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INGAPORE, Jan. 25 — Shortly after the United States began bombing Afghanistan on Oct. 7, a 30-year- old Indonesian traveling on a false Filipino passport slipped into this tightly controlled city-state carrying a plan to strike back at America. His mission, investigators say, was to activate a "sleeper cell" of Islamic militants who had long been waiting for a call from Al Qaeda's leaders in Afghanistan. This group, which had been loosely organized for eight years, began planning to blow up the embassies of the United States, Israel, Australia and Britain, the investigators say. The plot was foiled when 13 ...

Singapore -- The government said Friday that 13 of 15 people arrested here last month for suspected links to al-Qaida terrorists plotted to blow up Western embassies, U.S. naval vessels and a bus carrying American soldiers. "The plan was apparently ... ready for activation,” a government statement said, but was thwarted when documents and evidence found in Afghanistan allowed authorities to arrest the suspects. Singapore released evidence, including notes in Arabic and a videotape it said was "found in the rubble of an al-Qaida leader's house in Afghanistan.” In the tape, one detainee told how explosives could be carried ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. embassies or consulates in Germany, Denmark, Italy and Luxembourg received letters containing white powder on Wednesday, sparking fears of a fresh anthrax attack, a State Department official told Reuters. "Unidentified white powder was received in local mail deliveries," the official said, citing official information received from the embassies in Copenhagen, Luxembourg and Rome and consulates in Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich. "In each case when the white powder was discovered by mission employees, staff notified local authorities who responded immediately and are now evaluating the substance," he said.

Italian cell part of wider European terror web Its contacts, however, extended to Iran, Malaysia and Afghanistan. Their aim - hit American targets PARIS - A suspected terrorist cell broken up recently in Italy is believed to be part of a wider European network with contacts in Iran, Malaysia and Afghanistan that is suspected of plotting attacks on American targets. Five North Africans were arrested on Thursday and Friday in Milan, Naples, San Remo and the island of Malta. A sixth is at large and a seventh, the alleged leader, is in a British jail. Italian authorities said their activities...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Prosecutor asks for 3 more months to complete terrorist probe Associated Press Worldstream ANTHONY DEUTSCH; Associated Press Writer September 2, 2002 Monday 10:43 AM Eastern Time ROTTERDAM, Netherlands The public prosecutor on Monday asked for three more months to complete his case against four men accused of plotting terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in France and Belgium. Prosecutors say that in addition to the Paris embassy, the group targeted the Kleine-Brogel base in northeast Belgium, where around 100 U.S. Air Force personnel are...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands Sept. 1 — Stolen passports and videotapes of Osama bin Laden are among prosecution evidence against four men summoned to appear in court Monday for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in France and Belgium. Two Algerians, a Frenchman and a Dutchman are accused of running a terrorist support network out of a Rotterdam apartment to assist in strikes against the American Embassy in Paris and a U.S. munitions depot in Belgium.On Monday, prosecutors will set out the broad lines of their case and request three more months to complete investigations, according to spokeswoman Pollyan Spoon of...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish man of Tunisian origin, arrested on suspicion he was about to hijack a plane, was planning to crash the aircraft into a U.S. embassy in Europe, Swedish intelligence sources said on Saturday. Police are looking for four more men, including an explosives expert, who worked with him on the plan, the sources said. "We know for sure that the plan was to crash the plane into a U.S. embassy in Europe," a military intelligence source told Reuters. The man, 29, was arrested on Thursday -- almost a year after the September 11 hijack attacks on...

<p>A police officer looks at the damage Thursday after a car bomb exploded Wednesday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru.</p> <p>LIMA, Peru (CNN) -- Peru's interior minister Thursday tied a deadly car bombing near the U.S. Embassy to this weekend's visit by U.S. President George Bush and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.</p>

QUANTITIES of a cyanide-based substance found in a Rome flat used by four suspected Islamic terrorists may have been part of a "chemical bomb" plot against the city. The bomb theory emerged yesterday as magistrates charged the four, all Moroccans, with subversive terrorism, a crime carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years. The investigations into the men, arrested on Tuesday, initially focused on suggestions that they were planning an attack the on city's water supply or the American embassy. But officials said the nine pounds of potassium ferro-cyanide would have been too difficult to introduce into water conduits, where their ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian police arrested four Moroccans on Tuesday in possession of large quantities of cyanide and maps of Rome highlighting the location of the U.S. embassy, ANSA news agency reported early on Wednesday. ANSA quoted police sources as saying the Moroccans, aged 30 to 40, also had maps of Rome's water system. Police were not immediately available for comment. At least two of the men arrested had been followed after three other Moroccans were arrested last week, ANSA said.

