ABCNEWS.com : Woman Recalls Encounter With 9/11 Leader Four of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept. 11 tried to get government loans to finance their plots, including ringleader Mohamed Atta, who sought $650,000 to modify a crop-duster, a government loan officer told ABCNEWS.

Yahoo! News - World Pressure Builds to Prevent South Asia War The world's top industrial nations have stepped up the pressure on Pakistan to stop Islamic militants from raiding Indian territory and avert war between the two nuclear-armed powers.

India set to launch 'small war' | csmonitor.com US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld will go to Asia next week to try to ease tensions between India and Pakistan.

Yahoo! News - Solemn Tribute Ends New York's WTC Recovery What began on Sept. 11 with the scream of crashing jetliners, the roar of falling steel and the deaths of thousands ended on Thursday in a silence broken only by the solemn tolling of bells, the wail of bagpipes and the sobs of those mourning the loved ones they lost.

Yahoo! News - FBI Gets More Freedom for Domestic Surveillance The FBI on Thursday won additional powers to conduct domestic counterterrorism surveillance at places like mosques -- changes critics say could trample on Americans' rights and civil liberties.

New Scientist - Three million would die in "limited" nuclear war over Kashmir A minimum of three million people would be killed and 1.5 million seriously injured if even a "limited" nuclear war broke out between India and Pakistan, warns a new study uncovered by New Scientist.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Nuclear rivals talk tough over Kashmir India and Pakistan have exchanged belligerent warnings over disputed Kashmir, where a massive troop build-up and continued shelling have fuelled fears of all-out war.

Yahoo! News - US: Extremists Will Get Mass Destruction Weapons Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday it was inevitable terrorist groups would get weapons of mass destruction, deepening concerns about fresh attacks on the United States.

Officials Reveal Bin Laden Plan Terror leader hoped to create Islamic empire. Rebel's slaying seen as step toward goal.

Tension rises along India-Pakistan border India’s prime minister huddled with top commanders as well as the main opposition leader late Sunday as the government weighed military action against Pakistan amid escalating tension along their border.

Yahoo! News - Cheney Sees New Attacks on U.S. as 'Almost Certain' Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that a new attack on the United States was "almost certain" as U.S. intelligence officials picked up signals that a fresh al Qaeda strike could be in the works.

FOXNews.com British troops with American air support were sent to the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Friday to battle what commanders described as a "substantial enemy force."

Pakistan's Blasphemy Law: Words Fail Me (washingtonpost.com) "Most of these cases," concludes Amnesty International in its latest report on Pakistan, "are motivated not by the blasphemous actions of the accused, but by hostility toward members of minority communities, compounded by personal enmity, professional jealousy or economic rivalry."

Saved From Ruin: the Reincarnation of East Timor (washingtonpost.com) When the first wave of U.N. peacekeepers descended on this smoldering seaside city in September 1999, they encountered what one commander called "unimaginable apocalyptic ruin."

George W. Bush Should Learn the Lessons of History The worrisome thing now is that Incurious George apparently doesn’t want to know much about his own government. He doesn’t see how tough questions might help prevent another attack or serve a patriotic end. He doesn’t grasp that public accountability would serve his ends by forcing the bureaucracy to change faster. We’ve learned that the best way to permanently alienate the president is to criticize any facet of the war on terrorism.

Al-Qaida said to plan new actions Two published reports and Bush administration officials said Saturday that the al-Qaida terrorist network believed responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is planning new operations against the United States. And NBC News has learned from sources at the FBI that any new domestic strike by al-Qaida may well include attacks on U.S. apartment buildings.

To the Drums of War, India Expels Pakistan's Ambassador Indian and Pakistani troops bombarded each other today with heavy mortar and artillery fire, and India announced that it was expelling Pakistan's ambassador to protest an attack four days ago that killed the wives and children of Indian Army soldiers, among others.

U.S. Intercepting Messages Hinting at a New Attack American intelligence agencies have intercepted a vague yet troubling series of communications among Al Qaeda operatives over the last few months indicating that the terrorist organization is trying to carry out an operation as big as the Sept. 11 attacks or bigger, according to intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Yahoo! News - Two Men Charged in Alleged Florida Bomb Plot Two men who allegedly plotted to carry out bomb attacks on electrical power substations and a National Guard Armory in South Florida a year ago were charged on Friday with conspiracy to damage and destroy property with explosives, justice officials said.

Yahoo! News - Report for CIA Foresaw an Al Qaeda Plane Attack Despite White House avowals that it would have been impossible to conceive before Sept. 11 of a hijacked plane being used to attack U.S. targets, a 1999 report for the CIA envisioned a very similar threat.

BBC News | NEWSNIGHT | Is truth a victim? One of America's foremost newscasters, Dan Rather of CBS, says the US media has stopped asking tough questions of the Bush administration since 11 September.