention to vulnerabilities in national security. Full Story
US Pushes Industry on Biowarfare Research
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:42 by TRC-News
Scientists from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health urged biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to develop treatments for biowarfare agents at an industry meeting on Tuesday, indicating the government is stepping up efforts to ensure it is prepared for bioterrorist attacks. Full Story
Biometric Security Not Quite Ready to Replace Passwords
Posted Friday, May 3, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
Biometrics vendors are doing their best to supplant passwords as the chief form of computer security, but Government Computer News Lab tests indicate that many of their products are not quite ready. Some developers have continued to improve already good devices, but others need to go back to the drawing board. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:56 by TRC-News
05/02/1945
Germany, Russia - Berlin Falls to Soviets
Full Story and More Dates
US called slow to detect Islamic militancy
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:51 by TRC-News
Before the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, government officials did not press hard enough to counter anti-American views being preached in mosques in the United States and the Middle East, a former State Department official said yesterday. Full Story
Egypt Assails the Lumping of U.S. War With Israel's
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:50 by TRC-News
President Hosni Mubarak criticized Washington today for allowing Israel to lump the Palestinian struggle to end occupation into the same category as the war on terrorism, and he echoed the impatience of other Arab officials with the lack of peace initiatives from the United States. Full Story
FEMA to Reconsider NYC Rejections
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:49 by TRC-News
The government agency that helps people after disasters will reconsider thousands of applications for housing aid that were rejected after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Full Story
Post-9/11 Pain Found to Linger in Young Minds
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:48 by TRC-News
Tens of thousands of public-school children in New York City are experiencing chronic nightmares, fear of public places, severe anxiety and other mental health problems months after the World Trade Center attack, a study conducted for the Board of Education has found. Full Story
Investigators Breach Security in 4 U.S. Buildings in Atlanta
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:46 by TRC-News
Congressional investigators said today that they had forged identity badges and easily breached the security of four federal buildings here, and they warned that many other government buildings were wide open to terrorists who used similar methods. Full Story
Rules Would Restrict Foreign Students
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:44 by TRC-News
In a little-noticed anti-terror initiative, the Bush administration is trying to get colleges and universities to stop some foreign students from studying sensitive subjects. Educators fear they're being dragged into academic censorship. Full Story
Salaries for Airport Guards Set Off Complaints in Congress
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
Democratic congressmen complained today that the administration was proposing excessive salaries of $70,000 plus overtime for checkpoint guards under the new airport security system. Full Story
Proposal to arm pilots revived
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
Two senior House Republicans have bucked the Bush administration and airlines by proposing that pilots be allowed to carry firearms to fight off terrorists. Full Story
Indonesian Official Urges U.S. to Resume Military Assistance
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
A senior civilian official here has said that the United States should drop restrictions imposed almost three years ago on assistance to the Indonesian military and help restore what he called the "tarnished reputation" of this nation's army. Full Story
Basque Separatists Set Off Car Bomb Near Spanish Soccer Stadium
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:39 by TRC-News
The Basque separatist group E.T.A. detonated a car bomb close to a stadium in Madrid yesterday afternoon, hours before the start of an important European soccer game. Seventeen people were hurt, none seriously, in the blast. A second bomb, 30 minutes later, may have destroyed the bombers' getaway car. Full Story
U.S.-Led Raids in Afghanistan Press Search for Qaeda Fighters
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:31 by TRC-News
Hundreds of American-led forces are hunting for Al Qaeda holdouts in Afghanistan, although two senior Afghan commanders whose troops also joined six raids in the past three weeks said today that only two suspects had been detained and none killed so far. Full Story
Blast Targets British Council In Gaza
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:26 by TRC-News
There was an explosion late on Wednesday at the offices of the British Council in the Gaza Strip. Full Story
Seventeen Months Of Saudi Mystery
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
Reports at the weekend, since denied, that one of three Britons in custody Saudi Arabia had been secretly sentenced to death are typical of the mystery which has surrounded a spate of bombings in the country. Full Story
Nepal's Maoist Rebels Willing to Talk Peace
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
Nepal's Maoist rebels said on Thursday they were ready for talks to try to end a six-year-old bloody rebellion that has killed more than 3,600 people across the Himalayan kingdom. Full Story
Madagascar Province Secedes
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
A province that supports outgoing president Didier Ratsiraka will officially declare independence on Thursday. Full Story
Colombia Meets Rights Standards
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell has certified that the Colombian military has met congressionally mandated human rights requirements, freeing $62 million in U.S. military aid for that country, the State Department said Wednesday. Full Story
Algeria Hit By Two Massacres
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
Armed extremists have killed 31 people in two separate massacres in the Tiaret region of western Algeria, officials said on Thursday. Twenty people were killed and five wounded in an attack at Ksar Chellala - the worst single attack in Algeria this year. Full Story
Police find two bombs in public places in southern Philippines
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:18 by TRC-News
Bombs were found stuffed in a jacket in a department store and under a bus seat in two southern Philippine cities Thursday, police said. Full Story
Sayyaf tells government: Look for hostages’ dead bodies
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
Abu Sayyaf bandits withdrew yesterday their offer to negotiate with the government for the safe release of their three remaining hostages, and warned that two of the captives, American missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham, might be executed. Full Story
Blast rocks C’bato as cops kill 2 MILF members, nab 3 others in Davao del Sur firefight
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:16 by TRC-News
An explosion rocked Cotabato City even as police killed two members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and captured three others during an encounter in Davao del Sur yesterday. Full Story
Anthrax To Shut Postal Station
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:13 by TRC-News
The postal service's regional mail facility in Wallingford will be virtually shut down for two months, while technicians decontaminate letter-sorting machines where more anthrax was recently found. Full Story
Doctors Get Updated Anthrax Guide
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
An illustrated guide to anthrax, from how to detect an infection to how to dispose of victims' bodies, was published in one of the nation's leading medical journals this week to help doctors who could be on the front line in another such attack. Full Story
Creator of 'Melissa' Virus, Which Did Millions of Dollars of Damage, Sentenced to 20 Months
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
The creator of the "Melissa" virus was sentenced Wednesday to 20 months in federal prison for causing millions of dollars of damage by disrupting e-mail systems worldwide in 1999. David L. Smith, 33, pleaded guilty in December 1999 to a state charge of computer theft and to a federal charge of sending a damaging computer program. In the federal plea, both sides agreed the damage was greater than $80 million. Full Story
In torn territories, technology suffers
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:05 by TRC-News
The grinding Mideast conflict is sending big ripples into the economies of Israel and the Palestinian territories. But at least one industry — Israel's fledgling technology sector — attributes its slowdown over the past year less to the violence than to the worldwide technology slump. Full Story
Lawmakers Court Controversy With Nationwide ID Plan
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
Two House lawmakers will introduce a bill on Wednesday that promises to stoke up the contentious debate about creating what critics say is a de facto national identification system. Full Story
US, India hold talks to combat cyber attacks
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
The United States and India have launched high-level security talks to protect their information technology systems from attacks by hostile states and computer-savvy criminals, officials said on Tuesday. Full Story
Information-sharing bill on fast track in House
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
Rep. Jane Harman on Tuesday predicted that legislation to boost information sharing among federal agencies and state and local governments would be ready for House floor action within the next several weeks. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:45 by TRC-News
05/01/1945
Germany - Hitler's Suicide Announced
05/01/1993
Sri Lanka - President Premadasa Assassinated by suicide bomber during May Day celebrations in Colombo
05/02/1945
Germany, Russia - Berlin Falls to Soviets
Full Story and More Dates
US Muslim charity head arrested
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
The head of a Muslim charity in the United States has been charged with perjury after he denied his organisation supported groups engaged in terrorism. Full Story
Search for Sept. 11 Suspect Focuses on a Visit to Spain
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
Last July 9, an important Al Qaeda member arrived at a small airport near here on a tourist flight from Germany. Unlike millions of other foreigners who flock here to the Gold Coast in search of sun and fun, Ramzi Muhammad Abdullah bin al-Shibh slipped into a shadow world. Full Story
No Case Vs. Man Who Knew Hijackers
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:39 by TRC-News
A federal judge threw out a perjury indictment Tuesday against a Jordanian college student who knew two alleged Sept. 11 hijackers, citing errors made when investigators applied for an arrest warrant. Full Story
Somali Man Guilty in Money Transfer
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:38 by TRC-News
A Somali man arrested in a terror-related sweep of money transfer businesses was found guilty Tuesday of operating without a state license. Full Story
Iraq Ready for Talks on Arms Inspections
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri is scheduled to begin talks today at the United Nations aimed at reaching an agreement to allow weapons inspectors back into his country--and, from the Iraqis' perspective, make it a bit harder for the United States to attack their land. Full Story
U.S. nixes Iraqi link to 9/11 hijackers
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
U.S. investigators no longer believe suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta met an Iraqi intelligence agent in Europe last year, eliminating the only known link between Saddam Hussein's government and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story
Al Qaeda's new frontier: Indonesia
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:30 by TRC-News
On the steps of a humble mosque, Abu Jibril Abdurrahman quickens his cadence as he approaches the emotional crescendo of his sermon: "Oh God," he implores, "help us to destroy the infidels who have killed our children." Full Story
Iranian Leader Blasts United States, Praises Bombers
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a tirade against the United States Wednesday, accusing Washington of bullying. Full Story
NATO to End Unprecedented Air Patrols Over America
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
The NATO military alliance said it was ending its unprecedented operation to patrol the skies of the United States, launched after the Sept. 11 attacks, because U.S. air defense security had been improved. Full Story
U.S. Indicts Colombian Guerrillas in Killings
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and six of the guerrilla group's leaders were indicted Tuesday on federal charges in the 1999 killings of three Americans. Full Story
UN Envoys Head to Rebel Area in Congo Peace Bid
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
U.N. Security Council envoys trying to salvage faltering peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in the rebel-held east on Wednesday to press for the demilitarisation of a key city. Full Story
Liberia Accused of War Crimes
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
A human rights group has accused the Liberian authorities of atrocities against civilians, and urged the United Nations to extend sanctions on the government. A report by the New York-based organisation Human Rights Watch says Liberian forces fighting rebel guerrillas have committed "war crimes" and other abuses. Full Story
Madagascar Bridge Blown Up, OAU Warns of Partition
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
Saboteurs blew up a key bridge in Madagascar on Tuesday, raising fears of a fresh wave of violence caused by the Indian Ocean island's prolonged leadership crisis. Full Story
Daniel Pearl Case Transferred to Hyderabad
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:16 by TRC-News
A division bench comprising Chief Justice, Justice Saeed Ashad and Justice Ghulam Rabbani of Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday has accepted both the applications of the government and transferred the hearing of Daniel Peal Case to the Central Jail of Hyderabad. Judge Anti -Terrorist Court, Syyed Ali Ashraf Shah will start hearing of the case from 3rd of May. Full Story
Extremist Group Threatens Hostages
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
A Muslim extremist group threatened Wednesday to kill an American missionary couple it is holding hostage, saying it is no longer interested in negotiations. Full Story
PKK Threatens EU: Inclusion Means War!
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
While the terrorist list of the European Union (EU) was expected to be announced on Thursday amid the debates whether a Turkish group would be included on the list or not, outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) threatened the EU for launching a war. Full Story
Senate Takes Up Terrorism Insurance
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:08 by TRC-News
Senate Democrats and Republicans have reached a consensus on the need to revive federal legislation that would put most of the burden of paying for a major terrorist attack on the government rather than insurance companies. Full Story
Report Assesses Trade Center's Collapse
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:07 by TRC-News
The twin towers of the World Trade Center sustained massive structural damage after two hijacked jets crashed into the 110-story buildings on Sept. 11, and the steel eventually buckled under the enormous heat generated by fires caused by spreading jet fuel, a federal team of engineers has concluded in a report to be released today. Full Story
Lacking a strategy, homeland security languishes
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:04 by TRC-News
The Bush administration is not doing enough to protect Americans from future terrorist attacks, according to lawmakers and a new study on homeland security released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. Full Story
Customs steps up radiation screens
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:02 by TRC-News
The US Customs Service, acknowledging that it needs to increase its ability to detect radioactive material that is shipped to the United States, says that it is doubling its capacity to screen incoming packages. Full Story
U.S. scientists counter bioterrorism with new electronic sentinel systems
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
Stung by anthrax mailings after suicide skyjackings, the United States is hurrying to erect an electronic line of defense against further bioterrorism. At least five sophisticated biosurveillance systems are under development with federal funding to nonprofit and to proprietary ventures; two other groups already have products on the market. Full Story
Davis: Streamline homeland tech
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 10:58 by TRC-News
The war on terrorism has generated a flood of suggestions from companies about ways the government could use technology to improve homeland security. But government agencies lack the technical expertise to evaluate the solutions quickly and the buying authority to purchase them promptly, said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.). Full Story
Cyberwar with China? Nope-- It's Just May Again
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 10:55 by TRC-News
Is it just the tenor of these jittery times, or is there really something to reports that China will soon launch a cyberattack against the United States and Taiwan? On Thursday, March 25, the Los Angeles Times wrote that, according to a CIA document they'd obtained, China could be preparing to attack U.S. and Taiwanese Web sites in a mass hack. Other media outlets, including the New York Times, quickly ran articles refuting the report. Who's right? Full Story
Network Forensics: Tapping the Internet
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 10:52 by TRC-News
During the Gulf War, computer hackers in Europe broke into a UNIX computer aboard a warship in the Persian Gulf. The hackers thought they were being tremendously clever -- and they were -- but they were also being watched. Full Story
Backpack allows remote emergency diagnosis
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 10:50 by TRC-News
A British firm has developed a backpack that sends detailed medical information to emergency response teams when wearers get into difficulty. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:51 by TRC-News
04/30/1980
United Kingdom - Seizure of Iranian Embassy
04/30/1975
Vietnam - Fall of Saigon
05/01/1945
Germany, Federal Republic of
Hitler's Suicide Announced
05/01/1993
Sri Lanka
President Premadasa Assassinated
A suicide bomber assassinated president Ranasinghe Premadasa during May Day celebrations in Colombo.
Full Story and More Dates
Dates to Watch
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:47 by TRC-News
MAY 01, 2002 (WORLDWIDE) International labor day also known as May Day is marked by protests and demonstrations in major cities around the world. Full Story and More Dates
Ridge: Alert System May Be Adjusted
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:46 by TRC-News
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge told newspaper executives Monday that the color-coded alert system used to keep the nation apprised of the danger of terrorist threats may have to be "tweaked" in the days to come. Full Story
Germany warns of terror 'hostage plot'
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:45 by TRC-News
German security officials have warned that a terrorist attack could be carried out in the country within the next three weeks. Full Story
Heightened Security On The Water
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
With the first boating season since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 about to begin, tough new rules are in place to protect the state's coastline. Full Story
US Set to Demobilize Reservists, Guardsmen
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:42 by TRC-News
The Bush administration plans a major reduction in the number of reservists and national guard troops on active duty despite a warning from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that forces were stretched thin, according to officials and internal documents. Full Story
Federal Buildings Fail Security Test
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
Working undercover, congressional investigators gained unauthorized access to four Atlanta federal buildings and easily sneaked briefcases and packages past security checkpoints. Full Story
9-11 Investigator Leaves Position
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:39 by TRC-News
The head of the congressional investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has quit after little more than two months on the job. Full Story
Travel Warning: LEBANON
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:36 by TRC-News
This Travel Warning is being issued to update the security situation in Lebanon. During the recent increase in tensions in the Middle East, there have been a number of anti-U.S. demonstrations, some of them violent. Hizballah and Palestinian militants have also become more active along Lebanon's southern border. Full Story
Violence Seen Rising Since Poll in Zimbabwe
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
A state-sponsored campaign of political violence and intimidation has intensified in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe was re-elected to power almost two months ago, Zimbabwean human rights organisation said on Monday. Full Story
North Madagascan Province Declares Independence
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:33 by TRC-News
The governor of the north Madagascan province of Antsiranana on Tuesday officially proclaimed his territory a "sovereign state, independent within the confederation of Madagascar." Full Story
Guatemalan Human Rights Worker Shot Dead
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:31 by TRC-News
Gunmen shot and killed a member of a Guatemalan human rights organization in a restaurant on Monday in what rights activists said was a political murder disguised as a robbery. Full Story
U.N. Envoys Take Peace Mission to Congo's Kabila
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:31 by TRC-News
A U.N. Security Council mission opened closed-door talks with Congo's President Joseph Kabila on Tuesday to revive efforts to end Africa's biggest war after the main rebel group rejected a partial peace deal as a sham. Full Story
Colombian FARC Rebels Release Kidnapped Italian
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:30 by TRC-News
Colombia's largest Marxist rebel force has released a kidnapped Italian engineer for humanitarian reasons after holding the man hostage for five months, the Italian Embassy in Bogota said on Monday. Full Story
U.S. Anti-Terror Campaign Arrives in Georgia
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
American military experts have started arriving in Georgia to help the impoverished former Soviet state's rag-tag army fight Islamic extremists as part of the U.S.-led campaign against terror. Full Story
Libya Ready to Compensate Lockerbie Victims-Report
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:25 by TRC-News
Libya is ready to make a "substantial formal offer" to compensate families of the Lockerbie airliner bombing within a month, Time magazine said, but British relatives dismissed the move as political posturing. Full Story
Camp X-Ray Prisoners in New Cells at U.S. Cuba Base
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:24 by TRC-News
Camp X-Ray was emptied on Monday as the U.S. military finished moving 300 al Qaeda and Taliban captives out of the hastily built chain-link cells and into a more permanent prison at the U.S. Naval Base in southeast Cuba. Full Story
First Federal U.S. Airport Screeners Begin Work
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:21 by TRC-News
In an aviation security milestone on Tuesday, the nation's first team of federal screeners began checking airline passengers at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Full Story
Troops Kill Four al-Qaida Suspects
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:20 by TRC-News
U.S.-led special forces battled suspected al-Qaida militants in two firefights, killing up to four of them, near the border with Pakistan, a region where allied patrols have been hunting the remnants of Osama bin Laden's terror network, the U.S. commander said Tuesday. Full Story
Training the cyberwar troops
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:14 by TRC-News
Systems administrator David Riebrandt's first hint that intruders had hacked the military network came from telltale electronic footprints. Full Story
Army Puts Crisis Guidance Online
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:13 by TRC-News
In the frantic days last October after anthrax attacks on targets in Florida, Washington and New York, Army personnel at commands across the country issued 14 different instructions on how to respond to suspicious mailings. A few offered conflicting advice. Some were simply wrong. Full Story
Academia makes cyber pledge
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 10:11 by TRC-News
Higher education organizations have joined the fight to secure cyberspace by endorsing a framework for action. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
04/29/1967
Colombia - Founding of the EPL (Popular Liberation Army)
04/29/1986
India - Sikh Militants Seize Golden Temple
04/29/1916
Ireland, United Kingdom - Easter Rebellion Dublin
04/29/1992
Sierra Leone - Overthrow of President Momoh for failing to support military battling Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
04/30/1980
United Kingdom - Seizure of Iranian Embassy
04/30/1975
Vietnam - Fall of Saigon
Full Story and More Dates
Study Urges Focus On Terrorism With High Fatalities, Cost
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
A million people could die if terrorists launch a biological attack that widely disperses smallpox, anthrax, ebola or other agents, according to a new study that analyzes the damage that could be caused by the use of weapons of mass destruction. Full Story
Report Announcement at Brookings Institution
Moussaoui Team Opposes Death Penalty
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
Lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui say the government wants to execute the man indicted as a Sept. 11 conspirator because he's the only one available to get the ultimate penalty for the attacks. Full Story
Business spreads out for security
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
The Federal Reserve Board is overseeing an effort by financial institutions to disperse people, records, and operations and to duplicate business functions at multiple sites - a change in strategy from the months following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when most companies relied on security guards checking IDs in downtown office lobbies. Full Story
Daschle: Terror War First, Then Iraq
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
Senate leaders said Sunday there is broad support for toppling Saddam Hussein but that it is too early to take military action against Iraq. Full Story
Administration Split on Local Role in Terror Fight
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
In a rare disagreement, White House and Justice Department officials are divided over whether to declare that local and state police departments have the power to track down illegal immigrants as a new tactic in the global war on terror. Full Story
Top CIA official warns next terror attack unavoidable
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
A top Central Intelligence Agency official has warned Americans that a new terrorist attack is unavoidable, despite all efforts to prevent it and the fact that the CIA is now "stealing more secrets" than ever. Full Story
Interrogating Abu Zubaida: Fact? Fantasy? Manipulation?
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
U.S. government officials say they issued recent alerts about possible terrorist attacks on shopping centers and East Coast financial institutions because information that a captured al Qaeda leader provided interrogators overlaps with other intelligence gathered by the government. Full Story
Making stubborn prisoners talk
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:05 by TRC-News
“Has anybody talked to you about lying?” instructor John Giersdorf asks his freshman class. “We expect you to lie a lot. Your job is to convince someone to do something that could get him executed for treason.” Full Story
Top U.S. military official visits American troops in counterterrorism exercise
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff visited a war-torn southern Philippine island Sunday and met U.S. troops training Filipino soldiers to better fight an al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremist group. Full Story
Abu Sayyaf thumb nose at US-Philippine joint operations
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebels mocked a joint US-Philippine military campaign, saying the effort has failed to crush the gunmen halfway through its six-month timetable. Full Story
Burnham parents mum on ransom
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
THE PARENTS of American couple held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf bandits expressed hope anew their children would be freed soon, but have remained tight-lipped as to the involvement of ransom for their release. Full Story
Philippine Guerrillas Deny Ransom Deal for Americans
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:58 by TRC-News
Muslim guerrillas with suspected links to the al Qaeda network have denied receiving a hefty ransom for the release of a U.S. missionary couple held for almost a year in the southern Philippines. Full Story
Pakistan Denies U.S. Troops Operating on Its Soil
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:56 by TRC-News
Pakistan said Monday no U.S. or other foreign troops were operating in the country to pursue militants fleeing from neighboring Afghanistan. Full Story
'Suspicious' Fliers Reroute Plane
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:55 by TRC-News
The FBI told passengers on a flight forced to return after takeoff that their plane was rerouted because several passengers of Middle Eastern descent had purchased one-way tickets for cash that day, passengers said Monday. Full Story
Arabs in Disguise Kill Four Jewish Settlers in the West Bank
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
Two Palestinian gunmen dressed as Israeli soldiers cut through the fence surrounding this small Jewish settlement this morning and attacked the residents while they were relaxing on the Sabbath, killing four, including a 5-year-old girl, the Israeli Army said. Full Story
U.S. forces reportedly lead raid on Pakistan mosque
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
U.S. special operations forces reportedly raided a mosque and religious school in this tribal border village Friday in an unsuccessful attempt to pin down al-Qaeda and Taliban militants who may have slipped into the country from Afghanistan. Full Story
Navy medical personnel worldwide use software to collaborate
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:44 by TRC-News
The employees of the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) are using collaboration software to help improve the health care they provide to 2.6 million active duty service members, retirees and dependents worldwide. Full Story
Pentagon finalizing Iraq plans
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
Leading Pentagon officials are putting the final touches on a military plan to invade Iraq, perhaps as soon as this summer, according to two senior administration officials. Full Story
States still seek federal funding on security needs
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:39 by TRC-News
New England communities, grappling with new security-related expenses after Sept. 11, are complaining to Congress that federal funding supplements fail two key tests: flexibility and retroactivity. Full Story
FEMA seeks input on first responder grants program
Posted Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is seeking feedback on a grants program that could provide state and local governments with $3.5 billion next year to help them prepare for terrorist attacks. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
04/27/1978
Afghanistan - Anniversary of the Revolution when Marxist government took power.
04/27/1993
Eritrea - Vote for Independence Carries
04/27/1961
Sierra Leone - Independence Day
04/28/1965
Dominican Republic - Last U.S. Marine Intervention
04/28/1937
Iraq - Saddam Hussein's Birthday
04/28/1945
Italy - Mussolini Killed At Lake Como
04/29/1967
Colombia - Founding of the EPL (Popular Liberation Army)
04/29/1986
India - Sikh Militants Seize Golden Temple
04/29/1916
Ireland, United Kingdom - Easter Rebellion Dublin
04/29/1992
Sierra Leone - Overthrow of President Momoh for failing to support military battling Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
Full Story and More Dates
Rumsfeld in Central Asia, Warns of Al Qaeda Offensive
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:31 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, starting a trip to Afghanistan and its Central Asian neighbors, Friday predicted an imminent spring offensive by Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan. Full Story
Afghan War Goes Through Dry Patch but Far From Over
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
Afghanistan no longer rings with gunfire or rumbles under bombing runs, but U.S. and British military officials Friday cautioned against letting the guard down against the Taliban or al Qaeda. Full Story
Survey: Many Unworried About Attacks
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
One in five New Yorkers worries a great deal about a future terrorist attack on their city, compared with about one in seven people living in Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston, a survey released Friday found. Full Story
Anthrax Found Again in Conn.
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:26 by TRC-News
Trace amounts of anthrax were found on the ceiling of a postal sorting center where the deadly bacteria was found last year, a state official said Thursday. Full Story
Pakistan lets U.S. go after al-Qaeda
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
Military officials said Thursday that the United States has won permission from Pakistani leaders to pursue al-Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan into the lawless tribal regions of Pakistan for the first time. Full Story
Ex-CIA chief revitalizes 'truth serum' debate
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
Former CIA and FBI director William Webster said Thursday that the United States should consider administering ''truth drugs'' to uncooperative al-Qaeda and Taliban captives at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere to try to obtain more details about terrorist operations. Full Story
US hostage family pays ransom in Philippines
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
The family of an abducted American missionary couple, Martin and Gracia Burnham, has confirmed it made a deal with the Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines who are holding them. Full Story
Little Praise for Luggage Screening Plan
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:16 by TRC-News
Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta unveiled a plan Wednesday to screen all checked airline baggage for explosives by the end of the year, but independent experts said the proposal was flawed. Full Story
Smaller explosives detectors get bigger role in air security
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
The Transportation Security Administration will rely primarily on portable machines that look for traces of explosives -- not more expensive devices that look for large amounts -- to meet a Dec. 31 congressional deadline for screening all checked baggage. Full Story
12 Killed, 30 Injured in Pak Bomb Blast
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
At least 12 women and children were killed and 30 others injured when a powerful bomb ripped through a gathering of minority Shiite Muslims in Pakistan, the police said on Friday. Full Story
Allegations 'Draining Credibility' of Irish Peace Process - Trimble
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:11 by TRC-News
Recent allegations about the activities of republicans are "rapidly draining away the credibility" of the North's government and the peace process, Mr David Trimble has said. Full Story
Hostage-takers Peacefully Leave Oil Rig off Nigeria
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:10 by TRC-News
Youths who seized an oil rig off southern Nigeria released their last 43 hostages and left the rig peacefully Thursday, after the oil company agreed to discuss their demands, officials said. Nobody was harmed and the rig was "back to normal," said Joe Jakpa, spokesman for Chevron Nigeria, a subsidiary of ChevronTexaco. Full Story
Nepal's King Escapes Brush With Death
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
Nepal's King Gyanendra escaped a brush with death when security forces detected two bombs planted by Maoist guerrillas in the path of his convoy, a national newspaper has reported. Full Story
French Mayor's House Damaged in Blast
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
An explosion damaged the house of a conservative mayor in southern France, but no one was injured, police said Friday. Full Story
UN Envoys to Visit Congo as Peace Hangs in Balance
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:05 by TRC-News
A U.N. Security Council mission makes a fresh Congo peace push next week with the vast African country teetering between reconciliation and more war. Peace efforts hang in the balance after a partial settlement reached at talks last week was roundly rejected by Rwanda, the main anti-government protagonist in Africa's biggest war. Full Story
Colombia Seizes 3.5 Tons Of Explosives In Bogota
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:04 by TRC-News
Colombian police on Thursday seized 3.5 tonnes of explosives near Bogota they said Marxist rebels fighting in the country's largely rural war planned to use in attacks on the capital. Police also arrested 17 suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- known by its Spanish initials as FARC -- in raids in the capital, said Col. German Jaramillo, chief of Colombia's secret police. Full Story
Justice Department slow to get anti-terrorism funding to states
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 10:58 by TRC-News
In the last three fiscal years, only 23 of 56 states and other jurisdictions have received federal funds from a Justice Department program to supply biological, chemical and radiological response equipment for emergency officials. Full Story
CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
U.S. intelligence officials believe the Chinese military is working to launch wide-scale cyber-attacks on American and Taiwanese computer networks, including Internet-linked military systems considered vulnerable to sabotage, according to a classified CIA report. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 12:00 by TRC-News
04/25/1992
Afghanistan - Mujahedeen Rebels Take Kabul marking end of 14 year Soviet occupation.
04/25/1988
Armenia, Greece, Turkey - ASALA (Armenian terrorist group) Leader Killed In Athens
04/25/0000 (annual event)
Egypt - Sinai Liberation Day
04/25/1980
Iran, U.S. - Anniversary of the failed U.S. military Desert One rescue attempt of the 52 American hostages.
Full Story and More Dates
FBI Warns Agents of Shopping Terror
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:57 by TRC-News
The FBI (news - web sites) quietly warned its agents nationwide of unconfirmed information from a captured senior al-Qaida official that terrorists may be planning attacks against supermarkets or shopping centers, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Full Story
U.S. Units Attacking Al Qaeda in Pakistan - Post
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:56 by TRC-News
Covert U.S. military teams have been quietly participating in attacks on suspected al Qaeda hide-outs inside Pakistan in recent weeks, opening a new front in the battle along the Afghan-Pakistan border, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Full Story
Moussaoui Mental Exam Sought
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:55 by TRC-News
Zacarias Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyers asked a judge yesterday to determine that the alleged terrorist is mentally incompetent or to allow them out of the case because he believes they are part of a conspiracy to kill him. Full Story
Spanish Probe Broadens
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:54 by TRC-News
The Spanish interior minister released details Wednesday on how alleged terrorist financiers, hiding behind a facade of respectability, used profits from their construction and real estate companies to fund Al Qaeda activities around the world. Full Story
Six Taliban Leaders Still Dangerous
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:52 by TRC-News
Despite their fall from power, a half-dozen key Taliban leaders pose a threat to U.S. interests in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and elsewhere and remain high on America's target list. Full Story
Bomb rocks southern Philippines, no one hurt
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:51 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded in Cagayan de Oro City in the southern Philippines on Thursday but no one was hurt and police said they thought the blast was not the work of Muslim rebels linked to Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Deal to Free US Hostages in Philippines Collapses
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:49 by TRC-News
The family of a U.S. missionary couple held hostage by Muslim gunmen in the Philippines for almost 11 months accused the rebels on Thursday of reneging on a deal to free their captives. Full Story
Philippines considers plan for US military advisers on Basilan
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:48 by TRC-News
US military advisers may join Filipino troops on combat patrols in the southern Philippines island of Basilan if their respective governments approve a plan now under discussion. Full Story
Iraq Says Not Intimidated by U.S. Threats
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:45 by TRC-News
Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was quoted as saying on Thursday that Iraqis would not be intimidated by a U.S. threat of military action, and that Iraq was capable of defeating the United States. Full Story
Palestinians Convict Assassins
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
A makeshift court inside Yasser Arafat's compound convicted four Palestinians on Thursday for the slaying of Israel's tourism minister, but the move was unlikely to bring an end to Israel's siege of the Palestinian leader. Full Story
USS Cole Comes Home to Norfolk
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:41 by TRC-News
The USS Cole returned to its home port Thursday a stronger, better ship than when a terrorists' bomb ripped it open and killed 17 of its sailors a year and a half ago in Yemen. Full Story
Arabic speakers answer FBI call for translators
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:38 by TRC-News
Arabic speakers, including hundreds of Arab-Americans, have flooded the FBI with applications for jobs as translators since Sept. 11, according to officials who say that some of those hired already are playing key roles in terrorism probes. Full Story
Public Announcement: MIDDLE EAST
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:35 by TRC-News
This Public Announcement is being updated to alert Americans to the potential for further terrorist actions against U.S. citizens abroad and that individuals may be planning terrorist actions against U.S. citizens and interests in the region of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. Full Story
Islamic Militants Kill 16 In Algeria
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
Attackers believed to be Islamic militants killed 16 people, including eight children, in an assault Wednesday on nomadic families, the official Algerian news service reported. Full Story
Schily Warns of Possible Terror Attacks
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:33 by TRC-News
A day after police arrested 11 terrorist suspects in a nationwide sweep, German Interior Minister Otto Schily warned on Wednesday that the country could become the target of attacks. Full Story
One Killed, 16 Injured in Udhampur (India) Blast
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
A bus driver was killed and 16 passengers wounded early on Thursday in a landmine blast in Jammu's Udhampur district. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the blast as yet. Full Story
Blasts Hit Indonesia's Ambon, Mobs Torch Church
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
Several explosions rocked an area near the Muslim quarter of Indonesia's eastern city of Ambon on Thursday, wounding at least two people and triggering a mob to torch a church, police and witnesses said. Full Story
Nigeria Hostage Crisis Could End
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:27 by TRC-News
ChevronTexaco said on Wednesday it had received word from Nigeria that armed militants holding dozens of hostages on a drilling rig offshore Nigeria have agreed to leave the rig Thursday morning. Full Story
Bomb Threat Against Moscow Synagogue: Police
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
Worshippers were hastily evacuated from a Moscow synagogue after a telephoned bomb threat, police here said. Full Story
Russia 'Assassinates' Chechen Warlord
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
Russia's security service, the FSB, claims that Russian troops have succeeded in killing a leading rebel warlord in Chechnya. Full Story
Sri Lankan Navy 'Intercepts Tigers'
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
The Sri Lankan ceasefire faced a severe test on Wednesday when the navy said it intercepted three boats carrying some 40 Tamil Tiger rebels. Full Story
Zimbabwean Militants Target Indian Property
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
Government-backed militants have threatened to seize property owned by members of Zimbabwe's Indian community, who they have accused of being "economic looters", unless they hand it over to blacks. Full Story
At War College, Police Officials Will Work on Disaster Response
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:19 by TRC-News
Taking a page from the military, the New York Police Department will send some of its top leaders to the Naval War College, in Newport, R.I., next month to play out a variety of disaster situations and improve their ability to respond to a terrorist attack. Full Story
Cyber Terrorists Increase Attacks Against South KoreaSouth Korea's Fragile Computer Systems
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
The Cyberterror Response Center of the National Police Agency (NPA) said 22 hackers attacked 11,222 computer servers around the world from last August through March. Of the 6,287 servers whose locations were identified by the police, 39 percent were in South Korea, the highest figure in the world, the police added. The United States placed second on the list with 801 servers (12.5 percent). Full Story
Technology industry must innovate in fight against terrorists, Ridge says
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:05 by TRC-News
The technology industry must invent and invest in new ways to undermine terrorists targeting the United States, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Tuesday night. Full Story
Anti-terror class uses world-class software
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
A team of experts is training students to become tomorrow's super sleuths by arming them with the most advanced crime and terrorism analysis tools available today to a university. Full Story
Coast Guard official warns of gaps in information systems
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
The Coast Guard must bridge "significant gaps" in its information and communications capabilities in order to fight terrorism abroad, protect maritime commerce and prevent high-risk cargo from entering U.S. ports, a top Coast Guard information official said Monday. Full Story
CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
U.S. intelligence officials believe the Chinese military is working to launch wide-scale cyber-attacks on American and Taiwanese computer networks, including Internet-linked military systems considered vulnerable to sabotage, according to a classified CIA report. Full Story
British Judge Denies Extradition in Sept. 11 Probe
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:50 by TRC-News
Part of the U.S. criminal investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks fell to pieces today when a British judge refused to extradite Lotfi Raissi, saying the Justice Department had produced no evidence to back up its allegation that the Algerian pilot was involved in the conspiracy. Full Story
Albuquerque Airport Evacuated as Security Breached
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:44 by TRC-News
About 1,000 passengers were evacuated from the Albuquerque International Sunport airport on Wednesday after a person entered the terminal without first being screened by security officials. Full Story
Federal Airport Workers to Debut at BWI
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
Baltimore-Washington International Airport will become the first in the country to have an all-federal security force by about mid-June, marking the national debut of the government's air travel security system, officials said yesterday. Full Story
National to Restore Flight Rules
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:42 by TRC-News
The federal government has decided to return flight paths for Reagan National Airport to their earlier pattern, end a late-night ban on flights and welcome back 757 jets -- moving commercial aviation closer to the normalcy it knew before the September terrorist attacks. Full Story
Immigrants struggling after arrests
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
Martin Gonzalez was among 14 Logan International Airport workers arraigned Tuesday on federal charges of lying on applications and presenting false Social Security numbers for jobs as airport janitors, security checkpoint screeners, and food service workers. Full Story
Security concerns hobble return of airlines
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
Declaring that the nation's airlines face their biggest challenge since commercial aviation was deregulated in 1978, former American Airlines Chairman Robert Crandall said stimulating lagging customer demand after Sept. 11 is the biggest obstacle facing an industry that lost a staggering $6 billion last year. Full Story
Others Follow U.S. on Smallpox Vaccine
Posted Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:33 by TRC-News
Israel, Britain and other countries are moving to acquire stocks of smallpox vaccine as the United States and Russia weigh proposals to begin vaccinating parts of their populations against the disease, according to American and Russian officials and health experts. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 11:17 by TRC-News
04/24/1915
Armenia, Turkey - Armenians observe this date as the anniversary of the 1915 Turkish "genocide" against Armenians.
04/24/1973
Philippines - Founding of the The National Democratic Front (NDF), a coalition of fourteen leftist groups supporting the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People's Army (NPA), in Manila.
04/25/1992
Afghanistan - Mujahedeen Rebels Take Kabul marking end of 14 year Soviet occupation.
04/25/1988
Armenia, Greece, Turkey - ASALA (Armenian terrorist group) Leader Killed In Athens
04/25/0000 (annual event)
Egypt - Sinai Liberation Day
04/25/1980
Iran, U.S. - Anniversary of the failed U.S. military Desert One rescue attempt of the 52 American hostages.
Full Story and More Dates
Homeland security, state by state
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
Seven months after President Bush asked them to develop homeland defense programs, states have responded in a range of ways. Some have set aside money to begin planning; many others are awaiting further guidance from the federal government, which plans to distribute $3.5 billion in security funding beginning in October. A look at what the states have done toward setting up homeland defense programs with their own money. Full Story
Philippines probes al Qaeda link to bomb blasts
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 11:05 by TRC-News
Philippine police on Wednesday arrested three more Muslim suspects for bomb blasts that killed l5 people and said they were investigating possible links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Full Story
Narrowly Drawn Rules Freeze Out Tens of Thousands of Indirect Victims, Report Says
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
Tens of thousands of indirect victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center are struggling to obtain services because of narrowly drawn eligibility requirements for federal money and for the charities set up after Sept. 11, according to a study to be released today by the United Way of New York City. Full Story
U.S. Opposes Access to Detainees for Lindh Lawyers
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
Citing "national defense and security" concerns, U.S. prosecutors opposed on Tuesday giving American Taliban John Walker Lindh's lawyers direct access to detainees captured in Afghanistan and being held at a U.S. military base in Cuba. Full Story
Indonesia, U.S. Open Sensitive Security Talks
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:58 by TRC-News
Indonesia and the United States opened sensitive security and defense talks on Wednesday that marked a step forward in dialogue following a rupture in military ties over violence in East Timor in 1999. Full Story
Bin Laden Lieutenant Talks
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:56 by TRC-News
Abu Zubaydah has plenty of reasons to lie to his American interrogators. After all, he's Osama bin Laden's top field commander and his knowledge of al-Qaida operations could be devastating to the terror network. Full Story
Witness: Pearl Worried About Meeting
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:55 by TRC-News
Slain Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl was concerned that a meeting he had requested with an Islamic fundamentalist might be dangerous, an assistant to the American reporter testified Wednesday. Full Story
VOA Station Spreading U.S. Message
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:54 by TRC-News
Voice Of America's Middle East Radio Network (Radio Sawa meaning Radio Together), went on the air March 23 with the avowed aim of getting the ear of Arabs from Morocco to Oman — more than a dozen countries - and seeking to lure the majority younger population of the region with music while also giving them news that doesn't sound much like the anti-American tirades they're accustomed to hearing on Arab stations. Full Story
How in a Little British Town Jihad Found Young Converts
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:49 by TRC-News
The young men lived within a few blocks of one another in a Muslim pocket in this small town near Birmingham. They were out of school and often on the streets, in the occasional fight, sometime smokers of marijuana. They were, in the slang of the British Midlands, "dossers" slackers, layabouts. Full Story
Colombia rebels could be target in terror war
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:47 by TRC-News
When the United States' top drug cop visited here recently, he traveled in bulletproof vans. Police with automatic weapons ringed the hotel where he slept. He was warned that if he left the city limits, he risked being kidnapped by rebels. Full Story
IRA and Cuban connection?
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:46 by TRC-News
Colombia's homegrown Marxist rebels have expanded greatly, forming training alliances and sharing bomb technology with terror groups from Ireland, Spain, Cuba and elsewhere, congressional investigators have concluded. Full Story
Officials may transfer al-Qaeda figure to U.S.
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:44 by TRC-News
Pentagon officials have been discussing whether to secretly transfer a high-level al-Qaeda operative captured late last month in Pakistan to the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia, sources close to the talks said Tuesday. Full Story
State Dept. Public Announcement: PHILIPPINES
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
This Public Announcement is being issued to reflect updated information concerning the general security environment in the Philippines and to add recent examples of threats and crimes against American citizens, including armed attacks and murder. Full Story
State Dept. Public Announcement: PERU
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
This Public Announcement is being issued to alert U.S. citizens to the continued potential for terrorist activity by Sendero Luminoso and other groups in Peru, in the weeks leading up to and following May 17, an important anniversary for these groups. Full Story
State Dept. Public Announcement: NEPAL
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:39 by TRC-News
This Public Announcement is being issued to alert American citizens to an increase in Maoist violence, including within Kathmandu itself, during the lead up to their call for bandhs (general strikes). Full Story
Tunisia admits synagogue blast was no accident
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
A gas truck explosion outside the oldest synagogue in Africa was a deliberate criminal attack - not an accident - the Tunisian government has acknowledged. Full Story
Spain Detains 'Al-Qaeda Fundraiser'
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:32 by TRC-News
Spanish police have arrested a man thought to be a key figure in financing Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Full Story
More Arrests Over Philippine Blasts
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:32 by TRC-News
Philippine police have arrested three more suspects over Sunday's bombings in the southern city of General Santos, in which 15 people were killed. The police said they were looking into possible links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Full Story
Nigeria Oil Rig Workers Seized
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:31 by TRC-News
The American oil company ChevronTexaco has said that 43 of its workers are being held hostage on an oil rig off western Nigeria by local youths. Company official Dick Filgate said that about 40 youths had stormed the rig, originally holding 88 workers captive, including 22 foreigners. Full Story
Nepal Rebels Blow Up PM's House
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:30 by TRC-News
Rebels in Nepal have destroyed the family home of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Full Story
Kathmandu Issues Bounty for Capture of Maoists
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:29 by TRC-News
Nepal has put bounties on the heads of Maoist leaders, at the start of a five-day general strike called by the rebels to protest against the state of emergency imposed in November last year. Full Story
Rebels Kidnap Two Outside of Bogota
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:27 by TRC-News
Rebels kidnapped two men Tuesday on one of the few highways in Colombia considered safe from attack, the army said. Full Story
American, Activist Escape Kidnapping
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
American college professor and peace activist Bernard Lafayette came to Colombia hoping to meet with Colombian rebels. He got his wish and almost wound up being kidnapped by them. Full Story
Anthrax Vaccine Study Sees No Unusual Adverse Events
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:19 by TRC-News
Findings from the Anthrax Vaccine Expert Committee (AVEC) do not suggest a high frequency of medically important adverse events associated with anthrax vaccination. Full Story
Brooklyn Trial Revisits Fears Over Anthrax After Sept. 11
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:18 by TRC-News
In federal court in Brooklyn this morning, a 51-year-old man is scheduled to defend himself against charges that he threw fistfuls of powder into a mailbox outside an elementary school. Full Story
Clarke floats options for GovNet
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:12 by TRC-News
The Bush administration last week laid out a range of options for securing critical government information systems, including everything from simply beefing up security on existing systems to building a governmentwide intranet that would wall off systems from the Internet. Full Story
Airport Workers Charged In Sweep
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:08 by TRC-News
More than 140 employees at the Washington area's three major airports have been indicted on charges of lying about their identities or criminal pasts on applications to work near airplanes, runways and cargo, federal officials announced yesterday. Full Story
Man in O'Hare security breach unfit for trial
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:05 by TRC-News
A man accused of breaching security at O'Hare International Airport by carrying seven knives past a checkpoint has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial, authorities said today. Full Story
Ridge Pushes Fast-Track 'Trusted Fliers' Screening
Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:03 by TRC-News
Random checks of passengers in airport lines do little to bolster security, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said yesterday, maintaining that the government and the airline industry must do a better job of identifying travelers who pose the greatest risk. Full Story
Calendar of Significant Dates
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 12:07 by TRC-News
04/23/1993
Sri Lanka - Opposition politician Lalith Athulathmudai assassintated during an election rally near Colombo.
04/24/1915
Armenia, Turkey - Armenians observe this date as the anniversary of the 1915 Turkish "genocide" against Armenians.
04/24/1973
Philippines - Founding of the The National Democratic Front (NDF), a coalition of fourteen leftist groups supporting the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People's Army (NPA), in Manila.
Full Story and More Dates
Al-Qaeda claims 'dirty bomb' know-how
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 12:03 by TRC-News
Abu Zubaydah - Bin Laden's chief of operations until his capture in Pakistan last month - said the organisation also knew how to smuggle it into the United States, unnamed US officials have been quoted as saying. Full Story
Moussaoui Wants to Be Own Lawyer
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 12:00 by TRC-News
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person facing American charges in the Sept. 11 hijackings, jarred a federal courtroom yesterday by telling a judge he wants to fire his court-appointed attorneys and praying for the destruction of the United States and Israel. Full Story
Muslim Charity's Lawsuit Raises 'Distressing' Issues, Judge Says
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:58 by TRC-News
A federal judge said yesterday that a lawsuit filed by the nation's largest Muslim charity raised "significant and distressing allegations" about government actions in its war on terror. Full Story
Gays Seek WTC Workers Comp Pay for Dead Partners
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:57 by TRC-News
Eugene Clark, who worked for insurance broker Aon Corp. on the 102nd floor of the south World Trade Center tower, was one of the nearly 3,000 killed when the complex was destroyed on Sept. 11. Full Story
Iran Denounces U.S. Ban on Visitors
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:55 by TRC-News
Iran on Monday denounced a U.S. move to bar visitors from what Washington calls terrorism-sponsoring countries. Full Story
Germany Arrests 11 Terror Suspects
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:55 by TRC-News
Authorities burst into apartments in several cities on Tuesday and arrested 11 alleged Islamic militants suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Germany, prosecutors said. Full Story
Congo Rulers Push on with Power-sharing Plan
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:45 by TRC-News
Congo's government said on Monday it was pushing ahead a power-sharing deal with a key rebel group, despite warnings it could drive Africa's third biggest country back to all-out war. Full Story
Palestinians in Hebron Kill Suspected Collaborators
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:44 by TRC-News
Hooded gunmen on Tuesday shot dead three men suspected of collaborating with Israel at the scene of an overnight Israeli missile strike that killed two Palestinian militants in Hebron, witnesses said. Full Story
Nepal Shuts Down as Rebels Call Strike
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
Nepal has closed down for a five-day national strike ordered by Maoist rebels fighting to overthrow the king and government. Full Story
Officer to Testify in Pearl Trial
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
Prosecutors were preparing to call a police officer to the stand Tuesday to testify that he heard a British-born Islamic militant admit his role in the kidnap-slaying of reporter Daniel Pearl. Full Story
Philippines On High Alert After Attacks
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:39 by TRC-News
Vowing to "fight terrorism to the end," President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today sought to soothe her edgy nation a day after bombings killed 14 people. She put security forces on high alert and offered a $100,000 reward for information on the bombers. Full Story
Federal Cybersecurity Agency Gets New Name
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:36 by TRC-News
The U.S. Department of Commerce said Friday that its Bureau of Export Administration had been renamed the "Bureau of Industry and Security," to spotlight the agency's heightened role in the Bush administration's cybersecurity and homeland security efforts. Full Story
Mannheim to Harden Army Defense
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
The Army last week concluded the first exercise of an initiative designed to improve the service's ability to defend its networks against attacks. Full Story
Taiwan Organising Cyber War Drill
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
Taiwan is planning a drill to boost the island's Internet defence against any hacker attacks, especially from China, an official said Monday. Full Story
Debate Over Nuclear Lab Security Heats Up
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
The Department of Energy privately warned White House officials in late March that it lacked the funds to adequately protect the nation's nuclear weapons research facilities shortly after the administration had offered public assurances that security was more than adequate. Full Story
U.S. is all over the map on homeland defense
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
During the first big test of Oklahoma's new homeland defense plan, Gov. Frank Keating and other top state officials huddled in a Capitol ''war room'' here to confront a horrific terrorism scenario: a smallpox outbreak in Tulsa. Full Story
Court to decide anti-abortion protests case
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide to what extent federal racketeering law covers anti-abortion protesters who carried out a nationwide conspiracy to shut down health clinics by destroying property and attacking patients. Full Story
Spotting links to Terrorism, Inc.
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:18 by TRC-News
A new investing tool screens for firms tied to countries singled out by the US government as 'sponsors' of terrorism. But will it sully some upstanding firms? Full Story
Hijacked Web sites can become weapon in terrorists' arsenal
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
Some free software and a little Web surfing can enable anyone to hide coded messages in the digital photos of ordinary Internet sites, turning a harmless company marketing tool into a conduit for spies and terrorists. Full Story
FBI Continues Bank Attack Warning
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:12 by TRC-News
The FBI said Monday its warning about possible terrorist attacks on banks in the Northeast remains in effect although the government has no new information that would substantiate reports of any specific threats or plots. Full Story
Why the U.S. Sounded the Bank Alarm
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 11:10 by TRC-News
The White House couldn't quite believe captured Al Qaeda strategist Abu Zubaydah about the threat to U.S. banks. But they couldn't ignore it either. Full Story
Significant Calendar Dates
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
04/23/1993
Sri Lanka - Opposition politician Lalith Athulathmudai assassintated during an election rally near Colombo.
Full Story and More Dates
Scientists Weigh In With Deductions on Anthrax Killer
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
Microbiologists, like nature, abhor a vacuum, and in the absence of an FBI arrest in last fall's anthrax attacks, some of the nation's top scientists are offering their own theories. Full Story
Anthrax problems linger in survivors
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:23 by TRC-News
Six months after inhaling anthrax spores, several of the mail workers who survived the deadly disease have yet to make a full recovery and are experiencing serious fatigue and memory loss. Full Story
FBI Warns Banks of Terrorist Threat
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:13 by TRC-News
The FBI, acting on information from a captured senior aide to Osama bin Laden, warned banks and financial institutions throughout the Northeast on Friday that they face the threat of terrorist attacks. Full Story
Philippines Says Bomb Suspects Trained in Malaysia
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:09 by TRC-News
Police seized two Muslim guerrillas Monday they said had been trained in bomb-making in Malaysia and were hunting other suspects behind fatal weekend explosions in the southern Philippines. Full Story
Pakistan Charges Four as Pearl Murder Trial Begins
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:08 by TRC-News
A Pakistani court Monday began the trial of British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other men for the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in Karachi in January. Full Story
Limits of DNA Research Pushed to Identify the Dead of Sept. 11
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
A right hand, a forearm and a clavicle, and the DNA they carried, were all investigators had to identify the remains of Timothy Stout, who worked on the 103rd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Full Story
Cleric's secret file raises questions on terror role
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
The government portrays him as a mystery man who traveled the world with no clear means of support, kept bricks of cash in a briefcase and founded a U.S.-based charity that fed money to terrorists. Full Story
Al Qaeda Interrogations Fall Short of the Mark
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:59 by TRC-News
The effort to obtain information from al Qaeda and Taliban fighters detained at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba has been hampered by inexperienced interrogators and linguists, military bureaucracy and squabbles among private language contractors, according to sources familiar with the government's mission there. Full Story
U.S. Weighing New Doctrine for Tribunals
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
Uncertain about how they will be able to prosecute many of the nearly 300 prisoners detained at a naval base in Cuba, Bush administration officials are considering a new legal doctrine that would allow prisoners to be brought before military tribunals without specific evidence that they engaged in war crimes. Full Story
U.S. Military Advisers Begin Training Yemen Forces
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
U.S. military advisers have begun training Yemeni troops hunting remnants of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, Yemen's president said in an Italian newspaper interview published Sunday. Full Story
New bin Laden tape found in Kabul
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
A videotape of Osama bin Laden made public Monday shows the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks again urging all Muslims to join him in a holy war against the United States. Full Story
17 years of war on terrorism
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:25 by TRC-News
Dick Stethem keeps a fat binder at home in Port Tobacco, stuffed with articles, reports and notes about a man he has never met. Imad Mugniyah is the terrorist who authorities say plotted the hijacking of a jetliner that resulted in the torture and murder of his son.
Full Story
Court Papers on Detainee Released
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:22 by TRC-News
The Justice Department reluctantly agreed yesterday to release immigration court documents in the case of a Lebanese activist detained in Michigan after Sept. 11, providing one of the first and most detailed official accounts of the government's secretive anti-terrorism campaign. Full Story
Official: Synagogue Blast an Attack
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:14 by TRC-News
The gas truck explosion at a historic Tunisian synagogue that left 16 people dead, mostly Germans, was definitely the result of a terrorist attack, Germany's interior minister said Monday. Full Story
Cab Driver Testifies in Pearl Case
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:13 by TRC-News
A taxi driver testified Monday that he saw a British-born Islamic militant drive off with Daniel Pearl in a white car the day the Wall Street Journal reporter went missing. Full Story
13 killed in GenSan (Philippines) blasts
Posted Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:11 by TRC-News
At least 13 people were killed and 60 wounded when three bombs exploded yesterday afternoon in this port city, the Central Mindanao police reported. Full Story
Significant Calendar Dates
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
04/19/1995
United States - Oklahoma City Bombing killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more.
04/19/1993
United States - End of Branch Davidian Siege near Waco, Texas.
04/19/1980
Colombia - Founding of "April 19 Movement (M-19)" formerly leftist terrorist group, now a legitimate political party.
04/19/1960
South Korea - Students' Day commemorates resignation of president Syngman Rhee.
04/19/1960
Namibia - Founding of South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) former rebel group now legitimate and dominant political party.
04/19/1971
Sierra Leone - Proclamation of the Republic
04/20/1889
Germany - Adolf Hitler's Birthday
04/21/1967
Greece - Military Dictatorship Began
Full Story and More Dates
Link to Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Dates to Watch
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
APRIL 19, 2002
UNITED STATES - The Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank are to be held in Washington, DC. The meetings will last until the 22nd. Anti-globalization and anti-war demonstrations are expected. Full Story and More Dates
Relatives hear Flight 93 hijack tapes
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:50 by TRC-News
Relatives of some of the people on board one of the airplanes hijacked on 11 September have been listening to the screams and struggles from the flight's final minutes. Full Story
Australians in dark over held 'terrorist'
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
In Sydney, he was regarded as a bit of a crank, but 46-year-old Mamdouh Habib has hit the Islamic fundamentalist big time. Full Story
Pilot whom al-Qaeda knew of is arrested
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:45 by TRC-News
The FBI has arrested a Tanzanian pilot in North Carolina on suspected immigration violations after U.S. intelligence officials found an al-Qaeda document in Afghanistan congratulating him on graduating from a Florida flight school. Full Story
Indonesian al-Qaeda bomb expert jailed in Philippines
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
An Indonesian alleged bomb expert for the al-Qaeda terror network was sentenced to up to 12 years in jail in the Philippines for illegal possession of explosives. Full Story
Bag-Screening Deadline in Doubt
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
House appropriators blasted the new Transportation Security Administration yesterday for trying to spend too much money and hire too many people as it sets up a nationwide airport security system. Full Story
Disaster recovery back in spotlight
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:35 by TRC-News
New Mexico's Information Systems Division (ISD) put together its first disaster recovery plan in the mid-1980s but, like information technology managers in others states, New Mexico officials found themselves focusing on other issues in the 1990s. Full Story
Crew Foiled Hijacking of Chinese Plane, Officials Say
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
An airline crew subdued a mentally ill passenger who was trying to hijack a domestic flight in China's northeast, officials said Thursday. Full Story
DR Congo Peace Talks in Deadlock
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:33 by TRC-News
Peace talks on the future of the Democratic Republic of Congo have collapsed as the Kinshasa government and the two main rebel movements failed to find a peaceful settlement to the country's civil war. Full Story
Kidnapped Indian Diplomat Traced
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:31 by TRC-News
The Islamabad kidnapping drama ended on Friday, with the discovery of an injured Indian diplomat. A R Khanna, an assistant in the Commission, was found by Islamabad police, many hours after he was abducted. Full Story
Israelis Arrest Top Hamas Official
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:30 by TRC-News
Israel Defense Forces arrested a top official in the military wing of Hamas on Thursday, the IDF and Palestinian security forces said. Full Story
Suspected Militants Arrested in Malaysia
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:29 by TRC-News
Malaysian authorities arrested 14 suspected members of a group linked to Al Qaeda in raids that turned up a map of the country's largest port, officials said today. Full Story
Rebels Bomb Airport in Nepal
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:27 by TRC-News
A bomb planted by Maoist rebels damaged an airport in the eastern part of Nepal but there were no injuries, police said on Friday. Full Story
Names of Tory Politicians on Republican List - Report
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
A list of Conservative politicians has been discovered on a republican hit list in Belfast, it has been reported. Full Story
Yemeni Police Fire Tear Gas at Anti-U.S. Protest
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:23 by TRC-News
Yemeni police fired shots in the air and used tear gas and clubs to prevent about 5,000 pro-Palestinian protesters from reaching the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, witnesses said. Full Story
U.S. Troops to Build Roads on Philippine Rebel Isle
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:21 by TRC-News
The United States is deploying 340 military engineers to build roads and water wells on a southern Philippine island stronghold of Muslim rebels linked to the al Qaeda network, officials said Friday. Full Story
Palestinian Sites Knocked Offline By Mideast Conflict
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:17 by TRC-News
Contrary to recent reports, Israeli Web sites have not born the brunt of the escalating violence in the Middle East, security experts said today. Full Story
Pearl Judge Removed Before Trial
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:15 by TRC-News
A Pakistani appeals court removed the judge hearing the case of slain U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl on Friday, just three days before the opening statements are scheduled to be heard, the chief prosecutor said. Full Story
White House cyber czar describes next phase of Internet plan
Posted Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:09 by TRC-News
Speaking before a conference of hundreds of federal technology personnel and industry officials Wednesday morning, Richard Clarke, President Bush’s point man on national cybersecurity, outlined the next phase in the controversial plan to build an impenetrable information network for the federal government, known as Govnet. Full Story
Calendar of Significant Dates
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
04/18/1983
Lebanon - Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut killing 63, injuring hundreds. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
04/18/1980
Zimbabwe - Independence Day
04/19/1993
United States - End of Branch Davidian Siege near Waco, Texas.
04/19/1995
United States - Oklahoma City Bombing killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more.
04/19/1980
Colombia - Founding of "April 19 Movement (M-19)" formerly leftist terrorist group, now a legitimate political party.
04/19/1960
South Korea - Students' Day commemorates resignation of president Syngman Rhee.
04/19/1960
Namibia - Founding of South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) former rebel group now legitimate and dominant political party.
04/19/1971
Sierra Leone - Proclamation of the Republic
Full Story
Link to Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Dates to Watch
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
APRIL 19, 2002
UNITED STATES - The Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank are to be held in Washington, DC. The meetings will last until the 22nd. Anti-globalization and anti-war demonstrations are expected.
Full Story and More Dates
New command designated to protect North America
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:26 by TRC-News
The Pentagon announced yesterday it is creating a new military command to help defend North America from future attack, marking the first time in modern history that US military forces operating on USsoil will have as their principal assignment detering and responding to threats by land, air, and sea. Full Story
Five Arrested in Shoe Bomber Case
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:25 by TRC-News
Police and security agents on Wednesday questioned five Pakistanis suspected of providing logistical support to Richard C. Reid before he boarded a Paris-Miami flight with explosives-laden shoes, judicial officials said. Full Story
Egypt holds 'terrorist' Britons
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:24 by TRC-News
Four Britons have been arrested in Egypt apparently on suspicion of being members of an Islamic terror group. Full Story
US to Maintain Philippines Support
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:22 by TRC-News
A top U.S. military commander refused to comment Tuesday on reports Washington was involved in negotiations with Muslim extremists to win the release American missionaries held by the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group for more than 10 months. Full Story
14 Muslim separatists surrender in southern Philippines
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:21 by TRC-News
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leader Tahir Mayo and his men turned over their weapons to the army in the town of Alamada on Monday, military southern command spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Fredesvindo Covarrubias said. Full Story
Green Berets vs Sayyaf
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:20 by TRC-News
American troops have been given orders to participate in combat missions if necessary to pressure the Abu Sayyaf into freeing its remaining three hostages. Full Story
More police assigned to Denver Int'l Airport security
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:16 by TRC-News
Twenty additional Denver police officers will be assigned to Denver International Airport in May once the Colorado National Guard ends its eight-month security stint there. Full Story
$1,000 fine for blades aboard plane
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:15 by TRC-News
A Chester County businessman who, in the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, demonstrated airport-security shortcomings by twice taking razors and box-cutters aboard airliners was fined $1,000 yesterday after pleading guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge. Full Story
U.S. Admits Ignorance on bin Laden
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:13 by TRC-News
Despite a massive number of tips, rumors and other intelligence, the U.S. military has never had good enough information on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts to mount a mission to go after him, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday. Full Story
Germany Raises al-Qaida Suspicion
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:10 by TRC-News
Germany has for the first time raised the possibility that a truck bombing at a Tunisian synagogue that killed 16 people was an al-Qaida terrorist attack. If verified, the blast would be the first terror attack by Osama bin Laden's terror network since Sept. 11. Full Story
Sixteen Police Killed in Chechnya
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:08 by TRC-News
Sixteen police were killed Thursday when a land mine blew up the bus carrying them in the Chechen capital of Grozny, Russian officials said. Full Story
U.S. leans on Pakistan to plug holes in border
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
U.S. law enforcement officials pressed Pakistan on Wednesday to strengthen counterterrorism operations in the country's interior and to upgrade border controls. Full Story
Ugandan Army Captures Large Number of Rebel Arms
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:03 by TRC-News
The Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) have dug up on Sunday and Monday a large number of arms and equipment in former camps of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in southern Sudan, UPDF Spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said on Thursday. Full Story
Tamil Tigers Upset Over Truce Delay
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:02 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have hinted that peace talks with the government could be deferred. Full Story
Russia Closes Door on Bin Laden
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
One of the world's most wanted men, founder and sponsor of the al-Qaida terrorist network, Osama Bin Laden, seen by many nations as the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks against the United States, is officially no longer welcome in Russia. Full Story
Bomb Reportedly Kills Three in Peshwar
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded Thursday in the main market of the southeastern Afghan town of Khost, killing three people and injuring others, the Afghan Islamic Press reported. Full Story
Nepal Blast Leaves Six Wounded
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:59 by TRC-News
Police in Nepal say suspected Maoists rebels have carried out at least three bomb explosions in the capital Kathmandu. Full Story
Lebanon Reinforces Southern Border
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:58 by TRC-News
Lebanon reinforced on Wednesday its southern border with Israel by setting up nine roadblocks, said Lebanese security sources. Full Story
Hijackers Overtake Hooligans as World Cup Threat
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
World Cup authorities in Japan and South Korea, on the alert after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, are bracing for everything from hooligans to hijacked planes, officials said Thursday. Full Story
DR Congo Signs Deal with Ugandan-backed Rebels
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:56 by TRC-News
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a deal in South Africa Wednesday with Ugandan-backed rebels under which rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba will become prime minister, government representative Vital Kamerhe told Nampa-AFP. Full Story
Data vulnerable to attack, Auditor-General warns
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:44 by TRC-News
Sensitive information collected by Ottawa about Canadians is vulnerable to cyber-attacks because the government has failed to monitor and update its electronic security systems, the federal Auditor-General said yesterday. Full Story
Survival in an Insecure World
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
To defeat cyberterrorists, computer systems must be designed to work around sabotage. David A. Fisher's new programming language will help do just that. Full Story
Database launched for crime victims
Posted Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
The Victim Notification System, launched Tuesday, is a joint project of the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, all units of the Justice Department. GRC International, a subsidiary of AT&T, was awarded the contract to develop the system in July 2000. Full Story
Calendar of Significant Dates
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 12:02 by TRC-News
04/17/1989
Burma - United Wa State Army founded
04/17/1946
Syria - Independence Day
04/17/1992
Turkey - Turkish raid on Kurdish guerrillas on this date leads to numerous Kurdish reprisals citing this date.
04/18/1983
Lebanon - Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut killing 63, injuring hundreds. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
04/18/1980
Zimbabwe - Independence Day
Full Story and More Dates
Bush Predicts More Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:58 by TRC-News
Amid fresh questions on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, President Bush on Wednesday predicted a "spring thaw" that will bring an increase in terrorist activity as bin Laden's network tries to regroup and strike again. Full Story
Civil Rights Lawyers to Sue Ashcroft
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:56 by TRC-News
Alleging widespread abuse of hundreds of Middle Eastern men detained on immigration violations after Sept. 11, civil rights attorneys said they planned to sue Attorney General John Ashcroft and other U.S. officials. Full Story
U.S. Says Relations to PLO Tied to Terror Fight
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:53 by TRC-News
The Bush administration said Tuesday it would allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to keep an office in Washington for another six months, but warned that it could be kicked out and have funds cut off in future if Yasser Arafat fails to crack down on terrorism. Full Story
Israelis Mark Independence
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:50 by TRC-News
Israel has no Sept. 11, a single, cataclysmic episode of terror. It has been more like water torture, one suicide bomb after another, slowly eating into the nation's soul. The result is the same. Full Story
U.S. Cautioned Leader of Plot Against Ch�vez
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:49 by TRC-News
The Bush administration, under criticism for its role in the ouster of President Hugo Ch�vez of Venezuela, acknowledged today that a senior administration official was in contact with Mr. Ch�vez's successor on the very day he took over. Full Story
Proposal Sets National Rules For State IDs
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:45 by TRC-News
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) outlined legislation yesterday that would set national standards for state-issued driver's licenses, permitting rapid data-sharing among certain government agencies. Full Story
Tunnel vision for disaster
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
One of America's best hopes to handle a terrorist attack effectively lies in West Virginia coal country, down a dirt road and past a speck of a town cradled between huge shoulders of mountainside. Full Story
Pentagon Revamping Command Structure
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
The Pentagon is revamping its worldwide command structure, underscoring the new priorities of defending against terrorist attacks and injecting more innovation into how the military trains, equips and fights. Full Story
Al Qaeda link suspected in Tunisia blast
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:40 by TRC-News
A group linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a historic synagogue in Tunisia last week that killed 16 people, including 10 German tourists, according to two London-based Arabic newspapers. Full Story
Group Linked To al-Qaida Claims Yemen Blast
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:38 by TRC-News
An explosion damaged several buildings in downtown San'a on Tuesday, including one that witnesses said houses a Yemeni intelligence office. A group saying it backs the al-Qaida terror network has claimed responsibility. Full Story
Officials Thwart FBI Probe Of Journalist's Death
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:37 by TRC-News
The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has said experts with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) invited to help investigate the death of a reporter have left the country after they were denied access to evidence. Full Story
PKK Officially Appears With a New Face in Europe
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:36 by TRC-News
The Kurdish terrorist group that carried out a 15-year terrorist campaign against Turkey announced a name change and shift in strategy on Tuesday, claiming it now wants to campaign peacefully for greater Kurdish rights. Full Story
Mediator Meets Tamil Rebel Leaders
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:35 by TRC-News
The Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister, Vidar Helgesen, is in rebel-controlled northern Sri Lanka to discuss the logistics of holding peace talks. Full Story
Security Upped at Panama Canal
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:34 by TRC-News
Authorities are beefing up security at the Panama Canal, enlisting more guards to patrol the waterway and building an automated system that will better identify approaching vessels. Full Story
Dissidents Suspected of Police College Blast
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:33 by TRC-News
Dissident republicans are suspected of having carried out a bomb attack on a police training centre in east Belfast, a senior police officer said today. Full Story
U.N. Dilemma on Liberia Sanctions
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:32 by TRC-News
A U.N. expert panel has recommended the Security Council retain some sanctions against Liberia, although it acknowledges Monrovia is no longer fueling a civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. Full Story
5 Killed in Kashmir Shootout
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:30 by TRC-News
At least five persons, including two school boys, were killed and two were injured in a shootout by three gunmen at Balhama-Rafiabad in Baramulla on Tuesday evening, official sources said on Wednesday. Full Story
Gusmao Triumphs in East Timor
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:29 by TRC-News
Former guerilla and poet Jose Alexandre Gusmao has won a landslide victory to become the first president of a soon-to-be independent East Timor. Full Story
Bin Laden Fled Tora Bora, Because US Did Not Commit Troops
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:28 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden probably got away during the battle for Tora Bora late last year because the US military failed to commit ground troops to the mountainous region in eastern Afghanistan, The Washington Post said quoting US intelligence officials. Full Story
Hackers target Israel
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 6:50 by TRC-News
The conflict in the Middle East is being fought in cyberspace as well as on the ground, showing that hacking is developing into a recognised form of international warfare, according to a leading security analyst. Full Story
Israel under hack attack
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 6:49 by TRC-News
Israel has been suffering a barrage of hack attacks since the start of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000. Full Story
Filtering Out Terrorists?
Posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 6:47 by TRC-News
Internet Cafes Struggle With Issues of Terrorism vs. Privacy. Full Story
Calendar of Significant Dates
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 11:08 by TRC-News
04/16/1990
PR China - Lhasa Monks Expelled further alienating Tibet.
04/16/1991
Iraq - U.S. Troops Enter North Iraq to create Kurd safehaven.
04/16/1980
Israel/Palestinian Authority - Palestinian Prisoners Day declared by PLO
04/16/1988
Tunisia - Abu Jihad Assassinated
04/17/1989
Burma - United Wa State Army founded
04/17/1946
Syria - Independence Day
04/17/1992
Turkey - Turkish raid on Kurdish guerrillas on this date leads to numerous Kurdish reprisals citing this date.
Full Story and More Dates
Dates to Watch
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 11:01 by TRC-News
APRIL 16, 2002. ISRAEL. Independence Day
APRIL 16, 2002. ITALY. The three major labor unions in Italy have called for a general strike. The eight hour stopage is expected in most Italian cities and could cause transportation delays. The unions claim 12 million members.
Full Story and More Dates
Bin Laden Appears in New, Undated Video
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 11:00 by TRC-News
Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden was shown in an undated videotape excerpt aired on Monday, sitting silently alongside a top aide who praised the September 11 attacks on America as a "great victory." Full Story
Sept. 11 Hijacker Vows to Kill Americans in Will-TV
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:59 by TRC-News
Al-Jazeera television aired on Monday what it said was the videotaped will of one of the men who carried out the September 11 attacks, pledging to die as a "martyr." Full Story
Al-Qaida bomb plot led from UK, trial papers say
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:57 by TRC-News
British-based men will be at the centre of the biggest trial of al-Qaida suspects since September 11, when it starts tomorrow in Frankfurt. Full Story
Innocent Pleas in Terrorism Case
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:53 by TRC-News
Two men who helped run the Virginia branch of a Somali-based financial network accused by the Bush administration of giving money to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network pleaded innocent Monday to charges of evading federal banking rules. Full Story
Amnesty blasts US over detainees in Afghanistan and Cuba
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:52 by TRC-News
Amnesty International published a report hitting out at violations of the rights of prisoners being held by the US army in Cuba and Afghanistan. Full Story
No Injuries in Early Yemen Explosion
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:50 by TRC-News
A powerful explosion in downtown San'a on Tuesday damaged several buildings, including one housing a Yemeni intelligence office, witnesses said. No injuries were reported. Full Story
Ukraine Holds Eight Over Synagogue Raid
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:49 by TRC-News
Ukrainian police say eight people are being questioned in connection with an attack on the city's main synagogue on Saturday. Full Story
Kurdish Rebel Group Changes Strategy
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
The Kurdish rebel group that waged a 15-year war against Turkey announced a name change and shift in strategy Tuesday, saying it now wants to campaign peacefully for greater Kurdish rights. Full Story
Suspected NPA Rebs Burn Heavy Equipment in Samar
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
For its alleged failure to pay the revolutionary tax, a Zamboanga-based firm lost 15 million pesos worth of heavy equipment in Samar when 30 armed men believed to be communist rebels set them on fire the other day. Full Story
Maoists Blast Bottlers Nepal Office in Chitwan
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:47 by TRC-News
The Maoists blasted the Coca Cola factory of Bottlers Nepal based in Gondrang of Chitwan district and six other local government offices causing a loss of property worth millions of rupees, the Nepal Samacharpatra daily reported quoting its local correspondent. Full Story
Congolese Rebels, Government Agree to Let Kabila Lead Transition, Government
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
Delegates at talks on Congo's future have agreed to let President Joseph Kabila lead the transition to democracy in efforts to end a 3 1/2-year civil war and reunite their nation, a rebel official said Tuesday. Full Story
Colombia's Pastrana Urges US Congress to Increase Anti-Rebel Aid
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:42 by TRC-News
Colombian President Andres Pastrana urged the U.S. Congress in an opinion piece published Monday to allow U.S. anti-drug aid to his country to be used to fight his country's guerrilla groups. Full Story
Gusmao Takes Lead in East Timor
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
Former guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao has taken an unassailable lead in East Timor's first presidential elections, according to preliminary results released Tuesday. Full Story
Islamic Group Claims Tunisia Synagogue Attack
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:38 by TRC-News
London-based Arabic newspapers said on Tuesday a group possibly linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network had claimed responsibility for an explosion last week outside a Tunisian synagogue that killed 16 people. Full Story
Chaotic Start to German Trial of Al Qaeda Suspects
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
A German trial of a group of Algerian men suspected of a bomb plot and links to the al Qaeda network got off to a chaotic start on Tuesday as a defendant disrupted proceedings by shouting that God would defend him. Full Story
Improved security to hasten border checks
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:30 by TRC-News
U.S. companies that agree to impose tougher anti-terrorist safeguards will be rewarded with faster processing times at the USA's borders, Bush administration officials are expected to announce Tuesday. Full Story
Ashcroft orders more info sharing
Posted Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:28 by TRC-News
Declaring that "information is the friend of prevention," Attorney General John Ashcroft has instructed six federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to do a better job of sharing information as they fight the war against terrorism. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:42 by TRC-News
04/15/1989
PR China - Death of Hu Yao Bang sparked Tienanmen Square protest.
04/15/1982
Egypt - Sadat's Assassins Executed
04/15/1986
Libya - U.S. Bombs Tripoli and Benghazi
04/15/1992
Libya - Sanctions Take Effect
04/16/1990
PR China - Senior Lhasa Monks of Tibet Expelled
04/16/1991
Iraq - U.S. Troops Enter North Iraq to create Kurd safe haven
04/16/1980
Israel - Palestinian Prisoners Day declared by PLO
04/16/1988
Tunisia - Abu Jihad, senior PLO official assassinated
Full Story and More Dates
Dates to Watch
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:33 by TRC-News
APRIL 15, 2002. NORTH KOREA. North Koreans are expected to turn out en masse for public rallies and celebrations marking the 90th birthday of deceased Great Leader Kim Il-sung.
APRIL 15, 2002. SENEGAL. NEPAD summit begins in Dakar, continues through April 17. African presidents, representatives of international organisations including the United Nations and European Union, and journalists will attend the New Partnership for Africa's Development(NEPAD)summit.
APRIL 16, 2002. ITALY. The three major labor unions in Italy have called for a general strike. The eight hour stopage is expected in most Italian cities and could cause transportation delays. The unions claim 12 million members.
Full Story and More Dates
Spain holds al-Qaeda finance suspect
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:24 by TRC-News
The Spanish authorities have arrested an Algerian man they suspect is al-Qaeda's financial chief in the country. Full Story
Companies Capitalize on War on Terror
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:23 by TRC-News
When the Pentagon talks about training the new Afghan National Army, it doesn't mean with its own soldiers. The Green Berets and other elite U. S. troops are needed elsewhere. Instead, the Defense Department is drawing up plans to use its commandos to jump-start the Afghan force, then hire private military contractors to finish the job. Full Story
New York's 'Tribute in Light' fading to black
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:20 by TRC-News
After a monthlong tribute, two pillars of light beamed skyward in memory of those killed in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center faded out as Saturday night yielded to Sunday morning. Full Story
Al Qaeda Suspect Said to Be Talking to Interrogators
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:17 by TRC-News
A senior al Qaeda official who was seriously wounded during his capture in Pakistan last month has begun to talk to U.S. interrogators but has not provided any significant information, a Bush administration official said yesterday. Full Story
Afghanistan War to Cost $10.2B
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:16 by TRC-News
U.S. costs for the fighting in Afghanistan should be $10.2 billion this year, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst is estimating, about one-third what President Bush wants for the Pentagon's overall war against terrorism. Full Story
Moussaoui Says Rights Violated
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:14 by TRC-News
Defense: The accused terrorist is being denied attorney-client privilege in jail, his lawyers argue in a court motion. Full Story
Guarding the Coast, and More
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:13 by TRC-News
Already protecting 95,000 miles of shoreline, the smallest U.S. military branch found itself on the homeland defense front lines after Sept. 11. Full Story
Interpol Says Global Terror Watchlist Imminent
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:11 by TRC-News
The head of international police body Interpol said on Friday a global terror database containing thousands of suspects' names and details of stolen passports was expected to be up and running within days. Full Story
In Pakistan, a Troubling Victory in Hunt for Al Qaeda
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:09 by TRC-News
This industrial city deep in the interior of Pakistan was never high on the list of places deemed likely to provide sanctuary to Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's terror network. Full Story
5 Months After Sanctions Against Somali Company, Scant Proof of Qaeda Tie
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:08 by TRC-News
The Bush administration's assault on Somalia's biggest money-transfer company was swift and severe. Full Story
Nepal Fears 300 Killed in Maoist Violence
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:04 by TRC-News
Nepal's king on Sunday appealed for peace and unity in a New Year message to his nation, three days after more than 300 people were believed killed in the increasingly bloody communist revolt to topple him. Full Story
Powell Addresses Hezbollah Attacks
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:02 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell made a quick trip Monday to Lebanon seeking support for a crackdown on guerrillas who have been rocketing Israel from sanctuary in the southern part of the country. Full Story
Chavez Thanks Venezuelan Paratroopers
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:01 by TRC-News
President Hugo Chavez, newly restored to office after a botched coup attempt, told paratroopers who remained loyal to him "I will always be with you," but also made a conciliatory gesture to opponents. Full Story
Tunisian Jews Stunned by Explosion
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 7:00 by TRC-News
After a decades-long exodus of tens of thousands of Jews from Tunisia, Djerba's grand rabbi is hopeful that the small Jewish community of this Mediterranean island has turned a corner and is poised to grow. Full Story
Vote Counting Begins in E. Timor
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 6:58 by TRC-News
Election officials began counting votes Monday from East Timor's first presidential polls as political leaders predicted a landslide victory for former resistance leader Xanana Gusmao. Full Story
Colombian Candidate Uribe Survives Bus Bomb
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 6:56 by TRC-News
Colombia's leading candidate for the May 26 presidential elections survived an apparent assassination attempt on Sunday when a bomb exploded on his campaign route, killing three people and injuring at least 13 others, authorities said. Full Story
U.S. Pacific Chief Visits Tense South Philippines
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 6:55 by TRC-News
Police beat back protesters at the U.S. Embassy in Manila Monday as the top American commander in the region visited the remote southern island where his troops are helping Philippine soldiers fight Muslim guerrillas. Full Story
Oklahoma Bombing Museum Opens Sept. 11 Exhibit
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 6:53 by TRC-News
Oklahoma City, site of the deadliest assault on U.S. civilians before the Sept. 11 attacks, will mark the 7th anniversary of the bombing on Friday with an exhibit focusing on the shared experiences of people caught up in the two disasters. Full Story
Superior Israeli Firepower Isn't Likely to End Terror
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 6:51 by TRC-News
The Israeli military operation in the West Bank is a sweeping counterinsurgency campaign that given enough time could reduce but not end bombing attacks by Palestinian militants, Israeli officials and American experts agree. Full Story
Terror insurance goes up and away
Posted Monday, April 15, 2002 - 6:50 by TRC-News
Outside New York and Washington, not many terrorist targets are as juicy as the Golden Gate Bridge. The grand Art Deco span with the killer views is a landmark known worldwide. Tourists gambol between its red towers year-round. And with more than 115,000 vehicles crossing daily, it's a key link in a major commuter artery. Full Story
Calendar of Significant Dates
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:52 by TRC-News
04/12/1980
Liberia - Coup Led by Samuel K. Doe
04/13/1699
India - Sikh Religion Founded
04/13/1975
Fighting In Lebanon Begins
04/14/1949
Israel - Holocaust Memorial Day
04/15/1989
PR China - Death of Hu Yao Bang which led to Tienanment Square protests.
04/15/1982
Anwar Sadat's Assassins Executed
04/15/1986
U.S. Bombs Tripoli and Benghazi
04/15/1911
North Korea - Birthday of Kim Il Sung
Full Story and More Dates
Dates to Watch
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:45 by TRC-News
APRIL 13, 2002. ETHIOPIA/ERITREA. Eritrea and Ethiopia will hear from a UN border commission the final decision on where their common border should lie. The final decision will be announced on April 13 in the Hague at the Peace Palace.
APRIL 14, 2002. COMOROS. General elections. Prime Minister Hamada Madi intends to run for president, and may evolve as the front runner.
APRIL 15, 2002. NORTH KOREA. North Koreans are expected to turn out en masse for public rallies and celebrations marking the 90th birthday of deceased Great Leader Kim Il-sung.
APRIL 15, 2002. SENEGAL. NEPAD summit begins in Dakar, continues through April 17. African presidents, representatives of international organisations including the United Nations and European Union, and journalists will attend the New Partnership for Africa's Development(NEPAD)summit.
Full Story and More Dates
At Least Four Die in Jerusalem Suicide Bomb
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up at Jerusalem's main outdoor market on Friday, killing at least four people in an attack that coincided with a peace mission by Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), police said. Full Story
Al-Qaida Interrogated in Pakistan
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:38 by TRC-News
A top al-Qaida official denied knowledge of who was behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States when interrogated shortly after his arrest here, Pakistani officials said Thursday. Full Story
Logan Gets Counterterrorism Expert
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:36 by TRC-News
A former White House adviser on counterterrorism was appointed Thursday as head of the agency that oversees Logan Airport. Full Story
Flaws found in FAA's airline safety oversight system
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:35 by TRC-News
An airline safety oversight system that came under close examination and severe criticism for not identifying maintenance problems at Alaska Airlines before the crash of Flight 261 is still not working properly, the Transportation Department's inspector general has found. Full Story
Gov. Must Explain Secret Evidence
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:31 by TRC-News
A federal judge has given the Justice Department (news - web sites) until Tuesday to explain why it must use secret evidence, so far shown only to the judge, against an Islamic charity accused of having terrorist links. Full Story
U.S. Tied to Ransom Deal with Bin Laden Allies
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:29 by TRC-News
A senior U.S. official said Washington helped pay ransom last month to Muslim guerrillas in the Philippines linked to Osama bin Laden, but the Manila government said on Friday that no such incident took place. Full Story
Pearl Murder Trial Adjourned Again in Pakistan
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
The trial in Pakistan of British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices for the kidnap and murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl was adjourned for 10 days on Friday, lawyers said. Full Story
U.S. Is Given Papers That Israelis Assert Tie Arafat to Terror
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:24 by TRC-News
Israel has given the United States a cache of documents that Israeli officials say were captured in raids in the West Bank and establish that Yasir Arafat financed and oversaw terrorist attacks by Palestinian militants. Full Story
3 databases will flag suspected terrorists
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:19 by TRC-News
Federal authorities plan to share with state and local police information on tens of thousands of suspected terrorists to try to improve homeland defense, Justice Department (news - web sites) officials say. Full Story
Intelligence agencies put their heads together
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:18 by TRC-News
Six months into the U.S. war on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist network, the largest manhunt in history appears to have reached a dead end. Full Story
Bin Laden noticeably MIA from Bush's vocabulary
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:17 by TRC-News
There are six syllables President Bush really doesn't want to say aloud: Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Tighter Security Planned for New York Airports
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:14 by TRC-News
Gov. George E. Pataki plans to begin a sweeping program to sharpen security at New York City's area airports, going beyond some new federal restrictions by requiring criminal background checks of workers in airport shops, the governor's senior aides said today. He also wants to install fingerprint scanners quickly for all airport employees and do away with simple plastic passes. Full Story
Drug Makers to Help U.S. Inform Doctors on Bioterrorism
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:13 by TRC-News
Major drug companies teamed up with the federal government today to make sure doctors obtain bioterrorism information from a powerful delivery device: their sales forces. Full Story
Pentagon's Missteps Stalled New Vaccines
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:11 by TRC-News
Six months after last fall's deadly anthrax attacks, the Pentagon is scrambling to develop a new generation of vaccines to protect troops and perhaps the American populace from biological weapons. Full Story
U.S. State Dept. - Public Announcement - April 11, 2002
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:09 by TRC-News
Venezuela
U.S citizens should defer travel to Venezuela until further notice. There has been violence in Caracas between anti-government and pro-government protesters, as well as large demonstrations and disruptions of public services throughout the country. Full Story
U.S. State Dept. - Public Announcement - April 10, 2002
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:07 by TRC-News
Middle East Update
This Public Announcement is being updated to alert Americans to large demonstrations and other incidents, some of them violent, taking place throughout the region in response to the increased tensions and conflict in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza over the last few weeks. Full Story
Terror Attack 'Foiled By Police' On Queen Mother Funeral Day
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:04 by TRC-News
Police believe they may have foiled plans for a terrorist attack in central London on the day of the Queen Mother's funeral. Full Story
Rebel Group's Presence Growing Near Peru's Capital
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:03 by TRC-News
The mayor of a Lima suburb has received death threats that he says are from the Shining Path. Full Story
Amnesty Witnesses Nigerian Vigilantes Attempt Execution
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 9:58 by TRC-News
Amnesty International observers witnessed a vigilante band trying to burn a man alive outside the offices of a Nigerian state governor, the rights group said, in a report sounding an alarm over increasing vigilante killings here. An Amnesty delegation watched as members of the Bakassi Boys, an anti-crime, state-supported militia also known as the Anambra State Vigilante Service, poured gasoline on their unidentified victim, who was trussed up and badly beaten, Amnesty said in a report released Wednesday. Full Story
More Than 100 Dead in Maoist Assaults on Police in Nepal
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 9:55 by TRC-News
Thousands of Nepalese Maoist rebels killed 84 policemen in night-time raids that left more than 100 people dead and marked a bloody escalation of their six-year-old insurgency, officials said. Full Story
'Monk Killed' In Madagascar
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 9:53 by TRC-News
A Roman Catholic monk has been killed in political clashes in Madagascar's third town of Fianarantsoa, according to the French news agency AFP. Full Story
Soccer Team Attacked in France
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 9:52 by TRC-News
In the latest anti-Semitic incident in France, a Jewish amateur soccer team was attacked during a training session in a Paris suburb, police said Thursday. Full Story
East Timor Readies for Landmark Poll
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 9:52 by TRC-News
Thousands of people have joined rallies in East Timor's capital Dili on the last day of its first ever presidential election campaign. Full Story
Congo To Merge Army And Rebels
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 9:50 by TRC-News
The Congolese army is to merge with rebels forces in a deal brokered by the government to end the country's civil war. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Kidnap 12 Provincial Lawmakers
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 9:50 by TRC-News
Leftist Colombian rebels masquerading as police rescuers kidnapped 12 provincial lawmakers in a daring raid on the legislative assembly in the city of Cali on Thursday, luring victims into buses by announcing a bomb-threat, authorities said. Full Story
Chavez quits Venezuelan presidency
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 8:41 by TRC-News
President Hugo Chavez resigned Friday under pressure from Venezuela�s military in the wake of violent protests against his administration�s oil policies which left at least 13 people dead and more than 100 others wounded. Pedro Carmona, head of Venezuela�s largest business association, announced he would head a transitional government to be installed later Friday. Full Story
Just Another Taliban on the IRC
Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 - 8:39 by TRC-News
Intending it as a "good deed to serve Islam," a born-again computer programmer in Pakistan has released an online-chat program with bells and whistles specifically designed for the Taliban. Taliban's IslamicIRC Script, a customized version of the popular mIRC chat client, automatically connects users to two Islamic channels on the DALnet Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network. Full Story
CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT DATES
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:58 by TRC-News
04/11/1968
Lebanon, Syria, Occupied Territories
PFLP-GC Founded In Syria
04/12/1988
Japan, United States
Arrest of JRA Terrorist
04/12/1980
Liberia
Coup Led by Samuel K. Doe
April Calendar Dates
Dates to Watch
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:54 by TRC-News
APRIL 13, 2002. ETHIOPIA/ERITREA. Eritrea and Ethiopia will hear from a UN border commission the final decision on where their common border should lie. The final decision will be announced on April 13 in the Hague at the Peace Palace.
APRIL 14, 2002. COMOROS. General elections. Prime Minister Hamada Madi intends to run for president, and may evolve as the front runner.
More Dates to Watch
Suicide bomber kills 8 on Israeli bus
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:52 by TRC-News
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed eight people and Israel pressed on with an offensive that has sent the Palestinian death toll soaring, undermining hopes for Secretary of State Colin Powell's peace mission. Full Story
Al Qaeda Leader Was Arrested on Tip From U.S. Agents
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:48 by TRC-News
The arrest of Osama bin Laden's senior aide Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan stemmed from information gathered by U.S. interrogators of arrested Pakistanis in Kabul, an intelligence source said on Thursday. Full Story
Off-duty police replacing Guardsmen at airport
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:45 by TRC-News
The National Guard, which has patrolled Hartsfield International Airport since last fall, will work its last day Saturday. Full Story
Egyptian held in Britain faces US charges for helping Islam cleric
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
An Egyptian detained in Britain is among four people charged by US authorities yesterday, accused of helping a jailed Islamic terrorist leader to communicate with his followers from his prison cell. Full Story
FAA Sends Newsletter to Hijacker
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:42 by TRC-News
The Federal Aviation Administration mailed its regional pilots newsletter to one of the Sept. 11 hijackers just last month. Full Story
Al Qaeda sought nuclear scientists
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
Two Afghan nuclear scientists, in the strongest indication yet that al Qaeda was trying to construct a nuclear bomb, have revealed how the terrorist group attempted to recruit them. Full Story
U.S. 'ALLY' PAYS BOMBERS
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:39 by TRC-News
Saudi Arabia has joined Saddam Hussein in giving "blood money" to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers - a policy that could complicate relations between America and one of its principal Arab allies. Full Story
FBI information systems still at 'substantial risk,' officials say
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
The FBI runs major risks of having its information systems infiltrated despite the agency's recent overhaul efforts, top FBI officials said Tuesday. Full Story
Bush adviser says U.S. has game plan against terror
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
Winning the war on terrorism requires a strategy similar to that used by the Detroit Red Wings coach, Gen. Richard Myers told a luncheon crowd of 400 people Tuesday in Livonia. Full Story
Easy theft: radioactive bomb parts
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:27 by TRC-News
Stolen commercial radioactive devices could be used to make 'dirty bombs.' Full Story
Anthrax agent was 'not routine'
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:25 by TRC-News
Whoever concocted the wispy white powder used in the anthrax attacks last autumn followed a recipe markedly different from the ones commonly used by scientists in the United States or any other country known to have biological weapons, according to law enforcement sources. Full Story
Feds could make bioterror 'impossible,' expert says
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:23 by TRC-News
The United States could make it “impossible” for biological agents to be used as effective weapons of terror if the country spends $10 billion to $30 billion a year to revamp its ailing public health system, one of the nation’s leading biological defense experts told Global Security Newswire yesterday. Full Story
Flyzik moving to Homeland office
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:22 by TRC-News
The Treasury Department's chief information officer, Jim Flyzik, will take a new job starting April 21, advising homeland security chief Tom Ridge on information technology issues. Full Story
Pentagon balances anti-terrorism efforts, transformation plans
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:20 by TRC-News
The Defense Department's transformation programs were scrutinized on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as lawmakers sought ways to balance budgetary constraints with the military's need to win the war on terror while also moving from the industrial age to the information age. Full Story
Team Hears 'We've Been Waiting for You' When Public Safety's at Risk
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:18 by TRC-News
Members of the 2nd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team have spent a lot of time at Yankee Stadium, but they haven't had any chances to relax and take in a ball game. Full Story
Bomb kills Bolivian media chief's wife
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:15 by TRC-News
The wife of the owner of one of Bolivia's main national newspapers El Diario has been killed in a car bomb explosion in La Paz. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Declare War on Oil
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:13 by TRC-News
One of Colombia's biggest rebel groups has declared that oil companies working in the country are now "military targets". Full Story
Mbeki Tries to Save Congolese Talks
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:13 by TRC-News
South Africa's President, Thabo Mbeki, has put forward new power-sharing proposals to end the deadlock at peace talks on the Democratic Republic of Congo. Full Story
Three killed in Philippine bomb blasts
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:09 by TRC-News
Three civilian volunteers attached to the Philippine army were killed and 13 people were wounded in two separate bomb blasts in the south of the country, officials said on Thursday. Full Story
U.S. Hostages Spotted in Southern Philippines
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:08 by TRC-News
Two Americans held by Muslim guerrillas in the southern Philippines were seen this week near a small town on the eastern coast of Basilan island, local officials said on Thursday. Full Story
Police Leave Students to Save Themselves
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:06 by TRC-News
In the face of indifference from police, universities said this week that they are having to employ security guards and even form self-defense teams to protect their 70,000 foreign students from racist attacks. Full Story
Sri Lanka Sees Silver Lining in Tiger Demands to End Bloodshed
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:05 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka welcomed remarks by the top Tamil rebel leader that he was committed to Norway's peace bid even though he was not ready to give up arms immediately. Full Story
Blast Kills 5 At Tunisian Temple
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:04 by TRC-News
A truck filled with natural gas crashed into a wall surrounding a synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba on Thursday, killing five people and injuring about 20, the official news agency reported. Full Story
Calendar of Significant Dates
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:30 by TRC-News
04/10/1986
Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto's Return
04/10/1993
South Africa
Assassination of Chris Hani
04/11/1968
Lebanon, Syria, Occupied Territories
PFLP-GC Founded In Syria
April Calendar Dates
Lloyd's of London: WTC Loss $2.8 Billion
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:25 by TRC-News
Lloyd's of London insurance market on Wednesday estimated its net loss from the attacks on the World Trade Center at 1.98 billion pounds ($2.85 billion), compared to an earlier 1.9 billion pound forecast. Full Story
Attorney Will Fight Terror Aid Charge
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:21 by TRC-News
A defense attorney with a reputation as a zealous advocate has become a defendant herself, accused of crossing the line by conspiring to help an imprisoned client relay messages to his radical Islamic followers. Full Story
Suspects Arrested in Afghan Attacks
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:19 by TRC-News
Nine suspects have been arrested in recent attacks on international peacekeepers and an apparent assassination attempt against the defense minister, officials said Wednesday. Full Story
Attack Follows Ambush That Killed 13 Israeli Troops
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:17 by TRC-News
A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb on a bus in northern Israel during rush hour this morning, killing at least 8 people, a day after 13 Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush in the West Bank city of Jenin. Full Story
Grants to bolster GIS, homeland
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:14 by TRC-News
In the interest of boosting homeland security, ESRI — one of the leading companies in the geographic information system field — has set up a $2.3 million grant program to jump-start GIS initiatives in small cities and help set up crisis centers for local government agencies. Full Story
Plugging a Very Porous Northern Border
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:13 by TRC-News
A shallow ditch is all that separates Boundary Road, which winds through the fields and farmhouses of this dairy community, from 0 Avenue, a similar rural highway that parallels it just 12 feet away -- in Canada. Full Story
Bush Plans Push for Terrorism Insurance
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:12 by TRC-News
In a meeting today with business and labor leaders, President Bush will emphasize the possibility that jobs could be lost if the Senate does not act on terrorism insurance legislation, a senior administration official said. Full Story
U.S. Warns Russia of Need to Verify Treaty Compliance
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:09 by TRC-News
The Bush administration has informed Moscow that Washington is curtailing many new disarmament projects because of concern about Russia's compliance with treaties banning chemical and biological weapons, according to senior administration officials. Full Story
BOMB THREAT GROWS HERE
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:08 by TRC-News
The escalation of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel makes an attack by a lone bomber on a target inside the United States a "serious threat," according to American intelligence. Full Story
Angola's Fragile Peace Rests on a New Guerrilla Leader
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:04 by TRC-News
Thousands of Angolans sang and danced through the rutted streets of the capital last week to celebrate a cease-fire that may finally end nearly a quarter-century of war. But even as the nation rejoiced, it was clear that its fragile peace rested uneasily on the shoulders of one man. Full Story
Bombings in Colombia Raise Fear of Urban Terror
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:03 by TRC-News
A sudden wave of bombings struck Colombia's capital Tuesday, when several low-level blasts went off in downtown Bogota, injuring a 6-year-old girl and signaling the possible start of an urban terror campaign that had been feared since the collapse of peace talks here. Full Story
Five Killed, Four Injured in J&K Terrorist Attack
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:01 by TRC-News
Terrorists killed five people, including three children, in an attack on the house of an alleged informer in Kashmir, police said Wednesday. Full Story
Sri Lanka Awaits Tiger Chief
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 9:59 by TRC-News
Tamil Tiger rebel leader in Sri Lanka Velupillai Prabhakaran is due to hold a rare press conference in a few hours' time in the rebel-controlled town of Kilinochchi. Full Story
Taliban warn: Don't help Americans
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 9:53 by TRC-News
Taliban leaders have warned Afghans not to help U.S. forces or their allies and insist they will face consequences if they ignore the pleas. Full Story
Terrorists trained by Iran tracked from Uzbekistan
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 9:50 by TRC-News
Iran is secretly training Islamic terrorists from Uzbekistan for future operations in Central Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials. Full Story
Ridge Says States Must Develop Plans to Thwart Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 9:36 by TRC-News
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge says all 50 U.S. states must develop local, regional, and then statewide comprehensive plans to thwart terrorism. Full Story
Four Indicted on Terror Charges
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:33 by TRC-News
An attorney and three other people were indicted Tuesday on charges they helped an Islamic militant imprisoned in the United States communicate with his followers in Egypt. Full Story
'Rialto plotter' walks free in India
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:31 by TRC-News
The man accused of plotting to fly an aircraft into the Rialto Towers has been released from jail. Full Story
INS Sets New Rules for Student Visas
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:30 by TRC-News
Hoping to better track foreign visitors and keep out would-be terrorists, immigration officials are tightening student visa rules and proposing shorter U.S. trips for tourists and business travelers. Full Story
Nuclear Sites Delay Tighter Security Plans
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:29 by TRC-News
Nearly three-quarters of the nation's nuclear reactor sites are seeking a delay in fully responding to tighter security regulations, a watchdog group said yesterday. Full Story
PM promises India's partnership in countering terrorism
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:26 by TRC-News
Asserting that it was time for the Asia-Pacific countries to jointly confront terrorism, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday committed India's partnership to the region on security issues and said the entire region has crucial stakes in protecting common commercial lanes, combating piracy, choking off narco trade and curbing gun running. Full Story
Report: Anti-Terror Money Not Given
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:23 by TRC-News
The Justice Department has failed to distribute more than half the hundreds of millions of dollars available to state and local governments for anti-terrorism programs since 1998, according to a report Monday by the department's inspector general. Full Story
Hotels increase security after terrorist attacks
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:19 by TRC-News
Guests staying at the traditional hotel haunts of the business traveller maybe unaware of many of the measures taken to increase security since the terrorist attacks of September 11 - but they are in place nevertheless. Leading groups such as Six Continents and Marriott are on heightened alert, constantly reviewing their security status and tailoring their procedures to local situations. Full Story
Insurance rates spiral up in wake of Sept. 11
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:12 by TRC-News
Everyone from commuters to school kids is paying a price for rising insurance costs – due in part to the recent spike in terrorism-coverage rates. Full Story
American Airlines Sued in WTC Attack
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:11 by TRC-News
American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp was sued for more than $50 million on Monday by the husband of a highly paid portfolio manager who was killed on Sept. 11 in her World Trade Center office. Full Story
Security Breach Closes Ky. Terminal
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:09 by TRC-News
A Delta Air Lines terminal was shut down for part of Monday morning at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport because a carry-on bag that appeared to contain a knife may have gotten past security. Full Story
Cost of Fortifying Airports May Top $6 Billion in 2002
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 14:00 by TRC-News
The cost of bolstering airport security is mounting rapidly, and this year alone could run more than triple what has been budgeted, congressional and aviation industry officials say. Full Story
Since Sept., little alarm for soldiers at airport
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 13:58 by TRC-News
In the six months that the National Guard has been on patrol at the Philadelphia International Airport, they have actually seen little that has alarmed them. Full Story
Logan's security breaches at issue
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 13:56 by TRC-News
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Logan International Airport has experienced double the number of terminal evacuations because of security breaches than similar-sized airports, according to federal statistics provided to the Globe. Full Story
US: Terror Now Harder for bin Laden
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 13:53 by TRC-News
The U.S. military hasn't tracked down Osama bin Laden during its six-month war in Afghanistan, but it has made it harder for his al-Qaida terrorist network to operate — and that's better than nothing, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said. Full Story
Pulitzer Prizes Honor Sept. 11 News Coverage
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 13:50 by TRC-News
Coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks on America dominated the Pulitzer Prizes awarded on Monday, with The New York Times winning a record seven of the 14 journalism awards. Full Story
'Thousands' could be anthrax suspects
Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2002 - 13:47 by TRC-News
Potential suspects with the scientific expertise to carry out last year's deadly anthrax attacks are believed to number in the ''thousands,'' far more than the dozens previously reported, a senior federal law enforcement official said Monday. Full Story
Terror suspect ordered jailed
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:42 by TRC-News
An Algerian man and two roommates who were arrested in Detroit a week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were planning to conduct holy war against the United States, a federal prosecutor said in court Friday. Full Story
Crackdown on Terror Funding Is Questioned
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
The U.S. government's much-touted financial war on terrorism has been hamstrung by bitter turf battles among federal agencies, questionable evidence against targeted Middle Eastern groups and a lack of cooperation by foreign allies, senior government officials said. Full Story
Middle East Conflict Blurs Bush's Anti-Terrorism Focus
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:38 by TRC-News
Since the shock of Sept. 11, President Bush has pursued a sharply focused foreign policy agenda with single-minded zeal: Terrorism was civilization's mortal enemy, he said, and his historic mission was to stamp it out, beginning in Afghanistan and moving on to Iraq. Full Story
G.I.'s Search Afghan Caves, Finding Trove of Material
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
A team of American soldiers completed a sweep today of a large cave network believed to have been used recently by Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, carrying away photos, dossiers and vials containing an unidentified white powder. Full Story
U.S. Finds No Trace of Bin Laden in Cave Network
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:36 by TRC-News
The U.S. military said Sunday they had found no evidence to support rumors a network of reinforced caves found in eastern Afghanistan had been used as a refuge for Osama bin Laden or other al Qaeda leaders. Full Story
D.C. Probing Terror Insurance Reports
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:33 by TRC-News
District insurance regulators are investigating reports that businesses and properties around the White House are having trouble obtaining terrorism insurance or are paying steeply increased premiums for the coverage. Full Story
Nuclear Agency Steps Up Post-Sept. 11 Security
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:32 by TRC-News
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday it was stepping up its oversight of security risks at the nation's 103 nuclear power plants by developing contingency plans for emergencies and assessing potential terrorist threats. Full Story
Job of Protecting N.Y. Falls to 'Can-Do Guy'
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:30 by TRC-News
Ex-FBI official Kallstrom directs an effort to guard against attacks. His colleagues say he's up to the task. From his corner office in Manhattan, James Kallstrom can see the Chrysler Building with its gleaming steel spire and a thicket of other skyscrapers. The vista is a daily reminder of the task he faces. Full Story
IRA Puts More of Its Arms Stockpile Beyond Use
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:24 by TRC-News
The Irish Republican Army has followed up last year's first step toward disarmament by putting another batch of its illegal weapons beyond use, Northern Ireland's disarmament body said Monday. Full Story
Kidnapped Priest Freed in Philippines
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 10:13 by TRC-News
With the safe recovery Monday of an Italian priest abducted by Muslim rebels in the Philippines six months ago, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo vowed to step up the fight against gangs who kidnap for ransom. Full Story
Afghan minister escapes bomb attack
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 9:04 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded Monday near a convoy carrying Afghanistan’s defense minister, killing four bystanders and injuring 16 others, a local official said. It was the latest incident to raise concern about the security in post-Taliban Afghanistan, after international peacekeepers found rockets aimed at their Kabul headquarters twice in as many days. Full Story
Sharon Vows to Press on with Offensive, Defying U.S.
