Secret C.I.A. Site in New York Was Destroyed on Sept. 11 The Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine New York station was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, seriously disrupting United States intelligence operations while bringing the war on terrorism dangerously close to home for America's spy agency, government officials say.

New Jersey Online: The Times - Feds raid apartment The federal investigation into the bioterrorism attack on America led to North Olden Avenue in Trenton yesterday, where authorities raided an apartment and detained a Pakistani man before testing the residence for anthrax.

Yes, This Is About Islam By SALMAN RUSHDIE "This isn't about Islam." The world's leaders have been repeating this mantra for weeks, partly in the virtuous hope of deterring reprisal attacks on innocent Muslims living in the West, partly because if the United States is to maintain its coalition against terror it can't afford to suggest that Islam and terrorism are in any way related.

Oakland starts emergency siren program (11/03/2001) Oakland, Calif. is preparing for potential disaster situations by inaugurating a new siren system, designed to alert residents to turn on their radios for emergency instructions.

Warplanes Target Taliban Strongholds U.S. jets blasted Taliban strongholds on Afghanistan's two main battle fronts Saturday, and the opposition northern alliance chose its representatives to negotiate with other Afghan factions to create a broad-based government to replace the Taliban.

States Devising Plan for High-Tech National Identification Cards (washingtonpost.com) State motor vehicle authorities are working on a plan to create a national identification system for individuals that would link all driver databases and employ high-tech cards with a fingerprint, computer chip or other unique identifier.

Taliban Vowed to Hand Over Bin Laden in '98-Saudi (11/03/2001) Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal, said on Saturday the Taliban had twice agreed to hand over Osama bin Laden to the kingdom but reneged after the United States bombed Afghanistan in 1998.

Delta Force Met Heavy Taliban Resistance -Report Twelve elite U.S. Delta Force commandos were wounded by Taliban troops in an Oct. 20 raid in southern Afghanistan, and some American officers were angered by the Pentagon's film show of a separate parachute strike that night, according to a report released on Saturday.

Bin Laden Breaks Silence, Opposition Advance Osama bin Laden on Saturday angrily broke a four-week-long silence on U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan declaring a religious war had been unleashed against Muslims.

In Overheard Calls, Terrorists Spoke of Major Attack, Officials Say Government officials intercepted telephone conversations in recent days in which members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, Al Qaeda, spoke urgently of an imminent attack against American targets even larger than the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, senior government officials say.

Children’s worries take new shape They’ll remember Sept. 11 the rest of their lives. They may be changed for good. If you have any doubt that this country is engaged in a war on our shores, ask a child of 10 or 11. Have her draw a picture of something in her neighborhood that she’s afraid of. Ask her to illustrate her worries about the future.

U.S. Helicopter Down in Afghanistan, Crew Safe A U.S. helicopter on a special forces mission in Afghanistan was forced down by bad weather on Friday, but the crew was rescued by a second helicopter, U.S. television networks said.

Could Afghans unite? | csmonitor.com "America must think not only of the problem of terrorism, but of the Afghan future," says Haq's brother, Qadir. "If Pashtuns kill the Taliban and push the terrorists out, this is much easier than using American and British troops."

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Weather stymies US special forces Efforts over the past 24 hours to deploy another group of US special forces have been thwarted by the weather, the Pentagon has said.

Pashtun Uprising Reported in Afghanistan (washingtonpost.com) A prominent Afghan tribal leader has begun the first known armed uprising against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan since the U.S.-led airstrike campaign began, fighting off a Taliban attack yesterday and claiming to control part of a southern province, according to his family and media reports.

Scientists Warn U.N. on Terrorists and Nuclear Weapons (washingtonpost.com) The detonation of a crude nuclear device is a clear and present danger from some terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, who would have no qualms about using a weapon of mass destruction, the United Nation's atomic agency heard at a conference here today.

Bush finds eager allies against terrorism among African leaders (11/02/2001) President Bush's global alliance against terrorism received a pledge of support Friday from Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who said his heavily Muslim nation ``will remain steadfastly part of that coalition'' as a bridge to the Islamic world.

Muslim extremists justify violence on way to restoring divine law (11/02/2001) Mustafa Kemal Attaturk, the founder of modern Turkey, abolished the caliphate of the Islamic world in 1924 in a deliberate turn toward Western law and politics.

Job Losses Are Worst in Two Decades The United States shed a staggering 415,000 jobs in October, the most in two decades, as the full impact of the Sept. 11 attacks ripped into an economy already in the early stages of recession, a government report on Friday showed.

