| February 4, 2010 | - In Afghanistan's Helmand Province, the Taliban were ambushing the American military using “ancient signaling techniques”; three people were killed and 17 wounded in a suicide-bomb attack in Kandahar, and a drone strike killed 29 presumed terrorists in northwestern Pakistan, where the Taliban were stalking American soldiers and their hired mercenaries. “We know the movement of U.S. Marines and Blackwater guys,” said a spokesman for the group. “We have prepared suicide bombers to go after them.”
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NY Times
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BBC News
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CNN
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CNN
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| January 26, 2010 | - A Canadian lawmaker suggested that an animal-rights activist who pushed a tofu cream pie in the face of the Canadian minister of fisheries was a terrorist,.
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Toronto Star
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| December 27, 2009 | - A 23-year-old Nigerian man who was known to American intelligence as a suspected terrorist attempted to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear aboard a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who claims ties to Al Qaeda in Yemen, was restrained by passengers who heard a popping sound and noticed his lap was on fire.
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New York Times
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| November 13, 2009 | - Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused September 11 plotters would be tried in federal court in lower Manhattan. “It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site,” said New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, adding that the city had sufficient resources to safely hold the trials. “I'm concerned,” said former mayor Rudy Giuliani, “that we no longer believe we're at war with Islamic
terrorists.” Five other detainees will be tried before military commissions.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
New York Times
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| September 21, 2009 | -
FBI raids in Denver and New York led to the arrest of three men alleged to have links to Al Qaeda and to have been planning terrorist attacks on targets in New York City.
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CBS News
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| June 22, 2009 | - Protesters supporting Mir Hussein Moussavi clashed with security forces throughout Iran as Moussavi called for further civil disobedience and the nullification of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election as president. “I am ready for martyrdom,” said Moussavi. Hundreds of people were arrested and at least a dozen were killed; Iran blamed the deaths on “armed terrorists” and announced a special court to try the protesters. President Barack Obama called on Iran's leadership to stop its “violent and unjust” response to the protests. Iranian police detained five relatives of former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who supports Moussavi, and photographs of pro-Ahmadinejad rallies were manipulated to make crowds seem larger. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who blamed the unrest on foreign governments and media, called on Iran's Guardian Council to examine some claims of voter fraud but warned that opposition leaders who failed to stop protests “would be responsible for bloodshed and chaos.” An initial election probe revealed that 50 locales had more votes than voters.
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New York Times
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New York Daily News
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Yahoo News
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New York Times
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News Grist
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My Way News
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New York Times
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Los Angeles Times
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| December 11, 2008 | - Envelopes with “suspicious powder” were received by officials in 13 states.
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Houston Chronicle
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Fort Mill Times
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Lawrence Journal-World
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Atlanta Journal-Courier
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| November 30, 2008 | - Gunmen terrorized
Mumbai for more than two days, killing at least 180 people during attacks at a train station, a restaurant, two five-star hotels, a movie theater, a hospital, a police station, and a Jewish center. At the peak of the violence more than one tweet per second with the word “Mumbai” was being posted to Twitter.com. Indian authorities claimed there were only ten attackers, with nine killed and one captured, but others, including the captive gunman, suggested that many others were involved in the attacks. Evidence suggested that the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group that has fought with India for control of Kashmir, was responsible for the violence, though the Deccan Mujahideen, a little-known group that may not exist, claimed responsibility. Several Americans were killed, including a father and daughter on a pilgrimage to learn about the roots of the meditation foundation Synchronicity, and Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, who managed the local Chabad-Lubavitch center. Gary Samore, on vacation with his family, survived by hiding in his hotel room at the Taj Mahal Hotel until the American Consulate reached him via BlackBerry to say that the hotel was on fire and he and his family needed to get out. “My BlackBerry,” Samore said, “may have saved our lives.”
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New York Times
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
New York Times
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New York Times
Source 5:
New York Times
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| November 21, 2008 | - The U.S. National Intelligence Council released a report to U.S. policymakers intended to prepare them for a future of waning U.S. influence as countries including China, India, and Russia grow in standing. The report suggests the dollar may be replaced as the world's major currency, and that demand for oil, food, and water “will outstrip easily available supplies” and lead to global conflicts. “Conditions will be ripe for disaffection, growing radicalism... youths into terrorist groups... all current technologies are inadequate. This,” it concluded, “is a story with no clear outcome.”
| Source 1:
BBC
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CNN
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| October 21, 2008 | -
Saudi authorities indicted 991 people on charges of participating in terrorist attacks.
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New York Times
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| October 21, 2008 | -
Al Qaeda endorsed John McCain for president. “Al Qaeda,” read a message posted to a password-protected website, “will have to support McCain in the coming election so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush.”
| Source:
Yahoo
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| July 27, 2008 | - During a children's production of “Annie, Jr.” at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, 58-year-old unemployed truck driver Jim J. Adkisson opened fire on a packed sanctuary with a twelve-gauge shotgun. “We were just, 'Oh, my God, that's not part of the play,'” said Amira Parkey, 16, who was playing Miss Hannigan. After killing one man and wounding seven others (one of whom later died from her wounds), Adkisson was tackled by John Bohstedt, who was playing Daddy Warbucks.
| Source:
AP
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| July 2, 2008 | - A survey found that Americans feared terrorist attacks less than at any point since September 11, 2001.
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CNN.com
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| June 2, 2008 | - A human-rights organization accused the Bush Administration of operating “floating prisons” by holding suspected terrorists on ships and of continuing its policy of extraordinary rendition, a practice it claimed to have discontinued in 2006.
| Source:
Guardian
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| May 21, 2008 | - The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, concerned about the risk of terrorist activity at the upcoming Twin Cities Republican National Convention, was recruiting spies to infiltrate vegan potluck dinners.
| Source:
City Pages
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| March 4, 2008 | - The U.S. Navy fired missiles into southern Somalia, targeting what the Pentagon called a “known Al Qaeda
terrorist.”
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New York Times
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| February 27, 2008 | - A man who calls himself “Osama bin London” was convicted of running terrorist training camps in England.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 17, 2008 | - It was revealed that the U.S. Treasury Department met with Iran last month to discuss terrorist financing, and that the CIA wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on a failed counterterrorism plan involving fake companies overseas.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Los Angeles Times
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| January 20, 2008 | - Researchers found that foreigners invested $414 billion in American companies in 2007, up 90 percent from 2006. “This is a vote of confidence in the American economy,” said Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert M. Kimmitt. “Do we want the communists to own the banks, or the terrorists?” asked financial commentator Jim Cramer. “I'll take any of it.”
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New York Times
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| December 11, 2007 | - John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who participated in the interrogation of an Al Qaeda
terrorist suspect who was waterboarded, conceded that waterboarding was torture but asserted that its use “probably saved lives.”
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Washington Post
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| November 8, 2007 | - A London woman, who says she only called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist” because “it sounded cool,” was convicted under the UK Terrorism Act for posting poems on the Internet praising Osama bin Laden and for owning terrorist manuals. “You have been in many respects,” said the judge, “a complete enigma to me.”
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| October 24, 2007 | - The Government Accountability Office reported that more than 755,000 names now appear on the U.S. terrorist
watch list.
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Washington Post
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| October 12, 2007 | - Ramzi Yousef, the jailed mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, converted to Christianity.
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| September 20, 2007 | - The Senate failed to pass a bill restoring habeas corpus to military detainees but voted to denounce MoveOn.org. Senators Joseph Lieberman and Jon Kyl filed an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill to classify Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.
| Source 1:
The Huffington Post via Yahoo! News
Source 2:
AP
Source 3:
The New York Times
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| August 17, 2007 | - Six of the Bali bombers got their jail terms reduced for good behavior.
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news.com.au
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| July 2, 2007 | - Police found a pair of Mercedes-Benz sedans filled with gasoline and nails parked in the center of London, and two men crashed a Jeep Cherokee into the glass doors of Terminal One at Glasgow Airport. The vehicle failed to penetrate the doors, but the driver poured gasoline over himself and the Jeep, and the Jeep blazed. The throng of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the inferno, and the flaming driver staggered out of the Jeep, threw punches, and shouted, “Allah, Allah.” The crowd of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the fireball. Stephen Clarkson, a bystander, pounced on the burning man. “I managed to knock the fellow to the ground,” said Clarkson. “His clothes had partially burned from his body. His hair was on fire. His whole body was on fire.” Police arrested the charred driver and the unscathed passenger. The discovery of a suspicious device on the driver’s person resulted in the evacuation of the hospital where his burns were being treated, and authorities blew up a suspicious car in the hospital parking lot. Detectives blamed an eight-person Al Qaeda cell controlled by someone they called “Mr. Big” and commenced raids. Three suspected collaborators of the would-be suicide bombers, including a 27-year-old woman, were apprehended.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| June 29, 2007 | -
Scottish jurists cast doubt on the conviction of a Libyan intelligence official jailed for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
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KUNA
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MSNBC
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LA Times
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USA Today
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Toronto Star
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| June 24, 2007 | - A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “'Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida' is stronger language than 'serving',” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly 'serving,' like in a way one 'serves' a casserole.”
