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<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 ...