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<p>November 18, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - The White House said yesterday that a newly caught senior al Qaeda leader is helping the United States.</p> <p>Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge was vague about what's been gleaned from the prisoner, whom the Pentagon has refused to identify - except to say that he's one of the most senior terrorists in U.S. custody.</p>

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Al Qaeda is responsible for a series of deadly church bombings in Indonesia and plotted the assassination of President Megawati Sukarnoputri, according to the confession of a top agent from the terrorist network caught here. Omar Faruq, a Kuwaiti who described himself as Al Qaeda's senior representative in Southeast Asia, said the group hoped to trigger a religious civil war in Indonesia that would lead to the formation of a ''pure Islamic state,'' according to a confidential US document obtained yesterday by the Los Angeles Times.

WASHINGTON - An Iraqi terror team armed with millions of dollars tried to get smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico to Crawford, Tex. - the site of President Bush's ranch, a law enforcement source said yesterday. The alarming attempt to infiltrate the country occurred this month, the source said. It is not known what the Iraqis planned to do in Crawford, but Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein tried to assassinate Bush's father, the former President George Bush, in 1993. The unidentified Iraqis wanted to hire smugglers to sneak them into the U.S. because they "wanted to get to the Crawford ranch,"...

Preferred to stay in jail: Last chapter in nine-year legal battle to block deportation The government's nine-year fight to remove a suspected terrorist and trained assassin from Canadian soil ended this week when Mansour Ahani was taken from a Hamilton jail cell, loaded on to a plane and flown to his native Iran. Mr. Ahani, who Canadian officials say is a member of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence Security, branded a terrorist organization, preferred life behind bars in Canada over returning to Iran and threw up repeated legal challenges to his deportation. It took the government years to whittle away...

 March 21, 2002 Red Brigades Say They 'Executed' Italy Official By REUTERS Filed at 3:35 p.m. ETROME (Reuters) - An offshoot of Italy's Red Brigades urban guerrilla movement published a 26-page Internet message on Thursday saying it had ``executed'' a top government adviser and reviving fears of a new era in political killings.Marco Biagi, 52, was shot dead on Tuesday night in the northern city of Bologna with the same pistol that the Red Brigades for the Construction of the Fighting Communist Party had used to kill another government aide in 1999.Police pored over video material collected from security...

A SENIOR Italian government adviser on labour relations was murdered by gunmen apparently opposed to his proposals to make it easier to sack workers. Marco Biagi, 52, an affable professor responsible for drafting the government's package of labour market reforms, was shot dead by two attackers while cycling home on Tuesday night in Bologna, the nerve-centre of the Italian far Left. The murder is the most dramatic evidence so far of the political tension welling up in Italy since the Right-wing government of the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, took power last year, backed by the "post-fascist" National Alliance and the...

Pim Fortuyn, Dutch right-wing politician, has been shot by an unknown gunman. Between three and 6 six were fired. Gunman still at large. Fortuyn was shot when leaving the Radia 3 studio. He was heavily wounded and was transported to hospital.

Powered by SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Dutch rightist Fortuyn shot dead AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (CNN) --Maverick Dutch right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn has been shot dead, police have told CNN. Fortuyn, 54, was shot in the head at least three times at close range as he was going to a Dutch national radio station in Hilversum, the Associated Press reported. Opinion polls had shown that Fortuyn and his party, running on an anti-immigration platform, were scheduled to win a large block in the country's parliament in May 15 elections. A man who was believed to have been carrying a...

Thousands of people have taken part in a rally in the Dutch city of Rotterdam in protest at the assassination of right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn. The Dutch Government has announced next week's general election will go ahead as planned, despite (right wing politician) Pim Fortuyn's murder on Monday evening. Police say they have detained their prime suspect in the case - a 32-year-old white Dutchman. Reports say he was an animal-rights activist angered by Fortuyn's calls to lift a ban on fur farming. The public prosecutor said ammunition was found at the suspect's house, matching the calibre of the...