- A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “'Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida' is stronger language than 'serving',” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly 'serving,' like in a way one 'serves' a casserole.”
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NYT
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| June 7, 2007 | - The U.S. military was developing lethal water guns to combat scuba-equipped
terrorists,.
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Wired
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| June 5, 2007 | - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said people stood a greater chance of being hit by lightning than dying at the hands of a terrorist, and that anyone worried about it should “get a life.”
| Source:
WCBSTV.com via Drudge
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| June 4, 2007 | - A group of men in New York City were accused of using GoogleEarth to plot a terrorist attack on underground jet-fuel lines.
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The Smoking Gun
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| April 30, 2007 | - Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr called on Iraqis to paint “magnificent tableaux” on barrier walls that “depict the ugliness and terrorist nature of the occupier, and the sedition, car bombings, blood and the like he has brought upon Iraqis.”
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NYTimes.com
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| April 16, 2007 | -
Britain banned the phrase “war on terror.”
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Sky News
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| March 15, 2007 | - The Chiquita banana company reached a settlement with the Justice Department over payments that it made to right-wing and left-wing terrorists in Colombia,
| Source:
NYT
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| February 21, 2007 | - It was discovered that Abdul Tawala Ibn Alishtari, an indicted terrorist financier, gave more than $15,000 to the National Republican
Congressional Committee. “We need to be careful,” said the NRCC in a statement, “not to rush to judgment.”
| Source 1:
Talking Points Memo
Source 2:
ABC News
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| February 21, 2007 | - An audit of the Justice Department's statistics on terrorism released by the Inspector General revealed that successful efforts in counterterrorism had been inflated, and the statistics in general were wrong.
| Source:
Washington Post.
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| January 12, 2007 | - On a radio program for federal employees and contractors, a Department of Defense official listed the names of law firms whose lawyers have represented detainees at Guantánamo Bay. “Quite honestly,” he said, “when corporate CEOs see that those firms are representing the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back in 2001, those CEOs are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms, and I think that is going to have major play in the next few weeks. And we want to watch that play out.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 10, 2007 | - Shahwar Matin Siraj, a 24-year-old clerk at an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for discussing phony plans to bomb a subway station with a police informant; Siraj’s father, mother, and sister, all asylum-seekers, were arrested for deportation to their native Pakistan.
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WNBC
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| January 10, 2007 | - In Illinois, Derrick Shareef, a 22-year-old Muslim convert who was arrested last month after trading two stereo speakers to a federal agent for a pistol and four nonfunctioning grenades that he planned to set off at a local mall, pleaded not guilty to attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.
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Saulkvalley.com
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| January 1, 2007 | - Concerns about terrorism prompted Governor Jim Gibbons of Nevada to take his oath shortly after midnight on New Year's despite the admitted absence of any known threat.
| Source:
AP via San Diego Union-Tribune
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| December 5, 2006 | - A plane bound for Texas made an emergency landing after a female passenger lit matches to mask the odor of her fart.
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WKMG Local News
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| December 1, 2006 | - The Department of Homeland Security was ranking the terrorist potential of American air travelers.
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CNN
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| October 28, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney denied that “waterboarding,” a banned interrogation method, was the same thing as giving a terrorist detainee a “dunk in water.” He also said his term as “Vice President for Torture” was over.
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VOA News
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| October 17, 2006 | - President George W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act, which suspends the right of habeas corpus for terrorism suspects and grants immunity to CIA interrogators and government officials, such as President Bush, for violations of the War Crimes Act.
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New York Times
Source 2:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| October 17, 2006 | - Scotland Yard and the British Home Office misplaced two “extremely dangerous” terrorism suspects. One escaped from a secure psychiatric unit, and neither can be named for legal reasons.
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Guardian online
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| September 29, 2006 | - Vigilante airline passengers searched the luggage of a university professor they believed to be a terrorist during a layover in Mallorca.
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AP via Seattle Times
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| September 8, 2006 | - In Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said he was “very happy to hear” Pakistan was not sponsoring terrorist attacks on his country.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 6, 2006 | - A poll found that New Yorkers were more concerned about terrorist attacks than are people living elsewhere.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 31, 2006 | -
Montana
Senator Conrad Burns said that terrorists “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill by night.”
| Source:
AP via Breitbart
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| August 29, 2006 | - Researchers warned that countries with unnaturally high male-to-female population ratios, such as China and India, could foster violence, organized crime, and terrorism.
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Reuters
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| August 23, 2006 | - A poll found that Americans were becoming increasingly effective at distinguishing between the war in Iraq and the war on terror.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 10, 2006 | - Under pressure from U.S. officials, authorities in the United Kingdom announced the discovery of a terrorist plot to blow up as many as ten passenger planes in the air, possibly by using explosive liquids hidden inside sports-drink bottles. Twenty-one suspects were arrested. Britain raised its threat level to “critical”; the United States raised its threat level “for all commercial flights flying from the United Kingdom to the United States” to “red.” Carry-on luggage was banned on flights in and out of Heathrow airport, and classical and traditional musicians, who normally keep their fragile instruments with them while traveling, were forced to check them as baggage and risk damage. “These restrictions,” said a cellist, “are a disaster for me.” Bagpipers planning to attend the World Pipe Band Championships were particularly worried about the effects of the ban. Prime Minister Tony Blair, on vacation in the Caribbean, thanked U.K. security services for their “hard work,” and President George W. Bush, who had been monitoring the progress of the investigation while on vacation in Crawford, Texas (where he was reading The Stranger, by Albert Camus), flew to Wisconsin and called the arrests “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.”
| Source 1:
The New York Times
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BBC News
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| August 2, 2006 | - In Iraq, President Jalal Talabani vowed to “terminate terrorism” by 2007.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 16, 2006 | -
Bombings on trains and in train stations killed 181 people in Mumbai, India, and led India to postpone peace talks with Pakistan. The diamond industry of Mumbai was said to be particularly hard hit by the bombings.
| Source:
Reuters Alertnet
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| July 7, 2006 | - The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security claimed to have foiled a plot by foreign terrorists, in Lebanon, to bomb the Holland Tunnel in New York.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 5, 2006 | - A British military report concluded that Trident nuclear missiles, which are regularly transported on public highways in the United States and Britain, are vulnerable to terrorist attacks or even severe traffic accidents that could trigger a nuclear explosion.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| June 18, 2006 | - It was revealed that in 2003 the Bush Administration refused an offer by Iran to end Iranian support of Palestinian
terror organizations and recognize Israel in exchange for an end to sanctions and permission to peacefully develop its nuclear program.
| Source:
The Jerusalem Post
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| June 15, 2006 | - At least 52 United States agencies were mining data about U.S. citizens, searching for criminals, terrorists, and potential military recruits.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| May 12, 2006 | - In Virginia a federal judge was considering whether the case brought by Khaled el-Masri against former CIA director George Tenet could proceed; el-Masri says he was abducted and beaten by the CIA, while the United States claims that allowing the case to move forward would expose state secrets and endanger the war on terrorism.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| April 23, 2006 | - The recently-completed “campaign plan for the global war on terrorism” was approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The new plan calls for “special mission units” to be engaged in continuous warfare around the world; such groups will be permitted to invade a country without the approval of the country's U.S. ambassador.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| April 22, 2006 | - The National Counterterrorism Center announced that there had been over 10,000 terrorist incidents worldwide in 2005 but noted that, because the study methodology had changed, this should not be seen as an increase over the 3,192 terrorist incidents of 2004. “Technically,” said a State Department spokesman, “you could say that there might be a larger number of incidents from one year to another, but it’s comparing apples and oranges.”
| Source:
MSNBC
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| April 5, 2006 | - The case against Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein, an Iraqi cameraman for CBS who was arrested in April 2005 after filming the wreckage of a car bomb, was finally dismissed for lack of evidence.
| Source:
ABC News
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| February 15, 2006 | - The U.S. Army was worried that Abu Ghraib was becoming, according to one commander, “a graduate-level training ground for the insurgency.”
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| February 12, 2006 | -
Iran, said security analysts, will be ready to retaliate with commando squads, global terrorist attacks, and long-range Shahab 3 missiles if its nuclear facilities are attacked.
| Source:
The Boston Globe
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| February 6, 2006 | - In Iraq, the United States was negotiating with Sunni
insurgents.
| Source:
Newsweek via MSNBC
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| January 26, 2006 | - The Islamic group Hamas won 76 of 132 parliamentary seats in Palestine's parliamentary elections, unseating the Fatah party. U.S. President George W. Bush, whose administration supported open democratic elections in Palestine, said that the United States would not negotiate with Hamas until the organization renounced its chartered goal of destroying
Israel.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 8, 2006 | - The FAA took steps to lower the risk of space
terrorism.
