A new U.S. government analysis concluded that Al Qaeda is the strongest it has been since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. President Bush said it was “simply not the case” that al-Qaeda had successfully rebuilt itself despite a massive six-year campaign to dismantle it.
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Three men accused of taking part in an extremist Muslim plot to carry out a series of suicide bombings on London’s transport system in July 2005 have been convicted of conspiracy to murder.
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67 percent of Americans believe the war in Iraq is creating more terrorists.
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US federal agents guarding the American team at South America’s top soccer tournament were called “terrorists” and threatened with arrest by Venezuelan officials.
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A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “’Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida’ is stronger language than ’serving’,” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly ’serving,’ like in a way one ’serves’ a casserole.”
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Nato and US-led troops are failing to co-ordinate with their Afghan allies and thereby causing civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said. He criticised his Western allies’ “extreme” use of force and said they should act as his government asked.
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Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape.
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The Taliban fired rockets at Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he gave a speech to some elders. Karzai paused to quiet the audience after the rockets landed a few hundred yards away, then finished his speech.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would restore habeus corpus to prisoners at Guantanano Bay. On Thursday, the committee voted eleven to eight to advance a measure that would let prisoners challenge their detentions in federal court.
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In Italy, the trial begins today for twenty-six Americans and five Italians accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003.
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Amnesty International wanted to know what happened to the 39 terror suspects that disappeared after being detained by the US.
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The U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo came to a halt Monday when a military judge dropped all the charges against a young Canadian. Army Col. Peter Brownback, the judge, said the military tribunal lacked jurisdiction over Canadian Omar Khadr because he did not meet the definition of those subject to trial under a law the U.S. Congress drafted last year.
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Records obtained from the immigration courts under the Freedom of Information Act show that only 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were terrorism related.
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A woman who died of lung disease five months after the September 11, 2001 attacks has been added to the medical examiner’s list of attack victims.
The groundbreaking move on Wednesday marked the first time the city of New York has officially declared that exposure to World Trade Center toxins following the 9/11 attacks contributed to a person’s death.
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Republican party members were all too busy to attend Jerry Falwell’s funeral, where an evangelist tried unsuccessfully to blow up some protesters.
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Aerial bombing of a valley in western Afghanistan several days ago by the American military killed at least 42 civilians, including women and children, and wounded 50 more, an Afghan government investigation found Wednesday. President Hamid Karzai said at a news conference in Kabul that the Afghan people could no longer tolerate such casualties. “Afghans are human beings, too,” he said.
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The al-Qaida in Iraq leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, is believed to have been killed in a fight between insurgents north of Baghdad.
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Britain banned the phrase “War on Terror.”
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At a military hearing in Guantánamo Bay Khalid Sheik Mohammed confessed to being the mastermind of the September 11 attacks;
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Vice President Dick Cheney, took to speaking in the first person on the condition of anonymity. “I’ve seen some reporting,” said the “senior administration official” of his meeting with Pakistani authorities, “that says, ‘Cheney went in to beat up on them, threaten them.’ That’s not the way I work.”
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