The chemicals were stored in vats in the basement of an Egyptian restaurant in downtown Brussels. The suicide bomber, a former soccer player who had fallen into drug use and petty crime, had been selected. The target, the American Embassy in Paris, had been scouted. All that remained was the signal from Osama bin Laden's operatives in Afghanistan to strike. The nod was to come from a Frenchman of Algerian origin who was on his way back from training in Afghanistan. But he was arrested in transit, and he talked, spilling to French interrogators details of what could have been ...

<p>ROME (AP) -- A hole discovered in a tunnel adjacent to the U.S. Embassy in Rome was large enough to crawl through, and embassy officials said Monday that water pipes leading to the building were circled on a map that was seized along with a cyanide compound in a raid that led to nine arrests.</p>

Italian police say they have arrested four Moroccans who were planning a chemical attack in Rome, targeting buildings which included the United States embassy. The four men, aged between 30 and 40, were detained in a dawn raid on a flat in the Tor Bella Monaca area in the south of the Italian capital. They were discovered to be in possession of a powdered cyanide-based substance, maps marking the capital's water supply network, as well as a hoard of false documentation, officials said. It is suspected that they were intending to poison the water supplies in a commercial area of ...

<p>October 22, 2001 -- Lead suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta visited a Virginia naval base at least twice this year, perhaps thinking of making an aircraft carrier one of his terror targets, it was reported today.</p> <p>Atta made the trips to Norfolk in February and April, according to Newsweek.</p>

Did Clinton nod to Mubarak overthrow? Book suggests foreign policy goof led to Luxor terror massacre &copy;&nbsp;2001&nbsp;WorldNetDaily.com A secret deal between the Clinton administration and terrorists linked with Osama bin Laden led directly to the senseless slaughter of some 70 West European tourists and the wounding of hundreds, according to a book written by a former congressional terrorism expert. According to Yossef Bodansky, author of "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America," a Central Intelligence Agency operative dealing with Islamic terrorists on matters of security for the U.S. forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina led them to believe President Clinton ...

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000; President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible would ...

<p>On September 11, Americans and our friends around the world will mark the first anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93. Just as we did on the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we will mourn our dead and rededicate ourselves to winning a great global struggle that we neither sought nor started.</p>

RECORDS of Osama Bin Laden’s calls from his satellite phone reveal Britain was at the heart of the terrorist’s planning for his worldwide campaign of murder and destruction. Bin Laden and his most senior lieutenants made more than 260 calls from their base in Afghanistan to 27 numbers in Britain. They included suspected terrorist agents, sympathisers and companies. Some were prearranged calls to contacts using public pay phones. The records, obtained by The Sunday Times, show that the terrorist leader made more calls to Britain than any other country in the two years that he used the phone. He stopped...

Followers in London told to acquire weapons of mass destruction to counter American action in Iraq and Saudi Arabia Letters allegedly written by Osama bin Laden to his supporters in London called on members of his al-Qaida network to acquire weapons of mass destruction and urged them to "kill, fight, create traps and destroy" Americans. In the correspondence, Bin Laden refers to the US sanctions on Iraq as the "worst international terrorism" and said it was the "sacred duty of Muslims" to drive out American forces from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. If the letters, published yesterday by the Italian ...

News Anchor just broke in saying a suicide bomber with a car full of explosives was stopped close to the US Embassy due to a traffic accident. That's all that was said. Sorry for the lack more information.

LIMA, PERU - Amid heightened security following last week's explosion outside the US Embassy here, President Bush's arrival Saturday marked the first visit to Peru by a sitting US president. The trip was billed as part of Mr. Bush's commitment to Latin America that has been sidelined since Sept. 11. And while the war on terror, drug trafficking, and free trade were the dominant themes of Mr. Bush's 17-hour stop, it was a much smaller announcement that held particular significance to Peru's President Alejandro Toledo: the return of the Peace Corps to Peru following a 27-year absence. As a young...