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BBC News
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| December 16, 2005 | -
President Bush was forced to approve the McCain Amendment, which will ban “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of terrorism detainees.”
| Source:
AP
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| December 8, 2005 | - It was reported that there were 80,000 names on the United States' list of possible terror suspects.
| Source:
AFP
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| December 5, 2005 | - Facing criticism over the United States' network of secret prisons in Europe, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointed out that intelligence gathered from terrorism suspects has helped prevent attacks in not only the United States but Europe as well. Rice also asserted that the United States does not transport detainees from one country to another for the purpose of torture.
| Source:
AP
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| November 30, 2005 | - At the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, President George W. Bush gave a speech on the Iraq war. “As Iraqi forces grow more capable,” he said, “they're increasingly taking the lead in the fight against the terrorists.”
| Source:
CNN.com
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| November 23, 2005 | - After three years in prison, U.S. citizen Jose Padilla was indicted on charges that he conspired to murder individuals overseas and provide support for terrorists; no mention was made of prior accusations that Padilla intended to use a “dirty bomb” or claims that he conspired with Al Qaeda to blow up U.S. apartment buildings. “The indictment,” explained a former Justice Department official, “is doubtless a strategy by the Bush Administration to avoid a Supreme Court ruling that would likely hold that U.S. citizens cannot be detained incommunicado as enemy combatants if they are detained on U.S. soil.”
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| November 22, 2005 | - It was reported that President George W. Bush had, on April 16, 2004, revealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair a plan to take “military action” against the headquarters of the Al Jazeera news network in Doha, Qatar. According to a leaked transcript, Blair talked Bush out of attacking the television station. The White House called the report “outlandish and inconceivable,” and Blair called the report a “conspiracy theory.” David Keogh, a former U.K. Cabinet Office official, was charged under the Official Secrets Act with leaking the memo, and U.K. Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned British media that any further reporting based on the leaked memo could be subject to criminal charges. Al Jazeera demanded an inquiry.
| Source 1:
The Daily Mirror
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The Toronto Star
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The Guardian
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News.Telegraph
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| November 5, 2005 | - Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to the United States, said that the Iraq war was inspiring acts of terrorism: “God,” he said, “it does not look good.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 7, 2005 | -
New York City was bracing for a terrorist attack on its subways, possibly by terrorists wielding bomb-filled strollers.
| Source:
Sign On San Diego
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| August 31, 2005 | -
President Bush declared that U.S. troops needed to stay in Iraq to keep the country’s oil out of the hands of terrorists.
| Source:
The White House
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| August 16, 2005 | - Secret documents revealed that Jean Charles De Menezes, the Brazilian electrician shot and killed as a terrorist by police on a London train, was not carrying any bags, was not wearing a bulky winter coat, and did not jump any turnstiles. He was, however, still shot seven times in the head.
| Source:
ITN
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| July 28, 2005 | - The Bush Administration started referring to the War on Terror as “the global struggle against violent extremism.”
| Source:
Democracy Now
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| July 11, 2005 | -
Terrorists set off bombs on three trains and a bus in London, killing fifty-two people, despite the fact that in 2003 Dick Cheney said that “our military is confronting the terrorists, along with our allies, in Iraq and Afghanistan so that innocent civilians will not have to confront terrorist violence in Washington or London or anywhere else in the world.”
| Source 1:
The Scotsman
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The White House
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| July 8, 2005 | -
New York Times journalist Judith Miller was sent to jail in Virginia for refusing to appear before a grand jury in connection to the Valerie Plame case. At the jail, where Zacarias Moussaoui is also an inmate, she had to sleep on the floor. Karl Rove's lawyer acknowledged that Rove spoke about Valerie Plame to Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper; Rove released Cooper from his promise of confidentiality, allowing the journalist to testify and avoid jail.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
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AFP
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| July 7, 2005 | -
President Bush condemned attacks on innocent folks by those with evil in their hearts. “The war on terror,” he eulogized, “goes on.”
| Source:
The White House
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| June 27, 2005 | - Italy ordered the arrest of thirteen people linked to the CIA on charges of kidnapping a terror suspect.
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IHT
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| June 6, 2005 | -
New Jersey was planning to try six animal-rights activists on “animal enterprise terrorism” charges.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 23, 2005 | -
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said that he might break diplomatic ties with the United States if the U.S. did not hand over Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA employee who is accused of blowing up a Cuban airplane in 1976, killing seventy-three people.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 23, 2005 | - Rice also ordered a State Department report on terrorism be stripped of statistics that showed that terrorist attacks were on the rise.
| Source:
Philly.com
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| April 13, 2005 | - In the United States, Eric Rudolph, a Christian
terrorist, pleaded guilty to several bombings, including those at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, an abortion-clinic bombing in 1998, and an attack on a gay nightclub in 1997.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 3, 2005 | - In France, radical wine producers threw sticks of dynamite at a state agriculture office and demanded that the state take action to stop the depression in French wine prices.
| Source:
Wine International
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| April 2, 2005 | - Nearly ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing, an FBI search found explosives in a crawl space in Terry Nichols's former home.
| Source:
AP
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| March 16, 2005 | - The Department of Homeland Security was preparing for: the detonation of a ten-kiloton nuclear device; a biological attack with aerosolized anthrax; an outbreak of pneumonic plague; a flu pandemic starting in south China; the spraying of a chemical blister agent over a football stadium; an attack on an oil refinery; the explosion of a tank of chlorine; a 7.2-magnitude earthquake; a major hurricane in a metropolitan area; three Cesium-137 dirty bombs going off in three different cities, each contaminating thirty-six city blocks; the detonation of improvised bombs in sports stadiums and emergency rooms; liquid anthrax in ground beef; a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak; and a cyber attack on the nation's financial infrastructure.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 13, 2005 | - According to a confidential government report, the American aviation system was still vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 9, 2005 | - In Iraq, the director of the al-Furat hospital in Baghdad was shot dead. A roadside bomb went off in Basra, killing a policeman, and two Sudanese drivers who work with U.S. forces were taken hostage.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 1, 2005 | - Two British
terrorism detainees chose to remain in prison rather than accept house arrest.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| January 25, 2005 | - Commercial airlines were told they should be worrying about shoulder-fired missile attacks,
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 5, 2005 | - Federal authorities arrested a New Jersey man for menacing a jet with a hand-held laser.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 15, 2004 | - The Trust For America's Health reported that two thirds of U.S. states were not adequately prepared for a bioterrorist attack,
| Source:
Pjstar.com
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| December 14, 2004 | - The prime minister of Spain accused his predecessor of erasing all computer files related to last year's Madrid terrorist bombing. "Not a single trace of any files was left behind," said one official, "zero, nothing."
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 7, 2004 | -
French police planted plastic explosives in a random dark-blue suitcase at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris as a security exercise, then failed to monitor the bag as a conveyor belt rolled it to one of 90 planes with an international destination. A police spokesman expressed the hope that whoever finds the explosives will return them to authorities.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 4, 2004 | - Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson became the eighth member of Bush's fifteen-member cabinet to resign since Election Day. At a press conference, Thompson expressed concern about the FDA's flawed drug approval process, a possible global flu pandemic, and the vulnerability of the nation's food supply. "For the life of me," Thompson said, "I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it's so easy to do."
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 2, 2004 | - Former head of the CIA George Tenet said it might be necessary to limit access to the Internet because terrorists could use it to attack the United States.
| Source:
Washington Times
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| November 6, 2004 | - American intelligence agencies revised their estimate of the number of surface-to-air missiles that are at large worldwide; previously the number was thought to be 2,000 but now it seems that about 4,000 Iraqi missiles are missing, bringing the total to 6,000.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 20, 2004 | - Margaret Hassan, the local director of CARE International, was kidnapped and later appeared on television begging for her life.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| October 15, 2004 | - The State Department classified Unification and Jihad, a group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as a terrorist organization and froze its assets.
| Source:
CNN
|
| October 3, 2004 | - Twenty-six people were killed by separatist bombs in the Indian state of Nagaland.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 28, 2004 | - The FBI was having a hard time translating all its intercepted terrorism-related wiretap conversations.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 22, 2004 | - Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, was refused entry to the United States because his name appears on a list of terrorism suspects.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 21, 2004 | - The Transportation Security Administration announced that it plans to force airlines to provide personal information about passengers so that it can test a new system for identifying potential terrorists; in some cases the airline records will be compared with private databases.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 21, 2004 | - The federal government refused to admit that a regulation exists requiring airline passengers to show a form of picture ID before they board planes.
| Source:
Sacramento Bee
|
| September 20, 2004 | - It was discovered that Israeli
traffic fatalities rise by 35 percent in the days following a terrorist attack.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| September 17, 2004 | - A schoolteacher was arrested for carrying a weighted bookmark in her purse as she attempted to board an airplane in Tampa, Florida.
| Source:
St. Petersburg Times
|
| August 20, 2004 | - Senator Ted Kennedy confirmed that he had been placed on the federal "no-fly" list designed to prevent terrorists from boarding commercial aircraft.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| August 9, 2004 | - Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 life terms without parole for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
| Source:
IBS
|
| August 6, 2004 | -
George W. Bush acknowledged that the war on terror has been "misnamed"; he said that it ought to be called "the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world."
