Man Arrested in Terror Probe Indicted for Fraud (washingtonpost.com) An Alexandria man whose contacts with the Sept. 11 hijackers have been described by prosecutors as "extensive, suspicious and troubling" was indicted today on unrelated charges of identification document fraud.

Afghan Villagers Mistakenly Killed in Raid (washingtonpost.com) The 14 or more Afghans killed by U.S. Army forces in a Jan. 23 commando raid were neither al Qaeda terrorists nor their Taliban supporters as first believed, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday.

The Village Voice: Nation: Press Clips: War Riddles by Cynthia Cotts Weary of the search for objectivity, Press Clips kicks around 10 questions to which journalists either cannot or will not deliver straight answers.

ABCNEWS.com : Italy Rows Back on Bio-Terrorism Threat Italian officials squashed fears on Wednesday that Rome had been threatened by a bio-terrorist attack, saying a cyanide compound found in the possession of four Moroccans could not have poisoned the city's water supply.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | India's gender 'holocaust' warning Girls are viewed as a burden in this community of farmers, where in the past some families would ask village midwives to kill a newborn baby if it turned out to be a female.

BBC News | EUROPE | 'Cyanide attack' foiled in Italy Italian police say they have arrested four Moroccans who were planning a chemical attack in Rome, targeting buildings which included the United States embassy.

BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Palestinian militants 'change tactics' There appears to have been a significant shift in the tactics employed by Palestinian militants against Israel.

Yahoo! News - Colombian Gov't Launches Airstrikes The government launched airstrikes and ordered 13,000 troops to advance on a main rebel stronghold Thursday as Colombia's 38-year-old civil war entered a potentially new and bloodier phase with the collapse of peace talks.

Yahoo! News - Arafat Repeats Call to End Violence Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat repeated a call to halt violence Thursday, and his security forces arrested three suspects in the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister, one of Israel's conditions for releasing Arafat from a two-month siege.

Yahoo! News - Officials: WSJ Reporter Is Dead Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was taken hostage a month ago by Islamic extremists in Pakistan, is dead, the State Deparmtent said Thursday.

Excite News The FBI issued an extraordinary terrorist alert Monday night, 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 as early as Tuesday.

Excite News Angered by the United States' labeling of Iran as part of an "axis of evil," hundreds of thousands of Iranians chanted "Death to America" on Monday during demonstrations to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

The Smoking Gun: Archive Investigators today (February 6) released this two-page suicide note left by the Florida teenager who crashed a small plane into a Tampa office building on January 5.

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.

U.S. lawmakers said pleased with detainee treatment A group of U.S. congressmen toured the Guantanamo Bay detention center Friday, and said captured al-Qaida and Taliban fighters are being treated humanely.

U.S. military tests anti-missile rocket An interceptor rocket launched from a U.S. Navy ship smashed into a dummy missile high over the Pacific Friday night, in the latest test in the Pentagon’s plans to shield America from long-range missiles.

Unrest a Chief Product of Arab Economies (washingtonpost.com) The economic misfortunes that fuel resentment among young Arab men emerge through the cigarette smoke at a street-side cafe, where a table full of Egyptians in their twenties and thirties erupts in bitterness over their dreary prospects.

Missile Test by India Raises Nuclear Ante (washingtonpost.com) India today successfully test-fired the newest version of a surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, drawing condemnation from neighboring Pakistan in the midst of a tense military standoff between the two countries.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Mystery of missing US journalist Police in Pakistan say they have no clues as to the whereabouts of an American journalist missing since Wednesday.

BBC News | AMERICAS | Shoe bomb suspect 'did not act alone' The FBI has discovered forensic evidence that indicates alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid had help making the explosives found in his shoes on board an American-bound flight.

ABCNEWS.com : Bush Seeks $11 Billion to Secure Borders President Bush said today he will ask Congress to spend roughly $11 billion next year on securing the nation's borders to keep out terrorists who would try to attack the United States by air, land or sea.

U.S. Warplane Destroys Huge Store of Taliban Arms A U.S. AC-130 flying gunship has destroyed a huge store of Taliban arms in Afghanistan's chill southern mountains, a sign the U.S. military still has much to do in the shattered country, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Israeli Jets Strike After Suicide Bomb Attack Israeli warplanes launched a missile strike on Palestinian security targets in the West Bank and Gaza on Friday in retaliation for a Palestinian suicide bombing that wounded at least 25 people.

Elite Troops Kill, Capture Dozens of Taliban Elite U.S. troops attacked two guerrilla compounds in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing up to 15 Taliban fighters and capturing 27 others, Pentagon officials said. One U.S. soldier was wounded.