U.S. Carpet-Bombs Taliban; Troops Guard Western Bridges The United States carpet-bombed Taliban front lines in Afghanistan on Friday, and went on full alert against terror attacks at home with troops in full battle fatigues guarding San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge and other California spans.

Report: Taliban Arrest Pro-King Afghans, Plan Execution (11/01/2001) Afghanistan's ruling Taliban have arrested 25 followers of tribal leader Hamid Karzai, a supporter of ex-King Zahir Shah, and plan to execute some on Friday, Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.

Calif. Says Bridges May Be Targets Gov. Gray Davis said Thursday that law enforcement officials have ``credible evidence'' that terrorists may be targeting four California bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge.

FOXNews.com - Average Americans Frustrated With Washington Press "I guess they've forgotten the events of Sept. 11, when thousands of civilians here died for no apparent reason," Sam Marino, 25, a bartender at the Franklin Steak House and Tavern in Nutley, N.J., said of the Pentagon press corps.

FOXNews.com - Jordanian Student Wanted to Wage War Against U.S., Feds Say in Indictment In the first known indictment resulting from the Sept. 11 terrorism investigation, prosecutors revealed that they will try a Jordanian student linked to the hijackers for attempting "to levy war against the United States."

Extremists challenge Pakistan | csmonitor.com The rebels have given the president a Nov. 7 deadline to end his support of US airstrikes on Afghanistan.

Power behind throne is Saudi of a different stripe | csmonitor.com As the United States presses its war on terrorism in Afghanistan, and the Middle East braces for possible broader turmoil inspired by Mr. bin Laden, Abdullah is poised to play what analysts say will be a critical role in deciding how best to maintain the stability of Saudi Arabia.

US to Fight Through Ramadan; More Ground Troops Due The United States cannot afford to halt its military campaign in Afghanistan for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and is planning to put more troops on the ground, officials said on Thursday as Osama bin Laden sought to portray the conflict as a war against Islam.

Lithuanian lab confirms traces of anthrax from U.S. embassy mailbag (11/01/2001) A laboratory in Lithuania confirmed that traces of anthrax were found in at least one mailbag from the U.S. Embassy, the first such discovery in Europe.

Arms and fuel smuggled to the Taliban from Pakistan (11/01/2001) Arms and fuel are probably being smuggled from Pakistan to the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, but without the approval of the Pakistani government, senior U.S. officials said Thursday.

Preparations Stepped Up For Possible New Attacks (washingtonpost.com) 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.

Experts Warn Bioterrorism Could Expand (washingtonpost.com) Top health officials warned that the anthrax attacks are still escalating. And experts who track anthrax caution that the terrorists appear to be sophisticated scientists -- not basement experimenters following a poisonous recipe for the first time.

Beyond This War on Terrorism (washingtonpost.com) On Sept. 11 the United States came under vicious attack, not by traditional armies waging traditional military campaigns but by hidden enemies, willing -- and able -- to strike our people where they live and work.

sunspot.net - Did the terrorists lure us into a trap? According to this view, the terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center not to hurt us but to goad us into taking actions that will polarize the Islamic world and create the conditions for successful Islamic revolutions. We figure merely as means to those ends.

Bin Laden Urges Pakistan Muslims to Defend Islam Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said on Thursday they had repulsed the first coordinated air and ground attack by U.S. and opposition forces and were also holding several American citizens while Osama bin Laden urged Pakistani Muslims to defend Islam.

Bush Proposes Criminalizing Biological Weapons As the United States grapples with an anthrax scare, President Bush proposed on Thursday making it a crime to build biological weapons and creating a U.N. system to investigate suspected germ warfare.

Dispelling myths that propagate fear The beginnings of wars are often tentative and often disastrous. They are not conclusive; the ends of wars are conclusive. This war will end, and in a conclusive victory.

BBC News | UK POLITICS | Arab world gives Blair tough message Prime Minister Tony Blair has been given a tough message about the Arab world's view of how to tackle terror as he continued his latest tour of the Middle East.

FOXNews.com - Pentagon Plans to Call Extra Reservists The Pentagon expects to call up more reservists than the 50,000 originally believed needed for the war on terrorism, officials said Wednesday. Most will be reporting for homefront duty.

Pak hands over 3 N-scientists to US - [31/10/2001] - Hindustantimes.com Three retired nuclear scientists who used to work for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) have been handed over to US authorities who will investigate their alleged links with Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, media reports said here on Tuesday.

U.N. Security Council calls for stepped up efforts to prevent terrorists from finding safe haven (10/31/2001) The U.N. Security Council called Wednesday for stepped up efforts to promote peace in Somalia and to prevent terrorists from finding a safe haven in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.