| Source:
Whitehouse.gov
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| August 3, 2004 | - The United States raised its terror alert level and said that Al Qaeda might be planning to attack financial institutions in New York, Washington, and Newark, New Jersey. Howard Dean pointed out that, once again, the timing of a new federal terror alert was suspiciously convenient; other Democrats, such as Joseph Lieberman, denounced Dean's suggestion as "outrageous."
| Source:
Independent, Washington Post
|
| July 28, 2004 | -
ricin was found in baby food in Irvine, California.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| July 19, 2004 | - The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades assassinated an Israeli judge.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| July 12, 2004 | - An Israeli soldier was killed by a bomb in Tel Aviv.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| July 11, 2004 | - Federal authorities in the United States were discussing the possibility of postponing the November elections in the event of a terrorist attack.
| Source:
CNN
|
| July 7, 2004 | -
Israel's public-security minister warned that Jewish extremists might try to assassinate Israeli leaders to prevent the planned withdrawal from Gaza.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 7, 2004 | -
Algerian police admitted that a June 21 explosion at a power plant was a terrorist attack by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| June 25, 2004 | - A poll showed that most Americans now think the invasion of Iraq was a mistake that has made the country more vulnerable to terrorism.
| Source:
USA Today
|
| June 15, 2004 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft, perhaps worried about his recent bad press, announced that the FBI has a new terrorist in custody, a Somali man who was arrested in November, and said that he planned to blow up a shopping mall in Ohio. The purported terrorist was linked to another purported terrorist who allegedly planned to cut the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 14, 2004 | - A series of car bombs killed people in several Iraqi cities.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| June 10, 2004 | - Scientists said that the "dirty bomb" plan attributed to Jose Padilla would not have worked; "it's the equivalent," said one physicist, "of blowing up lead."
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| June 9, 2004 | - Former CIA officials said that the new prime minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, was involved with a CIA-funded terrorist group in Iraq in the early 1990s; the group apparently carried out a bombing campaign, blowing up a movie theater and possibly a school bus.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 5, 2004 | - Nine people died when a bomb blew up in a market in southern Russia, near Kazakhstan.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 29, 2004 | - The FBI sent out a warning of an "imminent" terrorist attack but then retracted the warning within a few hours.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 28, 2004 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the American public for help finding terrorists who he said are planning to "to hit the United States hard"; a number of officials criticized the announcement and said that the government had no new information about terror threats.
| Source:
Sacramento Bee, New York Times
|
| May 24, 2004 | - A land mine blew up a bus in Kashmir; Hizbul Mujahedeen, a terrorist group based in Pakistan, took credit for the attack.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| May 17, 2004 | - And it was revealed that in 2002 White House council Alberto Gonzalez wrote a memo arguing that the war on terror "renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."
| Source:
Newsday
|
| May 3, 2004 | -
Militants in Saudi Arabia attacked the offices of a Western engineering company and killed several people; one American engineer was dragged away behind a car.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 3, 2004 | - The Likud Party, in a referendum, rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip, where a pregnant Israeli woman and her four daughters, ages two to 11, were murdered by Palestinian gunmen.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 29, 2004 | - The United Nations Security Council voted to ban "non-state actors" from possessing nuclear weapons.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 29, 2004 | - It was reported that last year the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control assigned only four employees to work on terrorist cases; in contrast, almost two dozen were investigating violations of the Cuban embargo. Since 1990, the office has opened 93 investigations into terrorist finances and 10,683 relating to Cuba.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| April 28, 2004 | - Terrorists in Syria fought with police and blew up a bomb outside a former United Nations office in Damascus.
| Source:
Scotsman
|
| April 28, 2004 | - Police killed more than 100 Muslim militants armed with machetes in southern Thailand.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| April 28, 2004 | - It was reported that more than $5 billion in antiterrorism money for local governments and agencies has been held up by red tape.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 22, 2004 | - The House of Representatives approved a bill providing for quick elections if 100 or more members are killed at one time.
| Source:
CBS News
|
| April 15, 2004 | -
George Tenet, the director of central intelligence, told the 9/11 commission that he received a briefing in August 2001 entitled "Islamic
Extremist Learns to Fly" but failed to act on the information.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 13, 2004 | - The North American Aerospace Defense Command admitted that in April 2001 it rejected a training scenario in which foreign terrorists were to hijack a commercial airplane and try to crash it into the Pentagon; the scenario was considered unrealistic.
| Source:
Navy Times
|
| April 11, 2004 | - The British government proposed jailing people for merely associating with terror suspects.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| April 9, 2004 | - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testified publicly and under oath before the commission investigating September 11; Rice acknowledged that President Bush had received a classified CIA briefing on August 6, 2001, entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States," though she characterized the report as "historical information based on old reporting." She also acknowledged that the report mentioned the existence of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States but "there was no recommendation that we do something about this." Rice also admitted that Richard Clarke, whose book on the Bush Administration's antiterrorism failures prompted her public testimony, sent her a memo in January 2001 in which he mentioned sleeper cells. Again, Rice said, "there was no mention or recommendation of anything that needs to be done about them." Rice said that she couldn't remember whether she had ever mentioned the existence of the sleeper cells to the president prior to August 6.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 3, 2004 | - Dozens of people died in a series of explosions and suicide attacks in Uzbekistan.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 2, 2004 | - A former FBI translator claimed that she could prove that the Bush Administration did in fact receive warnings in the spring and summer of 2001 that terrorists were planning to use aircraft to attack American cities.
| Source:
Independent
|
| March 28, 2004 | - The FBI was investigating whether it withheld or destroyed evidence pertaining to the Oklahoma City
bombing.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 27, 2004 | - The Transportation Security Administration searched an American Airlines flight to Dallas after a psychic called in a warning that a bomb might be aboard the plane.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 26, 2004 | - Forty-nine retired U.S. generals and admirals signed a letter begging President Bush to delay spending billions of dollars on his untested and unnecessary missile defense shield and to spend the money instead to protect likely targets of terrorism such as U.S. ports and nuclear-weapons depots.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| March 25, 2004 | - Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism official who has criticized the Bush Administration for its poor efforts at fighting terrorism and its misguided invasion of Iraq, appeared before the commission investigating September 11 and apologized for the government's and his own failure to prevent the attacks. President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice have all refused to testify publicly before the commission.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| March 22, 2004 | - Richard Clarke, the former head of counterterrorism under Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, published a book in which he claims that George W. Bush has done a "terrible job" fighting terrorism. Clarke says that prior to September 11, Bush ignored warnings about the threat from Al Qaeda and that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in the days just after the attacks, wanted to bomb Iraq rather than Afghanistan because Iraq had better bombing targets. Clarke charges that the president made it very clear that he wanted to find a connection between September 11 and Saddam Hussein even though there was no evidence of such a link.
| Source:
CBS News
|
| March 18, 2004 | - A car bomb destroyed the Mount Lebanon Hotel in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 12, 2004 | - Ten bombs blew up four commuter trains in Madrid during the morning rush hour on March 11, killing 200 people and wounding about 1,500. The Spanish government initially blamed Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the Basque separatist group.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 4, 2004 | - A self-described "pressure-group with a terrorist character" was threatening to bomb French
trains unless it receives a $5 million ransom; French investigators speculated that the group has anarchist or left-wing or right-wing tendencies.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 3, 2004 | - Two hundred seventy-one Shiite worshipers were killed in simultaneous bombing attacks on mosques in Baghdad and Karbala; international telephone service was knocked out on the same day by a rocket attack.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| February 26, 2004 | -
Britain's top law-enforcement minister called for an expansion of domestic surveillance to combat terrorism.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 26, 2004 | -
Pentagon officials said that Guantánamo detainees who are found innocent might still be kept in detention indefinitely if they are deemed a security risk.
| Source:
BBC
|
| February 25, 2004 | - Two Guantánamo prisoners were formally charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism. Amnesty International and other human rights groups were told that they will not be permitted to attend the military tribunals, because there just aren't enough seats.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 23, 2004 | - U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige said that the National Education Association is a "terrorist organization" because it opposes the president's education policies, and
| Source:
CNN
|
| February 13, 2004 | - U.S. officials said that the president might support Israel's new plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and that some of the inhabitants of the prison camps in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, might never get out.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 7, 2004 | - A bomb blew up on the Moscow subway.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 7, 2004 | -
Israel attempted the assassination of an Islamic Jihad leader by firing a missile at his car in Gaza City but succeeded only in killing an aide and a 14-year-old bystander.
| Source:
BBC
|
| February 4, 2004 | -
Ricin, a powerful poison made from castor beans, was found in the mailroom of Senate majority leader Bill Frist.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| January 27, 2004 | - A federal judge struck down as unconstitutionally vague the provision of the USA Patriot Act that bans giving "expert advice or assistance" to terrorists.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 20, 2004 | - It was reported that American intelligence officials have compiled a list of five million potential terrorists worldwide.