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed Monday to press ahead with a sweeping military offensive in the West Bank in direct defiance of U.S. demands for a withdrawal. Full Story
Car bomb kills 11 near Bogota, Colombia
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 0:51 by TRC-News
A car bomb early Sunday killed 11 people and wounded at least 70 others in an entertainment district near the Colombian capital of Bogota, police said. The blast occurred about 1 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT) in a car in central Villavicencio, a town 45 miles southeast of Bogota, police said. Police were having trouble identifying the victims as they sorted through a tangle of body parts. Three of the wounded were police. Full Story
How Two Lives Met In Death
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 0:40 by TRC-News
Suicide bombings have driven the conflict in the Mideast to new and dangerous levels. This is the story of two teens whose paths tragically intersected: an innocent Israeli and the Palestinian girl who became a walking weapon of terror. Full Story
A Sophisticated Strain of Anthrax
Posted Monday, April 8, 2002 - 0:38 by TRC-News
Last fall FBI profilers announced that the person who sent deadly anthrax-laced letters to news organizations and Capitol Hill was probably a grudge-bearing, sociopathic male laboratory nerd with knowledge of the geography of Trenton, N.J. But a new scientific analysis sent to top government officials suggests the anthrax attacker may be a scientific whiz so smart that he succeeded in making a “weaponized” form of the bacterium more sophisticated than any previously known. Full Story
Ridge to Brief Congress, Not Testify
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:44 by TRC-News
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge soon will brief lawmakers on two House committees but will not testify as a Senate committee has insisted. Full Story
Texan Gets Death for Killing Indian Over Sept. 11
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:43 by TRC-News
A Dallas-area stone worker who went out to shoot immigrants in revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States was sentenced to death Thursday for killing a gas station owner born in India. Full Story
Top Al Qaeda Aide in 'Serious' Condition
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:41 by TRC-News
The top-ranking al Qaeda leader who was shot three times trying to escape capture last week in Pakistan is in "fairly serious" condition, hindering close questioning of the highest-ranking suspected al Qaeda leader to be apprehended in the administration's war on terrorism, a senior administration official said. Full Story
Malaysian Denies Sept. 11 Link
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:40 by TRC-News
A suspected Islamic militant on Thursday denied putting up two of the Sept. 11 hijackers in Malaysia and belonging to a group accused of plotting attacks on Western targets in Singapore. Full Story
Judge Rejects Closure of Terrorism Hearings
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:39 by TRC-News
A federal judge in Detroit ruled Wednesday that a government policy to close deportation hearings of individuals targeted in the sweeping terrorism investigation launched after the Sept. 11 attacks is unconstitutional. Full Story
U.S. to Set New Rules for Fight on Terrorism
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:37 by TRC-News
Homeland security director Tom Ridge served notice Wednesday that the federal government planned to set new safety standards to protect Americans from terrorism and would expect private industry to bear some of the cost. Full Story
US task: Get inside head of captured bin Laden aide
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:35 by TRC-News
A pivotal player in Al Qaeda's multinational operations, Abu Zubaydah is one of the few people likely to know about impending terrorist plots against Americans. But as a hard-core militant trained in secrecy and ways to resist interrogation, he is also likely to do everything possible to thwart US investigators who urgently seek to get inside his head. Full Story
The Terrorists Next Door
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:34 by TRC-News
Al Qaeda Suspects Posed as Traders Before Capture in Pakistan. Full Story
Afghan nomads cloaked Al Qaeda
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:32 by TRC-News
Bin Laden deputy was guided by Kuchi tribes near Pakistani border, say Afghans. Full Story
Singapore Uncovers Plane Crash Plot
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:30 by TRC-News
A Singaporean member of an Islamic militant group linked to al-Qaida is suspected of planning to hijack a plane and crash it into the city-state's international airport, Singapore's prime minister said Friday. Full Story
Five Detained in French Attack
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:29 by TRC-News
Police detained five people for questioning after Molotov cocktails were hurled at a synagogue outside Paris, and three suspects in a similar attack in southern France confessed to the crime, officials said Friday. Full Story
American Prisoner Being Moved From Cuba
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:27 by TRC-News
An American-born prisoner captured in Afghanistan (news - web sites) among Taliban and al Qaeda fighters was being moved on Friday from a U.S. Navy (news - web sites) base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the U.S. mainland, a U.S. official said. Full Story
Pakistan Adjourns Pearl Murder Trial for a Week
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:26 by TRC-News
The trial of British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices for the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl was adjourned on Friday shortly after starting, lawyers said. Full Story
Lebanon Holds Palestinians for Rocket Attacks
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:24 by TRC-News
Lebanon said on Friday it had arrested a group of Palestinians whom it blamed for launching rockets at Israeli targets from southern Lebanon in recent days. Full Story
Pilots unions' plea to Bush: Allow guns in cockpit
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:21 by TRC-News
The nation's five largest pilots unions have asked President Bush to intercede personally to let pilots arm themselves aboard commercial jets. Full Story
Attendants question ground security
Posted Friday, April 5, 2002 - 10:19 by TRC-News
Flight attendants are stepping up pressure to close what some call a back door to airport terrorism: ground-crew security. Full Story
Al-Qaida Chief Pleads Guilty in Jail Attack
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 8:08 by TRC-News
A man described by authorities as the highest-ranking member of al-Qaida being held in the United States, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted murder and conspiracy in the near-fatal stabbing of a federal jail guard two years ago. Full Story
11 September revenge killer guilty
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 8:06 by TRC-News
A jury in the United States has convicted a man who shot dead an Indian immigrant in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks. Full Story
Financial Firms Help Terror Probe
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 8:05 by TRC-News
Top financial companies are working to figure out how to use public and private consumer databases to catch possible terrorists and whether the information banks are up to the task. Full Story
Ex-smuggler describes Iraqi plot to blow up US warship
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 8:03 by TRC-News
Iraq planned clandestine attacks against American warships in the Persian Gulf in early 2001, according to an operative of Iranian nationality who says he was given the assignment by ranking members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle. Full Story
Two-way pagers fight terrorism
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 8:01 by TRC-News
Massive airport security systems, such as x-ray machines and baggage inspectors, seem to be getting all the attention. But a small, relatively simple device just might end up being the weapon of choice in the war against terrorism and airport crime. BlackBerry pagers are trickling into the hands of airport cops on both coasts, allowing instant wireless access to national crime information data. And according to people familiar with the initial pilot project, the pagers, produced by Research in Motion, have gotten “rave reviews. Everybody seems to love them.” Full Story
U.S. Defends Small-Airport Plan
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:57 by TRC-News
The Transportation Department yesterday defended its decision to use different methods to inspect luggage for explosives at small airports and large hubs, saying its plan for smaller airports is not a "second-class system." Full Story
Man Flees Tampa Airport Checkpoint
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:56 by TRC-News
A terminal at Tampa International Airport was evacuated for about three hours Tuesday when a passenger grabbed his carry-on luggage from a checkpoint and fled after a security official thought he saw a pistol in the bag. Full Story
Woman Arrested After Boarding Plane
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:55 by TRC-News
A woman was arrested at Miami International Airport after she crashed her pickup truck through a security gate, hopped a 10-foot barbed wire fence into a restricted area and boarded a plane that was being cleaned in a hangar. Full Story
U.S. urges judge to toss challenge to screener law
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:54 by TRC-News
The Bush administration defended an impending citizenship requirement for airport baggage screeners in federal court yesterday, saying it will deter terrorist infiltration and promote loyalty in the workforce. Full Story
US: Iran Gives al-Qaida Safe Passage
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:49 by TRC-News
Al-Qaida terrorists fleeing Afghanistan have been allowed safe passage through Iran, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday, criticizing Tehran for a second straight day as a supporter of global terrorists. Full Story
American Taliban Fighter Lindh Back in Court
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:46 by TRC-News
Prosecutors in the case of U.S. Taliban John Walker Lindh need not prove he killed Americans, but they must show he knowingly belonged to groups that had this deadly goal, a judge said on Monday. Full Story
UN Tribunal on Rwanda Genocide Adjourns Until September
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:44 by TRC-News
A U.N. tribunal on Wednesday adjourned until September the trial of the man accused of masterminding the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, officials said. Full Story
Suspected al-Qaida Members Arrested
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:41 by TRC-News
Pakistani authorities arrested 23 men suspected of links to al-Qaida in late night raids in two cities as they continued to track down terrorists seeking refuge their nation, police said Thursday. Full Story
Pearl Murder Trial to Go Ahead in Pakistani Jail
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:38 by TRC-News
The trial of British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices for the murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl will go ahead in a Pakistani jail on Friday, lawyers said. Full Story
Suspected Philippine Muslims Extremists Killed
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:35 by TRC-News
Philippine troops killed three suspected Muslim guerrillas Wednesday in a clash at sea near a small southern island where U.S. surveillance equipment recently detected the presence of armed men, a military official said. Full Story
U.S. Planes Track Down Hostages on Philippine Isle
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:33 by TRC-News
U.S. spy planes in the Philippines have for the first time tracked down the possible location of two American hostages held by Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden, a top Philippine general said on Thursday. Full Story
Guantanamo Detainee Claims U.S. Citizenship
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:32 by TRC-News
The Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday that a Guantanamo Bay detainee who claims U.S. citizenship was born in the United States, apparently the second American Taliban to have been captured in Afghanistan. Full Story
NASA Breaks Secrecy on Shuttle Launch Time
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:30 by TRC-News
NASA broke its silence on Wednesday to reveal one of its worst-kept secrets -- Thursday's launch time for the space shuttle Atlantis, which has been kept under wraps as part of the U.S. space agency's anti-terrorism plan. Full Story
Saddam Raises Bomber Pay to $25,000, Rumsfeld Says
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:29 by TRC-News
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has raised the amount offered to relatives of suicide bombers from $10,000 per family to $25,000, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday. Full Story
Numerous Planes Diverted From Washington Airport
Posted Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 7:27 by TRC-News
An uproar over a Frontier Airlines jet that flew over the White House this week prompted disclosures on Wednesday that numerous planes have failed to follow post-Sept. 11 security procedures when operating near the nation's capital, government officials said. Full Story
U.S. to issue more secure passports
Posted Wednesday, April 3, 2002 - 10:22 by TRC-News
The State Department Tuesday unveiled a new "state-of-the-art" passport designed to prevent misuse of American passports by terrorists. Full Story
Iraqi funds, training fuel Islamic terror group
Posted Wednesday, April 3, 2002 - 10:20 by TRC-News
The US Operation Anaconda has squeezed many Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters out of Afghanistan, but some of those forces are simply joining a budding conflict nearby, in Iraq, local security officials warn. Full Story
Musharraf repeats suspicion that Osama bin Laden may be dead
Posted Wednesday, April 3, 2002 - 10:18 by TRC-News
Pakistan's president said Tuesday he suspects Osama bin Laden may be dead. Speaking to reporters in the Afghan capital, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said he had no conclusive information on bin Laden's whereabouts since the United States launched attacks on Afghanistan on Oct. 7. Full Story
Americans Warned to Avoid Israel
Posted Wednesday, April 3, 2002 - 10:06 by TRC-News
The State Department, citing a "deteriorating security situation," urged Americans who live in Jerusalem to leave the city on Tuesday and encouraged dependents of American diplomats to return to the United States. Full Story
Philippines Foils Rebel Bid to Escape Hostage Isle
Posted Wednesday, April 3, 2002 - 10:04 by TRC-News
Philippine troops killed three Muslim guerrillas on Wednesday as they tried to flee the southern island of Basilan, where members of their group are holding two Americans and a Filipina hostage. Full Story
Expert: Zubaydah Has al-Qaida Names
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 9:25 by TRC-News
The capture of Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaida's top surviving operational commander, is one of the most significant accomplishments in the U.S. war on terrorism, officials and experts said Monday. Full Story
Hackers, Viruses Fuel Security Market, Not 9-11
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 9:22 by TRC-News
According to a survey by market research firm In-Stat/MDR, increasing business spending on information and network security is mainly unrelated to the events of September 11, 2001. Instead, the survey found that fear of computer viruses and hackers drives investment in security products, such as firewalls or virtual private networks (VPN). Full Story
Spreading out the safety net
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 9:21 by TRC-News
Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, many companies reviewed their business continuity and recovery plans. Subsequently, there has been a movement away from centralizing technical and operational resources to distributed models. Full Story
Hungary Tightens Measures to Combat Cybercrime
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 9:18 by TRC-News
As of tomorrow, Hungarian computer hackers will not be able to make illegal IT entries without being penalized. Full Story
Thailand's E-law Takes Step Into the 21st Century
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 9:15 by TRC-News
The country's first cyber law not only gives legal recognition to electronic evidence, it also provides the potential to cut costs. Full Story
Clinton White House axed terror-fund probe
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 9:06 by TRC-News
The Clinton administration shut down a 1995 investigation of Islamic charities, concerned that a public probe would expose Saudi Arabia's suspected ties to a global money-laundering operation that raised millions for anti-Israel terrorists, federal officials told The Washington Times. Full Story
DISA seeks detection system
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 9:03 by TRC-News
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week announced plans to work with GRC International Inc. to develop a system to help detect, analyze and defend against cyberattacks across Defense Department networks. Full Story
Eagan company product seems to kill anthrax
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 9:02 by TRC-News
A small biotechnology company in Eagan has developed a complex carbohydrate from the cell walls of baker's yeast that appears to kill anthrax spores in the lungs of mice and may combat the deadly effects of radiation. Full Story
Citing Sept. 11, Bush to Transfer Island to N.Y.
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 8:49 by TRC-News
President Bush said on Monday he would hand over historic Governors Island to New York, promising to help put the former military base off the southern tip of Manhattan to "good use" as an education center after the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story
Muslim Nations Won't Define Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 8:46 by TRC-News
Muslim nations sidestepped defining terrorism at a conference aimed at addressing the issue Tuesday, but said they rejected any attempt to label the Palestinian struggle as terrorism. Full Story
Bush: Iran, Iraq, Syria Aid Terror
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 8:45 by TRC-News
The Bush administration accused Iran, Iraq and Syria of formenting terror while it urged Yasser Arafat on Monday to ban suicide attacks on Israel. Full Story
American Taliban Fighter Lindh Back in Court
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 8:39 by TRC-News
Prosecutors in the case of U.S. Taliban John Walker Lindh need not prove he killed Americans, but they must show he knowingly belonged to groups that had this deadly goal, a judge said on Monday. Full Story
Police to Replace Military Troops at Airports
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 8:37 by TRC-News
Police will replace military troops patrolling U.S. airports beginning next month until the government can provide new law enforcement staffing, according to a new security directive. Full Story
Iran Rejects U.S. Accusation It Sponsors Terror
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 8:36 by TRC-News
Iran rejected U.S. accusations it sponsored terrorist attacks on the West Bank, saying on Tuesday that Palestinian suicide bombers were resisting occupation by Israel. Full Story
Car Bomb Explodes in Jerusalem's Old City
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 8:32 by TRC-News
Calling Yasir Arafat "the enemy of the entire free world," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Israel on Sunday to be in a war. He spoke after a suicide bomber blew himself apart in a restaurant in the seaside city of Haifa, killing at least 14 other people, while Israel was tightening its ring of tanks and rifles around the Palestinian leader. Full Story
Mideast violence could impact war on terror
Posted Tuesday, April 2, 2002 - 8:29 by TRC-News
The Bush administration's six-month struggle to keep its war on terrorism separate from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may have collapsed this weekend, Middle East experts say. Full Story
U.S. Handed Alleged al-Qaida Leader - Abu Zubaydah
Posted Monday, April 1, 2002 - 7:43 by TRC-News
Pakistani authorities have handed over to the United States a man thought to be the biggest catch yet in the war on terrorism: Abu Zubaydah, a senior al-Qaida leader believed to be leading an attempt to reconstitute the group in Afghanistan. Full Story
Muslims Split Over Suicide Bombers
Posted Monday, April 1, 2002 - 7:40 by TRC-News
Muslim countries were split over whether to condemn Palestinian suicide bombers as terrorists Monday at the start of a major international Islamic conference on terrorism. Full Story
Bin Laden's Uncle Dies at Age 75
Posted Monday, April 1, 2002 - 7:36 by TRC-News
Abdullah Awad bin Laden, patriarch of one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia and uncle of terror suspect Osama bin Laden, has died at the age of 75. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20020331/ap_on_re_mi_ea/obit_abdullah_bin_laden_2
High-Tech Firms Vie to Fight Terrorism
Posted Monday, April 1, 2002 - 7:33 by TRC-News
Tim Wright had an idea about how to help fight terrorism and he wanted to tell someone about it. So he called the Office of Homeland Security and asked for an appointment. Full Story
US Courts Face Terror Case Workload
Posted Monday, April 1, 2002 - 7:31 by TRC-News
The federal courthouse in Alexandria where "the American Taliban" and the alleged "20th hijacker" will be tried is known as the Rocket Docket for the speed with which it disposes of case. Full Story
TV Drama, Pentagon-Style: A Fictional Terror Tribunal
Posted Monday, April 1, 2002 - 7:29 by TRC-News
The scene is a makeshift courtroom aboard an aircraft carrier, where the third-ranking leader of the Qaeda terrorist network, a Saudi citizen in an orange jumpsuit, is on trial accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story
Antiterrorism Trainers in Philippines May Extend Their Stay on a Jungle Island
Posted Monday, April 1, 2002 - 7:21 by TRC-News
The American troops sent here with fanfare last month to train the Philippine military in counterterrorism and to help rescue two American hostages will most likely stay longer than the originally announced six months, American and Philippine officials said this week. Full Story
Unmanned U.S. Spy Plane Crashes in Philippines
Posted Monday, April 1, 2002 - 7:18 by TRC-News
An unmanned U.S. spy plane which has been used to help Philippine forces battle Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden crashed into the sea while on a training mission on Sunday. Full Story
Sunday Suicide Blast in Israel Kills 12
Posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 12:50 by TRC-News
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded restaurant near a shopping mall in this northern port city Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 40 in the fourth Palestinian attack in Israel in five days. Full Story
Angolan Army and Rebels Sign Cease-Fire
Posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 12:47 by TRC-News
Angola's armed forces and UNITA rebels signed a preliminary cease-fire agreement on Saturday intended to pave the way for an end to one of Africa's longest and bloodiest wars. Full Story
Uganda Army Says Flushes Rebels Out of Sudan Camps
Posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 12:46 by TRC-News
Uganda captured all four bases of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in southern Sudan on the second day of an offensive to crush their 16-year-old insurgency, Uganda's defense minister said on Saturday. Full Story
Saturday - Explosion in Tel Aviv, Many Casualties
Posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 12:45 by TRC-News
A huge explosion, apparently caused by a suicide bomber, ripped through a busy restaurant in downtown Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, wounding over 20 people. Full Story
Pakistan Hands Over Al-Qaida Suspects
Posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 12:40 by TRC-News
Pakistan has handed over to U.S. authorities about 20 Arabs arrested last week in raids on suspected al-Qaida hideouts, a senior intelligence official said Sunday. Full Story
Only few al-Qaida fled to Pakistan, U.S. general says
Posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 12:38 by TRC-News
The commander of the military campaign in Afghanistan said yesterday that hundreds of al-Qaida terrorists were killed in Operation Anaconda earlier this month in the mountains near Gardez but that small numbers likely fled into Pakistan. Full Story
Bin Laden Brother Says Family Is Not to Blame
Posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 12:36 by TRC-News
Breaking the official family silence the bin Ladens have kept since Sept. 11, Abdullah bin Laden, one of Osama's 53 siblings, says the bin Ladens should not be blamed for the actions of their notorious relative. Full Story
Islamic Group Creates Defense Fund
Posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 12:33 by TRC-News
An Islamic advocacy group hopes to raise $1 million for a legal defense fund to help people alleging civil rights violations since the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story
Al Qaeda, Taliban Leaders Elusive
Posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 - 12:36 by TRC-News
Nine senior al Qaeda members have been killed and three captured during the war in Afghanistan, leaving the whereabouts of an additional 15 on the Pentagon's list of most-wanted terrorist network leaders still unknown to U.S. military authorities, government officials said yesterday. Full Story
U.S. Agents Seize Terror Suspects in Pakistan Raid
Posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 - 12:33 by TRC-News
A team of American law enforcement and intelligence officials stormed several houses in Pakistan early Thursday and captured five Taliban fighters and 25 Arabs suspected of having links to Al Qaeda, senior Pakistani law enforcement officials said today. Full Story
Towers Withstood Impact, but Fell to Fire, Report Says
Posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 - 12:32 by TRC-News
Fireproofing, sprinkler systems and the water supply for hoses were all disabled in the twin towers on Sept. 11 in the face of a blaze so intense that it drove temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees and generated heat equivalent to the energy output of a nuclear power plant, a federal report on how the towers fell has concluded. Full Story
Hizbollah Says Israel Will Pay for Raid on Arafat
Posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 - 12:28 by TRC-News
Lebanon's Hizbollah group warned on Saturday that its fighters would not sit idle while Israel laid siege to Palestinian cities and forced its way into the headquarters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Full Story
Hezbollah, Israel Trade Strikes
Posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 - 12:27 by TRC-News
Hezbollah guerrillas fired rockets at Israeli posts in a disputed border region Saturday, prompting Israeli missile strikes in south Lebanon and raising worries of a new front heating up as Israel wages an assault against the Palestinians. Full Story
Al-Qaida Official May Be in Custody
Posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 - 12:25 by TRC-News
U.S. and Pakistani authorities are trying to determine whether an Arab arrested in raids here this week is a key lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, a senior police official said Saturday. Full Story
US Seeks Death Penalty for Moussaoui
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:45 by TRC-News
The Bush administration said Thursday it will seek to execute Zacarias Moussaoui in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks and appealed to European allies to keep cooperating with terrorism investigations despite their opposition to the death penalty. Full Story
Arabic Paper Claims bin Laden E-Mail
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:43 by TRC-News
A London-based Arabic newspaper said Wednesday it received an e-mail it claims might be from Osama bin Laden denouncing Saudi Arabia's Mideast peace plan. Full Story
FBI links charity, bin Laden ex-aide
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:39 by TRC-News
An FBI document filed in U.S. District Court Wednesday ties a Bridgeview-based charity to a convicted Al Qaeda terrorist who once was the personal assistant to Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Terror's Confounding Online Trail
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:31 by TRC-News
For all the sophisticated electronic tools the United States government has at its investigative disposal, tracking the activities of suspected terrorist groups online has proved to be not unlike the search for Osama bin Laden and his operatives on the ground. Full Story
In Disaster Exercise, Flaws -- and Progress
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:29 by TRC-News
A recent two-day anti-terrorism exercise found large and potentially serious gaps in the government's ability to remove debris, clear roads and preserve public sanitation in a large-scale attack on the nation's capital. Full Story
French National Charged Over Mid-Air Bomb Hoax
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:19 by TRC-News
A Virgin Atlantic flight attendant suspected of writing a false al Qaeda bomb threat was ordered held on $250,000 bail on Thursday after U.S. authorities charged him with claiming to have found the note on a transatlantic flight that was then diverted to Iceland. Full Story
April Trial Date Set in Pearl Case
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:17 by TRC-News
A court in Pakistan on Friday set an April trial date for four men accused in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl — a case widely seen as a test of Pakistan's commitment to combat religious extremism. Full Story
Smallpox Vaccine Can Be Increased
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:15 by TRC-News
Doctors can safely dilute the nation's 15.4 million doses of smallpox vaccine to make up to 10 times more inoculations, according to new research that comes as the government attempts to buy still millions more doses discovered in a drug company's freezers. Full Story
Thailand to Host Sri Lanka Talks
Posted Friday, March 29, 2002 - 7:13 by TRC-News
Thailand will host landmark peace talks between Sri Lanka's government and separatist guerrillas who have fought an 18-year war on the Indian Ocean island, officials said Friday. Full Story
U.S. Warns of Easter Terror Threats in Italy
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:21 by TRC-News
Washington's embassy in Italy said in a statement the U.S. government had received "credible reports" that extremist groups were planning attacks in Venice, Florence, Milan or Verona. Full Story
Suicide Bombing Kills 20 Israelis
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:19 by TRC-News
Israel said Thursday it would exercise its right to self defense, but stopped short of formally abandoning U.S.-backed truce efforts following a Palestinian suicide bombing in a hotel banquet hall. It killed 20 diners and wounded more than 130 during a festive Passover Seder, the ritual meal ushering in the weeklong Jewish holiday. Full Story
3 Groups Added to U.S. Terror List
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:16 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday designated three Middle East groups as terrorist organizations, including the al-Aqsa brigades, a Palestinian militia linked to the Fatah faction of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Full Story
Spike in Depression, PTSD Found in Post-Sept. 11 Manhattan
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:13 by TRC-News
The Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center had a devastating psychological effect on Manhattan residents, a survey finds, and the worst may be yet to come -- not only in New York City but all across the nation. Full Story
Mess Hall for WTC Workers Closing
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:12 by TRC-News
A tent at the World Trade Center site where recovery workers eat meals and take showers will be removed and replaced with a hotel parking lot, an official said. Full Story
U.S. to Start Wireless Priority Access Trial in May
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:10 by TRC-News
A pilot program unveiled on Tuesday will allow national security and emergency personnel in Washington and New York to use mobile phones to speed calls through overloaded wireless and landline networks that blocked calls on Sept. 11. Full Story
Legal war on terror lacks weapons
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:08 by TRC-News
In the six months since Sept. 11, police across the United States and Europe have arrested nearly 1,400 people in connection with the attacks on New York and Washington. But they have charged only one of them in connection with the worst terrorist outrage in history. Full Story
Transit security soon to extend beyond planes
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:06 by TRC-News
Train, boat and bus passengers could soon be screened for weapons and have their bags searched for bombs just as airline passengers do, the nation's transportation-security czar said yesterday. Full Story
Cockpit Tape Offers Few Answers but Points to Heroic Efforts
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:05 by TRC-News
Families of passengers and crew members aboard United Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed outside Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, will hear nothing to resolve crucial questions about their loved ones' last minutes when they listen to the cockpit voice recorder next month, say officials who have heard the tape or read transcripts of it. Full Story
Man Charged With Perjury
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:04 by TRC-News
Federal authorities charged a Virginia man yesterday with lying to a grand jury after he and another man flew from New York to Israel carrying a letter that an F.B.I. agent described as a terrorist's farewell. Full Story
US officials admit bin Laden's trail has gone cold
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 7:01 by TRC-News
US military officials said yesterday that the hunt for Osama bin Laden remains a key objective of US and coalition forces in Afghanistan, but they acknowledged that the trail has run cold, despite newly reported sightings by local Afghans. Full Story
Pakistan Says Bin Laden Not in the Country
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 6:57 by TRC-News
Pakistan's government said on Wednesday it was confident that fugitives Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar were not in the country, and it would not allow U.S. troops to look for them there. Full Story
Gen. Franks Expects Long Terrorism War
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 6:56 by TRC-News
Back in his Texas hometown for the first time since commanding U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Gen. Tommy Franks on Wednesday said the country's declared war on terrorism could last longer than his own life. Full Story
Report: Forgotten Doses of Smallpox Vaccine Found
Posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 6:53 by TRC-News
A French pharmaceutical company has discovered as many as 90 million long-forgotten doses of smallpox vaccine in its freezers, in a find that ensures the United States an adequate supply in the event of a bioterrorist attack, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Full Story
Judge Orders Details Released on Sept.11 Detainees
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 7:24 by TRC-News
In a setback for the government, a superior court judge ruled on Tuesday information on people held in two New Jersey jails after the Sept. 11 attacks must be disclosed, including their names and the reasons why they were detained. Full Story
Pakistan Issues Sketch of Church Attack Suspect
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 7:23 by TRC-News
Pakistani police released a sketch Wednesday of a clean shaven young man with curly hair they suspect lobbed grenades into an Islamabad church during a service killing five people, including two Americans. Full Story
Bin Laden reported near Pakistan
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 7:16 by TRC-News
A senior Afghan intelligence official said Monday that he is confident Osama bin Laden is hiding in a southeastern Afghanistan frontier area along the border with Pakistan. Full Story
Pakistani Plotted to Bomb Florida Power Plants, Officials Say
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 7:09 by TRC-News
Federal immigration officials have arrested and are seeking to deport a young Pakistani immigrant who they say plotted last spring to blow up power plants and other sites in South Florida, law enforcement officials said today. Full Story
Workers to Clear Asbestos Near WTC
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 7:06 by TRC-News
Dozens of contract workers in protective suits will spend about two months in lower Manhattan cleaning potentially hazardous World Trade Center debris from surrounding buildings, officials said Tuesday. Full Story
More fake passports may be in terrorists' hands
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 7:04 by TRC-News
A fraud artist may have left an unknown number of illegal Canadian passports in the hands of Osama bin Laden's network before being deported. Full Story
Fire Dept. Has Pinpointed 700 New Human Remains
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 7:02 by TRC-News
More bodies were removed from ground zero yesterday as the gruesome recovery efforts continued in some of the final areas of the World Trade Center ruins to be searched. The effort to find remains has proven especially productive in the last three weeks, as Fire Department searchers mapped more than 700 new discoveries. Full Story
Nuclear Plants Said to Face Big Attack Risk
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 6:59 by TRC-News
The nation's 103 nuclear power reactors are vulnerable to a potentially catastrophic terrorist attack but have taken few safety countermeasures since Sept. 11, even though they have been targeted by Al Qaeda, a congressman alleged in a report released Monday. Full Story
Ridge Offers Compromise to Congress
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 6:56 by TRC-News
Under bipartisan fire from Congress, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge offered Monday to compromise in his refusal to testify to lawmakers about the White House's counter-terrorism budget. Full Story
Judge eases US limits on Reid
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 6:55 by TRC-News
A federal judge yesterday quashed the Justice Department's attempt to place extraordinary restrictions on suspected terrorist Richard C. Reid, including preventing him from meeting in person with expert witnesses for the defense, psychiatrists, and investigators. Full Story
Mass. antiterror team takes shape
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 6:53 by TRC-News
Pepperell doesn't have a supermarket or a traffic light, much less many potential terrorist targets like nuclear plants or military installations or transportation infrastructure - unless you count the wood-covered bridge over the Nashua River at Jo Blood's crossing. Full Story
NIPC split causes concern
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 9:15 by TRC-News
The National Infrastructure Protection Center's future may be in doubt within the FBI, but Director Robert Mueller last week assured Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that he would discuss any plans with the senator before making a final decision on whether to dismantle the center. Full Story
Hackers attack US Air Force Base
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Hackers operating outside the US tried unsuccessfully to enter the computer network at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, officials say. Full Story
Homeland security cuts upset sheriffs
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 9:09 by TRC-News
Instead of increasing a popular program to put more police on the streets, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has told a group of sheriffs that it will be cut, forcing small Oklahoma towns to fight terrorism with fewer law enforcement resources. Full Story
Ridge Offers Compromise to Congress
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Under bipartisan fire from Congress, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge offered Monday to compromise in his refusal to testify to lawmakers about the White House's counter-terrorism budget. Full Story
Interviews Begin in Moussaoui Case
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 9:05 by TRC-News
The daughter of one of the Sept. 11 victims told prosecutors Monday she isn't sure she supports the death penalty in the case of an accused conspirator — because that might be what he wants. Full Story
FBI raids pro-Republicans
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 9:03 by TRC-News
The target of an anti-terrorist raid in the United States last week provided funds for an Islamic group with close ties to the Republican party and the White House. Full Story
Pakistan announces crackdown on agents of terror
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 9:02 by TRC-News
Pakistan has moved to allay Western fears about terrorist attacks by promising new measures to crack down on Islamic militants in the country. Full Story
Terrorism Fears Push Md. Toward Wider Police Power
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Maryland's House of Delegates is preparing to pass anti-terrorism legislation today that would dramatically expand the ability of police to tap phones and eavesdrop on the e-mail and Internet activity of suspected criminals -- part of a deluge of terror-busting measures under consideration in nearly every state capital. Full Story
In the heartland, a call to mobilize
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 8:58 by TRC-News
For years, one of Montrose Police Chief Gary Mecham's biggest concerns was making sure that residents here locked their doors before they went away on vacation. Full Story
U.S. Embassy in Bosnia Reopens
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 8:56 by TRC-News
The U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo reopened Monday after shutting down for four days amid fears that al-Qaida terrorists were planning a major attack on Americans in Bosnia. Full Story
Tests show no screening improvements post-Sept. 11
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 8:54 by TRC-News
In the months after Sept. 11, airport screeners confiscated record numbers of nail clippers and scissors. But nearly half the time, they failed to stop the guns, knives or simulated explosives carried past checkpoints by undercover investigators with the Transportation Department's inspector general. Full Story
Lawmaker Faults Nuclear Facility Security Policies
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 8:53 by TRC-News
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not know how many foreign nationals are employed at nuclear reactors and does not require adequate background checks of employees that would determine whether a worker was a member of a terrorist organization, according to a report released today. Full Story
White House calls for Web site review
Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 8:50 by TRC-News
The White House has ordered all federal offices to review the content of their Web sites for sensitive materials in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But the move is raising questions about whether the Bush administration is simply using the attacks to justify a policy that began well before September. Full Story
FBI to Let Relatives Hear Sept. 11 Flight Tape
Posted Monday, March 25, 2002 - 14:32 by TRC-News
The FBI will permit family members of passengers who died on United Airlines flight 93 to listen to the cockpit recording of the hijacked jet's final minutes before it crashed in a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Full Story
U.S. Says al-Qaida, Taliban Regroup
Posted Monday, March 25, 2002 - 14:30 by TRC-News
Taliban and al-Qaida fighters are regrouping in Afghanistan after the recent end of the biggest ground offensive of the war, and are expected to try to mount attacks against U.S. troops there, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. Full Story
Troops Find Suspected Biowarfare Lab in Afghanistan
Posted Monday, March 25, 2002 - 14:12 by TRC-News
U.S. troops have found a laboratory under construction in southern Afghanistan where al Qaeda guerrillas apparently planned to produce biological weapons, the United States said on Saturday. Full Story
Lockerbie MP demands inquiry
Posted Monday, March 25, 2002 - 14:10 by TRC-News
A Scottish MP has vowed to push for a government-backed inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing when he meets Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Full Story
Bush vows to help Peru in fight against terrorism
Posted Monday, March 25, 2002 - 14:06 by TRC-News
President Bush, visiting Peru three days after a deadly car bombing near the US Embassy here, vowed yesterday that the United States would help the country battle terrorism. Full Story
Hijacker's lesion deepens mystery
Posted Monday, March 25, 2002 - 13:53 by TRC-News
A top federal bioterrorism official said yesterday that he found "awfully suspicious" the fact that a Sept. 11 hijacker sought treatment for a lesion resembling cutaneous anthrax. Full Story
Dormant terror groups awaken
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:48 by TRC-News
Two terror attacks on two continents this week, attributed to groups the authorities thought they had beaten long ago, suggest just how hard it is to win a war against terrorism. Full Story
Indictment - U.S. vs. Moussaoui
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:45 by TRC-News
THE GRAND JURY CHARGES THAT: COUNT ONE (Conspiracy to Commit Acts of Terrorism Transcending National Boundaries). Full Story in HTML or Full Story in PDF
How evidence stacks up on military tribunals
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:37 by TRC-News
When President Bush authorized the creation of military tribunals for suspected terrorists last November, he insisted they would provide "full and fair" trials. Exactly how full and how fair is now coming into sharper focus. And as new details are disclosed, they're only adding more fuel to an already fiery debate over the propriety of the United States seeking to carve out a special, ad hoc brand of justice for those accused of terrorism. Full Story
Congress, White House Fight Over Ridge Status
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:33 by TRC-News
The dispute between Congress and the White House over whether Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge will testify before lawmakers has mushroomed into a constitutional struggle with stakes far greater than the relatively small value of a single official's words. Full Story
Terror raid warrant names Al-Arian
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:30 by TRC-News
Federal agents on Wednesday raided 14 homes and offices around northern Virginia for information about terrorist financial networks, an operation aimed in part at Sami Al-Arian. Full Story
U.S. Adds Al-Aqsa Brigades to 'Terrorist' List
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:27 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell has decided to designate the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Jerusalem on Thursday, as a "foreign terrorist organization," State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said on Thursday. Full Story
Bush sets rules for terror trials
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:24 by TRC-News
The Bush administration plan for trying suspected foreign terrorists before special military courts gives some ground to critics who feared the tribunals would run roughshod over due-process rights, but it retains some tough features that will make it easier for prosecutors to win convictions. Full Story
Ashcroft: U.S. to interview 3,000 more Arab nationals
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:19 by TRC-News
Over the objections of Arab-American groups and civil libertarians, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft announced Wednesday that investigators plan to interview 3,000 more young Arab men, following a similar set of 5,000 requested interviews that began in November. Full Story
U.S. Moves Toward Death Penalty in Moussaoui Case
Posted Friday, March 22, 2002 - 7:03 by TRC-News
Federal prosecutors are paving the way toward seeking the death penalty against Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person indicted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, if the French citizen is convicted of conspiring to kill thousands of people. U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty and lead prosecutor David Novak spelled out the government's intention in a March 7 letter to victims' families inviting their participation in the prosecution.
Full Story
U.S. Concludes Al Qaeda Lacked a Chemical or Biological Stockpile
Posted Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 10:09 by TRC-News
After months of searching the bomb-ravaged wreckage of terrorist training camps and other sites in Afghanistan, investigators have concluded that while Al Qaeda researched chemical and biological weapons there is no indication that it acquired or produced them, government officials say. Full Story
Red Brigades Justify Execution
Posted Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 8:11 by TRC-News
A group claiming to be an offshoot of the Red Brigades guerrilla movement in Italy has posted a 26-page document on the Internet explaining why it "executed" a top government adviser. Marco Biagi, 52, was shot dead on Tuesday in Bologna with the same pistol used to kill another government aide in 1999, the interior minister said. Full Story
Israelis, Palestinians pledge to continue talks
Posted Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 7:24 by TRC-News
A joint security meeting with Israelis and Palestinians ended early Thursday without a cease-fire agreement because of "gaps and differences" on both sides, a senior Israeli defense ministry official said. The official, however, said the two sides agreed to another security meeting and will continue negotiating in the coming days. The official would not elaborate on what the main stumbling blocks were. FullStory
Car bomb outside U.S. Embassy in Peru kills 9
Posted Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 7:23 by TRC-News
Only days ahead of a visit to Peru by U.S. President Bush, a car bomb exploded late Wednesday in a shopping center parking lot near the U.S. Embassy in Lima, killing at least nine people -- including two embassy security guards -- and injuring at least 25 others, according to government and law enforcement officials. Peruvian Vice President Raul Diez Canseco said the government condemns and rejects criminals acts of terrorism and will make every effort to find those responsible for the bombing. Full Story
Indonesia: A haven for al Qaeda?
Posted Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 7:23 by TRC-News
A surveillance videotape found in what the U.S. military calls an al Qaeda safehouse in Afghanistan shows, what authorities say, the reach of a Singapore terrorist cell. The group is called Jemaah Islamiya, or JI, and Singapore officials arrested key members last December at about the same time U.S. officials released the videotape. Full Story
Planned INS student probes blocked
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:20 by TRC-News
Two years ago, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was moving forward on an ambitious plan to beef up its checks of foreign nationals seeking permission to study in the United States, an effort designed to thwart terrorists from manipulating the loosely controlled student visa system. Full Story
Terror’s Cash Flow
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:18 by TRC-News
In neo-Nazi circles, 74-year-old Albert Huber is something of a celebrity. The retired Swiss journalist gives talks to far-right groups around the world, condemning Zionists and arguing that the Holocaust was exaggerated. Over the past two decades he made regular trips to the United States, lecturing at Aryan youth and Nation of Islam meetings. Huber’s rants are especially popular among radical Muslims. Born a Christian, the blue-eyed, silver-haired Huber converted to Islam in the 1960s. He now calls himself Ahmad, and preaches that neo-Nazis and Muslims should join ranks to defeat Israel. “The United States is now controlled by a small Jewish faction,” he says. “We are making a link between Islamic movements and the New Right in Europe.” The late Iranian dictator Ayatollah Khomeini was so impressed with his theories that Huber was once invited to sit at his feet at a gathering in Tehran. More recently, Huber says he has been approached at Islamic conferences by people introduced as representatives of Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Terror Suspects Linked to Golkar and PAN
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:15 by TRC-News
Two of the three Indonesians arrested in the Philippines last week have claimed links with leading political parties, police sources said yesterday. One of them has also admitted to being a key lieutenant of Muslim cleric and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader Abu Bakar Bashir. Full Story
The jihad files: Qaeda life in Afghanistan
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:13 by TRC-News
On Aug. 17, 1995, Amir Maawia Siddiqi, the son of a bookshop owner in a small village in Pakistan, set down his oath of allegiance. "I, Amir Maawia Siddiqi, son of Abdul Rahman Siddiqi, state in the presence of God that I will slaughter infidels my entire life," he wrote. "And with the will of God I will do these killings in the supervision and guidance with Harkat ul Ansar." Full Story
Makings of a 'Dirty Bomb'
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:12 by TRC-News
Six months ago, they were mere Cold War trash: hundreds of small radioactive power generators scattered across the Soviet Union decades ago and largely forgotten, except when the odd lumberjack turned up with severe radiation burns. But in the aftermath of Sept. 11, these aging but potentially lethal devices are being viewed in a troubling new light: as possible components in a weapon to be used in a terrorist strike. Even more troubling, some of them have vanished. Full Story
Worshippers Dead in Pakistan Attack
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:11 by TRC-News
A grenade attack on a Protestant church packed with Sunday worshippers killed five people — including an American woman and her daughter — in an assault clearly aimed at Pakistan's foreign community. Full Story
Afghan 'Operation Anaconda' Draws to Close
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:11 by TRC-News
U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks, in overall charge of coalition forces in Afghanistan, said Monday that "Operation Anaconda" was drawing to a close. Full Story
FBI Alerts Allies on Al Qaeda's Nuclear Plans
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:10 by TRC-News
The United States has alerted its allies to watch out for attempts by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network to produce weapons of mass destruction, FBI chief Robert Mueller said Monday. Mueller, in Manila, raised the concern in talks with Philippine officials before flying back to the United States at the end of a tour of Southeast Asia. He has said the region is a potential sanctuary for members of al Qaeda, prime suspects in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
Israel, Palestinians Meet with Zinni on Pullout
Posted Monday, March 18, 2002 - 9:09 by TRC-News
U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni brought top Israeli and Palestinian security officials together Monday for talks on an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian- ruled areas and a cease-fire. Full Story
U.S. Will Take Action Against Iraq, Bush Says
Posted Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 22:20 by TRC-News
President Bush declared yesterday that "all options are on the table" -- including nuclear weapons -- to confront states that threaten to use weapons of mass destruction, as he issued his strongest warning to date that his administration plans to take on Iraq's Saddam Hussein. "He is a problem, and we're going to deal with him," Bush said of the Iraqi leader. The president used his first full-scale news conference in five months to make clear that America's deterrence strategy would extend to states such as Iraq, Iran and North Korea to discourage them from using chemical or biological weapons against the United States or its allies. Full Story
DOD aids first responder system
Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 0:48 by TRC-News
As part of an annual program supporting advanced technology projects, the Defense Department is funding development of a system to improve communications among state and local public safety agencies and DOD personnel. Full Story
CIA says risk of nuclear attack greater than ever
Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 0:46 by TRC-News
The chance that a missile with a nuclear, chemical, or biological warhead will be used against US forces or interests is greater today than during most of the Cold War, a senior US intelligence official said yesterday. Robert Walpole of the CIA told a Senate panel that analysts believe the threat from Iran's nuclear program has grown over the past two years. He said Iran and North Korea have developed enough expertise to share missile technology with other countries. Full Story
Probe Spawns Unparalleled Intelligence-Sharing
Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 0:46 by TRC-News
For a glimpse into the new world of U.S. intelligence gathering since Sept. 11, consider the meandering path of a simple telephone number. Retrieved from the rubble of Afghanistan -- whether from an address book, a computer hard drive or a scribbled note -- this hypothetical telephone number is first reviewed by Defense Intelligence Agency analysts at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. Full Story
Ridge Against the Machine
Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 0:44 by TRC-News
If you give them the Kentucky Derby, then they’ll want Pimlico and the Preakness, the whole Triple Crown,” Tom Ridge says. “Where do we stop?”Full Story
Massive Israeli Force Enters Ramallah
Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 0:43 by TRC-News
Israel again expanded the scope of its offensive against Palestinian towns and refugee camps today, sending thousands of troops and more than 150 tanks and armored vehicles into the West Bank city of Ramallah and an adjacent camp. The assault, coming on the heels of a similar attack overnight in the Gaza Strip, touched off day-long gun battles, deepening the sense of open-ended conflict here 48 hours before the scheduled return of a U.S. peace envoy. Full Story
National Alert System Defines Five Shades of Terrorist Threat
Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 0:42 by TRC-News
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge yesterday unveiled a new system to alert government, law enforcement and the public to the risk of terrorist attacks, even as he acknowledged that it could be many years before the country is secure enough to enjoy the lowest warning level. The five-level, color-coded system was crafted to reduce the confusion caused by a series of vaguely worded alerts issued by the federal government since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Many officials said the alerts did little more than alarm the public. Full Story
Terrorist Pilots' Student Visas Arrive
Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 0:41 by TRC-News
Exactly six months after terrorists Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi flew two jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Florida flight school that trained the men received paperwork showing that their student visas had been approved. The two suicide hijackers had applied for the visas through their flight school, Huffman Aviation International, in August 2000. But because of backlogs and an antiquated processing system at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, notification of the approval did not arrive at the Venice, Fla., flight school until Monday. Full Story
New alert system would target areas
Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is preparing to unveil a new terrorism alert system that would give state and local governments and the public more precise information when the government issues warnings of potential attacks, officials said yesterday. Full Story
Oklahoma victims seek payout
Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 - 8:34 by TRC-News
A group of Oklahoma City bombing survivors and relatives of those killed launched a petition on Saturday asking Congress to give them the same multibillion dollar financial aid as those harmed in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon. Full Story
Suspects sent to third countries
Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Arriving here from Pakistan in mid-November, Muhammad Saad Iqbal Madni told acquaintances that he had come to Indonesia to disburse an inheritance to his late father�s second wife. But instead of writing a check and leaving, he settled into a small boarding house in a crowded, lower-middle-class neighborhood, where he visited the local mosque and spent hours on end watching television at a friend�s house. Full Story
Testing Aiport Security
Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 - 8:31 by TRC-News
Whether it�s an overlooked gun or an unplugged metal detector, security breaches at U.S. airports still make daily headlines, reflecting the fact that improved airline security is a work in progress six months after Sept. 11. To get a sense of how security at America�s busiest airports measures up next to more vigilant international ones, MSNBC.com visited five key airports in five days. Traveling with a carry-on filled with perfectly legal items that experts told us should at least draw attention, we found out that when it comes to security, inconsistencies still abound. Full Story
FBI fails to expose al-Qaeda networks
Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 - 8:28 by TRC-News
Thousands of FBI agents have rounded up more than 1,300 suspects across America since September 11, but they have failed to find a single al-Qaeda cell operating in the United States. Tom Ridge, the Director of Homeland Security, admitted yesterday that he suspected that there were active cells in the US, but he could not explain why none had been caught. �I think we should assume and we should operate under the notion that some still are in the United States,� he said. Security authorities in more than 60 countries have arrested suspects linked to Osama bin Laden, but none of the hundreds detained has yet been found to have any links with terrorism. Full Story
New York Plans Emotional 6-Month Sept. 11 Memorial
Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 - 8:24 by TRC-News
An emotional commemoration of the six-month anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center will be observed in New York City on Monday as two memorials to the roughly 3,000 victims will be unveiled in ceremonies near "Ground Zero." Full Story
Cheney, Blair to Discuss War on Terrorism
Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 - 8:24 by TRC-News
Vice President Dick Cheney will discuss the U.S. war on terrorism on Monday with Washington's "strongest ally," British Prime Minister Tony Blair, six months to the day since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Full Story
Powell: U.S. Secret Nuke Targets Were Routine Planning
Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 - 8:23 by TRC-News
ecretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday a classified Pentagon report reviewing U.S. nuclear options was simply "sound, military, conceptual planning" and not a precursor to any imminent U.S. action. Full Story
Israel Blasts Arafat HQ as Suicide Bomb Kills 11
Posted Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 12:59 by TRC-News
Israel retaliated Sunday for a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed 11 Israelis in a Jerusalem cafe by destroying the Gaza headquarters that Yasser Arafat used as a showcase for Palestinian sovereignty. Full Story
Buffett to limit insurance against terrorism
Posted Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 12:56 by TRC-News
Warren Buffett, the veteran investor, vowed on Saturday to limit insurance policies against terrorist attacks after his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, after suffered heavy losses because of September 11. In his annual letter to shareholders, Mr Buffett admitted that General Re, Berkshire's reinsurance subsidiary, had not charged enough in past years to insure against the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Full Story
Secret Plan Outlines the Unthinkable
Posted Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 12:49 by TRC-News
The Bush administration, in a secret policy review completed early this year, has ordered the Pentagon to draft contingency plans for the use of nuclear weapons against at least seven countries, naming not only Russia and the "axis of evil"--Iraq, Iran, and North Korea--but also China, Libya and Syria. Full Story
Array of unknowns still troubling U.S.
Posted Friday, March 8, 2002 - 9:57 by TRC-News
Early last summer, FBI analysts who monitor anti-American terrorist groups became nervous about what they were hearing: nothing. Full Story
Watching the Homeland
Posted Friday, March 8, 2002 - 9:55 by TRC-News
Patricia Holliday is downright disgusted with the drugs, and last week she began organizing her Annapolis Gardens neighbors to go after the dealers -- and the bullets and mayhem they bring -- with a new Neighborhood Watch program. This week, she and her neighbors were handed another target: international terrorists. Full Story
Some See Panic as Main Effect of Dirty Bombs
Posted Friday, March 8, 2002 - 9:54 by TRC-News
Radioactive materials in wide use in the United States could be turned into weapons of terror that would probably kill few people but would spread panic and produce severe economic damage, scientists told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today. Full Story
Moment of impact at Pentagon
Posted Friday, March 8, 2002 - 9:52 by TRC-News
Never-before-seen photos obtained by NBC News show American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon on Sept. 11. NBC�s Jim Miklaszewski explains that the sequence of five photos, taken from a Department of Defense security camera, shows the Boeing 757 hitting the ground an instant before it plows into the building and explodes in a deadly fireball. The crash left 189 people dead, including 59 victims and five hijackers who were aboard the aircraft. Full Story
How Sept. 11 changed America
Posted Friday, March 8, 2002 - 9:51 by TRC-News
Throughout the country, offices, schools, transportation systems and public places such as stadiums have tightened security. I.D. badges on chains are now a standard part of many people�s workday wardrobe. Air travelers expect to be scanned from head to toe. Full Story
Deadliest day in Mideast uprising
Posted Friday, March 8, 2002 - 9:50 by TRC-News
A year and a half into the current Palestinian uprising, the Mideast conflict saw its deadliest day Friday as Israeli troops killed 32 Palestinians in raids of villages and refugee camps. News of the impending return of President Bush�s chief envoy to the region did little to dampen violence, which included a deadly Palestinian attack on five Israeli teen-agers and an Israeli assault that killed two children and a Palestinian general. Full Story
ETA Youth Supporters Arrested
Posted Friday, March 8, 2002 - 9:49 by TRC-News
Eleven people were arrested on charges of belonging to a youth organisation that supports the armed Basque separatist group ETA, a government spokesman told CNN. The members, belonging to the group Segi, were arrested at various locations across Spain. Full Story
Palestinians, Israelis Killed In New Violence
Posted Friday, March 8, 2002 - 9:48 by TRC-News
Israeli troops raided towns in the West Bank and Gaza Strip early Friday, killing 26 Palestinians, including a general. A few miles from one of the battles, a Palestinian gunman attacked dormitories and a Bible study hall in a Jewish settlement in Gaza, killing five Israeli teenagers. Despite the fighting, the bloodiest in 17 months of conflict, President Bush announced unexpectedly Thursday that he was sending an envoy back to the region to try to negotiate a cease-fire. Full Story
'First responders' to terrorism seek federal strategy, equipment
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 21:32 by TRC-News
A national training standard should be established and maintained by the federal government for first responders who are poorly prepared and equipped to recognize or respond to a weapon of mass destruction attack, emergency officials told a congressional subcommittee yesterday. The United States should also ensure that first responders possess equipment that is lightweight, mobile and easy to use, federal, state and local officials told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Procurement. Full Story
Neighborhood Watch enlisted in war
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 8:58 by TRC-News
In a striking example of how much has changed since Sept. 11, National Neighborhood Watch, the folksy community program that has helped nab burglars and muggers for 30 years, will be expanded to help detect and deter suspected international terrorists. Full Story
ETA Violence Prompts Security Review
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Basque security chiefs in northern Spain are meeting in the regional capital, Vitoria, to review the current security arrangements for local politicians amid a continuing threat of attack by the Basque separatist group, ETA. The Spanish Government has recommended that people in public life in the Basque region are escorted everywhere by bodyguards, but this has not stopped the shootings and bomb attacks which are a regular feature of political life in Spain. The Basque Government has also invited representatives of all political parties and the interior ministry to the meeting in Vitoria. Full Story
US Considers Boosting Aid for Colombia
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 8:55 by TRC-News
The United States Congress has approved a proposal which could expand US military involvement in Colombia. It follows concerns over an intensification of fighting between the Colombian Government and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) following the collapse of peace talks. Colombia is one of the main recipients of US aid, but under current law it can only be used to tackle drug-traffickers, not against the left-wing rebels who the Americans consider to be terrorists. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Step Up Violence
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Leftist rebels blockaded roads and seized several motorists as hostages, stepping up actions following the collapse of peace talks, authorities said Wednesday. Violence around the South American nations surged after President Andres Pastrana broke off talks and ordered a military offensive against the rebels. The president was retaliating for the hijacking of an airliner and the kidnapping of a senator on Feb. 20. The Catholic Church decried the upsurge in recent violence. "We see our country as morally sick," Monsignor Alberto Giraldo, president of the church's governing Episcopal Conference, told a gathering of bishops. Full Story
Israel Steps Up Offensive, Arafat Defiant
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Israeli troops backed by tanks and aircraft fought their way into two Palestinian refugee camps on Thursday, defying U.S. pressure to end an offensive that has increased fears of all-out war. Full Story
U.S. Deports Israelis Amid Warnings of Espionage Activities
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:29 by TRC-News
Authorities have arrested and deported dozens of young Israelis since early last year who represented themselves as art students in efforts to gain access to sensitive federal office buildings and the homes of government employees, U.S. officials said. A draft report from the Drug Enforcement Administration - which first characterized the activities as suspicious - said the youths' actions "may well be an organized intelligence-gathering activity." Full Story
Powell condemns 'war on Palestinians'
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:27 by TRC-News
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has strongly criticised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, as Israel launched more attacks against Palestinian targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story
White House says counterterrorism tactics aiding drug war
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:25 by TRC-News
Bush administration officials have concluded that the same walls erected to keep terrorists out of the country and off commercial airplanes could also stem the steady flow of illegal drugs into the United States. Full Story
Philippine Mayor Seeks Hostage Swap
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:20 by TRC-News
A southern Philippine mayor said Wednesday that his followers seized eight relatives of Muslim extremist rebels in a bid to force them to swap an American couple and a Filipino nurse they hold hostage. Full Story
Jewish Group Claims Sur Bahir School Bombing
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:19 by TRC-News
Jerusalem police are trying to determine who placed the medium-sized bomb that went off in the courtyard of a high school in the southeastern Jerusalem village of Sur Bahir yesterday morning, lightly wounding seven students and a teacher. A heretofore unknown Jewish group calling itself "The Avengers of the Oppressed" took responsibility in pager messages to several police reporters around the time of the explosion. However, the murky claim could not be independently confirmed, and police stressed they were looking into "all angles." Full Story
Israeli Troops Storm Into Gaza
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:18 by TRC-News
At least seven Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers have been killed amid an intensified Israeli military offensive in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli forces carried out one of the most extensive assaults on Gaza since the current intifada began, after a rocket fired by Palestinians hit an Israeli town for the first time on Tuesday night. The upsurge in violence came after Israel's security cabinet decided on "increased security operations" in response to a wave of Palestinians attacks which killed more than 20 Israelis in the past few days. Full Story
Thirty-Two Killed as Gunbattles Rage in India's Disputed Kashmir
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:17 by TRC-News
At least 32 people, including 22 suspected Islamic guerrillas, were killed in clashes as separatist violence gathered momentum in India's troubled Kashmir state, a police spokesman said. Three people were killed Tuesday as Muslim separatists holed-up in civilian homes exchanged heavy gunfire with Indian troops in northern Kashmir, the spokesman said. Full Story
U.S. to assess Cuba as terror sponsor
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:13 by TRC-News
The White House is launching a review of its policy toward Cuba which will assess the communist country�s threat to U.S. interests, and examine the possibility of seeking an indictment against President Fidel Castro for the 1996 shootdown of two Miami-based private planes, U.S. officials said. The evaluation may well lead to a tougher stance toward the island nation. Full Story
How al-Qaida keeps in touch
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:11 by TRC-News
Despite its losses on the battlefield, Osama bin Laden�s al-Qaida is still attempting to communicate, and U.S. officials say they have indications that the group is using most, if not all, of their original high-tech means to do so. Ironically, al-Qaida has taken advantage of Internet and security technology developed by American companies. Here�s a glimpse into the system. Full Story
U.S. commander: Enemy forces 'taking a beating'
Posted Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 0:08 by TRC-News
Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the eastern Afghanistan mountains are "taking a beating" at the hands of U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces, U.S. operation commander Maj. Gen. Frank Hagenbeck said Wednesday in Afghanistan. But U.S. officials in Washington cautioned that they have indications that al Qaeda and Taliban fighters were regrouping across the border in Pakistan. Full Story
CIA details found on Google
Posted Wednesday, March 6, 2002 - 23:59 by TRC-News
Security experts demonstrated today just how effectively determined attackers can use freely and openly available information on the internet to gather intelligence about a target organisation. Security firm Matta this week released a white paper on internet-based counter intelligence using the CIA as the target. According to the firm, the results were "surprising". Full Story
Intercepted Al Qaeda E-Mail Is Said to Hint at Regrouping
Posted Wednesday, March 6, 2002 - 23:57 by TRC-News
Newly detected Internet traffic among Al Qaeda followers, including intercepted e-mail messages, indicates that elements of the terror network may be trying to regroup in remote sanctuaries in Pakistan near the Afghan border, government officials say.United States officials said they had discovered the existence of new Web sites and Internet communications that appeared to be part of a concerted Al Qaeda effort to reconstitute the group and re-establish communications after the war in Afghanistan. Senior counterterrorism officials said that Al Qaeda's effort to rebuild itself outside Afghanistan appeared to rely heavily on the Internet for communications among highly mobile operatives, who often check their messages in public Internet cafes around the world, making them difficult to track. Full Story
Report: Mineta opposes pilots� guns
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:48 by TRC-News
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta opposes pilots� demands for firearms to defend the cockpit against hijackers but would support stun guns that use an electric current to temporarily incapacitate an attacker, Saturday�s Los Angeles Times reports. Full Story
Canada called easy prey for terrorists
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:48 by TRC-News
A Canadian Senate report released on Friday said poor security in the country�s ports makes them easy targets for terrorists trying to travel or transport illicit materials, in part because the ports are infested by organized crime. One concern is that terrorists will use the port environment to stage an attack on the United States, which shares a long and mostly unguarded border with Canada. Full Story
Airports screened 9 of hijackers
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:47 by TRC-News
Nine of the hijackers who commandeered jetliners on Sept. 11 were selected for special security screenings that morning, including two who were singled out because of irregularities in their identification documents, U.S. officials said this week. Full Story
Cyanide pops up again in Italy probe
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:46 by TRC-News
Police in Italy are investigating whether six men arrested last week, including some alleged members of Osama bin Laden�s al-Qaida network, were plotting a bio-terrorist attack involving cyanide, judicial sources said on Sunday. The arrests apparently foiled the second such threat in less than a month. Full Story
U.S. embassies remain vulnerable
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:45 by TRC-News
Despite miles of new concrete barriers, towering walls, bomb-residue tests, metal detectors, gas masks and tight restrictions on diplomats� travel, a recent tunnel found near the U.S. Embassy in Rome makes clear that America�s overseas missions remain strikingly vulnerable. Full Story
U.S. sets stage for role in Yemen
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:45 by TRC-News
Afghanistan, the Philippines, Georgia and now Yemen � the latest front in the U.S. war on terrorism will be the mostly desert nation on the Arabian Peninsula. On Friday, the Yemeni government confirmed reports that U.S. forces will train and advise the army in what would become the fourth stage in the U.S. campaign. The Pentagon believes the government needs help to track down suspected al-Qaida terrorists hiding out in the remote northern reaches of the country. Full Story
U.S. using sensors for nuclear threats
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:44 by TRC-News
Alarmed by growing hints of al Qaeda�s progress toward obtaining a nuclear or radiological weapon, the Bush administration has deployed hundreds of sophisticated sensors since November to U.S. borders, overseas facilities and choke points around Washington. It has placed the Delta Force, the nation�s elite commando unit, on a new standby alert to seize control of nuclear materials that the sensors may detect. Full Story
FBI investigating possible bomb during Olympics
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:43 by TRC-News
The FBI is investigating the possibility that a power outage on the last day of the Winter Olympics was caused by a bomb, The Associated Press has learned. Electricity was cut to 33,000 customers � including the airport and the main media center downtown � for up to two hours Sunday morning when a circuit breaker exploded at a substation. Investigators later found that a security fence had been cut. A law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity said railroad spikes found at the scene had caused clear indentations in metal near the site of the explosion. The source said those marks were one of the factors that led investigators to consider the possibility of a bomb. Full Story
Palestinian Sniper Kills 10 Israelis
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:41 by TRC-News
A Palestinian sniper opened fire on Israeli soldiers and civilian cars at an army checkpoint in the West Bank, killing 10 people, officials said. Israel responded with a series of strikes against Palestinian security installations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that killed at least four policemen. Full Story
Bloody Indian State Mainly Calm; Toll Nears 500
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:40 by TRC-News
Indian troops and police appeared to have brought most of Gujarat state under control Sunday after hundreds people died in the nation's worst Hindu-Muslim bloodshed in a decade. Full Story
Israel Pledges to 'Put the Brakes on Terror'
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2002 - 20:39 by TRC-News
Pledging to "put the brakes on terror," Israel said it would exert constant military pressure on the Palestinian Authority and militant groups after a rash of deadly attacks that stunned the country. Full Story
Israeli Assault on W.Bank Camps Dims Peace Hopes
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 21:01 by TRC-News
The Israeli army kept up its unprecedented assault on two Palestinian refugee camps on Friday despite U.S. calls for restraint and fears that the upsurge in violence could derail a new peace initiative. Full Story
'Suspicious' Air India Passenger Released, FBI Says
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 21:00 by TRC-News
case of mistaken identity sparked an international air furor that raised the specter of Sept. 11 on Thursday as Canadian and U.S. jet fighters accompanied an Air India flight into New York believed to be carrying a suspicious passenger. The passenger, who authorities did not identify except to say he was British, was released by authorities soon after he was escorted off Air India Flight 101 when it landed at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at 4:45 p.m. Full Story
Clinton calls for IT to fight terrorism
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 20:58 by TRC-News
Addressing a gathering of over 1800 delegates from over 55 countries at the 2002 World Congress on Information Technology, former U.S. president Bill Clinton called for developed nations to use IT to bridge the digital divide, and use technology to make partners--not terrorists--of developing nations. "You can make a compelling argument for technology having created a more interdependent world, but so far we have failed to create a more integrated world," Clinton said. He pointed out that during his presidency, technology had been responsible for 30 percent of U.S. economic growth, and emphasised the importance of technological development for debt-burdened countries. Full Story
Shoring up against bioterror
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 20:57 by TRC-News
The threat of biological weapons is growing and states have a vital national security role to play in preparing against such actions, several health experts said at the National Governors Association winter meeting this week. "We have been very complacent about bioweapons and we have been very complacent about infectious diseases," Dr. Donald Henderson, director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness in the Department of Health and Human Services, told several governors Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C. Full Story
Data-sharing gap puts agencies at risk
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 20:56 by TRC-News
At a hearing held by the House Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement, chief information officers from federal agencies said turf wars and "stovepipes" of information created by incompatible computer programs are frustrating efforts to bolster homeland security. Full Story
War On Terror Changes Focus For Govt IT Managers - Study
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 20:56 by TRC-News
The U.S. government's so-called war on terror has prompted a new focus for federal chief information officers, according to a new study by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA).
The ITAA study said the focus for federal CIOs before Sept. 11 was on implementing the Bush administration's "Quicksilver" plan to design and approve e-government projects to improve the way government works with citizens. Full Story
Electric Power System Is Called Vulnerable, and Vigilance Is Sought
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 20:54 by TRC-News
The computers that control the electric power system around the nation have been probed from the Middle East, and terrorists may have inspected the physical equipment, said experts at a conference on the security of the electric system. Government experts identified nuclear power plants as perhaps the most attractive targets but said dams, gas pipelines and oil refineries were not far behind. Federal officials urged companies that generate, transmit and distribute electricity to take steps to increase security. Full Story
FBI probes death of driver's license examiner
Posted Friday, February 15, 2002 - 23:18 by TRC-News
The death of a Tennessee driver's license examiner accused of helping six illegal immigrants get false drivers' licenses was no accident, the FBI said Friday. Katherine Smith was found burned to death in her car early Sunday, a day before she was to be arraigned on federal charges she helped five men and one juvenile get fake driver's licenses earlier this month. The five adults are under investigation for possible ties to the September 11 terrorist attacks, law enforcement officials said. Full Story
Somalia Urges U.N. to Help It Fight Terrorism
Posted Friday, February 15, 2002 - 8:44 by TRC-News
The shaky transitional government in Somalia -- a possible target of the U.S. war on terrorism -- has called for urgent international help in combatting terrorist activity. In a report circulated Wednesday, the government said the United Nations has two choices: watch the country slide back into anarchy and chaos or lend active support to the government in its struggle against terrorism. Full Story
Homeland Security Update
Posted Friday, February 15, 2002 - 8:42 by TRC-News
On the home front in the war on terror, the Bush administration moved this week to tighten security at the nation's 103 nuclear power plants. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered more rigorous employee screening and guard training, as well as the stopping of any vehicles on approach roads to nuclear power plants. Full Story
U.S. tightens nuclear plant security
Posted Friday, February 15, 2002 - 8:32 by TRC-News
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday it is ordering nuclear power plant operators to adopt new security measures and to formalize two dozen other advisories issued since Sept. 11. The agency did not cite a specific threat, but the order is part of its ongoing top-to-bottom security review ordered after the attacks on the United States, and it comes as lawmakers weigh even tougher action. Full Story
Iran says it detains Taliban, al-Qaida
Posted Friday, February 15, 2002 - 8:31 by TRC-News
Iran has arrested 150 suspected Taliban and al-Qaida members near its border with Afghanistan, the country�s Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday, citing an �informed source.� The detainees, some of them women and children, are from Arab, African and European countries and some carried French, British, Belgian, Dutch and Spanish passports, according to the report, which could not be independently confirmed. Full Story
U.S. to take over airport security
Posted Friday, February 15, 2002 - 8:30 by TRC-News
The Transportation Department plans to replace all Argenbright Security units at U.S. airports within several weeks of taking over baggage and passenger screening contracts from the airlines next week following security breaches after the Sept. 11 attacks, a senior agency official said Thursday. Full Story
U.S. links Yemen clan to Sept. 11 and East Africa attacks
Posted Friday, February 15, 2002 - 8:29 by TRC-News
The family phone of an al-Qaida suspect who killed himself Wednesday to avoid capture by Yemen�s security police had been used to relay orders to the Sept. 11 hijackers and the terrorist cells responsible for the bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa and the USS Cole, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News on Thursday. Full Story
Telecom Network Protection A Priority Post-Sept. 11
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 15:45 by TRC-News
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center caused a significant amount of damage to America's telecommunications infrastructure. According to a new study, protecting the network has become a high priority in the months following the attacks. The study, by research firm Cahners In-Stat/MDR, called Sept. 11 the "biggest catastrophe" ever to hit the nation's telecom infrastructure. According to Henry Goldberg, a senior analyst with In-Stat, three service providers were "hit hard," while a fourth - AT&T -suffered significant damage to its local network capabilities in Manhattan. Full Story
Terrorists used Internet to get info on potential targets
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 15:44 by TRC-News
The Bush administration's top cyberdefense official said today there is evidence that the terrorist group al-Qaeda was using the Internet to gather intelligence about critical facilities in the U.S., and other terrorist groups and nations may be doing the same. But so far, said Richard Clarke, the head of the White House's Office of Cyberdefenses, al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations have limited their use of the Internet for communication and propaganda purposes. "None of those traditional terrorist groups has yet to attack over the Internet," said Clarke, who appeared today before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, but "that may be about to change." Full Story
Report: New Al Qaeda Leader Plans More U.S. Attacks
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
A 30-year-old Palestinian has become Al Qaeda's new chief of operations and is believed to be organizing remnants of the network to carry out new attacks against the United States, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Full Story
DOT to pursue biometrics
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:57 by TRC-News
The new Transportation Security Administration plans to incorporate biometrics into pilot programs at airports nationwide, according to Rick Lazarick, an integration lead for airport security technology with the Federal Aviation Administration. "We're going to spread it out and get a look at a lot of different things," Lazarick said at the Biometric Consortium Conference Feb. 13. Full Story
White House to form cybersecurity center
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:56 by TRC-News
The White House plans to set up a central office to coordinate the government's response to cybersecurity attacks, said Richard Clarke, President Bush's cyberspace security adviser, speaking to Congress on Feb. 13. The Cybersecurity Information Coordination Center will be modeled on a similar operation that coordinated the government's response to the Year 2000 computer crisis two years ago. Clarke, who serves under both Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, oversees all federal cybersecurity policy, including the interagency Critical Infrastructure Protection Board setup by Bush in an October 2001 executive order. Full Story
Aviation security agency challenged by explosive-detection deadline
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:54 by TRC-News
The Transportation Security Administration must find new ways to screen checked baggage for explosives, or it will miss a key deadline in the 2001 Aviation and Transportation Security Act, Transportation Inspector General Kenneth Mead told a House panel on Wednesday. The agency will not be able to install enough explosive-detection machines in the nation�s airports to meet a Dec. 31 deadline for screening all checked baggage, Mead told members of the House Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee. Full Story
Homeland security chief touts benefits of 'EZ-Pass' system
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:54 by TRC-News
The nation's homeland security chief on Wednesday highlighted new ways that technology is helping the United States meet its long-term goals for better security along borders and within transportation systems, while not suffocating commercial industry and economic growth. Full Story
CIA, FBI developing intelligence supercomputer
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:53 by TRC-News
After months of criticism that they do not work well together, the CIA and FBI have begun jointly developing a new supercomputer system designed to improve their ability to both cull and share information, White House and other U.S. officials told Global Security Newswire yesterday. Under a directive issued by President Bush, and overseen by Office of Homeland Security officials, CIA and FBI officials are �working like crazy� to create a comprehensive database that could used by various federal and, in some cases, state agencies, officials said. Full Story
The Reluctant Terrorist?
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:51 by TRC-News
It was an odd moment in a kidnapping, as one of the captors felt a pang of discomfort. The American backpacker had climbed willingly into the conspirators' van, lured by the false promise of dinner with a local Delhi family. Now it was time to tell him he was a hostage. The crisis of conscience was short-lived, but it was significant enough for the kidnapper to recall later in a confession he penned in jail. "All of a sudden, I felt terribly embarrassed," he wrote. So embarrassed that, hoping to evade responsibility, he begged his co-conspirator in Hindi, "Kidnap me also." His cohort growled, "Don't kick up a fuss." And they carried out the crime. Full Story
Film plan for Twin Towers hero
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:50 by TRC-News
Hollywood couple Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are to make a film about the 11 September attacks in New York, focusing on the bravery of a British security officer. Robbins and Sarandon are to base their film on the bravery of Rick Rescorla, a Cornwall-born war hero, who died in the attacks saving thousands of people. Full Story
Bin Laden in hiding near US missile strike
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:48 by TRC-News
The CIA Hellfire missile attack in eastern Afghanistan that killed three men believed to be senior al Qaida leaders came as Afghan forces planned to raid a nearby village where Osama bin Laden was thought to be holed up, United Press International has learned. Controversy still surrounds the Feb. 3 missile attack, launched remotely by the CIA from an unmanned Predator aircraft. Locals have told journalists that the three men were residents collecting scrap metal. The U.S. military is investigating, but says it is "in a comfort zone" about the strike, and does not believe the men were innocent. Full Story
Jetliner Lust Attracts F-16s
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:47 by TRC-News
A randy, drug-fueled romp in a New York-bound jet's rest room sparked a midair terror scare that sent a pair of F-16 fighter jets scrambling, authorities revealed yesterday. But the red alert aboard American Airlines Flight 101 from London on Friday gave way to red faces when authorities discovered all the fuss was over two amorous British men. Full Story
Bush Adviser Warns Cyberterrorists
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:40 by TRC-News
The United States might retaliate militarily if foreign countries or terrorist groups abroad try to strike this country through the Internet, the White House technology adviser said Wednesday. "We reserve the right to respond in any way appropriate: through covert action, through military action, any one of the tools available to the president," Richard Clarke said at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on cyberterrorism. Full Story
US to deploy anti-terror forces for World Cup: report
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:39 by TRC-News
US aircraft carriers and spy planes will be deployed around the Korean peninsula during this year's World Cup finals and Asian Games, a South Korean report said. The deployment was requested by South Korea, and the United States agreed to position AWACS surveillance planes over the peninsula, the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper said Thursday. US military authorities said the deployment of additional equipment is "always possible" for key events in South Korea where some 37,000 American soldiers are stationed under a mutual defense pact. Full Story
Washington Plans Unprecedented Camera Network
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:38 by TRC-News
Washington police are building what will be the nation's biggest network of surveillance cameras to monitor shopping areas, streets, monuments and other public places in the U.S. capital, a move that worries civil liberties groups, The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday. The system would eventually include hundreds of cameras, linking existing devices in Metro mass transit stations, public schools and traffic intersections to new digital cameras mounted to watch over neighborhoods and shopping districts, the Journal said. Full Story
Al Qaeda's Asian 'quartermaster'
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:37 by TRC-News
His beard was more grunge goatee than a flowing symbol of religious devotion, and his portable CD player pumped out American pop music more frequently than Koranic lectures. Yet Fathur Roman al-Ghozi was the man Al Qaeda trusted to get things done in Southeast Asia, intelligence officials here say. Full Story
Two men arrested outside Pentagon
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Two men were in federal custody Wednesday after they were arrested this week in a tow truck carrying fake identification near the Pentagon, law enforcement officials said. Law enforcement officials said one of the men had previously been interviewed as part of the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks and claimed to have known one of the terrorists responsible for them. Full Story
FBI issues alert for teddy bears
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:23 by TRC-News
The FBI has asked police and the public to be on the lookout for red-and-white teddy bears, made for Valentine�s Day, that could be used to conceal a bomb. Full Story
Dead al-Qaida Suspect Related To Sept. 11 Hijacker
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:22 by TRC-News
suspected al-Qaida member who blew himself up after being cornered by security forces was related to one of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers, Yemeni security officials said Thursday. Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada, who died in the confrontation with police Wednesday, was a brother-in-law of Khalid Almihdar, the officials said on condition of anonymity. Full Story
Colombia Paramilitary Boss Predicts Bloodshed
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:21 by TRC-News
The reputed leader of a feared paramilitary army is forecasting an even bloodier chapter in Colombia's civil war, saying he plans to nearly double his forces in the next year. In a rare interview under the watch of armed guards, Salvatore Mancuso said the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, has already swelled to 14,000 combatants from just 850 a decade ago. "There are 6,000 men in training at this moment in our centers in all the country," Mancuso said in the exclusive interview with The Associated Press. "In April, another 6,000 will begin the training course." Full Story
American Taliban Fighter Pleads Not Guilty
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:20 by TRC-News
American John Walker Lindh, who fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a 10-count indictment that includes charges he conspired to kill Americans abroad. Full Story
Bush Keeps Iraq Options Open, but Secret
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:17 by TRC-News
President Bush, speaking as his administration considered ways to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, said on Wednesday he reserved all his options to act but he would not disclose them at this time. `I will reserve whatever options I have. I'll keep them close to my vest. Saddam Hussein needs to understand that I'm serious about defending our country,'' Bush said during a news conference with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. Full Story
U.S. to Open Philippine Front in Anti-Terror War
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:16 by TRC-News
The commander in chief of U.S. special forces met his troops in the southern Philippines Thursday, 72 hours before the United States opens a second front in its global war on terror. Full Story
Suspect Tells Court He Thinks Pearl Is Dead
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:16 by TRC-News
The chief suspect in the kidnapping of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl told an anti-terrorism court in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi Thursday he thought the U.S. reporter was dead. Full Story
Air cargo security another challenge for new federal agency
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 20:27 by TRC-News
As they scramble to meet a year-end deadline for thorough screening of all checked airline passenger baggage, federal officials are also trying to address a security concern that has received much less public attention: air cargo. Many passenger planes carry mail and freight packages in their bellies, and hundreds of other cargo-only planes zip through the skies every day. But pilots and aviation industry experts worry that cargo is not receiving as much scrutiny as luggage. Full Story
U.S. Borders Remain Vulnerable Despite New Measures, Ridge Says
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 20:25 by TRC-News
Five months after the attacks on New York and Washington, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said yesterday that U.S. borders remain disturbingly vulnerable to terrorists and complained that there is no "direct line of accountability" for agencies charged with protecting them. Ridge said the nation's borders with Canada and Mexico remain "pretty vulnerable" despite deployment of several hundred National Guard troops, a number of new policies designed to tighten border security and President Bush's proposal for record spending increases to beef up the forces guarding the borders. Full Story
National infrastructures key to military strategy, Defense official says
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 20:24 by TRC-News
The nation�s critical infrastructure is vital to carrying out the nation�s military strategy, a senior Defense Department official told technology vendors Tuesday. Just as the United States usually targets other nations� infrastructures when it is at war, so have potentially hostile nations planned to attack infrastructures in the United States, said Jeffrey Robert Gaynor, special assistant for homeland security in the Defense Department�s Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security and Information Operations. �No one attacks their opponent�s strengths,� he said at a breakfast meeting sponsored by FSI, a McLean, Va.-based IT market research and consulting firm. Full Story
Critical infrastructure office reaches out to states, localities
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 20:23 by TRC-News
The Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO) this week will begin a series of regional conferences with state and local officials and industry in an effort to find effective ways of protecting the nation's critical infrastructure, including computer systems. To launch in Texas, the four meetings will address the new threats of the 21st century, which is going to require "unparalleled cooperation" between government and industry, CIAO Deputy Director Nancy Wong told the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors on Friday. Full Story
U.S. Computer Systems Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 20:22 by TRC-News
Cyber terrorism goes beyond typical computer hacking or cracking, as some techies call the more malicious activities meant to do damage or carry out crime. In 1998, an unknown perpetrator broke into the computer systems of the U.S. Department of Defense. Iraq, which at the time was resisting U.S. weapons inspections, initially became suspect. One cyber trail led the FBI to the United Arab Emirates to no avail. Full Story
Protests Coincide With Congressional Testimony From Eco-Terror Group
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 8:05 by TRC-News
Investigating the threats of eco-terrorism against national forests, a congressional committee has subpoenaed a well-known spokesman for an underground environmental group that has taken credit for the destruction of $40 million in property damage in recent years. Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., chairman of the House Resources Committee's Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, said he was forced to subpoena Craig Rosebraugh, one of the few faces of the clandestine Earth Liberation Front, to answer questions about the group's attacks on unsuspecting communities. "We must strip away the Robin Hood mystique and perceived high ground that some have given these radicals," McInnis said in a statement announcing the hearing on eco-terrorism and lawlessness on the national forests. Full Story
In Iran, 'Death to America' Is Back
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 8:01 by TRC-News
The first home-made American flag put to the torch took awhile to light yesterday, as tens of thousands Iranians celebrated the 23rd anniversary of their Islamic revolution with renewed gusto. Finally, it burst into flame, spreading fire to a dozen more flags clustered nearby. Chanting "Death to America," the crowd parted like the Red Sea as the fireball spread above their heads, engulfing an effigy of President George W. Bush and an Uncle Sam. Full Story
Islamist hide-outs in Virginia
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 7:48 by TRC-News
A radical Muslim sect with ties to international terrorism is seeking to create a patchwork of "hide-outs" in rural southern Virginia for would-be terrorists and other extremists, according to law-enforcement authorities here. These sanctuaries, which are communes located throughout the sparsely populated, hilly countryside, have been established to follow the teachings of Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani. One encampment, in nearby Red House, has named its main thoroughfare "Sheik Gilani Road." Sheik Gilani is a Pakistani cleric who founded the tax-exempt Muslims of the Americas sect in 1980, which is linked to Jamaat al-Fuqra, a terrorist group with a stated commitment to bringing jihad, or holy war, against the United States. Full Story
Seeking funds without fetters
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 7:47 by TRC-News
Even as President Bush pledges $3.5 billion to cities and counties for homeland security, local officials are asking Congress for federal funds that do not carry too many restrictions on how that money can be used. Full Story
Heathrow raid raises security fear
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 7:45 by TRC-News
A multi-million-dollar robbery has raised questions about the effectiveness of efforts to strengthen security at Heathrow airport after September 11. Police and airport authorities were trying to find out on Monday how two robbers entered a secure cargo loading area near Terminal 4 the day before with security passes believed to be genuine. Full Story
Photos of Terrorism Warning Suspects
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 7:42 by TRC-News
Twelve of the associates of terrorist suspect Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, are seen in this combo of photos released by the FBI on Monday, Feb. 11, 2002. The FBI issued an extraordinary terrorist alert Monday night, asking law enforcement and the American public to be on the lookout for al-Rabeei, and several associates who might be plotting a terrorist attack as early as Tuesday, Feb. 12. See Photos
Terror Suspect Wins Bail in British Court
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 7:41 by TRC-News
An Algerian-born pilot suspected of training some of the pilots behind the Sept. 11 attacks was granted bail by a British court Tuesday in a major setback to U.S. efforts to round up the perpetrators. Lotfi Raissi was ordered by the high-security Belmarsh court in London to post $14,280 bail and live at a set address. He must also surrender his passport and cannot apply for any visas. Full Story
Pakistan Arrests Prime Suspect in Pearl Kidnap
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 7:39 by TRC-News
Pakistani police said they had arrested their prime suspect in the case of kidnapped U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, in the eastern city of Lahore Tuesday. Full Story
Hill Panel To Probe Terrorism Response
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 23:31 by TRC-News
The Senate and House intelligence committees plan an unprecedented joint investigation into the U.S. intelligence community's response to terrorism over the past 16 years, including the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although joint select committees have headed major congressional inquiries before -- including the 1945 investigation into the Pearl Harbor attack -- this is the first time House and Senate intelligence panels led by members of different political parties have combined for an investigation. Full Story
U.S. gathers DNA from attack site
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 21:44 by TRC-News
U.S. military investigators have gathered DNA from body parts at the site of a U.S. attack to help determine exactly who died when a CIA drone aircraft fired Hellfire missiles in southeastern Afghanistan last week. Some Afghans say innocent people were killed in the strike. Full Story
FBI terror alert warns of new plot
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 21:41 by TRC-News
The FBI issued its most specific terrorist alert yet on Monday, asking law enforcement and the American public to be on the lookout for a Yemeni man and several associates, who might be plotting a terrorist attack on U.S. interests as soon as Tuesday. A senior law enforcement official tells NBC News that the new FBI alert �has nothing to do with the [Winter Olympic] Games at all.� Full Story
Three Countries Targeted in Attack Plan
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 21:40 by TRC-News
Three terrorist hit squads - codenamed Jibril, the Arabic transliteration of Gabriel the archangel - agreed on simultaneous attacks in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. This is what they planned, as detailed in a 15-page document entitled Jihad Operation in Asia. Full Story
Grenade Explosion Injures 12 in Aceh Amid US Envoy Visit
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 21:39 by TRC-News
A grenade blast in the capital of Indonesia's restive Aceh province injured 12 people on Monday just a few hours before U.S. ambassador Ralph Boyce arrived for a two-day visit here. Suspected Free Aceh Movement (GAM) members threw the grenade at a crowd of people between a BNI bank building and a market in Banda Aceh around 8:30 a.m., an official said. Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Agus Dwiyanto said the grenade missed a police patrol car and landed instead near the crowd in the market. Full Story
ELN Blamed for Bomb That Destroyed Arauca Shopping Center
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 21:38 by TRC-News
The blast Sunday that leveled a large shopping center in the northeastern Colombian city of Arauca was a terrorist act committed by National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas, officials said.
A bomb containing 30 kilos (66 pounds) of explosives left in front of a branch of Banco Ganadero caused extensive damage in a four-block radius, but no injuries were reported, Arauca Mayor Jorge Cede?o said. Full Story
Telecom Infrastructure an Open Book
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 21:35 by TRC-News
Large telecommunications firms and local communications companies publish a vast amount of sensitive information on their Web sites about critical nationwide networks. A recent Computerworld survey of eight national and local telecommunications service providers uncovered enough information to produce a relatively accurate blueprint of the major network backbones serving businesses across the U.S. In addition to network maps, the survey found detailed information on the locations of current and planned Internet data centers, router locations, major nodes of metropolitan-area networks. Virtual tours of data centers, maps depicting East Coast termination points of all long-haul undersea communications cables and street-level maps of fiber-optic networks are also available. Full Story
Energy, Nuclear Infrastructure Exposed
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 21:34 by TRC-News
Detailed information about the nation's nuclear power plants and other energy infrastructures is readily available on the Internet. An examination of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Web sites revealed maps that provide the approximate locations of all nuclear waste storage facilities, nuclear reactors and surplus plutonium storage sites in the country. Full Story
Web sites seen as terrorist aids
Posted Monday, February 11, 2002 - 21:31 by TRC-News
A major financial institution this week will receive a report outlining the extent to which its Web site exposes it to potential attacks by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization and other terrorists. The audit, produced by security consulting firm Stroz Associates LLC, is one of the first of its kind in the private sector. It marks a growing trend by companies in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to assess whether content on their Web sites increases their risk of being targeted by terrorist organizations. Full Story
Bioterror expert criticizes CDC, NIH for poor communication
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 19:49 by TRC-News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health must drastically revamp the way they do business if they are to best utilize the record amounts of funds being poured into their bioterrorism programs, one of the nation�s leading bioterrorism scholars said Wednesday. Both the CDC and the NIH need to dramatically improve their communications with outside doctors and scientists--and key government officials--to best protect the United States from any biological attacks, Tara O�Toole, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, told Global Security Newswire. Full Story
Investigators draw clues from kidnappers' e-mails
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 19:49 by TRC-News
While the e-mail messages sent by kidnappers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl offer investigators many clues about their origins, tracking down their senders is far from simple. Full Story
Cybersecurity a Top Priority
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 19:48 by TRC-News
The unusual announcements from three of the technology industry's most powerful men came just weeks apart. Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates declared that making his company's software less vulnerable to security breaches would take precedence over adding new features. Oracle Corp.'s Larry Ellison pledged to make his company's database programs "unbreakable." Cisco Systems Inc.'s John Chambers told clients at a private conference that he no longer regarded security enhancements on equipment that directs traffic across the Internet as extras but as necessities. Full Story
GAO Finds Security Risks At Treasury
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 19:03 by TRC-News
Key financial systems run by the Treasury Department's Financial Management Service are vulnerable to security breaches. The service is at significant risk of fraud, unauthorized disclosure and modification of sensitive data and applications, misuse or damage to computer resources, and disruption of critical operations, according to a report made public Monday. The new vulnerabilities have been discovered since the General Accounting Office's 1999 security audit of the Financial Management Service. The most recent audit also found that the service had "corrected or mitigated" only 35 of the 61 computer-control weaknesses found in 1999. Full Story
Bush Plans Early Warning System for Terror
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 19:02 by TRC-News
President Bush said today that he envisioned a broad emergency alert system to warn the country of biological attacks, calling for an updating of the cold war's Distant Early Warning system for an age of terrorism. Full Story
Revisiting Homeland Security
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 19:01 by TRC-News
In naming Tom Ridge to head the newly created Office of Homeland Security last fall, President Bush essentially asked the nation to make a leap of faith that the former Pennsylvania governor could bring order to the multitude of federal, state and local agencies that play a role in protecting the home front from attack. Four months and a rash of anthrax attacks later, that remains the case. As far as we can tell, Mr. Ridge has done a vigorous and commendable job of trying to redirect and coordinate the work of these organizations and has just proposed a hefty but reasonable increase in spending by many of them. But Mr. Ridge's job description is so amorphous and his powers so opaque that even Congress is having trouble determining how much he has accomplished. Full Story
Ridge Facing Major Doubts on His Ability
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:59 by TRC-News
Four months into his tenure as director of homeland security, Tom Ridge is facing significant doubts about his authority and ability to do his job. The law enforcement agencies he is supposed to coordinate remain fiercely protective of their own power and independence. Mr. Ridge does not have direct authority over any of the agencies, even as spending for domestic security surges. And while officials from several of the agencies said they appreciate Mr. Ridge, respect him and get along with him well, some came close to being dismissive of his office's effectiveness and influence over their operations.
Full Story
Transportation Security Administration faces strict deadlines
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:57 by TRC-News
The newly created Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is scurrying to meet strict deadlines mandated by an aviation and transportation security law enacted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. John Magaw, the head of TSA, told the House Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday that requirements already met by the Transportation Department include the federalization of baggage screeners and the mandate that air carriers begin to electronically transmit passenger lists from foreign airlines. Full Story
Where antiterror doctrine leads
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:55 by TRC-News
One bright afternoon in June 1981, Israeli F-16 jets streaked low across the Iraqi desert. Spotting the gleaming domes of the unfinished Osiraq nuclear reactor, the pilots decimated it with bombs - a bold preemptive strike in the name of self-preservation.
The world reaction to the strike was swift and critical, with the United States and the rest of the UN Security Council unanimously condemning it. But now, two decades later, the Bush administration - warning of time-bomb terrorists and the spread of deadly mass weapons - proposes a far more open-ended, sweeping use of preemptive force than Israel's. Full Story
Tigers Willing to Drop Demands for Homeland
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:53 by TRC-News
Tamil Tiger rebels "appeared to be willing" to give up their long-standing demand for a separate homeland following approaches from peace-broker Norway, the Norwegian Prime Minister said in an interview broadcast yesterday. Full Story
Manila Police Seize 104 Passports
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:52 by TRC-News
Philippine police have arrested a Malaysian man at Manila international airport who was carrying 104 passports and $50,000 in cash. The man arrested, Azmi Bin Salleh, said he was a travel agent based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Full Story
Emboldened By US Jibes, Hizbullah Prepares For War
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:50 by TRC-News
A heated diplomatic campaign waged by the United States and Israel against Iran and its Lebanese protege, Hizbullah, could have an unintended and potentially destabilizing backlash. Instead of cowing Tehran and its Islamist allies, the verbal salvoes and Israel's hardline policies against the Palestinians are providing encouragement and inspiration to Hizbullah and radical Palestinian groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The result could be a new explosion of violence in the Middle East. "Hizbullah and Iran feel comfortable that the drums of war are beating so loudly," says Professor Nizar Hamzeh, head of the political science department of the American University of Beirut. Full Story
Arab Gunmen Open Fire in South Jerusalem - Police
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:45 by TRC-News
At least two masked Arab gunmen opened fire on people strolling on a popular hilltop promenade in south Jerusalem on Friday, police sources said. Police chased the attackers and shot at them in the Forest of Peace downhill from the promenade, wounding one lightly, officials said. Full Story
Military to Get New Mandate to Crush GAM
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:44 by TRC-News
The government, which has come under strong criticism from human rights activists for reviving the Aceh military command just this week, is now set to give a new mandate to the military to crush the separatist movement in Aceh. Full Story
Mosque Under Seige: One Militant Killed, Two Villagers Taken Hostage
Posted Friday, February 8, 2002 - 18:43 by TRC-News
One of the three Hizbul Mujahideen militants holed up inside a mosque in Totigund village in Kupwara has been killed in a fierce encounter with 21 and 24 Rashtriya Rifles toops. However, two villagers, who were trying to persuade the militants to surrender, have been taken hostages. Full Story
Fresh U.S. Air Strikes Stoke Bin Laden Speculation
Posted Thursday, February 7, 2002 - 11:45 by TRC-News
U.S. planes bombed suspected Taliban and al Qaeda positions in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday as a missile attack by a pilotless CIA drone triggered speculation that Osama bin Laden himself had been killed. < a href=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020207/ts_nm/attack_afghan_dc_7&cid=578>Full Story
Man Tries to Enter Cockpit on Flight to Argentina
Posted Thursday, February 7, 2002 - 11:43 by TRC-News
A passenger tried to force his way into the locked cockpit of a United Airlines flight halfway from Miami to Argentina on Thursday, but pilots hit him with an ax and subdued him, the airline said. The man was arrested when the Boeing 777 landed safely in Buenos Aires. United Airlines spokesman Joe Hopkins confirmed in Chicago that the man was a Uruguayan but did not have details on his name or age. Full Story
Israel launches airstrike after attack
Posted Thursday, February 7, 2002 - 11:42 by TRC-News
Israeli jets launched a late night retaliatory strike after a Palestinian dressed in an Israeli army uniform entered the Jewish settlement of Hamra on Wednesday and killed three Israelis before being killed himself. "Due to the horrible terrorist attack that took place tonight at Hamra, the Israeli air force bombed a terrorist target in Nablus," an Israeli army statement said. Full Story
CIA's Tenet Defends Agency, Warns of Fresh Plots
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 16:53 by TRC-News
CIA Director George Tenet on Wednesday defended the intelligence agency against congressional criticism that it failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks and said further plots were being hatched by al Qaeda. Intelligence will never give you 100 percent predictive capability on terrorist events," Tenet said in his first public testimony to Congress since the attacks. Sen. Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of Tenet's harshest critics, said Americans deserved an explanation about why the intelligence agencies failed to provide adequate warning. Full Story
Interior Dept: No End in Sight for Web Site Woes
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 16:50 by TRC-News
Government officials said Wednesday they did not know when computer systems that provide everything from oil and gas royalty payments to information on wildlife management programs would be up and running again. Interior Department officials said at a congressional hearing that they were working long hours to bring their computers back online, but had no idea when a court-appointed investigator would give them the green light. Full Story
Russian hacker arrested in bank extortion case
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 16:42 by TRC-News
Russian law enforcement, with help from the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrested a computer hacker who had attempted to extort $10,000 from a U.S. bank, according to a Secret Service agent. The hacker, whose name was not revealed, was arrested after breaking into a server owned by financial ASP (application service provider) Online Resources (ORCC) and attempting to extort money from one of ORCC's client banks, said Ray Crosier, the company's president and chief operating officer. Full Story
Bush Plans Early Warning System for Terror
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 16:40 by TRC-News
President Bush said today that he envisioned a broad emergency alert system to warn the country of biological attacks, calling for an updating of the cold war's Distant Early Warning system for an age of terrorism. Mr. Bush, pushing his budget requests for sharply increased spending for domestic defense, came here to draw attention to a system developed by the University of Pittsburgh to track, in real time, unusual increases in illnesses, flulike symptoms and other outbreaks of disease at emergency rooms around western Pennsylvania. A version of the system will be used starting later this week in Utah hospitals near the sites of the Winter Olympics, part of the precautions against a terrorist attack at the Games. Full Story
A Security Net of Sawhorses and Soldiers
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 15:17 by TRC-News
On the floor of Montana's Bitterroot Valley, so far, far away from lower Manhattan, Jane Ellis finds herself on the front lines of a war she never contemplated, trying to prepare for attacks she can barely imagine. Ellis directs the county Office of Emergency Management in Missoula. On a fine, crisp day, she showed a visitor around her piece of the American homeland, pointing out possible terrorist targets: the shopping mall and public waterworks, government buildings and chemical storehouses. While not wanting to seem a "Chicken Little," Ellis said it only made sense to revisit old assumptions, to look at familiar landmarks with new eyes and to "do some brainstorming: What if?" "The realm of possibilities," Ellis said, "has increased infinitely since Sept. 11." Full Story
Lindh returns to court on bail request
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 9:26 by TRC-News
Surrounded by armed federal marshals, John Walker Lindh was taken back to a courthouse Wednesday, where a U.S. magistrate will decide whether the so-called American Taliban should remain in custody or be released pending trial. On Tuesday, a federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment charging Lindh with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad. Full Story
Exclusive interview with Arafat
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 9:25 by TRC-News
In an exclusive interview with MSNBC�s Ashleigh Banfield, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said he remains committed to the peace process, though it is difficult for him to take action against militants while the Palestinians are under seige. Since mid-December, Israel has surrounded Arafat�s West Bank headquarters with tanks, keeping him a virtual prisoner and demanding he arrest militants behind the assassination in October of an Israeli cabinet minister. Arafat told Banfield he�s done the best he can. �No one can get 100 percent results,� he said. �Even the American administration cannot get 100 percent results.� Full Story
Saudi Arabia Says 15 of Sept. 11 Hijackers Were Its Citizens
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Saudi Arabia said for the first time 15 of the 19 hijackers behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. were Saudi citizens, the Associated Press cited Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz as saying.