A Turkish path for Pakistan? | csmonitor.com In curbing militancy, Musharraf hopes to create a modern-minded Muslim state.

Lindh Back in U.S. to Face Charges John Walker Lindh, the young Muslim convert accused of joining al-Qaida soldiers in Afghanistan, returned to the United States Wednesday under FBI custody to face criminal charges that he conspired to kill fellow Americans.

Palestinian Militants Threaten War Islamic militants threatened ``all-out war'' Wednesday to avenge the killing of a Hamas commander in the West Bank, and Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority said it can no longer be expected to enforce a truce with Israel.

FBI: Prisoner Info Thwarted Attacks U.S. special forces and their Afghan allies confiscated thousands of weapons from a local warlord Wednesday, officials said, as troops pressed the search for Taliban and al-Qaida renegades in southern Afghanistan.

Mazar-e-Sharif rebounds — slowly After weeks of intense work to restore facilities destroyed by the Taliban, the local television station in northern Afghanistan’s largest city is ready to go back on the air — if only there was enough electricity.

FTC proposes hotline to thwart telemarketers The Federal Trade Commission is proposing the creation of a national ‘do not call’ registry that would allow consumers to ward off unwanted telemarketers with a single phone call.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | UN calls for bigger Afghan force The United Nations Secretary General's deputy special representative for Afghanistan, Francesc Vendrell, has said he believes the international community should deploy more foreign troops in Afghanistan.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Pakistan rejects India attack claims Pakistan has denied Indian accusations that its intelligence service was involved in an attack on an American cultural centre in Calcutta in which five policemen were killed and 20 people wounded.

'Activated' Asian terror web busted | csmonitor.com The arrest of dozens of Al Qaeda suspects shows the organization's depth in Asia.

Palestinian Wounds 16 After Deadly Israeli Raid A Palestinian gunman wounded 16 Israelis in a rush hour shooting spree in Jerusalem's main shopping street Tuesday after Israeli troops killed four Palestinian militants in the West Bank.

Rumsfeld Lashes at Critics of Prisoner Treatment Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday lashed out at critics of U.S. military treatment of Afghan war captives at an American Navy base in Cuba, saying their makeshift prison was fair and humane.

Gunmen Attack U.S. Office in India, Kill Four Four policemen were killed and at least 14 people injured in a dawn attack by unidentified gunmen outside the U.S. information office in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta Tuesday, police said.

washingtonpost.com: Not Exactly What We Intended, Justice O'Connor It is difficult to say, based solely on the letter of the law as we wrote it, that O'Connor is wrong. But as the congressman who shepherded the legislation through the House of Representatives, I believe that the "intent of Congress" was clearly more expansive than Justice O'Connor's ruling would suggest.

Wonders Never Cease - Destruction was the luckiest thing to happen to the Buddhas of Bamiyan. By Charles Paul Freund So how did the carved Buddhas of Bamiyan go from reviled grotesquerie to "things which are valuable to humanity and its heritage," indeed so valuable they must be rebuilt? There's nothing like a staged spectacle of barbaric destruction to transform otherwise obscure artifacts. Such an act provides relevant and apparent meaning to a work even as it destroys that work.

Afghan Leader Karzai Makes Moving Appeal for Aid Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, appealed to the world Sunday for help in getting his devastated country back on its feet after two decades of strife and disaster that created a breeding ground for terrorism.

China Finds Bugs on Jet Equipped in U.S. (washingtonpost.com) Devices taken off presidential plane could become issue at summit.

Rocky Mountain News: Opinion: Israeli occupation is worst form of violence Never in my life have I seen such disregard for human life as I have seen toward the Palestinians by Israel. Having just returned from the West Bank and Gaza Strip on a month-long trip, I have a heavy heart.

Israel Sets Palestinian Radio Station Ablaze Israeli troops blew up the Voice of Palestine radio station offices on Saturday to avenge a deadly Palestinian attack, and exchanged fire with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Tanks Approach Arafat's Office (washingtonpost.com) Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and paratroops advanced almost to Yasser Arafat's doorstep today, taking up positions within 100 yards of his walled compound in retaliation for a Palestinian gunman's attack that killed six Israelis at a party in a banquet hall late Thursday.

Powell: Saudis Have Not Mentioned U.S. Withdrawal (washingtonpost.com) Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he has had "no discussion" with Saudi officials about the possibility that Saudi Arabia will ask the United States to withdraw its armed forces from the kingdom.

Saudis May Seek U.S. Exit (washingtonpost.com) Saudi Arabia's rulers are increasingly uncomfortable with the U.S. military presence in their country and may soon ask that it end, according to several Saudi sources.