| Source:
Toronto Sun
|
| January 19, 2004 | - Newly released documents revealed that the U.S. Census Bureau gave information on millions of Americans to NASA for a study on the feasibility of mining such data to look for potential terrorists.
| Source:
Washington Times
|
| January 14, 2004 | - A 22-year-old Palestinian
mother killed herself and four Israelis. "I was hoping," she said in a videotaped statement, "to be the first woman where parts of my body can fly everywhere."
| Source:
ABC News
|
| January 13, 2004 | - The Army War College published a report concluding that the conquest of Iraq was a "detour" that undermined the war on terrorism.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 8, 2004 | - The Department of Homeland Security handed out three $2 million contracts to build a missile-defense system to prevent civilian aircraft from being shot down by surface-to-air missiles.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| January 5, 2004 | - Almost a dozen commercial flights were cancelled because of security concerns,
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
|
| January 5, 2004 | - At least eleven people were killed and 68 were wounded when a bomb blew up at a basketball game in the Philippines.
| Source:
The Australian
|
| January 4, 2004 | - A new program (called the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system, or US-VISIT) was launched to photograph and fingerprint every foreigner who needs a visa to enter the United States. "The system," said one expert, "seems to presume that most terrorists are fools."
| Source:
NY Daily News
|
| January 2, 2004 | - including several Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles that were called off because of mistaken identities: six passengers, including a five-year-old and an elderly Chinese woman, had names similar to terrorism suspects.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| January 1, 2004 | - A car bomb blew up a restaurant in Baghdad.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 30, 2003 | -
Mail bombs were sent to Romano Prodi, president of the European Union Commission; to Europol, the European police intelligence agency; and to the president of the European Central Bank.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| December 29, 2003 | - The FBI issued a national alert to watch out for people carrying almanacs, because almanacs, which contain all kinds of useful information, could be used by terrorists.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| December 26, 2003 | - A bomb went off near some UN housing in Kabul.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 25, 2003 | -
Spain foiled a Basque terrorist plot to blow up a train in Madrid's busiest station on Christmas Eve.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 22, 2003 | - The federal government increased the national terror alert level to code "orange."
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| December 7, 2003 | - A United States airstrike near Kabul failed to kill its Taliban target ("a known terrorist") but did kill nine young children who were playing ball inside the wall of their family compound. Their hats and shoes were scattered all over a bloody field.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| December 3, 2003 | - The Pentagon decided to permit Yaser Hamdi, an American citizen who has been held as an enemy combatant for two years, to have access to his lawyer, though officials continued to insist that Hamdi has no constitutional right to an attorney.
| Source:
Ft. Worth Star Telegram
|
| November 22, 2003 | -
Counterterrorism officials said that all the recent Al Qaeda attacks were a sign that the organization has been weakened.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 21, 2003 | - General Tommy Franks told a cigar magazine that the United States could become a military dictatorship if terrorists ever use weapons of mass destruction.
| Source:
Newsmax
|
| November 21, 2003 | - President George W. Bush traveled to Great Britain, along with 650 companions, including five personal chefs, but was unable to move freely in the country because of massive protests. At Buckingham Palace the president dined on roasted halibut with herbs, free-range chicken, potatoes cocotte, salad, and a sorbet bombe but presumably skipped the Puligny-Montrachet and the Veuve Clicquot, Gold Label, 1995. Truck bombs blew up the British Consulate and a British bank in Istanbul, killing at least 27 and wounding hundreds. Bloody victims ran screaming through the streets. Two hotels in Baghdad used by Westerners were bombed as was the headquarters of a pro-American Kurdish group in Kirkuk.
| Source:
New York Times, Daily Telegraph
|
| November 15, 2003 | - Newly declassified files from MI5, the British intelligence agency, revealed that in 1940 German
saboteurs had planned to attack Buckingham Palace with exploding cans of French peas.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 1, 2003 | - Shoko Asahara, the guru of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, claimed that he had lost control of his followers shortly before they released nerve gas in the Tokyo
subway eight years ago.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| October 25, 2003 | - Iraqi guerrillas using a homemade launching pad fired eight to ten rockets at the Al Rasheed hotel in Baghdad, where American officials have been staying since April. Some of the Americans were seen fleeing the luxury hotel in their pajamas and shorts; one of the missiles struck a floor just below Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, but he escaped unhurt. The following day, a suicide bomber driving an ambulance struck the offices of the International Red Cross in Baghdad; the bomb left a six-foot-deep crater and broke windows a mile away. Within 45 minutes, bombers struck four police stations in other neighborhoods; at least 34 died and more than 200 were injured in the attacks. "The more successful we are on the ground," said President Bush, "the more these killers will react."
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| October 25, 2003 | -
FBI agents at the Norfolk, Virginia, airport took anal swabs from a mechanical farting dog to make sure it did not contain explosives.
| Source:
BBC
|
| October 24, 2003 | - and in a published interview he called for a new government bureaucracy to fight the "war of ideas" against international terrorism.
| Source:
Washington Times
|
| October 22, 2003 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted in a leaked memo that the United States still doesn't have much of a plan for fighting the war on terrorism,
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 19, 2003 | -
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, insisted that the war on terrorism is not a religious war.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| October 17, 2003 | - Egremont, Massachusetts, a town in the Berkshire Mountains, voted to block its roads with sandbags to keep plague-ridden New Yorkers away in the event of a bioterror attack on the city.
| Source:
Berkshire Record
|
| October 15, 2003 | - A car bomb blew up outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad; it was the third Baghdad car bomb in less than a week.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 15, 2003 | - Dr. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, said that Americans should remember that terrorists can "have serious moral goals." He said that "it is possible to use unspeakably wicked means to pursue an aim that is shared by those who would not dream of acting in the same way, an aim that is intelligible or desirable." Dr. Williams also warned America not to become "trapped in a self-referential morality."
| Source:
Telegraph
|
| October 10, 2003 | -
President Bush gave a speech before a military crowd in New Hampshire and said that the situation in Iraq is "a lot better than you probably think." On that day in Iraq, a car bomb attack killed eight policemen, a Spanish diplomat was assassinated, and a U.S. soldier was murdered.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| October 10, 2003 | -
Pat Robertson said that the State Department should be blown up with a nuclear bomb.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 9, 2003 | - A bomb killed six people in Bogotá, Colombia.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 5, 2003 | -
Islamic Jihad took responsibility for a suicide attack in Haifa, Israel, that killed at least 19 people, including several children.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| September 22, 2003 | - The Bush Administration announced a new counterterrorism center that will assemble a "watch list" of about 100,000 terrorism suspects.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 18, 2003 | -
President Bush admitted that he has "no evidence" that Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11 attacks, though he continued to assert, contrary to all known evidence, that there were "ties" between Hussein and Al Qaeda.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| September 18, 2003 | - Members of the House and Senate appropriations committees agreed to kill funding for the Pentagon's Terrorist Information Awareness program (formerly known as Total Information Awareness) but said parts of the program would be used to spy on foreigners.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 15, 2003 | - Ehud Olmert, the Israeli vice prime minister, said that assassinating
Arafat was under consideration.
"In my eyes, from a moral point of view, this is no different than the eliminations of others who were involved in activating acts of terror."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 13, 2003 | - Eight Israelis who were being investigated for terrorist attacks on Palestinians were released from custody,
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 13, 2003 | - Six neo-Nazis were arrested in Germany for plotting to blow up a Jewish cultural center.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 11, 2003 | -
President Bush took advantage of the September 11 anniversary to call for more surveillance and detention powers.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 11, 2003 | -
Israeli warplanes destroyed the family home of a Hamas leader, killing his son and wounding 26 others.
Ahmed Aurei accepted the position of Palestinian prime minister.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 11, 2003 | - A suicide bomber struck in Kurdish Iraq, killing one child and wounding about 50 people.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 11, 2003 | - A horse bomb killed at least eight people in Chita, Colombia.
| Source:
BBC
|
| September 10, 2003 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber blew up a bus stop near Tel Aviv; another bomber exploded in front of a café in Jerusalem.
At least 13 people died in the attacks.
Israeli forces killed three men, two of whom were said to be Hamas leaders, and a twelve-year-old boy, who was hit by shrapnel.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 9, 2003 | - It was reported that the federal government is planning to introduce a new airline security system in which all passengers will be assigned a color-coded rating based on their terror-risk quotient.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| September 9, 2003 | - The Justice Department's inspector general complained that the agency has yet to define its criteria for treating someone as a terrorism suspect.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 9, 2003 | - Six bombs went off in one day in Katmandu, Nepal; one 12-year-old boy was killed.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 8, 2003 | -
President George W. Bush made a televised address to the nation and declared that Iraq was now the "central front" in the war on terrorism.
He called for national resolve and national sacrifice and said that he will ask Congress for $87 billion in emergency funds for the occupation.