NY Times Computer Outage Caused by Resurgent Virus The mysterious ``storm of data'' that swamped computers at the New York Times Co. was not caused by a malicious attack aimed at the paper but rather a reemergence of the Nimda computer virus, company officials said on Wednesday.

National Guard Deploys to More Nuclear Power Plants U.S. National Guard troops have been deployed to boost security at nuclear power plants owned by Entergy Corp. in three southern states after the federal government issued a terrorism alert this week, the company said on Wednesday.

Bush Explains Why Terror Threat Alert Was Issued President Bush struck back on Wednesday at critics of his decision to put the country on national security alert over the next week, saying he had made the call to protect vulnerable areas and assets.

U.S. Strikes Taliban Troops; Anthrax Kills Woman U.S. warplanes intensified bombing of front line Taliban troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday as Britain's prime minister toured the Middle East to boost Arab support for the campaign and a fourth American died from anthrax poisoning

FBI searches for 6 with nuclear, pipeline information (10/30/2001) As the nation again stands on high alert, the FBI is searching for six men whom police stopped in the Midwest last weekend but released -- even though they possessed photographs and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline, a senior law enforcement official said Tuesday.

NY Times Computers Shut Down by Apparent Attack Internet connections at the New York Times Co. were interrupted for at least several hours on Tuesday after the paper's computers were flooded with information in an apparent attack.

U.S. Drops Giant Bomb on Taliban Lines An American bomb blasted huge plumes of smoke 1,000 feet into the skies over Afghanistan's front lines Tuesday in an unusually mighty airstrike. The Pentagon said U.S. forces were with the northern opposition and directing fire against the Taliban.

A Halloween treat: Holiday's full moon is first since 1955; next one is 19 years away For the first time in 46 years, this year's Halloween ghosts and goblins can trick or treat by the light of a full moon. They won't get another chance until 2020, astronomers said.

The Times - No future in bin Laden revolution Osama bin Laden is not a serious revolutionary; he is a poseur, a silly but lethal boy.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | UN says 'don't ignore refugees' The head of the UN refugee agency, Ruud Lubbers, has called on President Bush and his allies not to allow Afghan civilians to suffer because of the ongoing military operation.

U.S. General Differs With Rebels on Strategy (washingtonpost.com) The commander of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan said the capture of key cities in the country is not the top U.S. priority, even as Afghanistan opposition groups say they are launching a drive to seize Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif.

FOXNews.com - Blair Says Evidence Against Bin Laden 'A Flood Confirming Guilt' The Al Qaeda terrorist group will kill again unless it is stopped, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday in a speech urging Western nations to support the war in Afghanistan.

W. House Defends New, Unspecific Threat Alert The White House on Tuesday defended the decision to put out a general alert on the possibility of new terror attacks without offering more information, saying the public deserved to be warned.

FBI Investigates Threat to American Airlines Flight The FBI on Tuesday said it was investigating a fake bomb threat that prompted officials to divert a Dallas-bound American Airlines Boeing 757 to Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday.

Pakistan Sees Taliban Splits, Not Pushing War Halt Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday he detected splits among Taliban supporters in Afghanistan that could open the way for a political end to the conflict.

World Worries About U.S.-Led War on Terrorism A warning that militants may be plotting new attacks on the United States added to worries on Monday that the U.S.-led war on terrorism may be heading for trouble.

Poll: Americans Starting to Doubt War Americans are starting to have some doubts about the war on terror, says a new poll that suggests those with a great deal of confidence the government can protect citizens from attack dropping by half in the last month.

A Bleak Air in Bethlehem (washingtonpost.com) The outcome of Israel's armed assault on this ancient town was clear for the Palestinians today: torn-up neighborhoods, streets and lives. For the Israelis, the result was more ambiguous: Military muscle was flexed, but security, which Israel said was its goal, remained elusive.

In Afghan Jail, a Terrorist Who Won't Surrender (washingtonpost.com) If released, he readily acknowledges, he would gladly carry out the kind of terrorist attacks that killed almost 5,000 people in the United States last month.

State Dept. finds anthrax in mail bundle at U.S. Embassy in Peru The State Department said Monday that, in addition to its mail processing facility in Washington, anthrax spores were found in a bundle of mail at the U.S. Embassy in Peru.

FBI Issues New Terrorism Warning The FBI issued a new terrorism warning Monday asking Americans and law enforcement to be on the highest alert for possible attacks this week in the United States and abroad.