FT.com | News and Analysis | World Article | Losing ground at Camp X-Ray America's harsh treatment of its Taliban prisoners may be understandable but it risks alienating its international allies, says Philip Stephens

U.S. Anti-Terror Campaign Stirs Rights Concerns U.S. efforts to hunt down terror suspects around the world after the Sept. 11 attacks prompted fresh concern among rights watchdogs on Friday when American troops seized six Algerians in Bosnia.

OJR Tim Cavanaugh: Let Slip the Blogs of War Shine on, you crazy bloggers! Someday the rest of us will hold our manhoods cheap that we did not blog with you this day. But as long as courage lives and liberty endures, every American will be proud to have you out there, blogging for an audience of none.

French Newspaper Reports Shoebomber Plot E-Mail A French newspaper reported on Saturday that investigators had found an e-mail message in which alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid wrote of plans to destroy an airliner.

India’s nuclear strategy shows holes After India and Pakistan startled the world by testing nuclear devices in 1998, the leaders of both nations insisted that their mutual possession of nuclear weaponry would deter them from going to war in the same way it ultimately did for the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Air Force jets crash in Arizona Two Air Force single-seat jet fighters collided in midair and crashed Thursday afternoon in a remote area of Arizona’s San Bernardino Mountains near the Mexican border.

Primary races - over in one day? | csmonitor.com Democrats expect to approve a plan that allows, in essence, a national primary day for 2004 elections.

CNN.com - Saddam Hussein warns of U.S. demise - January 17, 2002 The U.S. will lose its superpower status because of its use of force rather than dialogue to settle disputes, Saddam Hussein has warned.

FOXNews.com - Terror Attack at Israeli Banquet Hall A Palestinian gunman opened fire at a packed banquet hall in northern Israel Thursday night, killing six people and wounding 30 others, police said.

U.S. Seeks Help Over New Al Qaeda Video 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.

Writer who videotaped American Taliban recounts experience (1/16/2002)At first, he couldn't tell the man was any different from the other wounded Taliban and al-Qaida fighters at the makeshift hospital: bleeding, in pain, covered in filth and matted hair.

CNN.com - Y2K bomb plot accomplice sentenced to 24 years in jail - January 16, 2002An accomplice to the al Qaeda-trained terrorist who plotted to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around New Year's 2000 was sentenced Wednesday to 24 years in prison.

CNN.com - Punxsutawney Phil a terrorist target? - January 16, 2002 When Punxsutawney Phil pops his head out of his hole on February 2 to tell people whether or not they will experience six more weeks of winter, the famous groundhog may see more than his shadow.

Facts Find Sept. 11 Myths Misleading Consider these changes: In Washington, D.C., the murder rate spiked 47 percent after Sept. 11; in Denver, shoplifting went up by 12 percent.

Al-Qaida in Cuba Making Threats Several al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners have vowed to kill an American during their time at this remote U.S. military base, officials said Wednesday.

TIME.com: Why the U.S. is Entering the Philippine Minefield The Muslim southern islands of the Philippines may be crawling with rival armed factions, but the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf remain isolated.

U.S. Indicts Al Qaeda-Trained Shoebomb Suspect Richard Reid, a Briton who trained with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in Afghanistan, was indicted on Wednesday for attempting to destroy an airliner with 197 people on board last month when he tried to ignite explosives in his shoes.

Philippines welcomes military aid Joint military exercises begin but president says U.S. troops not allowed
to fight near front lines.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | US to unfreeze Afghan assets The United States is preparing to release more than $200m of gold reserves and cash belonging to Afghanistan, as the shattered country makes increasingly desperate calls for help.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | US bereaved meet Afghan families A group of Americans who lost relatives in the 11 September terrorist attacks have arrived in Kabul to meet Afghans who have lost members of their own families in the US retaliatory attacks.

BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Analysis: Humiliating defeat for Iran's judiciary Ayatollah Khamenei's move to pardon reformist MP Hossein Loghmanian temporarily calms a potentially dangerous situation in Iran.

BBC News | AMERICAS | US defends captives' conditions US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has insisted that 50 al-Qaeda and Taleban prisoners being held under maximum security at a US naval base in Cuba are being treated humanely.

Powell to Fly Into South Asian Tinderbox Secretary of State Colin Powell is due in South Asia Wednesday, aiming to lower the temperature between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan as close to 1 million men stand ready for war on their border.

U.S. Taliban Charged with Supporting Terror Group The United States on Tuesday charged American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh with conspiring to kill U.S. nationals in the Afghanistan war and with providing support to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, charges that spare him from facing the death penalty.