It was noted that this new request, which comes on top of $79 billion already approved, will probably push the current budget deficit up to $600 billion. Howard Dean said the speech, which made no mention of Osama bin Laden, was "outrageous" and said it reminded him of Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.
Senator Bob Graham observed that Bush now wants to spend more on Iraq this year than the federal government will spend on education.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 7, 2003 | -
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, resigned, and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, was injured in an Israeli
airstrike.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 7, 2003 | - A car bomb blew up in a market outside Srinagar, Kashmir, killing at least six people and wounding dozens.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 7, 2003 | - Twin sisters in Morocco were arrested for plotting a suicide attack.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
|
| September 6, 2003 | - Gunmen fired on a Sunni mosque in Baghdad just after morning prayers and injured three people, a car bomb exploded near the headquarters of the Baghdad police department, a British bomb squad expert was killed, an American Humvee was blown up, and Lt.
Gen.
Ricardo Sanchez said that attacks on American forces were down to about 14 or 15 a day.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was touring Iraq and Afghanistan, complained that the news media was ignoring "the story of success and accomplishment" in Iraq.
| Source:
Austin American-Statesman
|
| September 5, 2003 | -
Rumsfeld acknowledged that he still doesn't know who is carrying out the guerrilla attacks but said that the intelligence community is working on it.
"They're not comfortable at the moment with what we don't know."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 4, 2003 | - A train was blown up in Chechnya.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 30, 2003 | - the next day a car bomb killed about 80 people at a Shiite mosque in Najaf, including the Ayatollah Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim, a leading moderate cleric.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 28, 2003 | -
Yasir Arafat asked Palestinian
terrorists to please stop killing Israelis.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 27, 2003 | - The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to condemn the destruction of the U.N.
headquarters in Baghdad.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 25, 2003 | - Two car bombs exploded in Bombay, killing at least 50 and wounding more than 130.
Body parts were strewn all over the streets and survivors left trails of blood as they fled.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 25, 2003 | - Seven people, including one infant, were killed in a boat bombing in Puerto Rico, Colombia.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 25, 2003 | - Three people died and 17 were injured in a bus bomb in Krasnodar, Russia.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 23, 2003 | - The Earth Liberation Front destroyed a number of Hummers and other SUVs at a car dealership in West Covina, California.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| August 9, 2003 | - Seventeen people died in a car-bomb attack on the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, and President Bush told reporters down at the ranch in Crawford, Texas, that his men were making "good progress" in Iraq.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 7, 2003 | - At least 16 people died and more than 150 were wounded in a car-bomb attack on a Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 2, 2003 | - According to those who have read it, the redacted section lays out far more financial connections between the September 11 hijackers, fifteen of whom were Saudi, and the Saudi government than had been previously revealed.
The most specific allegations concerned Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi man who had provided funds and assistance to two of the hijackers in San Diego; the classified section says that Al Bayoumi received $3,000 per month from the Saudi government, and speculates that he may have been employed by Saudi intelligence.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| August 2, 2003 | - A three-story hospital in southern Russia was destroyed by a truck bomb, allegedly the work of Chechen separatists; forty-one people were killed and scores wounded.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 1, 2003 | - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) quickly scuttled an idea to create a futures-trading market for terrorist attacks, after the plan was revealed by opponents in Congress. DARPA head John M. Poindexter announced his resignation, telling a friend that he planned to spend more time sailing.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 30, 2003 | - President George W. Bush refused to declassify the twenty-eight pages of Congress's September 11 report that pertained to Saudi Arabia, despite calls to do so by members of Congress and by the Saudi government itself, which said it intended to rebut the contents.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 30, 2003 | - The Saudis were continuing to capture suspected Al Qaeda militants in police raids; the government insisted that most of those captured had been trained in Afghanistan, but admitted that a few "perhaps were trained on farms and the like inside the country."
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| July 25, 2003 | - A joint congressional committee released an 850-page report concluding that the September 11 attacks could have been prevented; a 28-page section detailing the Saudi Arabian government's links to the terrorists was redacted.
| Source:
AP
|
| July 23, 2003 | - The report, which also found no evidence of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda, had been slated for release in December 2002 but was delayed due to administrative wrangling over which sections should be classified.
| Source:
UPI
|
| June 29, 2003 | - A new study commissioned by the Council on Foreign Relations and led by former senator Warren Rudman concluded that the United States is still spending far too little to prepare for another domestic terrorist attack.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 22, 2003 | - 30 kilograms of cesium 137 were recovered from an unemployed schoolteacher in Bangkok who was trying to sell the material to terrorists.
"Cesium 137 is serious stuff, highly radioactive," said one expert.
"You put it alongside four kilograms or more of dynamite and you've got a really dangerous terror weapon."
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| June 21, 2003 | - The Justice Department announced that it had arrested a Muslim truck driver from Ohio who has admitted to working with Al Qaeda, and officials said that he was planning to attack the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch.
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New York Times
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| June 20, 2003 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft asked journalists to help convince the American people that the U.S.A.
Patriot Act, the antiterrorism law that gave sweeping new powers to federal law enforcement agencies, is really a good thing.
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New York Times
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| June 18, 2003 | -
President Bush issued guidelines banning racial profiling except in cases of terrorism and national security.
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New York Times
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| June 15, 2003 | - People named "David Nelson" were still having a hard time traveling by air because the name appears on the federal antiterrorism "no-fly" list.
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Associated Press
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| June 15, 2003 | -
Police in Saudi Arabia said they had prevented a terrorist attack when they raided a booby-trapped apartment in Mecca; five militants and two police officers died in the shootout.
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Newsday
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| June 13, 2003 | - A bomb was found on an Italian airliner.
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New York Times
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| June 12, 2003 | - British scientists were developing "smart" airline seats that will detect potential terrorists by measuring airline passengers' anxiety levels.
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New Scientist
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| June 8, 2003 | - Thailand was in trouble with the Bush Administration for its lukewarm support for the war on terrorism.
"It is not enough to be with us in the war on terrorism," said an official.
"You have to trumpet it."
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New York Times
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| June 1, 2003 | - Eric Robert Rudolph, the Christian
terrorist, was arrested in North Carolina after a five-year manhunt.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| May 26, 2003 | - Maj. Gen. Geoffery Miller, the commander of Camp Delta, the Guantánamo Bay concentration camp for suspected terrorists, announced plans to build a death row and an execution chamber at the camp.
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Courier Mail (Australia)
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| May 13, 2003 | - Seattle and Chicago staged simulated terrorist attacks.
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New York Times
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| May 4, 2003 | - People named "David Nelson" were having a hard time getting on airplanes because that name now appears on a federal anti-terrorism "no fly" list.
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| April 8, 2003 | -
Some counterterrorism officials expressed surprise that little evidence has emerged of an imminent terrorist attack on the United States in retaliation for the invasion of Iraq.
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| December 10, 2002 | -
President Vladimir Putin of Russia asked Pakistan to please stop funding Islamic
terrorists.
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| October 22, 2002 | -
President Bush said he thought that Al Qaeda was responsible for the Bali, Indonesia, terror bombing and reemphasized the firmness of his desire to disarm Saddam Hussein. Abu Bakar Bashir, the Muslim cleric whom American intelligence officials have blamed for the attack in Bali, refused to condemn the bombing and said that “the United States intelligence agency is behind the Bali bombings in an attempt to justify their accusation that Indonesia is a terrorist base.” He also warned Australians not to cooperate with America “because it will bring tragedy for your country.” Indonesia, which does not yet have American-style antiterrorism laws that permit detention without evidence, was reluctant to arrest Bashir but finally did so after he collapsed and was admitted to a hospital.
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| September 17, 2002 | -
Federal authorities placed the United States on “orange alert” and American embassies in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Malaysia were closed after an Al Qaeda prisoner claimed that terror attacks were scheduled for the September 11 anniversary.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
The Pentagon was trying to teach bees to sniff out bombs.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
India recalled its ambassador to Pakistan and threatened to go to war if Pakistan did not stop sponsoring terrorist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad, which attacked India's parliament building last week.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
Pakistan denied involvement in the attack, but a captured member of the group admitted that the Pakistani Army donated the weapons and that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency provided logistical support.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
Santa Claus shot a woman in the face in São Paulo, Brazil, and two car bombs exploded outside police headquarters in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
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| December 25, 2001 | - Passengers subdued a large man who bit an American Airlines stewardess on a flight from Paris to Miami when she tried to stop him from igniting his shoe, which contained a makeshift bomb made from C-4 plastic explosive.
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| December 18, 2001 | -
North Korea said it will sign five international antiterrorism conventions.
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| December 18, 2001 | -
Israelis and Palestinians continued to kill one another; a poll showed that 74 percent of Israelis backed their government's “seek-and-kill” policy of assassinating Palestinian militants, though just 22 percent thought it decreased terrorism and 45 percent said it probably increased terror attacks.
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| December 11, 2001 | - The White House issued a holiday terror-strike warning.