<p>May 7, 2002 -- ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - A maverick Dutch politician - who called Islamic culture "backward" in an interview last week - was shot dead yesterday as he left a radio interview.</p> <p>Right-winger Pim Fortuyn, whose anti-immigration party made a surprisingly strong showing in local elections in March, was shot six times in the head, neck and chest.</p>

ATHENS, Greece - Police captured a 10th suspected member of the deadly November 17 terrorist organization and a newspaper reported that the group had been planning an attack on U.S. and NATO peacekeepers. The daily Eleftherotypia reported Sunday that alleged gunmen of the ultra-left group already in custody told police they had planned to strike NATO peacekeepers based in Kosovo as they traveled through Greece. The newspaper said evidence had been found at November 17 hideouts suggesting the urban guerrillas were gathering information on NATO convoys leaving the northern Greek port of Thessaloniki. November 17 has claimed 22 killings, including...

U.S. intelligence officials have not ruled out the possibilty that a government mole may have given terrorists the top secret code language they used to deliver the threat "Air Force One is next" as the World Trade Center and Pentagon were under attack. In an interview with "Fox News Sunday's" Tony Snow, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice confirmed that the Sept. 11 threat against President Bush's life included a "coded name." SNOW: Sept. 11 there was a report that there was a coded message that said, "We're going to strike Air Force One" that was using specific coded language and ...

Polish Prime Minister says government was alerted of planned assassination attempt during 1997 papal visit Mon Aug 12,11:44 AM ET By ANDRZEJ STYLINSKI, Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland - Just days before Pope John Paul ( news - web sites) II's ninth visit to his native Poland, Prime Minister Leszek Miller said Monday that the government was alerted to a possible assassination attempt on the Polish-born pontiff during a 1997 visit. Miller, who was the minister charged with domestic security in 1997, did not provide any details on the alleged plot involving a mercenary from Bosnia. However, Polish security officials...

MIAMI: Anti-terrorism agents have arrested a 22-year-old Miami resident who allegedly threatened to attack the White House and a power plant in Florida, local television reported Tuesday. Miami television station WSVN said Safraz Jaludi made a full confession following his arrest Monday by a south Florida joint anti-terrorism task force. Jaludi is accused to sending threats of "terrorist-type" attacks through the Internet, the TV station said. It said the suspect used his office computer, and a student computer at the Florida Arts Institute to send the threats to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The attacks allegedly were to take...

NEW YORK -- Authorities believe a U.S. postal employee in custody here helped draft a letter of introduction that may have been used by two men who posed as journalists to assassinate a leading opposition figure in Afghanistan last fall, according to a U.S. official familiar with the case.Click here for full Washington Post article

Thank GOD this Neo-Nazi didn't succeed. NN's seem to be popping up all over the place lately. Man Gets Out Gun as French President Passes; Arrested by Police PARIS (AP) - Police arrested a man who pulled a rifle out of a guitar case as French President Jacques Chirac was inspecting troops Sunday during the annual Bastille Day military parade, police and witnesses said. Cries of alarm from the crowd lining the parade route apparently alerted police, and the gunman fired a single shot as he was wrestled to the ground. Agents stood him up, searched him and took him...

CNN breaks format to say senior Israeli official shot. No further details yet.

NATO investigates alleged plot to kill US commander Monday, 08-Jul-2002 9:31AM Story from AFP / Amra Hadziosmanovic by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) SARAJEVO, July 8 (AFP) - NATO troops in Bosnia are investigating allegations of a plot to kill the US commander of the Stabilisation Force (SFOR) during a visit to Mostar at the weekend after a man armed with a sniper gun was arrested during a security sweep, a SFOR spokesman said Monday. Police in the southern Bosnian town of Mostar identified the man as A.K., aged 31, and said he was carrying a 9 mm machinegun equipped...

New evidence of Arabs fleeing the US-led bombing in Afghanistan to open a new front in the Arab world has emerged in Jordan. The authorities in Amman say they have arrested 10 Jordanians accused of planning to carry out attacks on American and Israeli targets in the kingdom. They say they were led by Wail al-Shalabi, a Palestinian-Jordanian fighter who was arrested in April after returning from Afghanistan. The suspects' lawyer, Mohammed Duwaik, says Mr Wail has confessed to fighting in the Afghan Jihad. The arrests come in the wake of a wave of detentions in Yemen, Tunisia and Morocco....

FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Nazis tied to anthrax attacks FBI sources see links between Hezbollah, fugitive Germans Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition, DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Fresh foreign leads in the FBI's anthrax investigation point to the involvement of one or more German or Austrian biological or ...