``The names that we got confirmed that,'' Nayef said in an interview with AP. ``Their families have been notified.'' Full Story
Philippine Gunmen Seize Korean, Businessman
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Gunmen abducted a South Korean national and a Filipino businessman Wednesday on the politically volatile southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Police said between eight to 10 gunmen blocked a vehicle carrying the pair on the border between Sarangani and Sultan Kudarat provinces and took them away as well as their driver. A police source said the gunmen later freed the driver, who called the family of the Filipino hotel owner to report the abduction. Full Story
16 Policemen, Seven Maoists Killed in Nepal Clash
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 8:51 by TRC-News
At least 16 policemen have been killed in the bloodiest attack by Maoist rebels since Nepal's government declared a state of emergency late last year, the home ministry revealed. Seven guerrillas also died in the three-hour battle after the Maoists attacked a police post at Bhakundabesi in Kabhre district, 120 kilometres (75 miles) east of Kathmandu, on Monday night. Full Story
'No Question' al-Qaeda Are in Iran: Rumsfeld
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 8:51 by TRC-News
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that there was no question that al-Qaeda terrorists have taken refuge in Iran and that the Iranian government has failed to cooperate with the United States. "There's no question but that there's al-Qaeda and folks that are in there," Rumsfeld told reporters when asked whether Iran was harboring terrorists. Full Story
Bomb Explodes in School
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 8:42 by TRC-News
A powerful bomb made up of wrapped fireworks exploded at the Engjaskoli school in Grafarvogur, a suburb of Reykjavik, yesterday morning. According to local police it seems that the bomb was placed in a drawer in a teacher?s desk. The desk blew up when the bomb exploded and the nearby bookshelves caught fire. Classes were cancelled yesterday due to the incident, which created a lot of smoke in the building. Full Story
French Activist Gets Jail for McDonald's Attack
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 8:38 by TRC-News
France's highest court upheld on Wednesday a three-month jail sentence for anti-globalization activist Jose Bove over his ransacking of a McDonald's restaurant to protest U.S. trade barriers. The ruling announced by the court means the sheep farmer and left-wing campaigner has exhausted all means of appeal against his conviction for the 1999 assault on the site of a planned new fast-food outlet in the southern French town of Millau.
Full Story
Pakistan Links Militants to Reporter's Kidnap
Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2002 - 8:37 by TRC-News
Pakistani investigators on Wednesday said they had narrowed the search for kidnapped U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl to a banned Islamic militant group suspected of having ties to Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Key Government Computers Remain Vulnerable - Report
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 21:11 by TRC-News
Government computers that handle trillions of dollars in tax refunds and Social Security benefits remain vulnerable to cyber attacks despite previous warnings, a government report released on Monday said. The report by the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, found that computer-security controls at the Treasury Department's Financial Management Service remain lax, despite warnings dating back to 1997. Full Story
Airline Web sites seen as riddled with security holes
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 21:09 by TRC-News
Increasing concerns about the potential for hackers to manipulate critical back-end administrative systems through security holes commonly found in corporate Web sites have prompted at least one major airline to take preventive measures. "We are trying to defend our Web sites," said David Yaacobi, information systems security manager at El Al Israel Airlines at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel. "Hackers could go inside your Web sites and inject wrong or malicious code." Full Story
Agencies urged to report cyberattacks
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 21:09 by TRC-News
As federal agencies work to improve their information security programs, the central organization for incident warnings and analyses recently announced a series of tools that will be available this year to help them do so. The Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC) is enhancing its resources to decrease the government's vulnerability to cyberattacks, said Sallie McDonald, assistant commissioner for information assurance and critical infrastructure protection at the General Services Administration. FedCIRC is now in its second year of appropriated funding through GSA. Full Story
The encrypted jihad
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 10:18 by TRC-News
Here's a tip for Treasury Department agents tracking al-Qaida's finances: You might want to pay a visit to the volume discount department at Dell Computer. Al-Qaida, it seems, has been an avid consumer of computers over the last several years, and is especially fond of laptops. It isn't hard to understand why. With his hectic, on-the-go lifestyle, no self-respecting terrorist can function without a computer that fits comfortably on an airplane tray table. Alleged "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui, for instance, used his to research crop dusters, quite possibly in preparation for a biological attack on a densely populated American city. Ramsi Yousef used a laptop he accidentally left in a Manila apartment to plan his extensive itinerary, which included assassinating the pope in the Philippines, attacking an Israeli Embassy in Thailand, and bombing the World Trade Center in 1993. Full Story
Iran "Supplied Hezbollah with Missiles"
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 8:09 by TRC-News
Iran has supplied Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon with 8,000 missiles capable of striking Israeli cities, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday. Mr Peres, in New York for the World Economic Forum, told the International Herald Tribune that Israel would not tolerate any missile attack from Lebanese territory. Full Story
Israel, Iran exchange harsh rhetoric
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 8:07 by TRC-News
A day after Tehran warned of an �unimaginable� response if Israel attacked an Iranian nuclear power plant, Israel on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that it was planning such a strike. The latest exchange deepened a war of words between the two after Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Iran was turning Lebanon into a �ball of explosives� and ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Washington. Full Story
Portland Spokesman Returns to ELF
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 8:01 by TRC-News
After five months without an official spokesman, the Earth Liberation Front again has a public face. Portland student Leslie James Pickering, 23, says he will answer questions about the ELF and explain the militant environmental group to the public. In a statement issued Saturday, Pickering said the ELF would "not be intimidated" by the war on terrorism and increased law enforcement powers after Sept. 11, and would continue its fight for the environment. Full Story
Flight on Maui canceled after white powder found
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 8:00 by TRC-News
American Airlines grounded a 757 jet plane on Maui late Saturday, after a flight attendant discovered a white powdery substance aboard when it arrived from San Jose. Full Story
Pakistani Police Name 3 in Hunt for U.S. Reporter
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 7:57 by TRC-News
Pakistani police said Tuesday they were hunting for three men involved in arranging meetings for U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in the southern city of Karachi almost two weeks ago. Full Story
Rumsfeld: Raid May Have Killed 'Friendly' Afghans
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - 7:56 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded on Monday that U.S. troops may have killed "friendly" Afghan forces in a raid north of Kandahar last month but declined to comment on reports that U.S. troops had already apologized and paid compensation. Full Story
9/11 workers on right wavelength
Posted Monday, February 4, 2002 - 19:29 by TRC-News
A new report reveals that most local public safety agencies initially responding to the attack on the Pentagon Sept. 11 had little difficulty communicating with one another. Full Story
States get infusion of bioterror funds
Posted Monday, February 4, 2002 - 19:27 by TRC-News
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced Jan. 31 that $1.1 billion in federal funds had been earmarked for states to strengthen their bioterrorism preparedness, with $200 million being released immediately so state officials can start planning. Full Story
Bush keeps photo hit-list of enemies
Posted Monday, February 4, 2002 - 9:36 by TRC-News
President Bush has been keeping a "war on terrorism scorecard" in his desk drawer and using it to cross off photographs of al-Qa'eda and Taliban leaders as they have been killed or captured. "Early on, I said, 'I'm a baseball fan. I want a scorecard'," Mr Bush explained in an interview with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. Full Story
New anti-drug pitch: Fight terrorism
Posted Monday, February 4, 2002 - 9:22 by TRC-News
The ads by the President�s Office of National Drug Control Policy aired during last night�s Super Bowl marked an escalation in the selling of the administration�s war on drugs � for the first time, the illegal narcotics trade is linked to terrorism. Full Story
Reporter search shifts to underworld
Posted Monday, February 4, 2002 - 9:21 by TRC-News
Police in Pakistan expanded their search for kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl into Karachi�s murky criminal underworld and to other regions of the country on Monday, after leads into Islamic extremist groups looked to go nowhere. After a spate of hoaxes and an erroneous report that the journalist�s body had been found in Karachi, Pearl�s fate remained unclear 12 days after his abduction. Full Story
Piracy Terror Attack Warning
Posted Monday, February 4, 2002 - 9:19 by TRC-News
Freighters carrying payloads of fuel could be hijacked and used in terror operations similar to the 11 September attacks on America, according to a new report. The study, by a global piracy watchdog, says ships transporting liquified natural gas could be used by terrorists "to undergo suicide missions for their cause". Full Story
Iran Warns US Against Attack
Posted Monday, February 4, 2002 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Protests against US condemnation of Iran are growing. Iran on Monday warned the US to stop accusing it of supporting terrorism after American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claimed it was harbouring al-Qaeda members. Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi dismissed Mr Rumsfeld's charges and those of President George W Bush, who last week said Iran was developing weapons of mass destruction as part of an "axis of evil" with Iraq and North Korea. Full Story
Palestinians Blame Israel for Four Deaths in Gaza
Posted Monday, February 4, 2002 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Four Palestinian militants were killed when their car was blown apart in the Gaza Strip on Monday in an explosion which Palestinian officials said was caused by an Israeli missile attack. Full Story
Second Car Bomb In A Week
Posted Sunday, February 3, 2002 - 15:36 by TRC-News
A car bomb rocked the eastern city of Cucuta on Friday, just hours after Colombia's government pledged a concerted effort against a wave of terrorist violence. No one was injured. A stolen taxi loaded with explosives was detonated in front of a warehouse at 1:30 a.m. (0730 GMT), wrecking it and several buildings nearby, police said. Full Story
Suicide Bomber Kills Xinjiang Police Officer
Posted Sunday, February 3, 2002 - 15:35 by TRC-News
A suicide bomber killed a senior policeman and injured two other officers yesterday in the capital of the tense Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, local officials said. The explosion happened outside a department store in Urumqi, the biggest city in the far western region, an Urumqi police spokeswoman said. Full Story
Al-Qaida studied U.S. security brief
Posted Sunday, February 3, 2002 - 15:33 by TRC-News
Among the documents found on an al-Qaida computer in Afghanistan was a U.S. Government Accounting Office report on shortcomings in security in and around Washington, D.C., U.S. officials told NBC News. The report detailed how undercover agents easily penetrated two airports and 19 federal buildings, including CIA headquarters, the Pentagon and Ronald Reagan National Airport. Full Story
Powerful Gun Found Stashed In Vicinity of Olympic Venue
Posted Sunday, February 3, 2002 - 15:25 by TRC-News
Utah law enforcement and Olympic security officials on Saturday confirmed the discovery of a .50-caliber rifle stashed in a box in the woods of Wasatch County, reportedly in the mountains surrounding the Soldier Hollow cross country skiing venue. The rifle, a high-powered weapon that can be used on targets, including vehicles, from more than a mile away, is being analyzed at the state Crime Lab. "They are checking for fingerprints and the operational ability of the weapon," said Sgt. Doug McCleve of the Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS). Full Story
Terrorist Cells All Over
Posted Sunday, February 3, 2002 - 15:21 by TRC-News
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines caused a stir last month by inviting American Special Forces to her country to fight the Muslim terrorist group known as Abu Sayyaf (“Bearer of the Sword”). Left-wing Filipinos warned of a new Vietnam, and at least one senator accused Arroyo of treason. But Arroyo has withstood the criticism well—in part because she has vowed that the Americans will stay no longer than six months. Full Story
Far below ground zero, 'Dirt Team' sifts through debris -- and their emotions
Posted Sunday, February 3, 2002 - 13:34 by TRC-News
The excavation of endless geological grief called the World Trade Center dig has now lasted nearly five months. Digging is the kind of job you hope never to do in the first place. This isn't digging ditches, or digging for pipe, or digging to plant bulbs that will bloom in the spring. The diggers lift some dirt, and put it over there, and go through it with their gloved hands, looking for human remains. They move it a shovelful at a time, until they are spent, or until they come across the dread prize. Full Story
Cyber Assault Hits Global Leaders' Summit
Posted Sunday, February 3, 2002 - 13:15 by TRC-News
An invisible cyber assault has cut off access for the second day running to the Web site of the World Economic Forum, organizers of the gathering of the world's political and business elite confirmed on Friday. Full Story
Worldwide Caution
Posted Saturday, February 2, 2002 - 13:03 by TRC-News
The U.S. Government remains deeply concerned about the security of Americans overseas. As a result of U.S. military actions in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, there is a potential for retaliatory actions to be taken against U.S. citizens and interests throughout the world by terrorists and those who harbor grievances against the United States. The Department urges Americans to review their circumstances carefully and to take all appropriate measures to ensure their personal safety. Americans are urged to monitor the local news and maintain contact with the nearest American Embassy or Consulate. The Department will continue to develop information about potential threats to Americans overseas and to share with them credible threat information through its Consular Information Program documents. These documents are available on the Internet at http://travel.state.gov. Full Story
Rumsfeld: Cyberwar among possible threats faced by U.S.
Posted Friday, February 1, 2002 - 16:29 by TRC-News
The vulnerability of U.S. information networks and a belief that a future attack against the U.S. may be launched in cyberspace is high in the mind of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as he plots to change the U.S. armed forces so they can better defend against unconventional threats. "Our challenge in this new century is a different one," Rumsfeld told an audience at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, according to a transcript. "It's really to defend our nation against the unknown, the uncertain and, what we have to understand, will be the unexpected. That may seem on the face of it an impossible task but it is not." Full Story
Terror data repeatedly mentions Seattle
Posted Friday, February 1, 2002 - 10:00 by TRC-News
Seattle is repeatedly mentioned in information gathered by U.S. intelligence sources monitoring suspected al-Qaida terrorists and their sympathizers, and the Department of Justice has ordered an investigation to find out why. The references to Seattle and the recent discovery of photographs of the city on a computer hard drive recovered from Osama bin Laden's fractured stronghold near Tora Bora, Afghanistan, led to a decision by Justice officials to determine whether the city or any of its landmarks, such as the Space Needle, may be a target, a source said yesterday. Full Story
Government to Spend $22 Billion on Homeland Security
Posted Friday, February 1, 2002 - 8:28 by TRC-News
The federal government will spend $22.2 billion this year for domestic security, 29 percent more than last year, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday in a first stab at defining what defending the homeland involves. Domestic security is a growing, mostly undefined program. Members of both parties realize that whoever defines this area of spending can use the designation to protect favored programs or expose others to cuts, or create the impression that the government is spending a lot -- or a little -- to combat terrorism. Full Story
Report: al-Qaida headed to Lebanon
Posted Friday, February 1, 2002 - 8:27 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden�s al-Qaida terrorist network is trying to shift its base of operations to Lebanon following the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, a British newspaper reported Friday. The report comes amid the airing of an interview in which the Saudi dissident describes himself and his followers as �terrorists� and says the United States is headed toward �unbearable hell.� Full Story
N.Y. unveils counterterror net
Posted Friday, February 1, 2002 - 8:23 by TRC-News
New York state officials unveiled an intelligence network Jan. 29 that eventually will enable local law enforcement agencies statewide to share information electronically in the fight against terrorism. Officials said it is the first of its kind in the nation. The Counter-Terrorism Network (CTN) will be deployed in the state's 16 law enforcement zones in a pilot program. Initially, the system will send out electronic alerts to recipients who will be provided with a stand-alone, flat-screen computer system. Full Story
Security Agencies Challenged By Series of High-Profile Events
Posted Friday, February 1, 2002 - 8:22 by TRC-News
Amid President Bush's warning that tens of thousands of terrorists remain at large worldwide, the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies today begin a nine-day stretch of security challenges that will tax them as never before. More than 17,000 federal, state and local government personnel -- including SWAT teams, sniper details, explosives specialists, air patrols and National Guard units -- will provide security at the World Economic Forum that begins today in New York, Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans Sunday and the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which open Feb. 8 and continue through Feb. 24. Full Story
Grants to help city prepare for terrorism
Posted Friday, February 1, 2002 - 8:21 by TRC-News
Garland is a leader in preparing a defense against weapons of mass destruction, according to Darrell Toups, the city's emergency management coordinator. The city was one of 120 nationwide � and five in the Dallas-Fort Worth area � chosen for a preparedness program long before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Now, the city is finalizing three grants designed to improve its ability to respond to conventional, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Full Story
Anthrax: The Hunt Narrows
Posted Friday, February 1, 2002 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Nobody just waltzes into the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. The lab, better known as USAMRIID, sits on the grounds of Fort Detrick, in rural Maryland, about an hour north of Washington, and before you can even get close to the mostly windowless concrete building, you have to get on the base itself. Employees must flash their badges, and visitors must show two forms of photo ID--and open their trunks and glove compartments--before guards will let them pass. To enter the lab itself, armed security guards, present around the clock, must wave you through. Full Story
FBI director says threat far from over
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 23:46 by TRC-News
FBI Director Robert Mueller arguably had the shortest honeymoon of any FBI director in the bureau�s history. He was on the job for just a week when terrorists turned four commercial airplanes into weapons of mass destruction. Full Story
Bush Issues New Warning to Suspect Nations
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 22:42 by TRC-News
President Bush stepped up his rhetoric against Iraq, Iran and North Korea on Thursday and told them to ''get their house in order'' or face the consequences. Full Story
Rumsfeld warns of threats far deadlier than Sept. 11 attacks
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 21:52 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday the United States must prepare now for potential surprise attacks "vastly more deadly" than the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings. In a speech laying out the Bush administration's justification for proposing a $48 billion increase in the 2003 defense budget, Rumsfeld said the nation is vulnerable to new forms of terrorism ranging from cyberattacks to attacks on U.S. military bases abroad to ballistic missile attacks on American cities. Full Story
Pakistani Group Extends Deadline for Reporter
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 21:49 by TRC-News
A group claiming to hold a kidnapped U.S. reporter said on Thursday it was extending by one day a deadline for the United States to release Pakistani prisoners from the Afghan war, or they would kill their captive. Full Story
Bin Laden Defiant in October Interview Aired by CNN
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 21:48 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden, accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, said two weeks after the United States started hunting for him in Afghanistan that ``the battle has moved inside America,'' in an interview shown by CNN Thursday. Full Story
Nuclear plant target of attack, document warned
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 21:03 by TRC-News
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a warning that terrorists were plotting to crash a commercial U.S. jetliner into a nuclear power plant somewhere in the United States, according to a document obtained by CNN. Full Story
Terrorists plotted more U.S. attacks
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 14:49 by TRC-News
U.S. officials have uncovered documents in Afghanistan indicating that al-Qaida planned terrorist attacks on Seattle�s landmark Space Needle, the Los Angeles International Airport, the Grand Coulee Dam and the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, NBC News� Jim Miklaszewski has learned. Other reports indicated that the terror network also is or was planning attacks on nuclear power plants and public water supplies. Full Story
Rumsfeld seeks big rise in budget for Pentagon
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 14:47 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called Thursday for tens of billions of dollars in new spending on high-tech weapons to defend the United States against �the unknown, the uncertain, the unseen and the unexpected,� warning that the nation�s military must now prepare for potential surprise attacks �vastly more deadly� than those of Sept. 11. Full Story
US Tourist Killed; German Rescued from NPA: Military
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 14:46 by TRC-News
Philippine troops on Thursday rescued a German seriously wounded in a suspected communist insurgent ambush but the body of his foreign companion has not been recovered, military officials said. Siegfried Whitman, 78, was picked up by an air force helicopter a day after he and his friend, Bryan Smith, were ambushed while trekking towards Pinatubo volcano in the northern Philippines, military officials said. Full Story
Plan to Kidnap Indian Cricket Stars
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 14:44 by TRC-News
The man who has claimed responsibility for last week's attack on the American Center in Kolkata also planned to murder a high-profile Indian nuclear scientist and kidnap two Indian cricket stars, a report says. The report, published in the Hindustan Times on Wednesday, said that a former scientific adviser to the prime minister, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, current Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and batting legend Sachin Tendulkar were on the hit-list. Full Story
Israeli PM Regrets Arafat Not 'Eliminated' in 1982
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 14:42 by TRC-News
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview on Thursday Israel should have killed Yasser Arafat in 1982 when it had the Palestinian leader under siege in Beirut. Sharon's comments underlined the depth of animosity between himself and Arafat after 16 months of violence and pushed the prospects of them holding peace talks even further back. Full Story
Powell: U.S. Trying to Rescue Kidnapped Reporter
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 14:41 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday the United States was doing ``everything we can'' to rescue an American reporter kidnapped in Pakistan but there would be no negotiations over his captors' demands. A group claiming to hold Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, 38, said on Thursday it was extending by one day a deadline for the United States to release Pakistani prisoners from the Afghan war, or they would kill their captive. Full Story
Bush Warns Suspect Nations to Get 'House in Order'
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 14:40 by TRC-News
President Bush warned nations that might seek to terrorize the United States they had ``better get their house in order'' or face the consequences as he stepped up harsh rhetoric on Thursday against Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Full Story
FBI: Terrorists Use Internet
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 14:39 by TRC-News
The FBI said al-Qaida terrorists may have been studying American dams and water-supply systems in preparation for new attacks and sought information on the Internet about insecticides and pest-control products. The bureau's National Infrastructure Protection Center said Wednesday that a computer belonging to a person with "indirect ties" to Osama bin Laden contained architectural and engineering software as it related to dams and other water-retaining structures. Full Story
Suspected shoe-bomber 'did not act alone'
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 14:54 by TRC-News
US detectives have found evidence that alleged shoe-bomber Richard Reid did not act alone. The FBI has discovered someone else's hair and palm prints in the explosive-filled shoes, with which Reid allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight. The shoes have undergone a battery of forensic tests in a bid to find the source of the explosives. Full Story
Australia PM says countryman Hicks is part of Taliban
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 14:21 by TRC-News
Prime Minister John Howard says there is little doubt that Australian soldier David Hicks joined the Taliban. Hicks is being held with captured Taliban and al-Qaida fighters at the US's Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is expected to face intense interrogation, especially concerning the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. Full Story
'Knife-wielding' Arab man 'tries to storm cockpit' in mid-air
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 14:18 by TRC-News
An Arab man apparently brandishing a knife tried to force his way into the cockpit of a flight from Dubai to Prague. Passengers and cabin crew fought for nearly a minute to restrain him. A witness says he tried to force the cockpit door while shouting "God is almighty". The airline denies he was carrying a knife. The passenger on the Czech Airlines flight told Czech daily newspaper Metro: "He was holding a knife and it didn't look good." Full Story
Separating Sept. 11 facts from fiction
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:50 by TRC-News
Calamity and mass communication proved a potent recipe for misinformation in the days and weeks after Sept. 11, when urban legends, half-truths and falsehoods circled the globe on the Internet in the time it once took for a juicy rumor to spread down the block. Erroneous reports in the media and stranger-than-fiction true accounts added to the confusion, which explains why some otherwise level-headed individuals are still willing to believe that Osama bin Laden owns Citibank and why others aren�t sure whether Jewish workers at the World Trade Center stayed home on the day of the attacks. Full Story
Al Qaeda documents outline serious weapons program
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:46 by TRC-News
The al Qaeda terrorist organization was building a serious weapons program with a heavy emphasis on developing a nuclear device, according to an exhaustive review of documents discovered in Afghanistan. The apparent al Qaeda documents were found in a Kabul house reportedly used by al Qaeda operatives. Afghan police took CNN to the house soon after the Taliban withdrew from the city in November. Full Story
Hamas Leader Says Group Is Developing Rocket Capable Of Hitting Israeli Cities
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:43 by TRC-News
A militant group opposed to Israel is developing a rocket with a range long enough to hit cities in the Jewish state, a Hamas leader said during an interview. Moussa Abu Marzook told the CBS's "60 Minutes" that the rocket would have a range of six miles and would be able to hit Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem from inside the West Bank.
Full Story
Indonesia Moves on Muslim Militants
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:43 by TRC-News
Indonesia moved against militant Muslim groups for the first time when police questioned a Muslim cleric whom regional governments have accused of being linked to terrorist networks and possibly al Qaeda. Full Story
Microchip 'Led Troops' to Aceh Rebel
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:42 by TRC-News
A microchip inserted in a letter of invitation to peace talks led Indonesian soldiers to a remote village hide-out where they shot dead the Aceh rebel commander Abdullah Syafei, rebels claimed yesterday. Full Story
Omagh Bomb Plotter Jailed for 14 Years
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:41 by TRC-News
A 49-year-old man convicted of involvement in plotting the 1998 Omagh bombing, the bloodiest single act in 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland, was jailed for 14 years on Friday by an Irish court. Full Story
Indian Soldiers Kill Five Rebels in Kashmir
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:38 by TRC-News
Indian paramilitary soldiers in Kashmir shot dead five members of one of the guerrilla groups blamed by New Delhi for last month's suicide attack on its parliament, a paramilitary statement said on Friday. Full Story
American Al Qaeda Fighter Docile in Court
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:36 by TRC-News
American al Qaeda fighter John Walker Lindh, dirty and disheveled when captured in Afghanistan, stood docilely in a U.S. court on Thursday with newly shaved head bowed as outside his parents said he ``loves America'' and did not conspire to kill his countrymen. Full Story
Bush Seeks Extra $2.1 Billion to Protect Borders
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:36 by TRC-News
President Bush on Friday will propose spending an extra $2.1 billion on border security next year to hire more border patrol agents and track foreigners as they come and go from the country. Full Story
Palestinian Suicide Bomber Strikes in Tel Aviv
Posted Friday, January 25, 2002 - 9:35 by TRC-News
A Palestinian suicide bomber wounded at least 14 people in an attack on a Tel Aviv pedestrian mall on Friday as Israel and the Palestinians plunged deeper into violence that defies U.S.-led truce efforts. Full Story
Taleban army rises again to face US
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 21:39 by TRC-News
A renegade army of 5,000 Taleban soldiers with 450 tanks, armoured carriers and pick-up trucks is locked in a tense stand-off with American special forces in Afghanistan. Full Story
Afghan Fight Kills 15 Al Qaeda, Wounds U.S. Soldier
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 13:32 by TRC-News
Up to 15 al Qaeda fighters died and an American soldier was wounded in a pre-dawn firefight in Afghanistan on Thursday which highlighted that pockets of resistance remain after the U.S.-led rout of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group and the Taliban government. Full Story
900 New FBI Special Agents
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 9:01 by TRC-News
The FBI said on Wednesday it is launching one of its most aggressive hiring campaigns in recent years as it seeks to hire about 900 people over the next eight months to become special agents. Full Story
Piercing Al Qaeda's camouflage
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 8:53 by TRC-News
You find them all over Europe, on the outskirts of big cities everywhere: neglected suburbs ranging from the modest to the poor, where immigrant families have made their homes. In Spain those families are mostly Moroccan; in France they have come from all over North Africa; in Germany they are mainly of Turkish origin; in England of Pakistani, Indian, or Bangladeshi background. Full Story
KL Probe Reveals Singapore Terror Links
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Twenty-two suspected militants among the more than 40 arrested recently in Malaysia belonged to the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group and had a working relationship with the cell of the same name uncovered in Singapore last month, informed sources said. Full Story
Military Kills GAM Chief in Gun Battle
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 8:52 by TRC-News
The Indonesian Military has shot dead the commander of the armed wing of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Tengku Abdullah Syafei, in a raid on his jungle headquarters, the military and rebels announced on Wednesday. Full Story
Deadly Attack in India Appears Aimed at Local Police, Not U.S.
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 8:51 by TRC-News
The gunmen who opened fire on a U.S. government cultural center in Calcutta this morning, killing five police officers and injuring 20 other people, appeared to be targeting the local police, not the United States, Indian and U.S. officials said. Full Story
Iran Said to Assist Forces Opposing Kabul Government
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 8:50 by TRC-News
Officials said they are increasingly concerned that neighboring Iran, which has been accused of political meddling in the border province of Herat, may now be bringing money, goods and weapons deeper into Afghanistan in an effort to undermine its new government. Full Story
Bush to Propose $3.5 Billion Local Anti-Terror Aid
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 8:49 by TRC-News
President Bush will unveil on Thursday the first installment of his homeland security budget plan: $3.5 billion to beef up local police, fire and rescue departments, the White House said. Full Story
Car Bomb Kills Beirut Warlord Accused of Massacres
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 8:48 by TRC-News
A bomb in Beirut on Thursday killed Elie Hobeika, whose pro-Israel militia massacred hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982. Full Story
Yemen Shuts Down Fundamentalist Institute, Plans To Deport 80
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 9:21 by TRC-News
Officials said Tuesday that the Yemeni government has shut down a religious study center and plans to deport nearly 80 students and teachers who were arrested for overstaying their visas. The move appeared to be part of a crackdown on Islamic fundamentalism in Yemen - site of the deadly October 2000 attack on the USS Cole that has been blamed on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Full Story
Explosion 'Kills 10 Rebels' in Nepal
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 9:18 by TRC-News
Reports from Nepal say 10 Maoist rebels have been killed in an accidental explosion in the Jajarkot district, in the west of the country. They are reported to have died earlier this week when bombs exploded during training at a rebel camp. There has been no independent confirmation of the reports. Full Story
Malaysian Detainees Linked to Al Qaeda, Sources Say
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Malaysia is holding 22 members of a militant Islamic group that planned attacks across Southeast Asia and is linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, police and government sources said Wednesday. Full Story
Officials: Indonesia Police Shoot Dead Aceh Leader
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Indonesian police have shot dead the military head of Aceh's separatist rebels in a gun battle in the troubled province, officials said on Wednesday. "It is true," Agus Dwiyanto, the Aceh police spokesman, told Reuters when asked whether Abdullah Syafei had been killed in the clashes on the northern tip of Sumatra island. Full Story
India arrests five Bangladeshis in the deadly shooting at American Center
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Police arrested five Bangladeshis and detained three Indian teachers at an Islamic school for suspected involvement in an attack on a U.S. cultural center, officials said Wednesday. The arrests were made Tuesday night on the outskirts of Basirhat, 40 miles north of Calcutta and close to the India-Bangladesh border, said Sourin Roy, chief secretary of West Bengal state. The five Bangladeshis were to be in court later Wednesday. Full Story
Paramilitaries Reject Peace Deal
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia have complained about the agreement between the government and country's largest left-wing rebel movement to resume peace talks. In an open letter published on its Internet site, the right-wing United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) accused President Andres Pastrana of caving in to the rebels' demands. Full Story
For Ridge, Ambition and Realities Clash
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Less than four months after taking office, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is preparing initiatives that would create a new border security agency, revamp the way intelligence is gathered and distributed throughout the government, and impose national standards on agencies that respond to terrorist acts. Full Story
American Taliban Fighter Reportedly Headed to U.S.
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 8:54 by TRC-News
After 45 days of interrogation, American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh is headed back to the United States to stand trial, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. Full Story
U.S. Says No Country Can Be Complacent about Terrorism
Posted Monday, January 21, 2002 - 11:14 by TRC-News
The Counter-Terrorism Committee formed by the UN Security Council to
analyze and coordinate each nation's anti-terrorism capabilities is
critical to the war on terrorism, U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham
said January 18. Full Story
FBI Head Says Joint Yemen Probe Produces New Leads
Posted Monday, January 21, 2002 - 11:11 by TRC-News
A joint probe into the suicide bombing of a U.S. warship in Aden has uncovered important information and new leads, visiting FBI Director Robert Mueller was quoted as saying after talks in Yemen Monday. Full Story
Arafat to Seek State Even if It Costs Him His Life
Posted Monday, January 21, 2002 - 11:11 by TRC-News
President Yasser Arafat, confined by Israel to his West Bank headquarters, said Monday he would keep seeking a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital even if it cost him his life. Full Story
Airport checks vulnerable to hackers, experts say
Posted Monday, January 21, 2002 - 11:06 by TRC-News
Terrorist hackers could exploit wireless networks used to check baggage at major airports -- including San Jose's -- according to network security experts. However, those same experts are unclear on the extent of the risk, because thorough audits of wireless networks at airports have not taken place. Full Story
Moussaoui trial won't be televised
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 22:41 by TRC-News
A federal judge decided Friday not to allow television cameras to broadcast the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person charged as an accomplice in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story
Malaysia arrests 7 for al-Qaida links
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 22:40 by TRC-News
Malaysian police have arrested seven more people with suspected links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network as part of a widening dragnet on Islamic militants, officials said Saturday. Meantime, Indonesian police said they were investigating the arrest in the Philippines of an alleged al-Qaida member with ties to Indonesia. Full Story
Security gets top line in new budget
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 22:38 by TRC-News
The cost of fighting terrorism at home and abroad will require so much money in 2003 that President Bush plans to propose a budget with little or no growth in most other areas of government, according to administration officials. The budget, which goes to the printer tonight and will be released Feb. 4, is being submitted to Congress at a time when the economy is contracting, leading to heightened demand for social services. Full Story
-mail ties Richard Reid to Pakistan
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 22:37 by TRC-News
In e-mails apparently sent by shoe-bomb suspect Richard Reid before he boarded a Paris-Miami flight, he indicated he would be destroying an airplane and, after being thwarted from boarding an earlier flight, asked one recipient in Pakistan if he should “go again.” The mail was found on the hard drives of computers used by the 28-year-old Briton while he was in Paris, French news media reported Saturday. Full Story
The FBI Gets Religion
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 22:31 by TRC-News
At about 10:30 on the night of Sept. 20, Ali Erikenoglu heard rustling in the bushes below his bedroom in the small, three-family home he owns in Paterson, N.J. He got up, leaned out the window and saw, he says, “four or five men with flashlights” in his backyard. The men identified themselves as the FBI and told him they needed to ask him some questions. Full Story
Diverted jet from U.K. lands in Fla.
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 22:30 by TRC-News
A jetliner that was diverted to Iceland Saturday after the crew found a bomb threat landed Sunday in its original destination, Orlando, Fla. Authorities plan to interview arriving passengers. Full Story
Six People Killed in Fresh Aceh Violence
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 22:28 by TRC-News
At least six people were killed in restive Aceh province on Friday, officials and humanitarian activists said on Saturday. In Pidie regency, four male bodies with gunshot wounds were found at the side of the road in Meureudu village, about 160 kilometers east of Banda Aceh. Full Story
Terrorist Casing
Posted Friday, January 18, 2002 - 15:43 by TRC-News
When a young man with unkempt hair sauntered into the British consulate in Amsterdam in July and asked for a new passport, the officials wanted to know what had happened to the old one. He gave a fairly credible answer: he had put the document into the washing machine after drinking too much, and it was ruined. You might think it strange, however, that the same man was able to get yet another replacement passport five months later, but this time at the British consulate in Brussels. He gave no particular reason this time, except that the one he had received in July had become ragged and was missing a few pages. He surrendered it, as required, and took the new one away with him. Full Story
U.S. Seeks Help Over New Al Qaeda Video
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 17:33 by TRC-News
Seeking to forestall possible future attacks, U.S. officials asked the public on Thursday to help locate ``suicide terrorists'' shown in five video tapes recovered from an al Qaeda house in Afghanistan. Full Story
Scientist's death is called accidental
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 9:41 by TRC-News
Renowned Harvard biochemist Don C. Wiley died accidentally in a fall from a Memphis bridge, medical authorities concluded yesterday in an autopsy report. Full Story
Freedom Fighters of the Digital World
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 9:39 by TRC-News
We're bombing Afghanistan, anthrax is in the mail, and all across America it looks like Stars and Stripes forever. It is the evening of Oct. 11, one month into the war on terrorism, and Congress is cooking up something that will be called the USA Patriot Act. This sweeping law includes a dramatic expansion of Internet surveillance, unprecedented sharing of information between government agencies, stiffer penalties for computer crimes and greater power to detain noncitizens. Full Story
Special Forces Join Effort in Philippines
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 9:27 by TRC-News
U.S. Special Forces have begun arriving in the Philippines to assist Philippine troops in their fight against Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden, part of a significant expansion of the U.S. war on terrorism outside Afghanistan. Full Story
Statement by CIA Spokesman Bill Harlow on ABC News Report
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 9:26 by TRC-News
ABC News reported on the evening of January 14 that the CIA believes that Usama bin Laden has "escaped from Afghanistan and has gone beyond Pakistan," most likely by sea. This is incorrect. We have reached no such conclusion. ABC did not contact the Agency about this allegation before airing it. Full Story
U.S. Says Walker Knew of Suicide Missions
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Three months before the Sept. 11 attacks on America, John Walker Lindh learned that Osama bin Laden had sent people to the United States to carry out suicide missions, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Walker, the 20-year-old Californian who joined Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last year, met bin Laden several times while at a training camp for al Qaeda fighters where he learned to use explosives and a variety of weapons. Full Story
Feds in Bidding War for Airport Security Chiefs
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 9:17 by TRC-News
The federal government's bid to upgrade security at airports nationwide hinges on persuading experienced professionals to work for government wages when they could fetch as much as $550,000 a year in the private sector. Full Story
Agencies scale back all-out security
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Four months after terrorists chose Logan Airport as their launchpad, area public safety agencies are quietly replacing their safety-at-any-price strategies with more targeted and less expensive security measures. Full Story
Gunmen Open Fire at Pakistani Airport; 3 Wounded
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 8:26 by TRC-News
Two unidentified men exchanged gunfire with security officials at the Lahore airport early Wednesday, wounding at least three of them before escaping, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported. Full Story
Colombia Rebels Stage Attacks
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Just hours after President Andres Pastrana accepted an eleventh-hour accord to salvage Colombia's three-year-old peace process, leftist rebels came out fighting Tuesday. Full Story
Arms Cache Found Near US Base
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 8:25 by TRC-News
US forces trying to root out the remnants of the Taleban regime and Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan have uncovered an enemy hideout stashed with weapons just outside their base in the southern city of Kandahar. Full Story
Palestinians Hold PFLP Chief; Israel Skeptical
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 8:24 by TRC-News
Israel vowed Wednesday to keep Yasser Arafat confined to the West Bank city of Ramallah despite the arrest by Palestinian police of a militant leader wanted by Israel for the assassination of a cabinet minister. Full Story
U.S. Taliban Charged with Supporting Terror Group
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 8:23 by TRC-News
The United States on Tuesday charged American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh with conspiring to kill U.S. nationals in the Afghanistan (news - web sites) war and with providing support to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, charges that spare him from facing the death penalty. Full Story
US Jets Hunt Al Qaeda; Afghans Seek Rebuilding Aid
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 8:22 by TRC-News
U.S. jets prowled the skies above Afghanistan, hunting new targets after demolishing al Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in the east as the war against elusive Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden ran into a 102nd day. Full Story
China Gangs 'Behind Manila Kidnap Wave'
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 - 9:15 by TRC-News
In an alarming twist to the current kidnap wave in the country, the authorities recently found that Chinese kidnappers from the mainland have extended their activities to the Philippines. Police say most of these Chinese criminals come from Fujian province in southern China, the ancestral home of many Chinese-Filipinos, and prey mainly on the affluent ethnic Chinese community here. Full Story
Pakistani Militants Forced Underground
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 - 9:14 by TRC-News
With their existence suddenly threatened by Pakistan's promised crackdown on terrorism, Islamic militants here are going into hiding, altering their identities and reorganizing their movements into underground cells, according to group leaders and government officials. Full Story
School Security Stepped Up After Loyalist Threats
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 - 9:13 by TRC-News
A major security operation was mounted outside schools across north Belfast today to protect teachers and pupils. The move follows a threat from the loyalist Red Hand Defenders that staff at Catholic schools would be considered as "legitimate targets". Tension is high after the murder of Catholic postal worker Daniel McColgan (20) on Saturday morning. Full Story
Al Qaeda Feared To Be Lurking In Indonesia
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 - 9:13 by TRC-News
In August last year, U.S. intelligence agents learned that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network had obtained a highly detailed, hand-drawn map of the U.S. diplomatic compound here. Full Story
Gov't Rejects Published List of Alleged Terrorists
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 - 9:12 by TRC-News
The government on Sunday flatly dismissed the same-day front-page publication of a purported Greek intelligence report apparently listing various terrorists, including a handful of ruling PASOK party cadres. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Set to Exit Haven
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 - 9:11 by TRC-News
Declaring an end to peace talks with the government, Colombia's largest rebel group prepared on Sunday to abandon a vast sanctuary in the center of the country where the guerrillas have acted freely for the last three years. Full Story
U.S. Advisers to Expand War on Terror to Philippines
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 - 9:10 by TRC-News
U.S. special forces will join the Philippine military in operations against Muslim guerrillas Tuesday, but will limit themselves to advice and will not take part in combat, senior Philippine officials said. Full Story
Homeland security chief: U.S. safer, but work remains
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 22:26 by TRC-News
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Sunday that the United States is safer and more vigilant than it was more than four months ago when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Full Story
Sources: Afghan detainees planned attacks on U.S.
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 22:25 by TRC-News
Military sources in Kandahar, Afghanistan, said Sunday that U.S. forces are holding detainees who had "plans to one day travel to the United States and kill Americans." Full Story
Focus of U.S. Anthrax Probe Is Domestic - Ridge
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 22:18 by TRC-News
The recent spate of potentially deadly anthrax mailings is being investigated chiefly as suspected U.S. domestic terrorism, not a foreign plot, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said on Sunday. < a href=http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020113/pl/attack_anthrax_dc_1.html>Full Story
Top Credentials Sought for Airport Security Jobs
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:53 by TRC-News
The Department of Transportation, which last month agreed with Congress in deciding not to require high school diplomas for airport screeners, has taken a different approach in hiring the security directors at the largest airports. Full Story
U.S. Selling Papers Showing How to Make Germ Weapons
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:52 by TRC-News
Months into an expanded war on bioterrorism, the government is still making available to the public hundreds of formerly secret documents that tell how to turn dangerous germs into deadly weapons. Full Story
An overview of U.S. counterterrorism initiatives
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:50 by TRC-News
The events of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax incidents underscored the seriousness of the terrorism threat to the United States. They also drew attention to a host of vulnerabilities and the need for additional training for state and local "first responders," those on the front line against possible terrorism -- firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians, physicians, health officials and emergency management professionals. Full Story
FEMA continues debate on emergency preparedness
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:49 by TRC-News
Although the Pentagon last year approved funding for more than $7 million in safety gear to be used in the case of a chemical weapons accident, federal officials say there is still much uncertainty surrounding the items. Full Story
Terrorist havens disappearing fast
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:48 by TRC-News
Around the world, terror groups are finding many former havens no longer particularly safe nor welcoming. The reason: National leaders can all see what happened in Afghanistan, and none wants anything like that to happen to them. Full Story
New Look for the Olympics: Under Warplanes and Patrols
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:47 by TRC-News
When the Olympic torch reaches Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah in a month, commercial air traffic at Salt Lake City International Airport will be at a standstill. Surveillance planes will be flying miles overhead as F-16 fighter jets remain on constant alert nearby. Thousands of military troops will patrol the streets. Full Story
Israeli Politicians Debate Gaza
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:46 by TRC-News
Israel waged an internal debate Sunday over the army's demolition of Palestinian homes in the southern Gaza Strip, with critics of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saying the operation was inappropriate and poorly handled. Full Story
Colombian FARC Rebels Prepare for Army Strike
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:45 by TRC-News
Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels declared a three-year-old peace process dead on Sunday, saying they would vacate major towns in their demilitarized enclave as thousands of troops, tanks and jets readied to storm the zone on Monday night. Full Story
Video Shows Al Qaeda Rehearsing Assassinations-TV
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 21:44 by TRC-News
The Australian Broadcasting Corp has obtained a video it said showed al Qaeda militants rehearsing an attack on world leaders at a golf tournament and on a motorcade in what appears to be Washington. Full Story
Irradiated Mail Causes Illness
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:41 by TRC-News
A package irradiated as part of the government's anti-anthrax screening gave off a noxious gas Thursday when it was opened at the Commerce Department, sickening at least 11 workers, a fire official said. Full Story
FBI Sees Drug Bust, Terror Links
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:41 by TRC-News
An international drug-smuggling ring broken up by federal agents may have links to terrorist organizations, an FBI spokesman said. Full Story
More Post-Attack Job Loss Predicted
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:38 by TRC-News
A study released Friday predicts the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will reverberate through the U.S. economy for years, wiping out more than 1.6 million jobs in 2002 alone. Full Story
Other nations find 'terrorist' label useful
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:30 by TRC-News
America's zero-tolerance policy against terrorism is being adopted by other countries confronting protracted internal or regional conflicts - sometimes with negative consequences. Full Story
Yard leads plans for Europe force to track al-Qaida
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Scotland Yard is spearheading plans to create a pan-European anti-terrorist task force to help track down and prosecute members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, it was revealed yesterday. Full Story
Mahathir says about 50 Malaysians linked to al Qaeda
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:28 by TRC-News
Some 50 Malaysians are involved with the worldwide al Qaeda network accused of carrying out the September 11 air attacks on the United States, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday. Full Story
U.S. Alters Estimate Of Threats
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:28 by TRC-News
The United States is more likely to suffer a nuclear, chemical or biological attack from terrorists using ships, trucks or airplanes than one by a foreign country using long-range missiles, according to a new U.S. intelligence estimate. Full Story
Al Qaeda Feared To Be Lurking In Indonesia
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:27 by TRC-News
In August last year, U.S. intelligence agents learned that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network had obtained a highly detailed, hand-drawn map of the U.S. diplomatic compound here. Full Story
Judge Mulls TV Ban in Terror Trial
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:25 by TRC-News
A federal judge said Wednesday she was concerned that television could have a chilling effect on witnesses at the Zacarias Moussaoui terrorism trial, but she did not decide immediately whether to permit cameras. Full Story
Americans 'Targeted' in Singapore
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:24 by TRC-News
Suspected Islamic militants arrested in Singapore were plotting attacks on US servicemen, the Singapore Government said on Friday. One plan was to blow up a shuttle bus carrying US personnel between a naval base and a local subway station, a government statement said. Full Story
Israeli Army Bulldozes Gaza Airport Runway
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:23 by TRC-News
Israeli tanks and bulldozers tore up the runway of the Palestinian-controlled international airport in the Gaza Strip on Friday in retaliation for a Palestinian raid that killed four Israeli soldiers. Full Story
3 Militants, Linkman Killed in Assam
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:23 by TRC-News
Three militants, including a dreaded National Democratic Front Bodoland commander and a linkman of the banned ULFA, were killed in separate encounters with police and the Army in Assam, police said on Friday. Full Story
Colombia's Pastrana Sets 48-Hour Peace Deadline
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:22 by TRC-News
Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Thursday gave international mediators 48 hours to meet FARC rebels in a last-ditch effort to save three-year-old peace talks and avoid all-out war. Full Story
Fla. Officials Probe Possible Plot Against Jeb Bush
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:19 by TRC-News
Florida law enforcement officials said late on Thursday that an investigation was under way into a potential threat to blow up Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, younger brother of President Bush. Full Story
First Al Qaeda, Taliban Prisoners Leave Afghanistan
Posted Friday, January 11, 2002 - 8:18 by TRC-News
With warlords and bandits setting up fiefdoms across Afghanistan, U.S. troops began disarming local militia on Friday as the first prisoners of the war were in the air en route to a detention camp on Cuba. Full Story
Advanced Counterterrorism Operations Course- Space Still Available
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:26 by TRC-News
The TRC is offering a training session on January 28-30, 2002 in Atlanta, GA. The course is entitled "Advanced Counterterrorism Operations: Preventing, Mitigating and Defeating Terrorist Attacks". Additional details and on-line registration are available here.
Al-Qaida Cyber Capability
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:21 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden established Al-Qaida in the late 1980s to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion. It helped finance, recruit, transport and train Sunni Islamic extremists for the Afghan resistance. Its current goal is to establish a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world by working with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and to expel Westerners and non-Muslims from Muslim countries. In February 1998, Al-Qaida issued a statement under the banner of the "World Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders" claiming it was the duty of all Muslims to kill US citizens--civilian or military--and their allies everywhere. Full Story
Anti-terrorism costs exceed $60 billion
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Congress has provided more than $60 billion since the September 11 suicide hijacking attacks to combat terrorism at home and abroad and to rebuild from those attacks. That's roughly five times what the country spent to fight terrorism in the previous year. Full Story
Muslims Encouraged To Launch Attacks In Britain
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:16 by TRC-News
A British Muslim who claims to have helped recruit more than 200 British volunteers to fight for the Taliban has warned they may launch terrorist attacks here. Full Story
US Prepares to Hit al-Qaeda in Somalia
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:15 by TRC-News
A surgical strike against terrorist elements in Somalia could be just days away, Pentagon and US State Department officials have signalled.
The comments follow a steady stream of intelligence and surveillance information that has led the United States to believe that crack al-Qaeda terrorist troops are successfully regrouping at bases around the capital, Mogadishu. Full Story
Singapore 'Terror Network' Broken
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Security at Singapore's American Club has been beefed up The arrests in Singapore over the weekend followed a similar swoop in neighboring Malaysia on Friday, raising concerns that the region's close ties to Washington could make it a target for terrorism. Full Story
PA Arrests 6 Islamic Jihad Men
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Palestinian police yesterday morning arrested a top Islamic Jihad terrorist wanted by Israel and five other members of the organization, in advance of a meeting of Israeli and Palestinian security officials and US envoy Anthony Zinni. Full Story
Major Blow to the Real IRA as Seven Held
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:12 by TRC-News
GARDA anti-terrorist officers were satisfied last night they have delivered a major setback to the Real IRA after arresting seven suspects in the Full Story
Anti-Terrorism Is Top Rule for India-Pakistan Dialogue, Says Blair
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:11 by TRC-News
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that the clearest rule governing any India-Pakistan dialogue must be the complete absence of support for any terrorist activity. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Call Off Truce
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:11 by TRC-News
Colombia's second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), has announced it is ending a ceasefire declared before Christmas, accusing government forces of violating it. Full Story
U.S. Bombs Afghan Targets, Seeks Al Qaeda Fighters
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:09 by TRC-News
U.S. jets pounded suspected Osama bin Laden training camps in eastern Afghanistan Monday and on the ground special forces pursued scattered fighters of the al Qaeda network set up by the world's most wanted man. Full Story
Report: U.S. Wraps Up Probe of Sept. 11 Financing
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:08 by TRC-News
Investigators following the money trail in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States have traced more than $325,000 via credit card receipts, ATM withdrawals and other transactions connected to the 19 suspected hijackers, The Washington Post reported on Monday. Full Story
Teen Pilot in Tampa Crash Had 'Sympathy' for Osama
Posted Monday, January 7, 2002 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Police on Sunday gave details of a suicide note that appeared to show the lone 15-year-old who flew a light plane into a high-rise office block in Tampa was inspired by the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Full Story
Register Now - Advanced Counterterrorism Operations
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
The TRC is offering a training session on January 28-30, 2002 in Atlanta, GA. The course is entitled "Advanced Counterterrorism Operations: Preventing, Mitigating and Defeating Terrorist Attacks". Additional details and on-line registration are available by Here.
Today is the last day to register at the early-bird price of $350
Israel, Hamas write off Arafat speech
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat faced mounting pressure from both Palestinian militant groups and Israel after his pleas for a cessation of violence were largely ignored. Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians on Monday, including a Hamas member and a 12-year-old boy, after Israel dismissed Arafat as �irrelevant.� Palestinian gunmen later wounded four Jewish settlers in three ambushes in the West Bank as Islamic militant groups said they would continue their attacks. Full Story
Bin Laden�s whereabouts unknown
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
With days having passed since the voice believed to belong to Osama bin Laden was last heard in radio transmissions, there was still no sign of the Saudi exile on Tuesday. A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that �it�s anybody�s guess� whether he�s trapped in the Tora Bora region with the remnants of his fleeing al-Qaida force, and an Afghan commander added, �Only God knows.� Full Story
D.C. Area May Receive $245 Million For Security
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
House and Senate negotiators agreed yesterday to spend more than $245 million to help the District, Northern Virginia and the Metro transit system prepare for potential acts of terror, part of a $20 billion emergency aid bill set to pass Congress, city and congressional officials said. Full Story
U.S. warns of Osama Sleepers
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
The hunt for Osama bin Laden is zeroing in on the mountainous Afghan-Pakistan border amid fears the terror lord has escaped and will activate al Qaeda sleeper cells still lurking in the United States, sources said. Full Story
Nuclear Sites Ill-Prepared for Attacks, Group Says
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
The security drills created by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure that reactor security guards can repel terrorists involve mock attacks by only three intruders, assisted by one confederate inside the plant, according to a nuclear safety group. Full Story
Tech industry warned: 'We're at war'
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
Policy-makers, security experts, and network protection companies told Silicon Valley executives Thursday that it's time to concentrate on new, high-tech weapons against terrorism. Full Story
Seven Held in ETA Raids
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
Seven suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA have been arrested in Spain. A large quantity of dynamite was also seized in the operation in the Basque region, said a government spokeswoman. Full Story
NATO Chief Urges Allies to Gird for War on Terror
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
NATO Secretary-General George Robertson called on allied defense ministers Tuesday to shelve Cold War reflexes and be prepared to spend money to gird for the new war on global terrorism. Full Story
Failed Coup Attempt in Haiti
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
Haiti's beleaguered government staved off an apparent coup attempt, with police recapturing the presidential mansion from armed men in a day of violence that killed at least seven people. Full Story
Afghan Fighters Pursue Bin Laden Trail
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
U.S.-backed tribal forces on Tuesday pursued Osama bin Laden, his al Qaeda fighters and defeated Taliban allies as officials in Kabul counted down to the inauguration of an interim Afghan government. Full Story
L.A. mayor proposes tougher security measures at ports
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
Mayor James K. Hahn wants to make the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach more secure by adding more Coast Guard patrol vessels and police positions, and requiring background checks on thousands of employees. Full Story
Governors Seek Funds for Homeland Security
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
The nation's governors have asked Congress for at least $2 billion in federal funds to support efforts to improve the ability of state and local health systems to respond to bioterrorism. The governors say that their states cannot shoulder the responsibility of keeping the nation's populace safe from biological weapons such as anthrax and smallpox. Full Story
Bush to Mull Military Threats on Sept. 11 Milestone
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
President Bush marks the three-month anniversary of the murderous Sept. 11 attacks on Tuesday with a remembrance ceremony and a speech on the new military threats confronting the United States. Full Story
White House Names New Transportation Security Chief
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 9:06 by TRC-News
The White House turned to a former U.S. Secret Service director on Monday to head a new agency responsible for transportation security, including the task of building a federal airport screener force from scratch. Full Story
Nepal Army Kills 11 Maoists in Fresh Clashes
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Nepal said on Monday its security forces had killed at least 11 Maoist rebels in a forest firefight, taking the death toll since the rebels broke a truce in November to at least 300. Defence Secretary Padam Kumar Acharya told Reuters that government troops killed the rebels after an ambush in Kailali in west Nepal on Sunday, in a battle that lasted nearly two hours. Full Story
Latvian Police Hold Russian in Synagogue Blast
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Latvian police said on Tuesday they had detained a Russian a former member of an elite Soviet paramilitary force in connection with the 1998 bombing of a Riga synagogue. The 1998 bombing was at the height of a row between Latvia and Russia. It caused no deaths or injuries but was condemned by the United States and Jewish groups and Latvian leaders. Full Story
Spirit of Jihad Keeps Divided Communities on War Footing
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden's photo adorns sentry posts along the road into Poso, with the words "jihad post" scrawled on the wooden walls. Above them fly flags bearing Arabic calligraphy and sometimes the image of a sword. Inside them the occupants may well be asleep. But a few weeks ago it was not like that. Traffic was stopped at checkpoint after checkpoint mounted by armed Muslims, carrying out ID checks. The identity card that all Indonesians must carry states their religion. There were reports of summary abductions and executions when that religion turned out to be Christian. Full Story
Bin Laden Amused at Duped Hijackers Who Died
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
A seized video shows Osama bin Laden "amused" that some of the terrorists in the September 11 attacks thought they were merely hijackers and did not realise they were going to die, says a United States official. The Bush Administration is yet to decide whether to release the 40-minute video, which it says proves bin Laden had prior knowledge of the attacks on the US. But the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it showed the Saudi-born terrorist at a dinner last month, apparently "amused by the fact that some of these people who were martyred thought they were just taking part in a hijacking". Full Story
Israeli Forces Kill Two in West Bank, Hit Gaza HQ
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the West Bank and destroyed a Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza on Tuesday, shortly before the start of a European mission to bolster U.S. peace efforts. Full Story
Bin Laden Men Fight on as U.S. Recalls Attacks
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Afghan fighters chased Osama bin Laden's forces to ``one last base'' in the mountains on Tuesday, as the United States paid fresh tribute to those who died in the New York and Washington attacks exactly three months ago. Full Story
Bush Moves Toward Releasing Bin Laden Tape
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
President Bush on Monday moved toward releasing a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden that he said proves the Islamic militant's responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Full Story
U.S. Says Thousands of Letters Might Be Tinged With Anthrax
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
Senior officials of the Department of Health and Human Services said yesterday that some tens of thousands of letters processed weeks ago might have been contaminated with trace amounts of anthrax spores merely by coming into contact with intentionally poisoned mail. Full Story
Governors ask U.S. to help pay for security
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
Governors whose soldiers have been called to provide security in their states are asking the federal government to pay for the activation, New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson said Monday in El Paso. Full Story
Clarke presses industry on security
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:32 by TRC-News
The White House is calling on the information technology industry to assist in government efforts to strengthen the state of cybersecurity and is also urging vendors to ensure that what they sell is secure. Full Story
Feds Mull Anti-Terrorism Approaches
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
Security and public health demands could cost states up to $4 billion, governors estimated Wednesday as hundreds of state lawmakers gathered to develop new approaches for terrorism and its fallout. Full Story
U.S. on High State of Alert Again
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
Announcing a terrorist alert during the holiday season, the Bush administration is urging Americans to be extra vigilant amid an increase in credible threats. Full Story
Maoist Rebels Emboldened as Conflict Spreads
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:18 by TRC-News
The incidence of Maoist attacks in India could worsen as a result of the full-scale guerilla war being waged in neighbouring Nepal, according to authorities. For the first time, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee expressed serious concern this week over the rising tide of Maoist violence across the country. Full Story
Young Woman Who Exchanged Herself For Father Kidnapped by Colombian Rebels is Found Dead
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
An act of bravery has taken a tragic turn in Colombia, with the discovery of the body of a 25-year-old woman who exchanged herself for her kidnapped father. The army said Wednesday that authorities have found the body of Melina Pereira, held since April by kidnappers identifying themselves as members of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. She was shot three times in the back at close range, military officials said. Full Story
Suicide Pilot Trained in Australia
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network planned to crash a hijacked passenger plane into the Australian Parliament, a suspected suicide pilot who received flying training in Australia has told Indian police. Indian Home Ministry officials told the Herald that Muhammad Afroze, an Indian citizen, has confessed to being part of the September 11 conspiracy, which he said had originally envisaged attacks on the Australian, British and Indian parliaments, as well as on Washington and New York. Full Story
U.S. Says Investigating Bin Laden Links to Somalia
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
The United States is investigating possible links between Osama bin Laden and extremist groups in Somalia, a U.S. envoy told the Kenyan government. According to a statement released on Wednesday by Kenya's ministry of foreign affairs, visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Walter Kansteiner made the remarks to Kenya's Foreign Minister Marsden Madoka. Full Story
Palestinians Clash in Gaza Over Hamas House Arrest
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Baton-wielding Palestinian police battled stone-throwing protesters and armed supporters of the militant Hamas movement on Thursday after President Yasser Arafat's police put their spiritual leader under house arrest. Full Story
Taliban's Omar Said Ready to Hand Over Kandahar
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has decided to hand over Kandahar, his last main stronghold in Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) on Thursday. Full Story
'Mujihadeen' Hackers Take Out US Government Sites
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
Two Web sites operated by the United States government were attacked Thursday by a group that threatened violence against Americans. The hackers vandalized the home page of the NOAA Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, as well a Web server operated by the National Institute of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute, according to a mirror of the defacements captured by the Alldas defacement archive. Full Story
The high-tech hunt for terrorist lairs
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
The United States is using its growing expertise in virtual spelunking to search Afghanistan�s maze of caves for Osama bin Laden. Satellite imagery and an experimental underground mapping program hidden away in rural Alaska are just some of the tools at Washington�s disposal. Full Story
Arafat picks words over actions
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
As the West trained its rhetorical wrath on Yasser Arafat and Israel prepared military reprisals for one of the bloodiest series of terrorist attacks inside the country in decades, the Palestinian leader today did what he has done so often: He issued statements. Full Story
Anti-abortionist is named suspect in anthrax hoaxes
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
Clayton Lee Waagner, one of the FBI�s most-wanted fugitives, is a suspect in a string of anthrax hoax letters sent to abortion clinics, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Thursday. Ashcroft said the FBI had obtained information indicating Waagner had claimed responsibility for sending more than 280 letters to clinics across the United States. A senior law enforcement official told NBC News that investigators found Waagner�s fingerprint on at least one of the letters. Full Story
Anthrax found in Conn. Mail Center
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
Traces of anthrax have been found on sorting machines at a Connecticut postal facility that handles mail for the town where a 94-year-old woman died of anthrax last month, U.S. Post Office officials said Sunday. In Washington, D.C., meanwhile, cleanup crews began assessing whether toxic gas spread in a Senate office building successfully killed remaining anthrax spores. Full Story
Next target: al-Qaida �sleeper cells�
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:12 by TRC-News
As the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan heads into its final stages, the Bush administration has increased its focus on uncovering and eliminating al-Qaida �sleeper cells� and the groups directly involved with them around the world, according to administration officials. Full Story
Police Arrest Over 100 Laskar Jihad Members, Seize Weapons
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:11 by TRC-News
Police said on Sunday that they will intensify searches and arrests on members of a Muslim militant group following some violent clashes on Thursday in the East Java border town of Ngawi. Full Story
Violence Erupts in Bangladesh
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:10 by TRC-News
Several people were hurt on Sunday when police fired tear gas and used batons on strikers from Bangladesh's main opposition party protesting the repeal of special security for their leader. Full Story
Taliban Threaten Last Stand, Opponents Haggle
Posted Monday, December 3, 2001 - 8:04 by TRC-News
Afghan factions haggled in Bonn on Monday over who should sit in a new interim government as Afghanistan's former rulers threatened to mount a bloody last stand in besieged Kandahar. Full Story
L.A. transit system prepared for terrorist attack, officials testify
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 20:00 by TRC-News
Los Angeles County's public transit system, the nation's second largest network of trains and buses, has long been on guard and prepared for potential terrorist attacks, the system's top officials testified Wednesday. Full Story
The threat of nuclear terror is slim but real
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 19:59 by TRC-News
It's a scenario even more horrific than the Sept. 11 attack that destroyed the World Trade Center: Terrorists launch a nuclear strike on an American city. If a crude nuclear bomb were set off, as many as 100,000 people would be killed instantly within a 3-mile radius of the blast. Thousands more would die slowly of radiation poisoning. This nightmarish picture might be on the minds of many worried Americans in the wake of Osama bin Laden's statements that his al-Qaeda network has acquired nuclear weapons. There also have been reports that al-Qaeda members have boasted of plans for a "Hiroshima" against America. Full Story
U.S. Confirms Anthrax in Chilean Letter
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 19:58 by TRC-News
Federal health officials yesterday confirmed the presence of anthrax in samples Chilean authorities said they had taken from a letter from Florida. But the anthrax was not the strain that had killed five Americans and was most likely to have originated in Chile, officials said. Full Story
State Preparedness?
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 19:57 by TRC-News
Planning for homeland protection takes time. You've got to figure out what to do. Then you've got to actually do it. While meetings proceed on the state level for Texas preparedness, and are very necessary, some things are obvious and just need to happen, like increased support for public health. Full Story
Two Senior Hamas Officials Detained in Gaza
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 19:56 by TRC-News
Palestinian security forces detained two senior political officials from the militant Islamic group Hamas on Sunday in what officials said was a campaign of arrests after a series of bombings in Israel which killed 25 people. Full Story
Israel Weighs Response to Palestinian Attacks
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 19:41 by TRC-News
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was due home on Monday to weigh Israel's response to a wave of Palestinian attacks, as Palestinian security forces rounded up militants across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story
Senate Chief's Office Fumigated for Anthrax
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 19:40 by TRC-News
Workers nearly finished fumigating the office of Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle on Sunday as part of an effort to clean up the deadly anthrax bacteria left by a contaminated letter opened in his office in October, U.S. Capitol Police said. Full Story
Israeli Bus Suicide Blast Kills 15
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 19:39 by TRC-News
A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated nail-studded explosives on a bus full of Israelis in this port city Sunday, killing 15 people, just hours after Islamic militants set off deadly explosions in downtown Jerusalem. Full Story
American Taliban Fighter in U.S. Custody - Report
Posted Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 19:38 by TRC-News
A 20-year-old American who fought with the Taliban and survived a bloody prison uprising near Mazar-i-Sharif last week has been taken into custody by U.S. special forces troops, Newsweek magazine said on its Web site on Sunday. Full Story
U.S. Anti-Terror Bid Dangles Carrot for Foreigners
Posted Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 10:58 by TRC-News
The United States on Thursday launched a program to lure foreigners into informing on terrorists in exchange for immigration help following the Sept. 11 attacks on America. Full Story
Attacks cost Canada $5 billion, MPs report
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
When terrorists destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center, they put in motion a chain of events that cost the Canadian economy $5 billion. Full Story
Terror suspect 'wrongly deprived' of benefit
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
The blocking of income support paid to a Muslim cleric was a "manifestly disproportionate" response to European anti-terrorist measures, a court has heard. Full Story
County plan to prevent terrorism in place
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
Fauquier County Sheriff Joseph Higgs, Jr. and Emergency Services
Coordinator Philip Myer briefed the Board of Supervisors at a work session recently on the state of the county's emergency preparedness. "We are very prepared to meet and respond to any type of emergency," said Higgs. "After Sept. 11 nothing seems the same anymore and people are apprehensive, nervous and curious about the county's ability to respond to a terror-related disaster. That's understandable," he said. Full Story
U.S. Pressures Foreign Airlines Over Manifests
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
The United States has told Saudi, Russian, Chinese and other foreign airlines that their passengers arriving in this country will be put through extremely rigorous, lengthy searches, starting Thursday, if the airlines did not provide information needed to identify potential terrorists. Full Story
Moving Bioterror From Back Burner Singed C.D.C., Forcing It to Learn Fast
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
When a letter containing anthrax was mailed to a Senate office last month, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said antibiotics were not necessary for postal workers in the nation's capital, and two of the workers died. But when a 94-year-old woman in Connecticut contracted a lethal case of anthrax last week, the disease control agency quickly recommended treatment for postal workers, even though there is no evidence as yet that a contaminated letter was the source of her infection. Full Story
In the house of anthrax
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:38 by TRC-News
American officials increasingly believe the anthrax attacks since September 11th were not carried out by people connected to al-Qaeda, but may have been the work of a lone American madman. To avert future attacks, though, perhaps they should look harder. Full Story
Task force tracking terrorists hits stride
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
Since the September 11 attack by air pirates on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Justice Department has sought to enhance its ability to protect the United States from future strikes by creating the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force. Full Story
U.S., British special forces join prison fight
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Northern Alliance troops, along with U.S. and British special forces, fought Tuesday to snuff out a small pocket of resistance following a weekend uprising of Taliban prisoners. Full Story
Turkey Sentences 3 to Death for Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
A Turkish court sentenced three leftist militants to death today the first such judgment since Parliament passed a law lifting the death penalty for most crimes. The sentences, by a state security court in the western city of Izmir, were levied against members of an urban guerrilla group, Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, for trying to subvert the constitutional order and shooting dead a Turkish soldier in Denizli Province in 1998. They were convicted of acts of terror. Full Story
Tigers' War Not Aimed At Creating Separate State: Chief
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
The Tamil Tigers yesterday declared their armed struggle was not aimed at creating a separate state, but demanded autonomy talks to end the decades-long bloodshed politically. It was the first time the group has said it was willing to negotiate something less than a separate state. The guerillas have been fighting for an independent Tamil homeland called Eelam. Full Story
J&K Gunbattle On; 19 Killed
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Ten Indian army soldiers and nine militants have beeen killed in a gunbattle in J&K which entered a second day on Wednesday, a defence spokesman said. The fighting started late on Tuesday when militants separatists ambushed an army convoy which was on its way to flush out militants at Hill Kakka near Surankote, 540 kilometres south of Srinagar. Full Story
Philippine Hostages Freed, Rebels Allowed to Leave
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
Muslim rebels freed 110 hostages in the southern Philippines Wednesday in a deal that allowed them to leave this largely Christian city after pitched gun battles with troops. Full Story
Report: Mullah Omar Tells Taliban to Stand and Fight
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar told the fundamentalist militia in a radio message Wednesday not to evacuate any areas still in their hands, Taliban sources at the Pakistani border said. Full Story
Air Force Poised to Strike in Space Shuttle Threat
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
The U.S. Air Force will throw up a 40-mile no-fly zone around the space shuttle Endeavour on launch day and back that up with enough fire power to assure a ``safe and secure'' launch, a senior space wing officer said on Tuesday. Full Story
U.S. Charges Brought Against 650 Since Sept. 11
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Federal criminal or immigration charges have been brought against more than 650 people since Sept. 11, including a number of ``suspected terrorists'' and suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcrof said on Tuesday. Full Story
Oil and gas industry on high alert
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 10:23 by TRC-News
The oil and gas industry is on especially high alert after a Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that Osama bin Laden may have ordered retaliatory strikes against North American natural gas facilities in event of his capture or death, industry sources said Monday. Full Story
Terrorism: Threat Assessment, Countermeasures, and Policy
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. Americans have known wars -- but for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941. Americans have known the casualties of war -- but not at the center of a great city on a peaceful morning. Full Story
Post-Sept. 11 bills are coming due
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 9:18 by TRC-News
In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress rode to the rescue of U.S. airlines with $15 billion in aid, and limited the legal liability of World Trade Center lease-holder Larry Silverstein, aircraft manufacturer Boeing and jet engine maker General Electric. But the latest signals from Washington suggest other industries hoping for taxpayer subsidies to help them pay for counter-terrorism measures may be disappointed. In most cases, American businesses will have to absorb the costs and decide how much to pass them on to their customers. Full Story
Journalists warned of 'Taliban plot'
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
The Foreign Affairs Department frantically called news organizations across the country Monday night warning of a Taliban plot to invite western journalists into Kandahar, then trap and use them as bargaining chips. Full Story
Nepal's Army in First Action Against Maoist Rebels
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Nepal's army launched an offensive for the first time against Maoist guerrillas as a fresh rebel attack was reported on Tuesday in the Himalayan kingdom. Full Story
CAR Rebels Seize Towns
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 9:06 by TRC-News
Rebel soldiers loyal to the Central African Republic's former army chief, Francois Bozize, are reported to have taken control of two towns on the country's northern border with Chad, in a fresh outbreak of fighting. Full Story
Iraq Rejects U.S. Call for Return of Inspectors
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Iraq rejected Tuesday a call by President Bush to let U.N. weapons inspectors back into the country to determine whether Iraq is building weapons of mass destruction. Full Story
Over 25 Dead in Philippine Fighting, Many Hostages
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Muslim gunmen fought pitched battles with Philippine troops on the outskirts of a major southern city on Tuesday and took scores of civilians hostage after at least 28 people were killed, officials said. Full Story
Palestinians Kill Two Israelis as U.S. Mission Starts
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
Palestinian gunmen attacked Tuesday just as a new U.S. peace mission began, killing two Israelis and wounding 36 people in a shooting spree at a crowded bus station and market in northern Israel. Full Story
Quebec Changes Passport Rules
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Quebec's provincial government is changing identification requirements in an effort to make it harder for terrorists and others to obtain Canadian passports. The move comes two years after Ahmed Ressam, who held a passport he obtained with a phony Quebec baptismal certificate, was arrested at the U.S. border with a trunkload of explosives apparently intended for a terror plot during millennium celebrations. Full Story
Senate Seeks Ashcroft 'Explanation'
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Lawmakers critical of the Justice Department's anti-terrorism campaign will hear directly from Attorney General John Ashcroft at Senate Judiciary Committee in early December. Full Story
Ham radio buffs tune in to the front lines
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Chet Autrey says he's learned a lot about the "touchy situation" going on in the Middle East. He's actually had conversations with Pakistani citizens living near their country's border with Afghanistan. Full Story
FBI joins search for top expert on viruses
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
The FBI is monitoring the investigation into the disappearance of a Harvard biologist because of his research into potentially lethal viruses, including Ebola. Full Story
US targets three more countries
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
The war on terrorism is to be extended to three new countries as soon as the campaign in Afghanistan is over. Targets linked to Osama Bin Laden in Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be at the top of the hit list, according to senior sources in London and Washington. Full Story
Pakistan Sees Security Threat From Taliban Collapse
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Fearing fighters from Afghanistan's embattled hard-line Taliban may try to flee into Pakistan, a senior official said Monday the southwestern border could soon be sealed even to vulnerable refugees. Full Story
Pipe Bomb Found Near Holy Cross School
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
A pipe bomb was found today near the route used by children going to school at Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast. Full Story
State of Emergency Sought in Nepal
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
The government on Monday asked King Gyanendra to declare a state of emergency in Nepal after Maoist rebels killed at least 76 soldiers, policemen and officials in weekend attacks. Full Story
Islamic Militant Blows Himself Up in Gaza Strip
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
An Islamic militant blew himself up Monday near an Israeli checkpoint in the northern Gaza Strip, as U.S. negotiators renewed efforts to end more than an year of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Full Story
US Hostages in Philippines Yearn for Their Children
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
An American missionary couple held hostage for six months by Philippine Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden were shown on local television on Monday, weeping and longing to be with their children. Full Story
CIA Agent Possibly Dead in Mazar Revolt - Media
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
The United States used heavily armed AC-130 gunships and MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters on Sunday to help Northern Alliance commanders crush a revolt by foreign Taliban prisoners at a mud-walled fort in northern Afghanistan, U.S. defense officials said. Full Story
U.S. Marines Set Up Bridgehead in Afghanistan
Posted Monday, November 26, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
U.S. Marines swooped into the Taliban's backyard, setting up a southern Afghan bridgehead Monday to take the war on Osama bin Laden and his protectors to a crucial new phase. Full Story
Terrorism and You -- The Real Odds
Posted Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 23:53 by TRC-News
The odds of dying in an automobile accident each year are about one in 7,000, yet we continue to drive. The odds of dying from heart disease in any given year are one in 400 and of dying from cancer one in 600, yet many of us fail to exercise or maintain a healthy diet. We have learned to live with these common threats to our health. Yet we have been afraid to return to the malls and the skies. Full Story
Al Qaeda Commanders Left Kandahar, Former Warlord Says
Posted Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:09 by TRC-News
The leaders of Arab and other foreign fighters defending Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in his southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar may have fled to Pakistan, a former warlord said. Full Story
Hamas Pledges Revenge for Killing
Posted Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:08 by TRC-News
The Islamic militant group Hamas threatened bloody revenge Saturday after the leader of its military wing in the West Bank and two other activists were killed in a targeted Israeli missile attack. Full Story
Three Held in Alleged Plot on Massachusetts School
Posted Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:07 by TRC-News
Three students were being held on Sunday, charged with planning a deadly assault on their high school that they promised would be ``bigger than Columbine,'' police said. Full Story
Most Americans want smallpox vaccination
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
Three-fifths of Americans say they would want a smallpox vaccination if it were widely available, according to an Associated Press poll that suggests continued nervousness about bioterrorism. Full Story
Rumsfeld: Leaflets offer $25 million for bin Laden
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
The United States is offering "substantial monetary rewards" as incentives to Afghans to rout Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda terrorists from caves and other suspected hiding places in Afghanistan, the top U.S. defense official said Monday. Full Story
The Specter of Nuclear Terror
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:23 by TRC-News
For most Americans there is no more frightening threat than terrorists with nuclear weapons. Assuming Osama bin Laden does not already have them — the assumption most experts make — everything possible must be done to prevent him or other terrorists from obtaining them. Full Story
Tom Ridge needs tools to win
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
The attacks of September 11 made it abundantly clear that our previous organizations and methods of coping with terrorism were woefully inadequate. On Oct. 8, President Bush appointed Tom Ridge to coordinate the administration's anti-terrorism efforts. Full Story
Militiamen Kidnap Six Mayors in Colombia to Protest Peace Efforts
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
A right-wing militia announced Monday it was holding six mayors hostage to protest their attempts to reach grassroots peace agreements with leftist guerrillas in Colombia. Full Story
Chile Says Letter Contained Anthrax; Would Be First Tainted Mail Outside United States
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
The government said Monday that a letter sent from Switzerland to Chile was tainted with anthrax. If confirmed, it would be the first case of the deadly bacteria in mail outside the United States since tainted letters raised a worldwide bioterrorism alarm in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story
Bomb Explodes at Algiers Bus Station, 18 Injured
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded at a busy bus station in central Algiers on Tuesday, wounding 18 students, three of them seriously, police and hospital sources said. The incident raised fears of an upsurge of violence by Islamic rebels during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began last Friday. Full Story
Armed Muslim Fighters Loom Over Philippine City
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
On a hill overlooking this major Christian city in the southern Philippines, armed Muslim fighters massed on Tuesday around a white machine-gun mounted mosque. Full Story
Israel Wrecks Gaza Homes; U.S. Declares Peace Mission
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
Israeli forces demolished Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, hours after Secretary of State Colin Powell announced a new U.S. peace mission to end nearly 14 months of violence. Full Story
U.S. Says Bin Laden Can Run but Not Hide
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
- Insisting that ``evil has no holy days,'' the United States bombarded strongholds of the strict Muslim Taliban in Afghanistan Tuesday and vowed to catch Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Same Source for Daschle, Leahy Anthrax Letters, FBI Says
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
An anthrax-contaminated letter to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and a second letter, believed tainted by anthrax, sent to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy were virtually identical and came from the same source, the FBI said on Monday. Full Story
Four Journalists Confirmed Killed in Afghan Ambush
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
Four journalists including two from Reuters were killed when gunmen ambushed their convoy, taking to seven the number of foreign correspondents killed covering the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, witnesses said on Tuesday. Full Story
Israel Kills 2 Palestinians; American School Hit
Posted Monday, November 19, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
The Israeli army's killing of two Palestinians and the shelling of an American school in the Gaza Strip triggered a new round of recriminations Monday, just before a long-awaited U.S. policy statement on the Middle East. Full Story
Ottawa Protestors Smash Windows of McDonald's
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:33 by TRC-News
Anti-capitalism demonstrators, marching under banners that said ``Smash the state'', taunted police and attacked a McDonald's restaurant in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Friday. Full Story
Aviation Security Legislation Heads to Bush
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:32 by TRC-News
President Bush's signature on major aviation security legislation passed by Congress may reassure holiday travelers that the government is taking substantial steps to protect them from would-be assailants. Immediate signs of change, however, will be minimal. Full Story
Rumsfeld: U.S. Forces in Ground Combat
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:32 by TRC-News
U.S. special forces troops have engaged in ground combat in Afghanistan, ``killing Taliban that won't surrender'' as well as al-Qaida terrorists, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday. Full Story
U.N. Seeks Broad-Based Government as Taliban Hold Out
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:31 by TRC-News
A U.N. envoy was trying on Sunday to persuade Afghanistan's resurgent Northern Alliance to meet soon with rival tribes to plan a broad-based government, as the Taliban held on to their shrinking pockets of the country. Full Story
Data recorder deepens crash mystery
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:30 by TRC-News
Far from explaining the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, the preliminary finding that the airliner encountered “wake turbulence” before plunging to earth adds to the mystery surrounding what investigators suspect was an unprecedented failure of the jet’s tail section, federal officials said Friday. Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered airlines to immediately inspect the tail sections of Airbus jets in their fleets to determine whether the crash exposed a broad new safety issue. Full Story
Leahy: Suspect letter may aid inquiry
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:29 by TRC-News
Sen. Patrick Leahy said Saturday he has no idea why someone would send him a letter suspected of containing anthrax, and expressed hope it might provide authorities with evidence to find whoever is responsible for the anthrax scare. Full Story
German Officials Find Letter From Suspected Hijacker
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:28 by TRC-News
Authorities have found a package containing a lengthy letter from suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah to his girlfriend, telling her he would not return from the United States, German prosecutors confirmed Saturday. Full Story
The FBI Spins Its Terrorism Web
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:17 by TRC-News
Seconds after United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the second World Trade Center tower the morning of Sept. 11, Timothy Healy raced 90 miles an hour down Interstate 79 toward his office. Full Story
Texas asking for $430 million to combat terrorism
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:16 by TRC-News
Texas needs more than $430 million to prepare for terrorism, according to a preliminary assessment sent to the federal government. Full Story
Rapid Changes on the Ground Lead the Pentagon to Focus on Counterguerrilla Tactics
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:14 by TRC-News
The pell-mell advances of rebel forces in Afghanistan have so outpaced expectations that American commanders are considering a new war plan that would scale back bombing raids and intensify counterguerrilla operations, senior officials said today. Full Story
Air risks remain, experts say
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:14 by TRC-News
Although aviation officials and senators portrayed airport security as visibly improved since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, they acknowledged Wednesday that major safety risks remain. Full Story
How Bin Laden's deputy became FBI's most wanted
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:12 by TRC-News
For more than three years there has been a $5m price on the head of Mohammed Atef, whose reported death yesterday in an American bombing attack just south of Kabul was reported yesterday. Full Story
Spain Detains Eight Terror Suspects
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:02 by TRC-News
Eight men detained by Spanish authorities were involved in preparations for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, a prosecutor alleged Sunday. Full Story
Tussle ahead on terror plan
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:02 by TRC-News
When Congress returns to work after Thanksgiving, Democrats and Republicans will find themselves quickly embroiled in a new fight over the best way to secure the nation from terrorism. Full Story
Abandoned al-Qaida Lab Found in Kabul
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:01 by TRC-News
Materials left behind in a compound used by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network - including a booklet offering advice on how to survive a nuclear explosion - suggest the terrorist group may have been trying to develop chemical arms and other unconventional weapons. Full Story
Ship Sinks with Banned Iraqi Oil, Pentagon Says
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:00 by TRC-News
An overloaded tanker allegedly smuggling 1,700 metric tons of Iraqi oil sank on Sunday in the North Arabian Gulf killing at least one Iraqi crew member after being boarded by a U.S. team enforcing U.N. sanctions, the Pentagon said. Full Story
Report: Secret CIA Units Play Key Afghanistan Role
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 11:59 by TRC-News
Secret CIA paramilitary units have been operating inside Afghanistan since late September and have helped provide vital intelligence for U.S. airstrikes targeting the leaders of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Full Story
Bin Laden Probably Still in Afghanistan, Powell Says
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 11:58 by TRC-News
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is probably still in Afghanistan with ever decreasing room to move, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday. Full Story
Defiant Taliban Say Bin Laden No Longer Their Guest
Posted Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 11:57 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's Taliban held firm in their stronghold, Kandahar, Sunday and mounted a bitter defense of their last stronghold in the north as their only envoy to the outside world said Osama bin Laden was no longer a guest. Full Story
The weakest link
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:42 by TRC-News
The recent anthrax scare, and the specter of an outbreak of smallpox or another deadly disease, has lent new significance to an ongoing federal program to develop a nationwide communications system for public health officials at the federal, state and local levels. Full Story
Grids, networks, infrastructure at risk
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:39 by TRC-News
The more things change, the more they stay the same: The Sept. 11th terrorist attacks only served to heighten awareness of the vulnerabilities that are woven into every aspect of the nation’s critical infrastructure. From financial networks to the power grid to the military logistical networks, the dependence on a wired, interconnected world is both blessing and curse. Full Story
An earlier case of anthrax?
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:39 by TRC-News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that it is testing the blood of a New Jersey physician who believes he might have contracted skin anthrax in the first week of September. The date is significant because it precedes the mailing of anthrax-tainted letters sent out on or around Sept. 18. Full Story
Al-Qaeda nukes may have reached US shores
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:37 by TRC-News
Already on high alert, United States security officials are having sleepless nights that Al Qaeda can strike in New York again on the occasion of United Nations General Assembly session. Investigators from Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) and American FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) are jointly probing into the possibilities of Al Qaeda possessing nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Full Story
The Network of Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:35 by TRC-News
The following is a U.S. State Department report recently issued on terrorism. Full Story
Helsinki Woman Says She Befriended Hijacker Online
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:33 by TRC-News
A woman who published a death notice in a Finnish newspaper for one of the suspected suicide hijackers in the September 11 attacks on U.S. landmarks claimed she had a warm relationship with him over the Internet. Full Story
Powell Links Terror to Poverty, Lack of Democracy
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:32 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday that eliminating poverty, conflict and undemocratic practices would help undermine terrorism and must be part of efforts to defeat it. Full Story
Court Convicts Four in Disco Bombing
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:32 by TRC-News
Fifteen years after the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque that killed two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman, a Berlin court convicted four defendants Tuesday in an attack that the United States claimed was ordered by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Full Story
Pakistan Does Not Want Northern Alliance in Kabul
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:29 by TRC-News
Pakistani said on Tuesday it did not want the Northern Alliance to occupy the Afghan capital, Kabul, and said no single group was able to bring peace to the war-ravaged country. Full Story
Spain Arrests Nine with Suspected Bin Laden Links
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:28 by TRC-News
Spanish authorities arrested nine people on Tuesday suspected of having links to the international network of Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect behind the September 11 attack in the United States. Full Story
Opposition Fighters March Into Kabul, Taliban Flee
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:27 by TRC-News
Greeted by cheering residents, opposition fighters captured Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Tuesday in defiance of international pressure to stay out, after the city was abandoned by the Taliban under cover of darkness. Full Story
U.S. Special Forces Land at Airport Near Kabul
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:26 by TRC-News
A team of U.S. special forces dressed in civilian clothes and carrying M-16 assault rifles landed by helicopter at Bagram airbase north of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, a Reuters reporter said. Full Story
New York City Plane Crash Kills 265
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 7:25 by TRC-News
Investigators scoured wreckage in search of the flight data recorder from a Dominican Republic-bound jetliner that crashed in a waterfront neighborhood, killing at least 265 people in the latest aviation calamity to strike the nation. Full Story
Terrorist Crackdown Leaves Al-Barakaat Site Online
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:49 by TRC-News
Federal agents today shut down offices operated by two terrorist organizations in the United States, but the Web site of one of the groups is still online and hosted by Internet media giant Yahoo. Full Story
Security Tightened in International Schools
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:49 by TRC-News
The police vowed on Wednesday to increase security at international schools in the aftermath of a grenade explosion in the courtyard of the Australian International School (AIS) in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta on Tuesday night. Full Story
Musharraf Says Bombing Must Stop Soon
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:48 by TRC-News
The U.S.-led military attacks on Afghanistan should be stopped as soon as possible because the whole world sees them as a war against innocent civilians, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday. Full Story
Gunman Is Killed at Base in Qatar Used by the U.S.
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:47 by TRC-News
A gunman was shot and killed today after he opened fire at American and Qatari troops guarding an air base in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar that was being used by American military aircraft. The attack added to concerns in a region made uneasy by the war in Afghanistan. Full Story
Owens wants Colorado security agency
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:46 by TRC-News
Gov. Bill Owens plans to ask lawmakers to fund a Colorado office of homeland security in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent threat of bioterrorism. Full Story
Inability to Trace Anthrax Poses Large Security Threat, Experts Say
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:44 by TRC-News
Iraq had always said that its Al Hakam factory made pesticides out of harmless bacteria, a common process in the world of agriculture. But when Richard Spertzel visited in 1994, he decided something was not right. Full Story
U.S. Officials Reorganize Strategy on Bioterrorism
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:43 by TRC-News
Federal health officials have begun reorganizing their approach to fighting bioterrorism, an effort that critics in and outside of government say has been marred by mixed messages, bureaucratic infighting and lack of experience. Full Story
State officials assess needs for response to bioterrorism
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:42 by TRC-News
If there is one positive to the wave of anthrax-by-mail attacks around the country, it is that they did not hit California first. The state, like most others, needed more time to prepare. Full Story
Center Works to Protect Communications Infrastructure
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:42 by TRC-News
America is a cyber nation. In this post-industrial world, moving information is as important as moving people or things. If you wanted to cripple America, one of the things you might strike is the telecommunications network. Fortunately, Americans are thinking of this possibility and are working together to protect this crucial national resource. Full Story
FTC, FDA target bioterrorism Web sites
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
The government is investigating hundreds of Internet sites offering products to counter bioterrorism. The Federal Trade Commission disclosed the widening investigation Tuesday, telling a lawmaker that more Web sites claiming to fight bioterrorism are being launched every day. The Food and Drug Administration last week took the first step in shutting down 11 foreign pharmacies illegally selling Cipro via the Internet. The FDA said it had no way to tell if the alleged Cipro sold on those Web sites was real or had been manufactured safely. It is illegal to sell antibiotics over the Internet without a proper doctor's prescription. Full Story
The dark side of biotech: 'Supergerms' feared as terrorist weapon
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
Galvanized by the recent anthrax attacks, molecular biologists are warning that genetic engineering has the potential to create even more fearsome germs. Full Story
Businesses Linked to Terrorists Are Raided
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:39 by TRC-News
The Bush administration yesterday launched a round of domestic raids and international banking actions to shut down two financial networks it accused of funding Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist organization. Full Story
Iraqi Defectors Detail Secret School for Terrorists
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001 - 9:37 by TRC-News
Two defectors from Iraqi intelligence said Wednesday they had worked for several years at a secret Iraqi government camp that trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of five or six months since 1995. They said that the training in the camp, south of Baghdad, was aimed at carrying out attacks against neighboring states and possibly Europe and the United States. Full Story
Bush Threatens to Veto Spending Bill
Posted Wednesday, November 7, 2001 - 8:03 by TRC-News
President Bush promised congressional leaders Tuesday that he would veto any emergency legislation that exceeds the $40 billion Congress has already provided for anti-terrorism efforts. Full Story
Attack on Quetta Airport
Posted Wednesday, November 7, 2001 - 8:02 by TRC-News
Police in the Pakistani city of Quetta are investigating an attack by unidentified armed men on its main airport that left one security guard dead. Quetta is near the volatile Afghanistan border and police say the attack could be linked to the American bombing campaign against the Taleban. Full Story
Taliban Hunt and Execute Afghan Ex-King Supporters
Posted Wednesday, November 7, 2001 - 8:01 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban have executed the captured nephew of slain former mujahideen commander Abdul Haq and are hunting a tribal leader and fellow supporter of ex-King Zahir Shah, family members said on Wednesday. Full Story
Bush to Announce Terrorism Financing Crackdown
Posted Wednesday, November 7, 2001 - 8:00 by TRC-News
President Bush on Wednesday will announce new steps in his attempt to crack down on the financing of terrorism, aides said. Full Story
FBI: Bridges Threat Not Credible
Posted Tuesday, November 6, 2001 - 22:42 by TRC-News
The FBI concluded Tuesday that the raw intelligence behind last week's warning that terrorists might attack West Coast bridges was not credible. Full Story
Bin Laden's terror will outlast him
Posted Tuesday, November 6, 2001 - 22:38 by TRC-News
In remarks believed to reflect fears in Western intelligence organisations that bin Laden will have given orders for further attacks in the event of his being captured or killed in Afghanistan, Mr Straw says that he has always worked on the basis that terrorist cells operating under al-Qaeda’s umbrella would continue for a period after the destruction of the network in Afghanistan. Full Story
Bush Warns Bin Laden Wants Nuclear Weapons
Posted Tuesday, November 6, 2001 - 22:38 by TRC-News
President Bush warned on Tuesday for the first time that Osama bin Laden's network was seeking nuclear weapons, rallying European allies to fight what he called a threat to ``every nation and, eventually, to civilization itself.'' Full Story
Qatar Promises Security for WTO
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:54 by TRC-News
As a country in a Muslim region not that far from the war in Afghanistan, this Persian Gulf state had to fight to keep this week's World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. Full Story
Many Saudis Back Bin Laden
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:53 by TRC-News
As the Saudi-born dissident Osama Bin Laden's latest broadcast denounces Muslims who support the US strikes on Afghanistan - such as the Saudi Government - many ordinary Saudis remain loyal to their home-grown idol. Full Story
Israeli Pullout Resumes, Despite Gunman's Attack on Bus
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:52 by TRC-News
Israeli forces began pulling out early this morning from a Palestinian-controlled city in the West Bank, despite an attack on Sunday by a Palestinian gunman who emptied a semiautomatic rifle into a city bus here, killing two teenagers and wounding dozens of other Israelis. Full Story
4 killed in Suicide Attack on Army Camp
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:52 by TRC-News
A suicide squad of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) struck at an Army camp, triggering a fierce encounter in which four soldiers and a militant were killed and five Jawans injured in Anantnag district of south Kashmir, official sources said Sunday. Full Story
Gunmen Kill 10 in San Salvador Hotel
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:51 by TRC-News
Gunmen burst into a bar and attached hotel in a San Salvador neighborhood and killed 10 people in an execution-style slaying that could be related to the drug trade, police said Friday. Full Story
Coup Crushed, Says Comoros Leader
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:51 by TRC-News
The ruler of the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan told Reuters on Sunday that he had crushed a coup attempt by soldiers launched two days ago in which one person was killed. Full Story
Leftist Rebels Kill Three Policemen, Kidnap at Least 11 People in Colombia
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:47 by TRC-News
Fighters from Colombia's largest rebel group killed three policemen and kidnapped at least 11 civilians over the weekend, authorities said Sunday. Separately, gunmen abducted a judge and three lawyers Sunday in Antioquia province north of Bogota, the army said. It wasn't immediately clear who the captors were. Full Story
Russian Germ Warfare Experts Raise Smallpox Alarm
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:46 by TRC-News
Former Soviet germ warfare scientists, warning that rogue powers could lure underpaid Russian researchers, called Monday for wide reintroduction of worldwide vaccination against the now extinct smallpox virus. Full Story
U.S. Pounds Taliban; Anthrax Turns Up at Pentagon
Posted Monday, November 5, 2001 - 11:46 by TRC-News
U.S. aircraft maintained their relentless assault on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Monday as traces of anthrax showed up at the Pentagon, one of the targets of the Sept. 11 hijack attacks on the United States that plunged the world into crisis. Full Story
Hijackers' Meticulous Strategy of Brains, Muscle and Practice
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:24 by TRC-News
American Airlines Flight 11 was in line for takeoff from Logan International Airport, the passengers already reminded to turn off personal electronic devices, when Mohamed Atta, in seat 8D in business class, dialed his cellphone for the last time. Full Story
Revealed: the bloody pages of Al-Qaeda's killing manual
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:23 by TRC-News
A unique manual for Islamic terrorists, detailing every aspect of how to fight a guerrilla war, from biochemical attacks to finding the fatal pressure point during hand-to-hand combat, has been obtained by western intelligence agencies. The 7,000-page guide - entitled Encyclopaedia of Jihad - provides an insight into how terrorists from Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network operate in both urban environments and on the battlefield. Full Story
Terrorism fear reaches into rural town
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:20 by TRC-News
Tucked deep in the Appalachian Mountains, this one-stoplight town of 1,545 residents along the Meadow River has always seemed far removed from what's happening in the rest of the world. Full Story
Suicide warriors: Dying for a cause
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:19 by TRC-News
Even if the war in Afghanistan ends in a victory of sorts, even if Osama bin Laden is captured or killed, even if Islamic grievances are addressed and political talks begun, will the threat of terrorist attacks on the West disappear? No, say terrorism analysts, likely not for years. Full Story
Manila Rejects Talks with Kidnappers
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:11 by TRC-News
The Philippines military has rejected calls by Muslim rebels to negotiate for the release of hostages. The Abu Sayyaf have offered to negotiate over the release of two Americans and about nine Filipinos they are holding on the southern island of Basilan. The group, accused by the US of having links with Osama Bin Laden's militant al-Qaeda network - have evaded capture for more than five months. Full Story
Israeli Killed in West Bank; Gunmen Escape
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:10 by TRC-News
Suspected Palestinian gunmen killed one Israeli and wounded another in the West Bank on Friday, as thousands of Palestinians marched in a funeral procession for two militants whose car was attacked Thursday by Israeli helicopters. Full Story
Al Qaeda terrorist worked with FBI
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:09 by TRC-News
A former U.S. Army sergeant who trained Osama bin Laden's bodyguards and helped plan the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya was a U.S. government informant during much of his terrorist career, according to sources familiar with his case. Full Story
Arabs Dismiss Bin Laden Appeal, Syria Rips U.S.
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:07 by TRC-News
The head of the 22-nation Arab League Sunday dismissed an appeal by Osama bin Laden to Muslims to join a holy war against the West, saying the Saudi militant did not speak for the world's Arabs and Muslims. Full Story
U.S. Says More Special Forces in Afghanistan
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:06 by TRC-News
The United States again struck Taliban front lines in Afghanistan on Sunday and its military leaders said they had seriously damaged the ability of the country's fundamentalist Islamic rulers to govern, communicate or defend themselves. Full Story
U.S. Vaccinates Medical Workers Against Smallpox
Posted Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 19:05 by TRC-News
The United States, fearful of a bioterrorism attack similar to the anthrax scare sweeping the country, said on Sunday key front-line medical workers were being vaccinated against smallpox. Full Story
National Guard patrols California bridges
Posted Saturday, November 3, 2001 - 7:38 by TRC-News
National Guard troops armed with M-16 rifles stood watch at San Francisco�s Golden Gate and Bay bridges as a warning of terrorist attacks shifted the nation�s anxiety from the East Coast to the West. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said that law enforcement officials must stay on alert �indefinitely� to deter terrorist attacks. Full Story
BA imposes terror surcharge
Posted Saturday, November 3, 2001 - 7:37 by TRC-News
British Airways is to charge passengers an extra �2.50 on every journey from next weekend in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks. The charge, which will be added to the cost of every ticket issued after November 9, will pay for higher insurance costs and better security. Full Story
Agencies rev up security, data-sharing projects following attacks
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:11 by TRC-News
Since Sept. 11, federal agencies across government have accelerated deadlines for the development of major technology projects aimed at helping to fight the war on terrorism. Full Story
Coast Guard on Guard, to Meet Terrorism Threat
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:10 by TRC-News
America has more than 95,000 miles of coastline and hundreds of major sea and river ports, not to mention myriad inland lakes and rivers. The Million-Dollar question: Who protects all of this shoreline and waterways against possible terrorism? The Navy? Is that your final answer? Wrong … the correct response is the United States Coast Guard. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd class Bill Holton (left) and Seaman David Overton prepare to cast off lines at James Creek Marina in Washington, D.C. to begin a patrol of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, the national capital's major waterways. Full Story
Nuclear agency warns of threat
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:09 by TRC-News
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is calling on the world's nuclear powers to tighten security at their nuclear plants to avoid them being targeted by terrorists. Full Story
In assessing threats, experts see many scenarios
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:08 by TRC-News
Since being jolted by the terrorist attacks and the persistent, mysterious spread of anthrax, the U.S. government has been struggling to discern what, if any, weapon might be next. Full Story
Turkey Sends Special Elite Forces to Afghanistan
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:06 by TRC-News
Ankara has decided to send a 90-person special forces team to Afghanistan, upon the U.S request made last week that Turkey take part in the operations with the U.S. forces in fighting terrorists, protecting innocent civilians, and coordinating with the Northern Alliance forces. Full Story
Runny nose a clue it’s not anthrax
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:05 by TRC-News
Doctors have a new clue to help sort out whether people with aches and coughs have the ominous first signs of inhaled anthrax or ordinary colds and flu: Anthrax victims don’t have runny noses. Full Story
House passes air security bill
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:04 by TRC-News
The House passed aviation security legislation Thursday after rejecting a Senate version that would have turned airport screening operations over to federal employees. The vote was a major victory for the White House and its Republican allies, and sets tougher safety standards for private contractors at airports in the wake of the Sept 11 hijack attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
Anthrax in N.Y. death matches letters
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:01 by TRC-News
The anthrax that killed a New York hospital worker matches the germs found in threatening letters sent to media outlets and the Senate majority leader, health officials announced Thursday. The finding suggests that the victim’s infection came from the same source even though investigators have found “no clues” that the woman came into contact with contaminated mail. Meanwhile the first confirmed case of anthrax outside the United States in the latest outbreak was reported Friday when a major Pakistani newspaper said it received a contaminated letter. Full Story
Bye Bye Birdies
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 8:00 by TRC-News
So you have your Cipro, your gas mask, your canned water and your crank-powered radio. You have a bike locked on the other side of the East River and your escape route is all planned out. You’ll be fine. Unless, of course, you’re in the shower alone in your apartment when it happens, the radio and TV happen to be off, and whatever it is that’s supposed to kill you doesn’t smell like anything. Full Story
Terrorists and use of hidden messages
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 7:55 by TRC-News
Following publication of this article, Telepolis was contacted by Stephen Whitelaw of Iomart, the Scottish internet company which claimed to have been asked by US intelligence to track steganographic communications on the internet used by Osama bin Laden. He admitted that the press stories were wrong. Full Story
Plot to raid WTC gold vaults revealed
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 7:53 by TRC-News
A daring plot to steal bullion from vaults beneath the collapsed World Trade Centre has been revealed by police as workers removed gold and silver valued at $452 million. Scorch marks around the basement door to the vaults suggested thieves had tried to break in to steal the precious metals, belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia. Full Story
Bin Laden Criticizes Pakistan
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 7:52 by TRC-News
A statement attributed to Osama bin Laden criticizes the government of Muslim Pakistan for standing ``under the banner of the cross'' and calls on Pakistanis to ``make Islam victorious.'' Full Story
Anthrax Found in Pakistan, First Case Outside U.S.