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| December 11, 2001 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had summoned him to explain his dubious anti-terrorism tactics. “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty,” he said, “my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists.” He also accused his critics of giving “ammunition to America's enemies.” The attorney general went on to defend his refusal to compromise the right of potential terrorists to keep and bear arms.
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| December 11, 2001 | - Mary Robinson, the United Nations commissioner for human rights, criticized the Bush Administration for its plan to hold secret military trials of foreigners accused of terrorism.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Prime Minister Sharon “declared war on terror.” A paper in the scientific journal Human Immunology found that Jews and Palestinians have no significant genetic differences; after receiving complaints, the journal's editor repudiated the paper and sent letters to libraries asking them to rip out the offending pages.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Critics said that Ashcroft's new antiterrorism tactics were in fact old tactics that the FBI discarded because they did not work. “It is amazing to me that Ashcroft is essentially trying to dismantle the bureau,” a former FBI executive director said. “They don't know their history and they are not listening to people who do.”
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| December 4, 2001 | - Former FBI director William Webster said that long-term surveillance and undercover operations were much more effective than mass arrests and led to 131 prevented terrorist
attacks between 1981 and 2000.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
President Bush again warned the terrorists of the world to watch out and made a foray into lexicography: “If anybody harbors a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they fund a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they house terrorists, they're terrorists. I mean, I can't make it any more clearly to other nations around the world.” Saudi Arabia was still refusing to freeze terrorists' bank accounts.
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| December 4, 2001 | - American officials declared that they were “on a roll” and that the next targets in the crusade against terrorism were Saddam Hussein, Hamas, and the Hezbollah network in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Five young cousins walking to school near their refugee camp in Gaza were killed by a bomb that was set by an Israeli special forces unit.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Three students in New Bedford, Massachusetts, were charged with plotting a massacre at their high school; they wanted it to be “bigger than Columbine.” An Illinois man ran amok in a mall: he set himself on fire, shouted “Freedom and liberty for all!” and started throwing flaming objects at shoppers.
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| November 20, 2001 | - A newspaper review of the ballots cast in Florida's presidential election found that Al Gore probably received more votes than George W. Bush, who this week signed an executive order that will permit the government to use military courts to try foreigners accused of terrorism.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney said that suspected terrorists “don't deserve to be treated as a prisoner of war.
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| November 20, 2001 | - They don't deserve the same guarantees and safeguards that would be used for an American citizen going through the normal judicial process.” Forty-five percent of Americans, according to a new poll, would not object to the use of torture to obtain information about terrorism.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | - Retreating Al Qaeda
terrorists in Afghanistan left behind nuclear designs written in Arabic, German, Urdu, and English; foul-smelling liquids; and a recipe for building a nuclear bomb that included detailed descriptions of how TNT can cause plutonium to begin its deadly chain reaction.
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| November 13, 2001 | - Pundits both liberal and conservative were warming to the idea of torturing prisoners in the antiterrorism investigation, which has so far disappointed them.
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| November 13, 2001 | - Federal agents, who now believe the anthrax to be the work of a lone domestic terrorist, still have not gotten around to locating all the labs in the United States where the bacteria can be legally handled, though they were busy cracking down on medical
marijuana in California and assisted suicide in Oregon.
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| November 6, 2001 | - After the CIA's “threat matrix” showed a “big and credible” threat, Attorney General John Ashcroft warned Americans that a new attack could be imminent.
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| November 6, 2001 | - Manolo Blahnik removed a pair of titanium-heeled sandals from his fall collection because they have 3.5 inch heels that narrow to a point so sharp that they damage floors and could be used as a terrorist weapon on an airplane.
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| November 6, 2001 | -
Democrats and Republican moderates said they were more concerned about preventing terrorist
attacks.
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| November 6, 2001 | - Official sources revealed that the CIA's
New York
counterterrorism office was destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center.
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| November 6, 2001 | - America recalled its ambassador from Venezuela after President Hugo Chávez denounced the Afghan
war as “fighting terrorism with terrorism” and a “slaughter of innocents.” A Michigan fisherman was attacked by an enraged 200-pound deer; he wrestled the beast for 45 minutes, strangled it with his belt, and finally clubbed it to death with a piece of wood.
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| October 30, 2001 | -
Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, a major antiterrorism bill that will greatly increase the power of the federal government to spy on citizens and potential terrorists.
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| October 30, 2001 | - Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson was criticized for mishandling the anthrax
attack and substituting spin control for effective public-health strategies. Campbell Gardett, a spokesman for the agency, defended his boss: “Something that's factual at this moment proves not to be factual in retrospect. That doesn't mean it wasn't factual at the time.”
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| October 30, 2001 | -
President Bush warned that America was “still under attack.” Experts described the anthrax as “fluffy.” The terrorists “have the keys to the kingdom,” warned Al Zelicoff, a doctor who works on biological weapons. “They can do large-scale dissemination when they wish.” In a press release entitled “Pentagon Seeks Ideas on Combating Terrorism,” the United States Department of Defense announced that it “specifically seeks help in combating terrorism, defeating difficult targets, conducting protracted operations in remote areas, and developing countermeasures to weapons of mass destruction.”
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| October 30, 2001 | - Several families of Columbine massacre victims sued the maker of Luvox, the antidepressant drug used by one of the shooters, because the drug can impair one's judgment.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
President Bush, who has taken to using the phrase “the Bush doctrine” to describe his war on terrorism, collected $1 donations from American schoolchildren to help feed starving Afghan refugee children. He praised a young girl from Virginia who raised $45 by feeding chickens.
“One way to fight evil is to fight it with kindness and love and compassion,” he said.
“Winter arrives early in Afghanistan.
It's cold, really cold, and the children need warm clothing and they need medicines.
And thanks to the American children, fewer children in Afghanistan will suffer this winter.” That day, at least one American bomb landed in the Red Cross compound in Kabul, setting several warehouses on fire.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
British soldiers found a 130-pound homemade bomb near Omagh, where the Real IRA killed 29 people in a 1998 bombing.
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| October 16, 2001 | - The major American television networks agreed, out of patriotism, they said, to a request by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice not to broadcast future statements by Osama bin Laden; Rice said she was concerned about secret messages being communicated to “sleeper” terrorists in the United States but did not reveal how she would prevent such evil-doers from viewing the speech via the Internet or satellite television.
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| October 16, 2001 | -
President Bush was still trying to exploit the terrorist
attacks as an excuse to drill for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
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| October 16, 2001 | -
Terrorist Mohamed Atta's father told reporters that he always thought his son was too girlish.
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| October 16, 2001 | - A car bomb went off in Madrid.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Osama bin Laden taunted the United States in a televised statement and said, “America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before all the army of infidels depart the land of Mohammad, peace be upon him.” A suicide
truck bomb killed 26 people at the Legislative Assembly of Kashmir.
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| October 9, 2001 | - A crowded airliner sat on a runway in India for three hours because pilots believed there were hijackers in the passenger cabin; passengers believed hijackers were in the cockpit.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
France's
environmental minister revealed that the fertilizer factory that blew up in Toulouse last month might have been destroyed by terrorists.
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| October 9, 2001 | - An American was killed by a package bomb in Saudi Arabia.
| |
| October 9, 2001 | - The director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was created by the 1997 treaty that bans such weapons, complained that he didn't have enough money in his budget to make even basic preparations to respond to chemical attacks by terrorists.
| |
| October 2, 2001 | - Lawmakers were concerned that antiterrorism legislation proposed by the Bush Administration contained language that would define common criminals as terrorists.
| |
| October 2, 2001 | - A new poll of New Yorkers found that one third favored putting “individuals who authorities identify as being sympathetic to terrorist causes” in concentration camps.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
Financial regulators said there was no evidence that terrorists had tried to profit from the September 11 attack by betting against airline and insurance stocks.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
Al Gore, still wearing a beard, declared that “George W. Bush is my commander in chief.” North Korea issued a statement of support for President Bush's crusade against terrorism.
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| September 25, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush declared that all the nations of the earth must choose sides in the coming crusade against terrorism, and he promised to attack Afghanistan if its leaders refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, the famous terrorist, whom the President has described as “Wanted: Dead or Alive.” Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that the preliminary brand-name of the American military campaign, Operation Infinite Justice, would probably be changed, because it was offensive to Muslims, for whom infinite justice is a divine attribute. Some Christians also found the name offensive.
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| September 25, 2001 | - After four concerts of his music were cancelled, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German avant-garde composer, apologized for describing the attack on the World Trade Center as “the greatest work of art one can imagine . . . the greatest work of art there is in the entire cosmos.”
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| September 18, 2001 | - The Rev. Jerry Falwell blamed the terrorist attack on the American Civil Liberties Union, abortion providers, gay-rights advocates, and the federal courts. It was because they had turned America away from God. “He lifted the curtain of protection,” Falwell said, “and I believe that if America does not repent and return to a genuine faith and dependence on Him, we may expect more tragedies, unfortunately.”
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| September 18, 2001 | - In Turkey, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front carried out a suicide attack in Istanbul, killing two policemen.
