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35 people have been killed in an explosion at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport according to the airport spokesperson. Up to 168 are said to have been injured in what the Investigative Committee believes to be a terror attack.Eighty-six people have been taken to nearby hospitals, 46 of them are reported to be in critical condition. Some reports say there are foreign citizens among the victims, including those from the UK, Italy, France, Serbia and Slovakia. *************************snip************************************ FSB knew about possible terror attack – reports Russia’s Federal Security Bureau had known about a suicide bomber in the city, but their information was...

Attack likely to exploit existing network of cross-border human, drug traffickers. A nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S. is better than an even bet in the next 10 years, says a former assistant secretary of defense and author of a book on the subject. "Based on current trends, a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States is more likely than not in the decade ahead," says Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and author of "Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe." Allison, who has testified before Congress on...

GLOBAL TERROR? WHAT GLOBAL TERROR? OH, THAT GLOBAL TERROR. Ken Berwitz I just put on Hardball for a minute or two (thus doubling its viewership, assuming chris mouthews' mother wasn't cooking dinner at the time) and watched a Democrat and Republican trying to outposture each other on the war on terror. This in and of itself wouldn't be surprising or edifying in anyway., But the Democrat said something that stopped me in my tracks. She said "this is a global problem and we need global partners". Hello, anyone home? Aren't major Democratic presidential candidates, most notably the human oil slick,...

Four years after the September 11 events, while many of the initial assumptions of the global war on terrorism have undergone an agonizing reappraisal, a new Washington consensus about the nature of the challenge facing the West and the moderate Muslim world has yet to emerge. Can the notoriously dysfunctional interagency process ever be fixed by organizational tinkering alone, without the elaboration of a common conceptual ground? However lively it may be at times, the Beltway’s ongoing “Operation Infinite Conversation” is no substitute for strategizing. Does it make sense to keep framing the issue in terms of “terrorism” when the...

MOSCOW, Nov. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian secret services in Chechnya have killed a senior al Qaeda representative in Chechnya, head of the regional headquarters in control of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus said on Friday. The militant, identified as Jaber, was killed in a special operation launched by an army elite reconnaissance unit near the village of Avtury, Shali district, on Nov. 11. He was reportedly al Qaeda's mastermind and financier of recent high-profile terrorist attack in the republic, head of the regional headquarters Col-Gen Arkady Yedelev told Itar-Tass news agency. Jaber organized terrorist attacks in Znamenskoye and...

Undoubtedly, Shiite rule would thrill them. As a result, within just hours of Mr. Bush’s remarks, Iran had its own somewhat shocking proclamation when the head of their Supreme National Security Council, Hasan Rowhani, stated that Tehran supported our president’s re-election efforts. As if that wasn’t enough, that same day, Grand Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri, a senior Shiite leader in Iran, made a similarly stunning announcement that he was cutting ties with the upstart Shiite cleric in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr. When combined with the other two events, especially given the timing of all three, it quite appears that Tehran was not...

WHY A PATRIOT MUST SUPPORT ISRAEL - DON FEDER SEPT. 9, 2004 http://www.donfeder.com/ I recently did a column exposing the Israel bashing in Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book, “Where The Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency” – the Michael Moore Book Club’s selection of the month. Fortunately, only a small segment of the right has been infected with Buchanan’s neo-isolationism and anti-Zionism. Still, Pat’s fulminations spur the following reflections on why I support Israel as an American patriot. First, a bit of personal history – not to boast, but to let you...

Terror War: The Peril of Ignorance By Christopher G. Adamo | September 9, 2004 Against the horrific backdrop of 9-11, relatively little discussion occurred in regards to the jubilant celebrations occurring among Palestinians on the streets of Gaza... Russia's past efforts to undermine the United States in its war on terror, .. to have spared it. Despite the disingenuous platitudes of "political correctness".. of Islamists as anything other than a religious war, that reality remains unchanged. Now Russia knows it is no exception. But those celebrations took place nonetheless. In this country as well, every effort has been made ever...

The total number of international terrorist attacks in 2003 -- 190 incidents that killed 307 people -- was the lowest since 1969, according to the latest Department of State report on worldwide terrorism. The annual report, "Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003," shows the number of attacks last year was down slightly from the 199 attacks reported in 2002. At the same time, the 2003 figure is a 45 percent decline from the 346 attacks in 2001. The 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report -- required by federal law to be submitted to Congress annually -- was released by the State...

The nation has made important strides forward in achieving the color-blind society Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told the Pentagon breakfast audience today. But, Rumsfeld said, "Today, we face another challenge to freedom, one that is truly deadly," referring to the global war on terrorism. Calling today's terrorist threat more deadly than could be imagined during King's era, the secretary said, "It's a challenge -- not only to the freedom that we enjoy, but also to the very idea of living free. It's a challenge to being able to say what you wish, go where...

GLOBAL JIHAD Saudi student indicted for terror From Idaho school set up website to recruit holy warriors Posted: January 10, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Saudi graduate student in the U.S. believed to have ties to close associates of Osama bin Laden was indicted yesterday on charges he provided material support to terrorists. The University of Idaho student, Sami Omar al-Hussayen, 33, created websites to recruit members for terrorist groups and raise money for their activities, prosecutors charge. Al-Hussayen, who studied computer science, also is scheduled to go on trial in two weeks on visa fraud charges....

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — When European and Asian finance ministers first gathered for talks five years ago, their main focus was on rebuilding the wounded Asian tiger economies. This time, another crisis tops the agenda: global terrorism. Officials from the 15 European Union countries and 10 Asian nations were meeting Friday and Saturday at a former warehouse turned Danish Foreign Ministry annex on the Copenhagen harbor. Joining them are EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Pedro Solbes and top officials of the Asian Development Bank, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In his opening remarks, Danish Finance...