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 7:51 by TRC-News
A Pakistan newspaper editor said Friday a white powder in an envelope hand-delivered to his paper last week had tested positive for anthrax spores, the first confirmed case of its kind outside the United States. Full Story
U.S. Carpet-Bombs Taliban, on Attack Alert at Home
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 7:50 by TRC-News
U.S. B-52s carpet-bombed front lines of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban north of the capital Kabul on Friday, ahead of a promised offensive by the Taliban's civil war foes. Full Story
Bin Laden Network Reportedly Profited in Diamond Trade
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 7:49 by TRC-News
Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network has collected millions of dollars in the past three years from the illicit sale of diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone, The Washington Post reported on Friday. Full Story
California cites 'credible threat' against bridges
Posted Friday, November 2, 2001 - 7:45 by TRC-News
California officials said Thursday they are beefing up security at the state's suspension bridges after receiving a threat to destroy one of them. "We believe there is a credible threat that there will be an effort made between November 2nd and November 7th to destroy one of those bridges," Gov. Gray Davis said. The National Guard has been authorized to assign troops to protect the bridges, he said. Full Story
Anthrax victim’s movements traced
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:24 by TRC-News
With preliminary tests finding no signs of anthrax at the workplace and home of a New York City hospital employee who died early Wednesday, investigators were trying to trace her recent movements to determine how she came into contact with the deadly spores. The 61-year-old woman’s death from inhalation anthrax was the fourth fatality in a month of bioterrorism, but the first in which authorities have been unable to pinpoint a source of infection. Full Story
Experts warn bioterror could expand
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:24 by TRC-News
Public health officials scrambled yesterday to investigate the mysterious infection and death of a New York woman from inhalation anthrax, as experts warned Americans that the wave of bioterrorism could expand in coming days. Full Story
Nation preparing for more terrorism
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:23 by TRC-News
While authorities try to cope with the anthrax outbreak, federal and state officials are taking steps to prepare for a possible escalation of terrorism that experts say could include truck bombings and attacks on nuclear power plants as well as more hijackings. Full Story
Protecting America: Top Ten Approaches
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:21 by TRC-News
The turning point was a long time coming. In the weeks before, federal officials had speculated that the victim of the first, fatal case of anthrax by mail had been exposed to the deadly microbe while drinking out of a stream in North Carolina. Full Story
Cops on alert: For what, they have no idea
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:20 by TRC-News
The latest FBI warning sent to 18,000 law enforcement agencies could hardly be more vague: Some kind of terrorist attack might come, somewhere, sometime soon. Full Story
Nuclear plants tighten security
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:19 by TRC-News
As the nation again stands on high alert, the FBI is searching for six men stopped by police in the Midwest last weekend but released -- even though they possessed photos and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline, a senior law enforcement official said Tuesday. Full Story
The War At Home
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:15 by TRC-News
Tom Ridge may have the toughest job in America. The newly appointed director of the White House Office of Homeland Security is expected to craft a “coordinated, integrated and comprehensive national strategy to combat domestic terrorism,” according to White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. To do so, he will need to harmonize the activities of more than 40 federal offices and agencies—and hundreds of state, local and private organizations—to deal with one of the most dangerous, unpredictable and complex threats the nation has ever faced. Full Story
Spain Moves on ETA Suspects
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:14 by TRC-News
Thirteen people have been arrested in Spain in pre-dawn raids targeted on supporters of the Basque separatist group ETA. Police say those held are linked to groups that support ETA prisoners, but they are suspected of being active members themselves. Full Story
Gunmen Open Fire On Students Near Hebrew University
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:13 by TRC-News
Palestinian gunmen opened fire overnight on an Israeli vehicle on the main approach road to Jerusalem's Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus. Full Story
Explosion in a Guatemala City Restaurant Kills One, Injures 16
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:12 by TRC-News
A gas leak triggered an explosion in a crowded steakhouse on the outskirts of Guatemala's capital Tuesday, killing one person and seriously injuring 16 others. Full Story
British Man Killed in Colombia Clash Believed Kidnapped by Guerrillas
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:12 by TRC-News
After four months of trekking through Latin America, a British backpacker took a late-night bus in one of the most dangerous regions of Colombia. It was a risky move, and one that proved fatal. Full Story
Explosion Kills One, Injures Three, in Legislator's House in Albania
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:11 by TRC-News
An explosion rocked the home of a parliamentary deputy Wednesday, killing his niece and injuring three other family members, government officials said. The blast shook the home of Azgan Haklaj of the Democratic Party at 2 a.m., said Florjan Serjani of the Interior Ministry. The explosion killed Haklaj's 26-year-old niece, Shote. Full Story
India Says Pakistan Making Provocative Troop Moves
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:10 by TRC-News
India said Thursday the Pakistani army had moved some offensive formations closer to the border including along a sensitive stretch in the bitterly disputed Kashmir region. Full Story
U.S. Sees Increased Potential for Nuclear Attack
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:09 by TRC-News
The Sept. 11 attacks have increased concerns that extremists would use weapons of mass destruction -- including possibly nuclear weapons -- against the United States, Undersecretary of State John Bolton said on Wednesday. Full Story
Israel Kills 2 Palestinians; Blair Begins Visit
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:08 by TRC-News
An Israeli missile strike killed two Palestinian militants in the West Bank on Thursday, hours before British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Israel to seek an end to year-long violence. Full Story
U.S. Increases Vigilance at Borders
Posted Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7:07 by TRC-News
The government is increasing vigilance at the nation's borders with better background checks and coordinated enforcement designed to bar suspected terrorists and their supporters. Full Story
Indonesia to freeze terror groups' assets
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 7:05 by TRC-News
Indonesia will freeze local assets and bank accounts of any groups suspected of having links to terrorist activities, the official Antara news agency reported on Wednesday. Full Story
Pentagon Seeks Tinkerers Against Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 7:04 by TRC-News
In peacetime, the press release might have passed without much notice. "Pentagon Seeks Ideas on Combating Terrorism," it said. Please submit a one-page description of your idea to the Department of Defense by Dec. 23. Full Story
New gunbattles kill 20 in Kashmir
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 7:03 by TRC-News
Police said 20 people were killed on Tuesday in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir, where separatist violence has escalated since the start of U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan. Full Story
Police brace for possible attacks
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 7:02 by TRC-News
Government officials said Tuesday they issued the latest warning of a possible terrorist attack after getting intelligence from sources in the United States and abroad, including reports of the movements of al-Qaida terrorists overseas. Officials said they suspect Osama bin Laden’s inner circle may have issued new orders for attacks against Americans and are concerned the terrorists might strike even if bombing cuts them off from their central command in Afghanistan. Full Story
Puzzling new anthrax cases probed
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 7:01 by TRC-News
Public health experts on Tuesday studied two puzzling new cases in which anthrax has for the first time spread to people who work for neither the government nor the media. The new cases involve a New Jersey businesswoman confirmed to have the skin-transmitted form of the disease and a New York City hospital worker who is “struggling for her survival” after being diagnosed with inhalation anthrax. Another case of inhalation anthrax was confirmed in a New Jersey postal worker, bringing to 10 the number of people known to have contracted the more-serious form of the disease. Full Story
Americans Aid Philippines in Fight Against Terrorist Group
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 7:00 by TRC-News
American military officers are in the Philippines providing advice in the fight against a terrorist group linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today. Full Story
Bomb Blast Rocks South Sulawesi's Gowa
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 6:59 by TRC-News
A strong blast has severely damaged a community health center (Puskesmas) in the village of Bontobiraeng, Gowa regency, some 50 kilometers south of South Sulawesi's capital Makassar, on Tuesday. Full Story
Maoist Guerrillas Blast Railroad Station, Telephone Exchange in Southern India
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 6:59 by TRC-News
Maoist guerrillas of two different groups blew up a railroad station and a telephone exchange in the southern Andhra Pradesh state, police said. Armed rebels of the outlawed Peoples' War Group burst into Koneru railroad station, asked the staff on duty to evacuate and then blasted it with explosives Sunday night, said Sujat Ali, the police spokesman. Full Story
U.S. Issues New 'Terror' List of 200 Names
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 6:56 by TRC-News
The United States, widening its offensive against terrorism, has released a new list of some 200 individuals it suspects of having links to September's attacks, Britain's financial regulator said on Tuesday. Full Story
Ridge Emphasizes Terrorism Warning
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 6:54 by TRC-News
The FBI issued its latest nationwide terrorist alert following ``the convergence of information from credible sources,'' Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Tuesday, material deemed related to Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaida network. Full Story
Canada Says Its Tip-Off Led to Ashcroft Warning
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 6:53 by TRC-News
A Canadian tip-off helped lead to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's warning on Monday of possible new terrorist attacks, Canadian Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay said on Tuesday. Full Story
Bush Attends World Series Despite New Threats
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 6:52 by TRC-News
Shrugging off new terror threats, President Bush traveled to a packed and patriotic Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night to open the third game of baseball's World Series with a perfect strike. Full Story
Anthrax Found in Three More Post Offices
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 6:51 by TRC-News
New York suffered its first case of inhalation anthrax on Tuesday and spores were detected in three more postal facilities in the Washington area and Florida as U.S. authorities battled to find those responsible for the germ warfare attacks. Full Story
U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, More Could Follow
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 6:51 by TRC-News
The United States, fearing new terror of an unknown nature and fighting an anthrax outbreak of uncertain origin, held out the prospect on Tuesday of a Gulf War-style invasion to crush the Taliban and their al Qaeda allies in Afghanistan. Full Story
Ashcroft: New terror attack possible
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 23:40 by TRC-News
The United States should be on heightened alert in the coming days because of possible new terrorist action, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday afternoon. Full Story
Anthrax in 3 more U.S. buildings
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:23 by TRC-News
The rash of anthrax contaminations in government buildings continued to spread Monday as officials announced that the potentially deadly bacteria had been discovered in mailrooms at the U.S. Supreme Court, the State Department and in the building that houses the Health and Human Services Department. At the State Department, officials told NBC News that spores also were found on mail sent to a department program soliciting tips on terrorists. Full Story
San Jose Emergency Plans Set Example
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:22 by TRC-News
To understand why the San Jose department of emergency services is considered one of the best prepared in the nation, consider its recent handling of an attack of confetti. Full Story
Giuliani: FBI Must Share Terror Data
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:19 by TRC-News
The FBI should be required to share information on efforts to fight terrorism with local law enforcement in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Monday. Full Story
The making of the world's most wanted man: Part 1
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:17 by TRC-News
What drove a rich Saudi boy to become a terrorist mastermind? After months of interviews, and gathering startling new testimony from al-Qaeda associates and enemies around the world, Afghanistan specialist Jason Burke sifts fact from rumour to provide the fullest account yet of the life of Osama bin Laden. Full Story
CIA Weighs 'Targeted Killing' Missions
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:16 by TRC-News
Armed with new authority from President Bush for a global campaign against al Qaeda, the Central Intelligence Agency is contemplating clandestine missions expressly aimed at killing specified individuals for the first time since the assassination scandals and consequent legal restraints of the 1970s. Full Story
P.M. May Have Been Target of S.Lanka Campaign Blast
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:15 by TRC-News
An explosion rocked the capital of Sri Lanka on Monday at the start of a parliamentary election campaign, killing at least three people in an attack that may have been targeted at the prime minister, officials said. Full Story
'Peace Is Possible,' Basque Separatist Group Says
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:15 by TRC-News
The Basque separatist group E.T.A., becoming isolated since the Sept. 11 attacks and the Irish Republican Army's decision to disarm, said today that it wanted peace but only if the governments in Madrid and Paris allowed a vote on independence for the region. Full Story
Abu Sayyaf Blamed for Bomb Blast
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:14 by TRC-News
The food court was busy as the bomb went off. The authorities in the Philippines have blamed the Muslim-separatist group Abu Sayyaf for a bomb attack in a crowded shopping mall which killed at least 11 people. Interior Secretary Joey Lina said on Filipino television that the Abu Sayyaf were behind the attack although he said police had yet to pinpoint the identity of the bombers. Full Story
Bus Blast in Quetta
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:13 by TRC-News
Three people have died and at least 18 were wounded in a bomb explosion on a bus in the city of Quetta in south-western Pakistan, police say. The bomb went off as the bus was passing through a military district of the city. One report says it was hidden in a radio. Full Story
Rumsfeld: Iraq May Be Target
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:13 by TRC-News
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he cannot rule out military action against Iraq in the US-led war on terrorism. He was speaking after the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Tariq Aziz, said he believed the US planned to attack 300 Iraqi targets with 1,000 missiles. Full Story
Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Wolf Blitzer, CNN
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:11 by TRC-News
In a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer October 28, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reiterated that the war on terrorism will be a long process. Full Story
Tests on Hijack Suspects' Cars Show No Anthrax
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:10 by TRC-News
Amid speculation over a possible link between the anthrax cases in the United States and the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks, federal agents have tested cars owned by two of the suspected hijackers for anthrax but they showed no trace of spores, the FBI said on Monday. Full Story
Supreme Court Meets in New Location Due to Anthrax
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:10 by TRC-News
- The U.S. Supreme Court convened on Monday at a different location for the first time since its building opened in 1935 after discovering anthrax in its basement mailroom. Full Story
Israeli Army Completes Bethlehem Pullout
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 14:09 by TRC-News
- Israel completed its withdrawal of troops from Bethlehem on Monday, but said a pullout from other reoccupied Palestinian areas would depend on whether Israeli security demands were met. Full Story
U.S. Bombs Former Bin Laden Hideout
Posted Monday, October 29, 2001 - 12:35 by TRC-News
U.S. bombers hit an area of caves and tunnels in eastern Afghanistan on Monday known as a hideout of Osama bin Laden, killing two people. Full Story
IRA Disarmament Turns Up Heat on Renegade Militias
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 22:24 by TRC-News
Pressure piled up on pro-British militias in Northern Ireland to give up their weapons after the province's disarmament body confirmed the Irish Republican Army has scrapped part of its huge arsenal. Full Story
Three Anthrax Letters Dated Sept. 11
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 22:24 by TRC-News
Three letters contaminated with anthrax all were dated the same day as the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington and contained anti-American and anti-Israel messages, officials said Tuesday. Full Story
Two Deaths Confirmed as Anthrax; W.House Targeted
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 22:23 by TRC-News
The deadliest form of anthrax claimed the lives of two Washington postal workers and traces of the germ warfare agent were detected at a military facility that screens all mail bound for the White House, officials said on Tuesday. Full Story
More Casualties Likely at Home Than Abroad -Cheney
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 22:22 by TRC-News
The U.S. war on terrorism will likely cause more casualties at home than among troops overseas, Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said on Tuesday. Full Story
Cost of anti-terrorism measures mounts in Baltimore
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:48 by TRC-News
Officials project the cost of Baltimore's anti-terrorism effort will exceed $9 million this fiscal year, a significant burden for a cash-poor city still struggling to cut crime. Full Story
Terrorism changes way businesses deal with travel
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:47 by TRC-News
It's been a month and a half since terrorists turned American life upside down, and for many companies that do business throughout the nation and the world, business as usual has been grounded indefinitely. Full Story
Terrorism has sparked confusion
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:47 by TRC-News
John McCain called to try to talk me down. I put aside "Scourge," the book I was reading about smallpox and listened. "There's nothing wrong with being afraid," the senator said in that soft, reassuring voice. "Every time I heard the guard's key chain rattle when he came to my cell at an odd hour, I felt fear, but it didn't incapacitate me." Full Story
US Extends Anti-anthrax Operation
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:44 by TRC-News
The United States authorities have unveiled details of a huge new security operation aimed at curbing the spread of anthrax.
It is very clear that their symptoms are suspicious and their deaths are likely due to anthrax The announcement came as the deaths of two postal workers in Washington DC who died from unexplained causes were linked to the disease. Full Story
Japan's Subway Woes
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:36 by TRC-News
Commuter trains - once a symbol of Japan's safety and efficiency - have come to represent something entirely different: danger. 'It's scary just to get to work every day,' said Mr Miwa Sakaguchi, a 25-year-old office worker. 'And things aren't getting any better.' Full Story
Blasts Rock Macedonia Village
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:34 by TRC-News
Two explosions have rocked the village of Tearce in north-western Macedonia, just hours after the country's first ethnically mixed police units began patrolling there. Full Story
Security Services in Indonesia Do a Roaring Trade
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:33 by TRC-News
Bucking the trend of depressed business in the wake of terrorist attacks in the US, security firms are experiencing a boom. While Indonesia's tourism and export sectors have suffered from the nationwide anti-US protests sweeping the country this month, at least one industry is experiencing a mini-boom, office and home security providers, industry sources said. Full Story
IRA Has Started to Disarm, Reports Say
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:30 by TRC-News
The Irish Republican Army, in a historic move aimed at boosting the battered Northern Ireland peace process, has said it has started to disarm, British media reported Tuesday. Full Story
Britain Says Nine Al Qaeda Camps Destroyed
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 12:29 by TRC-News
Britain said Tuesday U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan had destroyed nine al Qaeda training camps and severely damaged nine airfields and 24 military barracks. Full Story
Baton-Wielding Pakistani Police End Anti-U.S. Protest
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 11:53 by TRC-News
Baton-wielding police beat back protesters demonstrating against a U.S. military presence in Pakistan Tuesday, injuring 14 people and arresting about 100. Full Story
Al Qaeda's Tracks Deepen in Europe
Posted Monday, October 22, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Telephone wiretaps and listening devices planted in the apartment of a 33-year-old Tunisian here have produced evidence that a network of terrorist recruits trained at Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan has fanned out to a half-dozen European countries, according to Italian investigators. Full Story
26 Abu Sayyaf Gunmen and One Soldier Killed
Posted Monday, October 22, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
At least 26 Abu Sayyaf gunmen and one soldier were killed yesterday while nine other government troops were wounded in fierce clashes in the southern Philippines, an army official said. Full Story
US Media Firms in Indian-Kashmir Get Mail Containing White Powder
Posted Monday, October 22, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
Three media offices in Indian-controlled Kashmir, including two US-based organisations, have received letters containing suspicious white powder, police sources said Monday. Full Story
China 'Bought Unexploded US Missiles Off bin Laden'
Posted Monday, October 22, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
China paid Osama bin Laden several million dollars for access to unexploded United States cruise missiles left over from the US attack on his bases three years ago, a senior alleged al-Qaeda agent in Europe has claimed. Full Story
Musharraf Urges End to Afghan Bombing by Ramadan
Posted Monday, October 22, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf warned Monday that if U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan extended into the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, they would have a negative effect in the Muslim world. Full Story
Israeli Planes Hit Lebanon After Hizbollah Raid
Posted Monday, October 22, 2001 - 8:12 by TRC-News
Israeli warplanes fired missiles near a town in south Lebanon Monday after Hizbollah guerrillas fired at Israeli posts in the disputed Shebaa Farms zone, witnesses said. Full Story
Now, Weapons of Mass Disruption?
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:38 by TRC-News
Americans have received their marching orders. They have been told to stiffen their sinews, summon up their blood—and go to the mall. And a movie. This summons to normality is akin to the rallying cry on the eve of Agincourt. However, energetic everydayness, even lightheartedness, is suddenly a serious duty. Just as there is at all times a moral obligation to be intelligent, there is today an obligation to be cheerful. Full Story
Eavesdropping, U.S. Allies See New Terror Attack
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:37 by TRC-News
More than a month after the September terror attacks, the United States and its close allies are still intercepting communications among Osama bin Laden's associates and are convinced more attacks are coming, intelligence officials in several countries say. Full Story
Arrests Have Yielded Little So Far, Investigators Say
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:36 by TRC-News
After 40 days of the most aggressive criminal investigation in American history, federal law enforcement officials have arrested 830 people but have failed to develop evidence that anyone now in custody was a conspirator in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Full Story
Bush Says Terrorists Sought Markets' Ruin
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:35 by TRC-News
President Bush worked today to deepen the stake that other countries feel in the U.S.-led coalition against terrorism, arguing for the first time that the Sept. 11 attacks were aimed at destroying world financial markets. Full Story
UN's smallpox terror alert
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:34 by TRC-News
Governments around the world have been warned to prepare against a terrorist smallpox attack which could kill millions. The World Health Organisation has told them to ensure they can produce enough vaccine to protect their population against the disease, and is preparing to order mass precautionary vaccination of all citizens. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Kill 9; Trouble Hits Talks
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:33 by TRC-News
Leftist guerrillas killed nine people and injured 15 others in separate attacks in war-torn Colombia, the army said on Sunday as government and rebel negotiators traded barbs over new trouble in the country's fragile peace process. Full Story
Two Girls Wounded in N.Irish Bomb Blast
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:32 by TRC-News
Two children were hurt in a bomb blast and a man was shot and wounded when violence flared at sectarian flashpoints in north Belfast on Sunday, Northern Irish police said. Full Story
APEC, Putin Hand Bush Victory on Terrorism
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:31 by TRC-News
President Bush won broad backing from a Pacific Rim summit Sunday for his war on terrorism, but Russia went further with a full vote of confidence in U.S.-led attacks against Afghanistan. Full Story
Israel Maintains Strangehold on West Bank Cities
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:30 by TRC-News
Israeli maintained its stranglehold on six Palestinian cities on Monday, saying its biggest ground offensive against the Palestinian Authority was aimed at pressuring, but not toppling, President Yasser Arafat. Full Story
NY Post Gets Anthrax Letter Similar to NBC
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:29 by TRC-News
The New York Post has received an anthrax-laced letter virtually identical to ones sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the tabloid newspaper said on Sunday. Full Story
Postal Worker 'Seriously Ill' with Anthrax
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:28 by TRC-News
A Washington postal worker was ''seriously ill'' on Sunday with an inhaled anthrax infection -- the most deadly form of a rare disease that has already killed one man and frightened millions in workplaces across the United States. Full Story
CIA Gets 'New Leeway' for Covert Ops Vs. Bin Laden
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:27 by TRC-News
President Bush has given the CIA ''new leeway'' to do whatever is necessary in covert operations to destroy Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, a U.S. official said on Sunday. Full Story
Black Ice scenario sheds light on future threats to critical systems
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:22 by TRC-News
A little-known exercise held last year to help federal, state and local officials in Utah prepare for a possible terrorist attack during the 2002 Winter Olympics may hold some of the most important lessons for critical-infrastructure protection in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a key official involved in the exercise. Full Story
Money Trail Leads to Gulf Accounts
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 22:21 by TRC-News
A probe of the financial backing of the Sept. 11 suicide attacks on the United States has led to bank accounts held by two suspected terrorists and a gleaming silver-and-granite exchange house in a grimy neighborhood of this freewheeling Persian Gulf commercial center. Full Story
Bush Meets China's Leader and Emphasizes Need to Fight Terrorism Together
Posted Friday, October 19, 2001 - 17:00 by TRC-News
President Bush and President Jiang Zemin of China met for the first time here this morning and emerged with Mr. Bush declaring that China had agreed to "cooperate with intelligence matters and interdict the financing" of major terrorist groups. Full Story
Link Suspected Between Anthrax and Hijackings
Posted Friday, October 19, 2001 - 7:24 by TRC-News
Investigators pursuing the anthrax exposure cases in New York, Washington and Florida say they suspect that the rash of contaminated letters is related to the Sept. 11 attacks and are investigating the possibility that Al Qaeda confederates of the hijackers are behind the incidents. Full Story
Anti-Terrorism Legislation Finished
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 23:00 by TRC-News
House negotiators have agreed to a Senate demand to include money laundering legislation in President Bush's anti-terrorism package, clearing the last major hurdle to passage, senators said Thursday. Full Story
Six Anthrax Infections Confirmed
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 17:52 by TRC-News
Two new cases of the skin form of anthrax were reported Thursday, one involving an assistant to CBS anchorman Dan Rather and the other a postal worker in New Jersey. That brought to six the total number of confirmed cases of infection. Full Story
Life terms for embassy bombers
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 17:39 by TRC-News
Four Osama bin Laden disciples convicted in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa were sentenced to life without parole Thursday in a city still reeling from last month�s terrorist attacks. Full Story
FBI, Postal Service Offer $1M Reward
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 11:41 by TRC-News
The FBI and U.S. Postal Service on Thursday offered an award up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of those who sent anthrax through the mail. Investigators continued to link the various incidents through evidence. Full Story
Spanish police arrest seven ETA suspects
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 7:36 by TRC-News
Spanish police have arrested seven suspected members of armed Basque separatist group ETA, seizing arms and explosives in a series of raids. Full Story
Pacific Rim Nations Agree to Fight Terrorism
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 7:21 by TRC-News
Pacific Rim nations agreed to combat terrorism in a ``fight between justice and evil,'' China's foreign minister said Thursday, as APEC prepared a statement that carefully avoids any mention of the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan. Full Story
Tests Link Florida and N.Y. Anthrax
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 23:15 by TRC-News
Preliminary tests show the anthrax sent to NBC in New York and a tabloid newspaper company in Florida were the same strain, and the FBI is pursuing "substantive leads" in the investigation into who may have sent the bacteria, officials said Wednesday. Full Story
House passes money laundering bill
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 16:09 by TRC-News
The House overwhelmingly passed a measure Wednesday expanding the government�s power to cut money flows to terrorist networks, amid protests from key senators that the legislation should not have been stripped from President Bush�s anti-terrorism package. Full Story
Indian cabinet approves terror law
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 16:01 by TRC-News
The Indian cabinet has approved new legislation to combat terrorism which makes it compulsory to pass information about terrorist activities to the authorities. Full Story
Israel's Tourism Minister Assassinated
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 15:58 by TRC-News
Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi, an extreme rightist who favored forcing millions of Arabs to leave Israel and Israeli-occupied territories, was shot to death outside his hotel room today by at least one Palestinian assassin. It was the first murder of an Israel cabinet minister by Palestinians in the Jewish state's 52-year history. Full Story
Anthrax detected in New York governor's Manhattan office
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 15:55 by TRC-News
Gov. George Pataki's midtown Manhattan office showed the presence of anthrax in an initial test, the governor announced Wednesday. No workers were known to be exposed. Full Story
House Will Shut Down Until Tuesday for Anthrax Screening
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 15:50 by TRC-News
Thirty-one people have tested positive for exposure to anthrax as a result of a contaminated letter sent to the office of Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic majority leader, the senator said today. Full Story
Bush Expects Terror War to Last Longer Than Two Years
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 15:24 by TRC-News
President Bush said in an interview released on Wednesday that he envisioned the U.S.-led war on terrorism lasting more than two years and being fought in multiple theaters. Full Story
Terrorist threat has not diminished: FBI
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 19:32 by TRC-News
The terrorist threat against the United States "has not diminished" since the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued its warning last week on imminent anti-US terrorist attacks, FBI chief Robert Mueller said Tuesday. Full Story
FBI has received 2,300 anthrax reports in 16 days
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 19:31 by TRC-News
The FBI has received 2,300 reports of suspected anthrax attacks since the start of the month. FBI director Robert Mueller said the overwhelming majority have been false alarms or hoaxes. Full Story
Investigators look for links between anthrax and terrorism
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 19:30 by TRC-News
Federal investigators are searching for possible links between the September 11 attacks on the United States and the recent anthrax cases that have triggered bioterrorism scares across the country. Full Story
Ridge Says US Security Improving
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 19:25 by TRC-News
There is no guarantee against more terrorist strikes, but America is secure and getting safer, Tom Ridge, the nation's first director of homeland security, said Tuesday. ``The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown,'' he said. Full Story
U.S. takes to Arabic airwaves to clarify the war on terror
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 19:23 by TRC-News
White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told millions of viewers of Arabic-language television Monday that the U.S. offensive in Afghanistan was a "war against people who take the lives of innocents'' and not a campaign targeting Arab or Muslim nations. Full Story
Other nations coping with anthrax scares
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 19:20 by TRC-News
Across Europe and elsewhere Monday, anthrax scares sent some people to hospitals and others home from work, uncertain whether or not they had been exposed to the spores. Full Story
Anthrax fears close Senate offices
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 19:19 by TRC-News
Authorities closed an entire wing of an eight-story Senate office building Tuesday and began testing and treating hundreds of people for possible anthrax exposure after tests found the bacteria in a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Meanwhile, the Justice Department released photos of the anthrax-tainted letters sent to Daschle and NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, evidence that suggests a single author was responsible for both attacks. Full Story
Terror’s Next Target?
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 10:51 by TRC-News
Look past the planes. (Can you?) How about the power grid? Last spring someone broke into the computer systems of the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO), the state manager of long-distance electricity transmission. According to Cal-ISO, the target was a test system unconnected to the grid. There was no damage. Still, the electronic intrusion, looked at in the light of the Sept. 11 attacks, unnerves the organization. The word that comes to mind: vulnerability. “Did both incidents reinforce in our minds the need to be vigilant?” asks Gregg Fishman, a Cal-ISO spokesman. “Yes. To take extra precautions? Yes.” Full Story
APEC to condemn terrorism,stop flow of funds to terrorists
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 10:48 by TRC-News
Asia-Pacific leaders will condemn the terror attacks against the US at their summit this week, pledge to toughen controls on terrorist funds and act to safeguard oil supplies in an emergency, according to a proposed declaration. Full Story
Koizumi Keeps Terror Bill on Track
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 10:00 by TRC-News
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is pressing ahead with legislation to allow the military to help the US-led campaign against terror despite losing opposition support for his plans. Full Story
Thousands March Against Palestinian Authority
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 9:58 by TRC-News
Thousands of people joined a Gaza funeral procession Monday for a man killed in a pro-Osama bin Laden demonstration, in what amounted to the biggest protest ever by Palestinians against their governing authority. Full Story
Osama not fighting a holy war
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 9:58 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden is not fighting a holy war, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad told Malaysians last night over national television. The Malaysian leader, using his strongest language yet to condemn the Sept 11 attacks, noted that 6,000 innocent people, including Malaysians, had lost their lives when two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. Full Story
Officials: 4 Overseas Plots Foiled
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 9:55 by TRC-News
U.S. authorities have foiled four bombing plots overseas since Sept. 11, but evidence grows that loosely knit terrorist cells are agitating to strike again, government officials say. Full Story
Canada Unveils Sweeping Anti-Terrorism Legislation
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 9:54 by TRC-News
Canada unveiled a sweeping security bill Monday to ban fund-raising by terrorist groups, widen wiretapping authority and allow police to make preventive arrests of people they think will engage in terrorism. Full Story
Violence Grips Northern Nigeria, 16 Soldiers Dead
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 9:54 by TRC-News
Violence gripped northern Nigeria on Monday, with the biggest city of Kano still troubled after four days of Muslim-Christian fighting and police saying 16 soldiers had been killed in unrelated bloodshed elsewhere. Full Story
Philippine Troops Kill 11 Bin Laden-Linked Rebels
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 9:53 by TRC-News
At least 11 members of a Philippine guerrilla group linked to Islamic militant Osama bin Laden were killed in clashes on Tuesday as troops closed in on gunmen holding U.S. and Filipino hostages, officials said. Full Story
Jihad Recruitment Drives Sweeps Pakistan Area
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 9:52 by TRC-News
Historic clan ties and religious zeal have fueled a recruitment drive among untrained young men in Pakistan's tribal areas eager to face off with the best troops from the world's only superpower, tribal sources say. Full Story
Anthrax Fear Spreads to World After Fresh U.S. Cases
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 9:51 by TRC-News
Anthrax anxiety rippled across the world on Tuesday, with suspicious incidents reported from Brazil to Japan, as the number of people in the United States exposed to the potentially deadly germ rose to at least 12. Full Story
‘Lock and Download’
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:26 by TRC-News
Terrorists scored a direct hit on the American economy, sending it spiraling into recession. The nation’s defense contractors are a rare bright spot, with the stocks of many soaring by nearly 30 percent in the past month. Analysts are predicting that the defense budget will increase 66 percent to $500 billion by 2005. But the military build-up won’t follow the old formula of cranking up production of tanks and battleships. In the war against terrorists, it’s software engineers who are the architects of the Arsenal of Democracy. Full Story
Method to the Madness
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:26 by TRC-News
In this age of celebrity, Osama bin Laden knows the importance of stagecraft. He cultivates an air of mystery, and has a knack for tapping feelings of alienation and anger. Full Story
Saudis face role in backing Taliban
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:25 by TRC-News
As Saudi Arabia’s longtime chief of intelligence, Prince Turki al Faisal helped nurture the Afghan resistance movement that begot the country’s Taliban leadership. So the sense of betrayal last week was understandably deep when he publicly addressed Osama bin Laden, another Saudi veteran of the anti-Soviet Afghan war. Full Story
Health chief: anthrax could be terrorism
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:23 by TRC-News
A senior member of President Bush's cabinet has admitted for the first time that the series of anthrax attacks across America could be the work of terrorists. Full Story
Bush Rebuffs Offer on bin Laden
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:21 by TRC-News
President Bush strongly rebuffed a Taliban offer to turn over Osama bin Laden to a third country in exchange for an end to U.S. bombing. Bush's health chief pledged to strengthen the nation's response to bioterrorism following the recent anthrax cases. Full Story
US warned: the ground will burn
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:19 by TRC-News
Supporters of Osama bin Laden threatened fresh suicide attacks on airlines and high-rise buildings in the United States and Britain as the Taliban leadership defiantly refused any compromise to end the war in Afghanistan and the US confirmed preparations to deploy ground forces. Full Story
Israel Kills Islamic Militant, Arafat to Meet Blair
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:17 by TRC-News
Palestinians accused Israel of killing an Islamic militant Monday despite U.S. and British pressure to end a year-long conflict threatening regional support for the Washington-led war on terrorism. Full Story
Jakarta Police Use Tear Gas, Beat Anti-U.S. Protesters
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:16 by TRC-News
Indonesian police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse about 700 anti-American protesters outside parliament Monday, injuring several, as Muslims praised the president's veiled condemnation of U.S. strikes on Afghanistan. Full Story
Philippine Rebels Threaten to Kill U.S. Hostages
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:13 by TRC-News
Muslim rebels in the Philippines put a captive U.S. missionary on the telephone to a radio station Monday for the first time -- and then threatened to kill him and his wife if attacked. Full Story
Osama Bin Laden, Mullah Omar Are Fine - Taliban
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:13 by TRC-News
Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and the Afghan Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar are well and reports of Taliban rifts are groundless, their deputy ambassador to Pakistan said Monday. Full Story
N.Y. Anthrax Cases Bring Total to 12
Posted Monday, October 15, 2001 - 7:11 by TRC-News
Americans returning to work faced anxious moments opening envelopes after the number of people across the nation exposed to anthrax sent through the mail jumped over the weekend. Full Story
House Approves Senate Anti-Terrorism Bill
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 22:07 by TRC-News
The House on Friday quickly approved anti-terrorist legislation pushed by the Senate and White House to increase the government's power to spy on, detain and punish suspected terrorists. Full Story
Two envelopes Friday test positive for Anthrax
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 22:06 by TRC-News
Two new cases of anthrax exposure involving suspicious envelopes sent through the mail were reported at a Microsoft subsidiary office in Reno, Nevada, and at NBC headquarters in New York. Full Story
FBI Advisory on Suspicious Packages
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 16:15 by TRC-News
The FBI has issued an advisory poster on what to do if you receive a suspicious package. The document is in PDF Format and can be found by clicking here.
Terrorist Attacks Imminent, FBI Warns
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 11:28 by TRC-News
The FBI warned yesterday that additional terrorist acts could be directed at U.S. interests at home and abroad over the "next several days," marking the most specific and urgent call of alarm from the Bush administration since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
Caves Smashed, Pentagon Says
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 11:28 by TRC-News
As U.S. warplanes pounded the Afghan capital of Kabul yesterday during the fifth straight day of bombing, Pentagon officials reported that airstrikes had devastated mountain cave complexes and may have struck Taliban leader Mohammad Omar's Chevrolet Suburban with several as yet unidentified individuals inside. Full Story
India Uses Teargas to Quell Anti-U.S. Protests
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 11:18 by TRC-News
Indian police fired teargas and used water cannons on Friday to disperse thousands of Muslims protesting against the U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan. Full Story
Saudi Clerics Issue Edicts Against Helping 'Infidels'
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 11:17 by TRC-News
In a series of fatwas released from inside Saudi Arabia, prominent Muslim clerics have instructed their followers to wage jihad on Americans in the kingdom and condemned the rulers who give them protection as infidels. The religious edict appears to sanction the overthrow of the house of Al Saud, and makes the royals apostates, subject to the Koranic punishment of death. Full Story
Egyptian 'Terrorist' Arrested in Baku
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 11:16 by TRC-News
An Egyptian national suspected of involvement in international terrorism has been handed over to Egypt by authorities in Azerbaijan following a request by the Egyptian intelligence services. Full Story
Bin Laden Wins African Cult Status
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 11:15 by TRC-News
Muslims in Nigeria are flocking to a state capital -- to pick up Osama bin Laden memorabilia. In the state of Zamfara, Nigeria, where the Muslim practice of Sharia law is practiced, the curious and the fanatical are buying copies of the Koran and pictures of bin Laden. Full Story
New ultimatum for Taleban
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 6:47 by TRC-News
As Kabul is rocked by a fifth night of bombing, US President George Bush offers to halt the attacks if Osama Bin Laden is handed over. Full Story
Terrorist Attacks Imminent, FBI Warns
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 6:41 by TRC-News
The FBI warned yesterday that additional terrorist acts could be directed at U.S. interests at home and abroad over the "next several days," marking the most specific and urgent call of alarm from the Bush administration since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
Bush: We Have al-Qaida on the run
Posted Friday, October 12, 2001 - 6:31 by TRC-News
President Bush said Thursday night ``it may take a year or two'' to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but asserted that after a five-day aerial bombardment, ``we've got them on the run.'' Full Story
US inquires about six Lebanese allegedly planning attacks in Kuwait
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 19:25 by TRC-News
The United States has asked Lebanon for information on six Lebanese suspected of preparing attacks in Kuwait and allegedly linked to Islamist Osama bin Laden, Prosecutor General Adnan Addum said Wednesday. Full Story
UNSC Committee Adds Names to List of bin Laden
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 19:15 by TRC-News
A UN Security Council sanctions committee has added the names of several organizations, individuals, and companies associated with Usama bin Laden to the list of those whose assets are to be frozen, the United Nations announced October 9. Full Story
White House Cautions on al-Qaida Tapes
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 19:13 by TRC-News
Suspicious that Osama bin Laden is using American TV to send coded messages, the White House asked the networks Wednesday to think twice before airing his terrorist organization's videotaped messages. Full Story
Customs Switches Priority From Drugs to Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 19:12 by TRC-News
The new head of the United States Customs Service said today that terrorism has replaced drug smuggling as the agency's top priority, and that he has redeployed hundreds of agents to provide round-the-clock inspections at the Canadian border to prevent terrorists from entering the country. Full Story
European Crackdown Nets 3 Arrests
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 19:05 by TRC-News
Police in Italy and Germany arrested three men Wednesday in a crackdown on alleged Islamic militants suspected of links to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, Italian authorities said. Full Story
Insurers halt terrorist attack coverage
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 13:03 by TRC-News
As Congress works to gather support and hammer out details on a plan to make the federal government the insurer of last resort in the event of terrorist acts, insurers are moving rapidly to eliminate coverage related to terrorist attacks in property policies coming up for renewal. Full Story
Justice Department Creates Sept. 11 Prosecution Task Force
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 12:53 by TRC-News
The U.S. Justice Department has created a ``9/11 Task Force'' of prosecutors to handle any cases arising from the hijacked plane attacks on the United States that killed more than 5,500 people, department officials said on Wednesday. Full Story
‘Most Wanted’ terrorist list unveiled
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 10:02 by TRC-News
The FBI on Wednesday unveiled a new “most wanted” list of suspected terrorists that offers rewards for information leading to the capture of 22 fugitives, many of whom have been at large for years. Topping the list: Osama bin Laden, the Saudi dissident suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Full Story
Sources: Anthrax possibly linked to lab
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 10:01 by TRC-News
Investigators believe the anthrax strain that killed a man in Florida was manufactured at a facility in Iowa half a century ago, sources said. Full Story
Police Move Against Bin Laden Suspects
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 10:00 by TRC-News
Italian police have arrested a number of people suspected of having links to Osama bin Laden, say justice officials. Full Story
Bin Laden's Men: Angry Words, Murky Pasts
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 9:28 by TRC-News
Soon after U.S.-led air strikes on Afghanistan began Sunday, Osama bin Laden and rarely seen aides appeared on a video, using emotive Arabic phrases to hail the Sept. 11 attacks on America and declare war on the West. Full Story
Call for Jihad Resounds Faintly in Muslim World
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden's call for a holy war against America found little resonance in much of the Muslim world on Wednesday, amid fears a U.S. war on terrorism could engulf other Islamic countries. Full Story
Defiant Taliban Lift Curbs on Bin Laden
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Reeling from repeated U.S. air raids, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Wednesday lifted all restrictions on the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, saying he was free to wage a holy war against the United States. Full Story
Hijackers 'ignorant of suicide mission'
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
About a dozen of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre may not have known that they were about to embark on a suicide mission, it was revealed yesterday. Full Story
U.S. Releases 'Most Wanted Terrorists' List
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
The White House Wednesday released a list of 22 ``most wanted terrorists,'' including Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and others indicted in connection with five major incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. Full Story
Call for Holy War Renewed
Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2001 - 20:15 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden's spokesman on Tuesday called for a holy war against U.S. interests everywhere and said the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon ``did something good.'' Full Story
China Willing to Cooperate with Any Country on Anti-terrorism
Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2001 - 16:58 by TRC-News
China is willing to co-operate with any country against terrorism, especially those suffer from direct terrorist attacks, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi Tuesday. Full Story
Military increases security on local waterways
Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2001 - 16:52 by TRC-News
With U.S. military forces in action overseas and very real threats of terrorism at home, security in the port of Hampton Roads is at its tightest level since World War II. Full Story
U.S. to Intensify Effort Against Threat of Computer Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2001 - 14:25 by TRC-News
The Bush administration confirmed Monday that it will spend $10 million to launch a newly intensive war against cyber-terrorism, which many government officials and terrorism experts consider a serious threat to national security with the potential for causing mass confusion and loss of life. Full Story
Hijackers' funds traced to bin Laden ally's bank
Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2001 - 14:23 by TRC-News
Investigators say they have closed the circle on a key part of the financing for last month's terrorist attacks, identifying a single Arab bank account that supplied $100,000 to the suspected hijackers a year before the attacks and received $15,000 back from the hijackers just before Sept. 11. Full Story
Arrests in terror investigation now more than 600; some 200 being sought
Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2001 - 11:18 by TRC-News
More than 600 people have been arrested in the investigations following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and more than 200 people are still being sought, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday. Full Story
Irish police arrest four in connection with terrorist attacks
Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Police were questioning four foreigners arrested Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Full Story
Violent protests in Pakistan follow strikes on Afghanistan
Posted Monday, October 8, 2001 - 15:53 by TRC-News
Storming this city by the Afghan border Monday, mobs lobbed firebombs while chanting glory to Osama bin Laden and hatred for America. Police shot one man dead in the tear gas-shrouded confusion. Full Story
Palestinian officials rush to distance themselves from bin Laden
Posted Monday, October 8, 2001 - 15:51 by TRC-News
Palestinian officials rushed Monday to distance themselves from accused terror mastermind Osama bin Laden who, in a shift of emphasis, said he was confronting the United States in defense of the Palestinians. Full Story
FBI Probes Anthrax, Terror Link
Posted Monday, October 8, 2001 - 15:48 by TRC-News
The FBI is investigating the possibility that terrorism is behind the anthrax bacteria that killed a Florida man last week and have now been found in the nasal passages of a co-worker, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday. Full Story
Bush Swears In Anti-Terror Chief
Posted Monday, October 8, 2001 - 12:16 by TRC-News
With an anxious nation on high alert for terrorist reprisals, President Bush installed former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as head of a new Office of Homeland Security. ``America is going to be prepared,'' Bush pledged. Full Story
U.S. warns of possible evacuation from Indonesia
Posted Monday, October 8, 2001 - 10:07 by TRC-News
The United States on Monday warned its citizens to prepare for a possible evacuation from Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, after U.S.-led forces struck Afghanistan. Full Story
Hizbullah condemns inclusion on US terrorist list
Posted Monday, October 8, 2001 - 10:05 by TRC-News
Hizbullah reacted strongly to its inclusion in a new American list of terrorist organizations over the weekend, calling Washington and Tel Aviv �the heads of world terrorism.� Full Story
Indonesian radicals threaten to attack Americans
Posted Monday, October 8, 2001 - 7:44 by TRC-News
Radical Islamic groups in Indonesia have threatened to attack Americans as part of a "jihad" or holy war following the U.S. strikes against Afghanistan. Full Story
Bin Laden Says U.S. 'Full of Fear'
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 19:49 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and swore America will never ``dream of security'' until ``the infidels' armies leave the land of Muhammad,'' in a videotaped statement aired after the strike launched Sunday by the United States and Britain against Afghanistan. Full Story
U.S., Allies Launch Missile Attack
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 19:47 by TRC-News
American and British forces unleashed a punishing air attack Sunday against military targets and Osama bin Laden's training camps inside Afghanistan, striking at terrorists blamed for the attacks that murdered thousands in New York and Washington. Full Story
FBI Asks Law Enforcement to Be on Highest Alert for New Terrorism
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 19:45 by TRC-News
Concerned about more terrorist attacks, the FBI on Sunday urged law enforcement agencies nationwide to move to their highest level of alert after the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan. Full Story
US launches 'anti-terror' satellite
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 11:57 by TRC-News
The United States has launched a satellite which intelligence analysts say will probably be used to gather information in the global campaign against terrorism. Full Story
U.S. rejects Taliban offer as strikes loom
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 11:55 by TRC-News
The United States has rejected an offer by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to try Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, as anticipated military strikes loom closer. Full Story
Saudi blast tests Western nerves in Gulf
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 11:53 by TRC-News
A bombing that killed two people including an American in Saudi Arabia is testing nerves among Westerners in the Gulf amid fears that Washington's war on terrorism could spark reprisals against foreigners. Full Story
Car explosion is Israel kills two
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 11:51 by TRC-News
An explosion rocked a rural area in northern Israel early on Sunday killing two people who appeared to be Palestinian bombers, Israeli police said. Full Story
NATO to deploy AWACS in U.S.
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 11:49 by TRC-News
At Washington�s request, NATO will soon deploy surveillance aircraft for anti-terrorist operations in the United States in response to the attacks on New York and Washington, NATO officials said Sunday, an unprecedented use of foreign military forces to defend the U.S. homeland. Full Story
Taliban Offer to Detain bin Laden
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 11:45 by TRC-News
In a desperate 11th-hour appeal to halt U.S. attacks, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban offered Sunday to detain terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and try him under Islamic law if the United States makes a formal request. Full Story
Senators Warn Americans on Attacks
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 11:44 by TRC-News
Terrorists could well try more strikes at America once threatened U.S. military action begins in Afghanistan, senators close to the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks said Sunday. Full Story
G-7 vows to smash terrorist financial networks
Posted Sunday, October 7, 2001 - 11:41 by TRC-News
The finance ministers from the world's seven top industrialized nations pledged Saturday they would smash the complex international financing machinery of terrorist organizations. Full Story
Iraq says US is a terrorist while Israel praises Islam
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 12:59 by TRC-News
Iraq has accused the United States and Israel of terrorism, while Israel defended itself against a string of Arab accusations and praised Islam as one of the world's great religions. Full Story
U.S. sees no evidence of terrorism in jet crash
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 12:57 by TRC-News
The United States has no evidence indicating a Russian plane crash in the Black Sea was the result of an act of terrorism, a White House spokesman said. Full Story
State Dept. Cites Terrorist Groups
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 12:51 by TRC-News
The network headed by Osama bin Laden and several Palestinian groups were cited by the State Department Friday as terrorist organizations.
The list is compiled every two years. Administration officials said the new one published Friday was virtually unchanged from the one issued in 1999. Full Story
Feds use secrecy in terror investigation
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 12:49 by TRC-News
The feds have detained more than 500 people in what Attorney General John Ashcroft calls the biggest criminal investigation in U-S history. Full Story
Terror suspects remanded in UK
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 12:47 by TRC-News
A British court has refused an application for bail by an Algerian pilot accused of training some of last month's suicide hijackers. Full Story
US begins ground deployment
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 12:45 by TRC-News
Around 1,000 US troops are on their way to Uzbekistan for the first major deployment of ground forces in the campaign against terrorism, US officials have said. Full Story
150 Arrest in Attacks Investigation
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 7:27 by TRC-News
Investigators are trying to discover whether the suspected terrorists in Osama bin Laden's network disguised their plotting and planning on the Internet before the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks. President Bush says 150 people believed to be linked to bin Laden are in custody. Full Story
Terrorism suspected in Black Sea crash
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 7:20 by TRC-News
Russian prosecutors have launched a criminal inquiry following the mid-air explosion which destroyed a Russian airliner over the Black Sea on Thursday, killing at least 76 people. Full Story
Ground transport officials on alert for terror attacks
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 7:18 by TRC-News
Wake-up calls hardly seem necessary in the aftermath of last month's terrorist attacks, but government officials got another one with the attack on a Greyhound bus. Full Story
Indonesia stays neutral in U.S. war on terrorism
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 7:17 by TRC-News
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, would stay neutral in any U.S.-led attack against Afghanistan's Taliban, its defence minister said on Friday. Full Story
FBI, CIA See High Probability of New Attack-Report
Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 - 7:12 by TRC-News
U.S. intelligence officials have warned members of Congress it is highly probable that militants linked to extremist Osama bin Laden will attempt another major attack on American targets at home or abroad in the near future, the Washington Post reported on Friday. Full Story
Rumsfeld: Terror Fight Like Cold War
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 21:04 by TRC-News
The U.S.-led struggle to defeat terrorism is more likely to resemble the West's decades-long contest against communism � fought on many fronts, often outside the military arena � than a major shooting war, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. Full Story
Anti-terror bill gets nod
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 21:02 by TRC-News
Senate Democrats and the Bush administration reached agreement Wednesday on a package of new police powers to combat terrorism. A House committee sent its own compromise package to the full House for approval. Full Story
What Is This Evidence Against Bin Laden?
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:32 by TRC-News
Within hours of the World Trade Center collapsing, the U.S. began pointing fingers at Osama bin Laden. And within days of those accusations, the Bush administration began talking of the "evidence" against bin Laden. Full Story
Nato approves military support for US
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:28 by TRC-News
Nato has approved the United States' eight specific requests for military and logistical support in the war against terrorism, after Washington provided evidence of Osama bin Laden's involvement in the attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
Cooperation on Terrorism Deepens U.S.-Russia Ties
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:26 by TRC-News
A 'Second Chance' Seen to Bury the Cold War Full Story
Panic in New Delhi as ‘terrorist fever’ creates hoax hijacking
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:21 by TRC-News
The apparent hijacking last night of an Indian airliner flying from Bombay to New Delhi, which led to four hours of panic and confusion in India and around the world, was a ‘false alarm’ caused by an anonymous phone call to the aviation authorities, officials said. Full Story
Journalist accused of being in SAS
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:19 by TRC-News
THE Taleban have accused Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist being held in Afghanistan, of being a member of a special forces unit. Full Story
Pakistani hit squad was trained by CIA to kill Bin Laden
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:16 by TRC-News
The CIA is reported to have trained and armed around 60 Pakistani commandos to carry out a secret plan for them to go into Afghanistan and kill or capture Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Ashcroft pushes stronger antiterrorism bill
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:11 by TRC-News
Attorney General John Ashcroft continued to push Congress on Thursday to strengthen a legislative package of antiterrorism measures proposed in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story
U.S. considering pre-emptive airstrikes on Afghan air defenses
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:10 by TRC-News
A senior U.S. defense official indicated Thursday the United States is considering pre-emptive strikes against air defense sites in Afghanistan to ensure the safe delivery of humanitarian aid. Full Story
CIA Cited Growing Risk of Attack
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 20:07 by TRC-News
The month before the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks, the CIA received information suggesting Osama bin Laden was increasingly determined to strike on U.S. soil. In the days since, the FBI has linked the hijackers to bin Laden's network through phone intercepts, money transfers and training camps. Full Story
Hunt for Bin Laden Gathers Momentum
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 19:59 by TRC-News
The hunt for Osama bin Laden took a major step forward on Thursday when Pakistan said he was probably behind suicide plane attacks on America and the United States revealed it had an inkling of where he was hiding. Full Story
16 Middle Eastern Men Indicted in United States
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 19:58 by TRC-News
Sixteen men of Middle Eastern origin were indicted on charges of obtaining illegal commercial driver's licenses on Thursday as part of a federal crackdown on hazardous material haulers, U.S. authorities said. Full Story
Russian Plane May Have Been Hit by Errant Missile
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 19:57 by TRC-News
A Russian plane that crashed into the Black Sea with more than 70 people on board appeared to have been hit accidentally by an errant Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Full Story
U.S. to Block Assets of More Groups
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 16:32 by TRC-News
The U.S. government plans within the next week to freeze the assets of several more individuals and groups suspected of conducting or financing terrorist activities. Full Story
NATO ready for terror war
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 16:27 by TRC-News
NATO troops are "ready to deploy" in support of U.S. troops in the international fight against terrorism. Air and sea forces would provide support to any U.S. military action and demonstrate international resolve, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said. Full Story
Man charged under terrorism act
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 15:43 by TRC-News
A man has been charged in London under the Terrorism Act with training others how to use weapons. Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin, 43, from Greenwich, south east London, was charged with two offences, Scotland Yard confirmed. Full Story
CIA Cited Growing Risk of Attack
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 15:32 by TRC-News
The month before the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks, the CIA received information suggesting Osama bin Laden was increasingly determined to strike on U.S. soil. In the days since, the FBI has linked the hijackers to bin Laden's network through phone intercepts, money transfers and training camps. Full Story
Pakistan: Evidence against bin Laden 'sufficient'
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
Pakistan said Thursday that evidence gathered by U.S. investigators against suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden was enough for an indictment over the September 11 attacks in the United States. Full Story
U.K.�s Blair say bin Laden clearly linked to Sept. 11 terror strikes
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 8:09 by TRC-News
Speaking to a special session of Parliament, Blair said British lawmakers would be given documents directly implicating bin Laden in the Sept. 11 attacks and other incidents. Blair said there was other evidence �of a more direct nature� which it was not possible to disclose for security reasons. Full Story
Israel: no talks until 'terror' stops
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 23:42 by TRC-News
Hours after Palestinian gunmen killed two Israelis in a Gaza settlement -- and were in turn shot dead -- and an Israeli tank incursion killed five Palestinians, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Wednesday Israel would not resume talks until the Palestinian Authority reined in militants. Full Story
Senators Agree on Anti-Terror Bill
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 23:29 by TRC-News
Senate Democrats and the Bush administration reached agreement Wednesday on a package of new police powers to combat terrorism. A House committee sent its own compromise package to the full House for approval. Full Story
Drug Trade is Primary Income Source for Taliban, DEA Says
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 23:25 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban exerts significant control over the
cultivation and distribution of the nation's opium poppy crop and the
illicit trade in heroin derived from the plant, said Drug Enforcement
Administration head Asa Hutchinson as he testified October 3 before a
congressional committee on criminal justice and drug policy. Full Story
Confusion Creates Hijack Drama
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 23:22 by TRC-News
After more than four hours of anxious moments, Union Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said the supposed hijacking of the Alliance Air was a creation of confusion caused by false alarm received at the ATC Ahmedabad. Full Story
Missing tanker truck spurs search, alert to Terrorism Task Force
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 23:20 by TRC-News
Sheriffs' deputies are scouring Arapahoe County in search of a missing tanker truck capable of spraying 5,000 gallons of liquid along city streets, officials said Tuesday. Full Story
Ebola-style killer virus sweeps Afghan border
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 23:17 by TRC-News
The largest outbreak in history of a highly contagious disease that causes patients to bleed to death from every orifice was confirmed yesterday on Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan. Full Story
France Detains Ninth Terror Suspect
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 23:15 by TRC-News
A key suspect in a plot to attack the U.S. Embassy in France was placed under investigation on Wednesday for his alleged ties to a terrorism network in Europe that has been linked to Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Uzbekistan a Key Military Locale
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 13:49 by TRC-News
Just finding the way to the main entrance of this military installation in desolate southwest Uzbekistan is no easy task. Many locals don't know where it is. Full Story
US warns of Italy terror attack
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 13:43 by TRC-News
The United States says terrorists might be planning to attack "symbols of American capitalism" in Italy. Full Story
Religious leaders seek end to terror
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 13:41 by TRC-News
Christian and Muslim leaders have gathered in Rome to seek ways of preventing attacks similar to those against New York and Washington through better mutual understanding. Full Story
Terror suspect arrested after attempting to board train for Europe
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 13:37 by TRC-News
Anti-terrorism police arrested a 24-year-old man after he attempted to board a train for Europe, police said Wednesday. Full Story
US �unfit� to lead war on terrorism
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 13:34 by TRC-News
Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that the United States was unfit to lead the world in a war against terrorism. He warned that the �war on terrorism� could involve promoting unrest in Arab countries. Full Story
$100 Million in Terrorists' Assets Frozen, U.S. Says
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 8:00 by TRC-News
More than $100 million of suspected terrorist assets has been frozen in domestic and foreign banks since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, a senior Treasury Department official said yesterday. Full Story
Ten killed in latest Mideast violence
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 7:55 by TRC-News
Israeli tanks shelled Palestinian police stations and flattened armland Wednesday in retaliation for a deadly raid of a Jewish settlement by Islamic militants. Two young Israelis and two assailants were shot dead in the settlement raid, and six Palestinians were later killed by Israeli fire. Full Story
Powell Says U.S. Had Signs, but Not Clear Ones, of a Plot
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 7:44 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said today that the Bush administration had received a "lot of signs" that terrorists were planning attacks against the United States but extensive efforts by intelligence agencies failed to pick up enough information to stop the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
TRC Training Session - Advanced Counterterrorism Operations
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 22:30 by TRC-News
The TRC is offering a training session on January 28-30, 2002 in Atlanta, GA. The course is entitled "Advanced Counterterrorism Operations: Preventing, Mitigating and Defeating Terrorist Attacks". Additional details and on-line registration are available by Clicking here
NYC to Provide Urns to WTC Families
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 22:17 by TRC-News
The families of the more than 5,000 victims of the World Trade Center attack will each receive a wooden urn with dirt from the mass graveyard, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Tuesday as a court cleared the way for the first death certificates to be issued for the missing. Full Story
Bush Reports "Progress on Many Fronts" in War Against Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 22:15 by TRC-News
President Bush October 1 reported "progress on many fronts" in the battle against terrorism, saying authorities around the world had frozen $6 million in bank accounts linked to terrorist activities; frozen 30 al Qaeda accounts in the United States and 20 overseas and arrested or detained "about 150 terrorists and their supporters" in 25 different countries. Full Story
French Track Bin Laden Link as World Hunts Network
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 22:14 by TRC-News
A Franco-Algerian man told French investigators on Tuesday of a plot in which a suicide bomber planned to sneak into the U.S. embassy in Paris and detonate explosives strapped to his body, a judicial source said. Full Story
India Says Ties Between Kashmir Bombers, Bin Laden
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
India said Tuesday there were ''credible links'' between a Pakistan-based guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bomb attack on the Kashmir legislature and the al Qaeda group led by Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Saudi Arabia Vows to Protect Bin Laden Family
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
Saudi Arabia has pledged to protect family and relatives of Osama bin Laden as Saudi citizens, the kingdom's Interior Minister said in an interview published on Tuesday. Full Story
Swiss Find No Money Transfers Linked to U.S. Attacks
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Switzerland said Tuesday it had found no evidence so far that the country's financial system was used to help pay for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Full Story
Suspect in French Probe Admits Bin Laden Link
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
A suspect in an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris has told investigators he visited Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan to discuss the planned attack, a source close to the case said Tuesday. Full Story
Hijackers Led By Core Group
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
The 19 hijackers who carried out the worst act of terror ever to occur on U.S. soil worked with little outside help as a single, integrated group composed of identifiable leaders and shadowy foot soldiers who prepared for their final day in a tight choreography over 18 months. Full Story
New Allies Seek Payback
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
In President Islam Karimov's Uzbekistan, more than 7,000 political prisoners are in jail, many of them religious Muslims accused of no more than sporting a beard or circulating religious leaflets. The political opposition has been thoroughly crushed. There is no independent mass media. And the few who do speak out are routinely beaten, harassed, arrested or driven into exile. Full Story
About the bin Laden family
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Today one of the biggest construction groups in the kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] and the Middle East, the "bin Laden empire" traces its origins to Sheik Mohammed bin Laden, a native of the Chafeite (Sunni) Hadramout who emigrated [from South Yemen] to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the century. Full Story
The 'Dark Winter' nightmare
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
The nightmarish terrorist attack of Sept. 11th succeeded in part because it was simply unimaginable. That assault has made other horrifying attacks by nuclear, chemical or biological weapons all too imaginable. Just last week, Bill Gertz of The Washington Times revealed that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda has attempted to acquire such weapons from organized crime groups in Russia. Full Story
U.S. sent bio-response team to New York City
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
One of eight secret U.S. government staging areas poised to respond to a biological or chemical attack ferried 50 tons of supplies to New York hours after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, according to a Sunday broadcast report. Full Story
US Told of New Terror Threat
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
United States Attorney General John Ashcroft has warned Americans of the likelihood of "further terrorist activity" in response to prospective US military action against Afghanistan. Full Story
Car Bomb Damages Courthouse in Basque Capital, Sets Other Vehicles Afire
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
A car bomb blamed on Basque separatists exploded in the regional capital of Vitoria on Monday, causing $1 million in damage to a courthouse and burning cars and ending more than two months of relative peace. The Basque government said one person was slightly injured by flying glass. Full Story
GSS Arrests 20 Hamas Terrorists
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
The General Security Service revealed yesterday the recent arrest of more than 20 Hamas terrorists, part of a widespread terrorist infrastructure operating in Samaria who were trained and received their instructions directly from Hamas headquarters in Syria and other countries. Full Story
Anti-America Threats Mere Rhetoric
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
The government asked Americans living in Indonesia to stay calm amid growing anti-America protests as the calls by some groups to hunt down and expel foreigners were only verbal threats, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hassan Wirajuda saidon Monday. Full Story
Car Bomb Explodes Outside J&K Assembly
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
In a daring suicide attack, an explosive-laden car was blown up by militants on Monday near the entrance of the Jammu and Kashmir state legislature. At least 15 people were feared killed and 50 injured in the attack. Full Story
Car Bomb in Jerusalem Shakes Peace Hopes
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
A car bomb packed with bullets exploded in a car park near a Jerusalem shopping district on Monday, injuring no one but dealing a new blow to hopes an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire would take hold. Full Story
Saudi Paper Urges U.S. to Soften Tone of Campaign
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
A Saudi newspaper urged the United States on Monday to soften its tone in dealing with allies in its fight against terrorism, suggesting its summary demands for cooperation could alienate some of its friends. Full Story
Cybersecurity called key to homeland defense
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
As the Office of Homeland Security takes shape, federal and private-sector technology experts are urging the Bush administration to ensure that cybersecurity is included. President Bush created the office last month in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as its head. The Cabinet-level office will coordinate, not replace, the many federal, state and local agencies involved in protecting the nation against terrorist attacks, officials said. Full Story
Officials Revise WTC Toll Lower by Over 400
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
New York officials on Sunday decreased by more than 400 the number of people reported missing in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, which would bring the total number of people dead or missing in the airborne assaults on America to fewer than 6,000. Full Story
Taliban Hide Bin Laden, Handover Hope Seen Dim
Posted Monday, October 1, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were poised on Monday for a showdown with the world's most modern army after admitting holding the world's most wanted man at a secret location and showing no sign of handing him over. Full Story
Bush Names Army General To NSC Post On Terrorism
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 2:23 by TRC-News
President Bush plans to name a retired Army general to a new counterterrorism post, and declared yesterday that his war preparations are gaining momentum but are unlikely to produce quick results. Full Story
Bin Laden's Location Sketchy
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 2:21 by TRC-News
The United States is receiving conflicting intelligence reports about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts that are complicating the Bush administration's efforts to track down the man it blames for this month's terrorist attacks, according to U.S. officials. Full Story
Delta Force, the SAS and the shadowy war of misinformation
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 2:19 by TRC-News
No, allied special forces have not been captured in Afghanistan. Yes, they are active. So what are they up to? Full Story
Hijackers Led By Core Group
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 2:15 by TRC-News
The 19 hijackers who carried out the worst act of terror ever to occur on U.S. soil worked with little outside help as a single, integrated group composed of identifiable leaders and shadowy foot soldiers who prepared for their final day in a tight choreography over 18 months. Full Story
British reporter may face Taliban spy charges
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 2:05 by TRC-News
Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist detained by the Taliban, is under investigation for spying, Kabul radio announced last night. If charged, she would face a possible death penalty. Full Story
The secret war. Part 2
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 2:02 by TRC-News
Police believe up to 30 more 'spectaculars' are planned Full Story
The secret war
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 2:01 by TRC-News
A matrix of terrorist cells - allied to bin Laden but often more extreme than him - planned mayhem across the continent from bases in Britain, Spain, Germany and France. Only now are the links between these shadowy groups coming to light as intelligence services realise that, unknown to them, the battle had started long before 11 September Full Story
Hijacking suspect 'was bin Laden bodyguard'
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 1:59 by TRC-News
The Observer has obtained information - from a secret dossier compiled by an Arab intelligence service and from US sources - that, for the first time, connects bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation to the hijack teams. Full Story
Afghan chaos explodes across region
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 1:50 by TRC-News
First reports emerge of systematic torture that is forcing Afghans to flee - causing a humanitarian disaster far beyond the country's borders Full Story
US and Britain to strike terror camps within days
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 1:39 by TRC-News
Devastating attacks on bases controlled by Osama bin Laden are set to be launched in the next 48 hours as part of a tightly focused military operation approved by US President George Bush and backed by Britain. Full Story
Pentagon, Taliban dispute capture of commandos
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 0:48 by TRC-News
The Pentagon said Saturday no evidence backs up an Arabic television report that three U.S. commandos and two Afghans assisting them were captured on a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan. Full Story
Anti-War Rally Draws Thousands to Washington
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 0:47 by TRC-News
Thousands of protesters peacefully flooded the streets of the nation's capital on Saturday to call for peace, as President Bush moved forward with plans for a military strike against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Full Story
Arrests made in alleged German terrorist plot
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 0:38 by TRC-News
Three men suspected of belonging to a terrorist group that had planned attacks in Germany were arrested by German authorities, the government said Saturday. Full Story
Bush War of Words Goes on as Protesters Gather
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 0:37 by TRC-News
While 10,000 protesters staged an anti-war demonstration a few blocks away, the White House kept up its verbal bombardment of terrorism on Saturday and the Bush administration brushed off a report that elite U.S. troops looking for Islamic militant Osama bin Laden had been captured in Afghanistan. Full Story
Source: Hijacking suspects linked to Afghanistan
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 0:36 by TRC-News
At least four of the 19 suspected hijackers implicated in this month's terrorist attacks against the United States trained at camps in Afghanistan run by suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, an intelligence source familiar with the federal investigation said Saturday. Full Story
TV Says Afghans Nab U.S. Commandos, Taliban Deny
Posted Saturday, September 29, 2001 - 10:53 by TRC-News
A Gulf television station said on Saturday that Afghan security forces had seized members of the U.S. special forces in Afghanistan, but the ruling Taliban swiftly denied the report. Full Story
Mexico President Vows to Support U.S. 'All the Way'
Posted Saturday, September 29, 2001 - 1:08 by TRC-News
Mexican President Vicente Fox said on Friday that Mexico was prepared to go "all the way" to help the United States hunt down those responsible for Sept. 11 suicide attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
Special Forces in Afghanistan Seek Out Targets
Posted Saturday, September 29, 2001 - 1:06 by TRC-News
Small teams of elite U.S. forces, together with British commandos, have begun operating on the ground around key targets inside Afghanistan in the first phase of the U.S. led military offensive in that country, Western officials said Friday. Full Story
Thirty attacks against West are still to come, says Italy
Posted Saturday, September 29, 2001 - 0:53 by TRC-News
ITALY’S secret services told US and British intelligence in July that Tony Blair and President Bush were the targets of an Islamic terrorist plot to assassinate them, from the air, at the Genoa G8 summit. They believe that a further 30 attacks, including “some form of airborne assault”, are still planned against London and other Western capitals. Full Story
A thousand wait, says defector
Posted Saturday, September 29, 2001 - 0:48 by TRC-News
A DEFECTOR from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organisation interviewed for US television has provided the first public link between the suicide hijackings and the terror network headed by the Saudi exile. Full Story
U.N. Security Council freezes terror funds
Posted Saturday, September 29, 2001 - 0:46 by TRC-News
The United Nations Security Council late Friday unanimously approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution that would freeze the financial assets of suspected terrorists and expand the power of the United Nations to fight terrorism. Full Story
TIME/CNN Poll: Americans Give Bush a Big Thumbs-Up
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 21:10 by TRC-News
The President has an 84 percent approval rating, and America is prepared to follow him for a long fight against terrorism Full Story
Outrage at terror suspect delay
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 20:28 by TRC-News
TONY Blair faced a massive test of Britain’s pledge to fight international terrorism last night when a leading suspect of the attacks on America began fighting extradition in a London court. Full Story
Roots Of Rage
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 20:06 by TRC-News
Among the signs waved by Pakistanis in demonstrations last week was one in English that read AMERICANS, THINK! WHY DOES THE WHOLE WORLD HATE YOU? Actually, Americans didn't need that exhortation to ask the question, Why? Full Story
FBI recovers letter belonging to 3 hijackers
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 19:35 by TRC-News
Investigators have recovered three copies of the same letter belonging to suspected terrorists aboard three of the four airplanes hijacked during the September 11 attacks against the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday. Full Story
U.S. Warns Americans They Are Still in Danger
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 19:31 by TRC-News
The U.S. government warned Americans around the world on Friday that they could still be in danger from extremist groups such as those that attacked New York and Washington on Sept. 11. Full Story
Bush praises Mid-East allies
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 16:06 by TRC-News
President Bush has said he is most pleased with the co-operation the US is getting from countries in the Middle East for its global campaign against terrorism. Full Story
U.S. Confirms Sudan Arrested Terrorism Suspects
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 16:04 by TRC-News
The United States on Friday said that Sudan, accused of giving safe haven to followers of Osama bin Laden, had arrested people with possible connections to international terrorism since attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon Sept. 11. Full Story
Industry wary of 'shoot down' tactics
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 15:57 by TRC-News
In the wake of the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, much attention has focused on how airline security can be improved. Full Story
Sources: Plot conceived in UK, Germany, UAE
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 15:39 by TRC-News
Authorities believe the September 11 terrorist attacks were funded, developed and conceived in England, Germany and the United Arab Emirates, law enforcement sources tell CNN. Full Story
Official: Special forces in Afghanistan
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 11:30 by TRC-News
U.S. and British special forces have conducted operations in Afghanistan, a senior Bush administration official told CNN on Friday. Full Story
Spain questions alleged bin Laden associates
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 11:07 by TRC-News
The six Algerians arrested this week in Spain, whom authorities link to Osama bin Laden, were taken Friday to the National Court in Madrid, which handles cases of terrorism. Full Story
UN Intensifies Talks on U.S. Anti-Terrorism Measure
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 11:06 by TRC-News
U.N. Security Council members raced to meet a self-imposed Monday deadline to adopt a U.S.-initiated resolution that would freeze the financial assets of terrorism suspects and take other measures to expand the U.N. role in fighting clandestine networks. Full Story
Hijack instructions found in luggage
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 11:04 by TRC-News
Mohamed Atta, one of the key organizers among the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, left behind a five-page handwritten document in Arabic that includes Islamic prayers, instructions for a last night of life and practical reminders to bring “knives, your will, IDs, your passport” and, finally, “to make sure that nobody is following you.” Full Story
British Ministers Warn of Fresh Attacks
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 10:59 by TRC-News
British government ministers warned that Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the U.S. suicide hijackings, was planning fresh attacks in coming weeks. Full Story
Suspect instructed attack pilots, court hears
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 10:56 by TRC-News
An Algerian pilot arrested in London instructed four of the hijackers involved in the attacks on New York and Washington, prosecutors said at an extradition hearing on Friday. Full Story
Pakistan delegation appeals to Taliban
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 10:53 by TRC-News
In an effort to avert U.S. attacks on Afghanistan, a delegation of top Islamic leaders from Pakistan were meeting with officials of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban on Friday to try to persuade that group to hand over Osama bin Laden Full Story
FBI links hijackers with Bin Laden
Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 - 0:07 by TRC-News
The FBI has said for the first time that some of the 19 suspected suicide hijackers responsible for the attacks on Washington and New York have links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Full Story
Don't give more money to intelligence failures
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:57 by TRC-News
The more we learn about how the attack on the World Trade Centre was prepared, the more the early, harsh verdict on the performance of the intelligence services, in the US and Britain in particular, seems justified. Full Story
Vigilant city braced for another attack
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:53 by TRC-News
NEW YORK is a city under siege. Two weeks after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre, city leaders are bracing themselves for a second assault, possibly a chemical or biological attack. Full Story
Five Palestinians shot dead after ceasefire talks
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:51 by TRC-News
The Israeli army shot dead five Palestinians yesterday, throwing down the gauntlet to the United States which has been calling for a Middle East ceasefire with increasing urgency to pave the way for its anti-terror coalition building. Full Story
Germans find suicide cell with bin Laden links
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:49 by TRC-News
A WEB of links between Osama bin Laden and a Hamburg-based cell of suicide pilots has been uncovered by German investigators. Full Story
Where does US intelligence go from here - and were they really to blame?
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:42 by TRC-News
Amid widespread domestic criticism of its failure to identify and counter the recent terrorist attacks, US intelligence agencies are coming under increasing pressure to explain their apparent inability to deal with Islamic extremist activity on American soil. Full Story
Onset of winter will provide harsh backdrop for Afghan operations
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:41 by TRC-News
The onset of the bitter Afghan winter by early next month will blunt any significant military offensive by the country's US-supported Northern Alliance against the Taliban regime in Kabul. Weather conditions may also limit US military operations designed to apprehend Osama bin Laden or strike at key Taliban positions. Full Story
Rousing Words but No Clear Strategy
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:24 by TRC-News
Two weeks after the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the question of the hour here is this: Does the Bush administration have a well-defined plan of action in what it calls the war on terrorism, or is it groping its way toward a plan? Full Story
Allies give Taliban one last chance
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:23 by TRC-News
The US and Britain, adopting a posture of "strategic patience", are giving the Taliban a last chance to hand over Osama bin Laden and his circle, senior defence sources said yesterday. Full Story
Flight Returns to LA with F-16 Escort After Threat
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:21 by TRC-News
An Air Canada jetliner bound for Toronto returned to Los Angeles with an escort of two U.S. fighter jets on Thursday after a passenger caught smoking in the bathroom made an "anti-American threat," airline officials said. Full Story
Chemical and Germ War: Terrorist Threat Assessed
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 23:15 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden's global network, Qaida, has been trying for some time to acquire materials necessary for chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons and may possess the capability to conduct a crude attack with chemical or biological agents, according to U.S. intelligence officials. Full Story
Dozens of terrorists on run in Britain
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 20:47 by TRC-News
DOZENS of terrorists allied to Osama bin Laden are on the run in Britain after disappearing in the wake of the suicide bombings in America. Full Story
U.S. diplomats set to leave Indonesia
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 19:48 by TRC-News
More than 1,000 protesters burned U.S. flags and an effigy of President Bush outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday as some American diplomats prepared to leave the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Meantime, in a reflection of the growing unease in the Muslim world over a possible strike on Afghanistan, the Arab League said none of its members was ready to take part in a U.S.-led military action. Full Story
Syria Ready to Combat Terrorism
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 19:42 by TRC-News
The Syrian foreign minister on Thursday denounced the terror attacks on the United States as a "horrible event" and said his country supported an international effort to combat terrorism if targets were clearly defined and civilians spared. Full Story
India Fears Terrorist Strikes, Religious Tensions
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 19:39 by TRC-News
India, fearing religious tensions and guerrilla attacks, Thursday told its states to tighten security as three people died in the first outbreak of communal unrest since attacks on the United States by suspected Islamic militants. Full Story
Powell Says Does Not Know Where Bin Laden Hiding
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 19:12 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday he did not know where Osama bin Laden was hiding, but that the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States would be found. Full Story
U.S. Releases Hijackers' Photos; Cites Al Qaeda
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 18:06 by TRC-News
Top U.S. law enforcement officials released on Thursday photographs of the 19 hijackers and said some of them have contacts with the network controlled by Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, who the United States has named as the prime suspect in the deadly airplane attacks. Full Story
U.S. Boosts Air Security; Taliban Reaches Bin Laden
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 18:01 by TRC-News
Seeking to coax Americans back to the skies after deadly hijack attacks on major U.S. landmarks, the United States set new airline security measures on Thursday as Afghanistan's ruling Taliban vowed defiance in the face of anticipated U.S. strikes. Full Story
10 Arrested in Chemical Permits Probe
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 15:23 by TRC-News
FBI agents investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks assisted in the arrests of 10 Middle Eastern men in three states for fraudulently obtaining licenses to transport hazardous materials. Full Story
U.S. Rule Change in Shooting Down of Airliners
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 14:18 by TRC-News
Two mid-level U.S. Air Force generals have been authorized to order the shooting down of commercial airliners without first getting clearance from the president if the planes threaten U.S. cities, defense officials said on Thursday. Full Story
U.S. Tightens Air Security; Afghans Defiant
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 13:30 by TRC-News
The United States on Thursday took steps to tighten airline security in a country still traumatized by the attacks on its main cities while across the globe, Afghanistan's rulers issued defiant messages in the face of anticipated U.S. retaliatory strikes. Full Story
Fighting Terrorism: Lessons from France
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 0:27 by TRC-News
France has been remarkably successful in thwarting Islamist terrorism. The French experience holds some challenging lessons for the U.S. Full Story
Tightening the Noose on the Taliban
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 0:23 by TRC-News
The U.S. has skillfully encircled Osama Bin Laden's hosts. Their defiance suggests military action is imminent Full Story
Military Strike Not Imminent, Officials Say
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 23:52 by TRC-News
Bush administration officials said yesterday that a military strike against Osama bin Laden and his supporters in Afghanistan is not imminent, citing the need to gain better intelligence about their whereabouts. Full Story
Sudan, a Bin Laden Haven, Cracks Down on Extremists
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 23:49 by TRC-News
In a blow to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, Sudan has quietly begun rounding up extremists that have used the African country as an operating base and safe haven for more than a decade, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday. Full Story
U.S. Airline Pilots Put the Hijackers on Notice
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 23:42 by TRC-News
David Butterfield, a US Airways pilot for 23 years, does not want a gun. He is confident about the defensive arsenal already at his disposal: Depressurizing the aircraft, so everyone on board passes out. Brandishing the ax that is kept to clear debris in case of a crash. Or just manipulating the controls. Full Story
U.S. Keeps NATO Outside
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 23:30 by TRC-News
The U.S. deputy defense secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, met with America's NATO allies here on Wednesday, but did not ask them to take any concrete measures in the fight against terrorism beyond the general statement of support first issued the day after the terrorist attacks. Full Story
LA Clears Subway as Passengers Report Dizziness
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 23:26 by TRC-News
Authorities evacuated a major subway line in Los Angeles and closed a main city street during the evening rush hour on Wednesday after passengers on a train car complained of dizziness and itching eyes and throats, police said. Full Story
Bin Laden's global financial reach detailed
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 23:22 by TRC-News
Tougher laws against money laundering are needed if the United States is going to cripple Osama bin Laden's international financial support network, congressional and administration officials said Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Full Story
Raids crush terrorist cells and foil plot to kill Bush
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 23:19 by TRC-News
TERRORIST cells supporting Osama bin Laden in Europe have been crushed in dawn raids from the Costa del Sol to Leicester.
Terrorist plots that were foiled by raids in recent months included a plan to kill President Bush at the G8 summit in Genoa using aircraft, and an attempt to destroy the US Embassy in Paris. Full Story
Putin's offer may signal new U.S.-Russian relationship
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 18:57 by TRC-News
Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to offer help to the United States in fighting terrorism signals he may now seek a new kind of U.S.-Russian relationship. Full Story
U.S. to Test Subway Defenses Against Chemical Attack
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 18:55 by TRC-News
The United States is preparing to test a revolutionary system for detecting chemical attacks in subway stations, a government official said on Wednesday. Full Story
Virginia man held in terrorist probe
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 18:41 by TRC-News
A man whose name was found in a car registered to one of the suspected hijackers in the September 11 terrorist attacks is being held on unrelated charges, according to a federal affidavit. Full Story
Bush Says Confident of CIA and Director Tenet
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 18:39 by TRC-News
President Bush said on Wednesday he had "a lot of confidence" in CIA Director George Tenet, who has come under fire after the Sept. 11 attacks revealed major gaps in U.S. intelligence operations. Full Story
Terror arrests across Europe
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 18:32 by TRC-News
Arrests are being made across Europe in the wake of the U.S. suicide bombings. Full Story
Bush wants armed marshals on most U.S. airliners
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 18:29 by TRC-News
President Bush will propose placing armed federal marshals on virtually all U.S. commercial air flights and significantly boosting the federal role in airport security screening as part of a package of airline and airport security measures to be unveiled Thursday Full Story
Taliban Leader Says U.S. Cannot Defeat His Movement
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 18:28 by TRC-News
The leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mullah Mohammad Omar, said in a rare interview that the United States could not defeat his movement in its attempt to obtain Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Witness: Terrorists Train With Poison
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 9:56 by TRC-News
Trainees at terrorist camps in Afghanistan learned how to assassinate, commit sabotage, unleash poisons and build explosives, a convicted terrorist collaborator testified in chilling testimony two months ago. Full Story
Bush, Congress Want More Air Marshals
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 9:53 by TRC-News
The Bush administration and Congress agree there must be air marshals aboard airplanes and stronger cockpit doors to keep hijackers out, but are debating whether the federal government should take over airport security. Full Story
FBI starts nationwide records check on hazmat truckers
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 9:52 by TRC-News
The FBI is starting a massive nationwide records check on all truck drivers licensed to carry hazardous materials. Full Story
Iran Says U.S. Strike Justified, if There Is Proof
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 9:49 by TRC-News
Iran said Wednesday U.S. retaliation for this month's suicide attacks would be justified if there was proof who was to blame, but made clear it would not help in any strike against Afghanistan. Full Story
Iran Top Leader Says No Help to U.S.-Led Alliance
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 9:44 by TRC-News
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Wednesday his country would provide no help to the United States in any attack on Afghanistan after Washington accused his country of practicing terrorism. Full Story
Arafat, Peres Agree on New Cease-Fire Effort
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 9:41 by TRC-News
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat agreed on Wednesday to make a new bid to forge a lasting truce that could boost U.S. efforts to create a global anti-terror coalition. Full Story
Bin Laden arrests in Spain
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
Spanish police have arrested six suspected associates of Osama bin Laden, the man Washington blames for the U.S. hijack attacks. Full Story
U.S. Embassy in Kabul Torched; Refugee Crisis Looms
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 9:32 by TRC-News
Protesters in Afghanistan's capital Kabul set fire to the deserted U.S. Embassy on Wednesday after an ultimatum to the ruling Taliban from President Bush's anti-terror coalition. Full Story
Hate-Filled Words Behind a POW's Gentle Voice
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 0:24 by TRC-News
A learned-looking captive in northern Afghanistan says he's ready for terrorism as soon as he's free. Full Story
U.S. Won't Seek Taliban Exit
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 0:10 by TRC-News
The United States said on Tuesday that it was planning to punish - but not replace - the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, whom it blames for harboring a terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden. Full Story
What About the Taliban's Stingers?
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 0:07 by TRC-News
Taliban forces in Afghanistan are reported to have up to 100 shoulder-fired Stingers, the U.S.-made missile with the deadliest record against low-flying aircraft of any weapon since World War II. Full Story
Iran softens its anti-west line
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 0:02 by TRC-News
Jack Straw ended the first visit by a British foreign secretary to Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979 yesterday having secured a softening of Iran's attitude to an American-led assault on Afghanistan. Full Story
Against the war? So what would your alternative be?
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 0:00 by TRC-News
''Justice not revenge' is a pointless slogan unless you have first hunted down the culprits to face such justice' Full Story
Pentagon picks enduring codename
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:54 by TRC-News
The Pentagon changed the codename of its military mobilisation to "Operation Enduring Freedom" yesterday. Full Story
Mr Sharon's obduracy endangers Israel, as well as the fight against terrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:53 by TRC-News
When president George Bush called his friend Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, two days after the New York bombing and asked him to allow the Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to meet Yasser Arafat, he hardly expected to hear no for an answer. Full Story
Washington's hawk trains sights on Iraq
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:50 by TRC-News
Paul Wolfowitz's admirers and detractors agree on one thing - "hawk" is too timid a description of the outspoken deputy defence secretary trying to persuade President Bush to bomb Iraq. Full Story
Bush Presses for More Police Powers on Homefront
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:46 by TRC-News
President Bush pressed on Tuesday for expanded powers to detain people in a homefront "war against terrorism" but the Pentagon hinted that a major land attack on Afghanistan may not be in the offing. Full Story
Face to face with Osama
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:41 by TRC-News
Millions of words have been written about Bin Laden, but almost all of them by people who have never met him. One of the few who has is distinguished Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai. Here he describes his extraordinary meetings with the world's most wanted man - and tries to explain what makes him tick Full Story
WHO warns of bio-weapons risk
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:35 by TRC-News
A top official from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against underestimating the risks of possible biological or chemical attacks after last week's atrocities in the United States. Full Story
Taleban say attacks avenged US 'cruelty'
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:30 by TRC-News
Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has said the 11 September attacks on the United States were to avenge the "cruelty" of American foreign policy. Full Story
Bush Calls on Afghan Citizens to Help
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:29 by TRC-News
President Bush on Tuesday called on Afghan citizens disenchanted with Taliban rule to help the United States in its bid to punish Saudi exile Osama bin Laden for the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story
Blair steps in over Straw row with Israel
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:27 by TRC-News
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, yesterday agreed to meet Jack Straw after Tony Blair intervened to quell a diplomatic row between the two countries. Full Story
Man with Gun Passes Detector at Atlanta Airport
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:07 by TRC-News
A man with a loaded gun passed through a security checkpoint at Hartsfield International Airport and went undetected, Atlanta police said on Tuesday. Full Story
No refuge for Islamic terrorists
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:06 by TRC-News
TONY BLAIR told Afghanistan’s Taleban regime last night that it was now an enemy of Britain and faced destruction by the West. Full Story
U.S. Not Planning D-Day Invasion on Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 23:02 by TRC-News
The United States will not launch a massive D-Day invasion to win the war on terrorism, but is preparing for a long, deadly fight following the Sept. 11 attack on America, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday. Full Story
House Passes $344 Billion Military Spending Bill
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 22:53 by TRC-News
The House of Representatives approved a $344 billion defense spending bill that shifts some missile defense funds into anti-terrorism programs after suicide hijack attacks two weeks ago. Full Story
Rumsfeld More Modest on Terror Goals
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:38 by TRC-News
The U.S. campaign against terrorism will not completely eradicate it, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says. Full Story
Bush formally launches 'campaign against terrorism'
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:36 by TRC-News
While American troops prepared for war, President Bush formally notified Congress of his decision to deploy combat forces "to a number of foreign nations" and said additional deployments are under consideration. Full Story
War on Terror Advances on Financial Front
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:35 by TRC-News
Of the many fronts in the war on terrorism it was the backroom campaign to starve militants of funding that looked most active Tuesday, as banks around the world came under pressure to freeze suspect assets. Full Story
Interpol Issues Warrant for Key Bin Laden Aide
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:32 by TRC-News
Interpol Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Osama bin Laden's right-hand man at the request of Egyptian police authorities, the international police organization said in a statement. Full Story
Terrorist probe turns toward Europe
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:31 by TRC-News
Four people were detained in Paris Tuesday in connection with a planned attack on the U.S. Embassy in the French capital and other U.S. targets in France, police said. Full Story
U.S. Unsure on Going Public With Proof
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:30 by TRC-News
The Bush administration is debating how much secret intelligence, such as electronic intercepts and reports from agents, it should release in an effort to prove that Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden was responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, administration officials said yesterday. Full Story
U.S. Nuke Plants Seen Vulnerable to Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:28 by TRC-News
The 103 nuclear power reactors in the United States are vulnerable to acts of terrorism, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other government agencies must impose stricter safety measures to protect the facilities, two watchdog groups said Tuesday. Full Story
Pakistan Says It's Keeping Ties with Taliban
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:26 by TRC-News
Pakistan said Tuesday it would maintain diplomatic links with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and warned against foreign governments giving military aid to the movement's opponents. Full Story
French police detain more Islamist militants
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 12:23 by TRC-News
French police on Tuesday detained four more suspected Islamist militants in the Paris region on orders of anti-terrorist judges probing extremist networks in France. Full Story
Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Taliban
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday that it had cut all ties with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, further isolating the central Asian nation as it braces for military strikes by the United States. Full Story
Bite the bullet and target Iraq
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 0:28 by TRC-News
"We're looking for links" between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist group and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, said Colin Powell yesterday. So far, the US secretary of state can see "no clear link" between Bin Laden's forces in Afghanistan and the America-hater publicly laughing at our grief in Baghdad. Full Story
Wargame exposed gaping hole in Pentagon strategy
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 0:21 by TRC-News
When terror came out of a clear blue sky on September 11, some of the Pentagon's top brass were given a jolting reminder of a wargame they had recently played. In the game, the US was pitted against a zealous, decentralised terror organisation very like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida, and the US lost. Full Story
Push for Increased Surveillance Powers Worries Some
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 0:20 by TRC-News
To fight the new war against terrorism, the Bush administration wants to give law enforcement electronic surveillance capabilities that currently are allowed only in espionage cases. Full Story
The Nature and Nurture Of a Fanatical Believer
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 0:14 by TRC-News
What Jerrold Post wants you to understand is that, as new and frightening as the war against terrorism may appear, the psychological dynamics of the terrorist himself are essentially the same as those America battled in World War II and other conflicts of the 20th century. Full Story
Up to 11,000 trained in Bin Laden terror camps
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 0:12 by TRC-News
The worldwide inquiry into the terrorist attacks on America has identified Osama bin Laden's chief of operations in Europe and has linked him to a series of atrocities carried out by the Bin Laden network al-Qaida, it emerged yesterday. Full Story
Tidy end to terror probe is doubtful
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 0:08 by TRC-News
As the investigation into the recent terrorist hijackings approaches its third week, one thing is becoming clear: Those who expect distinct milestones and a not-too-distant completion could find themselves badly disappointed. Full Story
What to Fight for
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 0:04 by TRC-News
IN EXPLAINING TO Americans the war he would lead against terrorism, President Bush on Thursday described the enemy as heir to the "murderous ideologies" against which this country fought for most of the last century: fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. Full Story
Radio station cans exclusive with Taliban leader
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 0:00 by TRC-News
Voice of America, the publicly funded US international radio station, decided not to broadcast parts of a rare interview with the leader of the Taliban after coming under pressure from US government officials, it emerged yesterday. Full Story
Bin Laden funded by bogus charities
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 23:53 by TRC-News
THE clues to how Osama bin Laden was funding his terrorist operations were revealed during a terrorist trial in Manhattan, but US investigators took no action. Full Story
'Homeland defense' won't be easy
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 23:46 by TRC-News
"Civil defense" conjures images of blackout curtains, backyard bomb shelters, and kids huddled under school desks for "duck and cover" drills. In today's world of massive terrorist attacks, defending the homeland is likely to mean much more. Full Story
U.S. Initiates New UN Measures Against 'Terrorism'
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 23:43 by TRC-News
Taking its "war on terrorism," to the United Nations, Washington pressed on Monday for U.N. Security Council action to stop the financing and harboring of "terrorists and terrorist networks," council sources said. Full Story
Powell Hints Pakistan May Cut Ties with Taliban
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 23:34 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell hinted on Monday that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia would formally cut ties with Afghanistan's Taliban government, as the United States tightens the diplomatic and military noose around Islamic leaders harboring Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden. Full Story
West ponders aid to Afghan opposition
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 20:38 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's anti-Taliban forces stepped up their military campaign Monday as Western powers and Russia considered how to aid the opposition movement. Full Story
Pilots to request arms in cockpit
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 20:35 by TRC-News
The Air Line Pilots Association has decided to ask Congress to allow pilots who choose to be armed to carry guns in commerical airline cockpits Full Story
Russia outlines how it will cooperate with U.S.
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 19:50 by TRC-News
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia has worked out how it will aid the U.S. campaign on terrorism -- going so far as to exchange intelligence, but stopping short of allowing U.S. warplanes to use Russian airspace or airports. Full Story
Taliban leader: U.S. demands 'unacceptable'
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 19:40 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban prepared for war Monday by calling up 300,000 troops as their supreme leader called U.S. demands to hand over suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden "unacceptable." Full Story
Profile: Bin Laden's right hand man
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 19:37 by TRC-News
A prominent Egyptian Islamist based in Afghanistan is emerging as a key figure in Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Full Story
Mubarak Says Awaits U.S. Proof on Attack Blame
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 19:34 by TRC-News
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Monday that he backed the United States in its "war on terrorism" but that Washington had yet to come up with proof of who was behind the deadly September 11 attacks. Full Story
FBI, INS Arrest, Detain Over 350 People in Probe
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 19:30 by TRC-News
The FBI and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service have arrested or detained more than 350 people in the investigation into the Sept. 11 hijacked airplane attacks on U.S. landmarks, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Monday. Full Story
Ashcroft faces congressional worries over proposed law changes
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 19:29 by TRC-News
Proposals to expand law enforcement powers to combat terrorism may run into congressional roadblocks after concern was expressed Monday about the possible trampling of constitutional rights. Full Story
U.S. readying to present proof against bin Laden
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 19:04 by TRC-News
The Bush administration plans to offer proof this week that Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Full Story
Hijacking expert hiding in Iran
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 19:00 by TRC-News
JACK STRAW will begin his goodwill mission to Tehran by asking the whereabouts of one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, who is believed to be hiding in Iran. Full Story
Ashcroft asks Congress for tools to stop terrorism
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 18:53 by TRC-News
Warning that "the American people do not have the luxury of time," Attorney General John Ashcroft called on Congress Monday to quickly approve a legislative package he said would help authorities combat terrorism. Full Story
Dead Saudi Hijack Suspect Resurfaces, Denies Involvement
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 18:46 by TRC-News
A Saudi Arabian aircraft pilot who was named as one of five suspects on board one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre, has turned up alive and well in Morocco. Full Story
2 Men Accused of Helping Hijackers
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 18:32 by TRC-News
Two men have been charged with helping three of the hijackers in the terrorist attacks fraudulently obtain Virginia driver's licenses last month, prosecutors said Monday. Full Story
Bin Laden Calls on Pakistanis to Defend Afghans
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 12:58 by TRC-News
A Gulf Arab satellite television station Monday quoted Afghan-based Osama bin Laden, the top suspect in Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, as urging Pakistanis to defend Afghanistan against U.S. "infidel forces." Full Story
Build on global unity born out of terror - by Kofi Annan
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 12:43 by TRC-News
The terrorists who attacked the United States on Sept. 11 aimed at one nation, but wounded an entire world. Rarely has the world been as united as it was on that terrible day. Full Story
Terrorists' attack tactically unsound
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 12:37 by TRC-News
STANDING IN the Navy hallway of the National War College the other day, considering the large painting of American battleships sinking at Pearl Harbor, I wondered whether other nations' military institutions so prominently display images of their national humiliations. Full Story
U.S. Extends Ban on Crop-Duster Planes
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 12:31 by TRC-News
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday it had extended a ban on the use of crop-duster and agricultural planes in the United States until Tuesday due to ``national security reasons.'' Full Story
Kazakh Leader Offers Full Support for U.S. Strike
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 12:27 by TRC-News
Kazakhstan became the first ex-Soviet state to promise practical support to the U.S. war on ''terrorism'' on Monday, offering its strategically vital aerodromes and bases for a potential strike on Afghanistan Full Story
Life Inside Al Qaeda: A Destructive Devotion
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 10:44 by TRC-News
The soldiers of Al Qaeda move seamlessly from nation to nation, continent to continent, changing names, passports, entire identities time and again. Full Story
Taliban: Killing Bin Laden Would Not End 'Terrorism'
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 10:39 by TRC-News
The United States cannot win its "war on terrorism" by killing Osama bin Laden and should focus instead on withdrawing from the Gulf and ending its bias in the Middle East, the Taliban leader said Monday. Full Story
Bush Freezes Terrorists' Assets
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 10:37 by TRC-News
Calling it a ``strike on the financial foundation'' of terrorists, President Bush signed an executive order Monday freezing the assets of 27 individuals and organizations. He demanded foreign banks follow suit. Full Story
TIME Exclusive: An Inside Job?
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 2:31 by TRC-News
Sources Tell TIME that US officials are investigating whether the hijackers had accomplices deep inside the airports''secure' areas Full Story
Clinton sent hit squad for bin Laden
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 1:59 by TRC-News
US SPECIAL forces launched a secret mission to capture Osama bin Laden two years ago after President Clinton authorised his assassination. Full Story
Tehran agrees to back US coalition against terrorism
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 1:48 by TRC-News
THE US-led coalition against Osama bin Laden tightened its net round the fugitive terrorist leader yesterday as Afghanistan’s neighbours signed up to the fight against terrorism. Full Story
NEWS ANALYSIS EU Solidarity Declaration Gives Both Sides a Victory
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 1:46 by TRC-News
The European Union summit meeting's expression of "total solidarity" with the United States' war on terrorism essentially means that its members have bought into a first-phase American military strike in which Europe's nations can choose their own level of risk and engagement. Full Story
U.S. to Reveal Evidence of bin Laden's Role
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 1:44 by TRC-News
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that Washington would soon share with its allies evidence showing that Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
America aims to topple Taleban
Posted Monday, September 24, 2001 - 1:27 by TRC-News
THE Bush Administration stated for the first time yesterday that it was exploring ways to topple the Taleban regime in Afghanistan. Full Story
In War on Terrorism, Unseen Fronts May Be Crucial
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 20:33 by TRC-News
As the buildup of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region gathers steam, the Bush administration is pursuing its war on terrorism along less traditional fronts as well, moving to freeze terrorists' assets, pressuring their state supporters through diplomacy and putting in motion covert operations against their networks. Full Story
Former Carlos the Jackal associate says attacks on US were ‘easy’
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 20:23 by TRC-News
In the opinion of Anis Naccache, the catastrophic suicide attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon was “one of the easiest operations in the world.” And he should know. Full Story
Box cutters found on other September 11 flights
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 20:06 by TRC-News
The complex investigation into the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington gathered more strands of evidence over the weekend, leading authorities to several parts of the world. Full Story
Officials Say U.S. Embassy in Paris Target for Attack
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 20:02 by TRC-News
Intensifying their efforts to identify extremists who may be part of a worldwide network targeting the United States, European authorities said Saturday that they discovered suspected bomb-making chemicals in an apartment above a North African restaurant in Brussels. Two men were arrested, and officials said terrorists planned to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Full Story
New Hope for Peres, Arafat Truce Talks
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 19:57 by TRC-News
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres may hold truce talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as early as Monday after Washington stepped up pressure for the meeting to help it build an anti-terror alliance. Full Story
India, Pakistan hail lifting of U.S. sanctions
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 19:54 by TRC-News
India and Pakistan have welcomed the lifting of U.S.-imposed sanctions as both countries commit to an international campaign against terrorism. Full Story
Bush team doubts claims bin Laden missing
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 19:50 by TRC-News
As the United States continued Sunday to ply its diplomatic and intelligence contacts throughout the Middle East and South Asia with a combination of tough talk and tangible rewards, President Bush's top security advisers readily dismissed claims by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban that al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden was nowhere to be found. Full Story
Taliban Says Bin Laden Missing; U.S. Maintains Demand
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 19:47 by TRC-News
Afghanistan said on Sunday Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the devastating attacks on the United States, could not be found but Washington maintained its ultimatum to the ruling Taliban to surrender him or face military strikes. Full Story
Rumsfeld: U.S. Is Positioning Forces Around World
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 19:46 by TRC-News
The United States is positioning military forces around the world to fight a war on terrorism that will involve more than Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday. Full Story
Contact Lost with Unmanned U.S. Spy Plane, Rumsfeld
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 19:43 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Sunday the U.S. military had lost contact with an unmanned spy plane deployed as part of a massive effort to retaliate for attacks on the United States. Full Story
Arafat-Peres Truce Talks Off Again
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 19:39 by TRC-News
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon canceled truce talks with the Palestinians Sunday, despite world pressure to cool a year-long conflict as the United States tries to build an anti-terror coalition. Full Story
Rumsfeld: U.S. could hit countries besides Afghanistan
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 19:30 by TRC-News
U.S. forces are being positioned to address "a worldwide problem" in an anti-terrorist campaign that could involve strikes on countries besides Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday. Full Story
Sand Trap: Indiscriminate Bombing of Afghanistan Would Play Directly Into Bin Laden's Hands
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 1:47 by TRC-News
In his powerful address before Congress last Thursday, President Bush correctly defined the threat of terrorism. And he correctly characterized the motivation of Osama bin Laden, the presumed evil genius of terrorism. Full Story
CIA gets go-ahead for a return to murderous Cold War tactics
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 1:42 by TRC-News
US intelligence agencies are preparing for a return to covert operations of the kind that made the CIA notorious during the Cold War. Full Story
Islamic Nations Isolate Taliban
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 1:27 by TRC-News
As moves by Afghanistan's neighbors thrust it toward total diplomatic isolation, President Bush appeared to gain additional support from Russia on Saturday in building ties with anti-Taliban resistance forces. Full Story
We must respond - wisely
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 1:24 by TRC-News
The United States and her allies must prosecute a war against terrorism, but we should be prepared for all consequences Full Story
Investigators Identify 4 to 5 Groups Linked to Bin Laden Operating in U.S.