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| September 18, 2001 | - Mullah Muhammad Omar, supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban, condemned the Attack on America and claimed that Osama bin Laden was not responsible. “Mullah Omar condemns this act. Mullah Omar says Osama is not responsible,” said a Taliban spokesman. “We have brought peace to this country and we want peace in all countries.”
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| September 18, 2001 | -
Pakistan agreed to American demands that it allow a multinational force to attack
Afghanistan from within its borders, though the military establishment there was divided, with some generals calling for a holy war against the West.
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| September 18, 2001 | - The Taliban soon warned it would wage a “reprisal war” on any country that helped the United States in such an attack.
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| September 18, 2001 | - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer noted that missile defense and the terrorist
attacks were unconnected: “The United States still faces risks of many natures. This was a terrorist risk that was carried out in a different form of delivery, within our borders. But that does not mean there are not other threats out there that also need to be addressed, per missile defense.”
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| September 18, 2001 | - Congressional leaders declared that spy agencies must be given more freedom to fight terrorism: the freedom to conduct unfettered electronic surveillance, the freedom to hire foreign criminals, the freedom to assassinate the enemy. Ordinary Americans, however, would probably have to give up some of their freedom.
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| September 18, 2001 | -
President Bush warned that this war, this Crusade Against Terrorism, this Operation Noble Eagle, was going to last a long, long time.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City and damaged the Pentagon using hijacked commercial airliners.
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| September 11, 2001 | - Two hundred sixty-five people died in the hijacked airplanes, including one that crashed in Pennsylvania, possibly after passengers struggled with the terrorists.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Osama bin Laden, the famous CIA-trained terrorist, quickly became the prime suspect as federal authorities identified the hijackers, many of whom had been in the United States for years, learning to fly big jets in Florida.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
War cries rose up from the pundits, the President, members of Congress. Administration officials said they would “end” states that harbor terrorists.
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| September 11, 2001 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber disguised as an ultra-Orthodox Jew smiled out of the corner of his mouth and blew himself up on the Street of the Prophets in Jerusalem, wounding 20 people. It was the fifth bomb to go off in Jerusalem that day. Other bombers had better luck and succeeded in killing innocent people.
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| September 11, 2001 | - After much hullabaloo, the delegates who remained at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance agreed to condemn the old European slave trade and to express concern about the “plight of the Palestinians under foreign occupation.” After two days of throwing stones at Catholic schoolgirls who were on their way to school, Protestants in Belfast decided to throw a pipe bomb.
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| September 4, 2001 | - Gideon Ezra, Israel's deputy minister for internal security, had a bright new idea for fighting
terrorism: kill the families of people who kill Israelis.
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| September 4, 2001 | - A bomb went off in Galilee.
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| September 4, 2001 | - A big car bomb set by Basque terrorists blew up in Madrid.
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| August 14, 2001 | - A family of five died in Pakistan when a bomb blew up a school bus.
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| July 31, 2001 | - A watermelon rigged with a bomb inside was left on an Israeli
bus; the fruit was detonated safely.
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| July 17, 2001 | - The air force decided not to retrieve a 7,600 pound nuclear bomb that was dumped off the coast of Georgia in 1958 after a B-47 bomber collided with another plane during training; the air force claims that the bomb is safe.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
Israel's
security cabinet decided that it would continue to use death squads to eliminate suspected Palestinian
terrorists.
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| June 19, 2001 | - A New York jury sentenced a terrorist to life in prison for killing 213 people in the 1998 bombing of the American embassy in Kenya.
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| May 22, 2001 | - The United States finally got around to declaring the “Real IRA” a terrorist
organization.
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| May 15, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush asked Vice President Dick Cheney to figure out what to do about terrorism.
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| May 15, 2001 | - A four-month-old Palestinian girl was killed by tank fire after Israeli forces shelled a crowded refugee camp in Gaza in what one Israeli general reportedly called an “exaggerated” response to a mortar attack.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Terrorism
attacks were up last year, according to a new report.
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| April 17, 2001 | - Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that carried out the sarin gas attack in the Tokyo
subway in 1995, grew by 10 percent last year.
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| April 10, 2001 | - An Algerian who tried to smuggle explosives into the United States from Canada was convicted of “an act of terrorism transcending a national boundary.” The Bush Administration proposed dropping a program of random salmonella testing of ground beef destined for school lunches; the public was not amused, and the secretary of agriculture withdrew the proposal.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
Russia said it would again sell arms to Iran, causing some Russians to wonder whether the weapons would end up in the hands of Islamic
terrorists within their own borders.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Chechen terrorists hijacked a Russian plane and flew it to Saudi Arabia, landing in the holy city of Medina.
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| March 13, 2001 | - One Shin Bet source made the following unassailable argument to the Times of London: “We interrogate hundreds of Palestinians every day, all suspected of terrorism. Last month we arrested a girl who lured an Israeli boy via the Internet to Ramallah, where he was brutally murdered. It took us 30 days to get a confession out of her. If we had been allowed to apply physical pressure, she would have confessed after a couple of hours.”
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| March 13, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney
did not have another heart attack.
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| March 6, 2001 | - A bomb blew up a Thai Airways jet just before Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was to board it; the explosion, the cause of which was unknown, originated just below the seat assigned to Shinawatra.
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| February 13, 2001 | -
Palestinians set off a car bomb in Jerusalem; Israeli soldiers shot and killed a teenage Palestinian goatherd.
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| February 6, 2001 | - Mehmet Fevzi Sihanlioglu, a fifty-five-year-old Turkish legislator, died of a heart attack after he was struck and threatened with a knife during an attempt to break up a fight between two other members of parliament.
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| January 30, 2001 | - The new government symbolized by George W. Bush continued to insist that it would deploy a national missile defense system despite the fact that the program, developed with equal parts fraud and wishful thinking, would upset the balance of terror with Russia—not to mention the world-historical irony that it might easily drive China to sell missile technology to the very “rogue” nations the program seeks to neutralize.
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| January 2, 2001 | -
Israeli soldiers assassinated Dr. Thabet Thabet, a senior Palestinian health official, near his home in the West Bank: Last week, an Israeli general admitted on the radio that the extra-judicial killing of suspected terrorists was an official policy of the Israeli government.
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| 0, 2000 | -
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry was trying to determine whether it was terrorists, robbers, or thieves that attacked a bank in Kabul, and international forces in Ghazni province mistakenly killed four Afghan policemen. Both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah claimed victory in Afghanistan's presidential election.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
NY Times
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Dick Cheney had an itsy-bitsy heart attack, which was described by his doctors as “the smallest possible heart attack that a person could have that could still be classified as a heart attack”; one of his coronary arteries was “about 90 to 95 percent blocked.”
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| November 28, 2000 | -
George W. Bush announced Cheney did not in fact have a heart attack.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Terrorists bombed a school
bus filled with children of Israeli settlers; two adults were killed and several children were dismembered.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Israeli
defense forces responded to terrorist
attacks with bombs of their own, killing several adults and dismembering at least one child.
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| November 28, 2000 | - A car bomb went off in the Israeli coastal city of Hadera, killing two; Prime Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel would “get even.” There were more killings.
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| November 7, 2000 | - A car bomb, apparently set by the Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna terrorist group, killed three people in Madrid, including a supreme court justice.
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| November 7, 2000 | - Irish republican
terrorists put a bomb in a traffic cone that blew the leg off a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer when he picked it up.
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| November 7, 2000 | - A car bomb killed two Israelis in Jerusalem.
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| November 0, 2000 | - The United States removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism after the nation agreed to provide UN inspectors full access to its nuclear program.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 31, 2000 | -
Russian hackers penetrated Microsoft's computer network using a well-known Trojan attack and for six weeks had access to the company's internal computer records, including the source code of some programs; the security breach was discovered only when system administrators noticed passwords being emailed to an address in St.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Quebecois terrorists known as the French Language Self-Defense Brigade claimed responsibility for bombing a church in Montreal.
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| September 19, 2000 | - Spanish police arrested twenty Basque terrorists.
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| September 19, 2000 | - Unknown terrorists bombed the Jakarta, Indonesia, stock exchange, killing at least thirteen.
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| September 19, 2000 | - A Southwest Airlines passenger was beaten to death by other passengers on a flight from Phoenix to Salt Lake City after he tried to attack the flight crew.
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| September 19, 2000 | - The federal government said that New York was not adequately prepared for biological terrorism.
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| August 15, 2000 | - Eight pedestrians were killed in Moscow when a bomb exploded in an underground walkway; Russian authorities were quick to blame Chechen terrorists, saying the bombing had a “Chechen trace.” Russian soldiers were killed in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan by Islamic rebels.
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| August 15, 2000 | - Basque separatists commenced a terror campaign of bombings and murders.
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| July 25, 2000 | - Two Japanese
terrorists were sentenced to die for releasing nerve gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995.
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| July 25, 2000 | - Three families of Columbine shooting victims sued school employees for failing to prevent the massacre.
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