Suspect held in plot to bomb U.S., Israeli embassies U.S. officials are interrogating a suspected al Qaida operative who says he directed a foiled plot to blow up the American embassy in Singapore, NBC Nightly News said on Friday. The man, Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, was arrested earlier this year in Oman, but is now being held at a military base in the northeastern United States, NBC said. Jabarah, 20, is cooperating and providing new information about al Qaida's operations, including attack plans drawn up since the Sept. 11 attacks on Washington and New York, the report said. NBC said Jabarah...

<p>WASHINGTON –– A flurry of telephone calls threatening the destruction of all U.S. embassies in Islamic nations within a week has prompted the State Department to alert all overseas diplomatic posts.</p>

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A suspect wanted in a plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris has been extradited from Canada and ordered held in a Dutch jail for investigation, prosecutors said Friday. The Algerian-born suspect, identified in court documents as Amine Mezbar, 34, was transferred to the Netherlands Thursday evening and brought before a judicial commission Friday in Rotterdam, where two other suspects in the case also are being held. No trial date has been set, said Marjan van Kempen of the public prosecutor's office. In the normal judicial process, the judicial commission's task is to affirm...

Sunday March 3, 12:09 AM Pakistanis shot, Jordanians arrested in Macedonia raid Macedonia says seven "Mujahideen" shot dead - Heavily armed police guard the U.S. Embassy in Skopje on March 2. Macedonian police said they had killed seven suspected "Mujahideen terrorists" in a shootout in the outskirts of the capital Skopje. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski Macedonian police said they shot seven people dead, including some Pakistani nationals, who were believed to be planning terror attacks in the capital Skopje. They said the incident was linked to the previously unannounced arrest late February of two Jordanians and two Bosnians who were planning attacks ...

<p>A terrorist videotape viewed by USA TODAY has provided new details about al-Qaeda attacks planned for last December against the U.S. Embassy, U.S. military and other Western targets in Singapore.</p> <p>The attacks were prevented a week before they were to be launched when officials in Singapore, acting on information the CIA provided, arrested and interrogated suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, senior U.S. officials say.</p>

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Plot to blow up four embassies revealed on Afghan video: SINGAPORE BOMB CONSPIRACY By JOHN BURTON and ROEL LANDINGIN Financial Times (London) AL QAEDA: TERRORISM AFTER AFGHANISTAN; Pg. 12 February 22, 2002, Friday London Edition 1 John Burton and Roel Landingin on how an al-Qaeda affiliate came close to carrying out a devastating act of terrorism Looming on a small rise overlooking the eight lanes of Napier Road, the US Embassy in Singapore is a forbidding building of dark gray granite. Flanked on ...

Unnoticed Bombshell Key information in a new book. By Michael Ledeen, NRO contributing editor & resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute. He is author, most recently, of Tocqueville on American Character and is writing The War Against the Terror Masters, to be published shortly by St Martin’s Press. February 11, 2002 8:45 a.m. The reception of Robert Baer's terrific book, See No Evil, speaks volumes about what people read nowadays, and how they read it. See No Evil is many things. It's a thumbnail autobiography of a really interesting man, with exceptional physical skills ...

LONDON (AP) The man accused of trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his sneakers was seen in London with suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist network, a British newspaper reported Saturday. A worshipper at London's Finsbury Park mosque, Rashid Hussain, was quoted by The Times as saying he saw Richard C. Reid at the mosque in 1998 with Djamel Beghal and Nizar Trabelsi. Beghal is a French-Algerian who French investigators say revealed a suicide plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris and apparently told Dubai investigators he had visited Osama bin Laden's home. ...

The lawyer of an alleged top al-Qaida chief says his clients trial should be moved because so many New Yorkers say they were affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks, after his client protested the pain of his manacled wrists in court. U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts directed lawyers to submit written arguments about where the prison-stabbing trial should be held and other issues even as she set an April 10th trial date for Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (Mom-Doo-Mach-Mood-Sah-leem). Salim faces trial in the stabbing of a prison guard in the face while awaiting trial on an attempt to bomb two ...