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 1:19 by TRC-News
Four to five al Qaeda groups have operated in the United States for the last several years, but investigators have not yet found any connection between them and any of the 19 hijackers responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, according to government officials. Full Story
British SAS Troopers Already in Afghanistan
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 1:14 by TRC-News
Britain's Defense Ministry played down Sunday widespread reports in the British press that the country's crack special forces were already inside Afghanistan. Full Story
Bush lifts India, Pakistan sanctions
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 1:02 by TRC-News
U.S. President George W. Bush has ordered the immediate lifting of sanctions against India and Pakistan, imposed in 1998 after the two countries tested nuclear weapons. Full Story
Survey Finds Half of U.S. Cities with Attack Plans
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 21:08 by TRC-News
A survey of 465 U.S. cities released on Saturday found that more than half of them have terrorism preparedness plans in place, many of them now under review in the wake of the deadly Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story
Pakistan Protests Present Challenge
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 21:06 by TRC-News
The relatively small turnout for anti-government protests here could be a favorable sign for Pakistan's ability to support U.S. action against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia. Full Story
Sources: Downed drone spied for CIA
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 20:59 by TRC-News
U.S. government sources indicate to CNN that the unmanned spy plane downed by the Taliban on Saturday was providing intelligence for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Full Story
Pakistan outlines conditions for assisting U.S.
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 18:47 by TRC-News
As the United States began moving warplanes into Central Asia, Pakistani officials told CNN Saturday those planes can be based in Pakistan only as a last resort. Full Story
U.S. Seeks Inside Information From Convicted Terrorists
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 18:20 by TRC-News
Authorities are seeking the cooperation of convicted Islamic terrorists in their investigation of the Sept. 11 hijackings and in their renewed effort to identify terrorist "sleeper cells" in the United States, law enforcement sources said Friday. Full Story
Cropduster Manual Discovered in Suspected Terrorist Hideout
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 18:15 by TRC-News
U.S. officials suspect that bin Laden conspirators may have been planning to disperse biological or chemical agents from cropdusting planes Full Story
State Department to improve counterterrorism
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 18:12 by TRC-News
Besides raising the reward for the capture of Osama bin Laden, senior State Department officials and other senior administration officials told CNN the State Department is looking to boost its counterterrorism budget. Full Story
President Bush to sign order cracking down on terrorists
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 18:09 by TRC-News
President Bush plans to sign an executive order freezing the U.S. assets of specific suspected terrorists and terrorist organizations Full Story
Taliban Say Downed Spyplane and Helicopter
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 13:05 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said on Saturday they had downed an unmanned spy plane and a helicopter in areas where opposition forces reported sweeping advances. Full Story
A Fanatic's Quiet Path to Terror
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 13:00 by TRC-News
Rage Was Born in Egypt, Nurtured in Germany, Inflicted on U.S. Full Story
Sources: FBI names suspect viewed as key leader
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 12:55 by TRC-News
The FBI now believes suspected hijacker Abdul Aziz Alomari -- one of the men officials believe was aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center -- played a "key leadership role" in the September 11 terror attacks, law enforcement sources tell CNN. Full Story
Afghans Still in Dark Over Bin Laden's Fate
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:54 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban left its people in the dark about its plans on Saturday after its envoy to Pakistan threw down the gauntlet to Washington by refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden without evidence. Full Story
Taliban Says Shoots Down Pilotless Plane in North
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:53 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said its forces shot down on Saturday a pilotless aircraft over Samangan province in the north, the Pakistani-based Afghan Islamic Press said quoting Taliban officials. Full Story
Reports: UAE withdraws recognition of the Taliban
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:43 by TRC-News
The United Arab Emirates cut diplomatic relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan on Saturday, the official Emirates News Agency reported. The move means that the Taliban is recognized as the Afghan government by only two nations, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Full Story
Saudis Balk At Use of Key Facility
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:42 by TRC-News
Saudi Arabia is resisting the United States' request to use a new command center on a Saudi military base in any air war against terrorists, forcing Pentagon planners to consider alternatives that could delay a campaign for weeks, defense officials said yesterday. Full Story
U.S. Gives No Clue to Timing of First Strike
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:38 by TRC-News
Strategy: Military objective is the key factor, but weather, Muslim holidays, economy all figure in. Full Story
Old weapons for a new battle
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:33 by TRC-News
The US and British intelligence agencies are leading the search for Bin Laden, while the definition of terrorism is being drawn ever wider Full Story
Jordan Gets 2nd Chance to Prove Bin Laden Link
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:29 by TRC-News
Trial: Terrorism case illustrates difficulty of drawing tangible ties to Al Qaeda. Successful appeal could bolster U.S. credibility. Full Story
In search of community
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:24 by TRC-News
Understanding the Muslim world could help us overcome our alienation from each other Full Story
Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:17 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born fundamentalist Full Story
Terrorists’ trade in stolen identities
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:12 by TRC-News
HAD FBI agents bothered to ask college lecturers in South Wales about the terrorist bomber they supposedly taught over a decade ago, then security chiefs would have realised how Osama bin Laden had carefully created a generation of impostors. Full Story
Taliban Rejects Bush Ultimatum
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:07 by TRC-News
Diplomacy: The regime will not comply without evidence of his guilt, says the ambassador to Pakistan. The White House repeats that it will not negotiate. Full Story
Straw holds out hand to Iran
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 2:01 by TRC-News
JACK STRAW will travel to Tehran shortly in an attempt to enlist Iran’s co-operation for the looming conflict with Afghanistan. Full Story
US banks on British troops
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 1:55 by TRC-News
AMERICA and Britain are to share the burden of the coming military action aimed at closing down the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden and other deadly groups in Afghanistan. Full Story
U.S. woos ex-adversaries, estranged friends to fight terror
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 1:55 by TRC-News
The business of assembling a coalition to battle terrorism has U.S. diplomats seeking pledges of support from longtime allies, former adversaries and estranged friends. Full Story
Leaders back Bush war plans
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 1:49 by TRC-News
The United States has been rallying support in its efforts to build a world coalition to fight terrorism. Full Story
U.S., Pakistan discuss bomber base
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 1:45 by TRC-News
Talks between U.S. and Pakistani military officials are focusing on what facilities American forces would like to use to back up possible operations in Afghanistan, senior Bush administration officials say. Full Story
Financial sleuths arm themselves to follow money trail
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 1:44 by TRC-News
The battle to bring down Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization won't be just about troops and guns. It will also be about money. Full Story
Congress OKs $15 Billion Airline Bailout
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 1:42 by TRC-News
The U.S. Congress voted on Friday to approve a $15 billion rescue plan for the airline industry, which is reeling from last week's attacks on American cities using hijacked airliners. Full Story
SAS already gathering intelligence in Afghanistan
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 18:23 by TRC-News
SOME of the West’s most professional and war-proven special forces units have begun the task of preparing the ground for covert military action in Afghanistan in the operation now codenamed Infinite Justice. Full Story
Bond denied for 3 terror suspects
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 18:12 by TRC-News
A federal judge denied bond Friday for three men arrested this week in connection with the investigation into the attacks. Full Story
UK arrests over US terror attacks
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 18:03 by TRC-News
Four people have been arrested in Britain in connection with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Full Story
US resolute on Bin Laden hunt
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 18:01 by TRC-News
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has told the BBC that there is enough evidence to bring Saudi-born militant Osama Bin Laden before an American court for crimes against humanity. Full Story
Tom Ridge Takes On the Biggest Job in Washington
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 17:52 by TRC-News
The President taps Pennsylvania’s Governor to head up the federal Office of Homeland Security. The move signals a serious, dedicated approach to combating terrorism Full Story
America needs to find a voice in Afghanistan
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 17:08 by TRC-News
The primary source of information for the average Afghan is the radio, often a transistor made 30 years ago. The 20 transmitting towers of the Taliban's Radio Shariat (meaning "Islamic law") are spewing out hatred of America all the time. Full Story
Hunt for terrorists stretches beyond bin Laden
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 16:54 by TRC-News
U.S. authorities say they are casting a wider net in their search for suspects in the September 11 attacks, looking beyond suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization. Full Story
Let's not get too liberal
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 14:38 by TRC-News
Western governments are responsible for many wrongs in the Muslim world, but that does not justify fascist fundamentalism Full Story
Anti-Terrorist Fight Raises Issues of National Sovereignty
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 13:56 by TRC-News
European leaders gathered for an emergency counter-terrorism summit in Brussels Friday are poised to tackle an urgent challenge: the prospect of a prolonged battle at home. Full Story
On Campus, Rumblings of Peace
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 13:38 by TRC-News
Reaction: Protests return to colleges, inspired by concerns as varied as the multiethnic student bodies. Full Story
The Land of the Free May Become Less So
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 13:27 by TRC-News
U.S. could take its cue from other countries where the price of peace is exacted in civil liberties. Full Story
Opponents of retaliation stage rallies
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 13:09 by TRC-News
Small but growing numbers of college students, liberal groups and religious leaders are bucking strong public sentiment and urging the United States not to retaliate for last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Full Story
Bin Laden exploits technology to suit his needs
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 11:25 by TRC-News
Within the veiled and shadowy network of Osama bin Laden's operation, information is likely communicated through both high- and low-tech means, using everything from a Web page to a whisper. Full Story
A military response is risky but necessary for America
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 11:10 by TRC-News
A military response that will not anger Muslims, that will not endanger the political balance in Pakistan, that will not have unpredictable consequences in Afghanistan, and that will not be exploited by the jihadists and other extreme Islamist groups, is a chimera. Full Story
Markets Plunge as U.S. Girds for War
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 10:47 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban rejected an ultimatum from President Bush to surrender Osama bin Laden or face a massive military attack, driving down U.S. stock markets on Friday on fears of war. Full Story
Attorney General Warns Boston of Possible Attack
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 10:45 by TRC-News
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft warned Boston's mayor and the Massachusetts governor of possible threats of an attack on the city or surrounding communities, officials told Reuters on Friday. Full Story
UK foreign secretary to visit Iran
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 10:43 by TRC-News
Jack Straw is to become the first UK foreign secretary to visit Iran since the 1979 revolution. Mr Straw's trip is the latest in a hectic series of global diplomatic efforts since the terror attacks on the US 10 days ago. Full Story
Hate Unites an Enemy Without an Army
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 10:21 by TRC-News
Al Qaeda: "The Base" has been loosely drawn together by Bin Laden's fervor, but its reach and sophistication confound U.S. intelligence. Full Story
Terror's long shadow
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:46 by TRC-News
A dark shadow has fallen over the citizens of the United States and Europe. As an Israeli who has lived his entire life in fear of terrorist attacks I can say quite simply: terror embitters life. It imposes a "military" mode of behaviour on a person, places him in an unending state of military stress. Full Story
Pakistan protests turn violent
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:44 by TRC-News
Three people have died and several others have been injured in Pakistan as pro-Taleban protests turned violent. Full Story
Blair hints at early military strike
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
Tony Blair yesterday gave his most explicit hint yet that US-led military strikes in retaliation for the destruction of the World Trade Centre will be focused on Osama bin Laden's terrorist training camps inside Afghanistan and will come within days. Full Story
Secret memo reveals US plan to overthrow Taliban regime
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
The US government is pressing its European allies to agree to a military campaign to topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and replace it with an interim administration under United Nations auspices. Full Story
America 'to lift sanctions on Pakistan'
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
America has agreed to lift sanctions imposed on Pakistan and India and to reschedule $600m (�410m) in bilateral debt with Islamabad, a senior western diplomat said today. Full Story
Int'l Opinion Opposes U.S. Military Strike - Poll
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:23 by TRC-News
International public opinion opposes a massive U.S. military strike to retaliate for suicide attacks on America by hijacked aircraft, according to a Gallup poll in 31 countries whose results were released on Friday. Full Story
World Responds Quickly, Not Clearly, to Bush
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
The world's response to President Bush's appeal to take his side in a new war on terror was loud but nowhere near as clear on Friday as his demand to choose between "us" and "the terrorists." Full Story
War Fears Grow as Bush Delivers Ultimatum
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Friday rejected an ultimatum from President Bush to surrender Osama bin Laden and said a U.S. military strike on the country would be a "showdown of might". Full Story
Taliban Firm on Bin Laden, Afghans Bitter
Posted Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, faced with a U.S. ultimatum to hand over Osama bin Laden, said on Friday that they would not do so without evidence that the Saudi militant was involved in attacks on U.S. targets. Full Story
Ex-Soviet states will accept US fighters
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 23:15 by TRC-News
AMERICA has reportedly won approval from two former Soviet Central Asian states to deploy combat aircraft from their bases north of Afghanistan. Full Story
Blair ends silence to win Iran's support
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 23:12 by TRC-News
TONY BLAIR enlisted the support of President Khatami of Iran yesterday in the widening international coalition being built to fight terrorism. Full Story
FBI, SEC on Hunt for Attack-Related Trading
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 23:09 by TRC-News
America's top markets regulator said on Thursday that several U.S. agencies, led by the FBI, were investigating whether those behind last week's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon tried to turn a grisly profit by playing the markets. Full Story
Israel suggests two others as atrocity 'masterminds'
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 23:05 by TRC-News
Two new names were put in the frame yesterday as possible masterminds for last week's terrorists attacks in the US, joining the prime suspect, Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Woman's murder puts West Bank truce in doubt
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 23:04 by TRC-News
Israel's Cabinet was to meet last night to discuss whether to go ahead with truce talks after Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank less than two days after Yasser Arafat announced a ceasefire. Full Story
Bush Urges Citizens to Prepare for Costly Battle
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:58 by TRC-News
Calling America "a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom," President Bush tonight urged its citizens to prepare for a long and probably costly battle against thousands of terrorists in dozens of nations. Full Story
Bush Creates High Office of Homeland Security
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:55 by TRC-News
President Bush announced on Thursday the creation of a Cabinet-level position with a sweeping mandate to oversee a "homeland defense" protecting Americans from attack. Full Story
Bush Prepares America for War, Vows Justice
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:55 by TRC-News
Vowing "justice will be done," President Bush steeled America for a war on terrorism on Thursday, saying the hour for military action was near and demanding Afghanistan's leaders turn over Islamic militants suspected of last week's attacks. Full Story
Bush: 'Justice will be done'
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:54 by TRC-News
Vowing "justice will be done" against those responsible for last week's terrorist attacks, President Bush Thursday night denounced Afghanistan for training and harboring terrorists. Full Story
How and When to Respond? Quarrels on the Bush Team
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:50 by TRC-News
The Bush administration is struggling with its first high-level quarrels over the scope and timing of its military response to the terrorist attack, according to administration officials. Full Story
Elite Forces Would Take Pivotal Role
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:47 by TRC-News
In pondering what military action the United States might take in waging war on terrorists, Pentagon planners are concentrating on Special Forces, not the regular troops that prevailed in the Gulf War, according to U.S. and European specialists. Full Story
Blair Pledges Support to US in Visit
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:28 by TRC-News
British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged ``our solidarity, our sympathy and our support'' to the United States on Thursday as he joined President Bush at the White House to discuss plans for a battle against global terrorism. Full Story
Saddam offers 'humanitarian' aid to U.S.
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:27 by TRC-News
Iraq would be willing to aid the United States in the wake of last week's attacks on New York and Washington, according to the official Iraqi News Agency. Full Story
United States Now Pays For the Error of Our Ways
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 22:18 by TRC-News
FANATICS. Barbarians. A war between good and evil. These are the words being used to describe the World Trade Center attackers and whatever method the United States will use to retaliate. Americans are good and the people responsible for this terrible crime are evil, aren't they? While the world waits for our response, it's important for us to understand why we were attacked and why more and more people in the Muslim world hate the United States so much that they're willing to die to hurt us. Full Story
Draining Bin Laden's Swamp
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 20:47 by TRC-News
Beating Bin Laden requires changing the environment that nurtures him — a challenge more political than military Full Story
France fears fractures from 'terrorist war'
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 20:35 by TRC-News
Jon Henley explains why France is the least keen European nation to pitch in with a US-led war against terrorism Full Story
What the Pakistani and Indian papers say
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 20:20 by TRC-News
The Karachi-based daily, Dawn, devotes its first leader to the fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians. The writer believes that the US forced Israel into line, to prevent the conflict undermining Washington's efforts to build an anti-terrorist coalition. Full Story
Stocks Slump; Dow Off Over 1,200 Points for Week
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 19:31 by TRC-News
Stocks on Thursday added to horrific losses that have lopped more than 1,200 points off the blue-chip Dow average this week, as corporate warnings of layoffs and worsening earnings after last week's terror attacks stoked fears of more damage to the U.S. economy. Full Story
New York Mayor Puts Latest Attack Toll at 6,333
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 19:26 by TRC-News
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Thursday put the latest toll of those missing after last week's aerial attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center at 6,333 people. Full Story
Bush to detail activities of bin Laden group
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 19:25 by TRC-News
President Bush will deliver a "very direct" message to Afghanistan's ruling Taliban Thursday in a speech to Congress and the American people that will include a detailed description of the al Qaeda terrorist network of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden Full Story
Bush Will Call on Military to 'Be Ready'
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 17:13 by TRC-News
President Bush on Thursday night will tell the U.S. military to "be ready" to retaliate for the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington and will tell governments: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." Full Story
Saudis Join Anti-Terrorism Fight
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 16:41 by TRC-News
Saudi Arabia pledged to President Bush on Thursday that it would use all its resources to fight terrorism while the 16-member European Union agreed on a series of joint measures. Full Story
Overt assistance from Pakistan may bring dire consequences
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 16:37 by TRC-News
As the United States plans its military response to last week’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the role of Pakistan — and the position of the country’s unelected military leader, General Pervez Musharraf — have become key questions. Full Story
Flight 11 Worker Detailed Struggle with Hijackers
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 16:21 by TRC-News
A flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11 called a colleague and told of a horrific struggle with hijackers aboard the doomed plane in the moments before it crashed into the World Trade Center's north tower on Sept. 11 Full Story
Rumsfeld: U.S. War on Terror Will Be 'Marathon'
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 16:11 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday the United States was deploying military forces to help fight a new war on terrorism, but cautioned that the conflict would be "a marathon, not a sprint." Full Story
All tracks lead to bin Laden
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 15:51 by TRC-News
US intelligence officials describe the evidence against Osama bin Laden as overwhelming. Almost every lead points to him, they say. By the standards of most intelligence material, where every nuance counts, the clues are undoubtedly persuasive. However, by the standards of a courtroom, it is all circumstantial so far. Full Story
Frightened travellers 'turn to El Al'
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 15:45 by TRC-News
Israel's national airline El Al says an increased fear of flying brought about by the terror attacks in America has led to a surge in demand for its flights. Full Story
Algeria 'gives US terror list'
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 15:40 by TRC-News
Algeria is reportedly co-operating with the US in the international alliance against terrorism. Full Story
Terrorist funding targeted
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 15:13 by TRC-News
Treasury launches global drive to block terrorists' fund raising accounts Full Story
Warning 'was given to US over terrorists'
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 14:31 by TRC-News
FBI and CIA officials were advised last month that as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into the United States and planning "a major assault", a high-ranking US law enforcement official has said. Full Story
Man linked to bin Laden associate arrested in Chicago
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 14:12 by TRC-News
A man linked to an associate of Osama bin Laden and wanted in connection with the investigation into last week's terrorist attacks was arrested by federal agents, the FBI confirmed Thursday morning. Full Story
FBI: Some Hijackers' IDs in Question
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 14:04 by TRC-News
FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Thursday that authorities have questions about the identities of several of the 19 hijackers whose names the FBI released last week. Full Story
Europe agrees anti-terror laws
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 13:02 by TRC-News
The European Union has approved tough new anti-terrorist measures in the wake of the attacks on the United States. Full Story
Army Units Ordered to Deploy
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 12:59 by TRC-News
U.S. Army units have been ordered to deploy for possible military operations as part of a major Pentagon build-up in and around the Middle East in response to last week's attacks on America, Army Secretary Thomas White said on Thursday. Full Story
Americans grapple with thought of hijackers among them
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 11:25 by TRC-News
On the surface, the picture seems innocent enough: Two men passing through an airline security checkpoint. Full Story
Bush Rejects Clerics' Proposal
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 11:21 by TRC-News
The White House rejected a proposal by Islamic clerics on Thursday that Osama bin Laden be allowed to leave Afghanistan voluntarily. As President Bush prepared to address Congress, the Army's civilian leader said the military was bracing for ``sustained land combat operations.'' Full Story
Bush to Urge Vigilance, Patience in Key Speech
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 11:18 by TRC-News
President Bush gives an address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night to urge Americans to be vigilant and patient as the United States prepares to strike the first blow in a war on terrorism. Full Story
Clerics Urge Bin Laden to Leave Afghanistan
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 9:38 by TRC-News
Afghan clerics on Thursday recommended Osama bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in last week's nightmare attacks, should leave their country and a Taliban official said the Saudi exile was ready to stand trial if evidence was produced. Full Story
Issues of Proof Emerge as U.S. Seeks Coalition Against Terror
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 2:17 by TRC-News
As the Bush administration builds a coalition to fight global terrorism, the president and members of his Cabinet are threatening action not only against the suspected mastermind of last week's World Trade Center attacks but against countries that offer safe haven to terrorists. Full Story
New Task Forces Target Terrorist Funding
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 2:11 by TRC-News
The Bush administration, scrambling to crack down on the financial machinations of terrorist organizations, unveiled an annual strategy for combating money laundering yesterday that included hastily revised features aimed at disrupting the financial networks of terrorists. Full Story
Some Hijackers' Identities Uncertain
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 2:07 by TRC-News
FBI officials said yesterday that some of the 19 terrorists who carried out last week's assault on New York and Washington may have stolen the identities of other people, and their real names may remain unknown. Full Story
Missiles threat forces bin Laden into mountains
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 2:01 by TRC-News
OSAMA BIN LADEN has fled to a hideout near Bagram at the foot of the Hindu Kush mountains in northwestern Afghanistan, Pakistan’s military experts believe. Full Story
Inside the Mind of Osama Bin Laden
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 1:56 by TRC-News
Several months after Osama bin Laden declared holy war on the United States in August 1996, an Arab journalist trekked up to his hideout, 8,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Afghanistan. Why, he asked the fugitive Saudi millionaire and terrorism financier, had there been no immediate attacks to back up the threats? Full Story
The War on Terrorism May Bring on a New U.S. Isolationism
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 1:29 by TRC-News
Most mainstream comment in Europe and Asia has expressed concern that the Washington and New York attacks could have the ultimate effect of promoting American isolationism. What happens will depend most on how the hunt for the terrorists ends. Full Story
A Central Asian Initiative That Could Eliminate bin Laden
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 1:23 by TRC-News
India and Pakistan are jockeying for a place in America's affections after the devastating terror attacks in the United States. Full Story
US inches towards an alliance with Taliban's Afghan enemies
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 1:12 by TRC-News
AMERICA and anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan are edging towards an alliance to defeat their common foe, the foreign minister for the opposition United Front said yesterday. Full Story
China's police chief pledges "terrorism" information
Posted Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 0:41 by TRC-News
China's chief of police said on Wednesday Beijing would share information with the United States in the most concrete offer to date of what it would do to help a U.S.-led global war on "terrorism". Full Story
India identifies terrorist training camps
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 23:45 by TRC-News
India has been working with the United States in the days following last week's hijacking attacks by sharing the locations of what it said are terrorist training camps. Full Story
Weekend alert as FBI warns of new attack
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 23:38 by TRC-News
AMERICA and the West are bracing themselves for another potential “Day of Infamy” this Saturday, when accomplices of the hijackers are suspected of having plotted new outrages. Full Story
'Don't burn our country for a bunch of terrorists'
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 23:28 by TRC-News
Three bicycles lay propped up against a eucalyptus tree inside the headquarters of the Taliban's compound in Peshawar. A young Taliban was furiously polishing the diplomatic car, a badly scratched metallic blue Toyota Corolla. Another was cutting the grass. If their country is facing imminent attack from a mighty US-led force, the mood here betrays none of it. Full Story
Secret plans for 10-year war
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 23:06 by TRC-News
AMERICA and Britain are producing secret plans to launch a ten-year “war on terrorism” — Operation Noble Eagle — involving a completely new military and diplomatic strategy to eliminate terrorist networks and cells around the world. Full Story
US works on essential ground support for a bin Laden strike
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 22:31 by TRC-News
With America's military planners considering every option for retaliation, officials are involved in close discussions with their Pakistani counterparts about how to carry out strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan without adding to an already tense political situation inside that country. Full Story
US jets were just eight minutes away from shooting down hijacked plane
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 22:26 by TRC-News
America's defence establishment has disclosed that it ordered its fighter jets to intercept all the passenger aircraft hijacked in last week's attacks on New York and Washington, and that two F-15s were just eight minutes away when the second airliner crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Centre. Full Story
Killing bin Laden will not stop terrorism, says Congress report
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 22:18 by TRC-News
Senior American counter-terrorism experts believe that killing or capturing Osama bin Laden and destroying his power base will not achieve very much, because there are plenty of other people and groups willing to take his place. Full Story
What Is Islam?
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 20:56 by TRC-News
Its name implies peace, but it preaches Holy War - so what kind of religion is it? Full Story
Bush Works to Build Anti-Terror Coalition
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 20:13 by TRC-News
President Bush worked to build an international coalition for a war on terrorism on Wednesday as the White House cautioned Americans that military action will take some time to prepare. Full Story
The Terrorists Are Winning the Cyber War
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 19:14 by TRC-News
In the Internet Age, when communications speed across national boundaries in nanoseconds, terrorist groups are winning the cyberspace battle, say intelligence and security experts. Full Story
Osama bin Laden was a US creation, say experts
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 19:04 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden, now America's public enemy No. 1, was the type of Soviet-hating freedom fighter that US officials applauded when the world looked a little different. Full Story
Carlos the Jackal delighted by US attacks
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 19:00 by TRC-News
"Carlos the Jackal", once the world's most wanted terrorist who sowed a trail of terror across Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s, said he was delighted by the terror blitz in the United States and vowed admiration for its No.1 suspect. Full Story
Indonesian President Decries Attacks
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 18:09 by TRC-News
Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Wednesday assured President Bush that her predominantly Muslim nation opposes the terrorist attacks that took place in the United States last week. "We share this moment of grief with you," she said. Full Story
Ex-King Urges Terrorism Opposition
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 18:06 by TRC-News
The 87-year-old ex-king of Afghanistan called on his people Wednesday to "rescue themselves" by renouncing terrorism. Full Story
FBI Obtains Terrorist E-Mails
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 17:29 by TRC-News
There is new evidence suggesting the terrorists who carried out last week's attacks in New York and Washington used the World Wide Web to help coordinate their deadly efforts. Full Story
Musharraf makes his case for helping U.S.
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 17:27 by TRC-News
Pakistan's leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, sought Wednesday to paint a picture for his nation's diverse population of the tough geopolitical spot the nation is in, as the United States presses Pakistan for assistance and threatens action against its northwestern neighbor, Afghanistan. Full Story
Militants reject Mideast truce
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 17:05 by TRC-News
Leaders of militant Islamic groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said on Wednesday they will not adhere to a new cease-fire in the Mideast. Full Story
'Massive failure' by U.S. intelligence led to attacks, senator says
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 16:53 by TRC-News
A leading Republican senator said Wednesday that last week's terrorist attacks represented "a massive failure" on the part of the U.S. intelligence community, and he faulted federal law enforcement agencies for a lack of coordination in relaying key information to one another. Full Story
U.S. planes deployed to 'forward locations'
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 16:50 by TRC-News
More than 100 U.S. military planes will be "forward deployed" as early as Thursday in support of President Bush's objectives, should he decide to order any military action against Afghanistan, Pentagon sources tell CNN. Full Story
Taliban leader offers to talk with the U.S.
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 11:38 by TRC-News
The supreme leader of the Taliban told Islamic clerics Wednesday that Afghanistan’s rulers were prepared to renew talks with Washington over the fate of Osama bin Laden, who has been named by the United States as the prime suspect in last week’s terrorist attacks. Full Story
Liberty at Risk
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 11:27 by TRC-News
Like every U.S. citizen, I was shocked and revolted beyond comprehension by the attack on our nation last week. We need to do everything within our power to find the responsible persons and parties, bring them to justice and end the blight of terrorism. At the same time, we must all remember that just as this horrendous act can destroy us from without, it can also destroy us from within. Full Story
Zeal to nab terror suspects moves too far too fast
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 11:22 by TRC-News
In the week since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the USA has shown so much of its good side that the inevitable missteps tend to be overlooked and overshadowed. Full Story
FBI Arrests Three in Search for Attack Suspect
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 11:20 by TRC-News
Federal agents investigating last week's air attacks on the United States have arrested three Arab men in Detroit who were allegedly found with false identification papers and notes on an American base in Turkey and a Jordanian airport, an FBI spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Full Story
Experts See a High-Security America of Surveillance and Seizures
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 3:20 by TRC-News
Security experts in the United States are describing a new kind of country that could emerge, where electronic identification might become the norm, immigrants might be tracked far more closely and the airspace over cities like New York and Washington might be off-limits to all civilian aircraft. Full Story
U.S. Develops Options for Military Action - Troops Could Be Sent Overseas Within Weeks
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 3:03 by TRC-News
The Pentagon intensified preparations yesterday for a possible overseas deployment of U.S. troops that could begin within weeks as U.S. and Pakistani officials drafted plans for using bases in Pakistan as staging grounds for raids into neighboring Afghanistan, according to officials in Washington and Islamabad. Full Story
The Diplomatic Offensive Intensifies
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 2:59 by TRC-News
Pausing to mark the terrorist attacks of a week earlier with a moment of silence, President Bush engaged yesterday in an intensive round of diplomacy designed "to rally the world" for the war he has promised against those responsible for the attacks. Full Story
U.S. faces fierce opposition in Pakistan
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 2:43 by TRC-News
Risking a Muslim backlash, Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is preparing an address to the nation that is expected to outline his country's role in any U.S. military action in neighboring Afghanistan. Full Story
Hunting Bin Laden: The Politics of the Posse
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 2:32 by TRC-News
Pakistan teeters, the Europeans shudder and Israeli-Palestinian violence threatens to restrain Arab support. The problems in building an anti-terror coalition. Full Story
Suicide bombing: no warning, and no total solution
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 1:13 by TRC-News
Suicide bombers are the most feared weapons in the arsenal of political activists. Unlike the bombing campaigns of the IRA or ETA, to give two examples, there is no telephone warning; the act itself and its resultant chaos announce the attack. Full Story
The surgical strike is a myth
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 1:10 by TRC-News
An American military operation is not in doubt; it will come sooner or later, and it will be fairly spectacular. However, President George W Bush is aware that an ill-conceived, botched military attempt will be worse than no action at all. Full Story
Mullah sets terms for bin Laden deal
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 0:58 by TRC-News
THE Taleban laid down conditions yesterday for handing over Osama bin Laden, including a demand to be part of the investigation into the prime suspect’s links with the attacks on the United States. Full Story
FBI foils attack by hijackers' allies
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 21:07 by TRC-News
THE FBI has foiled a potential new skyborne attack on America after discovering that five associates of the hijackers had booked seats for an American internal flight this Saturday. Full Story
US aims beyond Bin Laden
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 19:51 by TRC-News
The United States has indicated that the surrender of Osama Bin Laden would not be enough to avert a military strike against terrorism. Full Story
Israel Army Told to Halt Attacks After Arafat Move
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 19:42 by TRC-News
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the Israeli army to halt attacks and withdraw from Palestinian-ruled territory on Tuesday after President Yasser Arafat told Palestinians to enforce a cease-fire. Full Story
Rumsfeld Hints Attack May Have Been State-Backed
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 19:18 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested on Tuesday that Washington had reason to believe one or more nations provided support for last week's devastating attack on America. Full Story
Millions of shares sold before disaster
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 19:00 by TRC-News
THE CIA has asked the City regulators in London to investigate suspicious sales of millions of shares before last Tuesday’s attacks in America in the belief that the paper trail will lead to the terrorists. American authorities are investigating unusually large numbers of shares in airlines, insurance companies and arms manufacturers that were sold off in the days and weeks before the attacks. Full Story
FBI probes 5th flight for hijackers
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 18:42 by TRC-News
The FBI is investigating the possibility that suicide hijackers were on board a fifth transcontinental airline flight last Tuesday, one that was cancelled just minutes before its scheduled 8:10 a.m. departure from Boston due to a mechanical problem, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Full Story
Washington's Call for War Plays Into Terrorist Hands
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 18:29 by TRC-News
The calls for war that have come from Washington since Tuesday's catastrophes - for "war" against terrorism, against evil, against enemies of civilization - answer the psychological demands of the hour, the leaders' need to seem to lead. But they are wrong. Full Story
A Chance in the Middle East
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 18:19 by TRC-News
In the transformation of international relations that is following the terrorist assault last week, there is a large diplomatic opportunity for the United States in what might seem like one of the most unlikely places: the Middle East. Full Story
Intelligence and Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 18:17 by TRC-News
The rush has already begun to "unshackle" the Central Intelligence Agency and its fellow spy agencies so that they can better combat terrorism. Full Story
Hijackers May Have Been on Other Flights, Report Says
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 11:11 by TRC-News
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Suicide hijack teams might have been aboard other commercial flights on the day four commandeered airliners slammed into U.S. landmark buildings and a Pennsylvania field, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. Full Story
Report: Iran Gives U.S. Go-Ahead for Attacks
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Iran has sent a message to the United States via Canada saying it will not oppose targeted military strikes against those believed responsible for last week's terror attacks, a Canadian newspaper said Tuesday. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Sees Holy War Against U.S.
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement will launch a holy war against the United States, a senior cleric said on the Taliban's Voice of Shariat radio, warning Washington against attacking his country. Full Story
We lacked the will
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:45 by TRC-News
After having served for many years in the U.S. military intelligence community, and after raising the issue of the need to field a credible human intelligence and counterintelligence capability on many occasions -- it has now come down to this: We lacked the will to do the right thing. Now we are at War. We must do the right things. Full Story
Terrorists targeted EU's parliament
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:44 by TRC-News
Islamic terrorists based in Britain and controlled by Osama bin Laden planned a devastating attack on the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France. Full Story
Gaddafi Warns U.S. Risks Quagmire in Afghanistan
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:42 by TRC-News
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi warned the United States on Sunday it could fall into a Soviet-style quagmire in Afghanistan if it retaliated there for devastating terror attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
China Official Cautions on Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:42 by TRC-News
A top Chinese police official cautioned Monday against fighting terrorism with armed attacks that infringe on any country's sovereignty, saying such operations could ultimately make matters worse. Full Story
We say suicide... they call it 'martyrdom'
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:40 by TRC-News
For a few moments today, the mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, will divert his attentions from the tragedy engulfing his city to a street-naming ceremony half a world away. For Israelis, the change of name from Jaffa Road to New York Street, for the next 30 days, could not be more fitting. Full Story
US terror claims may hit $100bn
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:39 by TRC-News
The cost of rebuilding in New York and Washington, and of compensating the families of the thousands of people killed and injured in the attacks, could be as high as $100 billion (�68 billion), according to B&W Deloitte, the leading actuarial consultancy. Full Story
Korean fears over World Cup terrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:38 by TRC-News
South Korean World Cup organisers voiced their concerns about terrorism on Monday, vowing to work closely with the CIA and other security bodies to ensure safety at next year's tournament. Following last week's attacks on the United States, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has expressed support for American plans to thwart international terrorism as his country continues preparations to co-host with Japan the biggest sporting event in the world. Full Story
FBI Director Denounces Attacks Against Arab-Americans
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:36 by TRC-News
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) denounced attacks made against Arab-Americans in the days since a terrorist assault on the United States. In a September 17 briefing, Robert Mueller called such acts crimes that the FBI is already investigating. Full Story
Powell Pleased with Support for Anti-Terrorism Coalition
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:35 by TRC-News
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says the first task for the global anti-terrorism campaign is to deal with those who attacked the United States September 11th, killing thousands. Full Story
Bush Remarks at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:35 by TRC-News
The September 11 attacks against the United States are "acts of violence against innocents (that) violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith, and it's important for my fellow Americans to understand that," President Bush said at the Islamic Center in the nation's capital. Full Story
Bound by fate, determination
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:34 by TRC-News
Before setting off across the country on United Airlines Flight 93 to move in with her daughter in Danville, 79-year-old Hilda Marcin gave folders to her family with an accounting of her assets and a prepared obituary. Full Story
No Blank Check for U.S. Action From UN, NATO
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:32 by TRC-News
With the United States gearing up for a ``war against terrorism,'' some nations are gingerly pointing out that Washington does not have a blank check for military action from the United Nations or NATO. Full Story
Ashcroft: Hijackers' Associates May Still Be in US
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:32 by TRC-News
Associates of hijackers who crashed jetliners into U.S. landmarks last week may be at large in the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Monday in pressing Congress to expand powers to wiretap telephones, conduct searches and seize assets. Full Story
Stocks Plunge as Dow Posts Biggest Point Drop
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:26 by TRC-News
Stocks posted a wrenching slide on Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average pushed to its biggest point drop ever, as investors shrugged off a surprise interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve and focused on fears that last week's terror attack on the world's financial heart may stoke a global recession. Full Story
A Week After, U.S. Faces New, Dangerous World
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 0:25 by TRC-News
From baseball stadiums to Wall Street, Americans grappled with new security fears on Tuesday -- one week after attacks demolished New York's World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and raised the twin specters of a new U.S. war and a global recession. Full Story
High Security: Globalization and technology have opened up new possibilities for businesses -- and their enemies.
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
Corporate jets equipped with missile detectors, counter-terrorism training for executives, fingerprint scanners that deny computer access to unauthorized users, and Internet safeguards that use the lexicon of warfare. Full Story
U.S. travelers face changes
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:19 by TRC-News
For Americans traveling abroad, it has always been a jarring experience to land in the airport of a country where terrorism is a real and unrelenting threat. Full Story
Warnings about terrorism
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:18 by TRC-News
U.S. COMMISSION ON NATIONAL SECURITY, 21ST CENTURY, 1ST REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1999: " ... for many years to come, Americans will become increasingly less secure, and much less secure than they now believe themselves to be." Full Story
U.S. creates air security teams
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
As airports and airlines struggled to resume service Sunday, the U.S. government announced the creation of two teams of experts to improve air security. Most airports were open, but Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., remained closed. Full Story
Uncle calls hijack suspect 'innocent passenger'
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
Relatives of suspected hijacker Ziad Jarrah said Sunday that he was an "innocent passenger" on an airplane that was taken over by terrorists before it crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Full Story
FAA: Flights two-thirds of normal level
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Commercial airline flights Sunday were running about two-thirds of normal volume on one of the busiest travel times of the typical week, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday. Full Story
After week of terror, it's back to work
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
The Federal Reserve on Monday lowered interest rates by half a point, as Wall Street prepared to reopen after the longest suspension in trading since the Great Depression. Full Story
Sense and Nonsense About September 11
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Did Osama bin-Laden outwit US intelligence agencies in a deadly game of decoy or double bluff? CounterPunch has learned from two sources that a) three weeks before the attack of September 11 security at the World Trade Center was abruptly heightened and that b) six weeks before the attack a US army base in New Jersey was placed on top security alert. Full Story
FBI 'ignored leads'
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
The German authorities have rejected reports that an Iranian man detained in Hanover could have helped avert Tuesday's devastating attacks on New York and Washington. However, a French-Algerian identified by the French media as a radical with "a profile similar to the kamikaze pilots" is being held for further questioning by US investigators after his arrest last month. Full Story
Bin Laden denies involvement in US attacks
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden today denied any involvement in last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. "The US is pointing the finger at me but I categorically state that I have not done this," bin Laden said in a statement faxed to the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency. Full Story
Nuclear warfare next, say leaders
Posted Monday, September 17, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
European and US intelligence, law enforcement and military officials are braced for fresh terrorist attacks - including the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Full Story
Source: 1998 bin Laden Directive OK'd
Posted Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 23:57 by TRC-News
President Clinton signed a secret directive in 1998 authorizing U.S. efforts to capture or disrupt Osama bin Laden and his terrorism network, and several unsuccessful attempts were made, a person familiar with the effort said Sunday. Full Story
U.S. Moves to Bolster Arsenal in Terror Fight
Posted Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 23:56 by TRC-News
The Bush administration considered lifting a decades-old executive order banning U.S. involvement in assassinations overseas, as four people were under arrest as ''material witnesses'' in connection with the deadly attack, officials said on Sunday. Full Story
Bush: 'Mighty Giant' Awakened by Terror Attacks
Posted Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 23:56 by TRC-News
A tough-talking White House on Sunday promised retaliation by a ``mighty giant'' awakened by the world's worst terror acts as New Yorkers looked to God and Wall Street to help them recover from attacks that reduced the World Trade Center to rubble. Full Story
Cheney Recalls 'Horrendous' Choice on Attack Day
Posted Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 23:55 by TRC-News
It was the toughest decision on a nightmarish day -- to shoot down civilian airliners if they threatened the U.S. Capitol or White House after attacks on New York and Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday. Full Story
Bin Laden linked to two fundamentalist Islamic groups in Egypt
Posted Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 0:15 by TRC-News
Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in this week's terrorist strikes in the United States, has had close links with two Egyptian fundamentalist groups through an Islamic movement he founded in 1998. Full Story
The World of Here and Now
Posted Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 0:08 by TRC-News
All of us live in the world of here and now. Sure, we sometimes think of the past and try to plan for the future but most of us are consumed by the events of today. Unfortunately, the world of here and now was shattered for all of us by the dastardly attack on the United States on Tuesday, September 11. Full Story
How the World Trade Center fell
Posted Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 0:01 by TRC-News
The design of the World Trade Center saved thousands of lives by standing for well over an hour after the planes crashed into its twin towers, say structural engineers. Full Story
Who Attacked America On Its Soil?
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:55 by TRC-News
America has created so many enemies with its foreign policy, that even the Pentagon does not have a clue as to who was behind the destruction of its symbol of freedom. The Pentagon, a symbol of militant supremacy was attacked viciously with no survivors. The two financial towers, a symbol of U.S. economic might, were blown to non-existance. And what would obviously be expected by the world as their prime suspect is none other than Osama Bin Laadin. Full Story
Reminder: The TRC does not endorse the content of stories posted to RealNews.
U.S. Demands Arab Countries 'Choose Sides'
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:52 by TRC-News
Moving swiftly in America's new war on terrorists, a senior State Department official today met with 15 Arab representatives and gave them a stark choice: either declare their nations members of an international coalition against terrorism, or risk being isolated in a growing global conflict. Full Story
Spying on Terrorists and Thwarting Them Gains New Urgency
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:51 by TRC-News
Hoping to prevent future terrorist attacks, House and Senate lawmakers expressed broad support today for funneling more money to intelligence operations, beefing up spy networks and creating one agency to handle terrorism. Full Story
Nervous nations in eye of U.S. storm
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:50 by TRC-News
In addition to Afghanistan, a handful of other nations have reason to fear the military might of the United States after President Bush said a U.S. offensive would target those who sponsor and shelter terrorists. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Sudan were identified as such in April by the U.S. State Department. Full Story
Identifying victims 'will take years'
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:48 by TRC-News
Identifying the thousands of victims of the devastating terrorist attacks in New York will take years because many bodies are likely to be so badly mutilated, according to a leading British forensic expert. Full Story
Report: terror plot in works 5 years
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:46 by TRC-News
Plans for the terror attacks on the United States may have been in the works for at least five years, the Boston Globe reported Friday. The paper also said investigators have evidence indicating some of the hijackers took advantage of the U.S.'s good relations with Saudi Arabia to avoid close scrutiny in entering this country to take flight training in Florida. Full Story
Bin-Laden Poster Seen at Gaza Rally
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:46 by TRC-News
About 1,500 Palestinians, many supporters of the Islamic militant group Hamas, marched in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on Friday, burning Israeli flags and carrying a large poster of Osama bin Laden, who has been named as a key suspect in this week's terror attacks in the United States. Full Story
Egypt Says Will Support U.S. in War on Terrorism
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:44 by TRC-News
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Friday he would support "very tough action" in response to unprecedented terror attacks on American soil but warned U.S. authorities not to jump to conclusions in their investigation. Full Story
Emergency readiness needs a boost
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:43 by TRC-News
Is Kansas City ready for terrorism on the scale that struck New York and Washington? The answer is no. But we're working on it. In fact, every agency that responds to terrorism in Kansas City had been prepared to participate in a weapons of mass destruction exercise on Thursday. Full Story
Investors Gird for Market Reopening
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:39 by TRC-News
Wall Street and its regulators girded yesterday for the reopening of U.S. stock markets as economic policymakers stepped up efforts to limit the fallout from Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the global economy and financial system. Full Story
FBI Names 19 Hijackers, Makes First Arrest
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:38 by TRC-News
The FBI on Friday named 19 hijackers, including seven pilots, who commandeered the four airliners used in Tuesday's terror attacks, sought to question more than 100 people and made the first arrest in the investigation. Full Story
Maine Passengers Recall Suspects
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:37 by TRC-News
Two passengers who flew to Boston with a pair of alleged hijackers said Friday that the men boarded separately, kept quiet and didn't draw attention to themselves. Full Story
F.B.I. Says 10 Detained Men Have Been Freed in New York
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:36 by TRC-News
The F.B.I. said today that all but one of the people taken into custody on Thursday at Kennedy International and La Guardia Airports had been released and that none of those who had been detained had any connection with the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Full Story
Unusual Security Measures Surround Presidential Visit
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:11 by TRC-News
After leading the nation at the National Cathedral in Washington in a day of prayer and mourning, President Bush arrived in New York City today and received an emotional reception from rescue workers at the devastated site of the World Trade Center. Full Story
America Mourns With Flags, Prayer
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:09 by TRC-News
Patriotism mixed with prayer Friday as Americans packed churches and clogged public squares on a day of remembrance for the victims of this week's sneak attacks. At dusk, the flicker of candles illuminated city streets, as people responded to call for unity spread on the Internet. Full Story
Powell: Diplomatic Efforts Continue to Build Anti-terrorism Coalition
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 23:05 by TRC-News
The Bush administration is continuing "to work hard to build" an international coalition against terrorism, and to get "this campaign plan in place," Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters at a State Department briefing September 14. Full Story
Belgium, Dutch Hold Six Islamist Suspects
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
Police in Belgium and the Netherlands arrested six suspected Islamic extremists in a joint swoop on a network thought to be planning attacks on U.S. targets in Europe, authorities said on Friday. Full Story
Police Storm New York Plane; 10 Taken Into Custody
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
A law enforcement source confirmed on Friday that 10 people were taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports in New York after the airports reopened on Thursday. Passengers on a Los Angeles-bound flight out of Kennedy Airport said police in combat gear stormed the plane and apprehended people. Full Story
First pictures from inside Trade Centre posted on internet
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:30 by TRC-News
Pictures showing the evacuation of the World Trade Centre have been posted on the internet. The first pictures from inside the building show firefighters battling their way up the stairs as workers appear to file downwards without panic. Full Story
Plane Ordered to Land by Bush Ranch
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:28 by TRC-News
A small private plane flying in the vicinity of President Bush's ranch was ordered by the military to land Thursday, a sheriff's deputy said. Full Story
Bin Laden Moved After Attack
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:27 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden, a key suspect in Tuesday's terrorist assault on the United States, changed locations within Afghanistan just minutes after reports of the attacks, a Pakistani intelligence source said Thursday. Full Story
Coded warnings raise the spectre of a mole inside the White House
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:25 by TRC-News
As the second airliner slammed into the south tower of the World Trade Centre, Vice-President Dick Cheney was staring at a television in the White House. It was 9.03am. His Secret Service men grabbed him and hurried him down to the President's emergency operations centre, an underground bunker hardened to withstand a nuclear attack. Full Story
Delta Force commandos protect reopened US airspace
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:21 by TRC-News
The United States drafted in elite Delta Force commandos to help protect planes as it fully reopened its airspace Thursday under a stringent new anti-terrorism regime. Full Story
Suspects `filmed New York atrocities'
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:19 by TRC-News
There are reports five men suspected of being involved in the attack on the World Trade Centre set up cameras to record the atrocity. Full Story
US: IDF rescue team not needed
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:15 by TRC-News
Israel has offered its intelligence to the United States, but decided not to dispatch its experienced Home Front Command rescue teams to New York. More than 150 members of the rescue unit had been waiting at the Lod air base since early yesterday to depart for the US. An advance team was to have gone early in the day, but that was delayed. In an afternoon assessment, they were informed by the Americans that they were not needed, because so many US rescue teams were already on site. Full Story
Insurers Expect Billions in Claims
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:13 by TRC-News
The collapse of the World Trade Center is likely to become the nation's most expensive man-made disaster ever faced by the insurance industry. It also could lead to higher premiums and policies that restrict liability for acts of terrorism. Full Story
At 2 Airports, Men Trying to Board Are Detained
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:12 by TRC-News
The FBI said yesterday it has identified at least 18 people as hijackers involved in Tuesday's suicidal assaults on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Sixteen of the men have been directly or indirectly linked to the terrorist network run by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, according to a government source. Full Story
CIA's Covert War on Bin Laden
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:10 by TRC-News
The CIA has been authorized since 1998 to use covert means to disrupt and preempt terrorist operations planned abroad by Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden under a directive signed by President Bill Clinton and reaffirmed by President Bush this year, according to government sources. Full Story
Russia Backs Force Against Terrorists
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:10 by TRC-News
Russia said Thursday that it supports the use of military force to fight terrorism, but stopped short of saying whether it would join in strikes on terrorist bases. Russian representatives agreed in Brussels, Belgium, to increase cooperation with NATO to combat international terrorism following Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade towers in New York and the Pentagon. Full Story
Arrests at N.Y., German airports
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:09 by TRC-News
A man carrying fraudulent pilot’s identification was arrested Thursday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and six other people were detained, New York City’s police commissioner said. In addition, Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington has been closed indefinitely. Full Story
Arab-Americans feel a backlash
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:07 by TRC-News
Hamy Bishara’s restaurant usually bustles late into the night. But on Wednesday, he closed Sariya early for the first time ever after receiving threats and hearing reports that Arab-Americans in the neighborhood had been attacked. Full Story
Arrests made at New York airports
Posted Friday, September 14, 2001 - 0:04 by TRC-News
At least eight people were arrested Thursday at airports in New York because of new security measures -- including four people who were seen at one airport before Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Full Story
Online Venting
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 23:05 by TRC-News
Americans are a patriotic people. They're also angry. Following Tuesday's terrorist attacks, people have been flocking to the Internet to express their opinions and offer suggestions on how the U.S. should respond. Full Story
Helping children cope with the crisis
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 22:59 by TRC-News
The following comes from the National Association of School Psychologists, as a way to help children cope with Tuesday's acts of terrorism. Full Story
FBI looking for former Arlington cleric in terrorism investigation
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 22:57 by TRC-News
An FBI official said Wednesday agents are looking for a former Arlington cleric whom they have labeled an intermediary for suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Full Story
One Arrested at Kennedy Airport, Others Detained
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 22:53 by TRC-News
One person carrying false identification was arrested at New York's Kennedy Airport on Thursday, and ``five or six'' others were detained, said Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. Full Story
Pentagon Death Toll May Be 190
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 22:51 by TRC-News
The Defense Department said on Thursday 126 people were still missing two days after a hijacked airliner slammed into the Pentagon, suggesting a possible death toll of about 190 at U.S. military headquarters, including the 64 people aboard the commandeered flight. Full Story
Flight Data Recorder Found at Pa. Crash Site
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 22:50 by TRC-News
A search crew found the flight data recorder on Thursday from the hijacked United Airlines plane that crashed in Pennsylvania after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, raising hopes of important new clues to what happened aboard the Boeing 757. Full Story
Military on Alert, U.S. Ponders Its Next Move
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 22:47 by TRC-News
Military aircraft patrolled the skies over major U.S. cities Thursday as officials pledged to wage ''the first war of the 21st Century'' against shadowy militants believed responsible for the worst attack ever staged on American soil. Full Story
What the Middle East papers say
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
For all their differences, the media in the Middle East - from Iraq to Israel - seem to be agreed on one thing: whoever was to blame for yesterday's carnage in the US, the attacks are the result of American policies. Full Story
Afghans brace for U.S. retaliation
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Afghan citizens, fearing a U.S. strike on targets associated with Osama bin Laden, a leading suspect in the terror attacks on the United States, braced for the worst on Thursday. Reports of people digging trenches and building fortifications near the capital came as the country’s Islamic rulers denied that they had put bin Laden under house arrest. Full Story
Searching and mourning after attacks
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
Nearly two days after the deadly terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, companies, agencies and individuals from across the country and around the world tallied their missing and mourned their dead. Full Story
U.S. targets 50 terrorist suspects
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
Law enforcement officials have told CNN there may have been as many as 50 people involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist hijackings and attacks that toppled the World Trade Center's two towers and damaged the Pentagon. Full Story
Inside the Plot
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
Only God knows what kind of heroic acts took place at 25,000 feet as passengers and crews contended with four teams of highly trained enemy terrorists. But it is clear that the hunt for the culprits began way up in the sky, by the doomed passengers and crews themselves, minutes before the attacks took place. The victims on board at least two of the four planes whispered the number and even some of the seat assignments of the terrorists along with their final goodbyes in their brief and haunting Tuesday morning cell phone calls. A flight attendant on board American Flight 11 called her airline's flight operations center in Dallas on a special airlink line and reported that passengers were being stabbed. Full Story
Germany Detains Man, Probes Hamburg Link to Attack
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
Germany has detained an airport worker in connection with Tuesday's U.S. terror attacks and three of the suicide hijackers may have belonged to a Hamburg-based extremist group, authorities said on Thursday. Full Story
World Response Matrix
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 1:04 by TRC-News
Matrix or international response the recent homeland attacks. World Response Matrix
Bin Laden: A 'Master Impresario'
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 0:50 by TRC-News
For the past few months, a videotape has been circulating in the Middle East showing Osama bin Laden appealing to his followers to join a "holy war" against the United States. Wearing white robes and a Yemeni dagger, the fugitive Saudi millionaire goes on to thank Allah for the "destruction" of a U.S. warship in Aden, Yemen. Full Story
Calls From Flight 93 Offer Clues About Hijackers
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 0:45 by TRC-News
As United Airlines Flight 93 entered its last desperate moments in the sky, 31-year-old passenger Jeremy Glick used a cell phone to tell his wife Lyzbeth of his impending death – and pledged to go down fighting. Full Story
New Security Measures at U.S. Airports Delay Plans to Reopen
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 0:34 by TRC-News
Rescuers combed mountains of rubble at what had been the World Trade Center yesterday in a grim search for survivors among the thousands presumed dead in its collapse. Investigators meantime cast a worldwide net for those behind the hijackers who slammed jetliners into the twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia in the worst terrorist attack in American history. Full Story
Empire State Building Area Evacuated in False Alarm
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 0:29 by TRC-News
A false alarm forced the evacuation of thousands of people from the Empire State Building and surrounding streets of midtown Manhattan on Wednesday night, officials said. Full Story
Bin Laden, millionaire with a dangerous grudge
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 23:28 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden, the man intelligence officials say is the prime suspect behind Tuesday's hijacking attacks, is the head of a shadowy organization that is believed to have been targeting the United States and its allies since the early 1990s. Full Story
New York search efforts grind to a halt
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 23:26 by TRC-News
Rescue and medical efforts near New York's collapsed World Trade Center slowed to a trickle late Wednesday, as the partial collapse of one skyscraper and the possible fall of another forced emergency personnel away from ground zero. Full Story
Sources: Hijackers may not have known each other
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 23:23 by TRC-News
Not all the hijackers aboard the four commandeered jets used in Tuesday's terrorist attacks may not have known each other, according to law enforcement sources, who said the suspects may have begun their operation after receiving an overt signal. Full Story
Terrorist search leads to ISPs
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 23:20 by TRC-News
On Wednesday, both America Online and EarthLink acknowledged that they are working with the FBI to turn over specific information that may be relevant to the case. Full Story
Ashcroft: Some Hijackers Had U.S. Pilot Training
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 22:32 by TRC-News
Some of the hijackers who commandeered planes used in terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were trained as pilots in the United States, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Wednesday. Full Story
82 New York Deaths Confirmed, Thousands Expected
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 22:31 by TRC-News
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said on Wednesday that only 82 deaths had been confirmed from Tuesday's attack on the World Trade Center, but that the death toll would likely run into the thousands as rescuers continued to dig for survivors in the debris. Full Story
World Airlines Still Grounded After Attacks
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 22:30 by TRC-News
The global aviation industry stood still for the second straight day on Wednesday as regular flights were halted, airports closed and passengers stranded following terror attacks in the United States. Full Story
U.S. Seeks Global Anti-Terrorism Coalition
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 22:29 by TRC-News
The United States said on Wednesday that it was trying to build a global coalition against ''terrorism,'' including allies, Russia, China and Muslim states, after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Full Story
U.S. Intelligence in Massive Hunt for Attackers
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 22:27 by TRC-News
U.S. intelligence agencies, aided by friendly foreign security services, conducted a massive hunt on Wednesday for information to determine who was responsible for the devastating terror attack on America. Full Story
Pakistan President Supports Fight Against Terror
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 22:27 by TRC-News
Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has promised the United States full cooperation in the fight against terror, official media reported early on Thursday. Full Story
NATO Vows Collective Assistance for United States
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 22:26 by TRC-News
Invoking a mutual defense clause for the first time in its history, NATO Wednesday pledged collective assistance to the United States if it responds militarily to Tuesday's devastating attacks. Full Story
Terrorists May Have Used Own Pilots
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
The terrorists who crashed planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center probably were able to overcome the flight crews and then fly the airliners themselves, aviation safety experts suggested. Full Story
Malaysia Towers Cleared After Threat
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
The world's tallest buildings, Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Twin Towers, were evacuated Wednesday morning following a bomb threat. The threat came during morning working hours, some 12 hours after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Full Story
Morgan Stanley says fate of 3,500 workers unknown
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Morgan Stanley, which had been the World Trade Center's largest tenant, said it had ``limited information'' as to the fate of its employees there after the devastating attack by two hijacked commercial airplanes. Full Story
Could the attack have been stopped?
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
The most obvious way of carrying out a major terrorist attack against the United States has long been thought to be the use of a hijacked commercial airliner. Tom Clancy even detailed such an attack in a novel, as have several movie makers. So what kind of warning did the Federal Aviation Administration and Air Force have once the hijacked airplanes were in the air — and what could have been done? Full Story
Nation Plunges Into Fight With Enemy Hard to Identify
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Today's devastating and astonishingly well-coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York and on the Pentagon outside of Washington plunged the nation into a warlike struggle against an enemy that will be hard to identify with certainty and hard to punish with precision. Full Story
Powell Says U.S. to Respond as if 'This Is War'
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an act of war and promised the United States would respond ``as if it is a war.'' Full Story
Report: Five Suspects Identified in NYC Attack
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Authorities in Massachusetts have identified five Arab men as suspects in Tuesday's attack on New York City and have seized a rental car containing Arabic-language flight training manuals at Logan International Airport, a source told the Boston Herald newspaper. Full Story
TRC Special Statement
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
"...the Terrorism Research Center offers its reassurance to the citizens of the United States and faith in the United States Government, that the cowards who perpetrated these acts will be identified, located, and brought to justice quickly." TRC Statement
Survivors pulled from Manhattan rubble Wednesday
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
Emergency rescue workers on Wednesday pulled survivors from the rubble of the World Trade Center, six firefighters and a policeman who was said to be seriously burned. Full Story
Hijackers 'knew what they were doing'
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
To pull off the coordinated aerial attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Tuesday, the hijackers must have been extremely knowledgeable and capable aviators, a flight expert said. Full Story
No rest until terrorist evil destroyed: Blair
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 8:00 by TRC-News
Prime Minister Tony Blair says today's attacks on the United States signal a battle between the free world and terrorism. Speaking after an emergency meeting of his government's civil emergencies committee, Blair said Britain would not rest until the evil of terrorism was driven out of the world. "As for those that carried out these attacks, there are no adequate words of condemnation," he said. Full Story
Security Alerts Spread From US
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:54 by TRC-News
The horrific attacks in the US have triggered security alerts across the world - especially at US military bases and embassies. In the US itself, all government buildings were evacuated and all commercial flights suspended until at least noon on Wednesday. Full Story
1,400 feared dead: Toll will climb
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:52 by TRC-News
The city that never sleeps struggled to wake up from its unimaginable nightmare, one day after bearing the brunt of the deadliest terrorist attack ever in the United States. Full Story
Bush: Terror will not win
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:50 by TRC-News
Rescuers combed through smoking rubble Wednesday morning looking for victims a day after a devastating airborne attack that collapsed New York’s World Trade Center twin towers, badly damaged the Pentagon and likely left thousands of people dead. President Bush defiantly vowed to bring the terrorists to justice, promising that “we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbored them.” Full Story
Israeli Tanks Raid West Bank City, Fighting Erupts
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:40 by TRC-News
Israeli tanks rumbled into Palestinian-ruled Jenin early on Wednesday and destroyed a Palestinian security headquarters in the city Israel calls a ''terrorist nest'' before withdrawing. Full Story
World Air Chaos Spreading to Asia After U.S. Attacks
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:39 by TRC-News
Asian airlines suspended or diverted hundreds of flights to the United States and some other destinations on Wednesday as air traffic chaos spread around the world following devastating attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
Mideast Islamists Condemn Attacks, Blame U.S. Groups
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:38 by TRC-News
Mainstream Islamic groups in the Middle East Wednesday condemned devastating attacks on key U.S. buildings, with some suggesting that American extremists could have been responsible. Full Story
Terror Attacks Put Asia on Security Alert
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:36 by TRC-News
A shocked United States shut embassies across Asia and put its forces on maximum alert on Wednesday as the region braced for more fallout from the extraordinary airplane attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
Nations Around World Condemn Terror Attacks on U.S.
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:34 by TRC-News
Nations around the world, including U.S. foes Libya and Iran, condemned the terror attacks on the United States in which thousands of people may have died. Full Story
Taliban Say Bin Laden Extradition Talk Premature
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 7:33 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement said on Wednesday it was premature to talk about extraditing Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden after Tuesday's terror attacks in the United States. Full Story
Search warrants and rescue efforts in terrorist attacks
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 23:36 by TRC-News
As law enforcement are executing search warrants in Florida late Tuesday based on passenger lists from the hijacked planes that were used in terrorist attacks, New York rescue crews are searching for survivors in buildings near the destroyed towers of the World Trade Center. Full Story
Q & A: What to Expect Wednesday
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 23:22 by TRC-News
Yesterday's terrorist attacks on Washington and New York will have an impact today on area transportation, schools, employers and others. Here is some practical information about what is affected. Full Story
Destroy the Network
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 23:20 by TRC-News
An attack such as today's requires systematic planning, a good organization, a lot of money and a base. You cannot improvise something like this, and you cannot plan it when you're constantly on the move. Heretofore our response to attacks, and understandably so, has been to carry out some retaliatory act that was supposed to even the scales while hunting down the actual people who did it. Full Story
Air Traffic Controllers Spotted Unidentified Aircraft
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 23:18 by TRC-News
There was not even the grace of instant death. Instead, there was time to call from the sky over Virginia to loved ones, fingers pumping cell phones, voices saying quick, final goodbyes. Full Story
U.S. Has Strong Evidence of Bin Laden Link to Attack
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 23:17 by TRC-News
The U.S. government has strong evidence from multiple sources that the suicidal terrorists who carried out today's catastrophic attacks in New York and Washington are connected to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, who has previously been linked to an earlier bombing of the World Trade Center, senior officials said today. Full Story
Terrorists Unleash Assault on U.S.
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 22:45 by TRC-News
Terrorists unleashed an astonishing air assault on America's military and financial power centers this morning, hijacking four commercial jets and then crashing them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside. Full Story
Third Tower Crumbles in New York
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 22:36 by TRC-News
The symbol of the nation's financial might was a smoldering wreck tonight, as a third tower collapsed at the World Trade Center and the realization came that thousands likely lay dead in the rubble of two of the world's tallest buildings. Full Story
Thousands Feared Dead as World Trade Center Is Toppled
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 22:34 by TRC-News
In what appeared to be parallel attacks on quintessential symbols of American financial and military power, hijackers flew jetliners into both towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan and, less than an hour later, into the Pentagon, outside Washington. Full Story
Terror Attacks May Hurt US Economy
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 22:00 by TRC-News
The terror attacks in the nation's business and government capitals may push the teetering economy into recession, analysts suggested. The Federal Reserve said it stood ready to pump extra money into the economy if needed to try to avert such a development. Full Story
"Bullseye," say Egyptians as they celebrate anti-US attacks
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 21:58 by TRC-News
Egyptian students, taxi drivers and shopkeepers crowded round television sets stacked up in electrical store windows in downtown Cairo Tuesday evening, celebrating a string of elaborate attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story
U.S. Under Lock Down After Attacks
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 21:57 by TRC-News
Becky Cruz was on a flight from Indianapolis to Las Vegas when the plane was diverted to Albuquerque. "The captain just said there was a national emergency and we needed to land at the nearest airport," Cruz said. "We don't know what to do now." Full Story
At least 200 firefighters dead: NY union
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 21:56 by TRC-News
At least 200 firefighters were killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center on Tuesday in New York, the city firefighters' union said. Full Story
Rumsfeld Predicted More Attacks
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 21:54 by TRC-News
Inside the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had just raced to his office after hearing of the World Trade Center attack. On a house porch a little more than a mile away, Ralph Banton, 79, was enjoying a crystal-clear morning. Full Story
Mass Terrorist Attack Against United States
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 10:48 by TRC-News
It is obvious at this point that the United States is under massive terrorism attack against critical landmarks and government facilities. The Terrorism Research Center, Inc. is monitoring the situation and answering media requests as possible. Confirmed events in New York City and Washington DC. Media request should be addressed to [email protected]
Mass Terrorist Attack Against United States
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 10:34 by TRC-News
It is obvious at this point that the United States is under massive terrorism attack against critical landmarks and government facilities. The Terrorism Research Center, Inc. is monitoring the situation and answering media requests as possible.
Nuclear Booty: More Smugglers Use Asia Route
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
The police in Batumi, a Black Sea port in Georgia, heard a rumor in July that someone wanted to sell several pounds of high-grade uranium for $100,000. The most tantalizing aspect of the tip was that one of the sellers was reportedly a Georgia Army officer. Full Story
City considers large-scale emergency plan
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
With domestic terrorist attacks becoming more common, the Fire Department wants to contract with the federal government to develop a plan for managing large-scale medical emergencies caused by bombs and biological agents. Full Story
U.S. Blacklists Paramilitaries in Colombia
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
A day before Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was to arrive to meet President Andr�s Pastrana, the Bush administration today blacklisted a right-wing paramilitary group as a terrorist organization responsible for hundreds of massacres in its war against leftist rebels. FUll Story
Police Say Istanbul Suicide Bomber Was Far-Leftist
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
Turkey identified an extreme left-wing former prisoner on Tuesday as the suicide bomber who killed two police officers and wounded some 20 other people in the heart of Istanbul on Monday. Full Story
Security Concerns Prompt Nato Meeting Move
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
The Italian government says it's moved a forthcoming Nato meeting from central Naples to a nearby military academy. Correspondents say the meeting of alliance defence ministers is being moved because of security concerns after the violent clashes between police and anti-capitalist protestors at the G8 summit in Genoa in July. Full Story
Fresh Deaths in Bangladesh Political Violence
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
The head of Bangladesh's caretaker government has asked the president to deploy the army immediately in ''sensitive locations'' after clashes between political rivals ahead of an October 1 parliamentary election. Full Story
Taliban Crank Up Offensive, Masood Fate a Mystery
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 7:18 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban launched a fresh push against rival forces in the north on Tuesday as mystery surrounded the fate of their main guerrilla foe there following a suicide bomb attack. Full Story
Israeli Tanks Encircle West Bank City
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 7:17 by TRC-News
Israeli tanks encircled the Palestinian-ruled city of Jenin under cover of darkness on Tuesday in what the army said was an operation to prevent suicide bombers from reaching Israel. Full Story
Israel Attacked From Within
Posted Monday, September 10, 2001 - 19:05 by TRC-News
For the first time, a suicide bombing was carried out today by an Arab citizen of Israel, triggering fears of violence on a new front within the country and casting doubt on a proposal to establish a military buffer zone between Israel and the West Bank. Full Story
Afghan Opposition Leader Death Denied
Posted Monday, September 10, 2001 - 18:56 by TRC-News
Confusion surrounds the condition of the main commander of the anti-Taleban forces in Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Masood, who was attacked on Sunday. Full Story
Gunmen Kill 10 in Algeria
Posted Monday, September 10, 2001 - 18:55 by TRC-News
There are reports of a new armed attack by suspected Islamists in Algeria, near the country's second city Oran. At least 10 people are reported to have been killed and nine injured when they were attacked after attending a funeral ceremony. Full Story
Americans in Japan, S. Korea Warned
Posted Monday, September 10, 2001 - 18:53 by TRC-News
The threat of terrorism against Americans and U.S. installations spread to Asia Friday as the State Department said Japan and South Korea may be potential targets for attack. Full Story
F.B.I. Searches Internet Concern in Inquiry Into Mideast Terrorism
Posted Monday, September 10, 2001 - 18:51 by TRC-News
A federal antiterrorism task force has been searching the Texas office of a computer server that is host to a variety of Web sites of Islamic groups and charities as part of an investigation into the alleged support of terrorism by American Islamic networks, law enforcement officials said yesterday. Full Story
Bin Laden foreign legion fuels hardline expansion
Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
Arab fighters funded by the Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden have become increasingly influential within Afghanistan's Taliban movement and are building a foreign legion to extend the regime's hardline vision of Islam, according to aid workers and analysts. Full Story
3 Abu Sayyaf Men Slain; Hostages in Good Condition
Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Three members of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap group were killed overnight in a clash in the southern Philippines island of Basilan, a military official said Wednesday. The Muslim rebels are holding 18 hostages, including an American Christian missionary couple abducted from a Palawan resort last May. The military said the hostages were still alive. Full Story
US Warns Libya Over Oil Installations
Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
The United States has warned Libya that it should take no action to compromise American oil installations in the country which have remained closed for years due to Washington's policy of economic sanctions. Full Story
Rebels Launch Attack Near Liberia Capital
Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
Dissidents fighting government forces in northern Liberia have raided a logging company in Gbopolu, their closest attack to the capital Monrovia in more than a year of war, security sources said on Tuesday. Full Story
Colombian Secret Police Director Kidnapped
Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
The director of the foreign branch of Colombia's secret police is missing following a weekend abduction at his farm outside Bogota, the police agency said Tuesday. Full Story
Police Claim Colombian Rebels Used Gas In Attack
Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Colombia's biggest rebel army used gas during a weekend attack on a village police station, killing four officers who died slow, agonizing deaths, a police commander said. Full Story
Hopes Fade Ahead of India-Pakistan Talks in New York
Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Leaders of India and Pakistan are headed into another peace-seeking meeting this month but there are few signs either side is ready to bend on the decades-old dispute over Kashmir. Full Story
Bomb Thrown as Girls Go to N.Irish School
Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
A bomb hurled by Protestants blew up near police guarding Roman Catholic girls walking to a flashpoint school in Belfast on Wednesday, sending girls fleeing in terror and injuring a policeman, witnesses said. Full Story
Gerry Adams: Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 16:18 by TRC-News
What is happening to Gerry Adams, that pillar of the Irish peace process and to the "good" and "moderate" Irish Republican Army that he got to support the peace process? Has the kind, smiling, statesmanlike Irish Dr. Jekyll reverted back into a rampaging, murderous Mr. Hyde? Full Story
Several injured in Baghdad explosion
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 16:16 by TRC-News
Iraqi officials blamed Iran for an explosion Tuesday in the Al-Rasafah area of Baghdad Province, Iraqi TV reported. Full Story
Is China ground zero for hackers?
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 16:11 by TRC-News
Last week, while discussing new priorities for the Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told the Washington Post that "serious moves to transform the military to meet such emerging threats as computer warfare, terrorism and missile proliferation will not produce new war-fighting capabilities for a number of years." Although paraphrased, it sounds to me like Secretary Rumsfeld just told our enemies that we're years away from defending ourselves against cyberterrorism. Oops. Now is not the time to admit weakness in this area, Mr. Secretary. Full Story
Terrorism Benefits the State
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 16:10 by TRC-News
In Russia, terrorism does not conform to the norms that exist around the world. Here, acts of terrorism occur when it suits the interests of the powers-that-be. The blowing-up of apartment blocks in 1999 marked the start of Vladimir Putin's election campaign. The bus hijacking in Mineralniye Vody by a Chechen occurred on exactly the same day that refugees in Ingushetia were organising a peace march. The explosion in a market-place in Astrakhan happened just as anti-war sentiments were strengthening in society, moreover in a city where such sentiments are pretty strong. Full Story
U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 16:09 by TRC-News
Over the past several years, the United States has embarked on a program of secret research on biological weapons that, some officials say, tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons. Full Story
Biological warfare warning for UK
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 16:01 by TRC-News
Britain could be caught by surprise by bacteriological warfare or biological terrorism, a former government chief scientific adviser will warn today. Full Story
Animal disease grim reminder of bioterrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 16:01 by TRC-News
Britain's foot and mouth crisis shows what can go wrong when a nation cannot deal with a highly infectious disease and should be a reminder of the dangers of biological warfare, a Scottish scientist said on Monday. Full Story
Utah Is Unprepared for Threat of Bioterrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 16:00 by TRC-News
Two University of Utah emergency experts say northern Utah's hospitals and emergency medical crews do not have the planning or supplies to deal with hundreds or thousands of sick or dying patients should bioterrorism or chemical attack occur during the 2002 Winter Games. Full Story
Japanese sect was close to bioterrorism, journal says
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 15:59 by TRC-News
Aum Supreme Truth, the Japanese doomsday sect that carried out a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, made a trial run of an anthrax weapon, using harmless vaccine bacteria as a test, New Scientist says. Full Story
Funding on rise for research into bioterrorism
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 15:55 by TRC-News
After winning the support of both the Clinton and Bush administrations, federal funding for research on bioterrorism is projected to double over two years, the biggest jump in funding for major programs supported by the National Institutes of Health, a Globe review has found. Full Story
Taliban Say Christian Aid Workers Now on Trial
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 15:54 by TRC-News
The chief justice of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said Tuesday the trial of eight foreign aid workers accused of promoting Christianity had begun but Western diplomats in Kabul said they remained in the dark. Full Story
Jerusalem Suicide Bombing Threatens Peace Moves
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 15:54 by TRC-News
A Palestinian suicide bomber disguised as a bearded ultra-Orthodox Jew blew himself up in Jerusalem Tuesday, wounding 15 people and threatening to derail a new European cease-fire initiative. Full Story
Protestants Terrorize N.Irish Girls for Second Day
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 15:52 by TRC-News
Irate Protestants hurling stones and abuse terrorized scores of Roman Catholic girls for a second day Tuesday as they walked to school under massive security in Belfast. Full Story
Russians Step Up Grozny Security After Blast
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 15:51 by TRC-News
Russian troops shut all roads into the Chechen capital Grozny Tuesday, a day after a bomb struck the rebel region's administration headquarters during a meeting of the Moscow-installed authorities. Full Story
Suicide Bomber Disguised as Jew Strikes in Jerusalem
Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 15:49 by TRC-News
A Palestinian suicide bomber disguised as a bearded ultra-Orthodox Jew blew himself up in West Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding at least 12 people, after police stopped him on the pavement for questioning. Full Story
Army posts tighter security may lengthen commute time
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Gwen Martin figures she'll spend an extra 30 minutes stuck in traffic every day because of a big change in the neighborhood -- the Army post next door is becoming a gated community. Full Story
Clamour for revenge as PLO chief is killed
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
Isreal took its conflict with the Palestinians to a new level yesterday by assassinating a senior PLO political leader, drawing warnings of large-scale revenge attacks. Full Story
Author Vidal Charges FBI with Shoddy Investigation
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Author Gore Vidal sent an open letter to FBI director-designate Robert Mueller on Monday, saying the agency dropped the ball on the investigation into Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing and asking him to reopen the probe. Full Story
The Plutonium Nightmare
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
While the Bush administration is worrying about potential missile threats from North Korea, Iran or Iraq, it must not neglect the more immediate danger posed by tons of inadequately secured Russian plutonium. Any country trying to develop nuclear weapons would love to steal a few pounds of the bomb-making material. Yet the White House is considering indefinitely delaying a plan worked out with Moscow last year to begin disposing of the Russian plutonium. Full Story
Seized Oil Workers Freed in Nigeria
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
Militant youths took hostage dozens of oil workers -- including at least eight foreigners -- at a drilling rig off the coast of West Africa, but released them all Monday, Shell Oil said. Full Story
Crude Bomb Defused Near U.S. Consulate in Florence
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
Italian police on Tuesday defused a crudely made bomb near the U.S. Consulate in Florence. Consulate security guards found the device an explosive in a plastic bag with two wires attached concealed in a shoe box on the street and notified police. Full Story
Kidnapped Priest Freed In El Salvador After Family Pays Ransom
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
The Rev. Rogelio Esquivel, a priest who was kidnapped two weeks ago from his church, was freed Monday after family members paid a ransom, a church official said. Full Story
Months Second Coup Attempted On Secessionist Comoros Island
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:38 by TRC-News
Soldiers opposed to the new leader of the secessionist island of Anjouan briefly seized control of the port and state radio station Monday in the second coup attempt in the Comoros islands this month, witnesses said. Full Story
Peacekeepers Detain More Macedonia Rebel Suspects
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo said Tuesday they had detained a further 35 guerrilla suspects arriving from Macedonia, bringing the total to more than 180 since Friday. Full Story
Israel Seizes Positions in Palestinian Town
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Israeli troops seized positions in Palestinian-ruled Beit Jala on Tuesday and sent bulldozers into a refugee camp in southern Gaza only hours after Israel assassinated a top Palestinian leader. Full Story
China Joins Asian Neighbors in War on Drugs
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
Warning that narcotics posed a threat to social stability and economic growth, government ministers from China and three Southeast Asian countries pledged on Tuesday to step up cooperation in a war on drugs. Full Story
Web site used to recruit terrorists moves to U.S.
Posted Monday, August 27, 2001 - 13:08 by TRC-News
An Internet site being investigated by the RCMP after complaints it was used by Islamic terrorists for recruiting has moved its registered base from Canada to the United States. Two days after the police probe of islamway.com was announced, the Web site switched its domain address from Montreal to Ann Arbor, Mich. The change took effect on Monday. It is unclear how the sudden move will affect the RCMP investigation now the site has severed its Canadian ties. Full Story
Israelis label Yasser Arafat a savage enemy
Posted Monday, August 27, 2001 - 7:28 by TRC-News
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is a "savage enemy" according to Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer. Mr Ben Eliezer told Labor party activisits Mr Arafat is directly responsible for violence in the Middle East. Full Story
6 Israelis die in Arab attacks
Posted Monday, August 27, 2001 - 7:27 by TRC-News
Palestinian militants killed three Israeli soldiers Saturday in a daring raid on an army outpost in the southern Gaza Strip, and three Israeli civilians were shot dead when their car was ambushed near Jerusalem. Full Story
Israel Assassinates Palestinian Faction Leader
Posted Monday, August 27, 2001 - 7:24 by TRC-News
Israel assassinated the leader of a radical Palestinian faction in a missile strike Monday on the group's offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the faction said. Full Story
Briton Killed in Macedonia as Mission Starts
Posted Monday, August 27, 2001 - 7:23 by TRC-News
A British soldier was killed when his army vehicle came under attack in Macedonia, highlighting the risks to NATO troops set to begin gathering up rebel weapons on Monday under a controversial peace plan. Full Story
Bomb Explodes at Madrid Airport, ETA Blamed
Posted Monday, August 27, 2001 - 7:22 by TRC-News
A car bomb linked to Basque separatist rebels ETA exploded at Madrid's main Barajas airport on Monday morning, police said, the third attack in a month to target Spain's tourist industry during the peak season. Full Story
Win Against Terrorism Training
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:35 by TRC-News
The TRC's recent Win Against Terrorism training was a great success. For those that participated, thanks for contributing to the success of the program. For those that were unable to attend this session, we hope you will join us in Atlanta in January 2002. Details will be posted to the site soon. TRC Staff
Intelligence body to target local terrorist
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:25 by TRC-News
As it is difficult to curb international terrorism in the country, the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) will focus on fighting its domestic accomplices, agency chief A.M. Hendropriyono said on Thursday. Full Story
Terrorism Is at Odds With Islamic Tradition
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:19 by TRC-News
With the recent escalation in suicide bombings against civilian targets in Israel and the continuing threat of Osama bin Laden terrorist attacks, the relationship between Islam and terrorism is, once again, the subject of rampant speculation. Full Story
Curbing Smuggling of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Central Asia
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:17 by TRC-News
Approximately 80 customs and border officials from Central Asia are participating in a U.S.-sponsored program in Texas to learn state-of-the-art methods for detecting nuclear, chemical and biological weapons components that could be smuggled across borders. Full Story
Israeli Army Briefly in Palestinian-Ruled Hebron
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:14 by TRC-News
The Israeli army plunged briefly deep into Palestinian-ruled areas of Hebron on Thursday, facing fierce resistance to an operation it said was in retaliation for the shooting of a settler boy. Full Story
Bomb Explodes in Colombias Third-Largest City
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:13 by TRC-News
A powerful bomb exploded late on Thursday in a residential neighborhood of Colombia's third-largest city, injuring an unknown number of people and causing extensive damage, the army said. Full Story
France Hands Over ETA Guerrilla Joseba to Spain
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:12 by TRC-News
France sent a convicted member of armed Basque separatist group ETA back to Spain on Thursday to face charges of murder, kidnapping and bombing, the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement. Full Story
Three American Girls and Mother Murdered in Mexico
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:11 by TRC-News
Three young American girls and their Mexican mother were murdered and their bodies dumped in a cornfield outside Mexico's western city of Guadalajara, officials said on Thursday. Full Story
British Forces Defuse N.Irish Guerrilla Bomb
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:10 by TRC-News
British security forces defused a powerful bomb on Thursday left near a river bridge in Northern Ireland's second city Londonderry, police said. Full Story
Pro-Moscow Chechen Says Rebel Leader Escapes
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:09 by TRC-News
Chechnya's separatist president escaped encirclement by Russian forces during a crackdown in his home village, the Moscow-installed regional head said Thursday. Full Story
Arafat Arrives in China Seeking Asian Support
Posted Friday, August 24, 2001 - 0:08 by TRC-News
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat arrived in China from Pakistan on Thursday on the final stage of a whirlwind tour across Asia seeking support for his people's struggle with Israel. Full Story
Mideast violence continues to rise
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:20 by TRC-News
The military wing of the Muslim militant group Hamas said Monday it had suicide bombers in Israel waiting for orders to avenge the killing of a Palestinian activist and his two children in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said the deaths were caused by a bomb the man was preparing in his yard and not by an Israeli missile, as the Palestinians alleged. At the man’s home, there were no signs of a missile hit. Full Story
Ready for an attack
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:19 by TRC-News
Montgomery and Bucks counties are sharing $1.5 million to train emergency personnel how to spot and deal with an act of terrorism. Full Story
Exercise exposes weaknesses
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:17 by TRC-News
The patients with the mysterious sickness began appearing at Oklahoma City hospitals in December of 2002, with fever, weakness and a nasty rash. Within days the rash blossomed into pus-filled bumps, almost like a severe case of acne. Full Story
Bomb center looks to future
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:15 by TRC-News
The Oklahoma City National Memorial's museum marked its six-month anniversary Sunday, after already attracting nearly as many visitors as it expected in its entire first year. Full Story
FBI probing top counter-terrorism agent
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:14 by TRC-News
The FBI is investigating a senior counter-terrorism official after his briefcase containing classified documents was stolen from him at a convention, government sources said Sunday. Authorities later recovered the briefcase and documents. Full Story
F.B.I.s Inquiry in Cole Attack Nearing a Halt
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:12 by TRC-News
More than 10 months after two Arabic- speaking suicide bombers attacked the destroyer Cole in Aden, killing 17 American sailors, an F.B.I. investigation has virtually ground to a halt because Yemen has refused repeated American requests to widen the inquiry to include Islamic militant groups in Yemen. Full Story
Bomb in Astrakhan Kills 6
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:10 by TRC-News
On Sunday a powerful explosion rocked a crowded marketplace in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan. Two people were killing immediately and four more died later in hospital. Four of the wounded remain in a critical condition. Full Story
Pakistan Bomb Wounds 14 in Lahore
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:10 by TRC-News
Fourteen people were wounded, two seriously, by a bomb explosion on Monday in a crowded commercial area of Pakistan's second largest city, hospital officials said. Full Story
Germanys Fischer to Push for Middle East Truce
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:08 by TRC-News
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer plays mediator in talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders Tuesday aimed at fostering a cease-fire after almost 11 months of fighting. Full Story
Sri Lanka Rebels Storm Police Station, 17 Dead
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 0:08 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas attacked a police station in the east of the country on Tuesday, leaving at least 17 dead and 18 wounded, the military said. Full Story
Victim: Terrorism has no right place
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
To those who may say to Howard Green that he was unlucky, in the wrong place at the wrong time, when a suicide nail bomb exploded in a Jerusalem restaurant Thursday, he has a brisk response: "There's no right place (for terrorism)." Full Story
Hundreds of Islamic Militants Arrested in Pakistan
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Police arrested hundreds of Islamic militants Wednesday in a crackdown launched after the president banned two Muslim extremist groups blamed for propagating violence. Full Story
Israel Warns Palestinian Gunmen of Reprisals
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Israel issued a new warning on Thursday to Palestinian gunmen south of Jerusalem to stop shooting, and Russia and the United States stepped up pressure on both sides to end months of fighting. Full Story
Police Defuse Two Bombs in Spain Basque Country
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Explosives experts defused two small bombs left outside banks in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian in the early hours of Thursday, after a telephone warning in the name of the separatist group ETA, police said. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Suggest Diplomats Return to Pakistan
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Thursday again refused permission for Western diplomats to see eight detained foreign aid workers and suggested the envoys return to neighboring Pakistan. Full Story
Three Killed in Explosion in Moluccas, MISNA Says
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
An explosive device placed under a motorcycle seat blew up and killed three people in the Indonesian Moluccas islands on Wednesday, a Catholic news agency said on Thursday. Full Story
Shadowy Group Urges Ethnic Albanians to Fight On
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
A shadowy new ethnic Albanian group urging war to split Macedonia could be anything from a lone extremist with e-mail to a guerrilla splinter group that could threaten a peace accord and a planned NATO force. Full Story
Oklahoma City terrorism report released
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
After six years in the making, the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Committee, headed up by former Oklahoma state representative Charles Key, has announced the long-awaited release of its final report, which differs sharply and dramatically from the official conclusions of the federal government. Full Story
As with all RealNews items, this is provided for informational purposes only and should NOT be considered an endorsement by the Terrorism Research Center, Inc. or TRC Staff
US admits losing nuke
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
A nuclear bomb, 100 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, is lying 10km off the east coast of the United States. Full Story
Where martyrs are groomed
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
Two young men described as volunteer suicide bombers stood silently as their Islamic mentor bid them a tranquil good evening. “And don’t forget to say your prayers,” he reminded them as they left his home. Full Story
Israel poised to launch incursion
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
Israel appeared poised to launch another incursion into Palestinian-controlled areas on Wednesday, with tanks and troops stationed on the outskirts of a West Bank town. It was not clear whether Israel still planned to enter the Palestinian area, or if the troop buildup was simply intended to signal a warning to Palestinians. Full Story
Qualified in terrorism
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
Security sources claimed yesterday the three men held in Colombia were leading members of the Provisional IRA. Full Story
Colombia ELN Rebels Kidnap Nine People, Block Major Roadways
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
The National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia's second-largest rebel group with which the government broke off peace negotiations last week, kidnapped nine people and blocked major roadways around the country, police said. Full Story
Israel Says It Arrests Islamic Jihad Bomb Plotters
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
Israeli police Wednesday arrested several Islamic Jihad members who were planning a bomb attack in the northern city of Haifa, a police spokesman said. Full Story
Israel Kills Palestinian Activist in Hebron
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:26 by TRC-News
Undercover Israeli soldiers shot dead a member of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction on Wednesday in what Palestinians called an assassination, fueling tension already stoked by Israeli troop movements. Full Story
Kashmir Violence Overshadows Indian Anniversary
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
India marked Independence Day in characteristic fashion on Wednesday, slamming old foe Pakistan over disputed Kashmir where separatist violence killed at least seven people. Full Story
Rebels Kill Seven in Kashmir, Three in East India
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
Separatist guerrillas killed seven people including five Hindus in India's trouble-torn Jammu and Kashmir state as the country marked its Independence Day on Wednesday, police said. Full Story
IRA Figures Arrested in Colombia
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:25 by TRC-News
The rebel safe haven was supposed be a "laboratory for peace," but Colombian officials say members of the Irish Republican Army were training Colombian rebels in terrorist tactics there. Full Story
Indians resolve to fight terrorism on I-Day eve
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:23 by TRC-News
An 81-year-old freedom fighter, who was a part of India's freedom struggle against the British in his heyday, says he is ready to lay down his life, but will not let anyone take even an inch of his country. Full Story
Police chief: Eco-terrorism being taken seriously
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:22 by TRC-News
Eco-terrorism is a problem for area businesses that must be addressed proactively with good communication and security measures.
That was the message presented by Roseburg Police Chief Chris Brown as he spoke Monday at the Roseburg Area Chamber of Commerce’s noon forum on the dangers of radical environmental terrorism. Full Story
Indonesia Vows to Protect Americans Against Threat
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:20 by TRC-News
Indonesia on Monday vowed to protect Americans in the country against a threat from extremists which prompted Washington to order out some aid workers. Full Story
Israel Warns Palestinians of Price of Violence
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:16 by TRC-News
Israeli tanks moved into positions near the West Bank town of Bethlehem hours after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned the Palestinian Authority it could pay a heavy price if a 10-month-old uprising does not end. Full Story
Palestinians Seek Action From U.N. Security Council
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:15 by TRC-News
Palestinian diplomats sought action from the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to halt Israel's seizure of key Palestinian offices and raids into the West Bank. Full Story
Sri Lanka Minister Makes Shock Trip to Rebel Area
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:14 by TRC-News
A Sri Lankan cabinet minister made an unprecedented crossing into rebel-held territory in the country's north and held talks with Tamil Tiger guerrillas during a Catholic pilgrimage, an official statement said on Tuesday. Full Story
IRA Tears Up Arms Disposal Offer Made Last Week
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:14 by TRC-News
The Irish Republican Army threw Northern Ireland's peace process into new turmoil Tuesday when it announced it was withdrawing a disarmament proposal it made only last week. Full Story
Taliban Meet Diplomats, Says No Access to Detainees
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:13 by TRC-News
Three Western diplomats in Kabul to seek access to eight foreign aid workers detained for promoting Christianity came up empty handed on Tuesday when Afghanistan's ruling Taliban again denied permission. Full Story
Mexico Arrests Rebels From Bank Attack Group
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:12 by TRC-News
Mexican authorities have arrested five suspected members of a little-known guerrilla unit that bombed three Mexico City banks last week, the Attorney General's Office said on Tuesday. Full Story
Macedonia Rebels Agree to Disarmament Pact with NATO
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 21:11 by TRC-News
- Ethnic Albanian rebels have agreed to hand their weapons to NATO soldiers to be deployed in Macedonia in a big step toward ending a six-month rebellion, The political leader of the so-called National Liberation Army (NLA), Ali Ahmeti, signed the deal in talks with NATO brokers Tuesday after receiving assurances of an amnesty and of political reforms to help the one-third ethnic minority. Full Story
Israelis may regret Orient House grab amid scepticism over terrorism charge
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:44 by TRC-News
Even Israelis are beginning to wonder what on earth Ariel Sharon's soldiers are doing in Orient House. As a bloodless retaliation for the crime of last week's Palestinian suicide bomber who murdered 15 Israelis, and as a way of tweaking Yasser Arafat's ever-greying moustache, storming the Palestinian offices must have seemed a bright idea. No bodies, no wounded children, no world outcry; just the Israeli Star of David banner fluttering in the summer breeze over the 19th-century Jerusalem building with its pitched roof and delicate tracery windows. Full Story
Bush Says Arafat Can Do More to Stop Violence
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:42 by TRC-News
President Bush said on Monday both Israel and the Palestinians must demonstrate the will to end the surge in Middle East violence, adding Palestinian President Yasser Arafat could do "a lot more." Full Story
Palestinians Protest Over Israeli Seizure of HQ
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:40 by TRC-News
Businesses throughout Palestinian areas shut Monday and Israeli police wrestled with demonstrators in protests against Israel's takeover of the deeply symbolic Palestinian headquarters in Arab East Jerusalem. Full Story
Three Hurt in Small Bomb Blast in Belfast
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:39 by TRC-News
Three people were slightly hurt when a small bomb exploded during trouble at one of Belfast's sectarian flashpoints Monday, eyewitnesses said. They said two teenagers and a man were taken to hospital suffering shock and burns after the bomb was thrown into a crowd of Catholics in Newington Street about two miles from central Belfast. Full Story
Three Britons Confess on TV to Saudi Bombings
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:38 by TRC-News
Three Britons were shown on Saudi Arabian state television Monday confessing to bomb attacks which Saudi newspapers have linked to a lucrative illegal alcohol trade in the conservative Muslim kingdom. < a href=http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010813/wl/crime_saudi_suspects_dc_1.html>Full Story
Palestinian Bombers Family Mourns Its Martyr
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:36 by TRC-News
Muhammad Mahmoud Nasr was a devout Muslim and a real man, his father said, praising the son who killed himself and wounded 15 people in a suicide bombing in an Israeli restaurant on Sunday. Full Story
Palestinian Bomber Asked: You Know What This Is?
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:36 by TRC-News
The Palestinian suicide bomber walked into the Wall Street cafe in northern Israel Sunday, looked a waitress in the eye and pointed to his chest. Full Story
Kashmir Violence Surges Before India Anniversary
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:35 by TRC-News
Grenade attacks and gun battles in disputed Kashmir were reported Sunday to have killed 29 people before India's Independence Day this week. Full Story
Death Toll in Angola Train Attack Rises to Almost 100
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:34 by TRC-News
The death toll from an attack on a passenger train in Angola has risen to close to 100, state-run radio reported Sunday. Full Story
Fresh Violence Hits Russias Rebel Chechnya
Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 - 15:33 by TRC-News
Two pro-Russian administrators were reported Sunday to have been shot dead in Chechnya in a guerrilla campaign to deter Chechens from working with Moscow and rebels said they had launched fresh attacks across the region. Full Story
Terrorism Reference CDROM Available
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 13:00 by TRC-News
The TRC has compiled a comprehensive list of terrorism related documents and made them available in CDROM format. The CDROM contains over 400 megabytes of terrorism related research material to include reports, training materials and proprietary analysis. Special pricing is available for bulk purchases. More Information
Spots Still Available for Win Against Terrorism Training
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:59 by TRC-News
The Terrorism Research Center still has several seats available for our "Win Against Terrorism" training session on August 21-22, 2001. For more details, see the following web site Full Story
Venice bomb feeds fear of new terror wave
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:56 by TRC-News
The Italian police were looking last night for bombers who blasted the Venice courthouse hours before the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was due to visit the city. The explosion damaged the 16th-century palazzo and slightly injured two police sentries. Full Story
FBI doubts amateurs are behind Code Red
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:55 by TRC-News
As the "Code Red II" virus hit more computer networks and continued spreading overseas Wednesday, the FBI thinks the worm was launched by sophisticated international hackers — not teenage amateurs. According to security experts and federal law enforcement officials, the FBI does not believe so-called "script kiddies" are behind the Code Red attacks that have struck 400,000 to 800,000 server computers since mid-July. Full Story
Government wants quick decision: Terrorism cases
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:54 by TRC-News
The government has taken serious notice of superior judiciary's inability to decide cases pertaining to terrorism and heinous offences on a priority basis, and has conveyed to the top judicial functionary that situation should not be allowed to persist. Full Story
Three killed in Colombia blast
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:53 by TRC-News
Three children were killed and 35 people injured in a bomb attack blamed on Colombia's second-largest rebel group, police said yesterday, just hours after the group announced it would no longer negotiate with President Andres Pastrana's government. Full Story
Terrorism linked to organised crime: NSG ex-chief
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:52 by TRC-News
There is a need for a law linking terrorism with organised crime, especially in the context of Jammu & Kashmir, says a retired senior police officer. Full Story
Experts say U.S. not ready for terrorists
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:51 by TRC-News
If terrorists unleashed chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in the United States today, disaster-relief agencies would be quickly overwhelmed. Full Story
Anthrax bombers threaten Prince William: report
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:49 by TRC-News
Scottish separatists have threatened to kill Queen Elizabeth II's grandson Prince William with the deadly anthrax bio-warfare agent, British press reported Wednesday. The campaign against Prince William has been launched by separatists who warned they could carry out the attack when he goes to St Andrews University, in Scotland, in the autumn, according to the Daily Express. Full Story
Israels History Of Bomb Blasts
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:48 by TRC-News
At least 15 people are killed and about 90 others injured in a suicide attack on a busy restaurant in the heart of Jerusalem. Both Islamic Jihad and Hamas claims responsibility. Full Story
Five Policemen Killed in Naxalite Attack in Orissa
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:46 by TRC-News
At least five policemen were killed when armed naxalites attacked Motu and Kalimela police stations in Orissa's Malkangiri district Thursday night, official sources said on Friday. Full Story
Taliban Official Says Expulsion Most Likely for Aid Workers
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:45 by TRC-News
Eight foreign aid workers detained in Afghanistan for allegedly preaching Christianity will probably be expelled if it is found they have not converted any Afghan Muslims, a Taliban official said Friday. Full Story
Israel Vows to Stay After Seizing Palestinian HQ
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:44 by TRC-News
Israeli police seized the main Palestinian headquarters in East Jerusalem on Friday and vowed not to abandon it in a campaign to assert control over the city after a Palestinian suicide bombing killed 16 people. Full Story
Macedonian Peace in Tatters, Seven Troops Killed
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:43 by TRC-News
Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski distanced himself from a newly agreed peace deal on Friday after seven soldiers died in a mine attack near Skojpe and fierce fighting was reported near the border with Kosovo. Full Story
Iran Holds Nationwide Marches to Back Palestinians
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:42 by TRC-News
Large crowds chanting ``Death to Israel'' and ``Death to America'' marched in cities across Iran on Friday in a day of solidarity with a Palestinian uprising against Israel. Full Story
Britain Suspends N.Irelands Home-Rule Government
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:36 by TRC-News
Britain said on Friday it was suspending Northern Ireland's devolved government to give feuding Protestant and Catholic politicians more time to try to settle their differences over guerrilla disarmament. Full Story
Troops on High Alert in Kashmir, Violence Unabated
Posted Friday, August 10, 2001 - 12:35 by TRC-News
The was no respite from violence in troubled Kashmir on Friday as a string of grenade attacks rocked the region a day after Indian forces were given virtually unlimited powers to deal with suspected lawbreakers. Full Story
Foot-and-Mouth Flares Again in Britain
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Three months ago, running for re-election and anxious to improve public confidence in his government's agricultural policy, Prime Minister Tony Blair boldly declared that Britain's foot-and-mouth crisis had turned the corner and was "in the home straight." Full Story
Civil liberties group attacks special courts
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
There is clear evidence that the Special Criminal Court - which sits without a jury - does nothing to get rid of subversive or organised crime, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties claimed yesterday. Full Story
Classified Databases Put Up for Sale
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2001 - 8:23 by TRC-News
Imagine how a shady businessman longs to get the home address of the detective investigating his case. Or how delighted a car accident victim would be to find the address of the hit-and-run driver who left him without a bumper. Or what great things a creative con man could do with a list of all the business deals registered in Moscow. Full Story
Macedonian Police Kill Five Rebels in Skopje
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
Macedonian police raided a house in Skopje Tuesday and killed five alleged ethnic Albanian guerrillas, Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski said. Full Story
Israeli Man Shot Dead in Jordanian Capital
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
Unidentified gunmen shot dead an Israeli man in the Jordanian capital Amman Tuesday, an Israeli embassy spokesman said. Full Story
Australia Says Taliban Detainees Are Innocent
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Australia Tuesday rejected accusations that two Australians among 24 aid workers arrested by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were in Kabul to spread Christianity and demanded immediate access to them. Full Story
Philippine Rebels to Sign Cease-fire on Tuesday
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
Philippine government and Muslim rebel negotiators meeting just outside Kuala Lumpur have agreed a cease-fire pact and the accord will be signed later on Tuesday, a Malaysian Foreign Ministry official said. Full Story
Blast in Indonesias E. Java, One Killed
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
An explosion rocked a residential area in the East Java capital of Surabaya early on Tuesday, killing one and injuring another, Indonesian police said. Full Story
Terror cells plot London bomb blitz
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:43 by TRC-News
Two Real IRA terrorist cells are operating in London and are intent on launching further attacks in the wake of last week's Ealing bombing, intelligence sources revealed last night. The cells are believed to number up to 12 members. Most are suspected to be 'cleanskins' or 'lilywhites' - young and with no previous known connections to terrorism. The two groups are being directed by a new commanding officer of the Real IRA, whose identity is known to The Observer. Full Story
A Cool Gunman Wounds 10 Outside Israeli Defense Office
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:42 by TRC-News
In one of the more brazen strikes at Israel's heart, a Palestinian man stepped out of a car today and sprayed automatic rifle fire outside the Israeli Defense Ministry here, wounding 10 people, most of them soldiers on their lunch break. Full Story
Bomb Threats Alarm Venezuelans
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:40 by TRC-News
A recent explosion in a Caracas church has heightened alarm over a series of bomb threats in this South American capital, where terrorism is an unfamiliar problem. Last week's bomb injured a 25-year-old woman and destroyed a confessional in a colonial church in downtown Caracas. On Friday, police deactivated a bomb in the Caracas home of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez. Full Story
Senior Palestinian Survives Missile Attack
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:40 by TRC-News
A leading Palestinian activist in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, has narrowly escaped with his life after Israel launched a missile strike on a convoy of cars he was travelling in. One of two missiles fired hit a bodyguard's car in front of Mr Barghouti, who heads Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement in Ramallah. Full Story
Burundi Officials: Rebels Killed 10 Civilians
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:39 by TRC-News
Burundian government officials on Friday accused rebels of killing 10 civilians in cold blood, fanning a growing climate of fear gripping residents caught up in the country's eight-year civil war. Full Story
Israel Marks Seven Palestinians as Most-Wanted
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:38 by TRC-News
Israel has marked seven Palestinians on a most-wanted list that could herald more track-and-kill operations likely to strain relations with its guardian ally, the United States. Full Story
Philippines Says May Rescue U.S. Hostages Soon
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:37 by TRC-News
The Philippine military said on Monday it was confident of rescuing a U.S. missionary couple and 19 Filipinos held hostage by Muslim guerrillas for months on the mountainous southern island of Basilan. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Consider Aid Workers Fate
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:36 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said on Monday that 24 foreign and local staff from an international aid agency were safe after being arrested for propagating Christianity and their fate would be decided under Islamic law. Full Story
India Vows to Crush Violence in Kashmir
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:34 by TRC-News
India said on Sunday it would not tolerate ``cross-border terrorism'' and would crush it without hesitation as 17 more people were killed in escalating violence in Kashmir. Full Story
Trimble Says IRA Must Disarm to Save N.Irish Peace
Posted Monday, August 6, 2001 - 6:33 by TRC-News
Northern Ireland's leading pro-British Protestant politician David Trimble said on Sunday IRA guerrillas must take steps toward giving up their weapons if the peace process is to be salvaged. Full Story
U.S. Meets With Afghanistan Militia
Posted Friday, August 3, 2001 - 6:42 by TRC-News
In its first high-level meeting with Afghanistan's ruling militia, the Bush administration told the Taliban on Thursday that they must stop supporting terrorists before any serious progress can be made in relations with the United States. Full Story
President vows to crush terrorism
Posted Friday, August 3, 2001 - 6:41 by TRC-News
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has called a special meeting of provincial governors and concerned ministers on Saturday to finalize details for launching an "aggressive" anti-terrorism campaign in the country. Full Story
Emergency workers learn to respond to terrorism
Posted Friday, August 3, 2001 - 6:40 by TRC-News
Three Columbia County emergency workers will get to watch stuff blow up for three days. And they'll learn ways to combat terrorism at the same time. Full Story
The Terrorism Next Door: House Arrest
Posted Friday, August 3, 2001 - 6:37 by TRC-News
Watching young children pedaling their bikes through the sparkling new subdivision of Island Estates, you'd never guess that four of these suburban dream homes were torched by arsonists in the predawn chill on December 30. Nor can you tell which cheery white house on Casey Lane had threatening graffiti sprayed across its exterior in red paint. "`Burn the Rich,' or something like that," recalls a neighbor (who, like everyone else in the area, requested anonymity). "Everybody was really very scared. My daughter is eight years old, and when we were driving by she actually saw the scrawl." Full Story
Car Bomb in London Hurts 6; Real IRA Suspected
Posted Friday, August 3, 2001 - 0:29 by TRC-News
At least six people were injured when a car bomb ripped through a busy area of west London late on Thursday, and informed security experts pointed a finger at the dissident Northern Irish Real IRA guerrilla group. Full Story
Twenty Injured as Guatemalans Clash with Police
Posted Friday, August 3, 2001 - 0:28 by TRC-News
Guatemalans armed with machetes, rocks and sticks torched property and battled police in a provincial town on Thursday, injuring 20 officers, police said. Full Story
Arafat Calls for Monitors as Israel Under Fire
Posted Friday, August 3, 2001 - 0:27 by TRC-News
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat called Thursday for a halt to all violence in the Middle East and the immediate appointment of international observers to the region. Full Story
Macedonians in New Talks to End Ethnic Rebellion
Posted Friday, August 3, 2001 - 0:26 by TRC-News
Macedonia's divided politicians will try Friday to sketch out a future police force as part of efforts to defuse an ethnic Albanian insurgency. Full Story
Are We Ready for Ag Bioterrorism?