Today's Germ War, Yesterday's Weapons "It's not your mother's smallpox," says Dr. Robert Kadlec, physician and National Defense University professor. "It's an F-17 Stealth fighter--it's designed to be undetectable and to kill. We are flubbing our efforts at biodefense. We don't think of this as a weapon--we look naively at this as a disease."

JEFF GERRITT: In Mideast, the best hope for peace lives in ordinary people You can almost feel the hate in Hebron, a divided city of blood-stained sidewalks.

Rumsfeld: Bombing Will Continue Despite Concerns The U.S. military will continue bombing Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and al Qaeda hide-outs, despite mounting concern in the region over civilian casualties, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday.

US Hits Bin Laden From Air; Weighs Ground Base The United States pounded suspected hiding places of Osama bin Laden from the air on Monday and considered setting up a forward ground base in northern Afghanistan for U.S. commando operations inside the remote, land-locked country.

Afghanistan by Frederick Engels The New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. I, 1858.

US Mulls Creating Base Inside Afghanistan - Report The U.S. military is considering soon establishing a forward base inside Afghanistan to support the operation of hundreds of American commandos, USA Today reported on Monday.

Law Allowing Japan to Join War Passes Legislation authorizing Japan's military to support the U.S.-led war on terror won final approval Monday, paving the way for Japan to send troops overseas but not into actual combat.

BBC News | AFRICA | Peacekeepers arrive in Burundi The first contingent of South African troops has arrived in Burundi as part of an international force to protect members of a new power-sharing interim government.

BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Kuwait closes 'terror-link' charities The authorities in Kuwait have begun closing down dozens of unlicensed Islamic charities, some of which are suspected of having links to extremist groups such as Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation.

Israel Pulls Out, Bethlehem Life Back to Normal (10/28/2001) Palestinians in Bethlehem returned to work and school on Monday after Israeli forces pulled out under heavy U.S. pressure to end a 10-day re-occupation of the traditional birthplace of Jesus.

U.N. Envoy Launches Mission on Afghanistan Future (10/28/2001) U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi began the first full day of his visit to Pakistan on Monday, sounding out ideas on forming a broad-based government in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban.

FOXNews.com - Bomb Blast Rattles Philippine Town A powerful bomb tore through a food court Sunday, killing at least six people and injuring scores while U.S. military officers were in town to discuss helping the government fight Muslim rebels.

Chicago Tribune | Taliban POWs tell tales from the war front The Afghan prisoners have not divulged much about the inner workings of the Taliban, Northern Alliance officials said, because most claim that they are either farmers or simple workers conscripted by the Taliban regime.

Can Bush Bushkazi? Just as terrorists, American or foreign, cunningly used our own planes and mailboxes against us, so they used our own morality against us. We were stumbling over scruples against a foe with no scruples.

Afghan opposition calls for heavier U.S. bombing (10/28/2001) Afghanistan's opposition on Sunday urged the United States and its allies to intensify air attacks on the ruling Taliban's front lines.

White House chief of staff suggests Bush wouldn't veto federalizing of airport baggage handlers (10/28/2001) President Bush's chief of staff suggested Sunday the president would sign a Senate-passed airline security bill even though he disagrees with a provision to make all airport baggage handlers federal employees.

Not Who You Think (washingtonpost.com) ...for a man of such belligerent words, Osama bin Laden is no fighter, nor of course are the inhospitable caves and mountain retreats of Afghanistan his true home. The release of the video, as well as the publication of numerous staged photographs of the terrorist leader in military fatigues, crouching on one knee and pointing his AK-47 at an unseen target, reflect his desire to build up a myth of himself as a warrior.

CIA Weighs 'Targeted Killing' Missions (washingtonpost.com) 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.

Rumsfeld Says Afghanistan 'Not a Quagmire at All' The U.S. military operation in Afghanistan is ``not a quagmire,'' and the war on terrorism will be a long effort that could include sending in more ground forces, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday.

Pakistan arrests Cole attack suspect Pakistani authorities have arrested and turned over to American officials a Yemeni microbiology student wanted in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole,. The man is said to be an active member of the al-Qaida network of Sept. 11 terror suspect Osama bin Laden, according to a published report.

Indian Forces Tighten Siege of Kashmir Mosque (10/27/2001) Indian security forces Sunday tightened their siege of a mosque in disputed Kashmir where a group of Muslim rebels have been holed up since Saturday, police said.

Gunmen Kill 15 Christians in Pakistan (10/27/2001) Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles shot dead 15 Christians at Sunday prayers in the central Pakistani town of Bahawalpur, police said.