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Afghanistan: Pakistani talibans freed by Yann Laurent (English Translation by DrKnows) They do not represent a threat any more for Afghanistan. It is basically the opinion of the Afghan government, that sent back home last week several dozens talibans prisoners native of Pakistan. The Pakistani authorities knew how to benefit from the visit to Islamabad, at the end of August, of Afghan Foreign Secretary, Abdullah Abdullah. They declare henceforth loud and clear that they wait for the liberation of all 800 held nationals. Put in position of weakness by the discovery of a mass grave of talibans died suffocated in...

Federal Criminal Complaint Against Six Alleged Members Of Terror Cell Located In Buffalo, New York, Alleging That Defendants Conspired To Provide Material Support And Resources To A Foreign Terrorist Organization. [PDF] UNITED STATES v. YAHYA GOBA, et al. (Sept. 13, 2002) http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usgoba091302cmp.pdf UNITED STATES v. MUKHTAR AL-BAKRI (Sept. 13, 2002) http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usal-bakri091302cmp.pdf

US OFFICIAL CALLS HEZBOLLAH 'A-TEAM OF TERRORISTS' A top U.S. diplomat took aim at Hezbollah on Thursday, saying the United States would go after the group he called "the A-team of terrorists." "Hezbollah made the A-team of terrorists, maybe al Qaeda is actually the B-team," Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said in answer to a questions after a luncheon speech. "We're going to go after them just like a high school wrestler goes after opponents, we're going to take them down one at a time," Armitage said. What The State Department Says About Hezbollah a/ka/ Hizballah [PDF] http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/dos/trrpt2001/dostrrpt2001p6.pdf

World News September 09, 2002 By Dominic Kennedy A SLIP of the tongue by one of Osama bin Laden’s top henchmen seems to have betrayed al-Qaeda’s most potent secret: its charismatic leader is dead. The blunder was made by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has confessed to being the operational mastermind behind the September 11 attacks. He made his mistake while disclosing many of the secrets behind the atrocities, which were plotted in Kandahar, the religious extremist Taleban movement’s Afghan spiritual home. The target of the fourth, thwarted hijack attack in Washington was Congress, not the White House; the original plan...

Hamburg, 29,11,2001 - did five humans have to die, because US bio weapon researchers wanted to receive more cash for their work? Searches of the Greenpeace of magazine let this terrible assumption become ever more probable. The story comes from talks of members of a US Government delegation. One does not regard it to the things, which is contained in them. The participants of a US delegation expressed some concerns at a bio-warfare conference in Geneva that a high-ranking US bio-weapon expert could very well be behind the anthrax attacks in the USA. Also independent researchers contest this suspicion, the ...

We know it crashed, but not why FBI is silent, fueling "shot down" rumors Flowers and mementos cover makeshift memorial at crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 (AP) By WILLIAM BUNCH bunchw@phillynews.com SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - Ernie Stuhl is the mayor of this tiny farming borough that was so brutally placed on America's psychic map on the morning of Sept. 11, when United Airlines Flight 93 slammed nose-down into the edge of a barren strip-mine moonscape a couple of miles outside of town. A 77-year-old World War II veteran and retired Dodge dealer, he's certainly no conspiracy theorist. And, when ...

Read The Criminal Complaint Against The Passenger (US v. Gurung) [PDF] http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/usgurung110501cmp.pdf

SEE MY ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW COMMENTS LINE (Sorry for typos, I did my best to translate this ASAP) L'Italie enquête sur des projets d'attentats chimiques en France Selon la police italienne, Essid Sami ben Khemaïs, un militant islamiste arrêté en mai dernier, participait à la préparation d'un attentat chimique en France. Les policiers auraient enregistré des conversations téléphoniques au cours desquelles ben Khemaïs évoquait l'utilisation d'un mystérieux gaz toxique. Mis en ligne le 15 octobre 2001 Depuis le début des frappes en Afghanistan, les Etats-Unis vivent dans la crainte de la reprise des attentats sur leur sol – et en ...