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:16 by TRC-News
Bioterrorism is a very real possibility that has come to people's minds recently, with all the foot-and-mouth disease problems in European livestock. A national committee led by an Iowa State University researcher is studying the United States' preparedness in dealing with agricultural bioterrorism. Full Story
Three Civil Support Teams Certified
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:15 by TRC-News
Three National Guard units were certified yesterday as the nation's first fully mission capable Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams (WMD-CST). These teams are designed to support incident commanders responding to a terrorist use of a weapon of mass destruction. The three weapons of mass destruction civil support teams are the 8th WMD-CST, Aurora, Colo.; the 2nd WMD-CST, Scotia, N.Y.; and the 10th WMD-CST, Tacoma, Wash. Full Story
Pakistan Plans Terrorism Law
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:13 by TRC-News
Shaken by a spate of religiously motivated killings, Pakistan's military-led government promised Saturday to draft a law banning extremist Islamic groups linked to terrorism and murder. Full Story
Palestinian Militant Dead in Shootout
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:12 by TRC-News
A Palestinian militant was killed in a gunbattle Tuesday with Israeli troops on the edge of the Gaza Strip, while two Jewish settlements came under mortar fire elsewhere in Gaza, officials said. Full Story
Government, security officials sound alarm over Code Red
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:11 by TRC-News
Government and private security officials are trying to spur action to stamp out an infectious computer worm they say could disrupt the operations of the entire Internet starting on Tuesday evening. Representatives from the FBI and other federal agencies are warning that the “Code Red” computer worm, which infected 300,000 computers and disrupted several U.S. government Web sites last week, will renew its attacks at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday. But there is some disagreement among professionals about just how severe the consequences will be. Full Story
Car Bomb Explodes In Capital
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:08 by TRC-News
A car bomb exploded in northern Jerusalem yesterday afternoon, as police combed parts of Tel Aviv for a suspected bomb amid continued warnings of terror attacks inside the Green Line. Full Story
Explosion Kills 6 Palestinian Activists
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:07 by TRC-News
A car parts store blew up early Monday, killing six Palestinian activists in Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. It was one of the deadliest single episodes in 10 months of Mideast violence. Full Story
Gunmen Free Some of 41 Hostages in Southern Russia
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:05 by TRC-News
Masked gunmen took hostage 41 people on a bus in southern Russia on Tuesday and the interior minister was quoted as saying that they wanted the release of jailed Chechen guerrillas. Full Story
Israeli Police Deploy on High Alert in Jerusalem
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:02 by TRC-News
Israeli police deployed in force in public places in Jerusalem on Tuesday in response to what they said was information that Palestinians planned bombing attacks in the city. Full Story
Mexican Rebels Sympathizers Block Chiapas Roads
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:01 by TRC-News
Some 500 Mexican rebel sympathizers blocked roads in the southern state of Chiapas on Monday to protest against a recently ratified indigenous-rights law they say fails to protect Indians. Full Story
EU Says Role in Colombia Gravely Compromised
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:00 by TRC-News
The European Union warned on Monday its role in Colombia's 2-1/2 year-old peace talks with FARC rebels was ``gravely compromised'' by violence against foreigners and violations of international law. Full Story
Win Against Terrorism Training - Space Still Available
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:43 by TRC-News
We are still accepting registrations for our Win Against Terrorism Training to be held in Northern Virginia on August 21-22, 2001. For those requiring information on nearby hotels, please email us directly at [email protected]. Class enrollment is still below expectations, so we are extending the $300 price through next week. For more information please see the following web site: Win Against Terrorism
McKevitt Real IRA case
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:16 by TRC-News
Security agencies from three countries are currently working on material for the forthcoming trial of the alleged former leader of the Real IRA, Dublin's Special Criminal Court heard today. Full Story
Terrorism, theft threaten U.S. seaports, experts say
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:15 by TRC-News
At Port Canaveral, the presence of drug smuggling, illegal immigration and cargo theft is "very minor," Canaveral Port Authority spokeswoman Dixie Sansom said. "But minor doesn't mean there's not a high level of concern about it." Full Story
Four Sentenced for Roles in EU Summit Riots
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:12 by TRC-News
Four people, including a Briton and a German, received prison terms Wednesday of up to two and a half years for their roles in rioting during last month's European Union summit in Goteborg. Full Story
Small Bomb Explodes in Venezuelan Capital
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:12 by TRC-News
A small bomb exploded inside a church in the center of Venezuela's capital just opposite the nation's legislative building on Wednesday and at least one person was treated for shock, police said. Full Story
Tamil Tiger Rebels Posed As Travelers As They Waited to Attack
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:11 by TRC-News
The 13 men who were dressed like travelers waited at a roadside stand where they drank tea, ate snacks, chatted, read newspapers and waited for 9:45 p.m. Full Story
Pakistan Oil Managing Director Shot
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:11 by TRC-News
Gunmen shot and killed the head of the country's largest oil company Thursday in the volatile southern port city of Karachi, police said. Full Story
IDF Kills Senior Hamas Terrorist
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:10 by TRC-News
Soldiers fired five ground-to-ground missiles at a senior Hamas terrorist driving in his car in Nablus yesterday, killing him and foiling his preparations for a large terror attack. Full Story
Calls for Revenge Echo at Hamas Militant's Funeral
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:07 by TRC-News
Like ghosts at a funeral, 10 would-be Palestinian suicide bombers in white robes and masks took pride of place at the burial on Thursday of a Hamas militant hunted down and killed by Israel. Full Story
Italy Under Fire for Police Behavior at G8
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:06 by TRC-News
The Italian government on Thursday came under increased pressure at home and abroad to respond to allegations that demonstrators at last week's G8 summit in Genoa were brutally beaten and denied their human and legal rights. Full Story
Bosnia Police Arrest Two Egyptian Terrorists
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:04 by TRC-News
Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation said Thursday it had arrested two Egyptians and a local newspaper said the pair were suspected of being close associates of Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Downer Disappointed by U.S. Germ Warfare Stand
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:02 by TRC-News
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Washington's decision to abandon efforts to strengthen a 30-year ban on germ warfare was an enormous setback. Full Story
ETA Claims Responsibility for 15 Attacks in Spain
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 10:01 by TRC-News
The Basque separatist rebel group ETA claimed responsibility on Thursday for 15 attacks in Spain between March and July this year, including five killings. Full Story
Antigua Protest Turns Violent
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
A protest over the expansion of a hotel on the Caribbean island of Antigua turned violent Tuesday, with residents throwing bottles and stones and police responding with tear gas and rubber bullets, witnesses and radio broadcasts said. Full Story
U.S. Ports Vulnerable to Security Threats
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
U.S. seaports urgently need to bolster security to defend against terrorist attack, drug trafficking, smuggling and up to $12 billion in cargo theft each year, government and industry officials said on Tuesday. Full Story
Fighting And Mobs Scupper Macedonia Peace Hopes
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
Anti-Western violence and fierce street firefights in Macedonia have left prospects for a peaceful end to ethnic strife in the former Yugoslav republic looking their thinnest for weeks. Full Story
Masked Gunmen Kill Indias Bandit Queen
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
Masked gunmen killed India's ``Bandit Queen'' outside her home on Wednesday, closing a turbulent life that began in poverty and rape, turned into a quest for revenge and ended in parliament. Full Story
Israel Kills Palestinian Militant in W. Bank
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
Israel killed a Palestinian activist from the militant Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, a move Palestinians said would set back international efforts to end 10 months of bloodshed. Full Story
Indian Forces Kill Senior Kashmiri Militant
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
A commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen guerrilla group was shot dead by security forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. Full Story
Suspected ETA Member Blown Up in Spanish Resort
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
Spanish police sifted through the remains of an apartment in a busy beach resort on Wednesday where a suspected member of the Basque separatist group ETA blew herself up while handling explosives, officials said. Full Story
Opening of Sri Lanka Airport After Raid Delayed
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
The reopening of Sri Lanka's international airport was delayed on Wednesday as officials conducted investigations and cleared rubble a day after a rebel suicide attack killed 20 people and destroyed airliners. Full Story
Thousands Across Italy Protest Police at G8
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Tens of thousands of people, many shouting ''killers, killers,'' protested throughout Italy on Tuesday against the use of police force that left one person dead and more than 230 injured at the G8 summit in Genoa. Full Story
Software Assesses Risks of Terrorism and Natural Disasters
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
After the Oklahoma City bombing and several natural disasters in 1998, the General Services Administration (GSA) decided it needed a better tool to assess the risks that face government buildings. Now, after working with Regina Hunter and colleagues at Sandia National Laboratory for several years, the GSA has got its wish: a Risk Assessment Method—Property Analysis and Ranking Tool (RAMPART). "Traditionally buildings have been constructed to code, which pays attention to disasters that have already happened," Hunter explains. "RAMPART looks to the future probability of events occurring and what there is to lose if those events take place." Full Story
Pope, Bragg set up safeguards
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
A staff sergeant recently walked up to a group of unfamiliar civilians on a sidewalk at Fort Bragg. The soldier’s hand hovered over the cell phone on his belt like a Wild West gunslinger itching to draw. Full Story
Terrorism training good for natural disasters, too
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a list of 300 cities in the country that are likely targets of a terrorist attack. Full Story
Kananaskis may be security nightmare: expert
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
The tranquil wilderness of Kananaskis will be shattered with security swarming forested mountains and choppers whirling overhead when Canada hosts G-8 world leaders next summer. Full Story
Greek Authorities Get Security Advice for 2004 Games
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
With security certain to be a major issue at the 2004 Summer Games, seven countries with extensive counterterrorism experience have joined to offer training and intelligence to Greek law enforcement authorities. Full Story
3 suspects sought in eco-terror fires
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Investigators are focusing on at least three members of the radical Earth Liberation Front as suspects in five arsons that have caused $7.4 million in damage, police say. Full Story
US lawmakers warned of dark winter in case of bioterrorist attack
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
A chilling scenario of possible national collapse was presented Monday to US lawmakers by a group of prominent security experts, who warned that a biological terrorist attack on US soil could bring the country to the brink of disintegration. Full Story
Bomb at Corsican Police Barracks
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
A bomb has exploded at a paramilitary police barracks on the French island of Corsica injuring 14 people. The injured were having lunch when the bomb, left outside the barracks, blew a 10-metre hole in a room next door. Full Story
Security Tight in Gaza After Palestinians Battle
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
The Palestinian Authority tightened security in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Palestinians battled each other in a new twist to a 10-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation. Full Story
Tamil Rebel Raid Paralyzes Sri Lanka Airport
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
A major pre-dawn suicide attack by Tamil Tiger rebels closed Sri Lanka's only international airport on Tuesday, forcing passengers to scramble to safety in the dark and leaving aircraft burning on the tarmac. Full Story
Army Takes Credit for Killing of Top Chechen Rebel
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Russia's military claimed credit on Monday for killing a senior rebel commander in separatist Chechnya, but other accounts said he was gunned down by a teenager avenging his father's death. Full Story
Nepal Government, Maoist Rebels Announce Truce
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
The Nepal government and Maoist rebels said on Monday they would stop all offensive action against each other to pave the way for peace talks to end a bloody rebellion in the impoverished Himalayan nation. Full Story
Security Stepped Up in Kashmir As Violence Mounts
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
Security forces in India's violence-racked Kashmir state fanned out across the mountainous region on Monday to track down suspected militants who shot villagers dead during the weekend. Full Story
High-tech warfare
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
China's military is moving ahead with development of information warfare capabilities and appears to have orchestrated recent computer attacks on Taiwan, the top electronic warfare general here said. Full Story
Taliban Diplomat Praises Bin Laden
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
A diplomat representing Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden should be praised for his services to Afghanistan and vowed never to deliver him to the United States, a news agency reported. Full Story
Yemeni Court Convicts 4 in British Embassy Bombing
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
Four Yemenis were convicted Sunday and sentenced to between four and 15 years in prison for bombing the British Embassy last year - just one day after the deadly USS Cole attack. Full Story
First Test for New PM as Rebels Kill 15
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Nepal's Maoist rebels gunned down 15 police officers in west Nepal, providing an immediate test for the government of new Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Full Story
Athens Blasts Damage Cars
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Three explosive devices have gone off in the Greek capital, Athens, destroying an Italian diplomat's car and damaging four other vehicles parked outside two Italian car dealers' shops. Full Story
Leftist Guerrillas Free 12 Workers Held Hostage at Energy Plant
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:06 by TRC-News
Leftist rebels freed 12 workers being held for ransom at a hydroelectric plant in Colombia, an army officer said Sunday. Rebels from the National Liberation Army, or ELN, released the workers in good health late Saturday, said army Maj. Carlos Martinez. Full Story
Indonesia Wahid Ousted; Megawati Takes Over
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Indonesian lawmakers on Monday elected Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the country's founding leader, as the fourth president in as many turbulent years, removing her disgraced predecessor from office for incompetence. Full Story
Israel May Allow More CIA Truce Monitors
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Israel said on Monday it would consider allowing more U.S. CIA staff to oversee a truce with the Palestinians after Group of Eight leaders urged Israel to allow in foreign observers to prevent more bloodshed. Full Story
Two Dead in Burundi Coup Bid, Aide Kidnapped
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
The Burundi government said on Monday it was crushing the second coup attempt since April by soldiers opposed to the country's peace process and security sources said two soldiers were killed in the resulting violence. Full Story
Italian, Canadian Embassies Attacked in London
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
About 150 anti-globalization protesters attacked the Italian and Canadian embassies in London overnight, smashing some windows and damaging a car, police said on Monday. Full Story
French Arrest 3 for Nuclear Trafficking - Report
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
French police have arrested three men on suspicion of trafficking nuclear material after seizing five grams of enriched uranium used to make nuclear weapons, the newspaper Journal du Dimanche said on Sunday. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Bombard Town, Free 61 Prisoners
Posted Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Marxist guerrillas bombarded a small town in southwestern Colombia, broke into the local jail and freed 61 inmates, the army and prison officials said on Sunday. Full Story
Bombs Rips Through Two Buses in Pakistan, Killing One
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Bombs ripped through two passenger buses in Pakistan's volatile southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing one person and wounding several others, many of them seriously. Full Story
Officials Investigating Small Explosion Outside Police Station
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
A small explosion was reported Friday outside a police station in Northern Ireland. Officers were investigating the explosion at the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Castlewellan base in County Down, south of Belfast. Shooting was also reported at the base late last night. Full Story
Bomb Explodes in Israeli Coastal City of Netanya, Criminal Elements Blamed
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on Thursday, wounding two people. Police quickly blamed criminal elements for the blast. Full Story
Apparent Assassination Attempt On Defence Minister
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
An apparent assassination attempt involving a 10-minute frenzy of grenades, rockets and gunfire against Itihi Ossetoumba Lekoundzo, defence minister of the Republic of Congo (ROC) was reported to have taken place on Wednesday in Brazzaville, according to AP. Full Story
Attack On Diamond Town
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:12 by TRC-News
At least 70 people were killed and 15 wounded when armed men attacked the north Angolan diamond-mining town of Chinguvu, close to the Congo border, Lusa reported on Monday. Quoting an unnamed military source who identified the attackers as UNITA, the news agency said about 100 rebels were involved in the Saturday assault on a residential area of Chinguvu. A number of local residents were taken away by the attackers. Full Story
US alert: coded message reveals bin Laden terror plot
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:11 by TRC-News
The United States is expecting a terrorist attack orchestrated by the Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden soon, and has placed its forces in the Middle East on the highest level of alert. Full Story
G7 Summit Leaders Arrive As First Violence Flares
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:09 by TRC-News
Leaders of the world's richest nations assembled behind a steel cordon in the Italian port of Genoa on Friday for their annual summit as anti-globalization activists kicked off their first violent protests. Full Story
Israeli Gunmen Suspected in Palestinian Killings
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:08 by TRC-News
Suspected Jewish militants killed three Palestinians, including an infant, in a shooting that prompted an urgent appeal from the Palestinian Authority for foreign observers in the West Bank and Gaza. Full Story
Three-Member EU Team Feared Dead in Macedonia
Posted Friday, July 20, 2001 - 8:03 by TRC-News
A three-man European Union monitoring mission was missing in Macedonia on Friday and officials feared they might have been killed by a mine that blew their vehicle off the road. Full Story
No way to fight terrorism
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
The Islamic militants who use Canada as a safe haven have been having a rough time lately. One by one, these self-styled holy warriors have been picked up by police in Britain, France, the United States and Germany, caught up in the American-led legal assault on the Osama bin Laden terrorist empire. Full Story
Genoa Braced for Summit Protests
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
Thousands of protesters, many wearing protective body padding, have started arriving in the Italian city of Genoa ahead of the G8 summit due to begin on Friday. Full Story
5 Seriously Wounded in Bomb Blast in S. Russia
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
Five people were seriously wounded in a powerful explosion in the center of the southern Russian city of Stavropol on Tuesday. One of the versions the investigators are working on is that the blast was timed to coincide with the trial in Stavropol of a group of members of the so-called Wahabbi Islamic movement who stand accused of planting bombs residential blocks in Moscow in September 1999. Over 200 people were killed in those attacks.
Full Story
Rebels Throw Human Shield Around Hostages
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
Maoist rebels have thrown a human shield of women and children around their 70 police hostages, officials said. Army troops had closed in on the kidnappers in the mountainous Rolpa district of west Nepal but were hobbled by orders orders to exercise maximum restraint and avoid bloodshed, the officials said. Full Story
Exxon-Mobil Resumes Operation in Aceh
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
The US oil and gas mining company, ExxonMobil Indonesia, resumed its operations in Arun village in northern Aceh on Wednesday after a five-month suspension due to security problems. Full Story
Civil Disobedience Campaign Kicks Off in Northeast India
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
A four-day "civil disobedience movement" was launched Thursday in India's northeastern state of Manipur in a bid to rollback a government ceasefire extension with local rebels. Full Story
Philippine Police Raid Suspected Rebel Arms Depot
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
Philippine police raided on Thursday a residential compound where the country's top Muslim official lives and seized grenades and ammunition possibly intended for Islamic rebels holding U.S. and Filipino hostages. Full Story
Two Blasts in Skopje As Macedonia Talks Hit Crisis
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Two explosions damaged property and wounded at least one person in the Macedonian capital early on Thursday after leaders of the divided republic's dominant ethnic group lashed out at Western peace proposals. Full Story
G8 Ministers Call for Monitors in Middle East
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
Concern over Middle East violence pushed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the top of the Group of Eight agenda on Thursday, leading big power foreign ministers to call on the sides to let outside monitors oversee a truce. Full Story
Protesters Battle Police in Sri Lankan Capital
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
Sri Lankan police fired teargas and rubber bullets on Thursday during street battles with protesters pouring into the capital for a banned demonstration against the suspension of parliament. Full Story
U.S. Warns of Terrorist Threat in Gulf Area
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
The United States issued a warning on Wednesday that ``terrorists'' could be about to attack American targets in the Arabian peninsula. Full Story
Israeli Army Says Reinforces West Bank Units
Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Israel said on Wednesday it had bolstered its forces in the West Bank as a warning signal to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to stop anti-Israeli attacks but an invasion of areas he controls was not imminent. Full Story
Maoist Rebels Warned to Free Hostages or Risk Attack
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
The Nepalese government on Tuesday warned Maoist rebels holding 70 policemen hostage that they risk an attack if the policemen are not freed. Full Story
Two Rocket Explosions Rock Quetta
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Two rocket explosions rocked the provincial capital on Monday, police said. However, no one was killed or injured in the attacks, Deputy Commissioner Quetta, Arif Elahi said. Full Story
Anti-Terror Unit on the Cards
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
The Government plans to set up a special unit of the country's Self-Defence Forces to counter hit-and-run sabotage strikes on its nuclear power plants in the wake of a domestic terror attack and incursions into Japanese waters by North Korean spy vessels. Full Story
Lessons from US on anti-abortion attacks
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
A continuing wave of anti-abortion terrorism in the United States has forced clinics to employ security measures befitting military installations. Full Story
Workers train for biological warfare
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Emergency workers want to save everyone. After a 10-car pileup on the freeway, ambulances roll and everyone is rushed to the emergency room. It's standard procedure. If a terrorist unleashes a biological weapon, things change. If the attack strikes hundreds or thousands of people, there would be no time for prolonged efforts to save every individual. With patients overwhelming hospitals, decisions would be brutal. Full Story
Doctors fear onset of abortion terrorism
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Doctors have voiced fears that the murder of a security guard inside a Melbourne abortion clinic marked the onset of US-style anti-abortion terrorism. Full Story
Algerian Arrested in London in Millennium Plot
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
An Algerian man under arrest in London has been charged by U.S. authorities with involvement in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport ahead of the 2000 millennium celebration, federal officials said on Monday. Full Story
Israel on Alert After Suicide Bomb Attack
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Israeli soldiers and police stood guard at crowded public places across the country on Tuesday, anticipating further Palestinian militant attacks after a suicide bomber killed two soldiers at a train station. Full Story
Night of Violence in N.Irish Capital
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Protestants hurled petrol and blast bombs toward a Roman Catholic area early on Tuesday in a fresh flare-up of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast, police said. Full Story
Reminder - Win Against Terrorism Training Class
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
We are still accepting early registrations at the reduced rate for RealNews subscribers. For additional details, please see this web page.
11 Killed in Attack in Algeria
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Armed Islamic militants killed 11 people and wounded five others in an overnight attack, Algerian security forces said in a statement. Full Story
MI5 posed as Arabs in terrorist arms sting
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
MI5 agents posed as Arabs working for Saddam Hussein in an elaborate undercover operation to catch and arrest suspected ringleaders of the Real IRA. Full Story
Ashcroft: U.S. Terrorism a Priority
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Attorney General John Ashcroft said the Justice Department is working to forge new tools to combat terrorism on domestic soil - a threat he calls the agency's top priority. Full Story
The Declining Terrorist Threat
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think that the United States is the most popular target of terrorists. And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism. Full Story
New York Jury Convicts Algerian in Millennium Plot
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
An Algerian man was convicted on Friday of federal conspiracy charges for his role in a failed plot to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport ahead of the 2000 millennium celebration. Full Story
Tension Rises in G8 City After Bomb Blast
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
A parcel bomb exploded in Genoa on Monday, puncturing a huge security operation set up to prepare the city for the arrival of some of the world's most powerful leaders for the Group of Eight (G8) summit this week. Full Story
Two Palestinians Killed in Jerusalem Blast
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
Two Palestinians were killed in an explosion in Jerusalem early on Monday while preparing a bomb near a stadium where Israel's Maccabiah Games, or Jewish Olympics, are to open later in the day, police said. Full Story
Nepali Troops Surround Rebels, 70 Captive Police
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
Nepali security forces have tracked down about 70 policemen kidnapped by Maoist rebels and are trying to rescue them without bloodshed, Home (Interior) Secretary Srikanta Regmi told Reuters on Sunday. Full Story
Rwandan Army Says Captures Hutu Rebel Leader
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Rwanda's army said it captured the leader of one of the country's main ethnic Hutu rebel groups on Sunday, dealing a blow to a two-month insurgency that has triggered some of the country's bloodiest fighting in years. Full Story
N.Irish Peace on Life Support for Weeks
Posted Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
The Northern Ireland peace agreement was on ``life support'' and on hold for weeks on Sunday as proposals were readied to push forward police reform, disarmament and troop cuts in the British province. Full Story
Safety on US Stateside Bases Examined
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
In April, someone stole machines used to make military identification cards from an Army building in Washington. In May, it was plastic explosives and land mines from a Navy base in California. Full Story
Three get life for 1969 bombing that started wave of terrorism in Italy
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
A Milan court convicted three people Saturday and sentenced each to life in prison for the 1969 bombing of a bank that left 16 people dead and opened a two-decade wave of terrorism in Italy.
Applause erupted in the courtroom. Full Story
Race Violence Spreading Fast in Northern England
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
Racial violence is spreading in England's northern towns, where high unemployment and poor housing are fostering social jealousy and second-generation Asians are refusing to tolerate the racial abuse that their parents accepted. Full Story
Hearings Start Into Moscow Apartment Bombings
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
Under heavy security, preliminary hearings opened Friday in the 1999 bombings of two Moscow apartment buildings that killed more than 200 people and helped prompt the government to send troops back into Chechnya. Full Story
Colombia: Your Money or Your Life
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
It's been two years since men in police uniforms abducted Pedro Gomez in his swank Bogota neighborhood. But the wealthy rancher and businessman is still afraid to venture far from home or let a journalist use his real name. Who can blame him? On a balmy evening in 1999, Gomez was returning from work when four cops on motorcycles pulled his jeep over. As he was looking for identification, two of the men climbed into his vehicle and put a gun to his head. They bound, gagged and blindfolded him, and drove him into the mountains, where they handed him over to Marxist guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Full Story
Clashes at EU Economic Summit
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Anti-globalisation protesters have clashed with riot police as an ecomonic summit began in Austria. Full Story
Algerian Rebels Kill Six In Cabaret Attack
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
Suspected Islamic rebels slit the throats of five women and shot a man dead after attacking a night club in eastern Algeria on Friday night, local newspapers reported on Sunday. Full Story
Accused Terrorist Bangs Head, Collapses in Court
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:26 by TRC-News
A Montreal man accused of conspiring with Islamic extremists to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during millennium celebrations collapsed in court Friday after he angrily banged his head on a table. Full Story
Philippine Rebels Call Off Release of Two Hostages
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Muslim guerrillas said they aborted the planned release of two Filipinos out of more than 20 hostages they are holding on Basilan island in the southern Philippines, an intermediary said. Full Story
Weapons Seizure Heightens Trinidad Coup Fears
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who has long warned of plots to topple his government, has reiterated there are serious threats to national security following a major arms seizure in America. Full Story
N.Ireland Commission Says IRA Fails to Disarm
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
IRA guerrillas have failed to disarm, Northern Ireland disarmament authorities said on Monday as a crisis mounted in the province's peace process. Full Story
Three Palestinians Killed in West Bank Attack
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:23 by TRC-News
An Israeli helicopter gunship killed three Palestinian militants in an attack late on Sunday on their car in the West Bank, Palestinian security officials said, accusing Israel of violating a U.S.-brokered cease-fire. Full Story
Pakistan Cinema Blast Kills Two, Hurts 14
Posted Monday, July 2, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded in a cinema in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday, the eve of municipal elections, killing two people and injuring 14, state television reported. Full Story
Taliban leaders dismiss U.S. reports of terrorist plot
Posted Friday, June 29, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have rejected U.S. concerns about the possibility of a terrorist strike by the followers of Osama bin Laden, saying Sunday that the Saudi dissident is under their strict control and cannot use Afghan territory as a base for attacks. Full Story
Fresh Violence As Powell Wraps Up Mideast Visit
Posted Friday, June 29, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
Palestinians fired mortar bombs at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip on Friday as Secretary of State Colin Powell left for Jordan on the next leg of a mission to bolster a faltering Israeli-Palestinian truce. Full Story
Philippine Rebels Say May Free Two More Hostages
Posted Friday, June 29, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
Muslim guerrillas holding U.S. and Filipino hostages said on Friday they were considering freeing two more Filipino captives and renewed a demand for Malaysian negotiators to step in. Full Story
Hamas Says Signed Deal with Jordan to End Standoff
Posted Friday, June 29, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Friday it had signed an agreement with Jordan that led to a Jordanian decision to allow an exiled leader of the group back in the kingdom. Full Story
Philippines Seeks U.S. Aid Against Kidnap Rebels
Posted Friday, June 29, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal arroyo said on Friday she had asked Washington to provide surveillance plus modern equipment to help the government crush Abu Sayyaf hostage takers in the south of the country. Full Story
French court OKs extradition of Kopp
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
A French court on Thursday recommended the extradition to the United States of James Charles Kopp — one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, charged in the 1998 sniper-style killing of a New York doctor who performed abortions. Full Story
Witness:terror suspect had lethal chemical
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
A chemical seized from the Amman home of a suspected terrorist charged with links to Osama bin Laden was highly explosive, a prosecution witness told a military court on Wednesday. Full Story
Yemen Arrests 15 Islamic Militants
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
Authorities have arrested 15 Islamic militants in the latest crackdown on militant groups since the bombing of the USS Cole in October, security officials said Wednesday. Full Story
Three Terrorists Killed in Southeast
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:26 by TRC-News
Soldiers killed three Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) separatist terrorists in southeast Turkey and suffered two wounded from a land mine explosion, the Anatolia news agency reported yesterday. Full Story
Colombia: Kidnap Capital of the World
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Thousands of people have been seized in recent years by Colombia's notorious kidnappers. The victims are the raw materials in an increasingly lucrative illegal industry, pawns in a game reckoned to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Records for last year show one kidnap occurring in Colombia on average every three hours. Full Story
Prosecutors Promise Chilling Glimpse of Millennium Bomb Plot
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan opened their case against a terrorism suspect yesterday by describing a plot by Algerians to strike American targets during the millennium celebrations at the end of 1999. Full Story
Retired Spanish General Hurt in ETA-Linked Bombing
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
A retired Spanish general and 14 other people were wounded when a bomb exploded in central Madrid on Thursday in an apparent assassination attempt blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. Full Story
Last-Ditch Bid to End N.Irish Weapons Impasse
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern were making a final effort on Thursday to head off a fresh crisis over guerrilla disarmament in Northern Ireland's struggling peace process. Full Story
Iran Court Sentences Three Hijackers to Death
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Iran's Revolutionary Court has sentenced three men to death for the attempted hijacking of an airliner on a domestic route last year, the semi-official Iran newspaper said on Thursday. Full Story
Oil Workers Held Hostage in Nigeria, Then Freed
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
More than forty oil workers for the world's biggest oil firm ExxonMobil have been set free after being held hostage in southern Nigeria, a spokeswoman for the firm said on Wednesday. Full Story
Russia Says Chechen Rebels Cleared From Gorge
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Russia said Wednesday its border forces had cleared a remote mountain gorge of Chechen rebels after a major battle. Full Story
Indo-US joint strategy on counter-terrorism
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
The United States has offered India its expertise in strengthening the activities on counter-terrorism and the two countries are soon expected to sign a mutual legal assistance treaty, a joint statement issued by the two countries said. Full Story
Millennium Terror Trial Begins
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
The trial of an Algerian emigre accused of assisting terrorists in a scheme to bomb U.S. sites began with the judge saying that a convicted terrorist who has been associated with the plot would be among the witnesses. Full Story
Greek Terrorists Denounce New Law
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
The elusive terrorist group November 17 on Tuesday denounced a law giving tougher new powers to police, saying the Greek government was knuckling under to American pressure to put a stop to years of violence. Full Story
Nepal Maoists Kill Policemen
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
The authorities in Nepal say two policemen have been killed and eight others injured in clashes with Maoist rebels. Full Story
Palestinians Say Halting All Violence Is Impossible
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
The Palestinian government believes that Israel is trying "to forestall a return to meaningful political negotiations" by setting the "unattainable" standard of a complete halt in violence, according to an internal Palestinian memorandum that is circulating in advance of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's arrival here on Wednesday. Full Story
Portuguese Hostages Released in Angola
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
Two Portuguese hostages have been released after more than a year's captivity in Cabinda, an enclave of Angolan territory to the north of the Congo river. Full Story
Report: Millennium Bomber to Testify in N.Y.
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
An Algerian convicted of a plot to blow up targets in the United States during millennium celebrations will head to New York soon to testify against an alleged accomplice, the Seattle Times, quoting unnamed sources, said on its Web site on Monday. Full Story
A Moment of Reflection, Not Satisfaction
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
Nineteen yellow roses lay beneath a cedar of Lebanon yesterday as a small group gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to remember the friends and loved ones killed in a terrorist attack five years ago. Full Story
Macedonia Shells Rebel Village; Capital Calm
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Macedonian forces shelled a village held by ethnic Albanian rebels on Wednesday, a day after President Boris Trajkovski seemed to cool inter-ethnic tensions with an appeal for calm. Full Story
Indonesias Wahid Ready to Declare Emergency
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said on Wednesday he would call a state of emergency if his political rivals insisted that he account for his tumultuous 20-month rule. Full Story
Indonesian Forces Storm Hijacked Shell Tanker
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
A complex anti-piracy operation involving the resources of three nations ended on Wednesday as Indonesian naval forces stormed the Singaporean tanker Selayang to arrest a pirate-gang that hijacked the vessel last week. Full Story
Pair charged in Boston bomb plot
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Two alleged white supremacists were in custody Thursday on charges of plotting to bomb a Jewish or black landmark in Boston to touch off a "racial war," federal prosecutors said. Full Story
Bin Laden Takes Cover, Apparently Fearing US Reprisal
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
International terror suspect Osama bin Laden is reported to have left Kandahar, the headquarters of the ruling Taliban movement in Afghanistan, in anticipation of feared air-strikes by the United States. Full Story
Russia, China Working on Cyber Warfare -US Official
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Russia and China appear to be developing computer-based tools with the potential to do long-lasting harm to the U.S. economy, a top intelligence official told Congress on Thursday. Full Story
24 RUC Officers Injured in Second Night of Rioting in North Belfast
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
At least 24 RUC officers have been injured during a second night of sustained rioting in north Belfast. An RUC spokesman said 10 shots were fired at police officers, six blast bombs and 46 petrol bombs were thrown. No baton rounds were fired by the RUC or other security forces, the spokesman added.
Full Story
ExxonMobil Ready to Resume Aceh Operations
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Exxon Mobil Indonesia assured the government on Thursday that it was ready to resume operations in Aceh on condition that the government provided better security. Full Story
Twenty-Six Killed in Two Days of Violence in Restive Aceh
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Two days of violence in Indonesia's Aceh province have left at least 26 people dead, military officials, rebels and human rights workers said on Friday. Full Story
Burundi Rebels Kill Local Employee of British Charity
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
Rebels in northeast Burundi killed a local employee of the British charity Children Aid Direct (CAD) and took three people hostage when they ambushed their van, a local official said Friday. Full Story
14 Indicted in Saudi Arabia Bombing
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
Thirteen Saudis and a Lebanese alleged to be members of a terrorist group supported by Iranian officials were indicted Thursday, nearly five years after the Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 American servicemen in Saudi Arabia. Full Story
Police Quell Rioting in N.Ireland Flashpoint Area
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
Northern Ireland police and British troops restored calm to a Belfast flashpoint area on Friday after a second night of rioting by rival Protestant and Roman Catholic crowds. Full Story
India Arrests 4th Man in Plot to Bomb U.S. Missions
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Indian police said on Friday they had arrested a fourth man on suspicion of involvement with a group linked to Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden and suspected of plotting to bomb U.S. embassies in India and Bangladesh. Full Story
Source: Philippine Rebels Release Three Hostages
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
A man in contact with Muslim guerrillas in the southern Philippines said on Friday the gunmen had freed three Filipino hostages who should make their way to safety within the next 48 hours. Full Story
Macedonia Strikes at Rebels As Peace Talks Stall
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
The Macedonian army blasted a key village held by Albanian guerrillas with helicopter gunships, tanks and mortars on Friday, tearing apart a ragged 11-day truce. Full Story
Sinn Feins Adams Optimistic Despite New Violence
Posted Friday, June 22, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
Gerry Adams, president of Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein political party, expressed optimism for the peace process on Thursday despite renewed violence in Belfast. Full Story
Laden aide may be denied e-mail facility in Tihar
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:38 by TRC-News
The tag of being an alleged operative of Islamic fundamentalist Osama bin Laden is likely to deny Sudanese national, Abdel Raouf Hawash, access to e-mail facility in Tihar jail if he is sent there after his police remand ends on June 26. Full Story
Military role grows on home front
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
As Republicans gathered here last August to nominate George W. Bush for president, a drama played out in secret locations across the city as thousands of American soldiers stood poised for a catastrophic event. Along with a host of civilian emergency specialists, these specialized troops braced for a biological, chemical or nuclear terror attack on the GOP and its nominees — the kind of attack that might force a declaration of martial law. Full Story
Bin Laden and Herndon, Virginia
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Islamist terrorism has afflicted nearly every Western country and is likely to get worse. One reason is the radicals' aggressiveness; another is the feeble Western response. I personally experienced both of these problems just this past week. Full Story
Bin Laden terror video urges Muslims to prepare for war
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
A video circulating among Muslim militants in the Middle East is cited as the strongest link yet between the terrorist Osama bin Laden and the attack on the United States navy ship Cole. Full Story
Convicted terrorist, Ressam, may soon testify against co-conspirator
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Sentencing for convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam has been delayed, signalling that he may soon testify against an alleged co-conspirator facing trial in New York. Full Story
Car Bomb Rocks Basque City, No Injuries Reported
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:23 by TRC-News
A car bomb blamed on Basque separatists seriously damaged buildings and cars on Thursday but caused no injuries, the Basque regional government said. The explosion occurred about 8:15 a.m. outside a bank in this seaside Basque city, said the regional culture minister Maria del Carmen Garmendia, who lives in the targeted neighborhood. Full Story
Russian Bodyguard Chief Warns of Threat to Bush at G-8 Summit
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
Russian security officials are investigating apparent threats by terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden against President Bush at a July summit in Genoa, Italy, a news report said. "All the special services concerned are watchful in view of the threats which we regard as quite serious. But I hope we will resolve all matters through joint efforts," Yevgeny Murov, head of Russia's Federal Bodyguard Service, was quoted as saying Tuesday by the ITAR-Tass news agency. Full Story
Overnight Belfast Riots Leave 39 RUC Officers Injured
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
Overnight rioting in Belfast left 39 RUC officers injured, five of whom required hospitalisation. There are no reports of civilian injuries. Full Story
Militants Gun Down 14 Rebels in Northeast India
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
Suspected separatist rebels shot dead 14 of their former comrades Thursday in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, state Home Minister Pradyut Bordoloi said. Full Story
Protests at Gothenburg Summit Lead to EU Border Checks
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Street protest that is said to have been the work of left-wing militants in Gothenburg, where Sweden hosted the European Union summit meeting last Friday and Saturday, is about to lead to the temporary reintroduction of border checks in the EU. Full Story
U.S. Prosecutors Prepare Khobar Towers Indictment
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
U.S. prosecutors prepared to bring as early as Thursday the first criminal charges stemming from the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. service members, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Full Story
Accused Eco-Terrorist Appears in Court
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
The man authorities say is the fire-setting eco-terrorist who burned nearly a dozen luxury homes being built here hardly presented a criminal countenance at a court appearance Tuesday. Full Story
Berenson Appeals Unjust 20-Year Sentence in Peru
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
American Lori Berenson, given a 20-year jail sentence for collaborating with Marxist rebels in Peru, called the latest verdict unjust and pinned her hopes on an appeal to the country's highest court. Full Story
Severed Heads Found on Philippine Hostage Isle
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
Three severed male heads were found on Thursday in an area in the southern Philippines where Muslim guerrillas said they beheaded a U.S. hostage but none was that of the American, the military said. Full Story
Group Linked to Fatah Vows to Attack Jewish Settlers
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
A group affiliated with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization vowed on Thursday to step up attacks on Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story
How real is the rogue threat?
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
As President Bush, forging ahead with a plan to build a national missile shield, continues to trumpet the threat posed by missiles from so-called “rogue” nations, no missile currently deployed by countries hostile to the United States has the range to strike any of the 50 U.S. states. And only one missile system currently being developed by a foreign nation would have such a capability in the near future, according to intelligence and expert analysis. Full Story
Cyber war declared on World Bank
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
Protesters threatened last night to use "cyber sit-ins" to derail a high-profile development conference organised by the World Bank, after the Washington-based body announced it would hold the conference online to avoid demonstrations. Full Story
Travel ban to block anarchist leaders
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Governments of the leading industrialised states are to use a detailed police dossier on the "travelling anarchists' circus" which disrupted the EU's Gothenburg summit to prevent key organisers from entering countries hosting future meetings. Full Story
Moro Rebels Win Kidnap Victims Freedom
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in southern Philippines secured the release of a kidnapped Chinese-Filipino lawyer and her daughter on Wednesday on the eve of renewed peace talks in Libya. Full Story
Genoa Prepares for Protest Onslaught
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
With fears mounting of major unrest at next month's G8 summit in Genoa, a local councillor has said genuine protesters will be welcome to a city with a proud tradition of mass movements. Full Story
Negotiation Continues to Free Belgian Hostages in Irian Jaya
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
An Irian Jaya district head is negotiating with a leader of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) to release two Belgians held hostage in a remote area of the province. Full Story
Colombia FARC Rebels Living in Time Warp
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
A portrait of a young Fidel Castro and guerrilla icon Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara is the first sight that greets you when you enter the rebel office. Full Story
Cities in Bangladesh Shut Down by Strike
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:12 by TRC-News
Schools and stores closed and most traffic was halted in Bangladesh on Tuesday as a general strike began to protest an armed attack on the country's main opposition leader. Full Story
Security Chief Sees Bin Laden Threat to G-8 Summit
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:03 by TRC-News
Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden could use a July G-8 summit in Italy to attack President Bush and other leaders, the Russian president's chief bodyguard said Tuesday. Full Story
Manila Says Hostage Rescue Should not Take Long
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:00 by TRC-News
The Philippine military said on Wednesday it had pinned down Muslim guerrillas holding Filipino and U.S. hostages on southern Basilan island and it should not take long for the kidnap victims to be recovered. Full Story
Irish PM Says IRA Must Disarm to Save Peace
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 8:00 by TRC-News
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has warned that a definitive disarmament move by the IRA is crucial within the next 10 days if Northern Ireland's fragile peace process is to survive, Irish newspapers said on Wednesday. Full Story
Kosovo Peacekeepers Detain 19 Guerrilla Suspects
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 7:59 by TRC-News
NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo said on Wednesday they had detained 19 suspected ethnic Albanian guerrillas from Macedonia in the last few days, two of them with wounds from earlier fighting. Full Story
One Killed in Bangladesh Strike Violence
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 7:58 by TRC-News
A countrywide strike to protest against an alleged attack on Bangladeshi opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia entered its second day on Wednesday amid tight security imposed after a spate of bombings. Full Story
Paper Says Bin Laden Group Boasts of Cole Bombing
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 7:56 by TRC-News
A Kuwait newspaper said on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden, wanted for allegedly masterminding attacks on U.S. embassies, had produced a video film boasting of the bombing of the U.S. warship Cole. Full Story
Twelve Killed As Algerian Unrest Spreads
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 7:55 by TRC-News
Anti-government protests in Algeria have left 12 more people dead, including five members of the security forces, as unrest spreads across the country, residents and Algerian newspapers said on Tuesday. Full Story
Colombia Rebels to Free 250 Prisoners in Peace Bid
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 7:55 by TRC-News
Colombia's largest rebel force, the FARC, announced on Tuesday it will free more than 250 soldiers and police from bush prison camps next week in a peace gesture. Full Story
Three Killed, 34 Hurt in Chechnya Car Bomb Blasts
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 7:54 by TRC-News
Three people were killed and 34 injured when three car bombs exploded in Russia's rebel Chechnya region Tuesday, officials said. Full Story
Foot-and-mouth virus could be future weapon
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
Academics and security experts are warning how foot-and-mouth disease could be used as a weapon in future wars. Chemical warfare, cybercrime and environmental threats are all on the agenda at the Global Forum for Law Enforcement and National Security in Edinburgh. Full Story
New Web site launched to track extremist groups
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Thanks to The Anti-Defamation League, law enforcement officials investigating hate groups now have a new weapon at their disposal - a Web site. ADL Director Abraham Foxman said the site will be used to identify and monitor extremist groups. "New technology has changed the business of fighting hate," Foxman said. Full Story
Yemen foils alleged bomb plot
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
Yemeni authorities foiled an apparent plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in the capital city of San’a over the weekend, U.S. officials told NBC News on Monday. About 10 suspected terrorists with ties to alleged terror kingpin Osama bin Laden were arrested, and a small quantity of explosives was seized, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Full Story
Elusive radicals escalate attacks in natures name
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Federal investigators in the Northwest are facing increasingly sophisticated and violent eco-terrorists whose trail often vanishes at the building they've torched or the farm they've raided. Full Story
Congressman blasts eco-terror
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
Congressman George Nethercutt, R-Wash., detailed his plans Wednesday for a full-out legal assault on so-called "eco-terrorism," including a bill that would convey mandatory prison sentences for violence against environmental and life-sciences research. Full Story
Two Held in ETA Ferry Bomb Inquiry
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
A terrorist plot to plant a car bomb on the Plymouth-Santander ferry has been uncovered by Spanish police, according to the newspaper El Pais. Full Story
Israel Tightens West Bank Closures, Truce Holds
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
Israel tightened army blockades around some Palestinian cities on Tuesday as pressure mounted on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to abandon a cease-fire after the killings of two Jewish settlers. Full Story
Report: Yemen Arrests 9 in Plot Against Americans
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:12 by TRC-News
Nine men believed to be affiliated with a group linked to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden have been arrested in Yemen for allegedly plotting to attack U.S. agents probing the bombing of a U.S. Navy ship, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Full Story
Philippines Arroyo Sees Conspiracy in Kidnap Spree
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:11 by TRC-News
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, struggling to contain Muslim kidnappers in the south of the country, said on Tuesday that a series of abductions in the capital Manila appeared to be a conspiracy against her government. Full Story
Jakarta Bomb Blast Wounds Five, More Devices Found
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 8:10 by TRC-News
A powerful bomb exploded at a boarding-house in the Indonesian capital Jakarta around dawn on Tuesday, seriously wounding five people, and police later found several unexploded devices in the building. Full Story
Police say seized supplies enough for half-ton bomb
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
A Fort Worth man possessed enough bomb-making supplies to produce 700 to 1,200 pounds of explosives, about a third of what Timothy McVeigh used to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building, fire officials said Thursday. Full Story
All Tajikistan Hostages Freed
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Fifteen people who were abducted by Tajik gunmen ? including an American and two Germans ? have been released unharmed, news reports said Sunday. The gunmen demanded the release of four suspects held in the April 11 killing of Tajikistan?s deputy interior minister. Full Story
Home of Antrim SDLP Councillor Bombed
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
A newly elected nationalist politician and his family escaped injury today after his home was damaged in a pipe bomb blast. Full Story
U.S. Embassy Official Shot in Liberia
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
A U.S. Embassy official was shot and injured Sunday by a Liberian security officer trying to stop a vehicle from crashing a security checkpoint, the Liberian government said in a statement. Full Story
India Arrests Three in Plot to Bomb U.S. Missions
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
Indian police said Sunday they had arrested another member of a group linked to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, which they suspect of planning to bomb the U.S. embassies in India and Bangladesh. Full Story
Philippines Says U.S. Hostage Believed Killed
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
The Philippine military said Monday that it believed Muslim gunmen had killed a 40-year-old American hostage after tying his hands behind his back and leading him away from his fellow captives. Full Story
Palestinians Kill Israeli Motorist in West Bank
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli motorist and wounded another Monday in a shooting near the West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli police said. Full Story
Hamas Leader Stranded As Jordan Refuses Entry
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
A leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas remained stranded at Amman airport for a fifth day Monday as Jordan refused to let him enter the country. Full Story
Bosnian Serb Rioters Mar Mosque Ceremony
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
Bosnian Serb police clashed with nationalist rioters Monday, using tear gas and water cannon to beat back mobs trying again to disrupt a ceremony to mark the rebuilding of a medieval mosque. Full Story
Anti-Government Violence Racks Algeria
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
Anti-government protesters attacked public buildings and looted shops in Algeria on Sunday in the latest flare-up of a widening popular uprising that is challenging the rule of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Full Story
Suspects Held After Bangladesh Blast Kills 22
Posted Monday, June 18, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
Bangladesh police arrested three suspects Sunday after a bomb killed 22 people at a ruling Awami League meeting, state news agency BSS said. Full Story
EgyptAir Flight Held in New York
Posted Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 21:52 by TRC-News
A Cairo-bound airplane was held at John F. Kennedy International Airport for 10 hours after a threat to the flight was reported to authorities. Full Story
Terrorism, Drugs And NMD on Agenda as China Hosts Shanghai Five
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
The presidents of China, Russia and four CentralAsian states were to begin two days of talks Thursday on regional securityissues such as Islamic militancy, drug running and organised crime. Full Story
US offers to spy on Eta for Spain
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
President George Bush has smoothed his bumpy landing in Europe by holding out the possibility of sharing secrets from the global Echelon electronic eavesdropping system with countries such as Spain that are fighting terrorism at home. Full Story
NY Governor Wants Terrorism As a New State Crime
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
New York State Gov. George Pataki on Thursday proposed a new bill to make terrorism a state crime punishable by death, saying state prosecutors needed the same tools their federal counterparts now have. Full Story
Bombing Attack on Police Checkpoint
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Two suspected separatist guerrillas attacked a police checkpoint in this Muslim-majority province with a hand grenade Thursday night. No casualties were reported in the incident, according to police. Full Story
Two Dead in Pakistan Anti-Shi ite Sectarian Attack
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
Unidentified gunmen in Pakistan killed two people in an overnight sectarian attack on Shi'ite Muslims in the southern Punjab town of Multan, police said on Friday. Police and witnesses said three masked gunmen on motorcycles randomly shot people sitting outside a medical store owned by a Shi'ite activist in the Mumtazabad area of Multan on late Thursday night. Full Story
New Moves to Free Kidnap Scot
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
The United Nations has become involved in the case of a Scottish oil worker held captive by rebels in the Colombian jungle. Ally Taylor, from Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, was kidnapped by communist rebels in August 1999. Full Story
Report: Canada Vulnerable to Terrorist Attacks
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
Canada will become more vulnerable to terrorist attack in the years to come, partly as the result of increased immigration, the country's counter-intelligence service said in a report this week. Full Story
EU Leaders Debate Enlargement, Rioters Lay Siege
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
European Union leaders, besieged by rioting anarchists, sought to put the enlargement of their bloc to eastern Europe back on track on Friday after Ireland's shock rejection of the Nice Treaty. Full Story
Israel, Palestinians to Gauge Ceasefire Steps
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:23 by TRC-News
Israel and the Palestinians headed to security talks on Friday to gauge the first steps at implementing a U.S.-brokered cease-fire which has been marred by gunfire and mortar bombs. Full Story
Macedonian Rebels Extend Truce, Parties Meet
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:23 by TRC-News
Ethnic Albanian rebels extended a truce with Macedonian forces for 12 days on Friday as political leaders across the ethnic divide met to hammer out terms for ending a four-month guerrilla insurgency. Full Story
Bush Wants Russia to Be Partner
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
On the eve of his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, President Bush said Friday he wants to make Russia a ``partner and an ally'' but also to press his Russian counterpart on weapons proliferation. Full Story
Philippine Rebel Leader Said Ready to Surrender
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
A man who played a key role in the ouster of disgraced former Philippine president Joseph Estrada said on Friday that a Muslim rebel leader who has received millions of dollars in ransom was ready to surrender. Full Story
Protesters Ready for March on EU Summit
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Several thousand demonstrators whistled and cheered in Gothenburg's central square on Friday as leaders urged them to march on the European Union summit venue, where cordons of riot police awaited them. The protesters, incensed by tough police action so far to protect the EU summit, waved flags with images of revolutionary heroes Lenin, Marx and Mao and banners with slogans such as ``Smash global capitalism'' as leaders shouted rousing speeches through banks of loudspeakers. Full Story
Rumors Abound, But No Philippine Hostages Freed
Posted Friday, June 15, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
Philippine officials said on Friday there was no sign that self-styled Muslim rebels holding American and Filipino hostages for the past three weeks had released any of their captives. Full Story
A Whiff of Eco-Terror in House Fires
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
Authorities on Tuesday were investigating fires set in four luxury homes under construction inside an upscale gated community and searching for possible ties to a series of similar fires in the Phoenix area. Full Story
Bin Laden Continues to Elude U.S. Grasp
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:38 by TRC-News
When it comes to tracking down alleged terrorist mastermind Usama bin Laden, there seems no shortage of places to look. Is the Saudi exile in a base near the ruling Taliban regime's stronghold of Kandahar? Or a cave hideout in the rugged central Afghan mountains? Or a farmhouse in the eastern part of the country? Full Story
Taxpayers get the bill when terrorists lose in court
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
Thanks to Congress' largesse, U.S. taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate victims of foreign terrorism. And the tab might soon soar. Full Story
Living with terror
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
We don’t want to sound alarmist but there’s a beast in our midst. The Manila-centric may not care because the Abu Sayyaf are out there, in the distant lands of Basilan and Sulu. The thinking is: They wouldn’t dare come to the city, where the terrain is strange, and the jungle unfriendly. Full Story
Texas A&M researcher develops terrorism predictor
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
Timothy McVeigh was put to death Monday morning for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. This was an act of terrorism that if foreseen by authorities may not have taken the lives of 168 men, women and children. Full Story
Terrorist bomber of U.S. embassy sentenced to life without parole
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
A follower of fugitive terror suspect Osama bin Laden was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday after a jury couldn't agree he deserved to die for the deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Full Story
Terror Suspect Nabbed in Cambodia
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
A man suspected in a violent attack on the capital last year has been arrested, the government announced Wednesday as the trial of 32 people accused of attempting to topple the government entered its third day. Full Story
Software Likely in Hands of Terrorist
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
Accused spy Robert P. Hanssen gave secret U.S. software to his Russian handlers that later went to terrorist Osama bin Laden, allowing him to monitor U.S. efforts to track him down, federal law enforcement officials said. Full Story
Philippine President Vows To Crush Hostage-Takers
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:26 by TRC-News
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pledged today to wage a "long and bloody battle" against Muslim extremists who are holding nearly 30 hostages on a remote Philippine island, while military officials cast fresh doubt on the rebels' claim that they have beheaded an American captive. Full Story
Bombs Kill One, Injure 12 in Karachi Water Shortage Protest
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:26 by TRC-News
Four bombs rocked the port city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring 12, as part of a strike protesting a water shortage paralyzing much of Pakistan's southern Sindh province. Full Story
Bomb Defused Near Kashmir Government HQ
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Indian security forces said on Thursday they had defused a bomb near Kashmir's main government headquarters. Full Story
Bomb Explodes in Brazilian Finance Ministry Building
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded in the Finance Ministry building in Sao Paulo, slightly wounding two people and damaging three floors, police said Wednesday. Full Story
White House security detour might disappear
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
In the nation's capital, the legacy of Timothy McVeigh and his deadly truck bomb is an unusually quiet downtown, where stark concrete barriers keep traffic away from the White House. Full Story
Palestinian, Israeli Officer Killed Despite Ceasefire
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
A U.S.-brokered cease-fire failed in its initial hours to halt Israeli- Palestinian bloodshed on Thursday despite efforts on both sides to cement the truce designed to end eight months of violence. Full Story
Philippine Rebels May Free Two Filipino Hostages
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
Philippine officials said they had received word Muslim rebels would free some hostages on Thursday but as dusk fell there was no sign of any release. Full Story
Safety officials gather for training in Cape
Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 17:55 by TRC-News
Training to prevent terrorism in Southeast Missouri is the aim of a federal program that brought firefighters, police and others to Cape Girardeau on Tuesday. Full Story
Analysis: Negotiating with the Abu Sayyaf
Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 17:53 by TRC-News
Former Malaysian senator Sairin Karno, who has been brought in to negotiate with Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines, has already succeeded in winning freedom for hostages held by the group. Full Story
Militant Hamas Group Says It Won't Abide by Cease-Fire
Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 17:51 by TRC-News
The militant Islamic organisation Hamas said on Wednesday it would not abide by Palestinian President Yasir Arafat's acceptance of a U.S.-backed ceasefire and would continue its fight against Israel. Full Story
Bin Laden Plots Bush Hit
Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 17:47 by TRC-News
International security forces are working furiously to thwart a plot by Saudi terror master Osama bin Laden to assassinate President Bush and other world leaders at a major economic summit next month. Full Story
McVeigh Execution Discontents Play Out on Internet
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 12:29 by TRC-News
The execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh passed with somber memorials for the victims and muted public reactions except in cyberspace, where debate raged over the death penalty. Full Story
Fighting domestic terrorism
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
The Oklahoma City bombing was a real turning point, a wake-up call to law enforcement that some of America’s biggest enemies could be other Americans. So, six years later, the question is, could it happen all over again? Full Story
Explosion Hits Wash. Medical Clinic
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
An explosive device went off Monday afternoon at the back door of a medical clinic where a doctor performed abortions. Full Story
Europe Criticises McVeigh Execution
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
European leaders condemned the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh as cruel and barbaric ahead of George W Bush's first visit to the continent as president. Full Story
Afghan Opposition Captures Key Area
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
Afghan opposition forces on Tuesday captured a district in western Herat province after heavy overnight fighting with forces of the ruling Taliban, a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported. Full Story
Israel and Palestinians Respond to U.S. Truce Plan
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
U.S. CIA Director George Tenet struggled on Tuesday to save an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. Full Story
Philippine Rebels Say U.S. Hostage Beheaded
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
Philippine Muslim rebels said Tuesday they had beheaded one of three Americans taken hostage in May at a southern island beach resort. Full Story
Kashmir Mosque Siege Ends, Six Rebels Killed
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
Indian forces ended their siege of a mosque in strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday after killing all six separatist guerrillas who had taken refuge there after a shootout, a military official said. Full Story
Nearly 60 Killed in Indonesia's Aceh in Past Week
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
Nearly 60 people have been killed in Indonesia's rebellious Aceh province in the past week in clashes mainly involving separatists and villagers, a local government official said Tuesday. Full Story
Unrepentant McVeigh is executed
Posted Monday, June 11, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who personally wrought destruction on his nation as no American before him, died Monday as he lived — unflinching and unrepentant. His death was reported by the Associated Press shortly after 8:15 a.m. ET. Full Story
Irish Police Hold Four Bomb Suspects
Posted Monday, June 11, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
Detectives arrested four suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents Saturday, seizing explosives and other bomb-making gear, police said. Full Story
Israeli Tank Shells Kill 3 Palestinian Women
Posted Monday, June 11, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Three Palestinian women were killed by Israeli tank shells in the Gaza Strip Saturday, as Israelis and Palestinians prepared their responses to a U.S. document seeking an end to eight months of violence. Full Story
U.S. Warns Against Travel in Yemen, Citing Cole
Posted Monday, June 11, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
The State Department on Saturday warned Americans against travel to Yemen, citing, among other incidents, the suicide bombing in Aden harbor last October that killed 17 sailors on the USS Cole warship. Full Story
Macedonian Army Shells Rebels Who Threatened Skopje
Posted Monday, June 11, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
The Macedonian army on Monday resumed heavy shelling of villages held by ethnic Albanian rebels, ignoring threats by insurgents to attack downtown Skopje if the onslaught did not cease. Full Story
Philippine Rebels Shelve Executions, Kidnap More
Posted Monday, June 11, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines called off their threat to behead three U.S. hostages Monday but seized 15 new hostages, including children, and burned down a Roman Catholic chapel. Full Story
Gunfight Flares with Rebels in Kashmir Mosque
Posted Monday, June 11, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
Fresh firing broke out Monday between Indian security forces and suspected separatist guerrillas who were holed up in a Kashmir mosque, police said. Full Story
Car Bomb Explodes in Spain, Several Hurt
Posted Monday, June 11, 2001 - 8:12 by TRC-News
A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA exploded in northern Spain Sunday, injuring several people and causing heavy damage, officials said. Full Story
43 Killed in Jamaica Violence in 11 Days
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
Forty-three people have been murdered in Jamaica in the last 11 days, bringing the Caribbean nation's toll to more than 400 for the year, Jamaican police said on Thursday. Full Story
No death penalty for James Kopp
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
The Justice Department will not seek the death penalty for James Kopp, the anti-abortion radical accused of gunning down an American doctor in New York in 1998, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday. He said he had to take the death penalty off the table to ensure that France would extradite Kopp to the United States. Full Story
McVeigh lawyer blasts system
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
As Timothy McVeigh prepared for his execution Monday, one of his lawyers on Friday blasted the legal system, saying the death penalty “dehumanizes” judges who get “dragged down by the process.” McVeigh abandoned his legal fight Thursday after a federal appeals court rejected his request to delay his execution for the worst act of terrorism ever committed on American soil, the deaths of 168 people in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. Full Story
Army bases to restrict access
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
Public access to Fort Eustis, Fort Monroe and Fort Story is being restricted for the first time in memory to combat potential terrorism incidents. Full Story
Six Arrested in Haiti
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Haitian authorities stormed a suburban house and arrested six members of a minor opposition party on treason and terrorism charges, police said Thursday. Full Story
Bandits Will Pay Heavy Price If They Kill Americans: Military
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
The Armed Forces of the Philippines today warned Abu Sayyaf bandits they would pay a "heavy price" if they went ahead with a threat to behead three American hostages. Full Story
KL Police Uncover Band Waging Jihad
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
Police said yesterday a Muslim militant group which has been behind a trail of bomb blasts, armed robberies and attempted murders was planning to wage a 'holy war' to turn Malaysia into a 'purist' Islamic state. Full Story
Palestinians Refuse to Arrest Terror Suspects
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
A senior Palestinian official said today that Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority rejects Israeli demands that it arrest dozens of Palestinian terrorist suspects, a key Israeli condition for maintaining a fragile cease-fire. Full Story
U.N. Patrols Are Enemies on the Front Line: Taliban
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban says it will consider any U.N. monitoring team on its borders as "enemies on the front line." Full Story
Greece Still Seeking Killers of British Diplomat
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
Greek and British officials on Friday marked the anniversary of a British diplomat's murder in Athens but the urban guerrillas who gunned him down remain at large a year after his death. Full Story
Bomb Injures Russia Minister Near Restive Chechnya
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
A Russian regional minister was injured when a bomb exploded on Friday outside his home in Dagestan on the border of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, Russian media reported. Full Story
Attack at Holy Kashmir Shrine Wounds at Least 24
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:12 by TRC-News
More than two dozen Muslim worshippers were wounded on Friday when unidentified militants threw a grenade at one of the holiest shrines in India's revolt-racked Jammu and Kashmir state. Full Story
Macedonian Army Strikes Out As Others Talk Peace
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:10 by TRC-News
Macedonia's army ignored a rebel call for a cease-fire and launched attacks on ethnic Albanian guerrilla positions on Friday, hours before a key speech by the country's president on peace proposals. Full Story
Rebels Contact Philippine Mediator But Line Cut
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:09 by TRC-News
Filipino Muslim rebels who have threatened to execute U.S. hostages they have held for almost two weeks contacted a government mediator on Friday but nothing meaningful was discussed. Full Story
Gunfire in Gaza Keeps Tension High Before Talks
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:09 by TRC-News
Gunfire in the Gaza Strip kept tension high on Friday before U.S.-brokered talks between Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs on ending eight months of violence. Full Story
Stabbing Rampage Leaves 8 Children Dead in Japan
Posted Friday, June 8, 2001 - 8:08 by TRC-News
Eight children were killed and 15 people injured in Japan's worst school tragedy on Friday when a middle-aged man with a history of mental illness went on a stabbing rampage at an elementary school in western Japan. Full Story
Timothy McVeigh Prepares to Die
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 23:51 by TRC-News
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on Thursday gave up his last chance to escape being executed in four days for the worst act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. Full Story
McVeigh lawyers work on appeal
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 8:26 by TRC-News
With Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh’s execution just four days away, his attorneys worked furiously on an appeal after a judge refused to grant another delay. McVeigh’s attorneys were expected to file the appeal Thursday with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A spokesman has said a panel of three judges could reach a decision within hours. Full Story
Blast Rocks Market in Siberian City
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Three people were hurt when an explosion tore through an open-air market Thursday in the Siberian city of Tomsk, emergency officials said. Irina Andriyanova, a spokeswoman for the Emergency Situations Ministry, said the explosion occurred after a woman found a red plastic bag and tried to determine what was in it. Full Story
Tension As Macedonia Considers War
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
Tension is running high in Macedonia as the country's politicians call for a state of war to be declared. The move comes after officials imposed a curfew in the city of Bitola following riots that broke out on Wednesday after the deaths of five Macedonian troops in an ambush by ethnic Albanian rebels. Full Story
Rebels Attack Indian Security Posts in Assam
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 8:23 by TRC-News
Separatist guerrillas attacked security posts in India's remote northeastern Assam state, wounding half a dozen people there, a police spokesman said on Thursday. The spokesman said militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) fired rockets at a police station and a camp for police reservists at Dudhnoi in Goalpara district late on Wednesday night. Full Story
Government advances bill against terror-group support
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Contacts with or expressing support for terror organizations on a list updated annually by the government would be prohibited, according to legislation approved in preliminary reading by the Knesset yesterday with government support. Full Story
McVeighs Own Words An Obstacle
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Timothy McVeigh's last-ditch effort to stay his execution may have been doomed by his own words, legal experts say. FBI documents withheld from the defense looked much less crucial than they might have in view of his admission that he planted the Oklahoma City bomb, experts said Wednesday after a judge in Denver refused to postpone McVeigh's scheduled June 11 execution. Full Story
Philippine Rebels Warn Will Kill U.S. Hostages
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
The Philippines pleaded with Muslim rebels holding U.S. and Filipino hostages not to harm their captives on Thursday after the guerrillas threatened to kill the Americans. Full Story
ETA Says Spanish Oppressors Remain Targets
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
Basque separatist group ETA will continue to shoot and bomb opponents of Basque independence from Spain, despite a stinging defeat for its political allies in an election last month, ETA said in an interview on Thursday. Full Story
McVeigh denied stay of execution
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 15:51 by TRC-News
A federal judge on Wednesday denied convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh a stay of execution, ruling that newly released FBI documents do not change the fact that he is guilty. McVeigh’s attorneys said they would appeal immediately. His execution is still set for Monday. Full Story
Colombian Hostages Released
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Left-wing rebels in Colombia have released the highest-ranking military officer they had been holding, in the first stage of an agreement with the government to exchange sick prisoners. Full Story
FBI should crack down on bomb-throwing agro-terrorists
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
Six years ago, in Oklahoma City, 168 people were killed in the worst domestic terrorist attack in American history. The FBI and national intelligence agencies have dedicated significant resources to a generally successful effort at protecting citizens from the threat of paramilitary organizations and foreign extremists. Full Story
Brinkmanship of blood
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
It was the most deadly suicide bombing in five years -- right in the heart of civilian Israel. After a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up and killed 20 young revelers waiting at the doorstep of a Tel Aviv nightclub last Friday, Palestinian operatives and security officials went into hiding, bracing for a massive Israeli reprisal air raid. At the same time, terrified Israelis deserted public spaces and waited nervously for the next bomb in an extensive terror campaign promised by Palestinian terrorist organizations. Full Story
Hamas denies it agreed to stop attacks inside Green Line
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
Hamas yesterday denied reports that the movement had agreed to halt terror attacks inside Israel's Green Line and had committed itself to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's declared willingness to work to implement a cease-fire. Full Story
Taylors men all ready to join in fight against Liberian rebels
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:13 by TRC-News
"This is a government where every minister can fight. We can drop our ties and pick up AK-47s. We have a moral right," says Liberian Information Minister Reginald Goodridge, reflecting Monrovia's will to crush a deadly civil war. Full Story
CIA Director Tenet Going to Mideast
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:11 by TRC-News
CIA Director George Tenet was restored to a leading role in U.S. peacemaking in the Middle East on Tuesday as the State Department praised Yasser Arafat for taking "positive steps" toward ending months of violence. Full Story
McVeigh Seeks to Dodge Second Date with Death
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:10 by TRC-News
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who dodged one date with death after FBI officials admitted they failed to turn over evidence at his trial, may learn on Wednesday if he can win a second stay of execution from a federal judge. Full Story
Austin meeting focuses on bioterrorism
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:09 by TRC-News
It's Thanksgiving Day and a record crowd packs into Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas at Austin for a football game. Sometime during the contest, terrorists release the biological agent anthrax into the air above the stadium. Full Story
Blast Rocks Pakistans Karachi, One Wounded
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:07 by TRC-News
A suspected bomb rocked the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Wednesday, wounding one person, police and emergency workers said. Full Story
Five Soldiers Die in Macedonia Clashes
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:06 by TRC-News
Five Macedonian soldiers have been killed in fierce overnight fighting in the hills above Tetovo, the country's main ethnic Albanian town. Full Story
Engineers Work on Bomb-Safe Buildings
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:05 by TRC-News
The buildings of the future will be able to stay standing even after a bomb blast knocks out first-floor supports, scientists say. Full Story
Malaria may have unmasked Ressam
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:05 by TRC-News
A mosquito bite may have helped save the United States from a terrorist bombing and contributed to the capture of Ahmed Ressam. Full Story
Jewish Settlers Attack Arab Homes After Baby Hurt
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:04 by TRC-News
Jewish settlers rampaged through a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Wednesday, further undermining a fragile cease-fire, after Palestinian stone-throwers seriously hurt a Jewish baby. Full Story
Philippine Rebels Demand Ransom
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:02 by TRC-News
Muslim rebels said on Wednesday one of three American hostages they were holding in the southern Philippines was injured by an army grenade and demanded a military pullback as a condition for talks. Full Story
Police Restore Order in Election Eve Riot Area
Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - 8:01 by TRC-News
Gangs of youths, mainly Asian, fought running battles with riot police on Wednesday on the eve of voting in Britain's general election. Full Story
Committed prosecutor takes on terrorists as he did the mob
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
As much as any one person, Patrick J. Fitzgerald has transformed the nation's fight against terrorism, moving the battle into the courtroom and treating terrorism as organized crime. Full Story
Lone Wolf Activism
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
As he sits in a prison cell, Timothy McVeigh quietly has emerged as the poster boy for the latest appeal by right-wing hate groups. They call him a "lone wolf," a freelance activist who takes sole credit for the nation's worst act of domestic terrorism. At a time when extremist groups find themselves increasingly infiltrated, investigated and discredited, some are reaching out to the unaffiliated to carry out their mission of revolution and destruction. Full Story
Supreme Court delays ruling on Terry Nichols retrial request
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
The Supreme Court delayed a ruling in Terry Nichols' request for a new trial in the Oklahoma City bombing case, saying the government must first respond to his assertion that mishandled evidence in Timothy McVeigh's case adversely affected him. Full Story
Lawmakers work to head off agri-terrorism
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 8:04 by TRC-News
Worried that members of an extremist animal rights group may deliberately bring foot-and-mouth disease to the United States, Wisconsin lawmakers are drafting legislation that would make it a crime to infect an animal with the disease or even threaten to do so. Full Story
Is that a bomb in your pocket?
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 8:03 by TRC-News
Clever terrorists might be able to smuggle a bomb past the baggage X-ray machine, but what if the whole airport was one giant explosives detector? Full Story
State wants small towns prepared for terrorism
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 8:01 by TRC-News
Police started trailing what turned out to be a stolen fogger truck. There was reason for suspicion. It'd been spewing out an unknown substance at intersections. And the driver was wearing a gas mask. Full Story
New Hamas Threat Sets Back Mideast Truce Hopes
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 7:57 by TRC-News
The militant Islamic group Hamas said on Tuesday it would continue to attack Israelis ``everywhere,'' setting back hopes that the Palestinians were inching toward a cease-fire with Israel. Full Story
Dissidents Hold Out in Central Africa Capital
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 7:56 by TRC-News
Dissidents who tried to depose Central African Republic President Ange Felix Patasse were holding out against government forces in parts of the capital on Tuesday after more than a week of bloodshed. Full Story
Nine Killed in Sri Lanka Rebel Attack
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2001 - 7:55 by TRC-News
At least nine people were killed and 25 wounded on Tuesday when separatist Tamil rebels launched an attack in eastern Sri Lanka, one day after a government raid on one of their jungle bases. Full Story
Bomb Kills 10 Catholics in Bangladesh Church
Posted Monday, June 4, 2001 - 10:50 by TRC-News
At least 10 people were killed and 16 wounded when a bomb exploded during a Sunday service at a Roman Catholic church in Bangladesh, police said. Full Story
Four Killed, 14 Hurt in Indian Kashmir Blast
Posted Monday, June 4, 2001 - 10:49 by TRC-News
Four people were killed and 14 wounded Monday when suspected separatist guerrillas lobbed a grenade in a crowded street in Srinagar, Kashmir's main city, police said. Full Story
Palestinians, Israeli Army Fight Gunbattle in Gaza
Posted Monday, June 4, 2001 - 10:48 by TRC-News
Israeli troops and Palestinians fought a gunbattle in the southern Gaza Strip Monday, despite attempts to arrange a cease-fire after eight months of violence. Full Story
Filipino rebels blast through cordon
Posted Sunday, June 3, 2001 - 23:43 by TRC-News
Three Americans remained in captivity on Sunday after Muslim rebels blasted through a military cordon in the southern Philippines and escaped into the dense jungle of Basilan island. At least five hostages escaped during the fighting, officials said, while four other hostages similarly escaped Saturday. But the badly decomposed bodies of two hostages were found not far from the hospital. Full Story
Bombers defense can not find experts willing to testify
Posted Sunday, June 3, 2001 - 23:42 by TRC-News
Several expert witnesses have refused to testify on behalf a man convicted of murder in the bombings of U.S. embassies because they fear being associated with a terrorist, according to defense lawyers. Full Story
The last straw, for many Israelis
Posted Sunday, June 3, 2001 - 23:38 by TRC-News
For 25 years, Moshe Asher believed in peace. He joined the moderately dovish Labor Party, voted for peacenik candidates and thought maybe, just maybe, the peace plan unveiled in Oslo in 1993 might end the decades of bloodletting between Israelis and Palestinians. Full Story
We Are Kidnapped
Posted Sunday, June 3, 2001 - 23:36 by TRC-News
As tensions in the Mideast reach a new height, fueled by suicide attacks and guerrilla war, a NEWSWEEK team gets caught in the chaos. A reporter’s story—and what’s next for the region. Full Story
Petty Politics, Greed and Betrayal Within bin Laden Group
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Before the embassy bombings trial, Osama bin Laden loomed large in the American psyche, a villain of unimaginable evil and sophisticated reach. It was an image fed by destruction done and by American law enforcement officers eager to drive home the reality of his threat. In some ways, though, it was an image created because so little was known about how he worked. Full Story
FBI task force in Greece
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
Special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have teamed up with Greek counter-terrorism officials, and according to an FBI official cooperation is regarded as excellent. Full Story
U.S. withdraws personnel from Aden
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
The United States is withdrawing FBI investigators and U.S. military personnel from the Yemeni port of Aden because of a “serious and credible” terrorist threat, U.S. officials told NBC News on Thursday. Full Story
Ex-FBI agent: Terrorism is still a real threat
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Oliver “Buck” Revell’s criminal investigations ran the gamut throughout his 30-year FBI career, from savings and loan fraud to mob activity. He retired in the 1990s as the bureau’s third in command and most decorated investigator, feeling pretty good about having licked so many bad guys. Full Story
Twelve Killed in Clash in Sri Lanka Northeast
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
At least 12 people were killed when Tamil Tiger rebels and government troops clashed in northeastern Sri Lanka on Friday, military officials said. Full Story
Taliban Raid ICRC Hospital, Arrest Staff in Afghanistan
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:23 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia has raided a hospital run by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and arrested several local staff, ICRC officials said Friday. Full Story
Ressam: Seattle no target
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
Seattle was never the target of convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam's millennium bomb plot, a federal criminal justice source said yesterday. Full Story
Philippines Attacks Hostage Takers, Villagers Flee
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
Philippine troops launched an offensive on Friday on Muslim rebels holding at least 20 hostages and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she would not back down until the guerrillas surrendered or were killed. Full Story
Bomb Shakes N.Ireland Police Station
Posted Friday, June 1, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded on Friday outside a police station in the Northern Ireland town of Sion Mills, about 50 miles west of the British province's capital Belfast, police said. Full Story
McVeigh Miscue May Result In Stay
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:56 by TRC-News
Six years after the Oklahoma City bombing and six days before Timothy McVeigh is scheduled to die, the Justice Department Thursday said Thursday the FBI mistakenly withheld nearly 200 pieces of evidence from McVeigh's defense team. Full Story
Saudi official says letter bombers known
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:55 by TRC-News
The deputy interior minister in Saudi Arabia says the authorities there know who was behind last week's parcel bombing, in which an American physiotherapist was injured. Full Story
Senate Finds Government Maze Handles Terrorism
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:53 by TRC-News
Senate hearings that ended on Thursday on whether the United States was prepared to handle a "terrorist" attack on U.S. soil found that a maze of 46 government agencies and multiple congressional committees have jurisdiction over the issue. Full Story
Blast Wounds at Least 13 People in Manila Suburb
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:29 by TRC-News
An explosion went off at a pre-election rally in the Manila suburb of San Juan City on Thursday, injuring at least 13 people and damaging several vehicles, police and witnesses said. Full Story
Grenade Found on Consulate Grounds
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:28 by TRC-News
An employee found an unexploded hand grenade on the grounds of the U.S. Consulate in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, months after it was thrown there by Palestinian militants, police said. Full Story
Car Explodes in Downtown Kfar Saba
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:28 by TRC-News
A car exploded and two others parked near to it were damaged in the center of Kfar Saba a short while ago. No one was injured. Full Story
16 Dead in India Election Hotspots
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Defying threats of violence, millions voted in legislative elections in five states of India Thursday, but rebel attacks and clashes between political parties killed 16 people, officials said. Full Story
Six Kashmiri Villagers Beheaded
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
Six villagers in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir have been beheaded in an attack blamed on separatist militants. Full Story
Indonesia Links Blast to Aceh Activists
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:23 by TRC-News
Indonesian police said on Friday a Jakarta dormitory destroyed by a bomb blast might have been used as a center to make bombs, and they were investigating a link to activists from the troubled province of Aceh. Full Story
U.S. Sees Some Hope Despite New Mideast Violence
Posted Friday, May 11, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
Israeli tanks and bulldozers rumbled into Palestinian-controlled territory in the Gaza Strip Friday and demolished a police post, hours after the United States said a new peace initiative could be imminent. Full Story
Army to boost base security due to terrorist threat
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 13:23 by TRC-News
Army bases across the United States will be increasing security this summer in response to the "increased threat of terrorism," army officials told CNN Wednesday. Full Story
Judge Instructs Embassy Bomb Jury
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
After hearing three months of testimony about a terrorist war against Americans, a jury must now decide if four men conspired to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa. Full Story
From blast rubble, new precautions
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
When Oklahoma City’s new federal building opens in July 2003, the sparkling glass and steel facility will bear little resemblance to its predecessor. Stung by criticism after Timothy McVeigh unleashed his rage on the Murrah building, the federal government is replacing it with a safer structure as part of a $400 million program to overhaul security at 8,300 buildings across America. Full Story
Washington worries about terrorism
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 9:06 by TRC-News
The White House and Congress focused Tuesday on whether the federal government is prepared to respond to terrorism, even as attacks on Americans at home and overseas are on the wane. Warning of the dangers posed by hand-carried nuclear weapons and biological or chemical agents, Vice President Dick Cheney announced the creation of an office at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate federal response to domestic terrorist attacks. On Capitol Hill, Republican senators began three days of hearings to determine whether government agencies are prepared to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks. Full Story
Americas homegrown terrorist: A soldier in a twisted war
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
He is a soldier in his own strange, twisted war. He sees himself as a patriot, not for the Bronze Star he won in a faraway desert but for blowing up a federal government building in the heart of America. Full Story
Terrorism looks over Basque elections
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Spain's Basque Country goes to the polls on Sunday in what is seen as a referendum on the troubled region's future. Full Story
Journalists Assaulted in Kashmir
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir have assaulted a group of journalists, leaving six of them seriously injured. Full Story
Gunmen Kill Eight Algerian Policemen
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Gunmen have killed eight policemen in an ambush in the Kabylie region of northeastern Algeria. State television said Islamist militants opened fire on the policemen on Wednesday in the coastal town of Tigzirt, about 120 kilometres (70 miles) east of Algiers, and close to the regional capital Tizi Ouzou. Full Story
Bush to streamline anti-terrorism fight
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
The Bush administration, with Vice President Dick Cheney once again in the lead, launched an effort to combat domestic terrorism on Tuesday, saying its priority will be to organize myriad federal anti-terrorism programs started by Bush's predecessors. Full Story
Two Romanians Killed in Gaza Bomb Attack
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
A roadside bomb killed two Romanian workers repairing Israel's border fence with Gaza and wounded a third on Thursday, the Israeli army said. Full Story
Sri Lanka Protesters Defy Ban, Clash with Police
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Sri Lankan riot police clashed on Thursday with Sinhalese protesters in the capital Colombo defying a ban on demonstrations imposed after a week of communal unrest. Full Story
Sudan Accuses Rebels of Killing Red Cross Pilot
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Sudan's Islamist government has accused rebels of killing a Red Cross pilot on an aid mission in the south, the independent al-Ayam daily reported on Thursday. Full Story
Ashcroft calls Americans target of choice for terrorists
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - 15:24 by TRC-News
Calling Americans the "target of choice" for international terrorists, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday a new office created by President Bush to combat terrorism will complement Justice Department efforts. Full Story
Cheney to Lead Anti-Terrorism Plan Team
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - 11:22 by TRC-News
Vice President Cheney will oversee development of a plan for responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, while a new office within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will coordinate terrorist response efforts by more than 40 federal agencies, the Bush administration announced yesterday. Full Story
Domestic Preparedness Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - 11:21 by TRC-News
Protecting America's homeland and citizens from the threat of weapons of mass destruction is one of our Nation's important national security challenges. Today, more nations possess chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons than ever before. Still others seek to join them. Most troubling of all, the list of these countries includes some of the world's least-responsible states -- states for whom terror and blackmail are a way of life. Some non-state terrorist groups have also demonstrated an interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Full Story
Red Cross Pilot Killed in Sudan Attack
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - 11:20 by TRC-News
A Danish pilot has been killed after the plane he was flying for the International Committee of the Red Cross came under fire over southern Sudan, reports say. Full Story
Oil Experts Held Hostage in Nigeria
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - 11:20 by TRC-News
US experts sent by AngloDutch oil firm Shell to halt a spill in Nigeria's Ogoniland were taken hostage by Ogoniland residents, but were later released, a company spokesman said yesterday. The three experts from Houstonbased Boots and Coots International Well Control arrived in the country last week to control the spill at Shell's Yorla oil field in southern oilrich Ogoniland. Full Story
Israeli Teenagers Stoned to Death
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - 11:19 by TRC-News
The bodies of two Israeli teenagers have been discovered in a cave in the West Bank, apparently the latest victims in a bloody cycle of attacks in the Middle East. Full Story
Two Blasts Near Indian PMs Office, 1 Hurt
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - 11:17 by TRC-News
One person was slightly injured when two small bombs exploded on Wednesday behind New Delhi's South Block, which houses the offices of the prime minister and the defense and foreign ministries, police said. Full Story
Killing of Two Israeli Youths Fuels Tension
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - 11:16 by TRC-News
Two Israeli teenagers from a Jewish settlement were found bound and stoned to death in a West Bank cave Wednesday in a killing which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blamed on Palestinians. Full Story
Disaster agency to coordinate terrorism response
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 16:27 by TRC-News
The Bush administration will make the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- the first government agency on scene in the event of a hurricane or flood -- the central entity in its efforts to coordinate responses to domestic acts of terrorism, administration officials said Tuesday. Full Story
McVeigh Letter to Fox News
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
The following letter has been authenticated and was sent to Fox News Correspondent Rita Cosby. The opening statement was a photocopied statement in McVeigh's writing. The question-and-answer section following it is clearly an original version in McVeigh's writing. Full Story
Coming Soon, Epilogue by Gore Vidal
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
Gore Vidal has some questions for Timothy McVeigh. A puffed-up-and-proud-of-it writer, Vidal, 75, is one of five people selected by McVeigh to witness his execution on May 16.Reached at his home yesterday in Ravello, Italy, Vidal said he didn't want to talk about McVeigh's macabre invitation, which has upset relatives of McVeigh's victims in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. "Don't you think you should wait for my Vanity Fair article?" he asked. He is planning to watch McVeigh, 33, die and to write about it for the magazine.
Full Story
Weapons of Mass Confusion
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
If the United States should fall victim to a chemical or biological terrorist attack like the one that killed a dozen people and injured 5,000 in Tokyo's subway six years ago, the nation would turn to men like Lt. Col. Xavier Stewart of the Army National Guard. Full Story
U.S. Threatened With EMP Attack
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
A new commission will examine how to defend the U.S. against a nuclear electromagnetic-pulse attack that could destroy all our electronic and communications systems. Full Story
Experts Say McVeigh Was Anomaly, Not Revolutionary
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Timothy McVeigh, scheduled to be executed for the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, will die a loner whose violent act never resounded with extremist groups nor generated a sympathetic band of followers, U.S. terrorism experts say. Full Story
Israel Captures Boat With Weapons
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
The Israeli navy has seized a fishing boat packed with rockets, mortars, missiles, and grenades headed for the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip, the navy commander announced Monday. Full Story
Diplomats Freed After Bosnia Riot
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Bosnian Serb police have evacuated nearly 300 people to safety after they were trapped in a building by Serb nationalists, U.N. officials have told Reuters. Full Story
Senate to Hear From Top Officials on Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
The Senate will hear from top administration officials on how to better prepare the United States for terrorist attacks on U.S. soil at three days of hearings starting on Tuesday. Full Story
Bush to Create New Terrorism Office
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
President Bush has drafted an executive order that would create an umbrella office on terrorism to coordinate the government's response to any biological, chemical or nuclear attack, a congressional source familiar with the plan said Friday night. Full Story
Palestinians Kill Jewish Settler, Mourn Dead Baby
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler in the West Bank on Tuesday, a day after a four-month-old Palestinian baby killed by Israeli gunfire became the youngest victim of more than seven months of violence. Full Story
Terrorists capture revealed
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 9:27 by TRC-News
The General Security Service revealed yesterday that it has captured members of an armed cell responsible for a slew of roadside shootings in the Ramallah region. Full Story
Feds: Bin Laden CEO of Terrorism, Inc.
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
Millionaire fugitive Osama bin Laden is the CEO of a far-flung "business" whose goal is a holy war to kill Americans, prosecutors said in closing arguments of the embassy-terror trial. Full Story
Greece plans anti-terror law
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
Greece's justice minister, Michalis Stathopoulos, was due to present an anti-terrorism law to parliament on Wednesday that introduces DNA testing for suspects, witness protection schemes and plea-bargaining. Full Story
Georgian Extremists Attack Jehovahs Witnesses
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Orthodox extremists armed with nail-studded clubs raided a meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Georgian capital this week and beat worshippers, a spokesman for the faith said on Wednesday. Full Story
U.S. Man Critical After Parcel Bomb Injury in Saudi
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
An American doctor was in a critical condition at a hospital in Saudi Arabia one day after a parcel bomb blew up in his face, a medical source said on Thursday. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Said to Launch Offensive in Bamiyan
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement launched a major assault against its opponents in the central province of Bamiyan on Thursday, capturing a bazaar and a disused airfield, an Afghan news service reported. Full Story
British Woman Killed in Bomb Accident in Greece
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
A British woman was killed in Athens on Thursday when a bomb she was carrying in her car blew up in what Greek police said was a crime-related accident. Police said all indications were that the strange incident was linked to Greece's underworld rather than the numerous urban guerrilla groups that often target cars and businesses in the Greek capital. Full Story
Dust Settles After Global Day of May Day Protests
Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2001 - 5:59 by TRC-News
From Cuba to Norway, Melbourne to Mexico City, the dust was settling early on Wednesday after a day of occasionally violent protests by anti-capitalists, trade unions and others swept the globe. Full Story
Gun Battle Rages in Gaza Ahead of Peres Talks
Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2001 - 5:55 by TRC-News
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian and wounded 14 others in a fierce gun battle in Gaza early on Wednesday which erupted hours before U.S.-Israeli talks on a cease-fire to end seven months of bloodshed. Full Story
Study: U.S. Hospitals Not Prepared for Bioterrorism
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 22:24 by TRC-News
Few US hospitals are prepared to handle victims of chemical and biological terrorism such as the 1995 nerve gas attack in a Tokyo subway, according to a new report. Full Story
Radical animal rights group claims responsibility for duck theft
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 22:22 by TRC-News
Animal rights activists claimed responsibility on Tuesday for stealing some 250 ducklings from a research laboratory, saying they pilfered the baby birds to liberate them from a life of "exploitation, abuse and terror." Full Story
Iran condemns U.S. terrorism report
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 22:17 by TRC-News
Iran on Tuesday condemned a State Department report describing it as the most active sponsor of terrorism worldwide and accused the United States of supporting "Israeli state terrorism." Full Story
ASIS Conference on Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 21:56 by TRC-News
The American Society for Industrial Security's Washington D.C. Chapter Terrorist Activities Subcommittee is once again sponsoring its annual Countering Terrorism seminar on June 13. This year's event will be held at the Non-Commissioned Officers' Club at Ft. Myer, in Arlington, Virginia.
This conference is worth attending, especially if you are in the National Capital Region
Full Conference Information and Registration Form
Bioterrorism drills
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
Times have changed, and, sadly, the list of potential disasters emergency response teams must prepare for has grown. The prospect of a chemical attack or an act of bioterrorism in Lake County sounds foreign to most, but in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and a sobering string of violent incidents in schools across the nation, naivete is a luxury officials can no longer afford. Full Story
US will cut off cash from Real IRA
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
The US government is to ban fundraising for dissident Irish Republican group the Real IRA, it was reported last night. Full Story
Nichols to appeal decision denying new trial in bombing
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols has filed a notice of plans to appeal his rejected motion for a new trial. Full Story
May Day Protests Sweep World
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
After violent protests in Australia and Germany, cities throughout the world - including London - are bracing for further May Day demonstrations. Full Story
Zapatistas Renew Struggle
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Mexico's Zapatista rebel movement has rejected a new indigenous rights law intended to draw them back into peace talks with the government. Full Story
Pro-Chinese and Pro-US Hackers Continue Attacks
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
With recent strains between the two countries, pro-China and pro-U.S. hackers dueled over the Internet on Monday, defacing dozens of Web sites but apparently leaving little permanent damage. Full Story
Powell: Terrorists More Isolated
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
International cooperation against terrorists is increasing and paying off, Secretary of State Colin Powell said, noting the tightening of U.N. sanctions against Afghanistan and a conviction in the Pan Am 103 bombing. Full Story
Sudan, N. Korea Cited For Gains on Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Sudan and North Korea have begun cooperating with the United States in fighting terrorist groups but have not yet done enough to be removed from a U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism, State Department officials said yesterday. Full Story
Calm Returns As Philippines Declares Rebellion
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
The Philippines declared a state of rebellion Tuesday and began questioning opposition politicians on suspicion of inciting protests in which three people were killed and scores injured. Full Story
Jewish Settler, Palestinian Policeman Killed
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler and Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian policeman on Tuesday, hours after five Palestinians died in two separate bomb blasts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story
German Police Battle May Day Protesters in Berlin
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
German police turned water cannon on thousands of May Day protesters in Berlin on Tuesday after the leftists and anarchists pelted them with bottles and stones. Full Story
Terrorist Attacks Increased 8 percent In 2000 Because of Bombings
Posted Monday, April 30, 2001 - 22:00 by TRC-News
International terrorist attacks rose 8 percent last year from the previous year, largely because of an upsurge in bombings of a Colombian oil pipeline by two terrorist groups there, according to a State Department report issued today. Full Story
Full Report for 2000
Seven Palestinians Killed, Peres Meets Annan
Posted Monday, April 30, 2001 - 21:59 by TRC-News
Bomb blasts and gunfire killed seven Palestinians on Monday as Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres began a visit to the United States to discuss an Egyptian-Jordanian peace plan. Full Story
Three Die in Estrada Protest, Arroyo Scents Coup
Posted Monday, April 30, 2001 - 21:58 by TRC-News
Two policemen and a protester died on Tuesday after a night of violence in central Manila when thousands of supporters of deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada tried to break down the gates of the presidential palace. Full Story
British Police Brace for May Day of Mayhem
Posted Monday, April 30, 2001 - 21:58 by TRC-News
British police, vowing to prevent a re-run of the chaos and violence that erupted in central London a year ago, prepared on Tuesday to face an estimated 10,000 anarchists intent on a May Day of mayhem in the capital. Full Story
Algeria Berber Protests Flare After Deadly Riots
Posted Monday, April 30, 2001 - 21:57 by TRC-News
Clashes between protesters and security forces flared again on Monday in the Algerian Berber region of Kabylie as anger at the reported killing of more than 40 people spread to the capital Algiers. Full Story
Northern Ireland Minister Admits IRA Role
Posted Monday, April 30, 2001 - 21:55 by TRC-News
A Northern Ireland government minister gave written testimony to an official inquiry Monday in which he is believed to have revealed his shadowy guerrilla past as a senior figure in the Irish Republican Army. Full Story
TRC ALERT - TERRORISM THREAT ADVISORY
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
The Terrorism Research Center believes there is an increased likelihood of a domestic terrorism event during the period of April 19, 2001 to May 16, 2001. While this threat advisory remains in effect through this entire period, we believe the probability of attack on the specific dates April 19 and May 16 increases due to the factors discussed below. Full Story
The FBI has also issued an advisory.
ANTHRAX SCARE: Hoax Provides A Lesson for Oly Security
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Officials in Phoenix thought they did a pretty good job of handling the country's first-ever anthrax threat, given that many of those involved had never even heard of the deadly bacteria. Full Story
Embassy Bombings Trial Nearing End, Judge Suggests
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
The judge in the embassy bombings case indicated yesterday that the trial was ending rapidly, even as defense lawyers continued to try to whittle away at the government's case. Full Story
Another day in infamy
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
There are some dates and events you never forget. I will always remember Nov. 22, 1963, when I learned that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. Older Americans have memories of when they learned President Franklin D. Roosevelt had died or about wartime victories in Europe and Japan. For younger Americans, the explosion of the Challenger shuttle, the World Trade Center bombing in New York City, and the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy Jr. are indelibly etched. Then there is April 19, 1995. Full Story
Iraq Warns Iran That Missile Attack Could Revive War
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
Iraq has warned Iran that its missile attack on eastern Iraq risked a revival of the 1980-88 war, a conflict that saw both countries pounded by repeated rocket assaults. Full Story
Kidnappers Use Syringes, Guns in Million-dollar Hostage Caper
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
Robbers armed with syringes that they claimed were tainted with the AIDS virus kidnapped four armored car workers and their families in Brazil, then forced them to hand over $2.5 million in ransom, police said Wednesday. Full Story
Gunmen Kill 11 in Philippine Pre-Election Attacks
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 8:38 by TRC-News
Gunmen have shot dead 11 people, including two town mayors, and kidnapped five politicians in outbreaks of violence in the Philippines ahead of next month's legislative and local elections, police said on Thursday. Full Story
Nigerian Mosque Death Toll Climbs to 12
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
The confirmed death toll from the collapse of a Nigerian mosque rose to 12 on Thursday after police recovered the bodies of seven children. Full Story
CIA Official: N. Korea Probably Has Nuclear Arms
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 0:10 by TRC-News
North Korea probably has one or two nuclear bombs and may also have biological weapons in addition to chemical weapons, Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin said in a speech released on Wednesday. Full Story
Six Seized with Flares, Tear Gas Before Quebec Meet
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2001 - 0:08 by TRC-News
Six Canadians heading for the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City with flares, tear gas canisters and baseball bats were arrested on Wednesday after a long undercover operation, Quebec officials said. Full Story
FBI issues advisory on April 19 violence
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:51 by TRC-News
The FBI's counterterrorism office says it knows of "no specific, credible threat" of violence connected to Thursday's anniversary of the Branch Davidian fire at Waco, Texas, and the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Full Story
See also the TRC Alert
Government, Saudi Arabia sign anti-terrorism, anti-drug pact
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:45 by TRC-News
Iran and Saudi Arabia signed a landmark pact to combat terrorism and drug trafficking Tuesday, calling it a "big step" in improving regional security and relations between the two nations. Full Story
Reports of ISI links with LTTE unconfirmed
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:44 by TRC-News
There are no confirmed reports of Pakistan's ISI having any links with the LTTE, the Minister of State for Home, Mr. Vidyasagar Rao, informed the Lok Sabha today. Full Story
Military role grows on home front
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:43 by TRC-News
As Republicans gathered here last August to nominate George W. Bush for president, a drama played out in secret locations across the city as thousands of American soldiers stood poised for a catastrophic event. Along with a host of civilian emergency specialists, these specialized troops braced for a biological, chemical or nuclear terror attack on the GOP and its nominees — the kind of attack that might force a declaration of martial law. Full Story
Subpoena for Albright in Bombings Trial
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:42 by TRC-News
A federal judge in Manhattan agreed yesterday to sign a subpoena seeking testimony from former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright for a defendant in the embassy bombings trial, but prosecutors are expected to ask the judge to quash it. Full Story
Arafat Has a Date with Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
here's an international conference of terrorist organizations in Tehran next week, and guess who's among the guests of honor? Not the elusive Osama Bin Laden. He doesn't go out much these days. No, the big surprise personality is no one less than Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yasser Arafat. Full Story
Rebels Hold 27 Employees of U.S.-run Oil Field in Colombia
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:37 by TRC-News
After releasing dozens of hostages, suspected leftist guerrillas on Tuesday still held captive 27 Colombian contract employees of U.S.-based oil giant Occidental Petroleum, the company said. Full Story
Explosion in Cambodia Kills 3, Injures 30
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:37 by TRC-News
Two explosions - both possibly caused by grenades - killed three women and injured 30 people in the southern province of Kampot, police and local officials said Tuesday. Full Story
Israelis, Palestinians Swap Mortar, Tank Fire
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:35 by TRC-News
Palestinians lobbed mortar bombs at Israeli targets and Israeli tanks blasted West Bank towns Wednesday after the Jewish state ended its brief but bloody re-occupation of Palestinian territory. Full Story
Bombs Rock Karachi As Strike Grips Province
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
A night of violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi was followed by two bomb blasts on Wednesday that killed one person and wounded two, police and witnesses said. Full Story
Eighteen Killed in Bangladesh-India Border Clash
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
At least 18 soldiers were killed on Wednesday in clashes between Indian and Bangladeshi border troops along the northern Kurigram frontier, Bangladesh security officials said. Full Story
Chinese Bomber Gets Death for March Explosions
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
The man who confessed to setting a series of dormitory blasts that killed 108 people in northern China last month, was sentenced to death Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported. Full Story
Foot-and-mouth probable in U.S.
