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The two Kuwaiti gunmen who died in a shootout that also killed a US marine and wounded another have been hailed by many of their countrymen as anti-American "heroes." Anas Ahmad Ibrahim al-Kandari, 21, and Jassem Hamad Mubarak al-Hajeri, 26, were condemned as "terrorists" by Kuwaiti and US authorities. Yet for the scores of Kuwaitis who turned up for their burial on Wednesday, they were "martyrs" who gave their lives in the ultimate expression of anti-American feelings in the Gulf emirate. Kandari and Hajeri killed a US marine and wounded another participating in the "Eager Mace 2002" wargames on Kuwait's...

When U.S. authorities got their hands on terrorist Mohammed Mansour Jabarah in May 2002, he agreed to inform on some of the most influential al-Qaeda leaders. So instead of being sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or a high-security CIA detention facility, Jabarah was housed with relatively lax security at Fort Dix, N.J., where he was allowed to watch television and movies, speak to his family in Canada by telephone, go for walks and even make his own meals, all under 24-hour FBI watch. That arrangement soon proved to be a major problem for the bureau. In court papers filed in...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has extended for two more years the imprisonment of a terror suspect linked to al-Qaeda's attempts to produce chemical and biological weapons, saying he has more information about terrorist operations. Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war. Since then, he has been held without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on accusations of being a member of Jemaah...

He pleaded guilty more than five years ago to plotting bomb attacks on American embassies, but the case against Al Qaeda member Mohammed Mansour Jabarah has been shrouded in secrecy until now.

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 ...

Friday, August 27, 2004 A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago. Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were told during five days of interviews with the source that Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen also known as Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001. The source claimed Jdey had used his Canadian passport to board Flight 587 and "conducted a suicide mission" with a small bomb...

WASHINGTON, July 26 — A suspected terrorist planner linked to al-Qaida has been flown to the United States, where he is cooperating with the FBI, U.S. officials told NBC News. Officials said Friday that the man had admitted his involvement in a plot to bomb the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Singapore and could be called to testify against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged with direct involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. THE MAN, Mohamed Mansour Jabarah, 20, of Ontario, was arrested in Oman earlier this year. Omani officials passed along information from Jabarah to U.S. officials, who...