Yahoo! News - Official: Bush Speech Shocks Iran A high-ranking Iranian official in New York for the World Economic Forum said Saturday that Iran was "shocked and disappointed" by President Bush's comments earlier this week that it is part of an evil axis of terrorist nations.

Yahoo! News - Official: Detainee Treatment Lawful Detainees from the war in Afghanistan are being interrogated in compliance with U.S. laws and are not being drugged or tortured, the general in charge of detention said Saturday.

WorldNetDaily: The veil: Female form of jihad Jihad for men is spreading the word of Allah through war. A Western person seeing a woman in Islamic clothes might consider her doing this against her will. It is the Muslim women's form of jihad – without the violence – but it could be aggressive. Remember some of these women raise their sons to become terrorists and give up their lives to jihad. We should never underestimate the power of women in any culture.

Guantanamo's Unhappy Campers "They know they're being watched," he explains, "so they'll stare at you, and while they stare at you, they'll, uh, masturbate." According to these Marines, they don't just pleasure themselves to freak out the snipers, but also to embarrass the female Army guards in the camp's interior.

China Sees Interests Tied to U.S. (washingtonpost.com) A well-known Chinese scholar made a simple but controversial point recently: The United States is not China's enemy now, and probably never will be. A central reason, the scholar said in a closed address to government officials, is the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon.

We Will Do The Fighting (washingtonpost.com) President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines has allowed U.S. forces to reenter her country for six months to help train the Philippine military in its fight against the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf...

Yahoo! News - Afghan Leader Faces New Bloodshed at Home Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai was back home on Saturday after trips to Washington and London to face an increasingly perilous security situation which has seen simmering tribal rivalry explode in bloodshed.

Yahoo! News - Wall St. Journal Believes Missing Journalist Alive The Wall Street Journal said Saturday it believed its reporter Daniel Pearl, thought to have been kidnapped by Muslim militants in Pakistan, was still alive and had not been executed by his captors.

CNN.com - Bin Laden's sole post-September 11 TV interview aired - February 1, 2002 Accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden said "the battle has moved to inside America" in the only television interview he's granted since the September 11 attacks -- now airing for the first time.

Possible Al Qaeda Plot to Attack Nuclear Plants The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has warned that the nation's 103 nuclear power plants could be a target of an airline attack, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Powell: U.S. Trying to Rescue Kidnapped Reporter 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.

FOXNews.com The recent cries of human rights groups against the conditions of a U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were cast into a new light as many jailed Taliban fighters in Afghanistan raised their voices in the plea: "We want to go to an American prison."

ABCNEWS.com : Documents Suggest New Terror Targets Documents found in Afghanistan spotlight the U.S. Capitol, Seattle's Space Needle and a portion of Los Angeles, suggesting these areas were perhaps being singled out for a terrorist attack, ABCNEWS has learned.

Pakistani Group Threatens to Kill Reporter The group that claims it has kidnapped a Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan sent an e-mail to news organizations on Wednesday threatening to kill him within 24 hours unless the U.S. government released Pakistani prisoners held in the Afghan war.

Time to rewrite the DMCA - Tech News - CNET.com The American public has traditionally enjoyed the ability to make convenient and incidental copies of copyrighted works without obtaining the prior consent of copyright owners. These traditional "fair use" rights are at the foundation of the receipt and use of information by the American people.

Shoe Scare Evacuates San Francisco Terminal Thousands of people were evacuated from a San Francisco International Airport terminal on Wednesday after security guards detected possible explosive residue on the shoes of one passenger, but let him vanish into the crowd before he could be questioned.

Militant preacher a focus for Asian terror hunt | csmonitor.com Indonesia, once known for its moderate brand of Islam, is facing new scrutiny as an Al Qaeda hub.

Bush: 'Our War Against Terror Is Only Beginning' (washingtonpost.com) When President Bush formally opens the second year of his presidency with his State of the Union address tonight, he will seek to increase Americans' personal stake in the war on terrorism by encouraging more neighborhood and international volunteerism.

Prince Reaffirms Saudi-U.S. Alliance (washingtonpost.com) Crown Prince Abdullah said today that the alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia has emerged undamaged from the attacks of Sept. 11. But he warned that the war on terrorism is being undermined by what he called the indefensible position of the United States in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Your honor, Osama made me do it As the first suspects in the terrorist war on America prepare to stand trial, their defenders and apologists are invoking a word from the Cold War: “brainwashed.”

CNN.com - A bloody ending to Kandahar hospital standoff - January 29, 2002 Afghan troops and U.S. Special Forces soldiers launched an assault Monday on a hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing six heavily armed al Qaeda fighters who had been holed up there for six weeks.

Fourteen U.S. Soldiers Hurt in Afghan Copter Crash Fourteen U.S. soldiers were injured and their transport helicopter suffered extensive damage when it crashed while landing in rough terrain in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, U.S. military officials said.

Attack U.S. and Win Aid - Middle East Forum ...this reflects the "mouse that roared" syndrome, named after the 1959 movie starring Peter Sellers in no less than three roles. It told the story of a tiny Europe duchy, Grand Fenwick, which finds itself on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to declare war on America in order to lose, then profit from the resulting aid.

Yahoo! News - Saudis Want Their Detainees Sent Home Saudi Arabia said Monday that more than 100 of its citizens are in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, making Saudis by far the largest group of terrorist suspects detained on this remote U.S. naval base.

Rebuilding From Within (washingtonpost.com) The key to making Afghanistan a respected and respectable country is steady improvement in the capacity of Afghan institutions -- private and public -- to meet the pressing needs of Afghanistan's people. The country needs outside help, but it must be rebuilt from within.

Bush Says U.S. Will Help Set Up Afghan Military President Bush said on Monday the United States will help train a new Afghan military but made clear to Afghan leader Hamid Karzai he would not commit U.S. troops to peacekeeping in the remote Central Asian country.

ABCNEWS.com : Rumsfeld Tours Camp X-Ray Amid reports the Bush administration will debate the legal status and rights of detainees, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld vowed that, no matter what, they "will not be determined to be POWs."

Suicide bomber strikes in downtown Jerusalem; at least 30 injured A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in downtown Jerusalem just after midday Sunday, injuring at least 30 people on a busy street that's been the scene of several previous attacks, officials said.

America's Chaotic Road to War (First in a series) -(washingtonpost.com) This series is based on interviews with President Bush, Vice President Cheney and many other key officials inside the administration and out. The interviews were supplemented by notes of National Security Council meetings made available to The Washington Post, along with notes taken by several participants.

CNN.com - Supreme Court justice to launch morals program - January 27, 2002 "In seeking rational explanations for irrational acts, an explanation becomes the excuse," Kennedy said.

NYPOST.COM Post Opinion: Oped Columnists: THE MISSING GUN By JOHN R. LOTT, JR. ...in this age of "gun-free school zones," one fact was missing from virtually all the news coverage: The attack was stopped by two students who had guns in their cars.

Pakistan Police Quiz Five Over Missing US Reporter Pakistani police searching for missing U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl said on Sunday they had interrogated five men in connection with the case, but had no idea where the journalist was.