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 12:59 by TRC-News
Federal emergency officials are preparing for a U.S. outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, a prospect they see as highly likely. About 75 federal officials from agencies ranging from the Agriculture Department to the CIA met Wednesday to review plans for addressing an outbreak of the highly infectious animal virus. The group also included officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army's biological warfare office, the Coast Guard, the Interior Department and the Food and Drug Administration. Full Story
Ex-Klansman on trial for bombing
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
A jury pool three times larger than normal was summoned Monday for the trial of a former Ku Klux Klansman accused in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. Thomas Blanton Jr., 62, entered the courthouse without comment. Full Story
Different paths to peace for McVeigh victims
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
Marsha and Tom Kight had been married 10 years when a massive truck bomb ripped open the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing Marsha’s 23-year-old daughter, shattering their lives and contributing to the demise of their marriage. The Kights remain close friends who speak daily, console each other and agree on much, including their devotion to their young granddaughter whom Marsha’s daughter, Frankie Merrell, left behind. But next month, they will travel very different roads as they try to come to terms with the next stage of their long, painful odyssey: Timothy McVeigh’s execution. Full Story
Fear Stifled Defense Case, Lawyer Says in Terror Trial
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
A lawyer for a defendant in the embassy bombings trial told a federal judge in Manhattan yesterday that his client's defense was being compromised because he could not find experts willing to testify about the United States' intervention in Somalia in 1993. He said the experts were scared off because of the terrorism allegations in the case. Full Story
Muslim Group Calls for Jihad to Oust Abdurrahman
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
In an apparent move to lend support to President Abdurrahman Wahid's opposition movement, Ikhwanul Muslimin chief Habib Husein Al-Habsy called on all Muslims to overthrow President Abdurrahman's administration that "has committed all vices and evil things." Full Story
12 People Killed in Acehs Fresh Outburst of Violence
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
A trail of violence has continued to rock Aceh province, leaving at least 12 people killed and scores injured, officials said on Tuesday. Deputy spokesman of Cinta Meunasah II operation Comr. Sudarsono said on Tuesday that four people, including a military seargant were killed during a blitz launched by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist rebels in Simpang I Krueng Pase of Syamtalira Bayu district in restive North Aceh on Monday. Full Story
American Injured in Neo Nazi Attack
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Neo-Nazis beat up an American at a fast-food restaurant in eastern Germany, breaking his nose, police said Monday. Two men, ages 22 and 23, were detained in connection with the attack Sunday in Wittstock. Police were seeking a third suspect. Full Story
Protesters Planning How to Get Noticed at Summit of the Americas
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
Two lines of people square off, shoving and grunting in a human tug-of-war that turns faces red and sweaty. Expletives fill the hall, attracting a security guard holding a walkie-talkie up to his mouth. Full Story
Israel Retakes Parts of Gaza, Causing Disarray
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
Israeli troops took back parts of the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip Tuesday after a withering hail of fire from land, sea and air killed one person, wounded 30 and left life in the area in disarray. Full Story
Colombia Rebels Kidnap U.S. Oil Workers, Free Most
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
Suspected leftist Colombian rebels kidnapped up to 92 workers from U.S. oil firm Occidental Petroleum Corp. but freed most of them hours later early on Tuesday, the army said. Full Story
Manila Riot Troops on Alert for Estrada Arrest
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
The Philippines put its riot troops in the capital Manila on alert on Tuesday to quell any violence if deposed president Joseph Estrada is arrested on a charge of economic plunder -- a crime punishable by death. Full Story
Liberian Minister Killed by Dissidents in North
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Liberia's youth and sports minister died from gunshot wounds on Monday after being shot by dissidents during a visit to the north, the information ministry said. Full Story
Terrorism Trial Lawyers Ethical Puzzle: Defending Haters in U.S.
Posted Monday, April 16, 2001 - 15:25 by TRC-News
Seven years have gone by, but Robert E. Precht still has nightmares about the World Trade Center trial. Mr. Precht was a defense lawyer in the landmark terrorism case. His client was convicted, but that was not the only pain he suffered. Full Story
Bomb Police Turn to Lab Tests
Posted Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:27 by TRC-News
Anti-terrorist police are hoping that laboratory tests will help them catch those responsible for the bombing of a London postal sorting office. Full Story
Fighting Kills Nine PKK Terrorists, Five Soldiers
Posted Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
Fighting between separatist terrorists and security forces in southeastern Turkey has killed nine militants while five soldiers die because of mine explosion, a military official said on Sunday. Full Story
Six Wounded in St. Petersburg Grenade Blast
Posted Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
Six people were wounded in the northern Russian city of St. Petersburg when a quarrel spiraled out of control and one of the men involved threw three grenades, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Sunday. Full Story
Israel Raid on Syrian Target Sets Off Alarm
Posted Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
Israel Monday bombed a Syrian radar station in Lebanon, raising the military stakes in the Middle East and setting off warnings of a wider conflict. Full Story
Bosnian Serb Arrested Over Srebrenica Massacre
Posted Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
NATO-led peacekeepers arrested a Bosnian Serb army commander on Sunday who had been indicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for alleged involvement in the 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica. Full Story
Death Toll Seen Rising at Colombian Massacre Site
Posted Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
Colombia's state prosecutor is investigating the disappearance and possible murder of at least 32 peasants by far-right paramilitaries in the remote locality of Naya, local television said on Sunday. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Deputy Leader Dies in Pakistan
Posted Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
The deputy leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Rabbani, died in a Pakistani hospital Monday, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said. Full Story
Police link London blast to Real IRA
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 22:11 by TRC-News
British police said on Sunday that dissident Irish republican guerrillas belonging to the Real IRA were probably behind a bomb explosion which rocked a vacant postal center in north London late on Saturday. The “high explosive device” went off in the Edgware postal sorting office just before 11:30 p.m. local time, blowing out windows at the building but causing no injuries. Full Story
Hamas says 100 suicide bombers ready to avenge activist death
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 22:08 by TRC-News
The radical Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas says 100 suicide bombers are ready to avenge the death of one of its activists who it says was assassinated by Israel. Full Story
Biological attack could escape detection
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 22:02 by TRC-News
The most dangerous aspect of a biological attack is its stealth. Initially, it might show up as five or six isolated cases of odd symptoms in emergency rooms or family physician offices. If it's not recognized and reported early, it could quickly mushroom into 25 cases, then 500 cases, 5,000 cases. Full Story
Phnom Penh Beefs Up Security After Embassy Blast
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 22:00 by TRC-News
Cambodian police said on Saturday they had beefed up security in Phnom Penh after an explosion outside the Vietnamese embassy wounded a policeman. Full Story
Japan Army Leader To Disband Group
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 21:59 by TRC-News
The Japanese Red Army's jailed founder Fusako Shigenobu said Saturday she was disbanding the group behind several international terrorist attacks in the 1960-70s. Full Story
Graffiti found at FBI office in Harford Co.
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 21:54 by TRC-News
Federal authorities plan to increase security at an FBI satellite office in Harford County next week after agents discovered menacing graffiti on a bureau parking space. Full Story
Anti-terrorism bill to be diluted
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 21:26 by TRC-News
Justice Minister Michalis Stathopoulos is considering significant changes to the new legislation aimed at combating terrorism and other forms of organized crime. These will concern the use of DNA to identify suspected criminals, the abrogation of witnesses' anonymity and the surveillance of suspects. Full Story
TRC ALERT - TERRORISM THREAT ADVISORY
Posted Saturday, April 14, 2001 - 0:48 by TRC-News
The Terrorism Research Center believes there is an increased likelihood of a domestic terrorism event during the period of April 19, 2001 to May 16, 2001. While this threat advisory remains in effect through this entire period, we believe the probability of attack on the specific dates April 19 and May 16 increases due to the factors discussed below. Full Alert
Feds aim to protect McVeigh feed from hackers
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 16:55 by TRC-News
Now that the government has authorized a closed-circuit feed of Timothy McVeigh's execution, it wants to ensure that would-be hackers can't grab the signal and make it public. Full Story
U.S. hostage rescued
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:39 by TRC-News
The Philippine military rescued U.S. hostage Jeffrey Schilling on Thursday from Muslim rebels who had threatened to behead him last week, military officials said. The 25-year-old Oakland, Calif., resident was rescued in good shape 10 days of assaults on the southern island of Jolo, said Brig. Gen. Diomedio Villanueva, in charge of a 10-day-old series of assaults on Abu Sayyaf rebels. Full Story
The myth of closure
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:38 by TRC-News
When prison authorities in Terre Haute, Ind., strap 32-year-old Timothy McVeigh down May 16 and send a lethal injection into his bloodstream, his will be the most public execution in the history of the United States. Thanks to a ruling by Attorney General John Ashcroft expected later this week, McVeigh’s execution will be broadcast on closed circuit television to Oklahoma City, where families of the victims will be gathered to watch him die. Full Story
Cyber-terrorism: the rise of the hacktivist
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:37 by TRC-News
Hacking is no longer about ego and theft. Today, hackers want to make their political voice heard. Enter the hacktivist. Full Story
Depot near McVeigh execution site holds tons of deadly nerve agent
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:36 by TRC-News
The scheduled execution of Timothy McVeigh has prompted higher security at an Army chemical depot stocked with tons of a lethal nerve agent. Full Story
Real IRA fuels fears of Easter terror campaign
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
Republicans opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process have threatened a fresh campaign of violence. Full Story
Eco-terror threat to US suburbia
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
Radical environmentalists are adopting increasingly extreme tactics in what they say is a battle to save America's desert landscapes from destruction. Full Story
Judge in Terror Case Tells Court: Simplify
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:32 by TRC-News
Alluding to Thoreau's admonition to simplify, a federal judge in Manhattan said yesterday that the government should consider paring down the mammoth indictment in the embassy bombings trial. Full Story
EU adopts terror guidelines for police
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:32 by TRC-News
The EU has adopted a set of guidelines setting out the best practices that police can use to deal with terrorist attacks, the Foreign Ministry and the British Embassy in Athens have announced. This is the result of a joint Greek-British initiative following the murder in Athens last June of the British military attache, Brig. Stephen Saunders, by members of the November 17 terrorist organization and the intensive cooperation between the security forces of the two EU-member countries, ministry spokesman Panayiotis Beglitis said yesterday. Full Story
Top Official Killed in Chechnya
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
A deputy head of the pro-Russian administration in Chechnya has been killed in a bomb attack. They have killed somebody who was trying every means possible to restore normal live to Chechnya Administration chief, Akhmad Kadyrov The man, Shamalu Deniyev, had been giving a live television address at a television studio in the town of Avtury, south-east of the capital Grozny, when the bomb went off. Full Story
Transit Strikes Hobble French Cities
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
Municipal transport strikes hobbled traffic in dozens of French cities Thursday, compounding frustration for thousands of passengers already beset by two weeks of strikes by national rail workers. Full Story
Holy Land Violence Clouds Easter Celebrations
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
Bowed down by crosses and carrying candles flickering in empty drink bottles, Christian pilgrims on Friday retraced Jesus's walk to crucifixion in subdued Holy Land Easter celebrations. Full Story
Sri Lanka Says Rebels Laying Mines During Truce
Posted Friday, April 13, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
A five-day truce to mark Sri Lanka's traditional new year holiday got off to a shaky start on Friday with the government accusing Tamil Tiger rebels of planning to use the cease-fire to lay land mines. Full Story
Hate Groups Will Hate These Ads
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
White extremists congregating in Yahoo clubs and chat rooms will now be greeted with banner ads urging them to "fight hate and promote tolerance." Full Story
McVeigh victims to view execution
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Attorney General John Ashcroft will permit victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and their relatives to watch a closed-circuit telecast of Timothy McVeigh’s execution next month, NBC News learned on Wednesday. Full Story
Third night of riots in Cincinnati
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
Mayor Charles Luken says he may call in the National Guard to help quell violent protests sparked by the shooting death of an unarmed black man by police. Full Story
Militant attack on North Block nullified
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
A daring militant attack on high security North Block housing Home and Finance ministries, was nullified by the Delhi Police on Wednesday as it defused a chemical explosive planted by suspected militants. Full Story
Bin Laden Keeps Money in Cyprus
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
The Russian mafia does it. So does deposed President Slobodan Milosevic. Now, fugitive Saudi billionaire Osama Bin Laden joins the club of those who keep their money in the Republic of Cyprus. Full Story
Widening coalition against terrorism
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
India is not the only country that Iran plans to join in the war against international terrorism. At the end of this week, Iran and Saudi Arabia are expected to sign a treaty focussing on cooperation against crime, terrorism, narcotics- trafficking, and money laundering. Full Story
Bin Laden calls for continuing holy war
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:14 by TRC-News
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi dissident wanted by the United States on terrorism charges, urged hard-line Islamic activists yesterday to prepare the next generation for a jihad, or holy war. Full Story
Protests Turn Violent, Ecevit Unmoved
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:09 by TRC-News
The protest demonstrations against the failure of the government to act swiftly to take under control a 50-day economic-financial-political crisis turned violent Wednesday when thousands of disgruntled Turks and police turned Ankara into a battle field. Full Story
11 Civilians Killed in Burundi Clash
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:08 by TRC-News
Fighting between the army and rebels northwest of the capital left at least 11 civilians dead and forced thousands to flee their homes, a local government official said Wednesday. Full Story
Trail Running Dry in the Hunt for Milosevic Assets
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:07 by TRC-News
A worldwide hunt for money allegedly looted by Belgrade's former strongman Slobodan Milosevic has failed to nail down any assets of the indicted war criminal, officials and investigators said on Thursday. Full Story
Gaza Strip Hit by New Violence
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 8:06 by TRC-News
Scattered violence involving both Israelis and Palestinians swept the Gaza Strip and other areas Thursday after both sides' security chiefs failed to agree on ways to halt their fighting at a U.S.-hosted meeting. Full Story
Sinn Fein Delivers Warning on N.Ireland Peace
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 7:59 by TRC-News
The IRA's political ally Sinn Fein expressed concern Thursday that a widely tipped British general election on June 7 could put hard-line Protestants in a position to wreck the Northern Ireland peace process. Full Story
Sharon Says Arafat Is Starting to Soften
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 7:59 by TRC-News
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in remarks published Thursday he believed Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was beginning ``to soften,'' giving Israelis cause for optimism about peacemaking. Full Story
India, Iran for global regime against terrorism
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 13:37 by TRC-News
Proclaiming a significant political convergence, India and Iran today condemned international terrorism, called for a broad-based Government in Afghanistan, supported tolerance and pluralism, and agreed to quickly find a viable mechanism to transport natural gas from the Gulf to the Subcontinent. Full Story
Death watch should be DOA
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:29 by TRC-News
Should the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh be Webcast for the world to see? That is the question before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, which is holding an emergency hearing on the matter April 17, two days before the bombing’s anniversary. Full Story
Wal-Mart wont sell McVeigh book
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:27 by TRC-News
Wal-Mart will not sell a new biography about Timothy McVeigh in any of its 2,600 stores, a spokesman said Thursday. The new book, in which the Oklahoma City bomber admits no remorse for the bombing, also has been spurned by victims’ families and the group that maintains the national memorial to the 1995 tragedy. Full Story
Riots hit Cincinnati 40 arrested
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who rampaged through city streets for a second day Tuesday to protest the fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old black man by a white policeman. Full Story
Killing of Tajik Dpty Interior min qualified as terrorism
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
Tajikistan's law enforcement agencies qualify the assassination of Habib Sanginov, First Deputy Minister of the Interior, as a terrorist act, a source in the Tajik Ministry of Security told Itar-Tass here on Wednesday, emphasising that criminal proceedings would be instituted shortly under the provisions of the Criminal Code article dealing with terrorism, for it was a question of the assassination of a government official. Full Story
French Block German Nuclear Train
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
French anti-nuclear activists briefly delayed a consignment of nuclear fuel from Germany on Monday en route for reprocessing in north-western France. Full Story
Bomb Attack Blamed on Croats Fuels Tensions in Bosnia
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
A car bomb attack blamed on Croat nationalists destroyed the ground floor of a minister's home on Tuesday as Sarajevo accused the extremists of setting up a "parallel army" to fight for self-rule in Bosnia. Full Story
Lax on terrorists - Canada
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
The four-week trial of Ahmed Ressam, 33, who was found guilty Friday on charges of terrorist conspiracy, provided the United States with an extended look into how Canada deals with terrorists. American interest in what Canada does with terrorists was running high after Mr. Ressam, a sometime resident of Montreal, was arrested Dec. 14 trying to smuggle bomb-making materials across the Canadian border into Port Angeles, Wash. Full Story
Looking Ahead to the Winter Olympics, a Terrorist Response Team Trains
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
The training script went like this: A terrorist bomb exploded at the airport. The military, at the request of the local authorities, rushed a convoy to the scene with supplies. But one of the trucks hit a boy, provoking an angry mob. What were the troops to do? Full Story
British Tourism Expects Major Disease Loss
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Britain's lucrative tourist industry faces a dismal Easter and summer as the foot-and-mouth epidemic scares off foreigners and either keeps locals indoors or prompts them to flee abroad, officials warned Wednesday. Full Story
Provided as an example of economic impact due to epidemic - TRC Staff
Gunmen Kill Tajik Deputy Interior Minister
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Gunmen killed Tajikistan's deputy interior minister and former opposition leader Khabib Sanginov on Wednesday in what officials said was an attempt to disturb civil peace and avenge Sanginov's anti-crime activity. Full Story
Kosovo Peacekeepers Detain 12 Suspected Rebels
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
NATO-led peacekeepers have detained 12 suspected ethnic Albanian guerrillas crossing into Kosovo from Albania, a United Nations police spokesman said Wednesday. Full Story
Fierce Israeli-Palestinian Gun Battle in Gaza
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Fierce fighting erupted between Israeli soldiers and hundreds of Palestinian gunmen early on Wednesday when Palestinians said Israeli tanks and bulldozers thrust into a Gaza Strip refugee camp. Full Story
Colombia Orders Arrest of Rebel Commander for Drugs
Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Colombia's prosecution service has for the first time ordered the arrest of a leftist rebel commander for drug trafficking, officials said, in a move that apparently undercuts the government line in peace talks that the guerrilla groups are not traffickers. Full Story
Ashcroft discusses McVeigh execution plan
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 16:36 by TRC-News
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday he would do what he could to accommodate the families of the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing when Timothy McVeigh is executed next month. Full Story
FBI searches home of ELF spokesperson
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Federal agents on Thursday raided the Portland home of two spokesman for a radical environmental group that has claimed responsibility for a string of arson attacks over the past five years - as well as a failed arson earlier this week in Minnesota. Full Story
Police hunt Bin Laden cell in Britain
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Police are tracking a London-based terrorist cell working for Osama Bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, after uncovering evidence of British links in raids against his organisation in Italy. Full Story
In Canada, terrorists found a haven
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Cheap and anonymous, the apartment in the eastern Montreal district of Anjou served both thrift and the tradecraft of terror. The occupants were warriors in a new global holy war. But they were also terrorists on tight budgets, making ends meet through petty crime and welfare scams while preparing, as one would finally tell the FBI, to ''punish America'' with bomb attacks timed to the turn of the millennium. Full Story
Israeli Missiles Hit Palestinian Naval Headquarters
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Israel fired missiles into the headquarters of Palestinian naval police in the Gaza Strip and another security location Tuesday, killing one officer and wounding 17, Palestinian police said. Full Story
Bomb Blast in Rome, Device Found in Turin
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
A bomb ripped the door off a building housing an Italian-U.S. institute in central Rome on Tuesday and police discovered a second explosive device outside former offices of car maker Fiat in Turin. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Delegation Leaves Qatar After Talks
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
The foreign minister of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement left Qatar on Tuesday after a four-day visit to seek humanitarian aid and political support. Full Story
Dane Kidnapped by Colombia Rebels Still Not Found
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
A Danish development aid worker has been held by rebels in Colombia since mid-March, Denmark's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Full Story
Pakistan Islamist Sees Anti-Islam Aggression
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
The leader of a Pakistani fundamentalist Islamic party told a huge public rally Monday Islam was facing aggression from world powers and that Muslims had a right to defend themselves. Full Story
Real IRA sympathisers attack traitor FBI agent
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:39 by TRC-News
Irish-American dissident activists branded one of their former associates a "traitor" yesterday after it was learnt that he had helped the FBI and MI5 to build evidence against the Real IRA. Full Story
Disease detectives
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:38 by TRC-News
Lead poisoning victims usually are kids. But here were four grown men with lead levels so high that three were having seizures when they arrived at the emergency room. Full Story
UA professors assess bioterrorism threat
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:36 by TRC-News
In Russia, stockpiles of smallpox virus -- a disease thought to have been eradicated long ago -- have disappeared without explanation. In Africa, the Ebola virus is on a rampage. In Britain, mad-cow disease is suspected of killing at least 80 people. Full Story
Arabic Terror Manual a Blueprint for Holy War
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:31 by TRC-News
When testimony in the embassy bombings trial showed that three men had based their surveillance of the American Embassy in Kenya from an improvised darkroom in a cramped Nairobi apartment, it sounded like something taken from a manual called Terrorism 101. Full Story
Terrorism spending a must for Capitol Hill
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:30 by TRC-News
In the Capitol Hill game of "Who Wants a Billion There?" one answer is an automatic winner: terrorism. Just say, "Terrorism!" and Congress lards on money like peanut butter spread on crackers. During the past 10 years, anti- terrorism spending has grown to where it is likely to reach $11 billion this year. Yet, there still is no national strategy laying out what to do with all this loot, the General Accounting Office said.
Full Story
Alleged Ulster terror chief faces court charges
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:29 by TRC-News
Alleged Ulster terror chief Michael McKevitt has appeared in a special court in Dublin charged with directing paramilitary activity after a police probe into republican dissidents. Full Story
Sudan Rebels Threaten Oil Workers
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:27 by TRC-News
Sudanese rebels have threatened to attack international oil workers operating in the wartorn south of the country. Full Story
ETA Killers Face Catholic Ban
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:27 by TRC-News
The Roman Catholic Church in Spain is preparing to take the unprecedented step of excommunicating members of the Basque separatist group ETA, say newspaper reports. Full Story
Liberia Counters Border Attacks
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:26 by TRC-News
President Charles Taylor has ordered the government to begin raising a 15,000-strong force to counter what Liberia says is a cross-border offensive from guerrillas based in Guinea. Full Story
Nuclear Waste Protested in Germany
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:25 by TRC-News
About 900 people demonstrated at two sites in Germany on Sunday to protest expected shipments of spent nuclear fuel. Full Story
Paramilitary Offensive Threatens Peace Talks in Colombia
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:25 by TRC-News
An offensive by a paramilitary militia this week disrupted peace talks with leftist guerrillas and left at least 11 combatants dead, authorities said on Saturday. Full Story
30 Islamic Rebels Killed in Algeria
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:24 by TRC-News
Media reports said on Sunday that security forces backed by helicopters launched an offensive against Islamic insurgents, killing more than 30 rebels, including three leaders. Full Story
Thailand Says Bombs Planted by Foreign Saboteurs
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:15 by TRC-News
Thailand said on Monday bombings in southern Thailand over the weekend that killed a child and wounded dozens of people were the work of foreign saboteurs with knowledge of explosives. Full Story
Right-Wing Offensive in Colombia Kills 11
Posted Monday, April 9, 2001 - 10:13 by TRC-News
Colombian right-wing militias this week advanced toward an area the government wants to cede to leftist rebels as a venue for peace talks, sparking clashes that killed 11 people, local media said on Sunday. Full Story
Algerian Convicted On Terror Charges
Posted Saturday, April 7, 2001 - 22:30 by TRC-News
An Algerian who brought a trunkload of explosives into the United States from Canada in December 1999 was convicted in federal court today of terrorism. He could face 130 years in prison. Full Story
Nerve centre for bin Laden terrorists is smashed in Italy
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
Italian police said yesterday that they had smashed the "nerve centre" of an Islamic terrorist cell linked to Osama bin Laden that planned to carry out attacks across Europe. Full Story
Israel accused of booby-trap killing in phone box
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
Isreal was accused yesterday of assassinating a senior Islamic Jihad militant who died when he used a booby-trapped public phone box. Full Story
Experts: Plague could be bio-terror attack
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
As the number of animals in Britain facing slaughter passes the one
million mark, United Press International presents an in-depth, multipart survey on the causes and likely implications of the epidemic, the worst disaster to hit British agriculture in modern times. Here, analyst Claude Salhani, an experienced expert on international terrorism, finds that respected authorities take very seriously the possibility that the epidemic could be the deliberate result of a bio-terrorist attack on Britain and that such an attack could be a "dry run" for an even more devastating future bio-terror assault on the $1 trillion U.S. agricultural industry. Full Story
Toledo-area officials prepare for terror attack
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:19 by TRC-News
The Toledo metropolitan area must be prepared to handle more than 10,000 casualties in the event of a terrorist attack, emergency management officials said yesterday. Full Story
Millennium terror conspiracy case goes to jury
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
The conspiracy case against an Algerian accused of smuggling explosives into the country went to the jury Thursday after prosecutors accused him of being a determined terrorist and the defense suggested he was an unwitting courier. Full Story
Liberia Reports Cross-Border Attack
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Liberian soldiers battled rebels backed by Guinea in three northern towns Thursday, the military said. Defense Minister Daniel Chea claimed the fighting, in its second day, was causing ``untold suffering'' among civilians, but said it was impossible to estimate casualties with the battles still going on. Full Story
More Violence Accompanies Mideast Talks
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
Israeli-Palestinian security talks ended with gunfire late Wednesday night. It was an inauspicious start to the resumption of cooperation by the two sides, and today brought a fresh round of attacks, killings and antagonism. Full Story
Kidnappers Abduct U.S. Businessman
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Kidnappers abducted an American businessman in front of his house Thursday, police said, the latest in a recent series of crimes that have left two U.S. citizens dead. Full Story
Colombian Army Attacks FARC Rebels
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Army officials in Colombia say that at least twenty-five guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the FARC, have been killed in a military air attack. Full Story
Sri Lanka Eases Curbs on Goods to Rebel Areas
Posted Friday, April 6, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka said Friday it had eased economic restrictions on rebel-held territory, clearing a major hurdle in the way of face-to-face peace talks with separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas. Full Story
Cyber terror threatens UKs biggest companies
Posted Thursday, April 5, 2001 - 9:23 by TRC-News
Cyber-terrorists have hacked into a third of the country's big companies and public sector organisations, including government offices, causing damage ranging from infiltrating corporate bank accounts to information theft, a survey reveals today. Full Story
Businesses: Terrorists have changed their targets
Posted Thursday, April 5, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
Security has improved so much at official U.S. installations abroad that terrorists are turning to softer targets such as American businesses, relief workers and tourists, terrorism experts told a House subcommittee Tuesday. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Threaten U.S. Civilian Mercenaries
Posted Thursday, April 5, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
Colombia's largest leftist guerrilla group warned on Wednesday it would attack American civilian "mercenaries" who take part in military operations in the South American nation's long-running war. Full Story
Colombian Generals Cartel Bombshell
Posted Thursday, April 5, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
The army thinks it can win a head-on fight. The commander of Colombia's army says there is hard proof that leftist rebels are controlling the country's massive drug trade. Full Story
Defense Rests in Terror Plot Case
Posted Thursday, April 5, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
The defense called only six witnesses before resting its case Wednesday in the terrorism conspiracy trial of an Algerian accused of bringing bomb-making materials from Canada into the United States in late 1999. Full Story
Five Arrested in Plot Against U.S. Embassy in Rome
Posted Thursday, April 5, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Italian police have arrested five suspected members of an Islamic guerrilla group with links to Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, authorities said on Thursday. Full Story
Israeli Troops Kill Youth, Row Over Shooting
Posted Thursday, April 5, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager protesting on Thursday at their killing of children, while officials argued over which side was to blame for Israel's firing on a convoy of Palestinian security chiefs. Full Story
Jolo Rebels Postpone Beheading of U.S. Hostage
Posted Thursday, April 5, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
Muslim rebels in the Philippines said on Thursday they have postponed the beheading of a young American hostage in response to a tearful appeal from his mother and wife to let the captive go home. Full Story
Responding to Terrorism Victims: OKC and Beyond
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 23:30 by TRC-News
The April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Murrah Building) in Oklahoma City sent shock waves throughout America. This event was the most devastating incident of domestic terrorism in our Nation’s history. The shock of this terrorist act was magnified by its location—the very center of our country. “This is the place, after all, where terrorists don’t venture. The Heartland. Wednesday [April 19] changed everything” (The Daily Oklahoman, April 20, 1995). The effect of the bombing was far reaching—extending well beyond the borders of Oklahoma. It created mass casualties and injuries, affecting not only the immediate victims, survivors, and the Oklahoma City community but also the entire Nation. Full Document
Book Review - American Terrorist
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 9:50 by TRC-News
|
*TRC Recommends - Terrorism*
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck is one of the most insightful books on the Oklahoma City bombing that will ever be published. The authors spent over 70 hours directly interviewing Timothy McVeigh and his comments are candid and uncensored. In addition, the authors interviewed over 150 indivdiuals regarding this terrorist event to provide a comprehensive examination of this devastating act. With McVeigh scheduled for execution in May 2001, this book will remain our primary mechanism for understanding how and why someone could launch such a cold-blooded attack. Purchase Book |
Most of Terrorism Experts Testimony Is Barred
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 9:36 by TRC-News
A terrorism expert was barred Monday from telling a federal jury that evidence seized from accused bomb smuggler Ahmed Ressam's Montreal apartment links Ressam to Islamic militant Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Terror in Columbia
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 9:28 by TRC-News
Dagoberto Ospina, a 10-year-old Colombian peace activist, became a powerful anti-terrorist symbol last year when he was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas. Ultimately his parents paid $134,000 in ransom to obtain his release eight months later. Full Story
Bomb Increases Tensions at Brazil Port
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 9:27 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded at Brazil's key port of Santos on Tuesday, adding to already high tensions on the eighth day of a dockworkers' strike, but causing no serious damage, the port authority said. Full Story
Philippine Troops Hunt for Rebels But No Sighting
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
Philippine troops have fanned out in jungle on a southern island to search for Muslim rebels holding an American they have threatened to behead, but no sightings were reported, officials said on Wednesday. Army officers in Zamboanga, the headquarters of the Philippines southern military command, said troops started to move into the interior of Jolo island, 100 miles south of the city, Tuesday night. Full Story
Kidnapped Aid Workers Being Freed in Somalia
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
Two British U.N. aid workers held hostage by gunmen in Somalia for over a week are in the process of being freed, a source close to the negotiations for their release said on Wednesday. Full Story
Hizbollah Says Syrian Troops Must Stay in Lebanon
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
The leader of Hizbollah passionately defended Syria's troop presence in Lebanon on Wednesday and urged Christians to stop demanding their withdrawal. Full Story
Moroccan Tried for German Synagogue Attack
Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
A German court began the trial on Wednesday of a Moroccan accused of involvement in an arson attack on a west German synagogue initially blamed on right-wing extremists. Full Story
Outcry Over a Killers Story
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 11:11 by TRC-News
Six years after Tim McVeigh’s truck bomb broke the heart of Oklahoma City, the wreckage of the Murrah Federal Building has been demolished and its site, on Fifth Street, is now a monument to the 168 men, women and children who died there. The emotional scars are not so easily repaired. The bombing’s anniversary, April 19, is approaching, and McVeigh is back in the news, mostly because of a new book, “American Terrorist,” that presents McVeigh’s story of the crime and his embittered life. Full Story
11 dead, 200 hurt in Sri Lanka blast
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 11:10 by TRC-News
Eleven people were killed and some 200 wounded in a grenade attack at a packed pop concert in northwestern Sri Lanka on Sunday, police said. Police blamed the explosion on rival gangs in the city of Kurunegala, where the main football stadium was crammed with more than 100,000 fans for a performance by two singers from neighboring India. Full Story
U.S. forces in Middle East always face terrorist threat, says Gen. Franks
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 11:05 by TRC-News
The Defense Department can spend a fortune on high-tech intelligence gathering systems and flood the Middle East with spies, but U.S. forces stationed there will still face terrorist attacks, the Pentagon’s highest-ranking officer in the region warned Congress last week. Full Story
Taliban will not sacrifice Bin Laden
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 10:58 by TRC-News
The Taliban's supreme spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has privately ruled out handing over Osama bin Laden for trial and has said he is ready to "sacrifice" what is left of his shattered country before giving up his "guest" to the US, it emerged last night. Full Story
Combating Terrorism: In Search of a National Strategy
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 10:55 by TRC-News
Last week we learned the stalled investigation of the Khobar Towers bombing that killed nineteen Americans has been beset by a long-simmering power struggle between the FBI Director and the U.S. Attorney assigned to bring the terrorist perpetrators to justice. Transfer of the case to another prosecutor may breathe new life into the five-year-old inquiry, but the change is also a symptom of a suffocating problem plaguing the federal effort to combat terrorism. In a word: “turf.” Full Story
Pirate MS software sales fund global drug terror gangs
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 10:52 by TRC-News
Drug dealers and terrorists have been using counterfeit Microsoft software to fund their nefarious activities, according to a Microsoft release which Microsoft UK tells us hasn't gone out yet. Nor has our search for the smoking and the pistols been crowned with success so far, although a Microsoft spokesperson may have said something on the subject, somewhere. Full Story
Sayyaf Threatens to Behead American on GMA's 54th Birthday
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 10:44 by TRC-News
Muslim extremists who have been holding an American hostage for the past eight months threatened to behead their captive and send the head as a birthday present to President Arroyo Thursday. Full Story
Police Arrest 87 in Ottawa Free Trade Protest
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Police arrested 87 protesters in Ottawa on Monday during a peaceful demonstration against plans for a Free Trade Area of the Americas, which critics say will result in further impoverishment of poor countries. Full Story
Burundi Rebels Attack Aid Convoy
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
A convoy of trucks carrying aid from the World Food Programme (WFP) has been ambushed in Burundi. Monday's attack, carried out by a group of about 10 heavily armed rebels in Gitega province, left three people injured - one of them critically. Full Story
Four Killed, Hundreds Injured in Bangladesh Strike
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Four people have been killed and 300 injured in a Bangladesh strike as protesters continue for the third day to urge prime minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. Full Story
Trial Aims to Show Bin Laden Plan to Kill Americans
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
Federal prosecutors are expected to end their case against four Osama bin Laden followers this week after two months of chilling testimony they said shows the Saudi dissident's aim to kill Americans. Full Story
Israeli Tank Shells Destroy Bethlehem Homes, Hotel
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
Tanass Abu Aita was playing cards with his brothers in the lobby of the Paradise Hotel in Bethlehem when the first shots rang out late on Monday. Full Story
Sierra Leone Rebels Want to End 10-Year War
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) said on Tuesday it wanted to end more than 10 years of war, but complained that loyalist forces had just attacked its positions from neighboringn Guinea. Full Story
Israeli Army Sees West Bank Escalation
Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
An Israeli army commander in the West Bank said Tuesday warfare with the Palestinians had heated up and vowed that his troops would shoot to kill armed foes. Full Story
Suspect arrested in Y2K terror case
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:23 by TRC-News
Algerian security forces have arrested a fugitive who may be connected to a reputed terrorist on trial for allegedly plotting to attack West Coast targets around the time of the millennium celebrations. Full Story
Warlords flex muscles in Somalia
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:22 by TRC-News
Somalia’s turbulent warlords are not going quietly. By seizing a group of foreign aid workers, militia chiefs sidelined for months by a national reconciliation process have thrust themselves back into the political limelight in the way they know best — through the barrel of a gun. Full Story
Washington Siding With Terrorism in Chechnya Contacts, Says Russia
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:20 by TRC-News
Russia accused Washington of siding with terrorism Tuesday after a senior U.S. official held talks with an envoy from the separatist republic of Chechnya. Full Story
Hacking is now bigger threat than terrorism
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:17 by TRC-News
COMPUTER hacking could now cripple Britain more quickly than a military strike or terrorist campaign, Robin Cook, the Foreign Secretary, told the Commons last night. He said that the electronic technology controlling essential services such as water, power and transport had become a leading target for terrorists and other groups who wanted to disrupt the life of the nation. Mr Cook gave a graphic account of how terrorists or anti-capitalist protesters could wreak havoc in a modern economy such as Britain's if they managed to gain access to the computer systems of the key public services. Full Story
Police Chief's Assassin Shot Dead
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:16 by TRC-News
Police early Thursday shot and killed a man they believe was involved in the January assassination of Gaffar Okkan, the police chief of Diyarbakir. Hasan Sariagac was shot dead during a police raid on his house in the Diyarbakir suburb of Baglar in the early hours of Thursday morning, the Anatolia news agency reported. Full Story
ETA Warns Tourists to Keep Away From Spain
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:15 by TRC-News
The Basque separatist group ETA threatened a spate of attacks on tourism resorts on Friday, warning tourists to stay away from Spain after setting off two bombs at beach towns earlier this month. In a statement to Basque newspapers, ETA warned tourists of "undesirable consequences" if they came to Spain, and included "Spanish touristic-economic interests" among its targets. Full Story
UN Hostages Freed in Somalia
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:14 by TRC-News
Somali gunmen have released another two of the United Nations aid workers they kidnapped on Tuesday. The two are Belgian Pierre-Paul Lamotte and Frenchman Mohamed Mohamedi. Two Britons, Bill Condie from Scotland and Roger Carter, are still being held. Full Story
Risky Plans for New Colombian Guerrilla Haven Move Ahead
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:13 by TRC-News
With three armed factions battling nearby and cocaine crops carpeting the hills, this northern town in one of Colombia's hottest war zones seems a risky venue for peace talks. Yet President Andres Pastrana's plans to convert the area into a new guerrilla safe haven are barreling ahead, even though many residents bitterly oppose the idea. Full Story
FBI displays terrorist blasts
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:09 by TRC-News
Federal prosecutors showed videotaped bomb blasts yesterday during the terrorism trial of Ahmed Ressam, in a graphic display of what might have happened if a powerful explosive found in Ressam's car had been detonated. Full Story
Canadian spy evidence refused at millennium bomber trial
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 14:02 by TRC-News
Canada's Spy Agency won't comment on criticism levelled toward it by the American judge handling the trial of Ahmed Ressam. Full Story
Israelis Kill Five As Palestinian Protests Surge
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 13:23 by TRC-News
Israeli troops shot dead at least five Palestinians on Friday during the strongest wave of protests to sweep the West Bank and Gaza Strip in weeks. Full Story
Colombia Yanks Troops From Rebel Zone to Aid Talks
Posted Friday, March 30, 2001 - 13:22 by TRC-News
Colombia began a complete withdrawal of its troops from a leftist rebel stronghold on Thursday, hoping to encourage a resumption of peace talks with the nation's second-largest guerrilla force, the military said. Full Story
France Confirms Arrest of U.S. Fugitive
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 13:57 by TRC-News
French police arrested U.S. anti-abortion activist James Kopp, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives, in the western region of Brittany on Thursday, a police spokesman said. Full Story
FBI: McVeigh discussed other bombing targets
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
Within the first days after the arrest of Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing, investigators turned up information that he might have planned other attacks, the FBI told CNN. Full Story
McVeigh: His Own Words
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has no serious regrets for the attack that killed 168 people, and he calls the deaths of 19 children slain in the 1995 blast "collateral damage," according to a new book. Full Story
You can purchase this book at Amazon.com
Military fears attacks from cyberspace
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:29 by TRC-News
The commander of the U.S. Space Command said yesterday he is worried about China's growing capability to conduct computer warfare against U.S. military networks. Full Story
Hacktivism is OK, Professor Says: Cyberterrorism Fears Overblown
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:23 by TRC-News
Dark predictions about cyberterrorism and outrage over young hackers disrupting company Web sites is so "overblown" it's obscuring the excessive control that corporations have in shaping Internet communications, says a University of Toronto professor who is among the speakers at today's conference in Ottawa on "e-government." Full Story
Tourist Thieves Sentenced to Death
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
Two Tanzanians were sentenced to death Thursday for robbing 29 American tourists on their way to visit Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve. Full Story
Somali Hostage Releases Likely
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
A group of Somali warlords has said that the four aid workers being held in Mogadishu will be released soon. The warlords said at a news conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, that they are in touch with the kidnappers and that the hostages are safe and sound. Full Story
Bush Names Coordinator For Counterterrorism
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
The President intends to nominate Brigadier General Francis X. Taylor to be the federal government's Coordinator for Counterterrorism with the rank of Ambassador at Large, the White House announced March 21. Full Story
Demands for a terrorist crackdown irk Greece
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Even by the shadowy standards of terrorist groups, the Revolutionary Organization November 17 is a mysterious entity. In the past 26 years, it has killed 23 people, including four American officials, a US Embassy employee, and a British military attach�. Full Story
Judge OKs Evidence in Terrorism Trial
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
The judge in the terrorism trial of Ahmed Ressam ruled Tuesday that the jury can hear evidence that a foreign government concluded Ressam was only a courier in an alleged millennium bomb plot. Full Story
Macedonia Pounds Last Rebel Hideouts
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Macedonian forces pounded the remaining hideouts of ethnic Albanian guerrillas on Thursday in a final drive to quell a month-long insurrection. Full Story
Arafat Says Air Strikes Will Not Stop Uprising
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
President Yasser Arafat said on Thursday Israeli air strikes would not halt the six-month-old Palestinian uprising and Palestinians fought new clashes with Israeli troops. Full Story
Small Bombs Go Off in Basque Region, ETA Blamed
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
Spanish officials on Thursday blamed the separatist group ETA, which has stepped up its armed campaign ahead of regional elections, for two small bombs that exploded overnight in the northern Basque region. Full Story
Israeli Forces Attack Gaza, Ramallah, Witnesses Say
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 13:11 by TRC-News
Israel forces attacked the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip from the air Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses said. Full Story
FBI agent: Threat of biological weapons real
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:28 by TRC-News
Most people won't encounter weapons of mass destruction in their lifetimes, but Shahna Richman deals with the threat every day. Full Story
Brit Team in Balkan Alert
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Anti-terror experts from the UK have been put on alert to go into war-threatened Macedonia. Westminster sources said around 20 anti-terrorist specialists from the Royal Marines have been picked out. Full Story
Sharon: Lack of security becoming unbearable
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:23 by TRC-News
The "deterioration" of security in Israel is becoming "unbearable," Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell after two bombings in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Full Story
TASE falls in reaction to terror attacks
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
Stocks dropped yesterday, led by Clal Industries and Investment Ltd., after two bombs exploded in Jerusalem, stoking concern about an escalation of Israeli-Palestinian turmoil. Full Story
Rebels Kidnap Nepal Policeman
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
Maoist rebels in Nepal have abducted a police officer, as he was travelling on a bus in the west of the country. Police launched a massive search for the man. Full Story
Local Commander of Lashkar Militant Group Killed in Kashmir
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:19 by TRC-News
Indian security forces Wednesday shot dead Salaudin Ayubi, the head of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group operating in Kashmir, a police spokesman said. Full Story
Teenagers' Activism Takes a Violent Turn
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Jared McIntyre, a 17-year-old son of a New York City police sergeant, devoted many afternoons to researching global warming at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and writing impassioned essays for his high school newspaper that depicted prisons as "dungeons" and farms as "ecologically devastating." Full Story
Three Die in Suspected Suicide Bombing in Israel
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
A suspected suicide bomber killed himself and two teenagers on Wednesday when he blew himself up next to a group of youngsters waiting for a school bus in central Israel, police said. Full Story
Six Aid Workers Freed in Somalia, Four Still Held
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Six aid workers including five foreigners and a Somali seized by gunmen in heavy fighting in Mogadishu were freed on Wednesday and U.N. officials were in contact with a warlord to seek the release of four others. Full Story
Suspected Algerian Rebels Kill 15 Villagers
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
Suspected Algerian rebels killed 15 people in a shantytown in the second such massacre this week in the violence-torn North African country, residents said Wednesday. Full Story
Somali Gunmen Kidnap Seven UN Health Workers
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
Gunmen in the Somali capital Mogadishu took seven U.N. staff hostage on Tuesday in fighting that erupted following an attack on a compound of the Medecins Sans Frontieres charity, U.N. officials said. Full Story
Prosecutors in Ressam trial building tie to terror camp
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:28 by TRC-News
Federal prosecutors sought yesterday to show that Ahmed Ressam traveled in 1998 to Pakistan, a trip in which he allegedly went on to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Full Story
Lawyer: Terror suspect tricked
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
The attorney for a man accused of organizing a battalion for alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden said her client was tricked by the FBI and secretly brought to the United States to stand trial. Mohamed Suleiman al Nalfi was arrested last fall in Kenya after being lured from his home in the Sudan, his lawyer said. He was then brought to New York and held for trial. Full Story
Pakistan Warns Missions Against Terrorist Attacks
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
Pakistan's interior ministry has cautioned all foreign missions and multinational companies to take extra-ordinary security measures against likely terrorist and sectarian attacks during Muharram, a daily reported today. The News report said an official letter circulated among diplomatic missions and MNCs referred to specific warnings from the intelligence agencies, which said that they could be the foremost targets of subversive activities. Full Story
Coup Plot Foiled in Malawi
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:23 by TRC-News
Six people have been arrested in Malawi for allegedly planning a coup against the government of President Bakili Muluzi, police said. Police said the six were charged with treason, which carries the death sentence. Full Story
Seven Killed in Battle to Retake Kashmir Camp
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
Seven people are dead after suspected Islamic separatists launched a suicide attack on a security camp in the disputed region of Kashmir. Full Story
Clashes Over German Nuclear Train
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
German anti-nuclear protesters and police have been engaged in a series of confrontations as a train carrying nuclear waste from France approaches a storage site in northern Germany. Full Story
Suicide Bomber Wounds 22 in Jerusalem Blast
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy Jerusalem intersection and wounded 22 people in the second bomb attack to rock Jewish neighborhoods of the holy city Tuesday, Israeli police said. Full Story
Fight in Political Arena, EU Tells Rebels
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:18 by TRC-News
European Union security chief Javier Solana visited the flashpoint city of Tetovo on Tuesday, urging ethnic Albanian guerrillas to lay down their arms and fight for their rights in the political arena. Full Story
Clashes Erupt in Somalia After Aid Office Raid
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Skirmishes broke out in a section of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday when armed men attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres compound, trapping about 20 people inside, witnesses and the charity said. Full Story
China Details Planning of Deadly Dormitory Blast
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
The man arrested for a string of explosions that killed 108 people in the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang has detailed how he single-handedly coordinated the back-to-back blasts, the People's Daily reported on Tuesday. Full Story
Military to Form Anti-Kidnap Force
Posted Monday, March 26, 2001 - 17:10 by TRC-News
Philippine military chief Diomedio Villanueva said on Monday he would form a special force to help police combat a rash of kidnappings. Full Story
Seven Die, 100 Houses Burned in Aceh Sweep
Posted Monday, March 26, 2001 - 17:09 by TRC-News
Fears are growing that Indonesia's military plans to launch a big search and destroy operation against separatist rebels across wide areas of Aceh province. Full Story
Liberians Attack Ghanaian Police
Posted Monday, March 26, 2001 - 17:09 by TRC-News
Thousands of Liberian refugees have fought with Ghanaian riot police in a camp near the capital, Accra, after officers refused to hand over a man who attempted to assault a refugee. Full Story
Paris Police Search for Possible Second Corsican Car Bomb
Posted Monday, March 26, 2001 - 17:06 by TRC-News
French police confirmed Sunday they are looking for a stolen car they suspect Corsican separatists have dumped in Paris rigged with some 100 kilogrammes (220 pounds) of explosives. Full Story
Guerrilla Hero Vows to Break Taliban Grip
Posted Monday, March 26, 2001 - 17:05 by TRC-News
The most renowned guerrilla commander of the 25- year conflict in Afghanistan has pledged to launch a new offensive to rid the country of its Taliban leadership. Full Story
Russia Buries Bomb Victims As Toll Rises to 23
Posted Monday, March 26, 2001 - 14:51 by TRC-News
Authorities in a southern Russian province rocked by a series of deadly bomb explosions declared a day of mourning Monday amid a huge security operation to capture those responsible. Full Story
Six Killed As Militants Storm Kashmir Security Camp
Posted Monday, March 26, 2001 - 14:51 by TRC-News
A three-member suicide squad stormed a security camp in Kashmir's main city on Monday, killing four paramilitary personnel and wounding four others, a paramilitary spokesman said. Full Story
The New Color of Terror: A Deadly Shade of Green
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:43 by TRC-News
Guess who the FBI considers to be the largest terrorist threat inside the borders of the United States? Full Story
U.S. Cyber-Chief Warns of Weaknesses
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:39 by TRC-News
The new director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) told news sources Tuesday that online terrorism and other types of cybercrime could gravely affect the U.S. economy unless federal agencies and corporations work together more closely than they have in the past. Full Story
Step 1: Set up shop in Canada
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:37 by TRC-News
For the past decade, terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has operated a series of secret training camps in Afghanistan where militants have gone to learn how to wage holy war against the ''enemies of Islam,'' specifically Americans and Jews. Full Story
Rebels Launch Terrorist Attacks in Macedonia
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:34 by TRC-News
The conflict in Macedonia entered a dangerous new phase Thursday as ethnic Albanian rebels launched urban terrorist attacks while their forces retreated under government artillery fire. Full Story
Bush Orders CIA To End Direct Middle East Role
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:33 by TRC-News
President George W Bush has ordered the US intelligence service, the CIA, to stop acting as a broker between Israel and the Palestinians. The decision is typical of the new administration's hands-off approach to the Middle East peace process. Full Story
Post-Election Rioting Rocks Guyana
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:32 by TRC-News
Police fired tear gas and metal pellets Thursday at stone-throwing black protesters who have claimed their votes weren't counted in this week's racially tense elections. At least two people were injured. Full Story
Suspect Had Speech Excerpts in Home
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:21 by TRC-News
Excerpts of a speech by President Clinton about terrorism were found in the apartment of the fugitive co-defendant of an Algerian accused of smuggling explosives into the country, a witness testified Thursday. Full Story
Mass. technology eyed in fight against airline terrorism
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:20 by TRC-News
The EntryScan3 seems innocent enough. It looks like an oversized airport metal detector that uses voice commands to direct passengers in and out of a security checkpoint. Full Story
One Dead in Communal Violence in Indian Kashmir
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:18 by TRC-News
Authorities imposed a curfew on a town in India's restive Kashmir region on Friday after a protester was killed in a demonstration against burnings of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, by Hindu hard-liners. Full Story
French Police Arrest Suspected ETA Organizer
Posted Friday, March 23, 2001 - 10:16 by TRC-News
Spanish and French police on Friday arrested eight suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA on both sides of the border, including a man suspected of smuggling ETA's arms between France and Spain. Full Story
Experts say Ressam moving highly volatile bomb materials
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:36 by TRC-News
Experts from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms testified yesterday that some of the chemical explosives found in the trunk of Ahmed Ressam's car were so volatile they could have been detonated by static electricity. Full Story
Bin Laden is cult figure of Pakistani Muslims
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
Demonization by the West of the world's most wanted terrorist has turned Osama bin Laden into a "cult figure among Muslims," says Pakistan's military ruler. Full Story
Bill would establish National Homeland Security Agency
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) today introduced legislation that would reorganize the federal government to better prepare for threats against the American homeland. Full Story
Cohen Feels Bioterrorism is Real Threat
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:32 by TRC-News
Now that he's no longer the nation's secretary of defense, William Cohen apparently feels free to leak government secrets. Full Story
FBI: Terrorists lurk online
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
Terrorist organizations are increasingly lurking on the Internet, looking for ways to penetrate government and private networks and using the Web to pass information, the government's top cybercrime sleuth said Tuesday. Full Story
Spain protests over suspected ETA killing
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
Silent in grief, but vocal in their anger, thousands of Spaniards have demonstrated at the latest killing in the Basque region, believed to be linked to seperatist group ETA. Full Story
Oklahoma City blast
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
A former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City last night told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly she has gathered massive evidence of a foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the 1995 bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people. Full Story
Terror Suspect Held Secretly for 4 Months
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:18 by TRC-News
A new suspect in a global conspiracy to kill Americans abroad has been held secretly in New York City for more than four months since his arrest in Africa last fall, court records show. Full Story
Shooting Erupts, EU Tries to Prevent New Balkan War
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Two ethnic Albanians were shot dead by police in Tetovo and one policeman was wounded in shooting not far from the Macedonian capital on Thursday as European powers tried to avert civil war. Full Story
Violence Flares As Sharon Heads Back to Israel
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Israeli troops and Palestinians fought one of the fiercest gun battles for days in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, despite Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's vow not to hold peace talks until violence ends. Full Story
Pakistan Arrests Continue, Some Politicians Freed
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
Pakistani police said on Thursday they released some of the senior politicians detained the previous day, but democracy activists said a military clampdown on political activities continued. Full Story
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers Extend Ceasefire
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Tamil Tigers fighting for independence in Sri Lanka said on Thursday they would extend a unilateral cease-fire for one more month but also threatened to break it if the government did not respond positively. Full Story
Home of Judge in Guatemala Bishop Case Bombed
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
Unidentified assailants on Wednesday bombed the house of a judge slated to preside over the trial on Thursday of five suspects in the killing of Guatemalan human rights advocate Bishop Juan Gerardi in 1998. Full Story
Berenson Proclaims Innocence
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 10:01 by TRC-News
An optimistic and somewhat nervous Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen convicted of treason in Peru in 1996 but later granted a retrial, Tuesday denied charges of aiding Marxist rebels at the opening day of her public hearing. Full Story
Freed British hostage tells of terror in Bangladeshi jungle
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 9:54 by TRC-News
A British engineer held hostage for four weeks in the Bangladeshi jungle yesterday told how he feared for his life. Tim Selby, 28, was snatched at gunpoint by rebels on February 16 in the south-east of Bangladesh, while working on a road surveying project for a Danish firm. Full Story
Fighting Kills 16 PKK Terrorists, Three Turk Soldiers
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
Sixteen terrorists and three soldiers have been killed in fighting between security forces and PKK militants in southeastern Turkey, a military official said on Tuesday. Full Story
Militants Killed in Kashmir
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 9:39 by TRC-News
Nine separatist militants have been killed in a clash with Indian police in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Police say it took place in the mountainous district of Poonch, about 200 kilometres from the state's winter capital, Jammu, on Wednesday morning. Full Story
Trial Focuses on Explosives in Car
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 9:36 by TRC-News
Government experts told jurors Tuesday that powders and liquids found in the car of an Algerian man accused in an alleged terrorist plot were explosives that could have detonated at any time. Full Story
Egyptian Islamists Deny Involvement in Zagreb Bomb Attack
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 7:50 by TRC-News
An Egyptian Islamic militant group has denied involvement in a recent bomb attack in front of Zagreb city hall, saying it was a result of "internal conflicts in Croatia," the local press reported Tuesday. Full Story
Report: Possible Bin Laden-Cole Link
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 6:49 by TRC-News
The FBI has uncovered a possible link between the main suspect in the Cole bombing and the No. 1 U.S. terror suspect, Osama bin Laden, according to a report appearing in this week's Newsweek. Full Story
Gunfire Hits Indonesian Minister's Copter in Aceh
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 6:42 by TRC-News
Gunfire hit two helicopters carrying Indonesia's mines and energy minister and other officials in rebellious Aceh on Tuesday, less than a week before President Abdurrahman Wahid is due to visit the province. Full Story
Spain Arrests Five Youths for Suspected ETA Links
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 6:41 by TRC-News
Spanish police on Tuesday arrested five people for alleged links with ETA in the latest swoop on the armed Basque separatist group and its supporters, a government spokesman said. Full Story
Venezuela Detains Colombian Guerrilla, Again
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 6:41 by TRC-News
Venezuela on Monday arrested a Colombian guerrilla wanted for a 1999 plane hijacking for a second time in just over a month, after his earlier release by Venezuelan police angered Colombia. Full Story
Russia Buries Hijack Stewardess, Queries How Killed
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 6:40 by TRC-News
Hundreds of mourners buried on Monday the stewardess killed in the hijacking of a Russian plane as officials queried whether she may have died from a Saudi rescuer's bullet rather than a hijacker's knife. Full Story
Colombian Police Identify Kidnapped German
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 6:39 by TRC-News
Colombian police on Monday identified a German hotelier kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels. Confirming local television reports, a police spokesman told Reuters that Lothar Hintze was kidnapped by suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Friday in the central Colombian province of Tolima. Full Story
Tamil Tigers shift out of London after British ban: report
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have shifted their "international secretariat" out of London after being banned under new anti-terrorism laws in Britain, a press report here said Sunday. Full Story
Aum Doomsday Cult Shadows Japan
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
Three faintly smiling faces stare out from tattered posters hung outside police stations across Japan. Few passers-by stop to look, though all know why police want the fugitives so badly. Full Story
CIS plans to combat international terrorism
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
The CIS Interparliamentary Assembly (IPA) is drawing up recommendations to lay a common legal foundation to combat international terrorism within the Commonwealth. They will be discussed during the April 19 meeting of the Assembly in St.Petersburg. This was disclosed here on Monday during a meeting of the delegation from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly with representatives from the national parliament and with the heads of Kyrgyz power structures, member of the Upper House of the Kyrgyz Parliament Valery Dil stated here on Monday. Full Story
Terrorism training center set for state
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
The quiet hills of West Virginia appear to be a world away from terrorist attacks. But they'll be the epicenter of response to domestic and international terrorism, be it a cloud of poison gas, a bomb or a virulent bug. Full Story
Countys anti-terror plan lists targets
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
The most likely places for terrorism to suddently erupt are railroads, schools and even the Sheboygan County fairgrounds. Thats one of the listings in a revised anti-terrorism plan that focuses on the terms and abilities of various Sheboygan County agencies that take immediate action, Emergency Management Director Stacy Karbe told a committee Wednesday. The proposal recently went to the state for final approval. Full Story
Oil giant pulls out as fighting rages in Indonesia
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Fifteen people, including 11 civilians, have died in renewed violence in Indonesia’s Aceh province as fears grow of an all-out war between the Government and separatist rebels. Full Story
Senators will weigh eco-terror penalties
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
State senators will debate this week whether the state's chemical and agricultural industries need legal protection from eco-terrorists - a threat they acknowledge has never occurred in Arizona. Full Story
Unidentified Gunmen Attack Ugandan Town, Kill 10
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
Unidentified gunmen have attacked a western Uganda town, killing 10 people and setting ablaze a number of vehicles, a military spokesman said Sunday. Full Story
Grenade Attack Mars Peace Accord in Georgia
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
Five police were wounded in a grenade attack Sunday in continued trouble between Georgia and its breakaway region of Abkhazia, ITAR-TASS said according to Abkhaz authorities. Full Story
Fighting Kills 42 In Algeria
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
In recent violence surrounding a nine-year rebel insurgency, 22 Islamic militants were killed by security forces, and a clash between two rebel groups claimed the lives of 20 others, news reports said Sunday. Full Story
1st Week of Terror Trial Concludes
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
The first week of Ahmed Ressam's trial ended Friday with 47 witnesses having offered bits and pieces of a puzzle that federal prosecutors say will fit together to reveal the face of a terrorist. Full Story
Israeli Killed As Sharon Starts U.S. Mission
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
Palestinian gunmen shot dead a Jewish settler on a West Bank road Monday, and the Israeli army immediately reimposed its blockade of the town of Bethlehem where the attackers were believed to have fled. Full Story
Spain Car Bomb Found After Blast Kills Policeman
Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA killed a policeman in northern Spain late Saturday and police deactivated a second bomb on the country's southeastern coast early Sunday. Full Story
Bangladesh Kidnappers Free European Hostages
Posted Friday, March 16, 2001 - 22:25 by TRC-News
Bangladeshi kidnappers released on Saturday three Europeans who had been held hostage for a month in a dense forest in the country's southeast, security officials said. Full Story
Baghdad Bus Blast Kills Two, Injures 27
Posted Friday, March 16, 2001 - 22:24 by TRC-News
A device planted between two buses at a garage in the Iraqi capital exploded early Friday, killing two people, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. Full Story
Saudis Storm Hijacked Russian Plane, Three Die
Posted Friday, March 16, 2001 - 22:24 by TRC-News
Three people were killed when Saudi commandos stormed a Russian airliner and freed more than 100 passengers on Friday from hijackers claiming to be Chechens who had threatened to blow up the plane. Full Story
Feds prepare state, local governments for terrorist attacks
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 16:23 by TRC-News
When you walk into clouds of poisonous gas for a living, it helps to have a sense of humor--even a morbid one. That's why fire department hazardous-materials specialists often call their police colleagues "blue canaries." It's a reference to the songbirds that old-time miners took with them underground as living--or dying--indicators of bad air in the shafts. The joke goes like this: "There's a policeman down there, he doesn't look like he's doing too well, I guess that's not a safe area," explained John Eversole, chief of special functions for the Chicago Fire Department. Full Story
Alleged terrorist fund-raisers indicted by grand jury
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
Seven people suspected of soliciting money from airport travelers to buy weapons for an anti-Iranian terror group have been indicted by a federal grand jury. Full Story
False Canadian passports easy to get, terror trial told
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
Canada's passport security system was depicted yesterday as a shambles that allowed Ahmed Ressam to almost effortlessly get a Canadian passport using forged documents. Full Story
Venezuela Frees Suspected Hijacker
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 9:29 by TRC-News
A Colombian hijack suspect is free to leave Venezuela because there are no local charges against him, Venezuela's attorney general said Wednesday in comments sure to fan fierce debate here over the case. Full Story
Egyptian Tour Guide Frees 4 German Hostages
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 9:28 by TRC-News
An Egyptian tour guide early Thursday released four German tourists he had held for more than three days in a desperate bid to end a child custody dispute, police said. He then surrendered without incident. Full Story
Turkey Reports Russian Airliner Hijacked
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
A Russian airliner carrying 162 people was hijacked by two people claiming to be Chechens after leaving Istanbul on Thursday and at least one person was injured, Turkey's transport minister said. Full Story
IRA Says Has Talks with Disarmament Body
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) said on Wednesday one of its representatives had met Northern Ireland's disarmament commission for talks. Full Story
Arafat Arrives in Libya for Talks with Gaddafi
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat arrived in Libya on Wednesday for talks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Palestinian officials said. Full Story
Ben-Eliezer pledges more active battle against terror
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
In a meeting with leaders of the Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip yesterday, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer promised to maintain an open channel of communications and adopt a more active role in quelling terrorism. Full Story
Survivors Give Eerie Details of Bombing in Terror Case
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
It was Elizabeth Slater's third day on the job. At 10 a.m., she was sitting in her office at one of her first official meetings. Forty minutes later, she was trapped there, buried in rubble up to her chest. Full Story
Opposing Views Open Terror Trial
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
A man suspected of terrorism arrested with a carload of explosives shortly before New Year's Day 2000 is either a careless militant who left behind a trail of incriminating evidence or a naive "lost soul" who was used by extremists bent on attacking the United States, a federal jury was told Tuesday. Full Story
US Pilots Said at Risk in Drug War
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
U.S. civilian pilots are carrying out ``risky'' missions in Colombia's drug war, flying fumigation planes low sometimes through guerrilla fire, the country's defense minister says. But he insists U.S. troops here face minimal danger. Full Story
Terrorism Trial May Keep to Narrower Focus
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Federal prosecutors opened their case today against an Algerian man accused of transporting bomb-making equipment into the United States from Canada in the trunk of a rented car 15 months ago. Full Story
Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian on Day of Rage
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip Wednesday while Palestinians in the West Bank took to the streets in mass demonstrations to protest against an Israeli blockade. Full Story
Taliban Expel BBC for Criticism of Destruction
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
The ruling Taliban expelled the British Broadcasting Corp. from Afghanistan Wednesday for transmitting criticism of the group's destruction of all ancient statues, including two large Buddhas in Bamiyan. Full Story
Gaddafi Safe From French Bomb Case Charges
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
France's highest court ruled on Tuesday that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi could not be prosecuted for the 1989 bombing of a French DC-10 airliner over Niger that killed 170 people. Full Story
Terrorism response teams are on road to readiness
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
The Pentagon's inspector general says the National Guard's terrorism response teams in Missouri, Illinois and eight other states are ill-trained, ill-equipped and far from ready. Full Story
Algerian goes on trial for terrorism
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
A jury was seated Monday in the trial of an Algerian national accused of plotting to bomb Seattle and other U.S. cities during millennium celebrations. Full Story
Oklahoma City weighs heavily on Ressam trial
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
The horrifying spectre of the Oklahoma City bombing enveloped the start of the trial Monday of accused Algerian terrorist conspirator Ahmed Ressam, inside and outside a heavily secured courtroom. Full Story
Aid Workers Abducted in Sudan
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Reports from Sudan say the government is working to release four aid workers who were abducted last week in the war-ravaged south of the country. Full Story
Angola Separatist Group Says Holding Portuguese
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
A separatist group in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda has said it's holding five Portuguese construction workers who were abducted in the area last week. Full Story
23 Killed In Clashes In Algeria
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
Five civilians and 18 suspected Islamic militants have been killed in clashes in Algeria, wracked by a bloody, nine-year insurgency, newspapers reported Monday. Full Story
Border Arrest Stirs Fear of Terrorist Cells in U.S.
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
An Algerian man arrested crossing the Canadian border 15 months ago with a carload of explosives was part of a terrorist "sleeper cell" activated by Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, U.S. intelligence officials believe. Full Story
Egyptian Abducts Four European Tourists Near Luxor
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
An Egyptian tour guide has taken four foreign female tourists hostage, security sources said on Tuesday. At least three are believed to be German nationals, and according to a police source, one woman may be Spanish. Full Story
Seven Killed in Pakistan Mosque Shooting
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Gunmen opened fire at a Muslim prayer meeting at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday night, killing seven people and wounding 18 in what police said was the latest in a wave of sectarian violence. Full Story
CIA Is Stepping Up Attempts To Monitor Spread of Weapons
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:56 by TRC-News
Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet last week created a unit with 500 analysts, scientists and support personnel to focus on nonproliferation and arms control issues, calling the spread of missile technology and "weapons of mass destruction" a growing global threat. Full Story
The ultimate terrorist: myth or reality?
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:51 by TRC-News
In the last decade, terrorism has emerged as one of the most important political issues in the United States. Unlike its European partners, the US virtually escaped the horror of terrorism during the Cold War era. This is no longer true. Terrorists now select targets in the United States itself. Full Story
DoD Science Board Examining Homeland Defense
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:50 by TRC-News
The Pentagon's Defense Science Board (DSB) has set up several task-force groups to study an array of issues over the coming months ranging from outlining intelligence needs for homeland defense to defining problems with precision target weapons. Full Story
Pope calls for end to terrorism in Spain
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:48 by TRC-News
Pope John Paul II appealed for an "end to terrorism in Spain" Sunday during a ceremony to beatify 233 Spanish civil war martyrs, the highest number he has ever beatified at one time. Full Story
Trial to begin over Y2K bomb plot
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:45 by TRC-News
Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian man accused of helping to plot a terrorist bomb attack on U.S. cities celebrating the millennium, goes on trial in Los Angeles Monday. Ressam’s case, in which prosecutors will try and document his ties to Osama bin Laden, will focus on his alleged attempt to smuggle explosives from Canada into Washington state. Full Story
Chechen Kidnappers of Britons Held
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:42 by TRC-News
Russian interrogators are to begin questioning a Chechen rebel leader about the kidnap and beheading of three British telecommunication engineers and a New Zealander in 1998. Full Story
Chechen Rebels Execute Two Russian Soldiers
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:41 by TRC-News
Chechen separatists said Sunday they have hanged two Russian soldiers they captured in a town near the Chechen capital of Grozny. Full Story
Israeli Troops Fire At Palestinians Trying To Break Blockade
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas Monday at hundreds of Palestinians using a bulldozer to try to break through an Israeli army blockade, part of a new chokehold on Ramallah. Full Story
U.S. Mobilized Hostage Rescue
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:39 by TRC-News
An elite U.S. Delta Force team was poised to attempt a rescue of four kidnapped Americans being held in Ecuador's jungle by a band of ex-guerrillas who had already killed an American hostage and declared their intention to kill another, U.S. officials say. Full Story
Ransom Sought for Japanese Kidnap Victim
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:39 by TRC-News
Riku Yazaki of Yazaki Corp., left, speaks to reporters Saturday in Toyko. FARC rebels have demanded millions for the release of Chikao Muramatsu, 52, vice president of Yazaki's Colombia-based joint venture. Full Story
14 Killed In Violence In Algeria
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 9:38 by TRC-News
Security forces killed 10 suspected rebels in a sweep operation, part of an ongoing hunt for Islamic militants who have waged a violent nine-year insurgency, an Algerian newspaper reported Sunday. Full Story
Terror reached across nation
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
An Algerian man arrested crossing the Canadian border 15 months ago with a carload of explosives was part of a Montreal "sleeper cell" activated by accused terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, U.S. intelligence officials believe. Full Story
Provos scout terror targets in England
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
One of the Provisional IRA's most feared terrorists is carrying out reconnaissance missions and collecting intelligence on targets in England, heightening security service fears that it is planning a high-profile 'spectacular'. Full Story
Israel PM Calls Arafat Guards Terrorists
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took off the gloves yesterday and accused members of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's presidential guard of taking part in "terrorist activities." Full Story
Terror of the secretive triads
Posted Monday, March 12, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
Triads have been described as one of the world's biggest and most feared organised crime networks. Full Story
Feds link Ressam to terror camps
Posted Sunday, March 11, 2001 - 20:34 by TRC-News
An Algerian man arrested in New York in connection with the arrest of Ahmed Ressam has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and is cooperating with authorities investigating an alleged millennium terrorist bomb plot. Full Story
Ex-Biological Warfare Official: It Scares The Living Hell Out Of Me
Posted Sunday, March 11, 2001 - 20:32 by TRC-News
William Patrick describes himself as an "old fossil" who hasn't quite made it into the 21st century. Nevertheless, he's on a mission to educate "first responders" about the awful prospect of bio-terrorism. Full Story
Bomb plot suspect pleads guilty
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
An Algerian accused of helping smuggle explosives into the United States in a 1999 case that stirred fears of a terrorist attack during the millennium celebrations has pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the government. Full Story
Details emerge about embassy attack
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
A suspect in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa said they were intended to weaken the United States so targets inside its borders would be easier to hit, an FBI agent testified Wednesday. Full Story
Government rests case in terrorism witness trial
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 9:06 by TRC-News
Testimony wrapped up Wednesday in a civil case in which a former Iraqi contractor brought to the United States to testify in a terrorism trial is suing the government for $10 million for allegedly reneging on promises of a passport. Full Story
Mob Burns Mosque and Attacks UN Staff
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Riot police fired tear gas to quell violent protests against the United Nations east of Dili following the arrests of three men over an alleged plot to kill the independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao. Full Story
Algerian Guilty In Plot to Bomb Landmarks in U.S.
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
An Algerian man has pleaded guilty to charges that he aided the effort to smuggle explosives into the United States as part of an alleged millennium plot to bomb U.S. landmarks, and has agreed to testify against other suspects, officials said yesterday. Full Story
Serbian Policeman Dies in Guerrilla Attack
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
A Serbian policeman was killed in an ethnic Albanian guerrilla attack in southern Serbia close to the volatile boundary with Kosovo on Friday, Yugoslav Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic said. Full Story
Basque Policeman Killed by Car Bomb, ETA Blamed
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA killed one policeman in Spain's northern Basque region and injured another on Friday after the officers were lured into a trap, officials said. Full Story
Philippines Orders Month Ceasefire Against Rebels
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Friday declared a one-month cease-fire against communist rebels in 11 provinces considered a hotbed of Marxist-led insurgency. Full Story
Police Shoot As Dayaks Attack in Indonesian Borneo
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
Police opened fire on Friday on Dayaks as they tried to break into the compound of the provincial police chief's home in this ravaged city in Indonesian Borneo, witnesses said. Full Story
Blair, Ahern Hail IRA Arms Olive Branch
Posted Friday, March 9, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
The British and Irish prime ministers have applauded a surprise disarmament move by IRA guerrillas and vowed to keep up a dogged quest for stability in volatile Northern Ireland. Full Story
Intel Chief Addresses Longer-Range Threats to U.S.
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
The United States is the world’s sole remaining super power. America faces challenges and threats that span the spectrum of warfare, said Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Full Story
Terrorism changes mind of death penalty foes
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Americans view terrorism with such abhorrence that about a fifth of those who usually oppose the death penalty would support the execution of a defendant convicted of a terrorist attack, survey results show. Full Story
Dissident terror groups try to supplant IRA
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
Dissident IRA groups are asserting their strength in parts of Northern Ireland traditionally dominated by the Provisionals and are seeking to take over their role as the bombers of targets in London. Full Story
Terrorism hits home
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
Traditional peace-making has not reduced the number of nationalist-based conflicts in the world. It has had the opposite effect. Full Story
Terror suspect jailed; refused to testify
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
An alleged Hamas terrorist-in-training was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday after he refused repeatedly to testify before a grand jury investigating the group's activities in the United States. Full Story
1 Killed, 10 Injured as Militants Ambush Oil Tankers
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
One person was killed and 10 others injured when suspected Naga militants ambushed security personnel escorting 17 oil tankers at Karong in Manipur's Senapati district today, official sources said here. Full Story
French Detain ETA Suspect After Explosives Heist
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
French have police detained a suspected member of the Basque separatist group ETA after 1.5 tonnes of explosives were stolen from a warehouse near Grenoble, the local prosecutor said on Thursday. The man was caught around 2:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) trying to drive through a police roadblock near the eastern French city. Full Story
Timorese Attack U.N. cars, Injure Three
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Mobs attacked U.N. vehicles and a couple of buildings hours after the arrest of three men, allegedly connected with a possible assassination attempt on a prominent East Timor leader, officials said. Full Story
Religious Violence Leaves 10 Dead In Algeria
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Suspected Islamic militants killed 10 people in Algeria over the past weekend, newspapers reported Wednesday. The violence comes on the eve of a key Muslim holiday. Full Story
US court upholds terror ban
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against a ban on support for organisations designated as terrorist by the US Government. Full Story
Indonesian Police Shoot Dayak Protesters
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Indonesian police fired into a group of protesters on Thursday, wounding at least five, in the ravaged Borneo city of Palangkaraya just minutes after President Abdurrahman Wahid had left the area, witnesses said. Full Story
IRA Offers to Resume Disarmament Talks As PMs Talk
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
IRA guerrillas said they would reopen talks with Northern Ireland's disarmament body on Thursday as the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland held talks in the province to try to bolster its shaky peace pact. Full Story
The Bloody Birth of A Messy State
Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Terrified, the victims hid in the jungle. At long last the police came, announcing over loudspeakers that it was safe to come out. So some 300 Madurese—Muslims whose families had settled in Borneo over the last four decades—emerged from the bush. That was the worst mistake many of them would ever make. Full Story
Four Hurt in Attack on Chechnya Aid Convoy
Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Four policemen were wounded when a humanitarian convoy carrying aid into Chechnya came under rebel attack, Russian military officials in Grozny said Wednesday. Full Story
Prachanda's Shining Path
Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Six years into its "People's War," the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) seems to be moving towards a mediated settlement. A 25 February statement signed by Chairman Prachanda (hitherto, the general secretary) advocates a combination of an "armed mass revolt" and the People's War. By straightforward deduction, we can now expect the Maoists to become more active in everything from bandhs to chakka-jams even as they continue to "consolidate" their positions in the hinterland. Full Story
Troops Foil Suicide Mission
Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Troops killed two Pakistani terrorists belonging to the suicide squad of the Lashkar-e-Toiba as they attempted to storm an army camp at Jouria Wali Gali near Poonch early today. Full Story
Abductors Now Demand Ransom
Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
All positive developments regarding release of the three European hostages have been jeopardised following "newspaper reports" about payment of ransom, Minister for CHT Affairs Kalparanjan Chakma said yesterday. Full Story
KFOR Injures Two Gunmen on Kosovo-Macedonia Border
Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo shot and injured two gunmen at the border with Macedonia Wednesday, a spokesman said. Full Story
Foot-And-Mouth Puts Dartmoor on 'Red Alert'
Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
A second suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease on Dartmoor has put the national park on red alert, British farmers said on Tuesday. Full Story
Spain Detains ETA Suspects
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Spanish police have arrested 15 suspected members of the Basque separatist group, ETA. Several hundred police officers took part in the raids on a number of cities in the Basque region of northern Spain and in neighbouring Navarre, overnight on Monday. Full Story
Liberia Says Rebels Have Captured Town
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
The Liberian government has said it is fighting to retake the northern border town of Voinjama from rebels. The defence minister, Daniel Chea, accused Guinea of backing the rebels and said the seizure of the town amounted to an overt declaration of war by Conakry. Full Story
Paramilitary group may be added to terrorism list, official says
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
The State Department is considering placing Colombia's right-wing paramilitary organization on its list of foreign terrorist groups, meaning it would be subject to economic sanctions and other penalties, a senior official said Monday. Full Story
'Heritage terrorism' is a way of sticking two fingers up at West
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Smashing images is as old as human hatred. Anyone inclined to priggishness about the Taliban's mass execution of statues in Afghanistan need only visit the Lady Chapel at Ely cathedral. There, Puritan hammer-men obliterated the heads of saints, prophets and angels. That chapel remains one of the most heartbreaking sights in England. But in Europe as well as Asia and Africa, the loaded word 'idols' has covered countless crimes. Full Story
Police start nationwide anti-terror dragnet
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Police and several hundred soldiers yesterday fanned out across the country on an unprecedented operation to halt the apparent spate of terrorist forays across the pre-1967 borders. It included an expansion of undercover and investigative operations and an increase in the number of positions being manned around-the-clock. Full Story
Ex-paramilitary warns of terrorism deaths
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
The Real IRA will almost certainly murder people in mainland Britain as it continues its terrorist campaign for a united Ireland, a former republican paramilitary, now totally opposed to violence, said yesterday. Full Story
Terror Returns to London
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
An anti-British paramilitary group based in Ireland brought its fear campaign back to London early today, police said, in the form of a large car bomb that exploded outside the BBC television studios. No one was seriously hurt in the blast, because police had evacuated the area after receiving telephoned warnings. Full Story
Hamas Says It Carried Out Israel Bomb Attack
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
The military wing of the Islamist Hamas organization claimed responsibility Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack in the Israeli town of Netanya on Sunday in which three Israelis were killed. Full Story
Blair Urges N.Irish Peace Push; UK on Bomb Alert
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Britain called Tuesday for all sides in Northern Ireland's political struggle to come together for talks to revive the stalled peace process two days after a powerful bomb exploded in London. Full Story
Real IRA blamed for BBC bombing
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 8:01 by TRC-News
The dissident Irish terrorist group Real IRA emerged yesterday as the principal suspect in the car bombing of the BBC Television Centre in west London. Full Story
Wife of terror suspect questions CSIS tactics
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:59 by TRC-News
Canada's spy agency didn't make Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub aware of his rights when agents interviewed him last year about other suspected terrorists, court was told Friday. Full Story
Muslims Warn Britain or Anti-terror Backlash
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:56 by TRC-News
Muslim militants aligned with Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden have warned Britain of a backlash in wake of the government's new anti-terrorism legislation. Full Story
Eco-terrorism group claims Tulare attack
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:55 by TRC-News
The fire was fairly large, but it broke out in the middle of the night in an empty building in rural Tulare County and hardly warranted a mention in local newspapers. Then, five days later, the e-mail message went out. "We chose this warehouse because it contained massive quantities of transgenic cotton seed in storage," the message said. "But now, this seed will no longer exist to contaminate the environment, enrich a sick corporation, or contribute to its warped research programs." Full Story
Man charged with terror offences
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:54 by TRC-News
A 29-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been charged with offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Full Story
How London terrorism has grown
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:53 by TRC-News
Terrorist activity on the mainland has gathered pace in the last nine months. Full Story
Bomb Wrecked Thai PM's Plane
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:51 by TRC-News
Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has confirmed the cause of a fire which destroyed a plane he was about to board was "definitely an explosive." Full Story
Chechen Blast Kills Three Policemen, One Woman, in Grozny Market
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:50 by TRC-News
Three pro-Moscow police officers and a woman civilian died Saturday when a blast ripped through a market in the Chechen capital Grozny, ITAR-TASS quoted the Russian interior ministry as saying Sunday. Full Story
Abductors Now Demand Ransom
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:48 by TRC-News
Kalparanjan blames press reports for jeopardising negotiations. All positive developments regarding release of the three European hostages have been jeopardised following "newspaper reports" about payment of ransom, Minister for CHT Affairs Kalparanjan Chakma said yesterday. Full Story
Britain Says Bomb Aimed at Peace Process
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:46 by TRC-News
A massive car bomb blast outside the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation in London was designed to wreck the shaky Northern Ireland peace process, a British government minister said Monday. Full Story
Israel on High Security Alert for More Bombings
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:45 by TRC-News
- Israel went on high alert on Monday, expecting more suicide bombings as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon prepared to take office with the avowed aim of restoring security shattered by a Palestinian uprising. Full Story
Hamas Military Wing Says Will Attack Israelis
Posted Monday, March 5, 2001 - 7:42 by TRC-News
The military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas said on Saturday it was prepared to launch suicide bombing attacks on Israelis as soon as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon takes power. Full Story
Suicide Bomber Hits Israeli City; Four Dead
Posted Sunday, March 4, 2001 - 11:53 by TRC-News
A suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in an explosion that rocked the heart of the Israeli coastal city of Netanya Sunday, a day after Islamic militants vowed to launch fresh attacks. Full Story
Diplomat describes embassy blast
Posted Friday, March 2, 2001 - 9:29 by TRC-News
Prudence Bushnell was certain she was going to die as she descended the bloody stairwell of a building next door to a bombed U.S. embassy in Africa. Full Story
Bin Laden Appears Alive and Kicking in Europe
Posted Friday, March 2, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden might be hiding in Afghanistan. But his agents are alive and well in Europe. Arab security sources said Bin Laden has established a network of agents in Central Europe to help supply equipment needed for his campaign against the United States and the West. They said this includes components for missile development. Full Story
Al-Najjar: Reporting terrorism is a duty
Posted Friday, March 2, 2001 - 9:23 by TRC-News
The man jailed three years on secret evidence accusing him of terrorist ties said Wednesday he would feel a "moral obligation" to report terrorist activity if he knew about it. Full Story
Feds begin to question terrorism case details
Posted Friday, March 2, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
The government began to lay the groundwork for its defense in a $10 million civil suit Wednesday by suggesting that a former Iraqi contractor whose testimony led to a conviction in a terrorist bombing may have been kicked out of the federal Witness Protection Program. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Shells Buddhas, U.N. Warns
Posted Friday, March 2, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were reported on Friday to have shelled world-famous, rock-hewn Buddhas as a U.N. envoy warned them of a devastating reaction if they carried out a plan to destroy all of the country's historic statues. Full Story
Two Million Muslims Pray in Mecca on Eve of Haj
Posted Friday, March 2, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
An estimated two million pilgrims attended Friday prayers at Islam's holiest shrine in Mecca on the eve of the haj, the annual pilgrimage in the footsteps of the Prophet Mohammad. Full Story
Israeli Army Kills Palestinian in Gaza
Posted Friday, March 2, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Israel's army said on Friday it had killed a Gaza resident suspected of planning to attack Israelis, but Palestinians said he was an innocent homeless man. Full Story
Foreign Hostages Set Free in Ecuador
Posted Friday, March 2, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Seven foreign oil workers held hostage in Ecuador's Amazon jungle region for 4-1/2 months by an unidentified armed group were freed on Thursday, a week after their employers paid a $13 million ransom. Full Story
Botulinum Toxin Is A Major Biological Weapons Threat
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
The Working Group on Civilian Biodefense, an expert panel convened by the Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, says that botulinum toxin poses a major biological weapons threat to the public. Botulinum toxin is the cause of the disease called botulism. The Hopkins Working Group's latest report recommends medical and public health guidelines and policies to minimize the consequences from an attack and is published in the February 28, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Full Story
Israeli army chief hits at Arafat terror
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:29 by TRC-News
Israel's chief of staff has accused Yassir Arafat's Palestinian Authority of evolving into "a terrorist entity", raising expectations of a tougher Israeli response to more than five months of clashes. Full Story
21 groups banned under new terror law
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:27 by TRC-News
The government yesterday banned 21 groups, the majority Islamic, which it has branded as terrorist under a new law enabling it for the first time to proscribe organisations targeting foreign states. Full Story
Long-awaited security report released
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office this week released President Clinton’s report to Congress on the status of federal efforts to secure the information systems that support the nation’s critical infrastructure. Full Story
A copy of the report is archived here
Tamil Tigers on Banned List
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
The Tamil Tigers are among foreign organisations that the British Government intends to ban under new anti-terrorist legislation. Full Story
Three Shot Dead as Religious Riots Erupt in Pakistan
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
At least three Shiite Muslims were killed and one critically wounded as gunmen opened fire in a market in the northwestern Pakistani city of Hangu on Thursday, police said. Full Story
Bomb defused on Tel Aviv's Allenby Street
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
A "serious attack" was averted yesterday in the heart of Tel Aviv after bomb squad officers neutralized a briefcase bomb left at a restaurant in the early evening. Full Story
Israel Suspects Terrorists in Car Blast; One Dead
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:18 by TRC-News
An Israeli car exploded in northern Israel on Thursday during a long chase by police who suspected it was carrying "terrorists" about to detonate a car bomb, and one person was killed, officials said. Full Story
One Dead, Nine Wounded in Northern Israel Car Blast
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:18 by TRC-News
One person was killed and nine wounded when a car exploded in northern Israel on Thursday during a chase by police who suspected it carried ``terrorists'' about to detonate a bomb, police and ambulance workers said. Full Story
Yemen Says Ship Bomb Suspect May Be in Afghanistan
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Thursday the main suspect in the bombing of the warship USS Cole was believed to have fled to Afghanistan. Full Story
Bin Laden Says Cole Sailed Slowly to Its Doom-Paper
Posted Thursday, March 1, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden described in a poem how the USS Cole (news - web sites) destroyer slowly sailed to its doom at Aden port, where a suicide bombing attack killed 17 U.S. sailors on board, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Full Story
Terror Arrests in L.A.
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 10:39 by TRC-News
ABCNEWS has learned that the FBI in Los Angeles has arrested members of a terrorist organization. FBI officials are not providing any details of the arrest or the charges but said they will be holding a news conference at 1:30 p.m. ET. ABCNEWS.com will carry the news conference live. Full Story
Weapon of Choice: How Terrorists Use the Web
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
The same advantages the Internet and advanced technology bring to the general public and to business -- speed, security and global linkage -- are helping international terrorist groups organize their deadly and disruptive activities. Full Story
Judge Rejects New Trial in Oklahoma City Bomb Case
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
A federal judge on Tuesday denied convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' request to void his conviction and life sentence, rejecting an argument that jury instructions in the original trial were faulty. Full Story
China aids Pakistani, rogue missile programs, CIA says
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
China continued to send "substantial" assistance to Pakistan's missile program during the first half of 2000 and also aided missile programs in Iran, North Korea and Libya, according to a CIA report. Full Story
Bush pledges help for Colombia
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
President Bush vowed on Tuesday to press for improved trade terms to help Colombia’s stricken economy and to tackle drug trafficking, but the U.S. leader said he would not get directly involved in the peace negotiations between the Colombian government and left-wing rebels. Bush made his remarks after meeting Colombia’s president, Andres Pastrana, at the White House. Full Story
Banned terror groups to be named
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Home Secretary Jack Straw is due to publish the first list of organisations to be banned under the new Terrorism Act. Full Story
RUC warning to 500 after seizure of terror lists
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Up to 500 people were being told by the RUC yesterday that their personal details have been found in the hands of loyalist terrorists.
The warnings follow searches in north Belfast in which police seized documents and computer disks along with weapons and pipe bombs. Some of the information is thought to be up to 10 years old, but two or three files are understood to have been compiled between l997 and l999. Full Story
Bush to ban terror group
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
George W Bush is planning to ban the Real IRA in America as a way of cutting off support and funding for the terrorist group that carried out the Omagh bombing. Full Story
Star's father tells of Bloody Sunday terror
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
The father of Hollywood movie actress Bronagh Gallagher told the Saville Inquiry that he was so convinced he was going to be shot on Bloody Sunday, that he tried to say an Act of Contrition, but he was so scared he forgot the words. Full Story
Leader of Indonesia Terror Proclaims Victory
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Security forces fanned out Monday across Indonesia's blood-soaked Central Kalimantan province, where an indigenous Dayak leader declared victory after a terror campaign to drive an ethnic minority from the region. Full Story
Fiji Prepares for Unrest
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
With less than 24 hours to go before an appeal court ruling, Fiji awaits its fate, anxious that the outcome may spark civil unrest. Full Story
Execute Terrorists at Our Own Risk
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
As a nation, we have decided that terrorism that results in loss of life should face the possibility of the death penalty. But is this wise? Full Story
Clashes After Pakistan Hangs Sunni Muslim Killer
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
Pakistan hanged an Islamic activist on Wednesday for killing an Iranian official in 1990, sparking sectarian disturbances in which police said one man was killed. Full Story
Cyber terrorism on the rise, FBI cautions trade group
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:19 by TRC-News
Live in Alan B. Carroll's world for a while, and you'll probably never look at a computer the same way again. Carroll, one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's leading computer crime experts, mesmerized an Orlando trade show audience Monday with tales of cyber-threats and hacker attacks against the nation's government and business infrastructure. Full Story
Refugee denies any link to terror groups
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:18 by TRC-News
A 40-year-old refugee from Egypt repeatedly denied allegations by Canadian intelligence officials that he's a high-level international terrorist with links to Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Law would curb raising funds for terrorism
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
A meeting with government officials Monday failed to comfort organizations worried about being unfairly targeted by legislation aimed at groups that raise money for terrorists. Full Story
Top Hizbul Militant Surrenders in Kashmir
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
A top Muslim militant, carrying a reward of 200,000 rupees (4,300 dollars) on his head, surrendered Monday to Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in India's restive state of Kashmir. Full Story
Bangladesh PM Agrees to Pay Ransom for Kidnapped Europeons: Report
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:12 by TRC-News
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed has sought an early end to the crisis surrounding three Europeons even at the cost of 1.6 million dollar ransom, a report said here Tuesday. Full Story
NATO Scrambles As Guerrillas Overrun Haven
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
NATO scrambled to smother a fresh crisis in the Balkans Tuesday, ordering advisers to Macedonia to tackle a guerrilla challenge and accelerating plans to help end a revolt in the neighboring Presevo Valley. Full Story
Indonesian Soldiers, Police Clash in Borneo
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
A gunfight broke out on Tuesday between Indonesian police and soldiers charged with restoring peace to Borneo island, where ethnic bloodshed has killed hundreds in the last nine days. Full Story
IRA's War Not Over, Says Top N.Irish Republican
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
Northern Ireland's peace process faced fresh strains on Tuesday after a senior Irish republican warned that the IRA's war against ``British imperialism'' was not yet over. Full Story
Terror in the air
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 15:33 by TRC-News
It's getting easier to mass-produce deadly biological weapons; at the same time, supplies of vaccines to counter such killer viruses. Full Story
Opponents assail Utah commercial terrorism bill
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 15:30 by TRC-News
The American Civil Liberties Union and animal rights activists spoke against a Utah bill on Feb. 22 that targets animal-rights protests, arguing the measure would limit speech. Full Story
Gang Broadens Indonesian Terror
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 15:28 by TRC-News
Armed gangs of indigenous Dayaks on Monday broadened their campaign of terror on Borneo Island, forcing thousands of minority Madurese to flee the slaughter and Indonesia to send in more troops. Full Story
Nat'l Guard Teams Found Unprepared
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 15:15 by TRC-News
After three years and $143 million, the Army National Guard has no anti-terrorism teams ready to respond to nuclear, chemical, or biological attacks because of defective safety equipment and poor training, an internal Pentagon review found. Full Story
Agencies adopt plan to fight domestic terrorism
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 15:03 by TRC-News
Six federal agencies have teamed up to develop a plan for responding to terrorist threats and incidents involving weapons of mass destruction. Full Story
Archived copy of the Interagency Domestic Terrorism Conop Plan
Senior Iranian Linked to Khobar Towers Attack -CBS
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 9:19 by TRC-News
.S. investigators have identified a senior Iranian official as one of some two dozen suspects responsible for the 1996 bombing at the Khobar Towers military complex in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, CBS News reported on Friday. Full Story
Algeria Kills 40 It Calls Islam Rebels
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Algerian security forces have killed 40 people they believed to be Islamic militants in a crackdown against rebel strongholds in the last two days, the news media reported over the weekend. Full Story
Man Charged for Sending Letter Bombs
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
A 26-year-old man was charged Saturday with sending a series of letter bombs that injured several people, including a 6-year-old girl. Full Story
Former SLA Fugitive Olson Denies Attempted Bombings
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
With tears in her eyes and anger in her voice, former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Sara Jane Olson broke months of silence about her case on Friday and vehemently denied charges she was involved in attempted bombings of two Los Angeles police cars in 1975. Full Story
Spain Holds 10 ETA Suspects As Vote Looms
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Spanish police have arrested 10 suspected members and supporters of the Basque separatist group ETA in the third round of arrests after a car bomb killed two people last week, officials said Sunday. Full Story
Algerian Forces Kill 40 Rebels, Bomb Kills 3
Posted Monday, February 26, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Algerian security forces have killed 40 Islamic militants in a military crackdown against rebel strongholds in the past two days, media outlets reported at the weekend. Full Story
MILF Plot to Bomb Airport Bared
Posted Friday, February 23, 2001 - 10:15 by TRC-News
Military intelligence has uncovered an alleged plot of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to bomb the General Santos City International Airport at any opportune time to pressure President Arroyo on the rebels? demand for Islamic self-rule in Mindanao. Full Story
One Day in September relives Munich Olympics terrorism
Posted Friday, February 23, 2001 - 2:32 by TRC-News
"One Day in September" documents a historic day with great emotional impact. They were billed as the "Olympics of Peace and Joy," but became the exact opposite. On Sept. 5, 1972, the Munich Games became the center of the world's focus, not for the sports but the terrorist action taking place within the Olympic Village. Full Story
3 European nations instigate terror crackdown
Posted Friday, February 23, 2001 - 2:23 by TRC-News
Fearing terrorist attacks, authorities in Britain, France and Germany have arrested at least 10 suspected Islamic militants, put two dozen others on trial and are investigating potential links to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Greece drafts new anti-terrorism bill
Posted Friday, February 23, 2001 - 2:21 by TRC-News
Greece said it was preparing a new anti-terrorist bill that would give police a freer hand in their work amid concerns about security at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Full Story
Terror Boss Held
Posted Friday, February 23, 2001 - 2:20 by TRC-News
Alleged ETA terror boss Francisco Gaztelu was held yesterday after a Basque car bomb killed two in San Sebastian. Full Story
Taleban mulling trial for bin Laden abroad
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:16 by TRC-News
Officials in Pakistan believe Afghanistan's rulers, beset by a fierce drought and international isolation, are ready to consider a compromise under which Saudi terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden could face trial in a third country. Full Story
Proposed bill would add eco-terrorism to anti-racketeering laws
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:14 by TRC-News
A House subcommittee has moved forward with proposed new legal penalties for so-called "eco-terrorists." Full Story
London in torch-bomb terror alert
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:13 by TRC-News
An explosion in which a 14-year-old London Army cadet lost his hand was caused by a bomb hidden inside a torch, Scotland Yard said today. Full Story
Several Hurt in U.S. Embassy Protest in Beirut
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:11 by TRC-News
Security forces used water cannons, batons and the occasional rifle butt to drive back hundreds of student demonstrators who marched on the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday to protest the bombing of Iraq and American support for Israel. Full Story
Serbian Minister Escapes Kidnap Attempt
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:10 by TRC-News
Serb authorities say the senior official dealing with the ethnic Albanian militants in southern Serbia has escaped unharmed from an attempted kidnap. Full Story
European Arrests Linked to Bin Laden
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:09 by TRC-News
Detectives across Europe are investigating suspected links between the arrests of a number of suspected Muslim extremists and the notorious criminal Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Angola Rebels Kill 18 Miners, Agency Says
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:08 by TRC-News
Angolan UNITA rebels have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 18 diamond miners in the southwest African country, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Wednesday. Full Story
Bush Remarks at Oklahoma City National Memorial Dedication
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:04 by TRC-News
President Bush says Oklahoma City "will always be one of those places in our national memory where the worst and the best both came to pass." Full Story
Unruffled Wahid Leaves As Bloodshed Hits Indonesia
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:03 by TRC-News
Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid dismissed fears of an explosion of unrest as he flew out of the crisis-racked country Thursday, but bloodshed escalated into beheadings even before be boarded his plane. Full Story
Gunmen Kills Three Shiites in Pakistan
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 12:02 by TRC-News
Gunmen killed a religious leader and two other members of the Shiite Muslim sect in two Pakistani cities on Thursday in what seemed to be the latest in a wave of sectarian violence, police said. Full Story
Kashmir Separatist Survives Murder Attempt
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 11:59 by TRC-News
The chief of Kashmir's main separatist alliance said on Thursday that he narrowly escaped assassination and warned that the freedom movement of Kashmir would go on with or without him. Full Story
Blast Kills Two in Basque Region, ETA Blamed
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 11:52 by TRC-News
A car bomb exploded in Spain's Basque region Thursday, killing two men and injuring four just two days after the Basque government called early elections. Full Story
Recent arrests raise fear of terrorism
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 1:01 by TRC-News
Fearing terrorist attacks, authorities in Britain, France and Germany have arrested at least 10 suspected Islamic militants, put two dozen others on trial and are investigating potential links to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Hunting bin Laden's Allies, U.S. Extends Net to Europe
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:58 by TRC-News
Spurred by growing international alarm about Osama bin Laden's militant networks, the police in Britain and Germany have recently arrested more than a dozen Islamic radicals. American officials say some of those arrested were plotting terrorist attacks in Europe and elsewhere. Full Story
Anti-Terrorist Tools on the Horizon
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:57 by TRC-News
With new tests that can sequence the entire genome of a bacteria or a virus in mere hours, doctors should soon have powerful tools to detect and treat infections caused by biological weapons, researchers said this weekend. Full Story
Feds buy up drug to fight terror attack
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:56 by TRC-News
The United States government is preparing for a possible bioterrorist attack. Why is the federal government quietly buying up a half billion tablets of that familiar antibiotic, Cipro (ciprofloxacin), used in everyday medicine to fight common infections? Full Story
FBI assesses grave damage from latest spy scandal
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:53 by TRC-News
U.S. officials said their intelligence agencies took an "exceptionally grave" hit as the latest spy scandal unraveled Tuesday. Full Story
U.S. officials see link in terrorism network
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:48 by TRC-News
.S. officials believe they've established a plausible link between terrorist cells operating in Jordan and Montreal and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Full Story
Tajik Police Arrest More Alleged Islamic Radicals
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:45 by TRC-News
Police in Dushanbe have arrested four putative members of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir organization over the past three days, Asia Plus-Blitz reported on 20 February. Full Story
Lankan Navy Sinks Two LTTE Boats, 15 Rebels Killed
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:44 by TRC-News
Sri Lankan navy destroyed two logistic boats belonging to the LTTE and killed 10 rebels in a midnight encounter near Point Pedro in the northern Jaffna peninsula, official reports said Wednesday. Full Story
Neo-Nazis Offered Cash to Quit
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:41 by TRC-News
Far-right extremists have been urged to quit fanaticism -- with offers of German Government cash and new identities. Full Story
Afghanistan Turning into Chechen Militant Training Center
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:40 by TRC-News
Afghanistan has turned into a training center for Chechen Muslim extremists and international terrorists, the commanders of CIS country border forces declared at their recent 40th meeting in Baku. Full Story
LSE accused over terror link
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 10:00 by TRC-News
Russian President Vladimir Putin today accused the London School of Economics of being a recruiting ground for Islamic terrorism. Full Story
Zapatista Rebels Agree to Formal Talks
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 9:58 by TRC-News
Mexico's Zapatista rebels have agreed to a meeting with government peace officials to discuss pending Indian rights legislation. Full Story
One Killed, Five Wounded in Nepal Maoist Ambush
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 9:56 by TRC-News
A policeman was killed and five others were wounded in an ambush by Maoist guerrillas at Lamidanda in Nepal's Dolakha district, police said on Monday. Full Story
Malaysian Leaders Demonstrate at US Embassy
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 9:55 by TRC-News
Ethnic Malay Muslim officials from Malaysia's ruling party staged a protest outside the US Embassy on Monday condemning recent American and British missile strikes on Iraq. Full Story
Bangladesh Makes Fresh Offer to Kidnappers
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 9:53 by TRC-News
Bangladesh has made another offer to hold face-to-face talks with kidnappers holding three Europeans hostage in remote hills in the southeast of the country. Full Story
300 Killed by Taliban in January Massacre: Group
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 9:52 by TRC-News
A US-based human rights group on Monday called for an immediate inquiry into reports that as many as 300 Shiite Muslims were recently massacred by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban in central Bamiyan province. Full Story
Philippines Halts War Against Muslim Rebels
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 9:47 by TRC-News
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, declaring that it is time to ``heal and build,'' suspended military operations against Muslim separatist rebels Tuesday in a bid to kickstart stalled peace talks. Full Story
Bush Sees Chilling Reminders of Oklahoma
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 1:07 by TRC-News
A somber President George W. Bush witnessed chilling reminders on Monday of the worst terror bombing in U.S. history as he dedicated a memorial center honoring the 168 people killed in the Oklahoma City blast nearly six years ago. Full Story
UK extends anti-terror laws
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 1:04 by TRC-News
Britain has introduced new anti-terrorism legislation under which organisations such as the Palestinian group Hamas and Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers could be banned. Full Story
Eco-bomb protest at new terror law
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 1:01 by TRC-News
They called it a time bomb waiting to explode but, even with London on its highest terrorist alert for years, police on duty at the House of Commons yesterday had no problem accepting it. Full Story
Shanghai Forum Fails to Formalize Agreement on Anti-Terrorism Center
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 0:59 by TRC-News
The military officials of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan ended their two-day meeting in Bishkek on 15 February without reaching any formal agreement on setting up an anti-terrorism center in Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Full Story
Eight Dead, Hundreds Hostage in Brazil Prison Riots
Posted Sunday, February 18, 2001 - 22:10 by TRC-News
At least eight prisoners were killed on Sunday and hundreds of people taken hostage when an apparently coordinated wave of riots erupted in prisons across the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. Full Story
Carlos the Jackal Remains Unrepentant in Interview
Posted Sunday, February 18, 2001 - 22:09 by TRC-News
Jailed guerrilla leader Carlos the Jackal told a Spanish newspaper in an interview published on Sunday he remained unrepentant about his crimes and would do the same all over again, but this time ``even better.'' Full Story
Terrorism in Equador Takes Its Toll on Families in Oregon
Posted Sunday, February 18, 2001 - 11:31 by TRC-News
It has been more than four months now, and Gold Hill is still waiting for some good news from Ecuador. Full Story
Police foil terror plot to use sarin gas in London
Posted Sunday, February 18, 2001 - 11:25 by TRC-News
A Special Branch raid on a house in London has exposed a terrorist plot to release the poisonous nerve gas sarin in Britain.
Senior police officers have confirmed to The Telegraph that detailed plans containing instructions on how to manufacture and deploy the poison, which kills in seconds, were discovered by detectives. They believed that a group was plotting to release the gas on the London underground in a copy of an attack in Japan that killed 12 people in 1995. Full Story
British government under fire over terrorism
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
The British Government is dropping its guard against terrorism in Northern Ireland by slashing the police budget by more than �100 million over the next three years, it has been claimed. Full Story
The new face of terror: a family man who works for the enemy
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:24 by TRC-News
In a heavily guarded room at a hospital near Tel Aviv, Israeli interrogators have been trying to solve a question that has baffled the entire world. What – or who – turned Khalil Abu Olbeh, a mild-mannered Palestinian bus driver with no record of violence or political militancy, into a ruthless killer? Full Story
Terrorism charge expanded in bomb-smuggling case
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:23 by TRC-News
A new indictment handed down yesterday in the Ahmed Ressam case seeks to bolster the federal government's contention that a web of Algerians was working with the accused bomb smuggler. Full Story
Iran Plans Another Terrorism Conference
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
Iran is planning another terrorism conference. This conference will be held in Teheran in April. Last month, Iran sponsored a terrorism conference in Beirut. Full Story
McVeigh lets clemency deadline pass
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:19 by TRC-News
Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh allowed a deadline to pass Thursday without asking President Bush to spare his life. Full Story
Jordan Draws Line, Arrests Anti-Israel Activists
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
In a move that demonstrates anew how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict affects the internal politics of Middle Eastern countries, Jordan has come down hard on activists who oppose its peace with Israel. Full Story
Serbian Minister in Belgrade Gun Drama
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
Gunmen in Belgrade have opened fire in an apparent assassination attempt on the Serbian Interior Minister, Dusan Mihajlovic. Full Story
Taliban Virtually Wipes Out Afghanistan's Opium Crop
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer. Full Story
Four Serbs Killed, 23 Wounded in Kosovo Bus Attack
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
Four Serbs died and 23 were injured on Friday in Kosovo when a bus they were traveling in was blown up by a remote control device, international peacekeepers said. Full Story
Twelve Killed in Mexican Gun Attack
Posted Friday, February 16, 2001 - 9:10 by TRC-News
Twelve people died when a group of attackers armed with rifles burst into a community gathering in the northern state of Sinaloa, dragged them into a truck and shot them, the local attorney general's office said on Thursday. Full Story
US-licensed pilot tells New York court how he flew for bin Laden
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
A US pilot of Egyptian origin recounted to a New York court Wednesday how he bought and flew a private jet for Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in the United States on terrorism charges. Full Story
Nine years for repentant terrorist Klein
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
A Frankfurt court Thursday sentenced repentant terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein to nine years' imprisonment for his part in a bloody hostage-taking led by "Carlos the Jackal" at an OPEC conference in 1975. Full Story
Ransom deal in Ecuador kidnappings
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Kidnappers holding seven foreign oil workers — including four Americans — have agreed to a ransom offer just ahead of their deadline to kill another captive, the head of Ecuador’s armed forces said Wednesday. Full Story
County evaluates terrorism potential
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Terrorism? In Pasco County? Don't snicker. Just in case some ne'er do well tried a stunt similar to the Oklahoma City bombing, Pasco's Office of Emergency Management is investigating the terrorist threat close to home. Michele Baker, the county's emergency management director, calls terrorism a "low probability event." But she said it's better to be safe than sorry. Full Story
The Terrorism Cloud Hovers Over the U.S.
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
WHEN George W. Bush travels to Mexico to meet with Vicente Fox tomorrow, two significant trends-one positive, one negative-will clash. The first trend is the greater economic, political and ethnic integration of the United States and Mexico. The second trend is the greater threat to the United States from terrorism. While Mexico is not a haven for terrorists, its 2,100-mile border with the United States could be a significant portal for terror. Indeed, the tension between international economics and national security looms over America's relationship with all countries of the world. Full Story
Israel poised to avenge bus terror
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
Ehud Barak, Israel’s outgoing Prime Minister, was last night considering military strikes against Yassir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority after a Palestinian man drove his bus into an Israeli crowd, killing eight people. Full Story
Kosovo Extremists Seen United in Stirring up Unrest
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
The commander of peacekeeping forces in Kosovo said on Wednesday extremists on opposing sides were bent on stirring up trouble to try to block a peaceful future for the province. Full Story
Thousands Flee Colombian Violence
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
The Ecuadorian town of Lago Agrio is just 22km (14 miles) from the border with Colombia. For many Colombians, Lago Agrio provides some sort of refuge from the violence in their homeland Its frontier is shared with Colombia's Putumayo region - the heart of the cocaine trade in Latin America and a zone of conflict between guerrilla forces and paramilitary groups.
Full Story
Rebels Kill Two in Bujumbura
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Reports from Burundi say Hutu rebels have attacked a neighbourhood in the north-west of the capital, Bujumbura, killing a soldier and a teenage boy. Full Story
A Timid U.S. Can't Fight Foreign Terrorism
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
AFTER 85 court sessions and nearly $90 million in legal costs, one Libyan underling has been found not guilty in the destruction of Pan American Flight 103. Another insignificant underling, Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, has been found guilty. The other matter the trial proved was the utter futility of responding to terrorism with the ordinary procedures of criminal justice. Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan ruler, could not even be interrogated, let alone arrested and convicted. Yet it is evident that, if Megrahi did it, he was acting under orders as a mere agent of Gadhafi, who controls everything in Libya but the weather. Full Story
Palestinian Killed in New Mideast Violence
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, reinforcing fears that Middle East violence is spinning out of control after the deadliest attack in Israel for nearly four years. Full Story
Terrorist Defense is Priority for Bus
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 15:45 by TRC-News
President Bush took a look at high-tech video war games yesterday as he vowed to retool America's military to defend against new terrorist threats that come in containers as small as a suitcase. Full Story
Don't ignore Greek terrorism
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
The United States labored 10 years to bring about the recent trial in the Pan Am bombing case. US officials worked overtime to arrest the suspects now on trial in New York for bombing two US embassies in Africa in 1998. And serious efforts are under way to find the culprits in attacks on US targets in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Full Story
Youths Held in Eco-Terror Are Reported Nearing Plea
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
Lawyers for two young suspects in an underground campaign of arson and destruction in Suffolk County are in negotiations with federal prosecutors that could result in guilty pleas in Federal District Court as soon as Wednesday, a law enforcement official said today. Full Story
Unabomber denied new trial
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
A federal appeals court denied Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski’s bid for a new trial Monday, saying he was not coerced into pleading guilty to three fatal mail bombings. Full Story
Analysis: Israel's security nightmare
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
The most serious attack inside Israel since the start of the Palestinian uprising has prompted a closure of Palestinian-ruled areas, but there have been calls for more drastic action to stop the violence. Full Story
Preparations of a new anti-terrorism convention continue at UN Headquarters
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Against the backdrop of increasing incidents of terrorist acts worldwide, an ad hoc committee of the United Nations General Assembly is meeting this week in New York to further develop a new anti-terrorism treaty that will strengthen the existing network of conventions dealing with the problem. Full Story
Shanghai Five discuss anti-terrorism centre
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Security experts from China, Russia and three central Asian states have begun talks in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, about setting up an anti-terrorism centre in Central Asia. Full Story
Terror Group Weighed Poisoning, Bombing
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
A former member of Osama bin Laden's terrorist group testified Tuesday at the U.S. embassies bombing trial that poisoning a former Sudanese prime minister and bombing the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh were considered but not carried out. Full Story
U.S. Seeks Way for Taliban to Talk with UN
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
U.S. and UN officials will begin discussing ways a Taliban representative may be able to remain in the United States following the closing of the Taliban offices in compliance with Security Council sanctions. Full Story
Navy Taking Steps Against Terrorism
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
The Navy is enforcing wider security zones around its ships, even while in U.S. ports, in hopes of preventing terrorist attacks like the USS Cole bombing, a senior Navy admiral said Tuesday. Full Story
Poll: US Against Retaliatory Attack
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
More than half of Americans would oppose launching retaliatory attacks against countries proven to have direct links to terrorist acts, says an Associated Press poll. Men were about evenly split on the question, women opposed by almost 2-to-1. Full Story
Arafat Says Israeli Attacks Stoke Palestinian Anger
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said Wednesday Israel's military crackdown on Palestinians was to blame for an upsurge of violence. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Loses Key Town, Tries to Retake It
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement lost the key central town of Bamiyan to opponents overnight and launched a counter-offensive Wednesday to retake it, a Pakistan-based Afghan news service reported. Full Story
Threat of Violence Hangs Over Strike-Hit Bangladesh
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
Political turmoil in Bangladesh deepened on Wednesday as yet another opposition-led national strike took root and authorities braced for more violence following the killing of four people the previous day. Full Story
Peacekeepers Attacked After Kosovo Ambush
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
International peacekeepers in Kosovo came under attack on Tuesday after a busload of Serbs they were escorting ran into an ambush that killed one passenger and injured two, the peacekeepers said. Full Story
Bill would raise penalties for animal-rights terrorism
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 10:17 by TRC-News
Rep. Gerry Adair, R-Roy, wants to create a new class of crime to fight vandalism done by animal-rights activists. His House Bill 322 is called Domestic Terrorism of Commercial Enterprises. It would add crimes against animal enterprises to the criminal code, making them harsher than the current penalties that vandalism normally incurs. Full Story
More Terror in the Post (mail)
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 10:16 by TRC-News
Police probing a spate of letter bombs yesterday renewed warnings to anyone linked with the agricultural business after two more devices were defused. Full Story
Jihad, Inc.
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
When the business was just a start-up, the boss had the first office on the left as you entered the eight- or nine-room headquarters on McNimr Street in downtown Khartoum, Sudan. Full Story
Palestinian Fatah Group Threatens Continued Attacks On Israelis
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction threatened to disrupt Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's rule with continued attacks on Israelis as gunbattles broke out Monday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians. Full Story
Four Killed in Bangladesh Protests
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
At least four people, including a policeman, have been shot dead during on-going anti-government protests in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. Full Story
Palestinian Killed in Israeli Helicopter Attack
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
An Israeli helicopter fired three missiles at a car in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) Tuesday, killing a Palestinian military leader in an attack that Israel called a clear message that militants must not harm its citizens. Full Story
UN Concerned About Cutting Ties with Taliban
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
The U.N. official in charge of peace negotiations to end Afghanistan's civil war hopes Washington will agree to a formula that would allow Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to keep a delegate in New York. Full Story
Wahid Protesters Hit E.Java, Violence Feared
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
Around 10,000 supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid protested in another East Java city Tuesday, stoking fears of fresh violence in the volatile province, police said. Full Story
Cornered Rebels May Lash Out in Cabinda
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 22:48 by TRC-News
A rise in separatist activity in the oil-rich Angolan enclave of Cabinda could mean the demise of the rebel groups is near. A well-funded, well-equipped Angolan military and closer cooperation between Luanda and Cabinda’s former allies in Brazzaville and Kinshasa have further isolated the separatists. Now, while Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ government discusses plans for greater autonomy for Cabinda and launches operations into the province, the rebels are growing more desperate and may respond with increased violence. Full Story
U.S. Homeland Defense Policy Mired in Competing Interests
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 22:45 by TRC-News
Federal resources that were spent during the past five years on programs to defend the United States against potential weapons-of-mass-destruction attacks have not resulted in any substantial capabilities to cope with such threats, according to government, industry and independent experts. Full Story
Bin Laden Case Latest Example Of Terrorism On Trial
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 22:38 by TRC-News
Witnesses have begun to testify in a trial that U.S. prosecutors hope will prove the existence of a network of terrorists intent on attacking American targets. The start of this trial closely followed the completion of another uncommon proceeding -- the Lockerbie bombing case -- in which a Scottish court convicted a Libyan intelligence officer in a terror attack. RFE/RL correspondent Robert McMahon looks at this new judicial approach to fighting terrorism. Full Story
Briton suspected of terrorism plot
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 22:37 by TRC-News
Israel has revelaed that its security forces had arrested a British citizen suspected of being sent by the Lebanese guerrilla organisation Hizbollah to carry out an attack in Israel. Full Story
Inside terror death factory
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 22:36 by TRC-News
Ronnie Flanagan was challenged today to state which loyalist faction was stockpiling bombs and drugs in a block of flats in Belfast. RUC officers uncovered parts for 11 pipe bombs, an under-car booby-trap device and a coffee jar-type bomb during raids on three flats in Ross House, in the Mount Vernon area of Belfast last night. Full Story
Militants in Britain anxious about new anti-terrorist law
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 22:34 by TRC-News
Anti-terrorist legislation that comes into force next week is hailed by the government as a powerful weapon against international violence. But opponents say the law will stifle dissent, whether on the Internet or in slogans on a T-shirt. Full Story
Eco-terrorism suspect negotiates plea agreement
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 10:21 by TRC-News
In a breakthrough in the wave of arson and vandalism in Suffolk County claimed by the Earth Liberation Front, a Coram teenager who is believed to have played a key role in the incidents pleaded guilty to arson late Friday in a secret court hearing, according to several sources familiar with the case. Full Story
Terrorism: No role models
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 10:18 by TRC-News
The fight against eco-terrorism continues to move at a maddeningly slow pace. But there was a victory recently when an Indiana man, apparently a member of the Earth Liberation Front, was arrested on a tree-spiking charge. Full Story
Special Offer - International Terrorism 1998 Report
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
The Terrorism Research Center is pleased to offer the Cobra Institutes 1998 International Terrorism Report for sale on our site. If purchased via our site, 25% of the proceeds will go the operation of the TRC web site. More Details
NSA head: Tech weakness makes U.S. vulnerable
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
The United States is increasingly vulnerable to attack because the monitoring agency responsible for early detection is losing the technology war to well-heeled, techno-savvy rogue groups, the head of the agency said in an interview released on Monday. Full Story
Islamic Terror Groups Form Unholy Alliance
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
The Middle East's most violent terrorists have agreed to a frightening megamerger in which they will pool resources to fight their common enemies: the United States and Israel. Full Story
McVeigh wants public execution
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh wrote in a published letter that his execution should be broadcast publicly. Full Story
Animal Rights Activists Arrested After Violent Protests
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
British police arrested 87 animal rights activists overnight (HK time) after demonstrations outside two pharmaceutical companies turned violent. In a co-ordinated action by the group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, or Shac, protesters gathered at nine locations around Britain, including London-area offices of pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer, to protest their alleged links to drug testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences. Full Story
LTTE Ready for Talks if UK Puts Off Ban
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to hold peace talks in a European country but warned they would pull out if Britain banned them under new anti-terrorism laws. Full Story
Troops Kill Six in Aceh Despite New Truce
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:40 by TRC-News
Six people were killed in Aceh as security forces and separatist rebels reached a new deal to reduce violence, residents said yesterday. Full Story
Scourge of Canberra Rises Again
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
Pauline Hanson: still a powerful force It is the news that most Australian politicians have been quietly dreading: Pauline Hanson is back. After three years of silence from the former fish and chip shop owner, the One Nation founder has proved that her right-wing, racist brand of politics remains a force to be reckoned with. Full Story
Algerian Massacre: 26 Dead
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
At least 26 people have been killed in a new massacre in Algeria - the biggest single attack so far this year. Eleven of those killed were children, with at least one victim only six months old. Full Story
Palestinians Shot Dead As Sharon Seeks Unity Govt
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank Monday as Israel's rightwing Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon sought to forge a unity government. Full Story
N.Irish Police Seize Devices at Bomb Factory
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:34 by TRC-News
Northern Irish police said on Monday they had dealt a severe blow to Protestant militants by uncovering a ``bomb-factory'' in a pro-British area of north Belfast. Full Story
Explosions Heard in Iranian Capital
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
Two explosions were heard in a northern Tehran Monday, near a number of military and security bases, Iran's student news agency ISNA reported. Full Story
Lockerbie Bomber Says He Innocent, Fasting in Jail
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:33 by TRC-News
The Libyan secret agent convicted in the Lockerbie bombing proclaimed his innocence and said in remarks published Monday that he was fasting in prison to be closer to God. Full Story
Philippine Rebels Kill 12, Leftist Leader Buried
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:32 by TRC-News
Communist rebels raided a Philippine Army camp and killed 12 people Monday while tens of thousands of workers, singing revolutionary hymns, gave a murdered leftist leader a hero's burial in Manila. Full Story
US, Yemen Closing in on Top USS Cole Suspect-Paper
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:31 by TRC-News
U.S. and Yemeni investigators are close to arresting the main suspect in the bombing of American warship USS Cole, the Yemen Observer reported on Saturday. Full Story
Bombs Explode in Two Afghan Cities, Four Hurt
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
A powerful bomb exploded outside a government office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, wounding four people, and another in the eastern town of Jalalabad, officials of the ruling Taliban movement said. Full Story
Guerrillas Must Show Colombia They Want Peace
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Colombia's most powerful guerrilla group is marching back to peace talks, but it must still convince a war-weary people that negotiations are more than a ploy to buy time to build its military strength. Full Story
17 Held Amid Scuffles at German Neo-Nazi March
Posted Monday, February 12, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Seventeen people were detained after scuffles broke out at a demonstration against a small neo-Nazi march in the western German town of Hagen on Saturday. Full Story
American Tells of Kindly Kidnappers
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Kenneth Gluck was lucky the book in his bag -- "History of the Arab Peoples" -- was 551 pages long. It kept him company during the 25 days he was held captive in Chechnya, not knowing whether he would ever be released. Full Story
Afghans Would Back Bin Laden Trial- Pakistan Official
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 9:19 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are prepared to allow Osama bin Laden -sought by the U.S. on terrorism charges -to be tried by Islamic clerics, perhaps in a third country, Pakistan's interior minister said Thursday. Full Story
Who Benefits From Terrorism?
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 9:06 by TRC-News
Mohamed Saddiq Odeh, one of two men charged in connection with the bombing of the US embassy in Kenya, told US investigators last week that he was tortured by into giving a false confession. Odeh said he was denied food, drink, and sleep for three days until he confessed. The bombings killed 250 black Africans and a dozen US citizens on Friday 07 August 1998. Full Story
Terrorist trials: Missing someone?
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Some say going after underlings can unlock conspiracies. Yet so far, the US has failed to bring masterminds to trial. Full Story
Reps. Saxton, Chambliss Intro Cyber-Terrorism Measure
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
Reps. James Saxton, R-N.J., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., this week introduced legislation that calls on the government to develop a new legal framework to prosecute hackers and other Internet criminals. Saxton and Chambliss offered a House resolution that also labels cyber-terrorism "an emerging threat to the national security of the United States which has the potentiality to cause great harm to the nation's critical infrastructure..." Full Story
Analysts see threat of terrorism by foes of globalization
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Last week, when movers and shakers of the global economy gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for an annual forum, it was no surprise to see protesters jamming the streets, massed police protecting powerful VIPs from the crowds, or even scattered acts of violence and vandalism in the posh ski resort. Full Story
Colombia President to Meet Rebel Chief for Second Day
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Colombian President Andres Pastrana and guerrilla chief Manuel ''Sureshot'' Marulanda will meet again on Friday after eight ``productive'' hours of talks to revive a stuttering peace process on Thursday. Full Story
Vietnam Highlands Still Tense; U.S. Warns Travelers
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Tension remained high in Vietnam's central highlands on Friday, with riot police and soldiers keeping round-the-clock patrols after a wave of ethnic protests and embassies warned against travel to the area. Full Story
Car Bomb Explodes in Jerusalem, Woman Hurt
Posted Friday, February 9, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
A powerful car bomb exploded in a Jewish religious neighborhood of Jerusalem Thursday, hurling shards of metal through the air, but only one person was hurt, police said. Full Story
Bin Laden Sought Uranium, Jury Told
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:57 by TRC-News
A former member of Osama bin Laden's alleged terrorist network told a federal jury today that the Islamic extremist group tried to buy uranium in late 1993 but that he was not sure whether the deal was completed. Full Story
USA v. bin Laden - Trial Transcript Day 3
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:44 by TRC-News
Transcript of the third day of the trial. Full Story
250 want to watch McVeigh die
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
About 250 people who were injured or lost loved ones in the Oklahoma City bombing want to watch Timothy McVeigh put to death for the attack. Federal prison officials are weighing how to accommodate those who want to witness the first federal execution since 1963, and are even considering the possibility of a closed-circuit television broadcast. Full Story
Worldwide Threat 2001: National Security in a Changing World
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:37 by TRC-News
Statement by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the "Worldwide Threat 2001: National Security in a Changing World" (as prepared for delivery)07 February 2001 Full Story
Bin Laden: Steganography Master?
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:35 by TRC-News
If there's one thing the FBI hates more than Osama bin Laden, it's when Osama bin Laden starts using the Internet. So it should be no surprise that the feds are getting unusually jittery about what they claim is evidence that bin Laden and his terrorist allies are using message-scrambling techniques to evade law enforcement. Full Story
Terrorists Taking Up Cyberspace
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
A car bomb shattered storefronts in Netanya, a seaside resort town in northern Israel, and wounded 60 diners and shoppers on the evening of Jan. 1. There was one fatality--the bomber himself. The group behind this blast didn't call a TV station to claim credit. Instead Hamas, the Palestinian organization that sponsors acts of terror against Israel, posted a note on its Web site. It turns out that the Internet--inexpensive, open and accessible at any time from anywhere--is an ideal tool for terrorists. Full Story - For more insights - Information Terrorism: Can You Trust Your Toaster?
Informer Tells Jury of Break From bin Laden
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
One day in mid-1996, a Sudanese man stood in the visa line at an American embassy abroad. When a clerk asked if he wanted an application, he replied, "No, I don't want visa, but I have some information for your government." Full Story
Blast Hits Turkish Police HQ in Istanbul
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
A blast rocked police headquarters in Istanbul on Thursday, Turkish officials told Reuters, but it was not immediately clear what caused the explosion. "There was an explosion," a police officer said. "It's being investigated. There are no details of any injuries yet." Full Story
PNP Eyes Leftist Group in Lagman Assassination
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
Police investigators are looking into the possibility that members of a divided leftist organization carried out the assassination of prominent labor leader Felimon "Popoy" Lagman at the University of the Philippines (UP) campus in Quezon City the other day. Full Story
Bomb Attacks Continue as Cowen Meets Victims
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
There have been a number of bomb attacks in Northern Ireland coinciding with a meeting between victims of loyalist violence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr Cowen taking place this morning. Full Story
Sharon Virtually Rules Out Jerusalem Compromise
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:01 by TRC-News
Ariel Sharon, flush from an election victory seen as a mandate to veto more concessions to the Palestinians, pledged in a symbolic pilgrimage to Judaism's Western Wall on Wednesday that Jerusalem will remain in Israeli hands forever. Full Story
German Racist Attacks Soar
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Germany has reported a 40% increase in racist attacks as a new survey shows that almost every second young East German thinks that the Nazi regime "had its good side". Full Story
Colombian Rebels Stage Show of Force Ahead of Talks
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
With a martial display, rebels on Wednesday exhibited their control of a southern region where their commander plans to meet with President Andres Pastrana for a summit aimed at salvaging peace talks. Full Story
Libyan Lockerbie Bomber on Hunger Strike-Lawyer
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 20:54 by TRC-News
Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has gone on hunger strike, a lawyer who has acted for the Libyan secret agent said Wednesday. Full Story
Colombian Policeman Held in Death Squad Attack
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 20:54 by TRC-News
A Colombian police captain has been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a union leader by a paramilitary death squad late last year, a police general said on Wednesday.Full Story
Ebola threat downplayed
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 20:52 by trcnews
Canadian health officials were trying to ease fears Tuesday about the possible arrival of the deadly Ebola virus, even as the likelihood increased that a woman quarantined in a hospital here had the disease. Full Story
Bin Laden Aide Says Warned U.S. on Embassy Attacks
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 17:46 by trcnews
A former aide to Osama bin Laden testified Wednesday that he told U.S. authorities in 1996 that the Saudi dissident's group was trying to ``make war'' against the United States inside America and against its army and embassies in other countries. Full Story
USA v. bin Laden - Trial Transcript Day 2
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 16:37 by TRC-News
Digital file from the Court Reporters Office, Southern District of New York. Full Story
CIA Chief Sees Bin Laden As Biggest Threat
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 16:31 by TRC-News
Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, accused of a string of bloody attacks against U.S. targets, is the most immediate and serious threat to America's national security, CIA chief George Tenet said on Wednesday. Full Story
Ex-Aide to bin Laden Describes Terror Campaign Aimed at U.S.
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
A secret government witness emerged yesterday to tell a hushed federal courtroom in Manhattan how he helped the Saudi exile Osama bin Laden move money and arms to terrorist groups in Africa and the Middle East as part of a conspiracy aimed at the United States. Full Story
Sudanese Rebels Kill Seven Policemen
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Police in Sudan say that rebels have shot dead seven policemen in a pre-dawn raid on a station in the east of the country. Full Story
Three Killed in Maoist-Police Shootout
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Three days after the failed assassination attempt on Chief Jusice Keshab Prasad Upadhaya, two Maoists and a policeman were killed Tuesday in a shootout in Surkhet. The rebels were killed during an intensified search operation in the district. Full Story
Irian Rebels Free Three Remaining Hostages
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Three hostages, including two South Koreans, were released on Wednesday by rebels in a remote area of Irian Jaya province, police said. The three hostages were the last of 17 hostages who had been held by the rebels for the past three weeks. Full Story
1,480 Bombs Seized in N. Jakarta Warehouse
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Police questioned the owner and guard of a warehouse in which they confiscated around 1,480 bombs of various sizes in North Jakarta on Wednesday. Full Story
14 Killed in Colombia Violence
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Gunmen in Colombia have killed fourteen people in two separate attacks in the north of the country. Full Story
Six Die in Violence on Bangladesh Fatwa Issue
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
At least six people were killed and 100 others injured on Tuesday in fierce clashes between police and religious hardliners in Bangladesh's eastern district of Brahmanbaria. Full Story
Russia Could Be Drawn Into Afghan Conflict
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
The battle between Afghanistan's Taliban and the opposition Northern Alliance continues through an unusually mild winter, setting the stage for an early spring offensive. The continuous fighting, however, will leave both sides depleted and looking for external support. Pakistan traditionally commits resources to the Taliban cause, but this spring's offensive could draw Russia to participate more actively in the defense of the Northern Alliance. Full Story
Oklahoma Conspirator Back In Court
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
Lawyers for Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols were headed back to federal court Wednesday to ask a judge to throw out their client's conviction and life sentence. Full Story
Terror Islands
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
Until recently Thomas Pury, 45, grew nutmeg and cloves on his four-acre farm on a remote island in the Moluccas, once called the Spice Islands. Like their parents before them, Thomas and his wife were Roman Catholics; so was virtually their entire village of 100 on the island of Kesui. Full Story
Indonesia Police Fire Warning Shots at Protest
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:27 by TRC-News
Indonesian police on Wednesday fired warning shots as thousands of protesters ransacked the local head office of the former ruling party Golkar. Full Story
Orders Recalled at Bin Laden Followers' Trial
Posted Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:26 by TRC-News
The leadership of a militant Islamic group led by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden ordered its fighters to attack U.S. bases and not to worry about civilian deaths, a member of the group testified. Full Story
Security at Athens 2004: Danger is there
Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 23:39 by trcnews
The Olympic Games have suffered badly from doping and money scandals. Most fans probably hope the worst is past. It isn't. The clock is ticking toward potential bloody disaster at the Athens Games in 2004, the worst since the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Games in 1972. The International Olympic Committee is aware of the danger but wants to keep it out of the public eye, as it tried to do with drugs and corruption. Full Story
Kosovo guerrillas launch new attacks
Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 9:09 by TRC-News
Ethnic Albanian guerrillas and government forces clashed late Monday in Serbia’s Presevo Valley, a volatile area where fighting is seen as a potential trigger for fresh violence elsewhere in the Balkans. Full Story
Plan to kill Americans anywhere
Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Twin bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were part of a broader scheme by Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden “to kill Americans anywhere in the world,” a prosecutor said Monday at the opening of the trial of four alleged terrorists. Full Story
Why Trials Matter in the War Against Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
As four alleged Bin Laden associates go on trial in New York, TIME Intelligence correspondent Massimo Calabresi says courts don't stop terror — but they do put diplomatic pressure its sponsors. Full Story
U.S. Falls Short Hunting Terrorists
Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
Fifteen years after the United States launched a campaign to track down terrorists around the world and bring them to justice, most extremists linked to attacks against American interests are still at large--and not one state sponsor has been held accountable in a U.S. criminal court. Full Story
Extremists Said to Be Scrambling Messages on Web
Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
Muslim extremists, including Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden are posting encrypted -- or scrambled -- photographs and messages on popular Web sites and using them to plan attacks against the United States and its allies, USA TODAY reported Tuesday. Full Story / USA TODAY Article
Afghan Taliban Says Won't Surrender Bin Laden
Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement said Tuesday it would continue to give sanctuary to Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who Washington wants to put on trial for allegedly blowing up two U.S. embassies. Full Story
Moscow Metro Blast Injures Nine
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 15:33 by TRC-News
A small bomb exploded in one of Moscow's busiest underground railway stations during rush hour Monday, injuring up to nine people and causing minor damage. Full Story
U.S. man released unhurt in Chechnya
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:47 by TRC-News
After a month of captivity in breakaway Chechnya, an American aid worker was questioned Monday by Russian authorities who said they had orchestrated his release and were preparing to send him home. Full Story
Embattled Barak warns of war with Palestinians
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:45 by TRC-News
A day before Israel’s fateful election, Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Monday still trailed far behind challenger Ariel Sharon despite his renewed warning that a Sharon victory will plunge Israel into war with the Palestinians. Israeli security forces, meanwhile, were on high alert for possible attempts by Palestinian militants to carry out terror attacks on election day. Full Story
Why One Defendant Got Off
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:43 by TRC-News
Abdul Majid Giakawas expected to be a star witness when the Lockerbie trial began last spring. An ex-Libyan intelligence officer and a CIA informant, Giaka claimed to know of the two defendants’ access to explosives. Full Story
Muslim Separatists Demand Talks
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:38 by TRC-News
Muslim separatists demanded talks with the Philippine government Monday after renewing threats to kill an American hostage who they said is growing gravely ill. Full Story
Saudi Bomb Suspects May Face Execution
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:38 by TRC-News
Saudi authorities say that three Western men shown on Saudi television confessing to their alleged involvement in a bombing campaign are to be tried under Islamic law. Full Story
Bomb Hits Office in Ecuador's Capital, No Injuries
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:37 by TRC-News
A bomb blast damaged an office building in Ecuador's capital Quito late on Sunday that houses the Reuters office as well as other foreign companies and a local bank and government agency. Full Story
Colombians Angry Over Rebel Zone
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:36 by TRC-News
President Pastrana visited the FARC zone on Saturday. Over 10,000 people have taken part in a demonstration in the northern Colombian state of Bolivar, to reject the formation of the country's second demilitarised zone. Full Story
Making Chemical Weapons Is No Easy Task
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
With U.S. intelligence fixated on Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden and the chilling possibility that he has been testing chemical weapons on animals, policymakers in the Bush administration and members of Congress would do well to consider the true difficulties involved in making chemical weapons. Full Story
Canada - $250M set aside for bio-chem gear
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
Worried about biological and chemical agents on the battlefield and in the hands of terrorists, the Canadian Forces will spend $250 million on protective equipment -- its largest purchase ever of such gear. Full Story
Communities get grant to help fight disasters
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:32 by TRC-News
Paul Brouwer hopes the thousands of dollars in emergency equipment Clinton Township is planning to buy never has to be used. But it will be a comfort to the township's deputy fire chief to know it's available. Brouwer, who also is chief emergency operations coordinator for Clinton Township, is overseeing the community's share of a $200,000 Justice Department grant to prepare local agencies in case of terrorist attack, chemical and biological warfare, other man-made disasters or natural emergencies. Full Story
Security tight in terror trial of Arlington man
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
Steel barricades that can rise into place to stop up to 7� tons of speeding truck, and cameras capable of reading a newspaper a block away are just some of the new measures protecting federal court buildings for New York's fifth major terrorism trial in a decade. Full Story
Naked to Terrorism
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
Sometime over the next quarter-century a direct terrorist attack "against American citizens on American soil" with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons is likely, and the nation has few defenses against such a threat. That assertion by the congressionally mandated Commission on National Security is not alarmist but realistic, and it should be treated by the Bush administration and Congress with the seriousness it merits. Full Story
A Cowering United States Gives Terrorism a Free Ride
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:29 by TRC-News
After 85 court sessions and nearly $90 million in legal costs, one Libyan underling has been found innocent of the destruction of Pan American Flight 103, and another insignificant underling, Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, has been found guilty. The other thing that the trial proved was the utter futility of responding to terrorism with the ordinary procedures of criminal justice. Col. Moammar Kadafi, the Libyan ruler, could not even be interrogated, let alone arrested and convicted. Yet it is evident that if Megrahi did it, he was acting under orders as a mere agent of Kadafi, who controls everything in Libya but the weather. Full Story
Trial of 4 Alleged Bin Laden Allies Starts Monday
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:28 by TRC-News
Prosecutors will accuse four men later on Monday of conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the 1998 fatal bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa as part of the Saudi dissident's plots to kill Americans wherever they could. Full Story
Two Injured in Blast in Northern Ireland
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:27 by TRC-News
Two people were injured in an explosion in Northern Ireland Sunday, hospital officials said, and a Roman Catholic politician said the blast had been caused by a pipe bomb. Full Story
Bangladesh Islamic Leader Held, Protests Erupt
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
Bangladesh police arrested a leader of a Muslim fundamentalist group Sunday for questioning about unrest in Dhaka, triggering fresh protests in the capital by his supporters in which witnesses said nearly 100 people were hurt. Full Story
Russia Says Taliban Support 30 Guerrilla Camps
Posted Monday, February 5, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
A top Russian security official said Sunday Afghanistan was supporting about 30 ``terrorist'' camps aimed at training commandos as well as smuggling drugs and arms. Full Story
Bioterrorism threat finds new urgency
Posted Sunday, February 4, 2001 - 18:55 by TRC-News
Suddenly, the threat of bioterrorism on American soil doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore.A series of anthrax hoaxes nearly shut down Canada's immigration department this week. At the same time, a blue-ribbon US commission reported that an attack using nuclear, chemical, or biological agents was likely in the United States in the next 25 years. In Cambridge, a biopharmaceutical company races toward developing a new smallpox vaccine - in case a terrorist releases the deadly virus. Full Story
British Troops Battle Rioters in Kosovo
Posted Friday, February 2, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
British troops fired plastic bullets and drove tanks through the streets of the Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Thursday to scatter hundreds of ethnic Albanians hurling rocks and gasoline bombs. Full Story
Ukraine Police Storm Prison, Free Hostages
Posted Friday, February 2, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Security service forces freed two prison guard hostages and killed three of their captors in a pre-dawn raid on a penal colony in southern Ukraine on Friday, an official said. Full Story
Honduran Congress Turns Violent
Posted Friday, February 2, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
Lawmakers kicked over tables and chairs and pulled out guns on the floor after legislative leaders proposed reducing the size of congress from 128 seats to 90. Full Story
White House Statement on PanAm 103 Verdict in Lockerbie
Posted Friday, February 2, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said in a statement that President Bush "congratulates the Scottish prosecution team" that won the January 31 guilty verdict in the bombing of PanAm 103. Full Story
New Anti-Terror Cabinet Agency Urged
Posted Friday, February 2, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
A blue-ribbon commission on Wednesday called for creation of a Cabinet-level agency to assume responsibility for defending the nation against the increasing likelihood of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Full Story
Five held in anti-terrorist raid
Posted Friday, February 2, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
Police have arrested five men on suspicion of conspiring to cause explosions following a dawn raid in west London. Full Story
Israel's Barak, Sharon Talk Up Peace And Security
Posted Friday, February 2, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
On the surface, there would seem to be no real difference between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and right-winger Ariel Sharon as both pound away on peace and security four days before an election. Full Story
Canada Asks to Charge 3rd Air India Bomb Suspect
Posted Friday, February 2, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Canadian prosecutors said on Thursday they want to file charges against a third suspect for the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet that killed 329 people in history's deadliest act of aviation sabotage. Full Story
Report: Cole bombing planned for 3 years
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:49 by TRC-News
A Yemeni newspaper said Thursday the bombing of the U.S. destroyer in the port of Aden that killed 17 servicemen on October 12, 2000, required more than three years of preparations. Full Story
Pentagon panel unaware of 1998 warning of ship attack in Yemen
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:43 by TRC-News
The Pentagon commission that declared there was no intelligence glitch that left the USS Cole open to attack was unaware that a suspected terrorist had warned the FBI of a plot to attack a U.S. warship in Yemen years before the bombing. Full Story
USS Cole suspects may be tried in the U.S.
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:42 by TRC-News
Suspects wanted in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole will be tried in the United States if they are caught outside Yemen, Western diplomats said Thursday. Full Story
Acquitted Libyan Gets Hero's Welcome
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:41 by TRC-News
A smiling Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday warmly embraced a Libyan acquitted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, who returned home shaking his fist in victory and chanting, ``God is great'' before well-wishers. Full Story
Libyan bomber sentenced to life
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:37 by TRC-News
A Libyan intelligence agent has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the mass murder of 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Full Story
More information on the complete trial on CNN's Lockerbie Bombing Trial. In-Depth Special
CNN's David Ensor on the new Terrorism Report
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:32 by TRC-News
Correspondent David Ensor answers, What are some of the key points of the Terrorism Report released today by the Commission on National Security in the 21st Century? Full Story
U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century Report
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:30 by TRC-News
The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, also known as the Hart-Rudman Commission has just issued its third report. Read the report in pdf format. Report
Panel recommends sweeping national security changes
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:26 by TRC-News
A blue-ribbon commission unveiled a detailed report on national security Wednesday, calling for sweeping changes in the way the government handles what it calls a "significant and growing" threat of terrorism on U.S. soil. Full Story
Kidnapped American found dead in Ecuador jungle
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 13:23 by TRC-News
An American oil worker kidnapped along with seven other internationals in Ecuador was found dead in a remote jungle, shot in the back and draped in a sheet emblazoned with a warning, authorities said Thursday. Full Story
U.S. Homeland Defense Policy Mired in Competing Interests
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Federal resources that were spent during the past five years on programs to defend the United States against potential weapons-of-mass-destruction attacks have not resulted in any substantial capabilities to cope with such threats, according to government, industry and independent experts. Full Story
With Money for 'Martyrs,' Iraq Invests in Image
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Shortly after 15-year-old Saber Khamis Brash was shot through the heart by an Israeli soldier for slinging rocks at troops near a checkpoint, the governor of this West Bank city presented his grieving parents with an ornate, red felt-covered plaque designating the boy a martyr. Full Story
Activists, CEOs Find Little in Common as World Economic Forum Ends
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
They gathered under the theme of "bridging the digital divide," but business leaders and social activists at the World Economic Forum found that goal was overshadowed by a more troublesome divide: a communication gap. Full Story
Chechen Leader Survives Third Assassination Attempt
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 9:08 by TRC-News
The head of the Kremlin-backed civil administration in rebel Chechnya was slightly hurt in an explosion that injured some of his bodyguards and destroyed cars in his motorcade, an administration official said Tuesday. Full Story
Oxfam Offices Bombed in Sri Lanka
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
Attackers threw two grenades into the compound of the British development organization Oxfam today, causing little damage and no injuries, an official said. Full Story
Bombs Found at Moscow's Largest Railway Station
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Moscow's largest railway station was reopened to the public early Wednesday after a bomb squad detonated two bombs found Tuesday in the lost property section, Russia's NTV television reported. Full Story
Plutonium Found in Greek Park
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 9:03 by TRC-News
A small amount of plutonium has been found buried in a public park in Greece. The radioactive material, which is believed to have been smuggled from Eastern Europe, was found at the weekend. Metal plates containing about a tenth of an ounce of plutonium and americium, another radioactive element, were found on Saturday by Finance Ministry agents acting on a tip. "Plutonium is usually sold for terrorism purposes," said the agency's director, Leonidas Kamarinopoulos. "Plutonium is very dangerous even in this quantity." Full Story
ELF Making Good on Threat
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
The Earth Liberation Front has carried out more than 100 acts of destruction in the last five years, wreaking $37 million worth of damage. To date, police have one suspect, and the group, leading a rising wave of environmental extremism, is promising to escalate its attacks. Full Story
One Libyan Jailed for Life for Lockerbie Bombing
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
A Libyan intelligence agent was jailed for life on Wednesday for murdering 270 people in the bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie in Scotland 12 years ago. Full Story
Airline Bombings Still Threaten Developing World
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
Airlines across much of the developing world remain at risk from bomb attacks because of the failure to implement high tech security measures recommended after the Lockerbie bombing, experts said. Full Story
Colombia's Pastrana Extends Rebel-Controlled Enclave
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Colombia's President Andres Pastrana on Wednesday extended for another four days a vast demilitarized enclave that has been under control of leftist guerrillas for the last two years. Full Story
Pilot, Passenger Overpower Colombian Hijacker
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
A leftist guerrilla deserter who hijacked a Colombian aircraft carrying 32 people was overpowered by the pilot and a passenger on Tuesday and all passengers and crew were safe, authorities said. Full Story
Liberia Says Guinean Helicopter Kills 10 in North
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Liberia said Tuesday a Guinean helicopter killed more than 10 people in a raid on a northern town, and aid workers said reports of fresh fighting in southeastern Guinea had forced them to leave the area again. Full Story
Confession allowed in bombing trial
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
A federal judge Monday refused to throw out a confession in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, 24, had argued in court papers that his confession was coerced by U.S. investigators who threatened to hang him “like a dog” unless he cooperated. Prosecutors denied he was coerced. Full Story
The cycle of political assassination
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
At 10 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, Dr. Thabet Thabet backed his car out of his driveway in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Suddenly, two vehicles pulled up and its uniformed occupants opened fire. Thabet, a dentist and a top-ranking local official in Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, was hit 14 times. Before he died, according to medical workers, Thabet said, “They did me in.” Full Story
Warning Over State Department Neglect
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
An independent panel in the United States has released a damning report on the State Department, describing its facilities as poorly equipped, overcrowded and insecure. Full Story
Bomb Victim Flees Kampala Hospital
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
A man wounded in Sunday's bomb blasts in the Ugandan capital Kampala has fled the hospital where he was being treated. Full Story
Protesters Close Oil Plants
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Southern Nigerian community activists have forced the closure of three of Shell Oil's pumping stations. Youths from the Ijaw communities of Delta state entered the stations on Sunday and ordered the workers on duty to shut them down. The closure is costing the company 40,000 barrels per day. Full Story
Gas Fired to Stop Crowd Storming Parliament
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
A power struggle between Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid and parliament deepened yesterday as police fired tear gas and warning shots at rock-throwing student protesters on Jakarta's streets. Full Story
Radio Fights Campaign of Fear as East Timor Faces Loss of Security Forces
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
A community radio station is being used to counter propaganda from pro-Indonesia militia groups and convince thousands of refugees who fled East Timor or were deported after the 1999 independence vote to return home. Full Story
Long-Awaited Lockerbie Verdict Due Wednesday
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
The long-awaited verdict on two Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie airliner blast will be issued Wednesday, judges announced Tuesday. Full Story
Philippines' Arroyo Says Will Crush Plotters
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:38 by TRC-News
New Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said on Tuesday enemies of the state were plotting to destabilize her fledgling government and warned them: ``I shall crush you.'' Full Story
Indonesian Minister Warns of Military Takeover
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 8:37 by TRC-News
Indonesia's defense minister on Tuesday warned that the military could seize power if political leaders did not end their bickering and focus on running the country. The often outspoken Mahfud M.D. said there were no signs yet of a military takeover, but the armed forces (TNI) would step in to prevent anarchy and the break-up of the world's fourth-largest nation. Full Story
Pipe Bombs Injure 5 In Ugandan Capital
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Four men and a woman were injured Monday when three pipe bombs exploded in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, police said. Full Story
Chechens Ransom US Aid Worker
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
An American aid worker kidnapped in Chechnya is being ransomed by a rebel group, Russia's military commander in the troubled region, said. Full Story
New MILF Bombing Plot Bared
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has fielded at least five special operations groups (SOGs) in various urban centers in South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and this city to launch another round of bomb attacks and other forms of atrocities, police claimed yesterday. Full Story
Neo-Nazis Charged in Norway Stabbing; Teens Rally Against Racism
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Five neo-Nazis have been detained in connection with the weekend stabbing death of a black teen-ager, which prompted a rally Sunday denouncing racism. Full Story
Mexico's Zapatista Rebels Outmaneuvering Fox
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos -- who will storm the capital in a whirlwind media splash in a matter of weeks -- once again has the last word on his newest adversary, the government of President Vicente Fox. Full Story
Algerian Militants Kill 25
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Algerian rebels have reportedly killed 25 villagers, including 16 children and four women, in the country's worst massacre this year. Full Story
Terrorism Trial Raises Question of American Obligations to Suspects
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Within weeks of the bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa in August 1998, American investigators and prosecutors flew from New York to Kenya and Tanzania to search for the bombers and their handlers. On Aug. 12, five days after the attacks, the American agents accompanied the Kenyan police as they entered a dingy hotel in a village outside Nairobi known by the nickname Little Somalia. Full Story
Palestinian Killed in Gaza, Peace Contacts Off
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip on Monday and right-winger Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) maintained his big lead in opinion polls eight days before Israel elects a prime minister. Full Story
Trial of Yemen Hijacker Starts in Sanaa
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
A court in Yemen began on Monday hearing the case of a Yemeni man who hijacked a plane carrying 91 passengers, including the U.S. ambassador to the Arab state. Full Story
Rebels Give Manila 72 Hours for U.S. Hostage Talks
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
Muslim rebels on Monday gave the Philippines' new government 72 hours to begin negotiating the release of an American held hostage on Jolo island, and demanded a suspension of military operations against it before the talks. Full Story
Indonesian Irian Rebels Release Most Hostages
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Irian Jaya province have released most of the 17 hostages they captured two weeks ago, but are still holding two South Koreans as bargaining chips, police said on Monday. Full Story
Driver of Serb Security Chief Hurt in Shooting
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
The driver of Serbia's new state security chief was wounded on Sunday when a masked gunman opened the door of the official car and fired at him, state television reported. Full Story
At Least 37 People Killed in Zanzibar Riots
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
Opposition protesters fought running battles with police on the semi-autonomous Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar on Sunday and the death toll since Friday rose to at least 37. Full Story
Hizbollah Warns Barak It Could Snatch More Israelis
Posted Monday, January 29, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Sunday that it would take more Israelis hostage if he did not accept its conditions to swap four captured Israelis for Arab prisoners. Full Story
Sale of Terrorist Group Profiles Ends This Weekend
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 9:06 by TRC-News
After this weekend, the Terrorism Research Center will be closing its sale of the Terrorist Group Profiles. If you are intersted in obtaining a copy before the sale ends, please visit the following link. TGP Book Sale
US Tells Pak to Rein in Militant Groups
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
The United States has urged Pakistan to prevail upon the militant groups, operating from its soil, to halt violence amid reports of stepped up activities of the groups, including an attempt on the life of Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and a daring attack on Srinagar Airport. Full Story
Security Meeting in Ivory Coast
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Defence ministers from six west African countries are meeting in the capital of Ivory Coast, Yamoussoukro, to discuss ways to reduce tension between Ivory Coast and its neighbours. Full Story
Israeli Driver Killed in Atarot Shooting
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
An Israeli man was killed yesterday in a shooting incident at the Atarot industrial zone in northern Jerusalem. Despite the terrorist attack, Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered that Israeli negotiators continue peace process talks in Taba. Full Story
Rebel Boss Arrested for Attack on Police Station
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
Papua New Guinea police have arrested a pro-independence leader after an attack on a police outpost in Irian Jaya last month. Mathias Wenda leads one of at least eight factions within the Operasi Papua Merdeka (Free Papua Movement, or OPM). He and his deputy George Kogoiya were arrested by Papua New Guinea police in West Sepik province on Tuesday along with 11 other fighters. Full Story
Irian Jayan Rebels Threaten to Execute Hostages
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
Irian Jayan rebels threatened on Friday to execute 18 hostages, including three South Koreans, unless Papua New Guinea exchanged them for 13 arrested guerillas, the Australian Associated Press reported. Mathias Wenda, commander of the Free Papua Movement, was arrested on Monday with 12 other rebels after being caught inside Papua New Guinea. Full Story
Border Security Worsens, Refugees Trapped In War Zone
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
The security situation in southern Guinea is deteriorating, with another reported attack on Tuesday, 23 January, in the border town of Gueckedou, which is just a few kilometres from the Liberian border, and more than 700 kilometres southeast of the capital, Conakry. Full Story
Ecuador Oil Pipeline 'Attacked'
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
Ecuador's only crude oil pipeline has burst, in what officials suspect is a dynamite attack near the town of Santo Domingo, about 130km west of the capital Quito. Full Story
How Kabila Was Shot Minutes Before He Announced Purge
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Between December 10, 2000 and January 16, 2001, when he was assassinated, President Laurent Desire Kabila of Congo was fine-tuning a major purge of top Army officers - including his own relatives - and government officials, but was afraid it would be resisted, leading to his overthrow and possible assassination, The EastAfrican has learnt. Full Story
Several West Africa Nations Attack UN Diamond Probe
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:38 by TRC-News
Several West African nations, especially Liberia, attacked a U.N. report that accused them of involvement in a gems-for-guns trade with Sierra Leone, saying facts were twisted and proof was tenuous. Full Story
Spanish Navy Cook Killed in Bombing Blamed on ETA
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:38 by TRC-News
A Spanish navy cook was killed by a bomb attached to the underside of his car in the Basque city of San Sebastian on Friday in an explosion blamed on the armed separatist group ETA. Full Story
Ocalan Warns of Fighting Within Turkey
Posted Friday, January 26, 2001 - 8:35 by TRC-News
Condemned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan threatened that fighting between separatist Kurdish guerrillas and Turkish troops in northern Iraq could spread to Turkey, Ocalan's lawyers said on Friday. Full Story
Terrorism Risk - in Its Place
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 13:02 by TRC-News
Former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig once warned that panic, in and of itself, is a terrorist tool. Indeed, "successful" terrorist attacks such as bomb threats don't even have to be carried out to spark fear. All the more reason to be cautious when government decides to take precautions against perceived threats of terrorism. Full Story
Preparing for Chemical Terrorism is a Deadly Serious Business for Army
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 13:02 by TRC-News
And so I found myself in the predawn cold, shivering in borrowed battle dress uniform with a nervous bunch of soldiers on our way to a faux Armageddon. Awaiting us was an invisible enemy: an environment contaminated with chemical weapons. Our mission was to neutralize the stuff without getting neutralized ourselves. In the proud tradition of military exercises, the chemicals were actual nerve agents powerful enough to send victims twitching and convulsing toward a speedy oblivion. Full Story
The Best Homeland Defense is a Good Counterterrorism Offense
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 12:52 by TRC-News
The United States is among the world's leaders in homeland defense; our efforts to strengthen our security continue unabated every day. However, as we continue to bolster our defenses, we need to continue to monitor and counter the changing threat of international terrorism, which is forcing us to expand the scope of our homeland defense. With the rapid changes occurring in the domestic and international environment, we must develop an "active defense" outside the United States, to guard against threats emanating from overseas and to protect American citizens and assets abroad. Without this expansion in scope, even the best domestic homeland defense-a "Fortress America"-leaves the United States and its citizens vulnerable. Full Story
Greece Takes Measures to Combat Serious Crimes
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
Greece has decided to take effective measures to fight the growing cases of grave crime in the country. Full Story
Mideast conflict spreads to Israel’s dovish heartland
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
To the outside world looking in, it appears as if all of Israel and the Palestinian territories have been consumed by violence for months. But any visitors strolling down Tel Aviv’s hip Sheinkin Street could be forgiven for thinking they were in London’s Soho or New York’s East Village. Full Story
Shia Leader Killed in Pakistan
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
A local Shia leader in the Pakistani province of Punjab has been shot dead in what police describe as a sectarian attack - the third of its kind in a week. Syed Ameer Hussain Luck, who was district vice-president of the Tehreek-e-Jafria party, was riding a bicycle when two armed men on a motor cycle opened fire on him. Full Story
Family Pays RM1.5m Ransom
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
A millionaire who owns a chain of cellular telephone outlets around the country was released yesterday after his family paid kidnappers a RM1.5mil ransom. Full Story
Blast Rocks Immigration Office
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Nine Thais were wounded in an explosion that rocked the Lao immigration office near the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge opposite Nong Khai. A source said the blast was at the counter of the immigration office, 200m from the bridge on the Mekong river. Full Story
Assam Hit By Violence
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Five people have been killed in attacks by suspected separatist rebels in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam. Full Story
Anti-Davos Activists Gather in Brazil
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:13 by TRC-News
Several thousand activists have been gathering in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre to protest against globalisation. Full Story
Fact Sheet on Myth and Reality of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:11 by TRC-News
The Taliban in Afghanistan and some of their international supporters portray United Nations Security Council Resolution 1333 and the sanctions that it imposes as an attack against Afghanistan, against the Afghan people, and against Islam. Full Story
Swiss Police Urge Activists to Stay Away
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Swiss police urged even peaceful protesters to stay away from the annual World Economic Forum business summit in Davos this week for fear they could fuel violent anti-globalization clashes. Full Story
Colombia's Leader Urges Rebels to Talk Peace
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Colombia's President Andres Pastrana on Wednesday urged leftist rebels to return to peace talks as troops mustered near a guerrilla safe haven days before a deadline which could mean war or peace. Full Story
Eleven Injured In Laos Blast
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2001 - 9:29 by TRC-News
An explosion just outside the Laotian capital, Vientiane, has injured at least eleven people. Full Story
Jittery Delhi Hunts For Woman Suicide Bomber
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
Police on Wednesday stepped up a massive hunt for a Muslim female bomber who heads a list of people likely to stage suicide attacks during Friday's Republic Day parade in New Delhi. Detectives also released a photograph of a male and identified him as Ejaz Rasool, saying he led a suicide squad which planned to target Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani. Full Story
Man charged in Jewish community center shootings to plead guilty today
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2001 - 9:21 by TRC-News
Buford O. Furrow Jr., the accused shooter in a hate crime that left a postal carrier dead and five others wounded at a Jewish community center in 1999, will plead guilty to murder and other charges Wednesday, U.S. Attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek said. Full Story
Spanish Officer Unharmed in Plot
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
An army officer escaped injury Wednesday when an explosive device attached to the bottom of his car malfunctioned. Full Story
US to review security after failed Yemeni hijack, heaps praise on crew
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2001 - 0:53 by TRC-News
The United States said Tuesday it would review security procedures followed by its diplomats in Yemen following the failed hijacking of a plane there carrying it ambassador to Sanaa. Full Story
Tamil Rebels Urged to Negotiate
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2001 - 0:50 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka's government on Wednesday urged the country's Tamil rebels to return to negotiations but rejected the guerrillas' call for a cease-fire, saying talks must come first. Full Story
Colombia Gathers Troops Outside Rebel Safe Haven
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2001 - 0:48 by TRC-News
The Colombian army said on Tuesday it airlifted about 600 counter-insurgency troops to an area near a leftist guerrilla safe haven as attempts to revive peace talks to end a four-decade-old civil war stalled before a key deadline. Full Story
Embassy bombing defendant wants confession suppressed
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2001 - 0:42 by TRC-News
One of four men standing trial for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania began arguing in closed court sessions on Tuesday that his post-arrest statements to investigators should be suppressed. Full Story
US Diplomat Safe After Yemen Hijack
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 9:02 by TRC-News
The US ambassador to Yemen was among 91 passengers on board an airliner hijacked on an internal flight from the capital San'a to Taiz. The man, who said he was a supporter of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was overpowered by the flight crew after the plane was diverted to Djibouti. Full Story
Cops Defuse Car Bomb in Spain
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Police said they defused a powerful car bomb early Tuesday in a wealthy neighborhood of this small town in the northern Basque region. Full Story
Maoists Kill 3 Nepalese Policemen
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Three Nepalese policemen were killed Tuesday and several others injured in an ambush laid by Maoist insurgents, police said. Full Story
Fourteen Killed, Dozens Wounded in Kashmir Violence
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
Fourteen people were killed and dozens wounded on Sunday in two separate explosions and gun battles in Kashmir, where India has declared a unilateral cease-fire in its struggle against separatist guerrillas. Full Story
RAW Information: Lashkar 'Jackal' On Prowl to Kill Advani
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
This afternoon, the Delhi Police received a one-and-a-half page note that sent even top cops running to their superiors. Police Commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma held two meetings at the Ministries of Home and Defence. And by the end of the day, hurried directives were issued down the line regarding Republic Day security arrangements. Full Story
One Hurt in Bomb Attack in Court Building
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
A powerful bomb exploded overnight on the ground floor of the law courts in the French Alpine town of Annecy, injuring one person and causing widespread damage. Full Story
Did Ressam have targets in L.A.?
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Accused Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam may have been planning to participate in bomb attacks at airports in and around Los Angeles, according to federal prosecutors. Full Story
Palestinians Arrest Three Alleged Collaborators
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Palestinian security forces have arrested three Palestinians suspected of helping Israel to track and kill a local political leader in the West Bank last month, a senior security source said Tuesday. Full Story
Tamil Rebels Say Will Extend Unilateral Ceasefire
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Tamil rebels fighting for independence in Sri Lanka said on Tuesday they would extend a unilateral cease-fire for one more month and called for international pressure on the government to reciprocate. Full Story
India Extends Kashmir Ceasefire, Slams Pakistan
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
India extended its two-month-old suspension of hostilities against guerrillas in Kashmir for another month on Tuesday despite concern over a rash of daring attacks on security forces. Full Story
Colombian Rebels Reject Call for End to Kidnaps
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Colombia's main rebel force said on Monday it would keep holding civilians for ransom and using homemade bombs despite a government plea for gestures to boost public support for peace talks before a key deadline. Full Story
Blair to Hold Northern Irish Peace Talks
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will hold separate talks in London on Tuesday with rival Northern Irish political leaders in a bid to end a logjam that threatens the key 1998 peace accord, officials said on Monday. Full Story
Bomb explodes near Iranian Embassy
Posted Monday, January 22, 2001 - 17:33 by TRC-News
A bomb exploded near a United Nations building and the defunct Iranian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, Taliban officials said. Full Story
Colombia Asks Rebels to Cut Attacks to Boost Peace
Posted Monday, January 22, 2001 - 17:24 by TRC-News
Colombia's government asked a veteran leftist rebel leader on Monday for concessions, including an end to kidnapping roadblocks and mortar attacks on villages, to boost public support for the country's peace process before a key deadline. Full Story
Germany to Pay Victims of Far-Right Violence
Posted Monday, January 22, 2001 - 17:22 by TRC-News
The German government announced on Monday it would compensate victims of far-right violence following a rise in neo-Nazi crime. Full Story
India to demand action against militant groups in U.K.
Posted Monday, January 22, 2001 - 17:18 by TRC-News
Activities of U.K.-based anti-India extremist groups are expected to figure in talks between Indian officials and British security experts in New Delhi tomorrow. Full Story
Seven killed in Kashmir bomb blast
Posted Monday, January 22, 2001 - 17:16 by TRC-News
At least seven people were killed and 35 others wounded when a bomb blast rocked a passenger bus in the Indian-administered Kashmir state. Full Story
Olson urges prosecutors to drop case
Posted Monday, January 22, 2001 - 17:15 by TRC-News
Sara Jane Olson, accused of placing bombs under Los Angeles police cars, Monday urged prosecutors to drop the case against her in light of the pardon issued by former President Bill Clinton to newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. Full Story
Pakistan freezes bin Laden's assets
Posted Monday, January 22, 2001 - 17:12 by TRC-News
Pakistan has frozen the assets of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and ordered immediate closure of all offices belonging to the Taliban militia. Full Story
Cohen spreads blame for Cole attack
Posted Friday, January 19, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen has concluded that there were no failures of intelligence or acts of negligence that led to the Oct. 12 bombing of the USS Cole, but that the entire military chain of command, beginning with himself, failed to ask sufficiently probing questions about how to protect U.S. forces against a changing terrorist threat, a senior Defense Department official said last night. Full Story
Philippines government collapses
Posted Friday, January 19, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
The government of Philippines President Joseph Estrada collapsed on Friday amid widespread popular protest and the defection of the military to the side of the opposition. Estrada, however, did not resign, and instead asked Congress for snap presidential elections and promised not to run. As fears of a coup gripped the country, and military vehicles ominously moved onto the grounds of the presidential palace, it was unclear whether Estrada’s call for new elections would mollify his foes. Full Story
U.S. Official Says Afghanistan Center of Terrorism
Posted Friday, January 19, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Afghanistan is the ``center of terrorism'' and it is critical for the United States that the ruling Taliban stop allowing guerrilla movements to set up in that country, a State Department official said on Wednesday. Full Story
Israel Delays Meeting After Teen's Death
Posted Friday, January 19, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
Israel put off Friday a meeting on Palestinian proposals for peace talks which would have coincided with the funeral of an Israeli teen-ager apparently lured to his death by an on-line Palestinian lover. Full Story
Mayor Killed As Colombia Bids to Renew Peace Talks
Posted Friday, January 19, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
Suspected leftist guerrillas executed a mayor in a remote jungle village in Colombia on Thursday, as government negotiators met with rebel leaders to revive peace talks to end a four-decade civil war. Full Story
Breakthrough Elusive As Blair Ends N. Ireland Talks
Posted Friday, January 19, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
British-led talks failed to end a tense stalemate in Northern Ireland's peace accord on Thursday, but Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to keep pressing for a breakthrough. Full Story
German Oilman Kidnapped in Yemen
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 9:39 by TRC-News
Yemeni tribesmen have kidnapped a German oil expert, a security official said Thursday. Full Story
Embassy bombing suspect warned of Yemen attack
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
A defendant in the investigation of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya warned his American interrogators of another possible attack in Yemen, The New York Times said Thursday. Full Story
Corsican group threatens attacks
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
A Corsican resistance movement threatened a wave of attacks on Paris and Strasbourg, home to the Council of Europe and the European Parliament, beginning next month, a spokesman for the group told Le Figaro newspaper in an interview published Thursday. Full Story
Lockerbie Judges Adjourn Until Jan 30
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Judges at the Lockerbie airliner bombing trial adjourned the court on Thursday until Tuesday, January 30, when they said they would reveal their progress in reaching a verdict. Full Story
Lockerbie Defense Wraps Up
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 2:09 by TRC-News
A lawyer for one of two defendants in the Lockerbie trial dismissed testimony from two Swiss timer manufacturers and a former CIA double agent Wednesday, alleging the men fabricated their stories in pursuit of riches. Full Story
25 Men Hacked To Death in Colombia
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 2:07 by TRC-News
Suspected right-wing paramilitary gunmen with machetes hacked to death 25 men in northern Colombia on Wednesday before burning dozens of homes to the ground, police and villagers said. Full Story
Mexico Governor Wounded in Assassination Attempt
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 2:06 by TRC-News
The governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua was shot and wounded on Wednesday in the country's first major act of political violence since it ended 71 years of single-party rule, authorities said. Full Story
Young Rebel Leaders Surrender to Thai Authorities
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:27 by TRC-News
The twin adolescent leaders of a mystical Myanmar rebel group and 14 followers surrendered to Thai authorities Tuesday, police said. Full Story
Sri Lankan Aarmy Assaults Major Rebel Bastion
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
Government troops backed by MiG-27 jets and artillery attacked Tamil Tiger guerrillas guarding a major rebel bastion in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, the military said. Full Story
Saudis Investigate Fourth Bomb
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:25 by TRC-News
Saudi police are investigating another attempted bomb attack on a Western expatriate after an Irishman spotted a device under his car and escaped uninjured. The attempted attack, on Sunday, was the fourth to target English-speaking foreigners living in Saudi Arabia since mid-November. Full Story
Dutch Police Arrest Greenpeace Nuclear Protesters
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:22 by TRC-News
Dutch police arrested six Greenpeace demonstrators protesting against the transport of nuclear waste to a reactor in France early on Wednesday, a police spokesman said. The environmental group has objected to the Dutch government"s decision to allow six empty fuel containers to leave a nuclear plant in the southern Dutch city of Borselle for a French reactor where the waste will be processed. Full Story
Colombian Guerrillas Say They'll Free Captives
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:20 by TRC-News
In a move that could revive Colombia's moribund peace process, the nation's largest guerrilla group has confirmed that it plans to release a group of soldiers and police captured in combat. Full Story
Hooded Men Kill Director of Palestinian TV in Gaza
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:17 by TRC-News
Three hooded men Wednesday shot dead the head of the official Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) in Gaza, Palestinian security sources said. Full Story
Defense Says Key Lockerbie Witness Is a Liar
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:16 by TRC-News
A key Lockerbie witness was a greedy ``liar and fantasist'' who implicated Libya in the 1988 aircraft bombing in the hope of lining his own pockets, the defense said in summing-up Wednesday. Full Story
Israel Eases Gaza Clampdown But Gloom Sets In
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:15 by TRC-News
Israel eased its security clampdown on the Gaza Strip Wednesday but a thickening mood of pessimism hung over peace talks with Palestinian negotiators. Full Story
Saudis Investigate Fourth Bomb
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:14 by TRC-News
Saudi police are investigating another attempted bomb attack on a Western expatriate after an Irishman spotted a device under his car and escaped uninjured. The attempted attack, on Sunday, was the fourth to target English-speaking foreigners living in Saudi Arabia since mid-November. Full Story
Defense Says Key Lockerbie Witness Is a Liar
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:06 by TRC-News
A key Lockerbie witness was a greedy ``liar and fantasist'' who implicated Libya in the 1988 aircraft bombing in the hope of lining his own pockets, the defense said in summing-up Wednesday. Full Story
Hooded Men Kill Director of Palestinian TV in Gaza
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Three hooded men Wednesday shot dead the head of the official Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) in Gaza, Palestinian security sources said. Full Story
What happens when revolutionaries grow up?
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 1:11 by TRC-News
Several accounts of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Islamic students have been proffered and much has been written about the seizure of the U.S. diplomatic mission, labeled a "den of spies" by the Iranians. But "Takeover in Iran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture" by Dr. Massoumeh Ebtekar is billed as the first-ever insider account of this important episode in U.S.-Iranian affairs. Full Story
McVeigh Execution Date Set, May 16, 2001
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 1:05 by TRC-News
he government set a May 16 execution date Tuesday for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who has dropped his appeals and is apparently pinning all his hopes on winning clemency from the president. Full Story
Jerusalem 'Bomb Plot'
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 22:26 by TRC-News
A new hit film in Israel - Hahesder, or Time of Favour - is about a plot by ultra-religious Jews to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount. Now there are warnings that some are preparing to turn fiction into fact. Full Story
Gunmen Massacre 10 in Colombia
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 22:25 by TRC-News
Gunmen -- believed to be rightist rebels -- stopped a bus in western Colombia Monday and methodically shot and killed 10 passengers, police said Monday. Full Story
'Significant' Bomb Find in NI
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 22:23 by TRC-News
Police have said a bomb discovered in Northern Ireland was designed to kill members of the security forces. It was found on the main Armagh to Middletown Road on Saturday. Full Story
4 Militants Killed in Bid to Storm Srinagar Airport
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 22:23 by TRC-News
A suicide squad of militants made an attempt to storm the Srinagar airport on Tuesday, triggering a fierce gun-battle that left four of them and two civilians dead and nine security personnel injured. Full Story
Ex-Generals Linked to Xmas Bombings
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 22:22 by TRC-News
Two former army generals with close links to the Suharto regime - R. Hartono and Prabowo Subianto - have been named in a police report on the bloody Christmas Eve bombings in Indonesia last month. Full Story
Holy Warriors: Killing for the Glory of God, in a Land Far From Home
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 22:20 by TRC-News
Muhammad Khaled Mihraban, a polite, soft-spoken 26- year-old Pakistani, thinks he has already killed at least 100 people. Maybe more; he isn't really sure. Full Story
Welcome to Taliban Camp. Please Don't Come In.
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 22:19 by TRC-News
It seemed an auspicious invitation. Afghanistan, insisted Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, the Taliban foreign minister, did not support terrorism or harbor those who committed it. Yes, he acknowledged, his country continued to harbor some Arab and non-Afghan "volunteers" from the 1980's war against the Soviet Union who were not permitted to return home to their countries. But there were no "jihadi" training camps in his country. Full Story
How the 1975 OPEC hostage crisis in Vienna unfolded
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
Hans-Joachim Klein is finally being made to answer for his part in the OPEC hostage crisis in Vienna in 1975, at his trial in Frankfurt. Full Story
Sri Lankan Army Attacks Rebels
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
Government troops backed by MiG-27 jets and artillery attacked Tamil Tiger guerrillas guarding a major rebel bastion in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, the military said. Full Story
Militants Attack Kashmir Airport, Eight Dead
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 9:30 by TRC-News
Eight people were killed Tuesday in a gun-battle which erupted after separatist militants tried to storm the high security airport at Srinagar in Indian Kashmir, police said. Full Story
Lockerbie bomb route questioned
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 9:26 by TRC-News
The lawyer for a Libyan accused of the Lockerbie bombing has cast doubt on where the suitcase holding the fatal bomb originated. Full Story
Armed hangliders feared in Israel
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 23:39 by TRC-News
Israel is taking seriously a threat that radar-evading hang-gliders could carry terrorists over the Lebanese border for the first time since 1987, the Sunday Times of London reported. Full Story
Bin Laden tried to purchase arms
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 23:37 by TRC-News
A Syrian businessman, who lives in southern Spain said Monday that he turned down an offer by Saudi dissident and suspected international terrorist Osama bin Laden to purchase weapons on his behalf and informed the Spanish authorities about the request. Full Story
33 Russian troops killed in Chechnya in two days: rebels
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 23:35 by TRC-News
At least 33 Russian servicemen have been killed during two days of rebel attacks throughout the breakway republic, amid the bloodiest fighting for many months, a Chechen spokesman said Tuesday. Full Story
German minister Fischer to testify in terrorism trial
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 23:34 by TRC-News
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, whose radical past was recently highlighted by photographs of him fighting police in the 1970s, testifies Tuesday in the trial of an accomplice of convicted terrorist "Carlos the Jackal". Full Story
Colombia Rebels Say Not Planning Prisoner Release
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 20:27 by TRC-News
Colombia's stop-and-start peace process took a blow on Monday as leftist rebels told mothers of military prisoners that they planned no major hostage release to revive talks with the government. Full Story
Grenades Fired at Official in Kashmir
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:46 by TRC-News
Attackers fired grenades at the chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir today, but police said he escaped the apparent assassination attempt unharmed. Full Story
U.S. Offers $5 Million for Info on Cole Bombers
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:44 by TRC-News
The U.S. government Monday announced a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of those who attacked a U.S. warship in the Yemeni port of Aden in October, killing 17 U.S. sailors. Full Story
One Man and a Global Web of Violence
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:43 by TRC-News
In 1987, several years after he began training Arab volunteers to oust Soviet forces from Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden had a vision. The time had come, he told friends, to start a global jihad, or Islamic holy war, against the corrupt secular governments of the Muslim Middle East and the Western powers that supported them. Full Story
On Jordan's Death Row, Convicted Terrorist Says He Has No Regrets
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:42 by TRC-News
In a prison in the barren hills on the outskirts of Amman, Khadar abu Hoshar waits with no regrets for the hangman. A 36-year-old father of four, Mr. abu Hoshar denies that he plotted to bomb tourist sites in Jordan. But he says he has devoted his life to the cause of jihad, or holy war, in hopes of bringing to power governments that follow the strict code of Islamic law. Full Story
Israeli-Palestinian Fighting Flares; Peace Moves Stall
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
Israel said it had called off peace talks with the Palestinians Monday after a Jewish settler was found shot dead and the army sealed off the Gaza Strip. Full Story
Yemen Foils Attempt to Blow Up Minister's Home
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:40 by TRC-News
Yemeni authorities have foiled an attempt to blow up the house of the interior minister that may be linked to the arrest of suspects in October's attack on a U.S. warship, a senior security official said Monday. Full Story
Death Squad Kills Eight in Colombian Cattle Town
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:39 by TRC-News
Suspected members of a right-wing death squad shot and killed eight people in the northern Colombian cattle-rearing town of Valledupar, police sources said on Sunday. Full Story
Israel Seals Off Gaza After Settler Killed
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:38 by TRC-News
The Israeli army sealed off the Gaza Strip and said there would be no peace talks Monday after a Jewish settler was found shot dead, the latest victim in nearly 16 weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Full Story
Security Tightened for Ivory Coast's Problem Poll
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:37 by TRC-News
Ivory Coast tightened security in the opposition's Muslim heartland for a fresh attempt at elections on Sunday seen as a potential new source of trouble after a year of turmoil. Full Story
Three Killed in Indonesia's Aceh, Truce Mocked
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:36 by TRC-News
Three people have been killed and four wounded in a fresh bout of violence in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, showing the futility of a recently agreed cease-fire extension. Full Story
Colombian Rebels, Paramilitary Battle in Ecuador
Posted Monday, January 15, 2001 - 9:35 by TRC-News
Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary forces battled outside a small town in Ecuador's Amazon jungle, the first clash between the two in Ecuadorean territory, the country's defense ministry sources said on Friday. Full Story
MI5 called in as animal rights gang sends victim a nail-bomb
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:36 by TRC-News
MI5 has been called in by the Government to help track down animal rights extremists behind an escalation of urban terrorism. In the latest attack, a nail-filled letter bomb exploded in a North Wales fish and chip shop yesterday. The owner, Jonathan Davies, 34, a country sports enthusiast, was uninjured when a shower of nails hit the floor of the busy shop in Holywell. Full Story
McVeigh lets appeal deadline expire
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:30 by TRC-News
Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh let a deadline for resuming his appeals expire on Thursday, and his attorneys said he now wants a date set for his execution. Full Story
Afghan Taliban wants better U.S. ties
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Afghanistan’s Taliban militia, targeted by the United States for shielding suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden, urged President-elect Bush on Friday to make an effort to improve ties. Full Story
Yemen questions Cole security
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:29 by TRC-News
Yemenis probing the attack on the USS Cole have put a number of questions about the ship’s security to U.S. investigators, a weekly Yemeni military newspaper has reported. Full Story
A deadly Soviet threat lives on
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:28 by TRC-News
Down a street from where children play, just yards away from homes and vegetable gardens, the Plague Research Institute in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital is a terrorist’s dream. Under the guise of civilian research, the institute collected and housed thousands of deadly germs during the Soviet era to be used against the United States in a war. Until recently, the facility was completely unguarded. Full Story
Ecuador finds Colombian rebel camp in jungle
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:26 by TRC-News
Ecuador believes it has found an abandoned Colombian guerrilla camp in its jungle, fueling fears that leftist rebels from its northern neighbor may be operating across the border, military sources said Thursday. Full Story
DOD Proliferation Report Updates Threat from Nuclear, Bio, Chemical Weapons
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:24 by TRC-News
At least 24 countries, including Iraq and North Korea, either possess weapons of mass destruction or are in the process of acquiring them, Defense Secretary Cohen told a National Press Club audience January 10. Full Story
Fingerprint evidence allowed in bomb trial
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:21 by TRC-News
Fingerprint evidence that had been challenged by defense lawyers may be admitted by prosecutors in the upcoming trial of accused terrorist Ahmed Ressam, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour has ruled. Full Story
Lockerbie Defense Questions Where Bomb Bag Started
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
Lawyers for two Libyans accused of mass murder for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing slammed security practices at Frankfurt airport on Friday as they continued closing submissions in the eight-month trial. Full Story
Troops Hunting Kidnapped U.S. Aid Man Free Russian
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:19 by TRC-News
Russian troops said Friday they had freed a Russian hostage during a massive search operation in rebel Chechnya for kidnapped U.S. aid worker Kenny Gluck. Full Story
Colombian Leader Refuses to Lay Blame for Car Bomb
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
Colombian President Andres Pastrana toured a car-bombed mall parking lot on Thursday but refused to lay blame for the bombing at a sensitive time for peace talks with leftist rebels. Full Story
Blast Hits Belfast Offices of Political Party
Posted Friday, January 12, 2001 - 8:18 by TRC-News
A bomb blast rocked the Belfast offices of one of Northern Ireland's main political parties on Thursday. Police said there were no reports of any injuries caused by the explosion outside the north Belfast office of the moderate Roman Catholic nationalist Social Democratic and Labor Party (SDLP). Full Story
Spanish Police Arrest Two ETA Suspects
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Spanish police today arrested two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA driving a car loaded with explosives, averting a possible new attack, officials said. Full Story
Mid-East Security Deal Reached
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
Israel has reopened a major road through the Gaza Strip after senior Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed to resume joint security patrols. Israeli tanks moved back from the road and concrete slabs were removed, allowing cars to pass for the first time in weeks. Full Story
Kashmir Separatists Name Peace Team
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
The main separatist alliance in Indian-administered Kashmir has named a five-man team to visit Pakistan to hold talks there. The All Party Hurriyat [Freedom] Conference said Abdul Gani Lone, Omer Farooq, Moulvi Abbas Ansari, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Sheikh Abdul Aziz would travel to Pakistan next week. Full Story
Afghan Taliban said to retake strategic town
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement said on Sunday it had recaptured a strategic town lost to opposition forces in the central province of Bamiyan a week ago and shot down an opposition helicopter. Full Story
Pentagon Cites Germ Weapon Threats
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Germ weapons usually are viewed as a threat to U.S. troops and cities, but in a new report Wednesday the Pentagon said American ranches and farms also are highly vulnerable. Full Story
Defense Has Its Last Word in Lockerbie Trial
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Lockerbie defense lawyers on Thursday tore into core elements of the prosecution case in final arguments aimed at saving two Libyans from life in jail for murdering 270 people in the 1988 bombing. Full Story
Six Yemenis Die in Political Shooting at Mosque
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
Six people were shot dead at a mosque in Yemen when an argument between tribesmen over nominating candidates to run in upcoming municipal elections erupted into violence, witnesses said Thursday. Full Story
Car Bomb in Colombian Mall, Peace Talks in Balance
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
A car bomb wrecked a parking lot in a busy shopping mall in the Colombian city of Medellin on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 50 as the government struggled to revive peace talks with leftist guerrillas. Full Story
Bin Laden appears at son’s wedding
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
Terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden appeared happy and smiling at his son’s wedding in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar in footage shown Wednesday on an Arab satellite channel. Full Story
White House Fact Sheet: Counterintelligence for the 21st Century
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
The PDD outlines specific steps that will enable the U.S. counterintelligence (CI) community to better fulfill its mission of identifying, understanding, prioritizing and counteracting the intelligence threats faced by the United States. The system will be predictive, proactive and will provide integrated oversight of counterintelligence issues across the national security agencies. Full Story
Spanish Police Defuse Bomb
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Police have defused a bomb left in a cemetery where relatives had just met to pay homage to a politician killed by the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story
Fresh Blast In Riyadh
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Reports from Saudi Arabia say there's been an explosion at a shopping mall in the capital, Riyadh, causing damage but no injuries. Full Story
30 Injured When Bomb Explodes in Kashmir
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
A bomb hidden in a handcart exploded at the gate of Kashmir's main telephone exchange Tuesday, wounding 30 people who were waiting to pay their bills, police said. Five were critically injured. Full Story
Pentagon finds security lapse in Gulf
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
The USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors exposed a “seam in the fabric” of the U.S. military’s anti-terrorism regime, but it can be strengthened by improved training and intelligence, a panel reported Tuesday. Full Story
U.S. Urged to Raise Guard Against 'Terrorists'
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
The U.S. military must make defense against ``terrorist'' attacks one of its top priorities and train all troops to protect themselves against attack, a Pentagon commission set up after last year's bombing of a U.S. destroyer in Yemen recommended Tuesday. Full Story
U.S. Mideast Peace Mission Mired in Confusion
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
President Clinton's last-gasp Middle East peace drive faltered Wednesday as confusion mounted over the fate of a mission by an American envoy. Full Story
Gunmen Kidnap U.S. Aid Worker in Chechnya
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
A U.S. citizen working for an aid group was kidnapped in Chechnya and another slightly wounded after gunmen, apparently separatist rebels, attacked their cars, Russian officials and aid workers said Wednesday. Full Story
Indonesia, Aceh Rebels Extend Cease-Fire
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
Indonesia and rebels in Aceh agreed Wednesday to extend their cease-fire for another month and to meet again in February to try to find a political solution to years of violence in which thousands of people have died. Full Story
Colombia Rebels Said to Plan Peace Move As 38 Die
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
Colombia's messy war claimed 38 lives on Tuesday even as newspapers reported the nation's largest leftist guerrilla group was preparing a major prisoner release to revive peace talks with the government. Full Story
Palestinians Accuse Israel of War Crimes
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 8:39 by TRC-News
The Palestinian Authority wants members of the Israeli government to face war crimes charges for what the Palestinians say is a policy of assassinating their activists, a Palestinian official said Tuesday. Full Story
Hamas Claims Responsibility for Netanya Car Bomb
Posted Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 9:00 by TRC-News
The military wing of the militant Islamic group Hamas claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a New Year's day car bomb in the Israeli city of Netanya which wounded dozens of people, a senior Hamas leader said. "Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades declare its responsibility for the Netanya operation," Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi told Reuters, referring to Hamas's military wing. Full Story
4 Russians Slain in Algeria
Posted Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
Four Russian nationals were found dead in a forest in eastern Algeria, the first foreigners slain in the country in four years, security forces said Monday. Full Story
Lockerbie Case Cut to Murder Pure And Simple
Posted Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
In a make-or-break bid for conviction in the Lockerbie trial, prosecutors asked a special court Tuesday to drop lesser charges and find the two Libyan accused guilty of murder. Full Story
Mufti Says Only Muslims Can Control Jerusalem Site
Posted Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
The Mufti of Jerusalem, the Palestinians' highest religious authority, issued an edict on Tuesday forbidding non-Muslims from controlling a holy site that is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Full Story
N.Irish Protestant Extremist Must Remain in Jail
Posted Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 8:54 by TRC-News
Protestant extremist chief Johnny ``Mad Dog'' Adair lost a bid for release from prison Tuesday after Britain objected, his supporters said. Full Story
Reprimand unlikely in Cole attack
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:39 by TRC-News
The admiral overseeing the investigation of the actions of the captain and crew of the USS Cole when the warship was bombed three months ago in a Yemeni harbor has concluded that no one should be punished even though dozens of security lapses occurred, Pentagon officials said. Full Story
Yemen says Cole suspect accuses Osama bin Laden
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:38 by TRC-News
A key suspect facing trial in connection with the October attack on the USS Cole told authorities he believed the suicide bombers were acting on the orders of Osama bin Laden, Yemeni sources close to the investigation said Monday. Full Story
U.S. girl kidnapped in Honduras
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:37 by TRC-News
Armed hooded men in military-style clothes burst into a family home in northern Honduras and kidnapped a 4-year-old U.S. girl last week, her mother authorities said. Full Story
Bomb Hits Yemen Political Office
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:34 by TRC-News
An explosion Sunday caused heavy damage at an office of Yemen's opposition Socialist Party near Aden, security officials said. They had no word on casualties. Full Story
Thirteen Albanian Rebels Caught on Kosovo Boundary
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
British peacekeepers have captured 13 ethnic Albanian guerrillas on the boundary between Kosovo and government-controlled Serbia, their representatives said on Sunday. Full Story
NSA Intercepts Are Foundation of Bombing Case
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:33 by TRC-News
When the trial of four Osama bin Laden operatives begins in New York sometime next month, the government's star witnesses just might come from a certain intelligence agency with a long and well-documented aversion to the light of day. Full Story
Bomb Scare at Russian Government Headquarters in Moscow
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:32 by TRC-News
A bomb scare led to the evacuation of the Russian government's headquarters in Moscow Sunday, Russia's FSB secret services said. Full Story
Israelis Confirm Wider Policy of Assassinations
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:32 by TRC-News
To Israeli peace activists, Thabet Thabet was a familiar figure. He had long been active in trying to foster reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis. A few years ago, in a rare act for a Palestinian, he even attended the funeral of an Israeli soldier, the son of a veteran peace campaigner he had befriended. Full Story
Ecuador Kidnappers Prime Suspects in Pipeline Bombings
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:31 by TRC-News
Kidnappers holding eight foreigners hostage in Ecuador's oil-rich northeast jungle are strongly suspected of launching deadly dynamite attacks last month on the country's main oil pipeline, sources have told The Associated Press. Full Story
Bias on Trial in Twin Bombing Case
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:07 by TRC-News
U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand started an elaborate jury selection process here last week in the case of four men charged as terrorist followers of Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden, hoping to keep anti-Arab prejudice out of the courtroom. Full Story
Afghans Linked To Holiday Bombings
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Muslim extremists suspected in holiday bombings in the Philippines and Indonesia may all have learned their deadly skills in Afghanistan, police in both countries said. Full Story
Lockerbie Defense Ends Testimony As Trial Resumes
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:05 by TRC-News
Lawyers for two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie airliner bombing said Monday they would call no further witnesses, abruptly ending testimony in the trial just as it resumed following a one-month break. Full Story
Israeli Experts Fear Extremist Threat on Holy Site
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 9:04 by TRC-News
Israeli experts say they fear Jewish fundamentalists are plotting to blow up mosques on a holy site at the heart of the Israeli-Arab conflict and could spark an apocalyptic holy war if they succeed. Full Story
Heavy Firing Erupts in Ivory Coast's Main City
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Explosions and gunfire erupted at state radio and television stations in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan late on Sunday, witnesses said. Full Story
Syria's Assad Rejects Israeli 'Threats'
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 8:57 by TRC-News
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday rejected Israeli threats against his country and said the struggle to liberate occupied Arab land and establish Middle East peace would continue. Full Story
US Embassy in Rome Remains Shut, Airport on Alert
Posted Monday, January 8, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
The U.S. embassy in Rome was closed for a second consecutive day on Saturday over security concerns, while authorities stepped up their watch at airports and U.S. bases across Italy. Full Story
U.S. Girl Kidnapped in Northern Honduras
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 19:09 by TRC-News
Hooded men in military-style clothes and armed with guns burst into a family home in northern Honduras and kidnapped a four-year-old U.S. girl, her mother and authorities said on Friday. Full Story
Twelve Dead in Second Colombia Massacre in Two Days
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 19:08 by TRC-News
Gunmen killed at least 12 peasants on Friday in a mountainous region of northwestern Colombia where leftist guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries are fighting for territorial control, police said. Full Story
U.S. Embassy in Rome Closed for Security
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 19:06 by TRC-News
The United States abruptly closed its Rome embassy to the public for security reasons on Friday, following what a U.S. source defined as a `very specific threat.' Full Story
U.S. knew of bin Laden Kenya cell
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 8:25 by TRC-News
Newly disclosed documents in the East Africa embassy bombings case show that U.S. intelligence was aware of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist cell in Kenya two years before the August 1998 bombings that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. Full Story
India's Hindu nationalists warn government to be on guard in Kashmir
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 8:22 by TRC-News
The leadership of India's ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party Friday backed the government's ceasefire in Kashmir but said it should not "drop its guard" against Pakistan-based Muslim militant outfits. Full Story
Tommy Linked to Bombings
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 8:20 by TRC-News
The youngest son of Indonesia's disgraced former dictator Soeharto has been linked to Christmas Eve bombings that killed 17 people. Full Story
Mideast Peace Prospects Gloomy As Violence Flares
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 8:17 by TRC-News
A night of clashes during which a Palestinian was killed deepened skepticism Friday among Israelis and Palestinians that a peace deal could be reached before President Clinton leaves office. Full Story
Police: Manila Bombings Related to Separatists
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Philippine police said Friday they had identified the mastermind behind deadly bombings in Manila and that the attacks were linked to Muslim separatists, not President Joseph Estrada's impeachment trial. Full Story
Eleven Killed in Colombia Massacre
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 8:16 by TRC-News
Suspected far-right paramilitaries killed 11 people in a northwestern Colombian region in the first massacre of the new year in this conflict-torn nation, police said on Thursday. Full Story
Colombia Official Meets Rebels As Peace Hopes Hang
Posted Friday, January 5, 2001 - 8:15 by TRC-News
Colombia's top peace official flew to the headquarters of the nation's largest leftist rebel group on Thursday to demand answers about a killing that has threatened to derail the country's fragile peace process. Full Story
Portuguese TV gunman surrenders
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 18:25 by TRC-News
An armed man who broke into the offices of Portugal's state RTP television threatening to kill himself has surrendered to police after eight hours of negotiations. Full Story
Chechen tunnel bomb discovered
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 18:24 by TRC-News
Seven Russian soldiers were killed in Chechnya in the past 24 hours but further losses were avoided when a tunnel packed with explosives was uncovered near a Russian police station. Full Story
Leftists claim Istanbul suicide bombing
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 18:23 by TRC-News
Turkey's parliament is to investigate the prison raids in which 30 inmates died, and which led to a leftist suicide bomber to attack a police station in Istanbul, killing himself and a policeman. Full Story
17 Detained in Philippine Bombings
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 18:17 by TRC-News
Philippine police and soldiers raided a Muslim neighborhood early Thursday and detained 17 men in connection with five weekend bombings that killed 22 people in Manila, officials and news reports said. Full Story
Terrorism in fight over urban sprawl
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:59 by TRC-News
Warning “If you build it, we will burn it,” a radical environmental group opposed to urban sprawl has claimed responsibility for the burning of three luxury houses under construction on what was one of Long Island’s last remaining farms. Full Story
Palestinians must fight terrorism before any peace talks: Israel
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:56 by TRC-News
Israel demands that the Palestinian leadership work to end terrorism in the area before peace talks can resume, Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami said on public radio Thursday. Full Story
Pirates Attack Ships Near Port
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:49 by TRC-News
About 20 armed pirates attacked two ships in the Straits of Malacca in an apparent hijack attempt but were fought off by the crew, a maritime police official said on Thursday. ''They probably attacked with the idea to shipjack, probably with the intention to sell the ship to a ready buyer,'' Marine Police Commander Senior Assistant Commissioner Muhammad Muda said. Full Story
U.S. Officials Warn of Security Threats in Central America
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:48 by TRC-News
Powerful organizations that control smuggling, auto theft and arms trafficking in Central America are using those established networks to smuggle illegal drugs, U.S. and regional officials warn. Full Story
Yemen Links Six to Cole Blast, Questions 10 Others
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
Yemen has proof that six people in custody were involved in the apparent suicide attack on the USS Cole in Aden in October, and is questioning more suspects, the interior minister said in remarks published on Thursday. Full Story
Police Investigate Corsican Terror Threat to Paris
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:44 by TRC-News
French police are investigating alleged threats by a Corsican guerrilla group to wreak havoc in Paris unless the killers of two Corsican nationalists are tracked down, judicial sources said on Thursday. Full Story
Philippine Soldiers Arrest Bombing Suspects
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:43 by TRC-News
Philippine soldiers swooped on a Muslim community in a Manila suburb early Thursday and arrested a group of residents in connection with weekend bomb attacks which killed 22 people, officials said. Full Story
Armed Man Threatens Suicide in Lisbon TV Station
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:42 by TRC-News
An armed man broke into Portugal's RTP television headquarters with members of his family on Thursday and threatened to kill himself in protest at a program he said had hurt him financially. Full Story
Communal Clashes Kill 14 in Eastern Indonesia
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 8:41 by TRC-News
Communal clashes have erupted in eastern Indonesia, killing 14 people and injuring dozens in a grim reminder of the tensions gripping the world's largest archipelago, police and official media said on Thursday. Full Story
Osama bin Laden: Portrait of a militant
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:58 by TRC-News
In the eyes of U.S. officials, Osama bin Laden is a ruthless terrorist who, along with his followers, is waging a holy war against the United States by targeting its citizens -- particularly those in the military -- worldwide. Full Story
Unveiling bin Laden’s network
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:55 by TRC-News
When federal prosecutors walk into U.S. District Court on Wednesday to begin jury selection for the embassy bombing trial of four Islamic radicals, they will be armed with an arsenal of information on the operations of a man they call “the terrorist prince,” Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Somali Town Cut Off
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:53 by TRC-News
Tension is reported to be high in the central Somalian town of Baidoa which has been cut off from the rest of the country for at least three days. Full Story
Fighting Breaks Out in South Serbia Buffer Zone
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
A fierce exchange of fire broke out between ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Serbian forces Tuesday inside the demilitarized buffer zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia, an AFP reporter at the scene saw. Full Story
IRA Vows to End Arms Stalemate if Blair Moves First
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:52 by TRC-News
Leaders of the Irish Republican Army have issued a New Year's statement repeating a pledge to resolve the disarmament deadlock that has blocked progress in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, but stressing that the next steps to end the stalemate must come not from them but from Prime Minister Tony Blair. Full Story
Rebels: Congo Army Bombed Port Town
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:51 by TRC-News
Congolese rebels on Tuesday accused President Laurent Kabila's army of bombing a southern lake port and killing two people after losing the region to the guerrillas. Full Story
Afghan Taliban Clash With Opposition Fighters Near Tajik Border
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:50 by TRC-News
Afghan Taliban troops clashed Tuesday with opposition fighters in the country's north, near the Tajik border, Russian border guards reported. Full Story
Blast Targets Israeli Air Office in Zurich
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:47 by TRC-News
Israeli airline El Al was the target of an explosion which slightly damaged a Zurich office building overnight but caused no injuries, police said on Wednesday. Full Story
Bomb Attack Rocks Istanbul Police Station
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:46 by TRC-News
A powerful explosion rocked an Istanbul police station Wednesday, police said. They said a bomber had made it inside a police station in a crowded commercial district of the city. There was no immediate confirmation of television reports that two policemen had been wounded. Full Story
Jury Selection to Begin in Osama Bin Laden Trial
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 8:45 by TRC-News
Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Wednesday in the case against four Osama bin Laden associates charged with conspiring with the Saudi exile to attack American targets including two U.S. embassies in East Africa. Full Story
Judge Deciding Bail for Air India Bomb Suspects
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 1:26 by TRC-News
A judge reserved his ruling on Tuesday on a bail request for the two men charged with the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet that killed 329 people in history's deadliest act of civilian aviation sabotage. Full Story
Pentagon panel urges tighter overseas security for U.S. military
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - 1:23 by TRC-News
An independent Pentagon commission that investigated the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen and found security lapses will recommend improved overseas protective measures for U.S. military ships, planes and personnel, Pentagon officials told CNN on Tuesday. Full Story
Sri Lanka army chief vows to wipe out terrorism
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 17:50 by TRC-News
Sri Lanka's army chief Lionel Balagalle has vowed to "eradicate terrorism" in the New Year as his troops consolidated their forces in areas newly captured from Tamil Tiger rebels, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday. Full Story
Israeli President Urges Intensive Efforts on Ending Terrorism
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 17:42 by TRC-News
Israeli President Moshe Katsav has said Israel must concentrate all its efforts on ending terrorism that is "running rampant," Israel Radio reported on Tuesday. Full Story
Four more defendants confess in trial of 1998 Iranian murders
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 17:39 by TRC-News
Four more defendants confessed behind closed doors Tuesday to involvement in the shock 1998 murders of Iranian dissidents which were blamed on "rogue" intelligence agents, state radio said. Full Story
Bomb explodes near offices of Yemen news agency
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 17:27 by TRC-News
A small bomb exploded Tuesday near the offices of the state-run news agency, the fifth such blast in 48 hours in Aden, security officials said. Full Story
U.S. government prepares to put terrorism on trial
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 12:36 by TRC-News
Using the law as a scalpel, federal prosecutors hope to turn the trial of four men accused in the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa into an autopsy of a group blamed for plotting to kill Americans worldwide. Full Story
Report: Pentagon finds security lapses in wake of Cole bombing
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 12:33 by TRC-News
A Pentagon commission will recommend tightened security measures for U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf after concluding that there were significant security lapses in the region before the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Full Story
Bomb Blast at Southern Philippine School
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 12:31 by TRC-News
A homemade bomb exploded on New Year's Eve near a school in the southern Philippine province of North Cotabato, but there were no injuries, the military said Monday. Full Story
CPM, RSS workers injured in bomb attacks
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 12:29 by TRC-News
In a fresh bout of violence, two CPM and an equal number of RSS workers were injured when activists of both groups hurled bombs at each other in the volatile Panur region here on Monday night,the police said on Tuesday. Full Story
Key witness against Estrada fears for her life after bombings
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 12:24 by TRC-News
A bank executive who said she witnessed Philippine President Joseph Estrada sign a bank account under a false name said Tuesday she feared for her life after a spate of deadly bomb attacks in Manila. Full Story
Anger flares after Israel car-bomb blast
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 12:22 by TRC-News
Residents of Netanya, a coastal resort north of Tel Aviv were torn between shock and anger Monday following a car bomb explosion in the town centre which left 20 people injured, one seriously. Full Story
Kidnappers threaten to kill American
Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 12:19 by TRC-News
Muslim extremists threatened Tuesday to kill an American held hostage for four months after Philippine police insinuated that the victim had faked his abduction. Full Story
Two Die in St. Lucia Sword And Fire Church Attack
Posted Monday, January 1, 2001 - 14:27 by TRC-News
Suspected members of an anti-Roman Catholic cult hacked at worshipers with swords and set them on fire in an attack at a cathedral in St. Lucia that killed two people and injured dozens more. Full Story
Bombs explode outside two churches in Tajikistan
Posted Monday, January 1, 2001 - 14:22 by TRC-News
Two bombs that went off an hour apart damaged churches in the central Asian country of Tajikistan, where a church bombing killed seven people in October, a law enforcement spokesman said Monday. Full Story
Explosions rock Israeli resort town
Posted Monday, January 1, 2001 - 14:19 by TRC-News
Three large explosions shook the Israeli coastal resort city of Netanya on Monday, injuring 20 people. Full Story
Trial of 4 in Alleged Bin Laden Bomb Plot Set to Begin
Posted Monday, January 1, 2001 - 14:13 by TRC-News
The government's long-awaited prosecution of what it considers a global extremist network run by Islamic militant Osama bin Laden is scheduled to start Wednesday in New York. Jury selection will begin in the case of four alleged bin Laden followers who are accused of plotting to bomb two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998 and kill Americans "anywhere in the world." Full Story
Putting Terror Inc. on trial in New York
Posted Monday, January 1, 2001 - 14:12 by TRC-News
Ali Mohamed is a man of many faces: Egyptian intelligence agent, U.S. Army paratrooper, FBI informant, aide to accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Before bombs shattered U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Mohamed says, he scouted possible targets and personally brought bin Laden photos of Nairobi sites. "Bin Laden looked at the picture of the American Embassy," he claims, "and pointed to where a truck could go as a suicide bomber." Full Story
A war in the shadows: The global fight against a terrorist leader and his network
Posted Monday, January 1, 2001 - 14:10 by TRC-News
When a pair of suicide bombers crippled the destroyer USS Cole in a Yemeni port in mid-October, killing 17 American sailors, top U.S. counterterrorism officials had a fearful intuition: This is revenge for Albania. In mid-1998, the CIA, working with Albania's intelligence service, had rolled up a terrorist cell guided by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden. Full Story
| 